Individual Biographies Samples For Students

Introduction

Annotated bibliography is used to account for a study on a particular topic. It further gives a detailed summary of every source and an analysis of the material’s relevance. The importance of a bibliography is based on the selection of sources of reference. In addition, it entails a good definition of the scope of the study, which helps in making an accurate judgment on the type of data to include in annotation. This article involves an analysis of various authors’ contribution on leadership and motivation. Various facts have been looked into and the criticism over the same. The major reason of coming up ...

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. ...

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 ...

Jane Addams is one of the influential philosophers in the history. She is regarded as one of the most important thinkers in the history of the modern America. Her thought and influence in the western thought cannot be measured. She is considered as the starting point of the inspiration of the idealism in America during the late 19th and early 20th century. Her contributions to the metaphysics, ethics, epistemology, as well as aesthetics have had an effect on almost all the philosophical movements after him (Addams 4). Her masterworks include the critique of critical thinking as well as the ...

One cannot talk about cultural anthropology without the mention of the man popularly referred to as the “Father of American Anthropology,” Frank Boas. Frank Boas, a German-born anthropologist, was born on 9th July, 1858 and lived till 21st December, 1942 when the cruel hands of death took him away. He is accredited with founding the culture-centered, relativistic school of American anthropology that dominated the late 19th and early 20th centuries. A preview of his work reveals that he came up with arguments against contemporary theories that centered on racial distinctions between humans. His theory of relativism sought to downplay the ...

I am an individual driven by high ambitions in life. I have worked for a decade in the health sector and small business management. Currently, I am doing my PhD in Community Health Education since December, 2013, from Walden University. I have completed my Master in Public Health Epidemiology in 2012 from Kaplan University. I have done my thesis research on Community Assessment HIV among teens in Liberia. Prior to that, I completed my Bachelor of Science in Technical Management from DeVry University in 2010. I was also working as the Associate of Science Health Information Technology in the same ...

Chapter 1-Childhood

I am very thankful for the individual I am today due to my parent's upbringing. It is only after one is out of his childhood that his appreciations of the childhood memories come into play. As a child, I had parents whose mode of parenting styles differed immensely and yet they were all able to cope with my explosive nature. My mother was very authoritative in that she did not allow me to do what I wanted without permission. On the other hand, my father was passive and permissive. In some instances, he did not even seem to care what ...

Hamilton Alexander one of America’s founding fathers was born on 11th January, 1757 in Charlestown on the island of Nevis, British West Indies. Thereafter, he migrated to the United States in 1772 where he received educational training in the schools of Elizabethtown, N.J and King’s College. He later on joined the Continental Army in New York in 1776 where he served as a captain of artillery until 1st March 1777 when he was appointed aide-de-camp to General Washington where he served until 16th February 1781 in that capacity.
Hamilton’s life was surrounded by extraordinary events that ...

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 ...

“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 ...