Jedediah S. Smith Obituary Maycee Stringham 5th Period Jedediah S. Smith was born June 24, 1798 in New York. He was one of the greatest trappers and explorers. He became one of the “Ashley Men” in 1822. Jedediah was a skinny man with brown hair and blue eyes. He was the fourth oldest of 12 kids.
Peter Skene Ogden was a Canadian fur trapper and trader. When he was young he explored the Great Basin, Oregon, Northern California, and the area around the Snake River. He had a reputation as a rough and tough trapper and trader. He came to Utah in 1825. There is a river that is named after him.
Joseph Brant was born in Northeastern Ontario of March 1742. His native name was Thayendanegea. Brant had one sibling named Mary Degonwadont (Molly Brant). His dad’s and mom’s name are Peter Tehonwaghkwangeraghka and Margaret. Brant got his education at Moor's Indian Charity school in Connecticut.
Van Lee Ramsey Van Lee Ramsey is the name of my inmate who was born on February 25th, 1910 in Hattiesburg Mississippi. He was executed on January 9th, 1947 on a murder charge. He committed 1st degree murder during a robbery in St. Louis, Missouri on May 1st, 1945 he slit a woman's throat. In 1942 he served a 8 month sentence at the Medical Center for Federal Prisoners in Springfield Missouri. The reasoning for that sentence was for government property theft.
Three of Alexander 's grandsons entered the First World War: David and Olive 's fifth son Frank signing up on February 13th 1916 at the age of 21, Alexander Jr. And Ann 's second son, William signing up on April 16, 1916 at the age of 31 and Gordon Cecil second son of James and Lillian on November 1, 1917, aged 22. All three men were described as having blue eyes and brown hair and height of 5 feet 6 to 8 inches tall and deemed fit to fight in the 2nd Central Ontario Regiment. Two great grandsons, Jack, son of Frank the veteran and Ronald son of Charles, fought in the Second World War.
Alton Coleman. Alton Coleman (November 6, 1955 – April 26, 2002) was an American serial killer who operated in the Midwest United States during the summer of 1984. He was born in Waukegan, Illinois and had a troubled childhood, marked by physical and sexual abuse. Coleman began his killing spree on May 29, 1984, when he murdered a nine-year-old girl in his hometown of Waukegan.
Cornelius Mahony was born in County Cork, Ireland on December of 1828 to Timothy and Mary Mahony. At seventeen years old, he made the journey to the new country, the United States. Many speculate that he came over for new beginnings due to hardship in the potato famine. He stayed in New York for a couple of years where he met his wife, Bridget Fitzgibbon (Somers). Bridget was also Irish.
Despite critics’ attacks on Chris McCandless as a commendable person, Chris McCandless is an admirable figure to look up to as he shows that taking risks can be beneficial. During McCandless’s trip, he meets with a wide variety of people he get well along with. He has a great time during his adventure and gains a lot of experiences even though he is living a simple life where he doesn’t live with a vast amount of wealth. Kayt Sukel of Fox News quotes, “...helping individuals gain the priceless experience they need to make smarter, better decisions. And within these risks are the very kind of opportunities that can, ultimately, make us happier, healthier, and more successful in reaching our long-term goals… ”
JOHNNY CASH John R. Cash, born in Kingsland, Arkansas, is one of the best-selling music artists of all time! He is widely considered one of the most influential popular musicians of the 20th century, having sold more than 90 million records worldwide! Cash was born into an impoverished Arkansas family in 1932 and grew up working in the cotton fields. His Baptist upbringing meant that the music he heard was almost entirely religious, and the hymns sung by country singers like the Carter Family and Ernest Tubb reached him on the radio and made a permanent impression.
Alvin Ailey Alvin Ailey was born on January 5, 1931, in Rogers, Texas. As known, Alvin Ailey is one of the leading figures in the 20th century modern dance. He was brought up single handedly by his young mother who was only a teenager then. He was brought up during the period of the Great Depression. A period of time where racial segregation, violence and lynchings against African Americans, prevailed.
With every step towards understanding, Leinster also includes a step back to the idea that the alien is not man but in fact the other, creating frustration and little progress as the ships stare off at each other as “the visiplates show[ed] only a vast mistiness outside and the two fiercely burning stars in the nebula’s heart”(Leinster 273). Considering the substantial application of parallel structure, a technique in which the text is “a structure to have the same pattern of words to show that two or more ideas have the same level of importance”, the placement of the phrases, light and mist, amid others is such that they act like mirrors to one another (Blake et.al 71). From light and mist to the two ships, with man’s ship described as mirror-like
Mike Keats was a really nice, brave and intelligent person. Although Mike Keats was a great man and a great hockey player he reacted so much on his temper, so he always used to go to the penalty box as a punishment while playing hockey. Mike was traded so many times to different teams and got drafted on their teams but Mike had a Native American teammate, which than became his friend Dakota. Dakota had a good talent at that time to help Mike when he needed it. Unfortunately there was once something really mysterious that Mike wouldn’t tell anyone.
Despite having lived a short life, Robert Peace was very well known, even as a child. Robert Peace was a man who was very much loved by the people in his community. He was always known as the “nerd” and the smart kid of the class since he was just three years old. “It’s because he’s so smart and knows everything.” (Hobbs 17)
Most people are not aware of the qualifications to be a serial killer. A serial killer is defined as murdering more than three over a period of than more than a thirty day period, with a quick period between each murder where they stop killing, and whose motivation for murdering is primarily based on psychological gratification. William “The Lipstick Killer” Heirens, also known as number C06103 to his fellow inmates, is a peculiar serial killer who had a tough time growing up in Illinois. William had a total of three known victims in the time span of June 5, 1945, through January 7, 1946. William Heirens, who did his killings in Chicago, is a strange character and his life before killing, his victims, his confessions, and facts about him can
The teaching of Universalism was lectured in America as ahead of schedule as 1636 by Samuel Gorton, the New England spiritualist, and set forth in the addresses and compositions of Sir Henry Vane, the more youthful, Governor of Massachusetts; John Murray, an energetic Calvinist evangelist in Ireland, went to the London Tabernacle. Murray wrote in his collection of memoirs that he discovered that a young lady "of faultless life, momentous for devotion, and exceptionally regarded by the Tabernacle" had joined Relly's gathering. Dissimilar to most religions in North America, it doesn't require its disciples to hold fast to a particular arrangement of convictions. Its enrollment incorporates people who recognize themselves as Agnostics, Atheists,
