Biography of Leonora Howard King
By Jasmine
Leonora Howard King was born on April 17th, 1851 in Lansdowne, Ontario and was raised in Farmersville.
Leonora was unable to attend Medical School in Canada but received her Medical degree at the University of Michigan. Leonora joined the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society of the American Methodist Episcopal Society. In 1877, Leonora went to China in Northern China in the province of Chihli. Leonora lived in Peking, China. In August, 1879, Dr. Leonora attended Lady Li the wife of Li Chung Chang. When Lady Li got seriously ill, in Tien- Tsin, Leonora went inhabited Tien-Tsin. In 1884, Leonora married Rev. Alexander King. In 1885, Dr. Leonora opened a Medical school for Chinese women and girls that were educated in Missionary schools. In 1886, Lady Li built Dr. Leonora another hospital which was known as the Government Hospital for women and children. During war between Japan and China, Dr. Leonora opened her hospital to wounded soldiers but women and children were still allowed. Leonora Howard King was an exemplary person because she helped thousands of people in China, during the war and the common people that needed help.
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Jane Goodall
By: Jacob
Jane Goodall was
born on April 3rd 1934, in London England. Today
she is 77 years old, almost 78 years old. When she was five years old
World WarII started and she was sent off to live with her grandmother
in Bournemouth, England, where she would be safe. At twelve years
old she started a club called the Alligator Society and they had to
identify ten dogs, ten trees, ten birds, five butterflies and insects.
Also
back in London England, when she was little she brought earth worms
in her bed and put them under her pillow.
When she finished high school
World WarII was over. Jane heard
about Dr.Leakey and went to see him. She became Dr.Leakey’s
assistant and then she spent fifty years studying chimps. As she
studied them she learned more about their way of life. In 1964 she
married Hugo and had a son in 1967. In 1974 Jane divorced with Hugo
and remarried with Derrick Bricland in 1975. Derrick died in 1980. She
is exemplary because she knows how to work with animals and
understand them.
About Chimpanzees
Most chimpanzees live in Western Africa. They live in stable groups
(called communities or unit groups) of about 40-60 individuals. The
average of a male chimp is 35-70kg (average weight of a female
chimp is 26-50kg.) The average height of a male chimp is 0.9-1.2m
(average height of a female chimp is 0.66-1m.) The average sleep
time of a chimpanzee is 9.7 hours. Chimpanzees are only able to
reproduce at 12-13 years old.
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Alysia-Lory
Jeanne Mance was born in 1606, November 12th in Langres
France. She had 5 sisters and 6
brothers. When she was little she loved helping people. In her adult life, when
she was 20 years old her mom died so she needed to raise her 5sisters and her 6
brothers with her dad. She would always volunteer her time to the hospital.
First she was a nurse like she always wanted to be, then she volunteered to be
the nurse in the war during the Thirty-year war. Her cousin Nicolas, in 1640
told her about New France that’s why she wanted to settle there which now is
called Quebec. Her father died in 1635.
She founded a new
hospital that is now called Hotel-Dieu, it was found in 1642. Since she founded
the hospital lots of people are saved and because of her we are here now, alive.
One of the obstacles she had to face was that she was deaf but she would still
continue until she was done. On June 18 in 1673 in Montreal when she was 66
years old she died.
This person is
exemplary for me because she has done so much for us. She would of never stop,
she is the person who founded a new hospital. For me she is courageous,
helpful, nice, the best and exemplary. I said does qualities about her because
she was always there for people who needed help and she was nice as a result of
what she did we now have hospitals to help.
Joseph Armand Bombardier
By: Zachary
Joseph Armand
Bombardier was born the oldest of the eight children in Valcourt, Quebec,
Canada on April 16, 1907. All his life he was interested in mechanics.
To keep him from
tinkering with mechanics, Joseph’s father gave him an old Model T for repair.
It was running in shorter order.
On new years day
when he was on new years day he pulled a strange looking sled of his father
workshop. Joseph started the Model T motor.
Joseph continued
his studies for a while but his was not meant for priesthood he was meant to be
an inventor. He left school at age of 17 to work for an apprentice mechanic.
Two years after he was running his own garage.
In 1929 he
married Yvonne Leberecque.
After that he invented the
B-7, after the B-12 and during World War 2 he invented a large track troop
carrier. After he invented the ski-dog, and after the ski-doo.
Today there are
around 4 million snowmobiles in North America.
This person is really
exemplary because he accomplished a lot of grate things in his life and
invented a new way of transportation. He even took big risks like leaving
school at age of 17.
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Joseph Brant
By: Bianka
Levasseur
Joseph Brant is an
exemplary because he was an Indian chief, he was Mohawk and he was a military
leader and missionary. He is brave and courageous because he was in then
military.
