In this essay, I will be writing about Patricia Bath’s life. Patricia Era Bath was born in New York City on November 4, 1942; Patricia Bath became the first African American to complete a citizenship in ophthalmology in 1973. Her father was Rupert Bath, the first black motorman for the New York City subway system, and her mother was Gladys Bath, a housewife and home worker who used her earnings to save money for her children's education. Bath was pushed by her family to attend and go past school interests in her life. She became the first woman member in the Department of Ophthalmology at UCLA.
Mattie Cook lives above the family owned and operated coffee shop with her mother and grandfather. Business is doing well until the deadly disease breaks out. Her mother demanded that Mattie
In 1923 Lawrence Exeter’s senior makes a large deposit to the Banque de France. In February and June on 1926 Lawrence Exeter’s senior bus a small and large flower arrangement. In august senior buy’s a new house with his wife. Then he hires a interior decorators to design their new house in side. In November 18th 1926 Lawrence senior buys a new necklace for his wife.
Howard made a fortune and bought a house for himself, his wife, and his sons. On May 8, 1926 tragedy struck the Howards, when their boy Frankie was in a truck accident and died. Howard left for Tijuana, got out of a marriage and got into horse racing. He also met his future wife Marcela, 27 years his junior. In 1936 Howard bought the horse Seabiscuit from legendary trainer Sunny Fitzsimmons for the price of $8,000-$100,000 in today’s money.
Mr. C.J. Walker knew the procedures of the mail order business and helped his wife navigate her way. In 1906, Madam Walker expanded her company to other states (Smith 1186). Walker embarked on a year and a half, nine state tour in which she demonstrated her “Walker Method” and promoted her hair products (Felder 306). The tour was financially successful and enabled Walker to start a training school called Lelia College, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (Lyman
There, officials of the International Red Cross, organized in 1864, urged her to seek United States agreement to the Geneva Convention recognizing the work of the Red Cross; the powerful U.S. Sanitary Commission had been unable to obtain it. But before Barton could turn to the task, the Franco-Prussian War began. She offered her services to the Grand Duchess of Baden in administering military hospitals. Her most original idea (developed further in later situations) was to put needy Strasbourg women to work sewing garments for pay. Later, with the French defeated and Paris held by the Commune, she entered the starving city to distribute food and clothing.
Born in Loudun, France, Marie married her first cousin, Auguste Antigny, in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death from supposed pleurisy on July 21, 1927. When his body was eventually exhumed, 60 mg of arsenic was found in his remains. In 1928, Marie married her second husband Léon Besnard.When Léon Besnard's parents inherited family wealth, the couple invited them to move in with them. Soon thereafter, his father died, apparently from eating poisoned mushrooms.
The Great Gatsby Essay In the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Nick Carraway, the narrator, recently moved from the Midwest to New York to start his career in the bond business. Nick’s cousin, Daisy Buchanan, lives in the aristocratic neighborhood of East Egg with her husband Tom Buchanan. Tom is cheating on Daisy with George Wilson’s wife, Myrtle Wilson. Nick’s neighbor is Jay Gatsby, a man who almost married Daisy but decided to leave her to enlist in the war. Since Daisy was so desperate to get married, she married Tom instead of waiting for Gatsby.
“daisy is won over, oddly, by the amount of shirts that Gatsby owns” (www.geocities.com). In the story daisy and Gatsby break up because Gatsby is going to world war 1, fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton to join the army, and went into world war 1. After Zelda and fitzgerald got married they moved to new York and got an apartment there. In the story, while daisy and fitzgerald had just started dating again, they got a secret apartment in new York. Gatsby had lavishing parties to try to impress daisy.
He borrowed money from his aunt to open a candy shop in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. It closed after five years of hard work and long hours. He then traveled to Denver, where he discovered the secret of a caramel and milk combination. Returning to Lancaster, Hershey started the Lancaster Caramel Co. after two failed attempts. He had found booming success and was selling his caramel around the world.