... People and Discoveries). His father had planned for him to follow him in a career in the clergy, but Lee wanted to go to school for science and, in 1893, enrolled at the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University, one of the few institutions in the United States then offering a first-class scientific education. (Kraeuter, 74). De Forest went on to earn the Ph.D. in physics in 1899, with the help of scholarships, and money his parents made by working odd jobs. By this time he had become interested in electricity, particularly the study of electromagnetic wave propagation, then being pioneered chiefly by the German Heinrich Rudolf Hertz and the Italian Gugl ...
... Fitzgerald. Eventually Anne found a new man. His name was Chris Beverly. She later married him. Chris loved John, and made a request to legally adopt his stepson. Before the adoption could go through though, Chris died of ill health. John later changed his name from John Ritchie to John Beverly. John attended the Soho Primary School where he horrified his teachers when he told them that he no longer believed in God. John left this school with two zero levels in English Literature and English Language and absolutely no ambition to pursue his academic studies. John went back into education by taking a photography class at Hackney. During his time at Hackney his lif ...
... Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay. His family belonged to the Hindu merchant caste Vaisya. His father had been prime minister of several small native states. Gandhi was married when he was only 13 years old. When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Ruskin's plea to give up industrialism for farm life and traditional handicraf ...
... years before accepting a better job in a competing store, where he worked another two years. In this period, Aaron Montgomery Ward learned the mechanics and customs of retailing. Aaron the moved to Chicago, which was the center of the wholesale dry goods trade. The Chicago City Directories for 1868 through 1870 listed him as a salesman for Wills, Greg & Co. and later for Stetthauers & Wineman, both dry goods houses. Aaron Montgomery Ward felt that a way of doing business must be found that would bring relief from the traditional systems. The plan that shaped in Aaron's mind was to buy goods at low cost for cash, eliminate retailers, and cut selling costs to t ...
... Jackson is the King of Pop music. When Michael Jackson was nine years old, he started being the lead singer of the Jackson 5. The Jackson 5 also consisted of his older brothers Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, and Marlon. (Jackson: 8) The Jackson 5 had many songs. Michael Jackson's first solo album is called "Off the Wall," and it first released in 1979. The songs on "Off The Wall" include "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" and "Rock With You." His following albums include "Bad," "Thriller," and "Dangerous." Michael had a 2 CD album called "HIStory Past, Present, and Future Book 1," and it first released in 1995. The first CD has his most popular songs from the past. T ...
... with bullfighting, fishing and war. Hemingway enjoyed being famous, and delighted in playing for the public spotlight. However, Hemingway considered himself an artist, and he did not want to become celebrated for all the wrong reasons. Hemingway was born in the quiet town of Oak Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, on July 21, 1899. His father was a physician, and Ernest was the second of six children born to Dr. and Mrs. Clarence E. Hemingway. His mother, a devout, religious woman with considerable music talent, hoped that her son would develop an interest in music. Instead, Ernest acquired his father’s enthusiasm for guns and for fishing trips in the north ...
... school, in which he might have met John Adams, with whom he struck up a casual acquaintance. Like all the other children in town, he learned the basics of reading, writing, and figuring.All things seemed to go well, until the spring of 1774. His father came down with an illness, that later would be the cause of his death. His sadness grew more because of the reason that they would have to move. Mary’s parents were both dead and a very difficult decision would have to be made by Mary. Her anxiety to make that decision was lessened by the invitation from the bishop and his wife, to live with them in Lexington. A year later, John was sent away to live with his uncle ...
... it is the actions of the artists' youth, which many therapists believe is the key to understanding the ambiguous portrayal of woman within his paintings, throw out his career. It was during the late 1850’s when was serving as a naval cadet in Rio de Janeiro, that he met a number of slave girls, had openly admitted in letters to his friends the extend to which he found their tropical beauty alluring. Yet, is was not until returned to France that he reveled the true extent of his relationships with these girls, and confessed to the fact that he had been using his time to relate to the girls in an adult way. The answer lies in the artists life long ...
... superior to blacks in different ways. While he might criticize white people's actions, he never lumps them together, attributing similar characteristics to all of them by the use of a term like "nigger." By doing this, he is also offending about 15% of the United States population. Every character in the book is racist, even Huckleberry himself. With such lines as: "Here was this nigger, which I had as good as helped run away, coming right out flatfooted and saying he would steal his children-children that belonged to a man I didn't even know; a man that hadn't ever done me no harm"(Twain, P133), he illustrates this. Additionally, the character of Jim is not ...
... as a sportscaster for WHO radio station in Des Moines, Iowa. Reagan moved to Hollywood in 1937 and began a 25 year acting career. Some of his noted movies were Knute Rockne-All American, King’s Row, and Bedtime for Bozo. During his acting career, Reagan was elected as the president of the Screen Actors Guild (the union for film actors) six times. He married Jane Wyman, had two children, but divorced her eight years later. He married Nancy Davis in 1952 and they had two more children. As president of the union, he tried to remove communists from the movie industry. Reagan’s first national political scene was when he did a speech supporting Republican ...
