Ella Fitzgerald: Ella's Love For Music

Amilia’s adventure Amilia Earheart was from Kansas. She was the first child of three. As she grew up her dad had a drinking problem so Amilia and her family moved to Chicago. Then in 1917 she went to visit her sister in Canada and came across injured soldiers. So Amilia went back to school to become a nurse.

Journalist, producer and author, Barbara Jill Walters, came into the world on September 25, 1929. Her father, Louis Walters, worked as the owner of the Latin Quarter nightclubs and as a booking agent, which allowed Barbara to associate with celebrities from a young age. She later claimed that this was how she became comfortable talking with famous individuals as a journalist. Her mother, Dena Walters, was a homemaker who raised Barbara along with her two siblings: Jacqueline and Burton. Jacqueline was born mentally disabled and died in 1985 from ovarian cancer.

Olaf & Mathilda Miller Ruth Blomquist’s mother, Rasmus and Torina Ordahl’s daughter Mathilda, gave birth to Ruth Elizabeth on July 31, 1903. Ruth began her life as a single child amid the scandal of having an unwed mother. 9 The father, Gust Brown,10 in all likelihood the husband of Mathilda’s sister, Minnie, left the Glenwood area after the indiscretion and moved with his family to Peaver, South Dakota, where he worked as a butcher for several years.

As I read what Zafon wrote about how some images and words had found its way into his heart, I had similar feelings as I read Fever 1793. The novels describes how a fourteen-year-old girl gradually becomes a young woman as she been through the horrible fever that flush through the city of Philadelphia and witness her grandfather’s death. She had once had a harmony family, but suddenly the yellow fever took her friend’s live, and then neighbors. Her mother was sick, too. Eventually she couldn’t do anything but to run away to another city with her grandfather.

Who is Megan Fox? Megan Fox is a artist that populer by being artist in movie and also model, but before we know even further about her now im going to tell how she born and when. Megan fox born in 1 6 May 1986 in Tennesesee USA, she had 2 parent but after couple year their parent has to divorced because of family problem. They broke up when Megan turn into 3 year old , but her mother married again with another man. So Megan raise with her sister , step father, and her mother, when she with family she got strictly raise by her family.

Chapter 1 This novel starts off with the narrator, a girl named Jean Louise “Scout” Finch describing to readers about something that happened in which her older brother, Jeremy Atticus “Jem” Finch, broke his arm and how it affected him afterwards. When she is finished explaining her brother’s broken arm experience, she continues on by going into her family history. Her father’s name is Atticus Finch and he is a successful lawyer in their town of Maycomb County. Atticus and his brother, Jack were the first two Finch members of the family to pursue a career outside of just typically taking over the family farm. Atticus and Jack’s sister though, Alexandra, stayed to take over the landing with her husband.

The Life Of Bill Clinton Background of the President William Jefferson Clinton most commonly known as Bill Clinton was born William Jefferson Blythe III in Hope, Arkansas, on August 19, 1946, approximately three months after his the death of his father. Clinton was raised by his strong-willed grandmother Edith Cassidy and his free spirited mother Virginia Cassidy Blythe two domineering women who often competed for his attention. Clinton spent the early years of his life being taught by his grandmother while his mother way away in New Orleans attending school to become a nurse. (World Biography Encyclopedia) In 1950, Clinton 's mother, Virginia, married a car dealer and abusive alcoholic by the name of Roger Clinton who moved the family to Hot Springs, Arkansas where years later Clinton officially adopted his stepfather 's last name.

It all began on November 12, 1934, Charles Milles Maddox also known as Charles Manson, was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. To many people in the late 1960’s, hell was born on that date. His father, Walker Scott, left his mother when Charles was young. His mother Kathleen Maddox was a prostitute and an alcoholic, a reason why she had Charles while she was sixteen-years old. A few years after Charles was born, Kathleen married a man named William Manson.

However there is no information about her mother, except for a death date and location; Jane Beers died in Santa Barbara, CA in 1958. Martha had three siblings, Mary, Georgia and a younger brother who died of scarlet fever before his second birthday. Martha was the oldest of all the kids, definitely pressuring her to be the good influence. Growing up Martha was surrounded by the arts. Her father frequently played the piano and her nurse ,Elizabeth Pendergrass, would set up plays for the children to act out while she was watching them.

For example, on (“Famous Authors”) it says, “ Her studies and teaching career ended when she married Almanzo Wilder who was ten years her senior on August 25, 1885.¨ This quote shows that this was a very big moment in her life, and that changed her life forever. According to (“LIW Frontier Girl”) it states, “ Rose Wilder was born December 5, 1886, in De Smet, Dakota Territory, the first child of Almanzo and Laura Ingalls Wilder.” This quote tells me that Laura's life changed again, and she now had the to take on the responsibility of caring for a child. Finally, on a website called (“Hoover. Archives”) it claims, “ Caroline Ingalls (Ma) dies in De Smet, South Dakota.”

Ransby wrote about the complexity of Ella Baker's life. Ransby stated: "for me, in looking back as Baker's life in all of its rich complexity" (Ransby, Pg). In the writing the biography, Ransby brought to life a person in her writing. Her argument centered on the idea of complexity. The complexity of Baker's life leads to the importance of her legacy.

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to work for NASA in 1943? Well a woman named Dorothy Vaughan did just that. She was born and raised in Kansas City, MO. Dorothy was born on September 20, 1910. When Dorothy was seven years old she and her father and mother, Leonard and Anne Johnson, moved to Morgantown, West Virginia.

Nina Smart is brave, and courageous, and strong. Using her own personal story as a memoir captures the reader in numerous ways to begin their thinking on the practice of female genital mutilation, also known as FGM. By using her story, Nina Smart was able to draw attention and sympathy towards those affected by FGM since it was personal and shows how real and terrifying this experience may be. Nina’s story could possibly be very different from the rest of the females’ stories in Sierra Leone who also went through this experience, but their stories all end up to be similar. The story is so varying for Nina since she had grown up in Romania and lived with her white family.

Simone began recording her music in the 50s under the Bethlehem label, releasing her first full album in 1957, which featured "Plain Gold Ring" and the title track "Little Girl Blue." It also included her one and only Top 20 pop hit with her version of "I Loves You Porgy" from the George and Ira Gershwin musical Porgy and Bess. Under different labels, Simone released a bevy of albums from the late '50s throughout the '60s and early '70s, including records like The Amazing Nina Simone (1959), Nina Simone Sings Ellington! (1962), Wild Is the Wind (1966) and Silk and Soul (1967). She also made cover songs of popular music, eventually putting her own spin on such songs as Bob Dylan's "The Times They Are A-Changin'" and the Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun.

Award winning author, Shirley Jackson’s controversial short story, “The Lottery” is a fictional account of brutality underlying in traditions. For the reader, fiction can be fantasy; however, art can also be a reflection of life. Life is filled with events: some positive and some negative. At time writers use these events, personal and historical, as inspiration for their work, or a reader may connect similarities from a work of fiction to a historical event. World War II has ended and Jackson’s short story is released three years later.