RON HEAGY

     Ron Heagy was born in Brownsville, Oregon in 1962. When Ron was 17 years old, he went from being a strapping young wrestler, skiier and bodybuilder with a football scholarship to a quadriplegic, in the blink of an eye.
     Just one day before his 18th birthday he went surfing with his little brother in Southern, [...]

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

       
      George Washington Carver was thought to have been born in 1864 in Tuskegee, Alabama. Carver worked at the Tuskegee Institute, teaching former slaves farming techniques so they could be self sufficient. In order to take education to the farmers he built a mobile school called the Jesup Wagon.
     Carver earned National attention by speaking [...]

AMY CARMICHAEL

    Amy Carmichael was born in Millisle, County Down, Ireland in 1867. When she was 20 years old she heard Hudson Taylor (Founder of the China Inland Mission) speak about missionary life at the Keswick Convention of 1887. Shortly after the convention she became convinced that missionary work would be her life long calling.
     She applied to the China [...]

CRAIG KIELBURGER

    
     Craig Kielburger was  born in Thornhill, Ontario in 1982. He is a childrens rights advocate and leadership specialist. He is also an award winning author and popular speaker.
     When Kielburger was 12 years old he learned of a child laborer who became a childrens rights activist and was murdered because of it.  He decided [...]

THINK ABOUT THIS!!

 
 
      Thanks to the heroic people who started fighting for freedom many years ago, I am entitled to express my ideas and opinions freely. In my experience, the more we prove we can be trusted with freedom, the more freedom we are given. Still, freedom of all kinds can be dangerous, as it comes attached [...]

AMA-GI

 AMA-GI was a symbol used in 3000 BC; many scholars believe that this ancient Sumerian cuneiform symbol was the first written reference to the idea of freedom or of liberty. The leader of the Sumerian city-state of Girsu/Lagash, established new laws that guaranteed the rights of property owners, ensured freedom of slaves, reformed the civil [...]

SOCRATES

 
The unexamined life is
not
worth living.
 
 Socrates- APOLOGY
 
 Socrates lived in the fifth century and did not write any works, but was a teacher and philosopher. His student, Plato, wrote Apology and this quote is attributed to his teacher, Socrates. Plato’s dramatic picture of Socrates, who was willing to die rather than abandon his commitment to [...]

JIM MAYOR – My everyday hero

     Jim mayor was born in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 1957. He is the acting captain for the city of toronto fire services now in his 25th year as a firefighter. Jim grew up like any other ordinary child, he took piano lessons and was admittedly an over achiever when it came to sports.
     Funny [...]

GEORGE MASON

 
     George Mason was born in Fairfax County, Virginia in 1725. He was a lifelong friend of George Washington.  He had no interest in politics but, when Washington was named Commander of the Continental Army, Mason reluctantly took over Washington’s seat on the Virginia legislature and was assigned by chance to the committee to write the new [...]

SARAH JOSEPHA HALE

 
     The woman who gave us Thanksgiving. Sarah Josepha Hale was born in Newport, New Hampshire in 1788. She is well known as the author of the popular nursery rhyme “Mary Had a Little Lamb.” She is also known as one of the major forces behind the declaration of Thanksgiving as a national holiday in the [...]