Chuck Feeney Chuck Feeney is an Irish-American who was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey U.S. in April 1931. Then when Chuck Feeney was 19 (1949) he graduated St. Mary of the Assumption High School. Right before his duty-free shopping started Chuck Feeney served as a U.S. Air Force radio operator during The Korean War. Chuck Feeney empire of duty-free shopping started when he and Robert Warren first started duty-free shopping in the 1950s by selling duty-free liquor to US naval troops. Then they founded the DFS (Duty-Free Shoppers) group and started selling cars and tobacco. By 1982 Chuck Feeney created The Atlantic Philanthropies who became his main focus. Chuck Feeney is a billionaire who earned his money from duty-free shopping. His current
The specialty retailer of women's clothes, footwear, and accessories-aimed majority to young teens and women in their twenties, was founded by the the Lawrence brothers-Dan, Frank, and Larry.
Henry Ford, born in 1863, was the inventor of the industrial assembly line (4 - 2). He born to two farmers in rural Michigan, but even as a child he aspired for more (9 - 3). He began apprenticing at many different mechanical companies before settling at the company of the famed inventor Thomas Edison as an apprentice (4 - 2). Edison's business the Edison Electric Light Company was initially financed by John Pierpont Morgan, a "robber baron" (2 - 6)(3 - 1). The "robber barons" were men who had made a fortune during the mid to late twentieth century and were able to fund other's projects and help American capitalism progress (3 - 1). With the money given to him by John Morgan, Thomas Edison was able to finance Henry Ford's fascination
Francis Asbury Hendry was commonly referred to as “Berry” and was known as the “Father of Fort Myers.” He was a Mason and a member of the Methodist Church. He spent many years serving in the State Senate and in the House of Representatives. As a soldier, statesman, and cattleman; Captain Francis Asbury Hendry was a strong historical figure who accomplished a lot in life.
Berry Gordy Jr., the founder of Motown Records, was born in 1929 in Detroit Michigan, also known as the Motor City. Motown was the first American music label owned by an African-American. It was also the first music label to successfully market black artists to white mainstream audiences, and was responsible for discovering, mentoring, and perfecting a lot of American popular music's most influential and successful artists. Motown Records was one of the most successfully black owned music businesses in the United States during this time. But he wasn’t just the owner of this record label he was also a boxer, a record store owner, an assembly line worker and a soldier in U.S. Army during the Korean War until he realized that the music business was right for him. Berry Gordy started Motown Records in January 1959 with only an $800 loan from his family. Today Berry Gordy is 84 years old and just celebrated birthday on November 28th. This year he appeared in a commercial for the Chrysler 300 car. It appears that he’s being chauffeured. The car passes many iconic places such as Hitsville USA. The car eventually gets to t...
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Labor leader and advocate of legislative labor reform, Samuel Gompers was globally recognized for being a cornerstone in the sustaining legacy that is the American Federation of Labor. Gompers was born to a Jewish working class couple in London on the 27th of January in 1850. His childhood was short lived, for he was forced to mature early on. After only four years of receiving an elementary school education, Gompers was taken in and apprenticed to a shoemaker at the age of ten. He would quickly switch off trades and become apprenticed to a cigar maker in the east end of London; Gompers would continue with the cigar trade for a quarter of a century.
James Cash Penney, founder of JCPenney stores, gained his retail experience working for Golden Rule Mercantile Company, after graduating from high school in 1902. He quickly rose through the ranks as a salesperson, store manager, and partner. In 1906, at the age of 26, he opened his first retail store in Kemmerer, Wyoming the first to become JCPenney store. 1913, he had 34 stores with over $2 million in sales and incorporated JCPenney Company, Inc. JCPenney’s success was due to the popular private-label brand that were good quality, lower prices than the named brands, and these products yielded high profits. In 1927, headquarters opened in New York and in 1929, the company listed on the New York Stock Exchange and store manager/owners traded in their portions of individual stores for stock in the company. JCPenney’s survives the depression, providing basic goods and services at lower prices and increased profits.
