Paul Walker: A Brief Biography

On Tuesday October 4th, Andy Walker (16), bleed to death in the sidewalk in an alley. His death was specified at around quarter to 12 a.m. This situation was investigate even more further, and some results came to the officers of the community. After investigating, it is resulted that one of the Royals’ member was stabbed right right below the rib cage. There are ones that witnessed that he was alive for a while after he was stabbed, and died as the time passed. It is unknown who is the criminal in this case, however it is predicted that high chances one of the members of the “other gang” (name unknown), has stabbed the young royal. Angela Samson (19) has contacted the officers for emergency, however the young royal was found to be dead, covered

Scott Kevin Walker was born in November 2, 1967 in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Scott Walker mother Patricia Ann Walker was a bookkeeper. Llewellyn Scott Walker, the father of presidential candidate Scott Walker, was a Baptist minister. Scott Walkers family moved to Delavan, Wisconsin when he was 10 years old.

Daniel Hale Williams III was born on January 18, 1856 in Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania. He was the son of Sarah Price Williams (mother) and Daniel Hale Williams II (father), a barber. Daniel was only nine years old when his beloved father died from tuberculosis. Following this tragedy, Daniel and his mother moved to Baltimore to live with

After countless letters and complaints were sent from both parents and students, failure for the Hamilton County School District to respond to the allegations, resulted in a fatal school bus crash on Monday, Nov. 21.

William Walker was an American filibuster born in Nashville, Tennessee in 1824. Walker was considered a child genius as he graduated from the University of Nashville at the top of his class at the mere age of 14. He was a certified lawyer and doctor by the time he was 25 and additionally he worked as a journalist. However, he was not satisfied with his accomplishments. Walker, who lived in San Francisco at the time, set out on an expedition with the intent to capture the small Mexican state of Baja California. Once he captured Baja California he named himself president and applied the laws of Louisiana to the new state, legalizing slavery in the area. By 1854 many men joined Walker’s expedition as volunteers, approximately

In David Walker’s Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World the message that he wants to spread is abolitionism. However, his message is one that has been pushed a bit further than where the majority of the movement had been with in its overall goals. Considering that the abolitionist movement was considered drastic in the new views on ending slavery, Walker’s Appeal in comparison would seem even more so due to his sense of urgency and belief that peaceful means were not the way to achieve emancipation. According to him, it would never happen otherwise. While Walker does share some basic tenets with the mainstream abolition movement, he expresses his own ideas about what is actually required to live in a free nation, views that were most likely seen as too extreme and the solution unwelcome.

Andrew was born March 15,1767, by Lancaster South Carolina. Andrew acquired his name from his father. Andrews family consisted of his mom Elizabeth, his brothers Hugh and Rob, his dad Andrew, and some extended family from Ireland. Andrew's father died when he was still a baby which left his mom to raise 3 boys. When the American Revolutionary War came to the Carolinas it had huge effects on Andrews family. Jackson's oldest brother died in The Battle of Stono Ferry from a heat stroke, just 2 years later Jackson and his brother Robert were captured

David Walker, the author of the pamphlet -Appeal- was a black man who was born around 1796-1797 in Wilmington, North Carolina. His father was a slave, whereas his mother was a free black woman. As the law at the time demanded, the child of a free woman was automatically a free man; however, Walker lifted the veil of injustice and tyranny that covered the blacks for so long who had became servile and mentally dead. Having being told to whip his own mother to her death was one of the life changing events that fashioned the man he became. After he grew, he moved over to Boston where he started a successful thrift store, having associated himself with various prominent black activists, he became a major spokesperson in the Freedom’s Journal by the end of 1828. By September 28th 1829 he published his Appeal, which comprised of a preamble and four articles namely; Our Wretchedness in Consequence of Slavery, Of Ignorance, Of the Preachers of the Religion of Jesus Christ, and Of Colonizing plan. The primary target was for the black communities that resided in the south, where slavery was of the worst condition. Walker was determined to wake up the black men and women of the society, who he believed had succumbed to the pitiful life of ignorance,

Dr. Mark Dean was born on March 2, 1957, in Jefferson City, Tennessee. Dean parents are Barbara and James Dean. His father worked as a supervisor for the Tennessee Valley Authority. What his mother did is unknown. Dean was a very smart student and gifted athlete in school. When he was in elementary school he took advanced math classes. Dean helped to further the personal computer to make it more useable and powerful.

“The lord shall raise-up coloured historians in succeeding generations, to present the crimes of this nation to the then gazing world.” David Walker was born in the confines of white America, but his vision expanded far beyond those limits. His view reached deep into the future of black people. From 1829 until his death in 1830, David Walker was the most controversial, and most admired black person in America. Walker believed in all manner of social relations in that self-reliance was most preferable rather than dependence on others. He felt that it is essential to self-determination. Walker argued that freedom was the highest human right ordained by God, in that African people should raise their voice in

While men like those above saw nothing wrong with the institution of slavery abolitionists held completely different views. They believed slavery had no place in America or anywhere else. An abolitionist named David Walker who was the author of “David Walker’s Appeal was an African American man who wanted all men to be treated equal regardless of skin color. In his work, he speaks about how slaves felt trapped by racism. They would rather be put to death then be forced into slavery. He couldn’t understand why white people called slaves ungrateful, what did they have to be grateful for since whites were constantly mistreating and abusing them. Throughout the rest of his paper he questions what gives white people the right to treat African Americans

The gripping tale of a young man who leaves all that he has and goes to live amidst the natural world, Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer showcases the two years Christopher McCandless had spent journeying throughout the United States before his unfortunate death. After graduating from Emory University in 1990, McCandless disconnected with all of his past relations and abandoned the majority of his possessions. McCandless’ decisions either seem extremely unwise or extremely courageous. He had a comfortable life with few worries yet he still chose to toss it all away and venture into unknown territories. What many wonder is why he would do such an irrational thing. Maybe, McCandless’ was simply trying to run away from his perception of reality.

Sir James Paul McCartney was born on June 18, 1942, in Liverpool, England, to James and Mary McCartney. His father was a cotton salesman, who would often play the piano with a local jazz band his mother was a maternity nurse. As a labor man’s child he grew up in a traditional working-class family, similar to later bandmates of the Beatles George Harrison and Richard Starkey (Ringo Starr). An early tragedy happened when Paul was just fourteen years old, his mother died. Her death was linked to complications after a mastectomy. McCartney’s later band member, John Lennon, also suffered the loss of his mother at an early age—a connection that Paul would later point to as the start of a close bond between the two musicians.

David Walker was an abolitionist, orator, and author of David Walker's Appeal. Although David Walker's father, who died before his birth, was enslaved, his mother was a free woman; thus, when he was born in Wilmington, North Carolina, in September 1785, David Walker was also free, following the “condition” of his mother as prescribed by southern laws regulating slavery. Little is known about Walker's early life. He traveled widely in the South and probably spent time in Philadelphia. He developed early on an intense and abiding hatred of slavery, the result apparently of his travels and his firsthand knowledge of slavery.

Born on April 9, 1898 in Princeton, New Jersey, Paul Robeson was the youngest of five children.  His father was a runaway slave who went on to graduate from Lincoln University, and his mother came from a family of Quakers who worked for the abolition of slavery. His family was familiar with hardship and the determination to rise above it.  His own life was no less challenging.