...What is a biography? A biography is a written account of the series of events that make up a person's life. Every student will write a biography at some point, but the level of detail and sophistication will differ. A fourth grade biography will be much different from a middle school-level biography or a high school or college-level biography. However, each biography will include the basic details. The first information you should gather in your research will include biographical details and facts. You must use a trustworthy resource to ensure that your information is accurate. Basic details include: * Date and place of birth and death * Family information * Lifetime accomplishments * Major events of life * Effects/impact on society, historical significance While this information is necessary to your project, these dry facts, on their own, don't really make a very good biography. Once you've found these basics, you'll want to dig a little deeper. You choose a certain person because you think he or she is interesting, so you certainly don't want to burden your paper with an inventory of boring facts. Your goal is to impress your reader! You'll want to start off with great first sentence. It's a good idea to begin with a really interesting statement, a little known fact, or really intriguing event. You should avoid starting out with a standard but boring line like: "Meriwether Lewis was born in Virginia in 1774." Instead, try starting with something...
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...Rosa Parks Biography * Occupation: Civil Rights Activist * Born: February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama * Died: October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan * Best known for: Montgomery Bus Boycott Biography: Where did Rosa Parks grow up? Rosa grew up in the southern United States in Alabama. Her full name was Rosa Louise McCauley and she was born in Tuskegee, Alabama on February 4, 1913 to Leona and James McCauley. Her mother was a teacher and her father a carpenter. She had a younger brother named Sylvester. Her parents separated while she was still young and she, with her mother and brother, went to live on her grandparent's farm in the nearby town of Pine Level. Rosa went to the local school for African-American children where her mother was a teacher. Going to School Rosa's mother wanted her to get a high school education, but this wasn't easy for an African-American girl living in Alabama in the 1920s. After finishing up elementary school at Pine Level she attended the Montgomery Industrial School for Girls. Then she attended the Alabama State Teacher's College in order to try and get her high school diploma. Unfortunately, Rosa's education was cut short when her mother became very ill. Rosa left school to care for her mother. A few years later Rosa met Raymond Parks. Raymond was a successful barber who worked in Montgomery. They married a year later in 1932. Rosa worked part time jobs and went back to school, finally earning her high...
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...Michael Craig UNV103 - 0508 August 28, 2015 Kyle Hedden Michael Craig - Biography Hello Class! My name is Michael Craig. This is my first semester in college I am working towards obtaining a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. I decided to go back to school because I was working for a company that went out of business and I found that I needed to get a degree in order to keep doing what I love doing most and that is working in an accounting office. Going back in school has been challenging for me because it has been a long time since I have gone to school. It was pretty intimidating for me to go through the enrollment process, because I kept questioning whether I could cut it this late in life. I am presently unemployed because the company I was working for went out of business. I previously worked for a full service restoration company (construction). I started out working as the administrative assistant for the CFO and from there I moved onto other positions. The position I loved doing the most was in the accounting office and that is the reason I decided to go back to school and get a degree in accounting. The things I enjoy doing with my spare time are spending quality time with family, going fishing with my sister and brother in law on their boat, racquet ball, and volley ball. I also enjoy going out to eat and maybe catching a good movie on the weekends. I have not done a lot of traveling in my life. My family has always tried to take me with them when they go places...
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...Sheri Gualandi ECON111 Denise Stauthammer Biography November 9, 2014 Lower Gas Prices Possible Boost to the Economy The end of October 2014 brought with it lower gas prices for American consumers. It has been a very long time since gas prices have been below $3.00 per gallon at the pump and the benefits of the lower prices will help the American people from all walks of life ranging from people who live paycheck to paycheck, people on fixed incomes, and college students. The money saved from the lower gas prices will be an opportunity for people to spend more on things that may be considered little extras like dinner out, going to the movies, or taking in a concert. With the holiday months approaching, the extra money saved from not having to pay so much at the pump will allow for people to splurge and buy that special gift that they otherwise wouldn’t have been able to. While the lower gas prices are helping American consumers, the oil industry is taking a hit due to the lower crude prices. These lower crude prices are also helping industries such as farmers, trucking companies, railroads, and airlines. Prices at the grocery store as well as many other retailers will decline because they will also save money with lower fuel surcharges that tend to fluctuate with the cost for fuel. Lower crude prices will also help consumers save money on home heating costs this winter which will translate into more extra spending. More spending will help our economy rebound even more...
