...One of the most influential events in American history occurred when Jesse Owens won four gold medals at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. This accomplishment and others that he would achieve in his life time, given the historical context in which he rose to fame, inspired people for many generations. Jesse Owens created a historic legacy not just because of his record finishes on the track, but also due to the challenging times in which he competed. Born on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama, Jesse Owens grew up working on several farms. Jesse’s father, a sharecropper, worked for little pay farming other peoples’ land. As young children, Jesse and his six siblings picked cotton on a rich man’s farm in Alabama. At age nine the Owens family moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Jesse worked in grocery stores as a nine year old in Cleveland to bring in extra money for his family. (Raatma 8-9) Jesse began running track and field in middle school. In 1928 he set many middle school records including jumping almost twenty-three feet in the long jump (“About Jesse Owens” 1). Jesse went to East Technical High School in the 1930s where he continued to set records and develop as a track and field star. In fact, in his Junior Year, at the National Interscholastic Championship, Jesse set the 220-yard dash record and tied the world record in the 100-yard dash. The city of Cleveland, in order to demonstrate their pride, honored Jesse Owens with a citywide parade marking his debut into the spotlight. (Raatma...
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...James Cleveland "Jesse" Owens September 12, 1913 March 31, 1980 he was a American track and field athlete and four time Olympic gold medalist in the 1936 games.He achieved three world records. Owens specialized in the sprints,long jump and was recognized in his lifetime as perhaps the greatest and most famous athlete in track and field history. Owens won international fame with four gold medals. . Jesse Owens was the youngest of ten children, three girls and seven boys, born to Henry Cleveland Owens. Jesse Owens greatest achievement was in a span of 45 minutes on May 25, 1935, during the Big Ten meet. Owens ran a dry cleaning business and worked as a gas station attendant to earn a living. Jesse Owens...
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...Jesse James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. James and his brother Frank served for the Confederate Army before embarking on criminal careers in the Old West. The James brothers made a name for themselves as bank and train robbers, leading the James-Younger gang. Robert Ford killed Jesse James in 1882, after which James became a legend among the old west and outlaws. Early Life American outlaw, robber and legendary figure Jesse Woodson James was born on September 5, 1847, in Kearney, Missouri. Jesse and his brother Frank James were educated and raised by a prestigious family of farmers. Their father, Robert James, was a Baptist minister who married Zerelda Cole James and moved from Kentucky to Missouri in 1842. In the summer of 1863, the James farm was attacked by Union soldiers....
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...Everyone enjoys a roaring crowd and everyone cheering them on and wanting them to well just so they can say they were there when they saw that person make history, and Jesse Owens had it all. Jesse Owens was one of the best track and field athletes to ever live. He played a large real in the cold war between the United States and Germany before World War II. Jesse Owens had a very outstanding track and field career way back from when he was a kid in high school all the way up to when he was competing in the 1936 Olympic Games. James Cleveland Owens was born on September 12, 1913 (Turini). His family was a poor sharecropping family from Oakville, Alabama (Turini). Owens parents were named Henry and Emma Owens. His father was a son to former slaves and grew up in the same town as Jesse had. Henry spent most of his life afraid of...
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...Black History Jesse Louis Jackson Jesse Louis Burns was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina. At the time of Jesse’s birth his mother Helen Burns was only sixteen (16) years old. Jesse’s father, Noah Louis Robinson was an professional boxer and also an standout guy in his community. When Jesse was born his father Louis was married to another woman. Jesse’s father died on January 28, 1997 and had never been involved with his son’s life. In 1943 two years after Jesse’s birth, his mother married Charles Henry Jackson. Some years later, Jesse took on the name of his stepfather becoming Jesse Louis Jackson. He attended Sterling High School a segregated school in Greenville where he was an student athlete. Upon graduating in 1959, he rejected a contract from a professional baseball team to attend a racially integrated school, the University of Illinois on a football scholarship. Jesse left Illinois at the end of his second semester after being placed on academic probation. Jesse transferred to North Carolina A & T located in Greensboro, North Carolina. Jesse claimed the reason for the transfer was based on the school’s racial biases and him being unable to play as a quarterback in high school. ESPN then suggests that claims of racial discrimination on the football team was being exaggerated because Illinois’s starting quarterback was an African American no other factors were mentioned besides the race of the...
