Category: Biography

On the 22nd of January 2008, an A-list actor would be found lying dead, on the floor of his hotel room. A few months later, with the release of his most recent movie, he would be named one of the most captivating actors of this era. This is the story of how a young Perth…

On the 23 February, 1908, a great man was born, and he was named William McMahon after his father who had the same name. McMahon lived with his parents for a while and was an only child. One day tragically McMahon’s parents died, so he was taken to live with his relatives. He was an…

‘I have decided to stick with love, hate is too great a burden to bear’, said the legend Martin Luther King Jr. He was an inspirational social rights activist and the leader of the American civil rights movement who is remembered proudly to this day. King showed courage because of his dream to make everybody…

Introduction: The Unparalleled Journey of Lionel Messi ‘I am not crazy enough to compare myself with Messi because he is the best there ever was and the best there will ever be'(Gomez). There are many professional soccer players in the world who have overcome adversity such as poverty but persevered and made it to the…

Marilyn Monroe, or Norma Jeane Mortenson, born in 1926 in Los Angeles, did not have a carefree childhood. She never knew her father, and she spent most of her childhood in orphanages, as her mother was not capable of caring for her. In there, Monroe stated that she was sexually assaulted. Monroe, fortunately, got out…

There is a man who is known for the tales he has sown, told to children young and almost full-grown. One is a cat that wears a hat, another a Horton that hears a who, and a Grinch who stole Christmas got a new heart, too. He was a Dr. named Seuss, but not a…

Few authors can be credited with influencing American literature as much as Edgar Allan Poe. Poe is deemed the father of modern detective stories and helped build Gothic horror as a genre. He is also considered one of the first authors to use sci-fi horror in literature. Poe is the author most think about when…

Edgar Allan Poe was an extraordinary poet who used the obstacles and unfortunate circumstances of his life to write great poetry. Mr. Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809 in Boston, Massachusetts, to parents who were nomadic actors. His parents both died in Poe’s early childhood. One of the most important events of his early…

Throughout history, society has been presented with many predicaments and complications. Many wrongs have been made and social activists play a major role in righting those wrongs. They have such an influence on humankind that some of the greatest moments of triumph throughout the ages are credited to them. Two of the most successful social…

After the Civil War, woman suffrage supporters looked after the American Equal Rights Association (AERA) in 1866. By 1870, this gathering had chipped because of divisions over strategies, points, and characters. Two gatherings developed: the National Woman Suffrage Association, (NWSA) drove through Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony, idea approximately the greater excessive gathering,…