Phil was born in Vivian, Louisiana on 24 Apr 1946. He is an entrepreneur who started the company Duck Commander where his sons and friends hand make duck calls and has a net worth of $15 Million to this day. His wife is Kay, his brother Si, and his four boys, Jase, Willie, Jep, and Alan. Phil was never quite satisfied with duck calls that were on the market so he began to experiment with making a duck call that sounded exactly like a duck in a small shed.…
Aron Ralston is the bravest person I know. Aron was an American outdoorsman, who loved canyoneering. In a canyon of Utah, Ralston was hiking all alone, when something deadly happened. An enormous boulder became dislodged and landed right onto Aron's arm. Aron Ralston suffered tremendously, but he was brave enough to get through this tough situation.…
Do you know anything about Prime Ministers? This prime minister didn't rule a country, but ruled the “Underworld” in the late 1800s and early and middle 1900s. Frank Costello wasn't a normal mobster who ruled with force, but he ruled with his intelligence. He was affiliated with many famous mobsters. He owned different casinos and had his nose in everything alcohol during prohibition. Though he was associated with many illegal crimes he only went to jail two times and one was when he was 15. “Frank Costello was an Influential mobster.”…
George Wildly was born on October 11, 1930, in the state of New Jersey. He had a family of four meaning it was just him, his older sister, and his two parents. He has never been hugged by his non-consoling family . George had nothing to do, so in 1948 he volunteered to enroll himself for war ,at the age of 18. He did not get the chance to select the branch he would have like to join. He was well suited for the Navy.…
Sharon Draper was born in 1952 in Cleveland, Ohio. The oldest child of Victor Mills who was a hotel maitre'd, and Catherine Mills, who worked as a advertising manager for the Cleveland Plain Dealer. Catherine always read to her three children each night starting when they were very young. By the time Sharon began school she was already known to be the bookworm. Victor and Catherine encouraged their kids to try to study and work hard, and as a result they could reach whatever goal they set for themselves. Sharon started becoming a straight A student and going through almost every single book in her school library. While still in elementary school Draper also realized that one day she wanted to become a teacher. Sharon always would single out one old woman and call them her role model. One of her role models was, her fifth grade teacher Mrs. Kathadaza Mann. According to Sharon the teacher taught her students about Black history long before it was accepted. In high…
Jack Johnson is a folk singer born in Oahu, Hawaii, 1975. Jack is known for his laid back, chill music. In today’s world, he plays soft rock and acoustic music. He is mostly known for his guitar play and vocals but he loves to play all instruments such as the drums, and likes to craft percussion on his guitar. In his earlier life, he was a profound, professional surfer and became heavily involved with Sports Illustrated, but he wanted more. He wanted to share more and eventually gave up his surfing career to sing and make music. His music is very islandly and relaxing and something you would listen to while visiting the beach. Jack Johnson started his career by recording for a very low-budgeted surfer movie in the late 1990s. Jack’s first published song was Rodeo Clowns and surprising was on a friend G. Love’s album, Philadelphonic in 1999.…
Paul Newman was born on January 26,1925 in Shaker Heights,OH.He was an actor, director, professional racecar driver, and philanthropist.Also he acted in “The Hulster”’ and “The String” many more too.He had six children and two wifes in his lifetime.During World War 2 he served as a radio operator.After getting out of war he started a food line called “Newman’s Own” all the money they made from the food line was donated to charity.Then in 2006 he opened a restaurant named “Dressing Room.”He later died on September 26,2008 in Westport,CT because of…
Will Rogers, the youngest of eight children, was born on November 4th, 1879 at Rogers Ranch located in Oolagah, Indian Territory. Will Rogers was a descendant of Clement Vann Rogers and Mary Schrimsher, who were both partly Cherokee. From a young age, Will Rogers grew up on his family ranch working with cattle and immediately learned to ride and lasso. He quickly realized his natural talent with a rope and eventually ended up in the Guinness Book of World Records for throwing multiple lassos at once. One lasso circled the horses’ neck, one circled the rider, and the last landed under the horse, wrapping the horses’ legs together (BIOGRAPHY).…
I cannot imagine being considered a different race at this point in my life; let alone being considered the “other” race by two different races. Gregory Howard and his brother, Mark, had to figure out this tough challenge at an early age in the 1950s during an enormous financial and racial struggle. Many people did not accept the difference in skin color and some refused to accept anything from the other side of the color line.…
creating music to woo by in a St. Paul bordello was later honed to a fine…
Roy Cooper is the current Attorney General for North Carolina. He is a democrat and is running for Governor this election against the current Governor, Pat McCrory. Based on the views that he has expressed, he would be considered a Progressive. His stance on issues such as education, local and big businesses, and social justice are what make him a Progressive.…
I am David Shane Dobyns, twenty-two years of age; I was born in Puyallup, Washington August 17th 1994 at Good Samaritan hospital. My family consists of my mother, father, and brother. Growing up was as idyllic as one would suspect. In my pre-pubescent years we moved several times bouncing from Oregon to Washington in search of “gods’ plan” for us, finally starting a church of our own in Lubbock, Texas. The church siphoned our time and money to the brink of poverty. Through the eyes of a jaded 5-year-old, everything was but a perfect utopia, neither a problem nor a care in the world. Mother was a stay at home at the wife, dictated by the church, whilst father worked odd jobs donating what blood and platelets he could muster that week to pay…
made a short film for Disney. This is important because after Disney he became a film director.…
Why did I choose Ronald Reagan as the topic of my president report? He is one of the very few great presidents America has ever seen. In his 8 years of his presidency, he freed prisoners held in Iran by previous president Jimmy Carter, lowered the unemployment rate, ended the Cold War, and the list goes on and on which proves my previous statements.…
Reagan was born on February 6, 1911 in Tampico, Illinois. Ronald Wilson Reagan was the second child of John Reagan, who was a shoe salesman, and Nelle Reagan. Ronald Reagans family lived in poverty throughout his childhood. This was as a result of John Reagans struggle with alcoholism. His family was always on the move. For several years they moved from town to town in search of a permanent settlement. His family finally settled in Dixon, Illinois; where Reagan describes his childhood as the happiest period of his life.…