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- 1721: Ralph Waldo Emerson 2
- ... life marked by poverty. Ralph's mother, Ruth, was left as a widow having to take care of five sons. However, Ralph's life seemed to carry on smoothly. He would end up attending Harvard College and pursue a job of teaching full time. While teaching as a junior pastor of Boston's Second Church, his life gained more meaning when he married Ellen Louisa Tucker. Journal entries and love letters ...
- 1722: Richard Milhous Nixon
- ... good student, he was invited by Harvard and Yale to apply for scholarships, but his older brother's illness and the Depression made his presence close to home necessary, and he was attended nearby Whittier College, where he graduated second in his class in 1934. He went on to law school at Duke University, where his seriousness and determination won him the nickname "Gloomy Gus." He graduated third in his class ...
- 1723: Reverend Jesse Louis Jackson
- ... own son. Reverend Jackson finished tenth in his high school class and was awarded a football scholarship to the University of Illinois. Later, he left U. I. And enrolled in North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College in Greensburo. There he became class president and the civil rights activist began to show himself to the world. After graduating in 1964, he attended the Chicago Theological Seminary until he joined the civil rights ...
- 1724: Ray Bradbury
- ... of the Orbitron space ride at Euro-Disney, France. "Go to the edge of a cliff and jump off, build your wings on your way down" (Bradbury I). This was of his best advice to college students. Bradbury's best-known work, the adult novel Fahrenheit 451 was released in 1953 and is set in a future when the written word is forbidden. Resisting a totalitarian state which burns all the ...
- 1725: Rick Pitino
- ... that you are in control. You are the one that will be deciding how good you are, or if you deserve to win. He talks about one of the first players that he coached in college and how he blamed his lack of success on every other reason except the fact that he wasn't working hard enough. Remember, first you must have the reason for your high self esteem before ...
- 1726: Octavian Augustus
- ... Caesar and therefore he had many political connections in Rome. Octavian was favored by Caesar from an early age (Coppolino 1997). "In 48 Caesar had his fifteen-year-old great-nephew elected to the priestly college of the pontifices, and he also enrolled him in the hereditary patrician aristocracy of Rome"(Coppolino 1997). Octavian joined Caesar in 46 B.C.E. on campaign against Pompey in Spain. Later, Octavian was sent ...
- 1727: Nikita Sergeyevich
- ... civil war, serving as a political commissar. He was now a dedicated communist. After the war, Khrushchev was given a series of political assignments and received his first formal training in Marxism at a Technical College. After graduation he was appointed to a political post in Ukraine, where Lazar Kaganovich, a protege of Joseph Stalin, was head of the Communist Party. Khrushchev joined Kaganovich in supporting Stalin in his power struggles ...
- 1728: Michael Jordan 2
- ... shown that he is the best by winning the Sports Century s number 1 athlete. (Online) Alonzo Mourning states, There s one player who is the perfect 10, and that player is Michael Jordan. (Online) College head coach Dean Smith says, Jordan is the best ever, period. (Online) There will never be anything like Michael Jordan. The NBA will never be the same without Jordan. The game will still go on ...
- 1729: Maya Angelou 5
- ... did not like the segregated society and fought to have it changed. She is still living now, but even when she does pass away, I believe, she will never be forgotten. She now is a college professor at Wake Forest University, and will continue to teach them, and instill pride and confidence in them, as her grandmother did with her when she was young.
- 1730: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
- ... as a way of getting change was well established in his childhood. Martin Luther King lived in an entirely different environment. He was a smart student and skipped two grades before entering an ivy league college at only the age of 15. He was the class valedictorian with an A average. King paraded his graduation present in a new green Chevrolet before his fellow graduates. He was raised in the perfect ...
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