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...Biography (Story of Jacquelyn Salceiro) Jacquelyn Salceiro was born in August 19th, 1997 in Jacksonville Florida. She had lived in Jacksonville all of her life. Jacquelyn was raised in a traditional family where her father works in Internal Revenue Service and her mother works as a paraprofessional. Mr. Salceiro is Cuban and Mrs. Salceiro is Filipino; for this reason, Jacquelyn is exposed to two different cultures in a young age. Jackquelyn has one older sister who is twenty years old and currently attends the University of North Florida. She also has one younger brother who enrolls in Landmark Middle School as a sixth grader. Jacquelyn attended Sabalpalm Elementary School from kindergarten to fifth grade. Later, she enrolled in Darnell Cookman Middle School, which is a well-known medical school. During eighth grade summer, Jacquelyn and her family also went back to visit Philippine for a month. Comparing to the nice weather in Jacksonville, the climate in Philippine was extreme. Although Jacquelyn later did get accepted into Stanton College Preparatory School, but because of the issue with school transportation, she decided to go to Sandalwood High School instead. Being interested in playing tennis, Jacquelyn decided to join the school tennis team in her sophomore year. In addition, she also volunteered in Sabalpalm Elementary School as a remarkable way to give back to the community. Jacquelyn started her very first job in junior year; she worked as a part-time cashier...
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...Anne Sexton was born in 1928, the lastborn in her family, in Newton, Massachusetts. She was the third after her two older sisters. Most of her childhood was spent in Boston. She got her education in Wellesley public schools. When she was 17, she enrolled for boarding school and graduated from Roger Hall Lowell, Massachusetts. She later spent a year at Garland School, a finishing school for women. She modeled for Boston’s Hart Agency. In 1948, she eloped with Alfred Muller Sexton, and married in North Carolina, and remained married to until their divorce on 1973. She had two children, both girls. Anne gave birth to their second child in 1955, and she could not cope with the pressure two small kids with the absence of his husband due to his nature of work. The following year, Anne was hospitalized for treatment of anxiety. She was treated by psychiatrist Dr. Martha Brunner-Orne, diagnosing her with post-natal depression. The psychiatrist later said that Anne suffered from depression of biological nature. Six months later, Anne was treated under the care of Dr. Martin Orne, who took over from the mother. (Wood) It is when receiving psychiatric treatment that she started writing poetry. Dr. Orne encouraged Anne to take up poetry. Driven by her state of mind, illness and depression Anne sort poetry. It was after her suicide attempt that her doctor told her she still had a purpose in life. In 1957, she attended her first poetry led by John Holmes. She joined the John Holmes’s poetry...
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...Miguel Cavazos For DECISION ANALYSIS BUSI 3343-02 On W.EDWARDS DEMING Professor Manuel Alcocer Table of Contents 1. Brief biography 2. Deming System 3. Conclusion Appendices 1. References Biography Deming was a well known professor who taught at New York University Graduate school of Business and Administration and at Columbia University. One of Deming’s ideas on quality control was prominent in Japan. Deming philosophy and teaching where shown by examining the kind of results of how much was produced after it was adopted by any other industry. This was known as the Deming System which is a very effective method. Ford Motor Company adopted Deming's idea which was called quality / culture". Deming's famous Management-Program consists of 14 points for improvement and 7 of things to be avoided. Most of these points are trivial. Deming created this idea quality / culture in 1930. This helped the Ford Motor Company because it was making a car model with transmission made in U.S. and Japan. Customers wanted U.S cars with japans transmission but the parts were not compatible until they went ahead and changed every part. Deming System The idea of W. Edwards Deming may be common now but they’ve become combined in our culture of work. The idea of hard work, sincerity, decency, and personal responsibility, has change the way our management was. “It’s not enough to just do your best at work; you must know what you should work on.” The simple methods...
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...Biography of Vivian Patricia Nedd Vivian Nedd is a 92 year old woman who currently resides at 246 # 9 Village West Coast Berbice. Vivian Nedd was born to Clotilda and Nurbert Nedd on 15th November, 1920. She has one sister and one brother (Enid Vossey and Roydon Nedd). Vivian attended both Nursery and Primary Schools in Expectation Village West Coast Berbice and up to the third year in Secondary School because the school was a far distance from her home and her parents didn’t had enough finance to send her so went and work in the rice field and help look the cows that they had in order to assist her parents in insuring that her younger siblings have a complete education, since she was the eldest. Vivian got married at age 23 and gave birth to a beautiful bouncing baby girl two years after her marriage. After fifteen years in Vivian’s marriage her husband passed away. But that didn’t stop her from moving on with life, she worked with people and was a sweeper cleaner at # 8 primary schools as to be able to insure that her daughter Cindy Nedd can have a sound education. At age 92 Vivian says that she is satisfied and comfortable with her age. She also stated that she was greatful for the way her parents brought her up. Vivian says that she is currently the oldest woman and mother in her local church and would usually encourage and help to guide the young women to be good mothers and wives. Biography of Godfrey Andrew Johnson Godfrey Andrew Johnson is a 72 year old...
