Speaking Biographies Samples For Students

Nutrition Content Application of Knowledge

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While I haven’t taken many classes in Human Nutrition (HNF classes), I have performed incredibly well in the ones that I have taken. My cumulative GPA in HNF 150 (Introduction to Human Nutrition) and HNF 444 (Business of Nutrition Services) was a 3.5, indicating superior understanding and application of the practices discussed within those classes. I believe that the introductory course (HNF 150) was particularly valuable, because it framed the context of my studies for me. It provided a setting for all further study in this field, as well as providing specific information regarding the basics of ...

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Dona Marina, also called Malintzin, or La Malinche (1496-1529) was an American Indian originating from the Nahua (Aztec) ancestry. Malinche played a very important role during the conquest of Mexico by the Spanish. She was believed to be a princess of the Aztec language (Nahuatl) speaking tribe and was sold as a slave in her youth to the coastal traders because of the family politics.

Malinche’s father, who was a rich and powerful Aztek chief, died when Malinche was still a young child and therefore, her mother got married for the second time and gave birth to a son with her new husband. In ...

Introduction

In the highpoint of my English teaching career, I found myself teaching English to Grade 4 Australian English learners. It was interesting because I am an Arab lady from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And many people found it rather unusual for me to be teaching Native English speakers their own mother tongue. This essay will outline the progression of my career as an English teacher and how I got to the climax of my career, teaching native speakers of English. I will outline my background, origins, immersion into the Anglo-American culture and how my professional career developed as ...

Far from the continent of United States, I was born and raised in Shenzhen- a developing city at the Southside China. I began to speak and learn my native language, Mandarin, at a very tender age. Even before I entered the pre-school, I already recited hundreds of poems and idioms because my grandfather was a famous schoolmaster. Under his influence, I studied the quintessential literary works of the Chinese poets such as Li Bai and Bai juyi from the time I was able to spell words. I was endowed extraordinary talent and it was never difficult for me to write in professionally ...

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 ...

The British and other Europeans in the 16th century imported labor from Africa due to labor shortages to work on sugar plantations in the US and the European countries. They were preferred as they, the African slaves, were resilient to local diseases. Slaves were captured by fellow Africans and taken towards the seaboard where they were put up for sale to British slave traders. The slaves were then transported to the America once the ships were filled. However, this was not without casualties, death rates ranged from ten to twenty percent. After arriving the slaves were auctioned to the ...

The Canadian poet Robert Service remains a paradox. He is the best selling poet of the twentieth century and yet his work has been reviled and criticized by literary critics. His biographer, Mallory, claims that “his poetry has touched the lives of millions of North Americans” (xv).
Because of his enormous success, Service’s life was a real rag-to-riches story. Born on January 16th, 1874 to Scottish parents (his father worked in a bank), he followed his father’s footsteps when he first left school, joining a bank in Glasgow, the family having moved back to Scotland where Service joined them at ...