Hana Brady, or as she was actually named Hanička Bradyová, was born on May 16, 1931 in Prague, Czechoslovakia (what would be the Czech Republic today). She was a Jewish girl and even though they didn’t practice the religion her parents still wanted her to know about her heritage. She lived in a yellow house above her Family’s store in Nove Mesto, a town in Prague. Hana lived with her brother George and her parents Marketa and Karel. Hana lived a happy life and enjoyed ice skating and fighting with her brother. Hana lover her life in Nove Mesto, but when the Nazis invaded her home her whole life turned upside down.…
Only 1.5 % of people will get pancreatic cancer in their lifetime. Unfortunately Diane Schendezos was one of them. Diane was a strong person who inspired people to to give up hate, and be loving. So be lovin gand generous in her honor. Her personality was as hard as a rock but as loving as a puppy, and she had enough tough hope for 5 people.…
Angelina Folino is a freshman at Sammamish high School who was born on December 1, 2001, in Seattle Washington. Folino always lived in the United States. When she was born to the age of three, she lived in Kent then when she was four, she moved to Bellevue. And then When she was the age of seven she lived in Rainier Beach then she lived there for about five years, and when she was twelve, she moved to Tukwila and till know she lives in Tukwila. Since Angelina is a freshman at Sammamish, there are many things that she looks forward to each day. Her favorite class is AP Hug, which she described as the “bomb. Com”, in an interview with Simran Kaur, who is also a student at Sammamish. However, that is not all; Angelina also loves playing sports like Basketball, soccer, indoor soccer,…
Sacagawea was the daughter of a Shoshone chief. Sacagawea was born in 1788 (unknown date of birth) in Lemhi County, Idaho. At around age 12, she was captured by an enemy tribe and sold to a French-Canadian trapper who made her his wife. She and Touissiant Charbonneau had a baby boy. They named him Jean Baptiste Charbonneau and later on they had a daughter. They named her Lizette Charbonneau In November of 1804, she was invited to join the Lewis and Clark expedition as a Shoshone interpreter. Also she was skilled at finding edible plants. The expedition planned to explore newly acquired western land and to find a route to the Pacific Ocean. She was the only woman on the expedition. When a boat she was riding on capsized, she was able to save some of its cargo, including important…
The most destructive of all emotions, jealousy, can cause a person to enact revenge on the…
Melina Marchetta explores the discoveries and changes encountered by an teenager, through the eyes of Josephine Alibrandi. Josephine is a 17 year old girl, with Italian heritage, throughout her life she has faced racial discrimination, further more she has encountered many offensive comments directed tat the scandal of her illegitimacy. Throughput her final year in high school, she comes to understand who she is and comes to understand what is important to her. For the whole of the novel Melina Marchetta demonstrates the concept of discovery. Josephine Alibrandi is faced with many discoveries by the end of the novel. Of the countless discoveries made by Josephine, perhaps the most significant is the discovery of herself and her identity, other important discoveries made are the finding of her father, the uncovering of her grandmother Katia’s secret and the realization of her…
She graduated from a Midwest college with a degree in history and then joined the united states army. She went on to become a military journalist and a social studies teacher. She is now retired and the only one of the nine to still live in Little Rock,…
Freya was born in Denmark along with two other litter mates specifically to serve as companion hounds meant to protect their master with their life. Their bloodlines went back thousands of years and were believed to be descendants of Fenrir himself (of course this was never proven) and each generation proving to be stronger than the last. As she grew she was often pitted against her litter mates besting them every time, establishing herself as the alpha over them at a young age. she was feisty and a natural born leader, her masters appreciated that about her seeing as it meant more money for them in the long run. She was trained vigorously for the first twenty years of her life her power growing substantially ever rising above not only her…
Someone that inspires me is Simone Biles; she kept her head up even after coming from an abusive home. Her and her sister, Adria, went to live with their grandma in Ohio at a very young age, and were raised there. Their grandma ended up adopting the two girls, and became like a mom to them, so thats what they called her.…
Olaudah Equiano was born in 1745, in now what is known as Nigeria, but back then was known as the region inhabited by the Igbo people. He was one of 7 children, the youngest of 6 boys, and he also had one younger sister. Source 1, Equiano’s autobiography, “The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African”, which tells the story of how he was kidnapped at a young age, possibly 11, from the Igbo village of Essaka in the region of Benin, where he had grown up. From here he endured the Middle Passage to the “New World”, where he was forced to into slave labour. This being said, some writers, however, claim that Equiano was born in colonial South Carolina and not in Africa. Source 2, is a map that shows the route of Equiano’s many travels throughout his long career that was said to be 8 years, at sea. It clearly demonstrates…
In the video, The Literary Realism Movement narrated by Katherine Godin, Realism is defined as “a style and type of writing that emerged during a specific time period in the country’s literary history, when writers sought to portray life as it really was.” During the 1800’s, Africans were treated inhumanly, and beaten like animals. White people only saw blacks as less, and treated them very cruel. Though these races lived in the same country, they both had completely different ideas of their “American Dream.” In Olaudah Equiano’s story, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, he writes about the miserable journey to America, being forced to work as a slave for the white men, and the “American Dream” every slave lived.…
Compare the 18th century African slave trade to a game of checkers. Played on a checkered board of 64 opposing colors, the object of checkers is to capture or block all the men of an opponent. Careful planning of attack and defense are key elements to winning. The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano does more than just detail the experiences of a former African slave, it sets forth the play sequence between the various players engaged in the slave trade, the emotions involved, the effects and consequences on the players, and the future of the game if it were allowed to continue.…
Olaudah Equiano’s The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavas Vassa, the African, Written by Himself, not only displays triumph over oppression, an attribute that is hailed as the cornerstone of a model American, but chronicles the beginning point of Americas change in attitude towards ethnic exclusion by discrimination.Interestingly Equiano spent most of his life in America as a slave and it is probable that Equiano wouldn’t consider himself in any fashion as an American. According to the “Norton Anthology of American Literature,”…
Sara Teasdale is an American lyrical poet born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1884. Throughout her childhood and adulthood, she suffered from many illnesses. This caused her to be homeschooled until she was well enough to be put in school, which finally came at the age of nine. Teasdale finished school in 1903 after going to three different schools and battling many more illnesses along the way. She was an accomplished writer of poetry shortly after finishing school and she has had many poems published to multiple different sources. Her poems have also been used as lyrics for many choral pieces and she has won awards for her collection of poems entitled “Love Songs”. At Sara’s funeral, her mother spoke of how Sara always loved reading poetry and looking at anything beautiful, so she was amazing at taking those beautiful things she saw and turning them into poetry.…
Gabriela Mistral was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize in Literature. She was born in Vicuña in northern Chile in 1889. Her parents were Petronila Alcayaga, a school teacher of Basque descent and Jeronimo Godoy Alcayaga Villanueva, a vagabond poet and school teacher of Indian and Jewish ancestry. Mistral's birth name was Lucila Godoy Alcayaga. Lucila and her older sister Emelina were raised in Montegrande by their mother after the father deserted them when Lucila was three years old. At the age of nine, Lucila started attending school, but did so for only three years. At school she discovered her love of poetry and started writing her own poems. She also assumed the name Gabriela Mistral.…