The Boston Marathon is an annual marathon hosted by several cities in Greater Boston in eastern Massachusetts. It is always held on Patriots' Day, the third Monday of April. Begun in 1897, inspired by the success of the first modern-day marathon competition in the 1896 Summer Olympics,[1] the Boston Marathon is the world's oldest annual marathon, and ranks as one of the world's best-known road racing events. It is one of six World Marathon Majors. Since 1897, the Boston Athletic Association (B.A.A.)
Rosa was born on February 4th, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Her father, James McCauley was a carpenter and her mother, Leona Edwards, was a teacher. Growing up she was sick most of the time and was a small child. Eventually her mother and father separated. Her mother took her and her brother to live in Pine Level, a town near Montgomery.
Their father hardly ever came around. Then one day he and his new girlfriend called Child Protection Services on me. They removed the kids to investigate and couldn’t find anything. When they returned the kids to me I moved back to safety, at home with my dad. We stayed in the same house (where they were born and raised) until two thousand and nine.
These ladies program were considered the first attempt in the United States to provide out-of-school programs. During the Civil War the club disbanded for a short time, but soon reorganized in 1880 as the Good Will Boy’s Club. The majority of these clubs were located in densely populated east coast cities and by 1906 there were 53 total. Around this time representatives from all the clubs got together and formed the Federated Boy’s Club with the purpose to spread their concept across the country. By 1915 the Federated Boy’s Club changed its name to the Boy’s Club Federation boasting 43 clubs nationally with an operating budget of 3,500 dollars.
Analyzing and Interpreting Literature 5 Dec 2011 Flannery O’Conner: The Displaced Person Flannery O’Conner was born on the 25th of March, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia where she spent much of her childhood. When her father was diagnosed with lupus she moved with her family to the rural town of Milledgeville where she lived along with other members of her mother’s family. In 1945 she was awarded a journalism scholarship to attend Iowa State University. (Flannery) It was there that she would decide to pursue a career in fiction rather than fact. After graduating with a Masters in Fine Arts O’Connor spent the next several years living and writing in New York State until she was diagnosed with Lupus, the disease that had killed her father.
He was separated from his mother at birth and sent to live with his grandmother. When he was seven he was sent to live with the overseer and never saw his grandmother again. He was the forced to move in with a family named the Aulds. At the age of twelve, Sophia Auld taught Frederick Douglas the alphabet. He was moved from place to place and after the Aulds he was forced to work where he would be beaten on a schedule.
Andrea Yates was a middle aged woman when she gave birth to her first child Noah. Shortly after marrying her husband, Rusty, she gave up her career as a registered nurse so she could start a family; not long after that was when she fell pregnant with Noah, once Noah was born Andrea was faced with the decision to return to her career or not. It has been said that Andrea would have wanted to return to work but she decided to be a full-time mother. Throughout the 8 years of their marriage leading up to this tragic event, Andrea spent the majority of her time in a state of pregnancy or nursing her younger children. She also had many visits to see psychiatric doctors/nurses and had many psychiatric treatments and was prescribed drugs such as Wellbutrin, Zoloft, Effexor and Haldon, which are a combination of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics (Yates, A.
Finally, in 1924, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) sanctioned an International Winter Sports Week at Chamonix, France. That event included well-known competitions, for example, speed skating, Nordic skiing, bobsledding and figure skating. With a huge success, it was declared the first Olympic Winter Games. Seventy years later, the games that took place in Lillehammer in 1994 ended the four-year Olympic cycle so that the summer and winter games will no longer be the same year. Instead, they would alternate every two years as it is now.
After their father’s death, the son’s married Moabite women named Orpah and Ruth. They lived together for about 10 years until both Mahlon and Chilion died, leaving their mother Naomi to live with her daughters-in-law. Hearing that the famine was over in Judah, Naomi decided to return to her home, and she urged her daughters-in-law to return to their own mothers in Moab. After much dispute, Orpah acceded to her mother-in-laws wishes and left her, weeping. But the bible says Ruth “clung to” Naomi and uttered now famous words “where you go I will go; where you lodge, I will lodge; your people shall be my people, and your God my God” (Ruth 1:16).
Early Life Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 to a teenage mom Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After her birth, Oprah’s mother was unable to fully take care of her and moved to Milwaukee to find work, and planned on later moving her daughter in with her. In her mother’s absence Oprah was left in the care of her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who taught her how to read and had young Oprah participating in various church activities. As said, Oprah was moved to the city with her mother at the age of 6, but this move brought troubles to Oprah’s life as she was constantly raped between the ages of nine and 13 by male family members and a family friend. A little while later in her teenage years, Oprah’s promiscuity caused her to become pregnant, but didn’t end well as the child died as an infant.