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- 1821: Gangs
- ... and indoctrinated into the world of real life gangbangers who are truly the hardest of the hard-core. Then they return back to the streets with there prison record in hand like a diploma from college with more "knowledge" than ever could have been gained on the streets. When they are in prison, many gain rank or "juice" within their gang because they went to the "joint".
- 1822: Margret Atwood
- ... write. By the age of six, Atwood was writing "poems, morality plays, comic books, and an unfinished novel about an ant" (qtd. in " and then went on to receive her Master's degree from Radcliffe College in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Atwood also received education from Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, during 1962-63 and 1965-67. In all Atwood has twelve honorary degrees from Universities and Collages across North America. In ...
- 1823: Muhammed Ali
- ... did what he was asked to do. He carried his Bible with him all the time, read when he could, and loved it. Throughout his amateur career and high school, Clay worked at the Nazareth College Library. Clay also was viewed as a kid obsessed with boxing. Clay got bigger and stronger as his talents grew. Sometimes, to keep in shape, Clay would race the city buses to school. Bettie Johnson ...
- 1824: 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 ...
- 1825: Oliver North
- ... detachment of Marines who were to assist the rescuers of the aborted mission to free U.S. hostages in Tehran. A little more than a year later, while North was studying at the Naval War College in Providence, he came to befriend Navy Secretary John Lehman. Lehman helped North get a spot on the National Security Council. Among several military officers sent to the National Security Council, North was the youngest ...
- 1826: Elizabeth Blackwell
- ... for women to practice medicine. She also gained tremendous recognition for her ability to meet the problems presented by the Civil War. Within the New York Infirmary for Women and Children, she opened a medical college for women. After the Civil War, Elizabeth moved back to England and settled here for the rest of her life. She was recognized here for her numerous lectures given about her findings and discoveries in ...
- 1827: Edgar Allen Poe
- ... his adult writings" (Levin, 14). The Allens left England in June 1820, and arrived in Richmond on August 2. Here, Poe entered the English and Classical School of Joseph H. Clarke, a graduate of Trinity College in Dublin. On February 14, 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. Though he spent more time gambling and drinking than studying, he won top honors in French and Latin. On May 26, 1827, Poe ...
- 1828: Compare And Cantrast WEB Du Bo
- ... his people. He taught in rural Black schools in Tennessee during summer vacations, thus expanding his awareness of his Black culture. Du Bois graduated from Fisk in 1888, and entered Harvard as a junior. During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to ...
- 1829: Tim Paterson
- ... with it. I got a lot of exposure to electronics stuff at home." Throughout his education and experience with computers, Tim Paterson as become one of the most genius computer programmers of our time. After college, Paterson landed a job as a computer technician at a Seattle area retail computer store. Because of his experience with computers, Paterson stared designing his own peripheral boards on the side. Through his job and ...
- 1830: 1984
- 1. Biography George Orwell is the pen name of Eric Arthur Blair, a British writer with political conscience. He was born in India but educated in England at Eton College. He served the Indian Imperial Police in Burma from 1922 to 1927. In sick health, he returned to Europe to live in poverty as a struggling writer. Orwell joined the Republican forces in the Spanish ...
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