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- 1781: George Washington Carver
- ... a slave woman owned by Moses Carver. During the Civil War, slave owners found it difficult to hold slaves in the border state of Missouri, and Moses Carver therefore sent his slaves, including the young child and his mother, to Arkansas. After the war, Moses Carver learned that all his former slaves had disappeared except for a child named George. Frail and sick, the motherless child was returned to his former master's home and nursed back to health. The boy had a delicate sense of color and form and learned to draw; Later in life he devoted considerable time ...
- 1782: Ireland 2
- ... State, supplemented by local contributions. There are funding arrangements for some schools in disadvantaged areas and for children with special needs. There are 116 special schools and 64 private primary schools. Primary education emphasizes a child-centered approach with a curriculum related to the childs needs and interests. The second-level sector comprises secondary, vocational, community and comprehensive schools. There are about 370,000 students in this sector attending a total of 768 publicly- aided schools. Of these 445 ... population is under 25 and approximately 27% is under 15.In 1993 for the first time on record the birth rate fell below the minimum population replacement rate of 2.1 births per woman during child-rearing age, to 1.93 births per woman. Total births in 1993 were 49,456 and, if present trends continue, the annual number of births could fall below 40,000 by the year 2007. ...
- 1783: Babe Ruth
- ... 1895 in his grandparents' house at 216 Emory St. in the tough water front section of Baltimore. Babe Ruth's parents Kate and George Herman Ruth were 19 and 23 when they had their first child, George Jr. The young father earned his living as a bar tender in a combination grocery store-saloon near the Baltimore water front. Babe was not an only child. He did have a sister named Mary Margaret, also known as Mamie, who was born in 1900. The Ruth's did have six other children, but none of them survived to adulthood. Soon after Mamies ... felt he had it made, he would probably say no. He did many great things on the field, but you have to remember the only way he became a star was by losing something every child needs, his parents. George Ruth had it all and was every little boys idol, but it didn't come easy.
- 1784: Symbolism In The Scarlet Lette
- ... Pearl s behavior towards her mother varied at different times. She would often constantly nag her mother and became infatuated with the scarlet "A" which her mother wore. She is anything but a normal Puritan child, and Hawthorne creates her character very interestingly. The child could not be made amenable to rules. In giving her existence, a great law had been broken..... (91)Pearl was so very aware of this A even if she did not fully understand the meaning ... hides itself, because it is afraid of something on your bosom. Now see! There it is, playing, a good way off. Stand you here, and let me run and catch it. I am but a child. It will not flee from me, for I wear nothing on my bosom yet (192). This symbolizes Pearl s constant curiousity and truth, and her knowing that the letter her mother must wear retricts ...
- 1785: Song Of Solomon
- ... flying, however, he drops Jake- also the name of Milkman's grandfather- and unlike Icarus in Greek mythology, Jake survives his fall. Milkman's desire to fly mirrors one of the foremost fantasies of any child or dreamer. The child's desire to fly is expressed when Milkman (as a young child) loses all interest in himself when he realizes that he cannot fly. Morrison proves that the "childish" desire to fly never dies when Robert Smith tries to fly from No Mercy Hospital in Michigan. ...
- 1786: Thomas Hardy
- ... biography describes some of the major details of his life such as his family, his education, and his major works. Thomas Hardy was born in 1840 at the Village of Upper Bochampton. He was the child of a country stonemason. Hardy was the third Thomas of his family. His mothers maiden name was Jemima Hand and she and her husband led Hardy to have an unusually happy childhood. His early ... fire; He who played stood there, 2 Bowing it higher and higher. Childlike, I danced in a dream; Blessings emblazoned that day; Everything glowed with a gleam; Yet we were looking away! As a young child, Hardy mastered the violin learning over 100 tunes. He also sang in the Stansford Church every Sunday. It seems to be that Hardy and his parents had a good relationship. In 1867 Hardy met Tryphena Sparks who was 16 and a daughter to a family related to his. She was intelligent and made her living as a teacher. She bore a child in 1868 and Hardy fell deeply in love with her. But in 1872 she broke his heart by returning her engagement ring. She then remarried and had two more children before dying in 1890. ...
- 1787: Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr.
- ... and rose to greatness on his own intelligence and determination. Martin Luther King was born into a family whose name in Atlanta was well established. Despite segregation, Martin Luther Kings parents ensured that their child was secure and happy. Malcolm X was born on May 19, 1925 and was raised in a completely different atmosphere than King, an atmosphere of fear and anger where the seeds of bitterness were planted ... X and Martin Luther Kings childhoods had powerful influences on the men and their speeches. Malcolm X was brought up in an atmosphere of violence. During his childhood, Malcolm X suffered not only from abuse by whites, but also from domestic violence. His father beat his mother and both of them abused their children. His mother was forced to raise eight children during the depression. After his mother had a ...
- 1788: John the Baptist
- ... prophet. His birth was foretold to his father, Zechariah, by the angel Gabriel. It was a miracle that Elizabeth, John=s mother, was able to give birth, since both of his parents were past the child-bearing years. John entered this world, with his parents knowing that great and powerful things were to come from their son. Although John was a tremendous prophet, he is rarely mentioned in our Christian teachings ... his God given call. John=s father and mother must have told him what his duty was to be. It isn=t everyday that two people who are barren are now the parents of a child, a child with a specific purpose. Roy Smith illustrates it best when he wrote a dialogue that could have happened between the two. And so you see my son, the old priest whispered, you were not ...
- 1789: Godesses,whores,wives,and Slav
- ... ofGoddesses, Aphrodite, Hestia, Athena and Artemis are still subject to the male God Zeus. Some of the Goddesses were born of man, not of woman, showing that women weren't even important or needed in child baring.The Bronze Age brings with it oral traditions of history and storytelling, this tied with hard evidence gives some information on how women were viewed by men. In the story of Homer's Illiad ... on whether or not to keep her. Females were seen as a burden or just another cost to the father. Male children were needed at all times, there was hardly doubt about letting a male child live unless the child was weak or sickly. Females were only needed for baring children, making clothing and taking care of the homestead. When a daughter was ready for marriage around the age of fourteen, her father would ...
- 1790: Sanity For Independence
- ... she has. He tells her there is no reason why she feels the way she does; she should get rid of those silly fantasies. In saying this to her, he is treating her like a child who does not really know how she feels, thus making her doubt herself. When she tries to tell him what she needs, she is completely shut out and ignored. I sometimes fancy that in my ... her depression. John has made her a prisoner not only in their home but also in their marriage. Her opinions are not taken into consideration she is not even allowed to take care of her child. He imprisoned her in a room with bars on the windows and a great immovable bed that is nailed down. She has no say in the location or decoration of the room, I don t ... There is clear evidence in the text to support the theory that if he would have listened to her instead of trying to impose society s views on her and treating her like an inferior child, she might have recovered. He is more concerned with how society would view him if his wife broke free and pursued her career as a writer, which was unheard of in those days. It ...
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