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- 1811: AC. Greeen
- ... area player of the year . When he was growing up just before going to the University of Oregon he accepts God as his savior. When Green had free time in the University he would encourage College students to read the Bible , know God and follow his commands . He would also preach to them about how good is to be a Christian and he would proudly say that he was a Christian ...
- 1812: THOMAS JEFFERSON
- ... was born in 1743 in Albermarle County, Virginia, inheriting from his father, a planter and surveyor, some 5,000 acres of land, and from his mother, a Randolph, high social standing. He studied at the College of William and Mary, then read law. In 1772 he married Martha Wayles Skelton, a widow, and took her to live in his partly constructed mountaintop home, Monticello. Freckled and sandy-haired, rather tall and ...
- 1813: George Orwell
- ... privacy, and distorts truth" (Wadsworth 866). Soon after Orwell was diagnosed as a tubercular and was hospitalized for the last year of his life. He was married to Sonia Brownell at his bedside in Univeristy College Hospital. When Orwell died in 1950, he was judged as a "major author by critics on both sides of the Atlantic, and his value as a cultural critic has been increasingly widely recongined" ("Orwell," The ...
- 1814: Langston Hughes
- ... University and travelled to Africa and Europe. He moved to Harlem, New York, in November 1924. Hughes first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. Hughes, who claimed Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman as his primary influences, is particularly known for his insightful, colorful portrayals of black life ...
- 1815: Salvador Manuchin
- ... to succeed by high internalized standards (Rogers's "conditions of worth") that equate esteem with production (“vertical” stressor) puts in even more overtime to stuff the loneliness he feels when his eldest son leaves for college (“horizontal” stressor).(Jacobson, 1995) Worried about his health, escalating stress, and increasing distance from her, his wife suggests that they see a family therapist. Part of the therapeutic agenda would include giving the family tools ...
- 1816: Summary And Review Of Rheinhol
- ... but considered it impossible for any person to be historical and unconditioned at the same time. (Nature and Destiny II, 61). Richard Fox, a distinguished historian, researcher, and professor of history and humanity at Reed College, views Reinhold Niebuhr as the most important twentieth century theologian. Fox has expressed significant interest in religion and culture in modern America, and uses Niebuhr as a focal point for those studies. Fox appears to ...
- 1817: Samuel Adams
- ... the greatest man in the history of this fine country. Adams came from a fairly wealthy family that resided in Boston. The son of a merchant and maltster, Adams was a 1740 graduate of Harvard College. When at Harvard he publicly defended the thesis that it is “lawful to resist the Supreme Magistrate, if the Common wealth cannot be otherwise preserved” (Morris 91) which meant that it was okay to protest ...
- 1818: Stephen Crane Biography
- ... died when he was nine. Stephen never cared much for school. He became well known as a social critic, journalist, and as a poet. He was original in his field of work. Crane attended Claverack College also the Hudson River Institute, and the University of Syracuse for one semester where he was most known for playing baseball. Crane was obsessed with war and any form of violence. In 1891 he started ...
- 1819: George Wallace
- ... Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in 1942 from the University. After receiving a medical discharge from the U.S. Air Force, he returned to Alabama. In ...
- 1820: George Washington Carver
- ... a one-room schoolhouse, and as time went on he excelled as sought out for higher education. Because of his race Carver was denied on attending Highland University. In 1887 Carver got excepted to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. Carver made many outstanding contributions to the agricultural world and also on America it’s self. Carver changed the face of Agriculture in the south with his crop rotation methods. Carver discovered ...
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