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...Anthony Horowitz: Short Biography Early Life: Anthony Horowitz is a novelist, screenwriter and a children’s author, born into a wealthy Jewish family on the 5th of April 1955 in Paddington, London. Growing up wasn’t very easy for him, even coming from a wealthy family. At the age of 8, he was sent to Orley Farms boarding school, where he would always gather his friends and entertain them by telling them stories he had read. He had always loved reading and writing since then. At the age of 13, he attended Rugby Public School. He graduated from the University of New York with lower second class degree in English literature and art history in 1977. He often did not get along with his dad and he remembers him as a cruel man that only cared about his money. Facing bankruptcy, his dad moved all his assets into Swiss numbered accounts. He later died of cancer and the family wasn’t able to track down the money. As for his mother, Anthony had always adored her; she even gave him a human skull for his 13th birthday, he still has it. It sits by his desk and reminds him that life is short… he needs to get a move on with that next chapter! Life as an Author and Achievements: Anthony Horowitz started professional writing at the age of 22 and already has over 40 books by now. His most famous series are: Alex Rider (with 11 books), The Power of Five (with 5 books), and The Diamond Brother Series (with 8 books). He has won Booksellers Association Award (2008), Booktrust Teenage Prize...
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...BIOGRAPHY OF SGT KYLE STEPH My name is SGT Kyle Steph. I was born in Hawaii in 1988. I joined the Army May 2006. My wifes name is Jessilyn and we have been married for 3 years we have a daughter named Chloe who is two years old and a son named Oliver who is five months old. Upon completion of basic training and AIT I was assigned to 3rd BDE 2-70th AR Fort Riley Kansas where I served as a Bradley driver. Six months later I volunteered to deploy to Baghdad with 4th BDE 1-28th IN Black Lions where I served as a dismounted RTO. Seven months later I redeployed to Fort Riley Kansas where I served as a dismount fire team leader. In 2009 I deployed with Attack company 1-28th IN to Balad where I served as the TOC NCO. Ten months later I returned to Fort Riley to my three week old daughter. In 2011 I moved to Fort Benning Georgia where I was assigned to 3BDE 3ID 1-15IN CAN DO BN. I was assigned to 1ST PLT of Hardrock Company where I served as the PSG Bradley gunner. In April of 2012 I graduated the Ranger Training Assesment Course and became the Company Commanders bradley gunner where I currently serve. My short term goals are to advance to the rank of SSG, Graduate Ranger school, and bring all my soldiers home safely. My long term goals are to obtain a degree in English, retire from the Army as a SGM, and open a small coffee shop with my...
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...Teresa Durstine PSYC 250 – DOL 1 Professor Stone October 28, 2013 Beyond Biography A person’s character and personality will leave a great impression on others. Although some of these impressions are positive ones; however, others may be negative. A person’s childhood will often have a great influence on a person’s personality and character. An individual’s identity will be a reflection of their religious beliefs, ethnic background, gender, as well as their birth order. All of these will aid in the development of their own uniqueness. In a sense, we become a product of our childhood, or our up-bringing. The first theorist is Alfred Alder, he was the younger of two siblings and this made him become competitive. Whereas, his is older brother, Sigmund was very healthy, robust, and full of energy; Alfred suffered from poor health and required extra attention during his childhood. Alfred developed a combative side, and he would often challenge authority. He also strived for superiority over Sigmund. Because his older brother was domineering, competent, and intelligence, Alfred always felt inferior to him. This would cause Alfred to feel like he was the underdog, who was constantly competing against a very powerful foe. All this aided in Alfred developing a fierce rivalry against his brother Sigmund. When Alfred was just five years old, he almost died from pneumonia. Young Alfred went skating with an older boy who abandoned him on the freezing, ice cold skating...
