Category: Famous Person

Timothy McVeigh (April 23, 1968- June 11, 2001) is popularly known as the convicted bomber of the Oklahoma Bombings which occurred on April 19, 1995. As a child, McVeigh was mild-mannered and well liked by his family and neighbors. He was closest to his grandfather Eddie who also gave Timmy his first gun, a .22…

Andrew Wiles is a British mathematician who was born on April 11, 1953 In Cambridge England. He was born to mother Patricia Wiles and Father Maurice Frank Wiles, who was the Regius Professor of Divinity at England’s finest, University of Oxford. Wiles was born in Cambridge due to his father working there at the time…

Would you be willing to stake your own life and life savings to rescue someone else, knowing that at any moment, you could face lethal consequences for your actions? This was the harrowing decision faced by Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist, businessman, and former member of the Nazi Party. Schindler, often hailed as one of…

The question of whether Dr. Jose Rizal, our national hero, truly retracted his beliefs remains a topic of enduring debate and intrigue. This controversy has cast a long shadow over Rizal’s legacy, primarily known for his courageous literary works during the Spanish colonial period. His writings, which openly challenged the colonizers, earned him the status…

Introduction and Early Life Randall Hank Williams, Jr., born on May 26, 1949, in Shreveport, Louisiana, entered the world as the son of Hank Williams, a titan of country music, and Audrey Sheppard, a significant musical figure in her own right. This lineage predetermined Hank Jr.’s path into the realm of stardom. From a tender…

There are a lot of things that I despise in the world today, and for many good reasons. One of these things (or should I say person’s) is Justin Bieber. Oh where do I start! First of all, his voice is so high pitched, you wouldn’t to be able to tell the difference between him…

Early years William Grant Still Was born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895. “He was the son of two teachers, Carie Lena Fambro Still (1872-1927) and William Grant Still (1871-1895), who was also a partner in a grocery store” (Zink). Unfortunately William’s father died when he was only three months old. His mother took…

The focus of this course paper is to link the ideas of Florence Nightingale, a woman known as being the founder of modern nursing, and how her ideas have influenced the way nursing is practiced today. She spent a majority of her life taking care of the sick and trying to promote health as well…

Steve Jobs is considered by many to be one of the founding fathers of the modern technological world. In 1976, he co-founded Apple, alongside his business partner and friend, Steve Wozniak. The two young entrepreneurs went on to pioneer the development of one of the first personal computers, thus changing the world of technology at…

Music is a way people can cope with stress and talk about their life. Nathan Feuerstein, also known as NF, is a Christian rapper who produces music talking about his life and his mistakes. Feuerstein produces “clean” rap music while also using verses from the bible blending the Christian genre with the rap genre. Specifically,…