John Turner was a Canadian prime minister who was born on the 7th of June 1929, in Richmond, England to an English father and a Canadian mother, and still alive to this day at the age of 85. However, his father passed away when he was only three years old, so his mother decided to move to Canada with John. They first lived in Rossland, British Colombia. However, she worked her way up in the civil service until she got promoted, which required moving to Ottawa (CanadaHistory).…
On the evening of September 15, 2017, Jackson Johnson, the father of a 10-month old baby, suddenly had a blood clot while riding his bicycle. He was found on the sidewalk in the countryside of Mississauga, Ontario.…
John Joseph Pershing, nicknamed “Black Jack” was born in Laclede, Missouri on September 13, 1860. Pershing, oldest of eight children, was born to John F. Pershing and Anne Elizabeth Thompson. His father was a prosperous business man, working as a merchant during the Civil War, but during the panic of 1873, his father was forced to jake a job as a traveling salesman while john worked on the family farm…
Albert Speer was born in 1905; in the city of Mannheim located in the state of Baden-Württemberg in Germany. Albert had been raised in the small township of Heidelberg; he was the second of three boys. His father, Albert Friedrich Speer, was a highly successful architect and his mother Luise Mathilde Wilhelmine Hommel was the daughter of a very wealthy businessman. Albert was nine years old at the time when World War One broke out, though he was too young to fight at the time as so were his brothers.…
In 1971 in Accra, Ghana, Steve Ewert woke up in a cold sweat. Bugs crawled out his mouth. Fear gripped his very soul. “I’m losing my mind!” he cried repeatedly to his travel companion Dick Russell.…
Cary Stayner, born August 13th 1961,is a man who will forever be remembered as a murderer, and a monster. A man who at the age of 38 brutally murdered 3 young women, evaded the police for at least 6 months, and was only caught after killing another woman. Cary Stayner without a doubt had a rough childhood, however his actions aren’t excused by past experiences.…
Edmund Emil Kemper the III was born on December 18, 1948 in Burbank, California. From the very beginning of Kemper’s life he experienced parental rejection and severe verbal abuse. Kemper and his mother, Clarnell Kemper never got along. She was constantly teasing and humiliating her son. According to Kemper, Clarnell was what precipitated his killing sprees.…
The Nuremburg Trial outcome is our vital evidence that Albert Speer was a man who was corrupted by the events at the time. He is the epitome of the saying “events shape people more than people shape events” as he merely rode the wave of Nazism. As German historian Joachim Fest stated, “He [Hitler] drew Speer to him like no one else, he singles him out and made him great” (Fest, The Face of Third Reich, pg 340). In any other situation it is inconceivable that an architect could have come to hold the title of Minister of Armaments and War Production. The event of Nazi Germany transformed an architect, whose destiny seemingly lay in continuing the family business, to a man answerable only to the ‘Fuhrer’. Albert Speer did not shape Nazi Germany: Nazi Germany shaped Speer.…
Jence Rhoads: Jence was a standout basketball player at Vanderbilt University and then later professionally in Romania. I had Jence Rhoads for my instructor for Coaching the Mental Side class and this class laid the foundation for my thirst for sport psychology. Previously, I had read her basketball profile on Vanderbilt’s website. No doubt, Jence’s family background is sports. Her dad played basketball for Wake Forest and then played professionally overseas. Her mother played basketball at Slippery Rock University and also was on the 1984 Olympic Handball Team with Reita Clanton. It’s a small world. I wonder what it was like around the dinner table at the Rhoad’s house? I would think constant talk about basketball and handball to include the mental side. I see this trend often in families and it seems to validate in my mind that genetics…
National or local organizations have been helping in effort to minimize eating disorder cases in the U.S. Recently talking with Steve Schaefer, founder and clinical director of the Eating Disorder Center of Fresno. As a social worker for over 40 years, his mission was to “patch the hole” of the soul, wanting people to “love themselves and not to compare themselves to others”. His story begins in college as an alcohol addict. Luckily, he was given a second chance and retook college, majoring in history. From there, he felt obliged to help others the way they helped him. He became a licensed certified social worker (LCSW) and later on founded the Eating Disorder Center of Fresno. During the interview, he explained that these types of disorders…
At the start of the 1830 decade, about 500 people resided in California. One of these settlers was John Sutter (Boyer 336). Sutter was a Swiss immigrant who came to California in 1839 intending to build his own private empire. On 24 January 1848, James Marshall, an employee of Sutter, was assisting with the construction of a lumber mill on the American River in the Sacramento Valley. A bright glint in the river caught Marshall’s eye. It appeared to be a bright, soft metal. In disbelief, Marshall and Sutter tested this metal and concluded it to be gold. Sutter made a pact with Marshall and his employees to keep the discovery covert due to the fact that gold hunters will get in the way of constructing the lumber mill. However, the promise was broken and the word was leaked out to the public (“The Gold Rush” 2).…
I am a senior in high school and I want to take more challenging courses to complete my final year. My reason for choosing Toccoa Falls College was due to the fact that my local college is full of bureaucracy. I felt that they did not want me there. I never once had that feeling with Toccoa Falls. That is the main reason why I choose this school. Although, the Christian values the school has had something to do with it as well.…
This research paper examines the cinematic biographical adaptation of musical child prodigy David Helfgott. The paper will examine Helfgott during the following four stages of psychosocial development based on the psychosocial theory of Erik Erikson: Middle childhood (6-12), Early adolescence (12-18), Later adolescence (18-24) and Middle adulthood (34-60). Erik Erikson was a psychoanalyst who described development as a series of eight psychosocial stages. At each stage there are development tasks to master and a central conflict that the individual can resolve positively or negatively. The nature of the task…
The Fluffer Nutter Deluxe is the sweetest sandwich in the world. It has smooth Nutella, that taste like chocolate heaven. To go with the Nutella, it also has classic, creamy peanut butter. When the Nutella and the peanut butter come together it creates a rich, chocolatey mix of deliciousness. If you thought sandwich was done, you were wrong. The next ingredient is Fluff. A gooey marshmallow fluff super chewy, and sweet. The final ingredient is the soft, uncooked bread, that fits perfectly with all the other delicious factors. All these scrumptious elements, the Fluffer Nutter Deluxe is the sweetest sandwich around.…
In 1848 the discovery of gold at Sutter’s Mill took place. It brought numerous and several of men to the site, to seek the precious gold for their own keepings. Bunches of famous people also visited the gold camps, Mark Twain for example. Many stayed after the rush died down, enjoying the land of the West. In the process of the events that took place at Sutter’s Mill, families everywhere were being abandoned. Husbands, fathers, and men all over the country were intended on being the next to strike gold.…