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 Joseph Pulitzer

        Joseph Pulitzer was born in Budapest on April 10, 1847 and he died on Oct. 29, 1911. When he was a little kid he was educated in a private schools. At the age of 17 he became a solider. He speaks German, French, and a little bit of English. He went to St Louis to be a baggage handler and waiter.   

            Joseph was married to a woman called Kate Davis, she was a Washingtonian. He immigrated to the United States in 1864. Joseph Pulitzer went to New York, he was elected congress of New York. Joseph was a reporter first in St. Louis on the Westliche Post in 1871.

        Mr. Pulitzer was a journalist and a publisher. The magazine increased in stature through its crusades against great business monopolies, lotteries, and white slavery. Joseph and his friend William Randolph Hearst’s newspapers showed their power in 1898. The world urged President Mc Kinley to declare war against Spain.

          Randolph was the one who brought on the Spanish- American War. When the war ended Joseph Pulitzer had died on October 29, 1911. Pulitzer prizes are given in literature, drama, music, and journalism.

Joseph Pulitzer

        He was known as the “yellow journalist” because he always wore a yellow jacket everyday. After they went to New York because they had to work there. At the age of 43 he didn’t return to his job because he had competition with another man. He was very furious at that time because the guy was trying to take his job at that time. He was also famous by the Nobel prizes because he gave money to the people who won them. The Nobel prizes are like an award that the give you, but Joseph Pulitzer gave money instead of a trophy. 

        Joseph Pulitzer accomplished three things. The first thing was to accomplish his research. The second thing was to give 5,000 dollars to the winners of the Nobel prizes, and the third thing was to give money for the Nobel prizes. “He is a very interesting person to work on.’’

Jacob Riis

          I am doing a report on Jacob A. Riss.

Jacob A. Riss was born in 1849 in Denmark. He immigrated to the Untied States in 1870 to New York. He came with no family or friends. He also was an only child.  He came to America to be free and to help the poor. After 2 years he became famous for helping the poor and the hurt. He also wrote/lectured and stressing his view that the poor were victims. Riss addend “magic lantern” slide shows to his lectures.

         In 1877 he got a job called the New York Tribune as a police reporter. After 3 years he got a job called the Evening Sun at the police headquarters. For 10 years he wrote/lectured stressing his view to the poor victims but could not finish because of his death in 1914.

Igor Sikorsky

       Igor invented almost all the planes in the U.S. and he worked with the Wright brothers. He made the Dragonfly Plane and the Dinosaur Helicopter. He was the best at designing all the planes and helicopters. He was almost the best inventor in the U.S.A. He was born on August 1837 and died in 1987. When he was 12 years old he invented a model of a helicopter.

         His library was the largest library in the world. He built a couple of helicopters. Igor made planes and invented helicopters and made shapes of planes and helicopters. He knew the Wright brothers. He wanted to become an engineer and had interest in flying. He invented 28 helicopters and 14 planes. He never had a wife in his lifetime.

Sammy Sosa

    I am working on Sammy Sosa. He was born in November 17, 1968 and he is from San Pedro Marcoris. He is still alive too. Some of his accomplishment was recording a club record 43 multiple homers, game 44 overalls. Another one was joining Ernie Banks as the only player in cub history with seven 30-homer campaigns, and becoming the first Cub to drive at least 100 runs in six straight games. In baseball Sammy Sosa plays right field.

 Sammy Sosa has a society called the Children Medical Center for Preventive Medicine and you may find it the Dominican Republic. He had a foundation in 1998. He made the foundation in 1999.

        His career was being selected with Mark McGuire when he was 1998 Sportsmen of the Year.

Levi Strauss

        Levi Strauss was born in Buttenheim, Bavaria on February 26, 1829.  Levi was famous for very famous pants named after him. He thought of making overalls. Today people still wear them but Levi is still dead.

        Two years after his death, his children immigrated to New York. They made a new place for their job but they still moved for more room. He moved to San Francisco because he wanted to raise more money.

        Levi died in San Francisco, September 28, 1902. On Monday, the day of his funeral, local businesses were temporarily closed so that their proprietors could attend the services. People still remember Levi by his famous pants.

Levi Strauss

          I am writing about Levi Strauss. Levi is from Bavaria. He was born February 26,1829. He died in his house when he was asleep nice and peaceful. He immigrated to San Francisco. He immigrated to San Francisco to make his fortune but not by gold and things like that. He sold supplies to the throngs of miners. He made Levi jeans that many people like me still wear today. He had two lovely wives. He had five children with his first wife, they are Jacob, Jonas, Louis, Rosia and Mathide. When he died they changed the spelling of his name to Levy.

The day he died he told his nurse that he had felt good. Two years after his death Rebeced, Loeb, Fanny and Mathide his relatives then immigrated to New York. Levi gave some of his money to some family members. In summing up Levi’s life and the establishment of his business, the San Francisco call stated: Fairness and integrity in his deals with his eastern factories.

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