Did you know that Ryan Dungey has already won every motocross title by the time he was 24. He won in 2009 in the Lites supercross Championship (250cc) and also the 250 Motocross Championship. In 2010 he went up to the 450 class and won the supercross Championship and the Motocross Championship when he was a rookie. Ryan Dungey was the 2nd youngest rider in the history of Motocross to accomplish that feat. In 2010 Ryan Dungey lead Team USA to victory in the Motocross Des Nations. He doesn’t always just focus on Motocross and himself, Ryan is a key spokesperson for Nike’s LIVESTRONG Campaign for cancer awareness, after losing his grandmother to cancer in 2005. He races in her memory. In 2011, Ryan Dungey became a LIVESTRONG Global Envoy member.
Henry Johnson was born On July 15, 1897, in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, with “very poor parentage”. As he moved up into his teens he then moved to Albany New York. As he grew up his job was to load luggage onto trains at the Albany Union Station. When Henry was about 20 years old he decided to join the army on June 5, 1917, leaving his girlfriend who would become his wife after the war. He became part of Company C, 15th New York Infantry or more well known as the Harlem Hellfighters. The Hellfighters were sent off to France on January 1st 1918 where they were assigned to sentry duty at Outpost 29 in the Argonne
Creighton University. Located in Omaha, Nebraska it is a private, coeducational, Jesuit Roman Catholic university. Sitting on a 132-acre campus, the university enrolls about 9,000 undergraduate students a year. It was founded through a gift from Mary Lucretia Creighton, who provided the funding to establish Creighton University in memory of her husband, Edward Creighton, a prominent Omaha Businessman.
Additionally, Ted Bundy first lived in Philadelphia with his maternal grandparents. Ted’s grandfather was an extremely violent individual who would abuse animals, beat people who made him angry and read pornography daily. When Bundy was interviewed as an adult, he said he could only recall fond and enjoyable memories of his grandfather (“Bundy Psychological Problems”, 1989). This is an example of repression in which an individual buries a traumatic event or memory in their unconscious. Bundy could not remember his grandfather being a horribly frightening person or the horrendous acts he committed. Ted had blocked out scarring incidents which indicates his traumatizing childhood.
Bobby Flay is one the world’s most famous chef,but just like everyone else he started out as a normal child just trying to make it in life. Born on December 10. 1964. Robert William Flay was raised in New york city by his Irish American separated parents who passed down the red hair and freckles to their son Bill and Dorothy Flay as a young child bobby use to organize his mom grocery list, made his own after school snack with a unique twist each time. He even ask for his own easy bake oven as a child, But he was not very interested in school. He went to a few catholic schools before dropping out at age 17 in tenth grade. After dropping out of school he managed to get his first professional job in 1982. Flay’s father was the manager of the
Serial crime refers to any series of two or more related crimes. It can be said that many serial offenders commit crimes of multiple types in the course of a criminal season (Turvey, 2012: 534).
Serial killers are interesting yet unnerving to the likes of American society. Serial killers commonly lack empathy and show no sign of guilt or remorse after they have committed a horrible act or crime. These characteristics are an indication of psychopathic tendencies. Although it may seem like these people would be easy to spot, it is actually much more difficult than normally thought. These killers have a special way of putting on a mask of sanity. They can act very charming and very intelligent when needed. Their talent in becoming a normal person is part of their manipulative mentality, which they use to capture most of their victims. These individuals usually get a type of psychological thrill or pleasure from their acts, which cause
Ralph Lauren is an American fashion designer philanthropist, and business executive, best known for the Ralph Lauren Corporation clothing company, Ralph was born as Ralph Lifshitz in year 1939 in New York City. Ralph Lauren started in 1967 under the name of Polo Ralph Lauren, until he expended his designs. Polo Ralph Lauren based on American style leader in luxurious, sophisticated fashion and Striking a balance between “timeless” and “modern” style and to make his full line more impeccably crafted the new sportswear is born. And finally in 1970 Polo Ralph Lauren released a line of women 's suits tailored in a classic men 's style.