Trent Simons Shelton was born on September 21 1984
he was born in Little Rock Arkansas and raised in Fort Worth Texas and always wanted to become a pro football player when he grew up.
He was signed by the Indianapolis colts as an undrafted free agent in 2007. He also played with the Seattle Seahawks and the Washington Redskins.
After being cut from the Colts he was reassigned to the practice squad and then got cut from that. A week later he was called back the practice squad. Then something went wrong with his knee and he was cut from the colts again.
Next season he was called by the Seattle Seahawks to invite him to a mini training camp. He was cut at the end of preseason. A week later they call them back and then phoned again and said they change their mind.
Never giving up he got another shot with the Washington Redskins and was signed up to the practice squad but never played a game only to be cut from the team.
After battling depression in 2009, Trent started a Christian based organization called rehab time. His main goal was to help others. He wanted to help others see their potential, believe in themselves and truly be happy.
while doing my research on Trent for class I found an amazing quote that I think can be applied to all of us. It really started me thinking about the times that were in right now. Here it is:
We all may be different and broken but a box of crayons are different and if they’re broken they still colour the same.
David Onley was appointed Ontario’s 28 Lieut. Gov. in 2007. His term lasted seven years.
He worked with it as a television journalist for city TV and a 24-hour news station anchor for CP 24.
He was an accessibility consultant for both public and private sector and was the inaugural chair of the accessibility standards advisory Council of the government Ontario.
Has worked has worked as an accessibility Council member for the Rogers Centre and Air Canada Centre
Awards received:
Canadian Helen Keller Centre award 2012
Tiny Tim video:
Bobbi’s song choice: “This is Your Life” by Glass Tiger
Teresa was born Anjezë (also known as Agnes) Gonxhe (or Gonxha)Bojaxhiu and died on September 5, 1997.
Anjeze is also known as Agnes and Gonxhe (or Gonxha) means rosebud or little flower
she was born on August 26, 1910 into an Albanian family in the place that is now the capital of North Macedonia and was baptized the day after her birth. She considered that date August 27 her birthdate.
By age 12 she decided that she should commit herself to a religious life. On August 15, 1928 she prayed at the shrine of the black Madonna.
On a journey from Calcutta to the Himalayan foothills in India, Mother Teresa had a calling to abandon her teaching role in the Loreto convent and return to Calcutta to help others
Mother Teresa devoted her life to helping the sick, poor and marginalized in Calcutta, India
She established many charities, including an orphanage, a nursing home, a family clinic and multiple mobile health clinics in Calcutta
After gaining attention and donations from around the world, Mother Teresa expanded her humanitarian efforts to different countries.
Awards Mother Teresa received
1962 Padma Shri Award for distinguished service.
1971 Pope John XXIII Peace Prize
1971 Prize of the Good Samaritan, Boston
1971 Kennedy Prize
1972 Jawaharlal Nehru Award for International Understanding
1972 Koruna Dut, angel of charity from the President of India.
1973 Templeton Prize
1975 Albert Schweitzer International Prize
1977 Honorary PhD in Theology, University of Cambridge, England
1979 Nobel Peace Prize
1982 Honorary PhD from the Catholic University Brussels, Belgium
1985 Presidential Medal of Freedom
1996 Honorary U.S. citizenship (only the 4th person to receive this honor)
he was born in Oxford, England to a family of doctors and began his education at the University College of Oxford when he was 17 where he graduated with a first class BA with honours in physics.
He did graduate work at Trinity College in Cambridge England in 1962 and received his PhD in applied mathematics and theoretical physics in March 1966.
In 1963 he was diagnosed with Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS)
after losing his speech he was able to communicate through a speech generating device using a switch
justin his hands and eventually was able to use it with his cheek muscle.
This is one of my favourite quotes by Stephen Hawking:
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do, and succeed at. It matters that you don’t give up.” —Cambridge symposium, January 2012
On the list for this year is President Donald Trump and former Vice-President Joe Biden. Vice-President Joe Biden is currently the Democratic candidate in the U.S. election, and President Trump is the republican candidate. They are running to be the president for the next 4 years, and the election date is Tuesday, November 3rd.
The Presidential candidates have been campaigning and debating, and over the past few months they have presented the policies that they wish to put forward in the U.S. They have very different positions on all issues, and very different debate styles.
President Barack Obama
Barack Obama is the 44th President of the United States, and was in office from 2009-2017. He was the first and has been the only African American President, and he was very influential in many ways. President Obama was very charismatic, he was a great public speaker, and he gave people hope for a better future.
He did a lot for social issues in his 8 years as president, including legalizing same-sex marriage, expanding health coverage for millions of Americans, making immigration safer and fairer, and expanded opportunities for people with disabilities. He did this by enhancing protections against disability-based discrimination, in healthcare as well as education and job opportunities. President Obama also hired more people with disabilities for his administration than any other President in history.
President Obama not only created and implemented a lot of change, but he did it while having fun:
Pardoning a Thanksgiving Turkey has been a tradition in the White House, and for the past few decades has been continued consistently. The President pardons the turkey, sparing its life, and the turkey then usually gets sent to a farm of the President’s choice. This tradition began because American farmers would often send live turkeys to the White House for the President’s Thanksgiving, as a cheerful offering.
In 1981, President Ronald Reagan made pardoning the turkey the norm. This ceremony also became a lighthearted moment for the President and their family, and every year President Obama came up with jokes to go along with his speech.
Check out this compilation video!
Ellen’s Thanksgiving Vids:
***The Class will be on break next week, the week of October 13th. We will return on Monday, October 19th.***
The Great Wall of China is made of cement, rocks, bricks, and powdered dirt. It was built in order to protect the north of the Empire of China from enemy attacks. Several dynasties in China worked on the wall over centuries, to expand it, repair it, and make it suit their needs. The Great Wall took over 2000 years to complete, and was finished in 1878.
The Great Wall is the longest structure humans have ever built, it is 21, 196 km long. Thousands of workers are thought to have died from working on the wall, either due to falling stones, exhaustion, starvation, and disease.
Christ the Redeemer:
Christ the Redeemer is a statue of Jesus Christ in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The construction of it finished in 1931, and the statue is 98 ft high, standing on a pedestal of 26 ft. It is located at a peak of a mountain, called Mount Corcovado, overlooking the city of Rio.
The Statue of Liberty:
The Statue of Liberty is a large sculpture on Liberty Island in New York City. The Statue of Liberty was given to the United States by France, and the man who designed the Eiffel Tower, Alexandre-Gustave Eiffel, designed the steel framework of the statue. It was seen as a symbol of unity and friendship between the two nations, as both France and the U.S. had similar values of freedom and democracy.
France built the statue herself, which is made out of copper, and the U.S. built the pedestal that she sits on. The completion of separate parts done by the separate countries was seen as a symbol of unity. She stands at 305 ft tall, and is the largest statue in the U.S.
In her hands, the Statue of Liberty holds a tablet, with “July 4, 1776” engraved on it. This is representative of Independence Day in the U.S. In her other hand, she is holding up a torch, which is meant to represent “enlightening the world” to the idea of freedom and independence. The photo above shows the construction of the left hand of the Statue of Liberty.
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