Joseph was born in
1742 and he died November 24, 1807. He was born in Ohio and died in Branford,
Canada. He was a Mohawk Indian chief. He Moor’s Charity school for Indian and Joseph
was converted to the Anglican Religion after two years at Moor’s Charity school
for Indian. Red Jacket was an arrival of Joseph. Brant led four of the six
Iroquois nations on the British side in the American Revolution. Joseph’s
sister Molly was the wife of the British super intending for Northern Indian
Affairs. He was a military leader, missionary. Sir William Johnson followed
into the battle at the age of 13.
Louis Braille By:Rebecca Oakley
Louis Braille was
born on January 4th, 1809 in Coupvray, France, a little town located
southwest of Paris. He had three older siblings named Monique Catherine
Josephine Braille, Louis-Simon Braille and Marie Celine Braille. His mother was
named Monique and his father named Simon-Rene.
What completely
changed his life was when he was three years old he was in a car accident and
became blind to one eye. After when he was still three years old he was playing
with his dad’s tools. He was trying to make wholes in a piece of leather with
an awl. It hit him in the other eye. Soon after it became infected and made his
other eye become blind. So he became blind from both of his eyes.
In 1839 when Louis
Braille was 30 years old, he published some details of a method he had
developed for communication with sighted persons, using patterns of dots to
approximate the shape of printed symbols.
He created the
Braille system at 15 years old.
He is special and
interesting for creating the Braille at 15 years old.
I find him
perseverant, knowledgeable and amazing.
I give him these
adjectives because in life he became blind at a very young age, but nothing
stopped him.
For me this person
is exemplary because he proved that if you have motivation, you can do
incredible things!
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Mohandas Karamchand Ghand
By: Kris
D.
Ghandi was born on October 2nd,
1869. His life wasn’t as good as others. His parents were very poor. He still
could go to school but he wasn’t good. He was mostly not good at anything. He
was small, he wasn’t strong, he was married at 14 years old. He didn’t have a
very good physical appearance. Something he did have was bright ideas. That’s
what formed his life. When he was 19, he went to England to study law. (He
lived in India before going to England.) And he struggled studying it. So he
went to South Africa where he had the job. In South Africa he said things
against Indians. Since he wasn’t good it was hard for him to defend someone
that people thought the person was guilty. One day some Indians demonstrators
were doing a strike. Since India was under British rule, British troops fired
in the crowd. Killing 400 and 1200 wounded. That’s when Ghandi started his
anti-war activist and leading his country to independence. After that he became
a Pre-eminent political and ideological leader. He tried to show people around
the world that killing wasn’t necessary.
He then urged
India out of the war and went to jail for it. When the end of British rule was
coming, Ghandi’s methods didn’t work as much. Fights against Muslims and Hindu
broke out. So when Hindus were really killing Muslims, Ghandi went to the
Muslims side. He said to some of his Hindu fellows to live with them without
fighting. So that’s when there came a plan to assassinate Ghandi.
He wanted to go to the prayer house and
half way there “Godsaith” (A man)
Steps out of
hiding and says
“Your late for prayer”
Then Ghandi said
“ I know”
The man took out a
revolver and shot three shots. Two in the stomach and One in the chest.
He fell backward
praying. Ghandi would die 2 hours later in his house. The man was hung in
November 1948. Ghandi died January 39
1948 (at the age of 78.)
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Laura
Secord
By: Zakiel
on September 15th, 1775 in Great
Barrington, Massachusetts, Laura Secord was born.
Laura is a special woman because she past
here early childhood in the midst of the American Revolution. When the war of
the American revolution ended in 1783 it didn’t brought happiness to Laura
because her mother died the same year. The father of Laura remarried in 1784
but four years later Laura’s stepmother. by 1795, there were 11 children and a
new stepmother in Laura’s family. So with 11 children Laura had now four
brothers and six sisters. Unhappy with the government policies and the United
States, Laura father was obliged to move
the family to Upper Canada. Her father was given a plot of land near
Queenston close to the Niagara River so he could build a new house. Laura met
James Secord at her father’s tavern. James Secord was a successful merchant and
a volunteer sergeant in the 1st Lincoln Militia. James Secord and
Laura Secord married two years later, and by 1812 they had a wonderful life in
their white frame house. Laura was helped by two servants that would help here
with the lunch and with her five children. By then, the war broke up between
the England soldiers and the United States soldiers for once more. In 1813 the
American attacked Queenston Heights in October. Laura obliged to bring the
children to her brother’s home at St.David’s. Laura was worried about James
because was in the England army so she returned to Queenston to learned that
James was badly injured. One week after, she found him on the battlefield lying
with his shattered leg. When Laura went back to here home she saw that her home
was been vandalized during the battle so Laura took James to St.David’s, were
the children were waiting in safety. On spring of 1813 the Secords returned to
Queenston. Now, the Americans were in control of the Niagara River. All the
soldiers that didn’t died during the war were sent to the United States as
prisoners of the war. James Secord was badly injured so he didn’t needed to go
in prison because of that, he remained at home. On June 21, Laura saw that
their were three American officers in here house. While Laura was serving them
she heard the colonel Boerstler tell his two companions that his army would
attack the British and Colonel James FitzGibbon at Beaver Dam in about a week.
