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- 2441: Ralph Ellisons Life
- ... Ellison graduated in 1931 from Douglass High School. Before he got a scholarship to Tuskegee Institute, after graduation for two years he worked as an elevator operator in an unsuccessful attempt to save money for college. Ellison discovered for the first time the power of serious fiction through a course of private reading during his sophomore year. Ellison said: Wuthering Heights had caused me an agony of inexpressible emotion, and the ...
- 2442: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Newton received his bachelor's degree in 1665. After an intermission of nearly two years to avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667 ...
- 2443: 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 ...
- 2444: Amedeo Avogadro (1776-1856)
- ... lessons in mathematics and physics and decided to make the natural sciences his profession. He was appointed as a demonstrator at the Academy of Turin in 1806 and the Professor of Natural Philosophy at the College of Vercelli in 1809, and in 1820, he was appointed the professor of mathematical physics. Avogadro died on July 9, 1856 in Turin, Italy.
- 2445: JFK: His Life and Legacy
- ... was during this time period in which Kennedy met and fell in love with Jacqueline Bouvier. "Jackie", as she was known, came from a wealthy Catholic background as prestigious as the Kennedys. She attended Vassar College and the Sorbonne in Paris, France. She spoke French, Italian, and Spanish fluently. They were wed on September 12,1953, at St. Mary's Catholic Church in Newport, Rhode Island. All seemed well, yet after ...
- 2446: Martin Luther King's Life
- ... approach, which lead to triumph and pride. King was born in Atlanta, Georgia, on January 15, 1929, the eldest son of Martin Luther King, Sr., a Baptist minister, and Alberta Williams King. He entered Morehouse College at the age of 15 and was ordained a Baptist minister at the age of 17. Graduating from Crozer Theological Seminary as class president in 1951, he then did postgraduate work at Boston University. King ...
- 2447: Winning for Zorich
- ... South Bend, Indiana because he researched the team's graduation rate and it was 99 percent. When he started Notre Dame in 1987 he was not ready for the high standards of a high class college. When he finished his first semester he had a 1.7 gpa which put him on academic probation. He told his mother he could not do it and he will get kicked out of school ...
- 2448: Tiger Woods
- ... Earl and Kultida (His mother is a native of Thailand) Woods on December 30, 1975. He received his nickname Tiger after a Vietnamese friend of his father that had the same nickname. Tiger went to college at Stanford University in California (but he dropped out in his junior year to play professional golf) and presently resides in Orlando Florida. What interests me most about Tiger is his mastery of the game ...
- 2449: Sir Isaac Newton
- ... to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Newton received his bachelor's degree in 1665. After an intermission of nearly two years to avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667 ...
- 2450: Life and Work of Shirley Jackson
- ... day on her writing. In doing so she established work habits, which she maintained for the rest of her life. After a year of becoming conscientious and disciplined writer, Jackson thought she better return to college for more schooling. In 1937, she entered Syracuse University. At first she was in the School of Journalism, but then she decided to transfer to the English department. For the next two years, while at ...
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