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- 1151: Jennifer Lopez
- ... decision and that was not to go to College. That decision was very disappointing to her parents who wanted her to go to law school. Her parents supported her pursuit of a career in show business, they did not wanted to be in the expense of her education. When Jennifer told her parents that she was not going to College and law school, they thought it was really stupid to go ... that she’s the best, maybe somewhat arrogant but who can fault her for feeling this way. Jennifer has accomplished a lot and she open doors for other people who want to go into show business.
- 1152: James Watt
- ... cylinder wasn’t shaped right resulting in a leaking cylinder allowing steam to escape. Soon Roebuck began to retire but at the same time Matthew Boulton left school to join his father in the family business. Boulton was only seventeen at the time. Eventually his father died and Matthew took over the business. Roebuck was also communicating with Boulton as to Watt’s progress with the steam engine as he was also one of Boulton’s correspondents. Once Boulton heard of Watt’s progress he immediately arranged for ...
- 1153: Jackie Kennedy Onasis
- ... the wedding, John and Jackie honeymooned in Aculpoco. After being in Aculpopo for only a few days, Jackie wrote her father apologizing for him not being invited to the wedding. John Carrere, Jack Bouvier’s business partner, recalled that Jack read Jackie’s letter with tears in his eyes and thought it as being the most compassionate thing he had ever read.(Guthrie) The first years of Jack and Jackie’s ... Onassis.(Klein) On November 22nd, Jackie and John traveled to San Antonio Texas to have a meeting with the Chamber of Commerce. After leaving then went directly to Dallas where Kennedy was to meet with business leaders. At one o’ clock p.m. John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas Texas. At JFK’s funeral, Jackie was the epitome of composure and as Ted Kennedy said," held us together as a ...
- 1154: George Bush
- ... in Skull and Bones which was one of Yale's secret societies. Bush graduated in 1948 with a bachelor's degree in economics. At this time Bush's father was still involved in the banking business and he wanted to recruit his son. George however passed up the opportunity by moving to Texas and going into the oil business where he indeed "struck it rich". His father had become senator in 1952 and that is when politics started to interest Bush as well. In 1962, he was elected chairman of the Republican Party of ...
- 1155: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... things; and years later she became a medical student. All the young men teased her in her class, but she learned to deal with it. For a long time the Blackwell's ran a sugar business. It was very successful, until one day the business started to loose money and they had to move to America; and there she would be able to go to a better school. So, on August 1832 they left to America on a ship. The ...
- 1156: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... characters like John and Rena Walden, Chesnutt advocates the right of mixed races to be accepted on equal terms with whites. In order to support his family, Chesnutt was forced to reopen his court reporting business which he closed in 1899. Chesnutt shifted his literary concentration towards essays and short articles regarding racial issues. He also experimented in writing entertaining, non-controversial novels about the high society of the North. The ... make it a financial success. During his own lifetime, Charles Waddell Chesnutt was recognized as a pioneer in treating racial themes. Throughout the years he was writing and publishing, he continued to operate a successful business and to participate in programs dedicated to social justice. In 1928, he was awarded the Spingarn Medal for "pioneer work as a literary artist depicting the life and struggles of Americans of Negro descent, and ...
- 1157: Bill Gates
- ... became friends and "began to mess around with the computer"(Gates 2). Back in the sixties and early seventies computer time was expensive. "This is what drove me to the commercial side of the software business"(Gates 12). Gates, Allen and a few others from Lakeside got entry-level software programming jobs. One of Gates early programs that he likes to brag about was written at this time. It was a ... Pain for Windows." Feb. 27,1995 p64-66 Clayton, Gary E. Ph.D. Economics Principles and Practices. New York: Glencoe/McGraw-Hill 1995 Economist, The:The World This Week. March 26, 1994 p7 Economist, The: Business. January 22, 1994 p73 Fortune. June 28 1993 Gates, Bill. The Road Ahead. New York:Penguin Group 1995 Lyall, Sarah. Technos: "Are These Books, or What? CD-ROM and the Literary Industry." Winter 1994 p20 ...
- 1158: Ben Franklin
- ... parts of a sailboat which they repaired and made perfect. When Ben got older he became his father's apprentice in the candle and soap shop. Ben, the only son who worked in the family business, treated the customers well and helped his father. After working with his father for several years Ben became his brother's apprentice in a print shop. Ben made a deal with his brother. His brother ... people found out that Ben was the author of these articles and Ben's brother became jealous and mean to him. Ben left Boston and moved to Philadelphia where he set up his own printing business. He printed the famous "Poor Richard's Almanac" a best seller and decided that he would be print it every twenty-five years. He never stopped experimenting and is known for inventions such as; bifocal ...
- 1159: Andrew Carnegie
- ... some small investments that laid the foundations of his what would be tremendous fortune. One of these investments was the purchase of stock in the Woodruff Sleeping Car Company. In 1864, Carnegie entered the iron business, but did not begin to make steel until years later. In 1873, he built the Edgar Thomson works in Braddock, Pennsylvania, to make Bessemer steel. He established many other steel plants, and in 1892, he ... also with his own literature. Carnegie loved to promote his ideas and opinions in print, and has written many works outlining these philosophies, including Triumphant Democracy (1886), The Gospel of Wealth (1900), The Empire of Business (1902), Problems of Today (1908), and an Autobiography (1920) (Mitzen 182). Although Carnegie only stood somewhere between 5’2" and 5’6", he "had to be a great, tough, disciplined giant of a man." His ...
- 1160: Alfred Hitchcock
- ... story lines and techniques within the cinematography of Hitchcock are common standards for films of today. However, Hitchcock did not start out as a brilliant director, but instead started from the very bottom of the business. As a young man Hitchcock was raised and lived in England with his parents. When a new Paramount studio opened he rushed to get a job there having had interest in film making for quite ... employed at Paramount as a "title designer" for silent films meaning he wrote out the lines that are displayed after each shot in the film. From that job he worked his way up through the business to assistant director and directed a small film that was never finished or released. Hitchcock's directorial debut took place in 1925 with the release of the film "The Pleasure Garden". His breakthrough film came ...
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