Laura knew that the British should be warned but James could not go because he
has a musket ball still in his knee. So she got the idea to go out the door and
go tell the Colonel even if she had to face wolves, bears, and rattle snakes.
Two days later the Colonel FitzGibbon was ready with fifty British soldiers and
several hundreds Mohawks who surrounded the Americans around the Beaver Dam on
June 30th so that was really about a week.
Helen Keller
By: Ashley
Time Line
April 14 1866:
Annie Sullivan is born in Feeding Hills,
Massachusetts.
June 27 1880:
Helen Keller is born in Tuscumbia, Alabama.
January 1882:
Helen develops a high fever and loses her
sight and hearing.
1886:
The Keller’s meet Alexander Graham Bell who
suggests they contact the Perkins Institution.
March 3 1887:
Annie arrives to Tuscumbia to begin
teaching Helen.
April 5 1887:
Helen grasps the purpose of language at the
water pump.
May 1888:
Helen and Annie visit Perkins for the first
time.
March 1890:
Sarah Fuller teaches Helen to speak.
June 1904 :
Helen graduated from Radcliff.
1913:
Helen and Annie develop a stage routine
about Helen’s life, beginning a three-year round tour of the United States.
1917:
The United States enters the world war.
1920:
Helen and Annie Vaudeville act opens in New
York
1923:
Helen brings work for the foundation for
the blind.
1936:
Annie Sullivan dies
1942:
The United States enters World War 2.
1943:
Helen brings visit to wounded war veterans
in hospitals.
1959:
The miracle worker opens on Broadway.
1968:
Helen dies in Westport, Connecticut
Date of birth and death:
Helen is born on June 27,1880 ad died on
June 1 1968.
Childhood:
At the age of 18 months Helen was blind,
deaf and mute. Helen was born with senses of light and hearing. She began
communicating at the age of one and started speaking when she was six months
old. Helen’s mother noticed her daughter show any reactions when the dinner bell
was rung or when a hand was waved in front of her face. Helen would kick and
scream when she would be angry and giggle uncontrollably when she would be
happy. When Helen was small she began having terrible manners. Martha
Washington and Helen created more than 60 signs of sigh language by the time
she was seven. During this time Helen had become very wild and unruly.
Adult life:
Her occupations were educator and
journalist. Helen went to college and graduated in 1904. Helen went to four
schools for deaf. She went to Horace Mann, Wright Humason, Cambridge and
Radcliff schools. Some experts believed she might have had scarlet fever or
meningitis. In 1882 Helen contracted illness ( family doctors called it brain
fever), because of this Helen produced high body temperature. Nature played a
key role in Helen’s education. Many lessons were conducted outside, where Helen
could explore through touch. Learning to read Braille at the Perkins
institution allowed Helen to read books on her own. Helen loved reading books
because she said “No barrier of the senses shuts me out from my book-friends.
They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness. Helen frequently took
walks during which she talked to herself with her fingers. Helen traveled to
many countries changing attitudes towards the blind and deaf.
The effect she had on the world or other people:
In 1901 Helen begins writing her
autobiographies. The story of my life. John Macy is hired to help her. Helen
remains a symbol of the human spirit ability to overcome limitations. Helen
overcame the adversity of being blind and deaf to become one of the 20th
century’s leading humanitarians.
Events shaped of changed this person’s life :
Anne Sullivan helped Helen to make
tremendous progress with the ability to communicate. During lifetime she
receives honors in recognition for her accomplishments.
What adjectives describe her and why :
Helen is perseverant, courageous and brave
because she did not let go and showed
people a person like her can be as tough and courageous as a person like me.
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Ruby Bridges
By: Naomi
Ruby
Bridges was born on September 8th, 1954, in Tylertown, Mississippi.
In 1960, when she was 6 years old, her parents decided to send her in a school
named new Orleans school system new program. She was known and still is known
as the first black child to go to an all white elementary school ,in the South.
Her
early life.
She
grew up on a farm in a tiny farm with her parents and her grandparents in a
tiny carbine. When Ruby was five her parents moved to New Orleans in the search
of a better life for their child. While she attended the school but a lot of
people disliked her it got so out of control that guards had to protect her.
She was the only one in her class because all the other parents pulled their
kids out of school they did not want their kids to be with Ruby only because of
her skin color. Every morning that she walked by a mean crew ,the people who
didn’t want her to be there, Ruby prayed to god and said even if these people
are not nice please don’t put a curse on them just make them understand. But
eventually kids became to come back To school.
I
can’t even imagine how hard it must have been for Ruby and her family. She
fought for her rights and for other black people because of this she is
exemplary and a leader to others and me.
I
think Ruby is a HERO!!
What
do you think???
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