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...B oB Marley Recent Titles in Greenwood Biographies Arnold Schwarzenegger: A Bography Louise Krasniewicz and Michael Blitz Blle Holday: A Bography Meg Greene Elvs Presley: A Bography Kathleen Tracy Shaqulle O’Neal: A Bography Murry R. Nelson Dr. Dre: A Bography John Borgmeyer Bonne and Clyde: A Bography Nate Hendley Martha Stewart: A Bography Joann F. Price Mchael Jordan: A Bography David L. Porter Alex Rodrquez: A Bography Wayne Stewart Steven Spelberg: A Bography Kathi Jackson Madonna: A Bography Mary Cross Jacke Robnson: A Bography Mary Kay Linge B oB Marley a Biography David V. Moskowitz greenwood b iographies GreenwooD Press westPort, connecticut • lonDon Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Moskowtz, Davd V. (Davd Vlado), 1969 – Bob Marley : a bography / Davd V. Moskowtz. p. cm. — (Greenwood bographes, ISSN 1540-4900) Dscography: p. Includes bblographcal references and ndex. ISBN-13: 978–0–313–33879–3 (alk. paper) ISBN-10: 0–313–33879–5 (alk. paper) 1. Marley, Bob. 2. Reggae muscans —Jamaca—Bography. I. Ttle. ML420.M3313M66 2007 782.421646092—dc22 [B] 2007018313 Brtsh Lbrary Catalogung n Publcaton Data s avalable. Copyrght © 2007 by Davd V. Moskowtz All rghts reserved. No porton of ths book may be reproduced, by any process or technque, wthout the express wrtten consent of the publsher. Lbrary of Congress Catalog Card Number:...
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...Steven P. Jobs, Pixar, and Disney: how would Apple be affected? Monday, January 23, 2006 · 3:14 am · 24 Comments “The calculus of the Walt Disney Company buying Pixar Animation Studios is, on its face, simple: big media conglomerate plus vaunted computer animation studio plus closer ties with Steven P. Jobs, the maverick Pixar founder, equals potential powerhouse,” Richard Siklos writes for The New York Times. “But because Mr. Jobs’s other job is chairman and chief executive of Apple Computer, a deal also raises the possibility of a warmer relationship between Disney and Apple if Mr. Jobs plays an active role at the company.” “Although there would be no direct equity relationship between Apple and Disney, Mr. Jobs would be the largest individual shareholder in both, and would be likely to hold at least a board seat at Disney,” Siklos writes. “In the complex and sometimes querulous dynamic between media and technology companies, such a move would no doubt raise questions about the ripples those ties can be expected to cause.” Siklos writes, “For example, would Mr. Jobs view Disney as the preferred content supplier for future generations of Apple iPods and other hardware that distribute and play media products like songs and TV shows? And would Disney’s media rivals be less inclined to do business with Apple as it introduced new services because they would be abetting a competitor? Similarly, will technology companies vying with Apple to develop new products for...
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...“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.” — from Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut In novels, essays, and plays produced during a career that spanned more than four decades, Kurt Vonnegut was the voice of several generations, a champion for those who, like himself, viewed society’s excesses and eccentricities with more than a little skepticism. Vonnegut was hailed as a “literary idol” whose works became “classics of the American counterculture,” Early Life Writer, novelist. Born on November 11, 1922, in Indianapolis, Indiana. Kurt Vonnegut is considered one of the most influential American novelists of the twentieth century. He blended literature with science fiction and humor, the absurd with pointed social commentary. Vonnegut created his own unique world in each of his novels and filled them with unusual characters, such as the alien race known as the Tralfamadorians inSlaughterhouse-Five (1969). After studying at Cornell University from 1940 to 1942, Kurt Vonnegut enlisted the U.S. Army. He was sent by the army to what is now Carnegie Mellon University to study engineering in 1943. Soon after his return from the war, Kurt Vonnegut married his high school girlfriend, Jane Marie Cox. The couple had three children. The Vonneguts also adopted his sister's three children after her death in 1958. Writing Debut Showing his talent for satire, his first novel, Player Piano, took on corporate culture and was published in 1952. More...
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...Nursing philosophy is a theoretical foundation that serves as a frame of reference to provide guidance and direction for the clinician. Many nursing scholars including Patricia Benner have contributed to the nursing philosophical base. My personal nursing philosophy is shaped by the early pioneers in nursing to promote health and achieve optimal state of wellness for the patients. An individual value and beliefs system plays an integral role in delivering nursing care. My personal values and beliefs have guided me throughout my nursing profession. During my nursing career, I have carefully examined different pathways to achieve higher education to maximize my potential as a health care provider. This paper will discuss my personal philosophy of nursing including values and beliefs; roles of a baccalaureate prepared nurse including role transition with new opportunities available; two professional short term and long term goals including barriers and challenges; develop a strategic plan to accomplish these goals within five years. In my daily practice as a registered nurse, my focus is directed by my philosophical beliefs to promote wellness for each individual. As a clinician, I respect the values of the early philosophers who have outlined the responsibilities of the nursing profession. Based on the guidelines of the philosophers, a clear understanding of each patient’s physiological and psychological needs must be addressed to facilitate therapeutic treatment. My core...
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