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...World Literature I October 21, 2014 The Story of Jesse The Story of Jesse of Harnett is one of the most profound pieces of literature in the American culture. It is a religious Hindu text and is one of the two most famous epics written in US. The Story of Jesse is considered an epic and does contain a lot of action, but at the core of it, it is a love story. Were it not for love none the actions in The Story of Jesse would have taken place. This tale became almost like an epidemic that spread throughout the U.S. Shows on television about The Story of Jesse were aired and when they came on almost all of the U.S. shutdown to watch this show. The Story of Jesse had a huge moral impact on the U.S. and became a way to pass down Jesse ideals to younger and more modern generations. Young boys and girls were told to follow in the footsteps of the righteous Jesse. The Story of Jesse is a timeless American text that portrays the religious beliefs of the Jesse religion through its characters; these idealistic behaviors can be seen clearly in characters such asJesse, Sita, and Laksmana. Jesse is one of the main characters throughout the story and is supposed to be portrayed as the hero of The Story of Jesse. Jesse is a noble prince and is seen as the epitome of righteousness throughout the tale. When Jesse is banished by his stepmother, Kaikeyi, and father, King Dasaratha, to the forest he accepts this without any hesitation or negative emotions. He stays calm and “understands...
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...Marianne Leone is the author of Knowing Jesse: A Mother’s Story of Grief, and this is her comment on the book, “With deep insight and sensitivity, Wendelin Van Draanen explores a profoundly human and liberating concept-to see the person, not the disability- in this wonderful portrait of a you girl and her community." Although life lessons like this one, “to see the person, not the disability” can be cheesy, it is important for literature circles to find these lessons because it is one of the many things that the authors want the reader to get out of the book. Jessica doesn't step back on the track immediately after she gets her running leg, but this is what happens when she runs 400 meters on metal, “’You just ran a sixty point two without even trying.’ I blink at the digits. ‘Wow.’...
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...Jesse Owens Jesse grew up as James Cleveland, the son of a sharecropper and the grandson of slaves on September 12, 1913, in Oakville, Alabama. Growing up, Owens was a frail child and was often sick from his often battles with chronic bronchial congestion (swelling of the airways) and pneumonia. However this served as no excuse for Owens because he was still expected to work. At the tender age of seven he was hauling about 100 pounds of cotton on a daily basis to help his family put food on the table. At the age of 9, Owens moved with his family to Cleveland, Ohio, where the young he discovered how different the world was outside of slower southern life he had grown up with. School proved to be one of the bigger changes for owns. Being used to lessons taking place in a one-room schoolhouse, he was baffled at a bigger setting with more and stricter teachers. Here, Owens earned the nickname that would stick with him the rest of his life due to an unlikely turn of events. Being unable to decipher his thick southern accent, one of his instructors believed the young athlete said his name was "Jesse," when he in fact had said "J.C." Jesse gave the world a preview of the amazing legacy he’d leave behind in Berlin. While at the Big Ten Championships in Ann Arbor on May 25, 1935 Owens set three world records and tied a fourth. These were great achievements however Jesse was uncertain as to whether he could participate any further due do a back injury from falling down stairs. However...
