Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Indian to be called venerable. She is the daughter of a Christian Algonkin woman and a pagan Mohawk. In addition, she is the first Native American to be seen as a sage.. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon. She suffered a fatal attack of smallpox when she was 4 years old. It scarred her skin and a scar was left on her face. Therefore, She usually wears a blanket to cover her face. What's worse, her whole family were died during an outbreak. Then, she was adapted by her uncle who was a chief of a Monhawk clan. She worked so hard and she had patience, it made her become well known. But she refused to get married. When her foster parents asked her to marry with a man, she…
Miguel Angel Cotto Vazquez, best called Miguel Cotto, is a very skilled boxer from Puerto-Rico. He's the very first Puerto-Rican boxer to win the world titles in four totally different weight categories. He's ranking fourth within the world best middle-weight by Transnational Boxing Ranking Board (TBRB). Miguel is also known as Junito.…
The research presented here examines the history, the pros and cons, and the future of maquiladoras along the United States and Mexico border. If you have ever had the opportunity to travel across the border it only takes a moment to see the maquiladoras flourishing in the Mexican border towns. Having had the opportunity on several occasions to take high school students on mission’s trips to work in orphanages in these border towns makes this subject of special interest to me.…
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,…
July 31, 2011, was my first day of working at Cato. As, my training process began I learned the basics, "the definitions." For instance, Secret shoppers is when we are being evaluated by a customer, but you never know if they are a regular customer or the secret shopper, so you have to tell them about our lawaway program, the Cato charge card, compliment there clothing or anything that they have on. Item of the week means every week he have a goal of selling the particular merchandise. For example, if the item of the week is scarves, whiYe checking them out we ask, " Can I suggest you a scarf to go with this?" We also have Make Your Day, which changes daily, we have a goal to meet daily, by me being an associate…
Ellen Ochoa was the first female Hispanic astronaut. She was born on May 10, 1958, in Los Angeles, California. Her parents were Joseph and Roseanne Ochoa. Ellen’s father left when she was young and her mother had to raise five children between the ages of six and sixteen by herself. Out of the five children, Ochoa was the third and had one sister and three brothers. Because of her mom pushing them to be involved with music by playing instruments, Ellen played flute and was very passionate about it. In school, Ellen had straight A’s and graduated high school as valedictorian of Grossmont High School, in La Mesa, California. She felt education was really important and that’s what made you stand out.…
A man of the name Reinaldo Silvestre out of Miami Beach was not licensed to practice medicine, and was posing as a plastic surgeon that had minimal medical training. In 1999, Silvestre, 64 was accused of giving his patients animal tranquilizers and operated with a spatula. One of his patients was Alexander Baez a former Mr. Mexico that was guaranteed by his acting physician that he would undergo cosmetic surgery for a more muscular chest and when he awoke from the surgery he had had female breast implants. In 1999, several patients accused Reinaldo Silvestre, 64, of severely bungling cosmetic surgeries. Silvestre performed other malpractice surgeries on others in South Beach and had a warrant for his arrest, so he fled to Belize and was arrested…
Festus Ojo was born in Ile Ife, Nigeria but now lives in Fairburn, Georgia where he is the president of Westlake High School's chapters of the National Honor Society, Science National Honor Society, and Chick-fil-a Leadership Academy. He is the community intern and aided his area's transition to official cityhood. After co-founding the Nonstop Leadership Group, a youth empowerment organization, he was named one of Georgia's "Twenty Under Twenty." Festus has interests in poetry and medicine. He performed research on pancreatic cancer this summer with the National Institute of Health. He aspires to study chemistry and later attend medicine school.…
Paul Rusesabagina saved more than 1,200 refugees in his hotel, what was the world doing to help refugees during the genocide? Nothing, the UN hardly helped at all during the entire genocide. Paul was the hotel manager for the hotel Diplomates, a high end hotel where foreigner government officials stayed. Another hotel, hotel Mille Collines, was another hotel Paul had access to. During the Rwandan genocide Paul kept over a thousand Tutsi and moderate Hutu save in the walls of the Mille Collines. He kept these people safe with words, drinks and lots of phone calls. While Paul and a few other’s tried to save people in Rwanda the whole world turned it’s back on the small country even though they knew what was going on and then decided to beat…
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.…
Socrates once argued that in order to live a correct life, it is imperative that one knows oneself. In other words, to live a correct life, one must be authentic, or true to oneself. Catawba, as a whole, is enriched by the shared experiences and authentic investments of its student body as they further learn who they are and how to live according to who they are. Describe an incident (or a series of incidents) in which you felt you were living most authentically. How do you believe this situation (or series of situations) revealed the true you? Finally, looking forward into your future Catawba experience, how will you invest your true self in the campus community, and how will this allow you to further live authentically?…
Every man wants to dominate his world. To conquer new lands and stake their flag on it. The desire to excel in life is ingrained in a almost every man whether it is in his career, finances, faith, relationship or sex life. When it comes to our sex lives we also feel the strong urge to be good at it. To give good and real pleasure even as we receive it. When we find ourselves a little behind on hitting our excellent goals, inadequacy and insecurity begins to creep in.…
What would you do if u were forced to complete a year of high school not only worrying about what people thought about you, but also having to worry about staying alive? Melba Patillo was forced to live with this overwhelming pressure throughout her junior year when on May 17, 1954 the Supreme Court ruled in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka Kansas saying that public schools for whites and blacks were illegal. So when Melba’s teacher asked if anyone who lived within the Central High district would like to go to Central with white children Melba was more than eager to volunteer and explore all those opportunities she had missed out on. Three long years later when it came to the 1957 fall term Melba would be attending…
Marla is a 42-year-old Hispanic female who comes to the mental health clinic complaining of having trouble sleeping, feeling "jumpy all of the time," and experiencing an inability to concentrate. These symptoms are causing problems for her at work, where she is an accountant.…
I am Rachel A. Etwaru. I am fourteen years old and was born on September 2, 2001. I have an older brother and a younger sister. I was born in Freehold, New Jersey, but when I was four or five years old, I moved here to Greenville, SC. My parents were both born in Guyana, South America. My brother was born in New York and my sister was born in Freehold, NJ, like me.…