Ely Marick Karstark was born in Winterfell to the parents of Amara and Michael Karstark. His family consists of his twin brother, Alex, and his younger sister, Khloe, who is four years his junior. From a young age, Ely has attempted to help his mother in the stables raising and farming animals. However, Ely has always had trouble learning new concepts and tended to frequently make errors. Although this would visibly irritate his mother, she tried not to let it show and continued to teach him. Amara first showed him how to feed the animals and proceeded to teach him how to take care of offspring. After years passed from the first day Ely attempted to shear a sheep, he eventually became reasonably adpt at serving as a stablehand and…
Kim Peek was born November 11, 1951. The doctors told his parents he was mentally retarded at birth and wouldn’t live past the age of fourteen. They were told to just put him in an institution and forget about him but luckily they did not. By the age of three, Peek taught himself the alphabet and how to read. Unfortunately, in 1975 his mother past away and that left Peek with his father, Fran. Peek was so unique that he could memorize as many as eight books a day and read each page within 8 seconds. One page with his left eye, and one with his right. Over time he eventually memorized over six thousand books. Being a Mega Savant, Peek often had out bursts and it would take nearly fifteen minutes for him to change subjects and calm down. “A…
It was a mid-afternoon day in Baltimore, Maryland January 13,1999 when Hae Min Lee, an 18 year old high school senior, went missing. Hae, originally born in South Korea in 1980, was an outgoing honor roll student athlete who excelled in her school work and was profoundly involved in her community. She played both varsity field hockey and girls lacrosse for Woodlawn High School as well as managed the varsity boys wrestling team. Hae was also involved in Ecology club, French club, and SADD (students against destructive decisions). The afternoon of January 13, 1999 was a mournful day for the many people who knew Hae Min Lee.…
Kipland Kinkel was born on August 30 in 1982. He was born into the home Bill and Faith Kinkel. Less than sixteen years later, Kip kills both of his parents, two students at his school, and injures twenty-six students. A tragic turn of events had caused a young man to murder four people and injure many more. Drugs alter the moods and perceptions of people and sometimes can cause tragic events.…
Fritz Scholder was a professor for the Institute of American Indian Arts. At the time, Scholder vowed to never paint a Native American Indian; however, things changed when he thought his students could not get the honest truth in the representation of these indigenous people. On that day, Fritz broke his promise to himself and began the works that will define his career.…
Kip Kinkel, was born in Springfield Oregon on August 30, 1982, to Bill and Faith Kinkel, Kip had a sister Kristin, which was 6 years older than him. When Kip was 6 his parents who were both Spanish teachers wanted to study abroad for a year so the family moved to Spain. Kip had a difficult time because his teacher did not speak English, once the Kinkels moved back to the United States Kip was far behind in school and failed first grade. Kip’s family was very active, but kip was not so he struggled to fit in. In fourth grade Kip found out he had dyslexia, and his parents started studying with him many hours a night to help make him better in school, and even though he understood it was difficult for him to comprehend. Kip felt lost when his…
I believe that there were several different things that were contributing factors to why Kipland Kinkel killed both his parents, and later two of his fellow peers. I do not think that there is one specific thing that can be blamed for Kip's behavior, but multiple things worked together to cause Kip's explosion.…
The Gatling Gun was created and named after Richard J. Gatling (Richard). Born on September 12, of 1818, he grew up helping his father invent the cotton machine, which would pluck the seeds from the cotton automatically. In 1850 he attended Ohio Medical Collage, that same year he invented the hemp-breaking machine. Seven years later he also invented the steam plow. When the Civil War erupted he began working on a gun that would…
Founder, William B. Ruger, first took an interest to guns when he was a child. He first started building and designing them when he was in high school. Ruger studied liberal arts at the University of North Carolina. He attended college for only 2 years before he quit school and decided to venture on his own to fulfill his dreams of designing and building various guns. In 1939 Ruger started working on a design for a machine gun. He had moved to the “seat of the country's firearms industry” with hopes to find work with any of the numerous firearms companies. By the end of 1939, Ruger has not found any work and moved back to North Carolina where he received an offer for work as a gun designer from the U.S. government's Springfield Armory in Massachusetts. By 1944 World War II was at its end and the government no longer required the services of Ruger so decided it was time to open a store of his own. But after a few years he was forced to close the doors. Soon thereafter, Ruger contacted an old acquaintance by the name of Alexander Sturm.…
In the late 1800’s common people were low on money and during this time they were going through the Economic depression so the banks and businesses failures and forced millions of men and women from their jobs. The common people went to the Yukon, Alaska, and the Klondike to find gold so they could get rich. Almost 100,00 people went looking, the way they got the gold was by walking up the golden staircase.…
Hiram S. Maxim, who was working with an engineering works in Fitchburg, Massachusetts, invented the Maxim machine-gun in 1884. Hiram Maxim was born in Sangersville, Maine on February 5, 1840. His first patented inventions included models of electric lamps and gas appliances, and curling irons.…
Holland Jaeger seems to have a nice life, she's very smart, a very good swimmer also she has a very loving boyfriend and their relationship goes well. Her mom expects a lot from her, she wants her to be a girl who goes to school, girl gets good grades, girl goes to Harvard or Stanford or Antioch College, girl meets boy, girl gets married, gets great job, has children and lives happily ever after.…
In Mann’s literary work of Tonio Kruger, he expresses his choice of an audience though whom he loves. Tonio's attraction to Hans and Ingebrog shows that they are his choice of audience. Both Hans and Ingebrog represent the normal bourgeoisie thought of as dignified and respectful like his father. Tonio admires these people but he does not wish them to be like him, he would rather them stay the way they are, uninteresting in things like art. That is why Tonio expresses his horror at the thought of Hans writing poetry. Hans and Ingebrog can be thought of as Tonio’s muse for his art. This is sort of ironic because they are the do not understand or appreciate the art that he does.…
Many accidental deaths have occurred in the United States because of guns; however, guns might not be as big of a problem if they only had a way to identify the owner of the gun. The idea of smart guns has been around since the 1900s according to Aliana Selyukh, who is a reporter for National Public Radio. Ever since the first smart gun, there have been many improvements, by many different people, in the ways the gun can identify the owner. A smart gun is a gun that is able to identify its gun owner with technology. There is not only one way a smart gun can identify a person but various ways such as the owners’ grip, the owners’ fingerprint, also a wristband with a tag, or even inserting a tag under someone’s skin. Five hundred and eighty-three…
The Nation must address the illegal fire arm sells which in turn allows our youth the opportunities to get these weapons into their possession. Society and communities must become more involved hands on with our children and youth of today. The demand to make firearms all smart guns could assist in reducing the number of teens from being the perpetrator violence with a gun or another victim that becomes a part of statistics a nation sits around and talks about. Now is the time for smart guns manufacturing, and a clamp down on the National Rifles Association if they don’t want to join the fight against gun…