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...Biography of Allan Pinkerton University of Phoenix Mr. Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow Scotland to William and Isabelle Pinkerton on August 25, 1819. Allan father was a police sergeant who was shot and killed during a political riot in a city square. Allan quit school and went to work to support the family. Allan worked as a apprentice in the McCauley Cooperage works, barrel makers, he worked his way up to supervision and at the age of 22, Allan Pinkerton married Juan Carfares on March 13, 1842. Allan and his new wife didn’t have a honeymoon of sort due to a company of soldiers marching that was to arrest Mr. Pinkerton. Instead Mr. Pinkerton and his wife were on a ship the very next morning headed to the United States. Once the couple reached Chicago the Pinkerton sold the horse, the wagon for lodging, Allan met with some fellow Scotsman got a job with a local Brewery and got hired as a barrel maker. Pinkerton and his wife soon found themselves as parents. A son was born William, was born in 1846 and other were born later to the couple and they were twins Robert and Joan. Pinkerton’s career started in law enforcement official was when the courts Sheriff was so impresses with Pinkerton quick thinking barrel maker, who served to be in the wrong line of work; offered Pinkerton a full time job on his staff as an investigator. Before the end of 1848 Pinkerton had the highest number of arrest for burglaries and murders than any of the experienced police on the Chicago’s...
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...Allan Pinkerton was born in Glasgow. Scotland on August 25, 1819. After emigrating to the United States in 1842 Pinkerton established a barrel making shop on the banks of the Fox River, which was one of the portage waterways that led to Chicago. By an accident, Pinkerton discovered a gang of counterfeits making coins and spreading reproduced bills throughout Illinois. A few days later after watching the men Pinkerton helped Sheriff Yates bring down the gang. Impressing the town’s council with the arrest of the counterfeiting ring along with another gang. Pinkerton was offered a full-time position as an investigator. He relocated back to Chicago to defend the law with his family. By 1848 he accrued the highest number of arrest for burglaries and murders. He was soon asked to become the city’s first detective. In 1850 Pinkerton resigned from his job with the city as a detective to start his own detective agency. His detective business was named Pinkerton national Detective Agency, which provided detective services and specialized in capturing train robbers and counterfeiters. In 1861 while Pinkerton and his staff was investigating a railway case they uncovered an assassination plot against President Abraham Lincoln. Pinkerton met with Abraham Lincoln to let him know of his findings. Pinkerton decided to make changes to the Presidents route being that the assassins knew of the route he was taking. Abraham Lincoln’s itinerary was changes so that he passed through the city secretly...
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...inventors. Two influential civil rights activists that come to mind are Maya Angelo and Jesse Jackson. These two helped in the fight for equal rights, but they also were much more than that. They lived completely different lifestyles and accomplished many different tasks within their lives. Jesse Burns, also known as Jesse Jackson, was born on October 8, 1941 in Greenville, South Carolina (Dyson, 2006). His father always noted him as being a gifted child. Jesse’s father recalls Jesse saying that one day he would be a preacher and lead his congregation through the water. Once Jesse Jackson graduated high school in 1959, he attended college. He was enrolled at North Carolina A&T where he excelled in his football career. This was also the time in his life where he decided to begin his activist career (Dyson, 2006). He was a part of a sit-in movement to help integrate Greensboro’s pubic facilities (Dyson, 2006). By 1964, Jesse had received his Bachelor of Science degree in sociology. Throughout his life, Jesse Jackson had a very influential role in regards to the African American community. He once walked, and was also the youngest, beside Martin Luther King in the civil rights movement. Martin Luther King also appointed Jesse as head of the SCLC Operation Breadbasket. After the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, Jesse Jackson decided to leave the SCLC and founded Operation PUSH. Jesse Jackson strived for the equality of blacks in our...
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...Jesse Owens The seventh child of Henry and Emma Alexander Owens was named James Cleveland when he was born in Alabama on September 12, 1913. "J.C.", as he was called, was nine when the family moved to Cleveland, Ohio, where his new schoolteacher gave him the name that was to become known around the world. The teacher was told "J.C." when she asked his name to enter in her roll book, but she thought he said "Jesse". The name stuck and he would be known as Jesse Owens for the rest of his life. His early life was marked by poverty and he was forced to take many menial jobs such as delivering goods and working in a shoe repair shops. However, he was able to develop his passion for running and athletics; from an early age he was marked as having great potential talent. In later life he gave much credit to Charles Riley, his high school coach who encouraged him and made allowances for his difficulty in making evening training sessions because Jesse had to work in a shoe repair shop. Jesse Owens rose to national prominence in 1933, when he equalled the world record (9.4 seconds) for the 100 yard dash. He attended Ohio State University, but without a scholarship he had to continue working part time. At the time, America was a highly segregated society and when traveling with the team, Jesse had to suffer the indignities of eating at separate restaurants and staying at different hotels. One of his great athletic feats occurred in 1935, where in one track meet he broke three...
