Face Biographies Samples For Students

We Must Tell Our Own Story

Introduction

There exists in the world of sociology some controversy between two theories of thought. The debate is usually over a question like this “Which has more control over an individual’s life agency or structure?”
One side argues that people are confined behind the boundaries of social structures. How a person behaves within the structure is controlled by the boundaries or his perception of the boundaries. How a person acts depends on how the social structure (or hierarchy of social structures) “allows” him to act. There is free will only as it fits into the power structure of social systems. ...

Biography

Sergeant Maurice Churchill Rice was born Michigan in the United States of America in the year 1940. He was the third born in the family of Mr. Calpa Rice and Mrs. Reecho Rice. The two got married and had four children and lived in America .His other siblings include Mr. Kennedy, Mr.Samwel and Miss Brenda the last born in their family. The father worked as a doctor in the Michigan, while the mother served as a nurse in the same town. The parents were black Americans who lived in the early time of their in the states before moving to Canada. ...

“Be the change you want to see in the world.” These famous words uttered by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi while leading India to independence serve as a peephole into the magnanimity that his life and work were. Raised in a Jain family, where non-violence and vegetarianism form the root of their philosophy, Gandhi was inspired since a young age in the ways of truth and benevolence.

His faith was put to an early test when he first came face to face with the situation of Apartheid in South Africa where Indians living in the British colonies were denied basic rights and were subjected ...

Introduction

My Moroccan heritage has always meant so much to me. Thanks to my family’s heritage I have been grown to know the rich tapestry that is our past. From colorful, sometimes helpful proverbs, to authentic Moroccan recipes, I am proud to claim this part of my heritage. The values of the Moroccan culture have been instilled in me; I am proud of all that I am and all that my people have become. However, sometimes my heritage and the lessons or cultural values that are taught within it appear to inhibit on certain aspects of life. I have ...

Personal Biography

I was raised and brought up in a broken home characterized by the lack of adult supervision .This was due to the internal wrangles that rocked my family and my parents marriage in my early age. My sibling and I witnessed our parent frequently dispute and quarrel with total disregard of how this would impact on us as children. I was barely ten years old when my parents settled for a divorce that left me greatly devastated. The divorce was the final blow to our close-knit nuclear family opening the door for many unpleasant childhood experiences. It eventually led to my ...

Arguably, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most know women leader in the world. Leadership in woman's career was a difficult task to undertake, but the wife of Franklin Roosevelt was an exception. Driven by her personal character, philosophies, and tremendous leadership skill, she became one of the influential individual with re-known leadership skills. Eleanor Roosevelt was born in the year 1884 in New York City. In her entire life, Eleanor Roosevelt was a courageous leader who could always stand on her philosophies, as well as being in the forefront in helping does who needed her help. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe.
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