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...Elise Garcia 01.03 Assignment July 9, 2015 Dear President Barack Obama, I propose that you use your executive powers to create another holiday in this country. I would like to put forth the suggestion that a national holiday be created in honor of Jesse Jackson. A lot like you, Mr. Jackson was a junior senator before seeking to run for the presidency, although in his case the office of president will not likely be his legacy. It is for this reason and so many more that I think he deserves consideration for his own national holiday. Mr. Jackson represents Americanism, both in its roots; that which seeks to succeed against all odds, often with little more than sheer will to achieve a dream, as well as a more modern interpretation of success Jesse Jackson negotiated the release of 22 American’s in Cuba pursuant to an invitation by Fidel Castro. It is no coincidence that Castro believed Jesse Jackson was a man he could trust, in addition to having written to Castro on several occasions, he had been a longtime associate and protégée of Rev. Howard Schomer, a well known leftist and communist supporter. Mr. Jackson himself had a long history of association with international communist front organizations and terrorist groups. He also maintained a relationship with Hunter Pitts O’Dell whom Kennedy had urged Martin Luther King to distance himself from, due to his Communist Party Affiliation and key financial operative and party functionary with the communist party whom Jackson...
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...In 2003 a costly technology became affordable and available for most of the people, and the Internet made it very easy to stay connected with all the people around the world, a computer programming student in Harvard Mark Zuckerberg (Jesse Eisenberg) launched a website, it began as a college dorm project, but now it’s a worldwide website called Facebook. It has more than half a billion users. The social network movie shows how Facebook started, it also present the battle for the ownership of Facebook which left many people have doubts about the young entrepreneur zuckerberg honesty. There is absolutely no doubt that Facebook or the social media influences our behavior in many different aspects, one of the important aspects I’m going to talk about is our buying behavior and how it can be affected by the social media. Social media creates an idealized image or flawless environments. Have ever checked pictures for your friends where they were attending some kind of event and they look like they are having a really good time, and immediately or unconsciously you make a decision to go there and live the experience and attend that event! But when you actually go, you were surprised that event was very disappointing and there is nothing except punch of people who were taking these pictures. This is an example on how social media influences our buying behavior, because when you decided to go buy a ticket and attend the event your decision was based on idealized fake images posted...
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...Question 1: The idea surrounding the XFL was a league that would broadcast after the super Bowl in February, bridging the time before the NFL season would begin again. The XFL was positioned to be a league returning to the roots of football. Providing a “gutsee” return to the golden age of football before it became over regulated and restricted with rules. They promised altered game rules along with increased physical violence amongst players during game time. Ideas surrounding the league were merged after inception, promising cutting edge marketing and production values. Intending they wanted to “transform football broadcasting” by creating reality TV show elements. The fan was placed at the center of attention with the game essentially being created around them. Tickets were priced at $25 (notably less then NFL game tickets which would cost $236+ for a family to attend) allowing them to target lower income families. Additionally there would be sideline interviews, allowing audience members to broadcast their voice over loud speakers to the whole stadium. Cheerleader/announcer booths would be located in the stands to incorporate everyone and create a synergy between fans and viewers at home. Network partners allowed XFL to be broadcast over two days on cable along with internet coverage. UPN signed on to broadcast Sunday evening games. TNN became the exclusive cable provider for XFL Sunday afternoon games. NBC would air games Saturday nights prior to SNL (NBC...
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