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- 271: Rosa Parks
- Rosa Parks Rosa parks was born on February 4,1913, in Tuskegee, Alabama. She was a civil rights leader. She attended Alabama State College, worked as a seamstress and as a housekeeper. Her father, James McCauley, was a carpenter, and her mother, Leona (Edward's) McCauley was a teacher. Rosa P. had one younger brother named, Sylvester. Her family ... open to black students, who were then forced to abandon their education. The McCauley family was determined that Rosa would succeed, and they worked together to raise enough money to send her to Alabama State College to finish her high school classes. When Rosa was close to graduating, though , the family fell on hard times and could no longer afford schools, etc. Her grandfather had died a few years earlier, and ... barber who was active in civil rights causes. They were married in 1932 and settled in Montgomery. Raymond Parks encouraged Rosa to finish her education, and she received her high school diploma from Alabama State College in 1933. After her marriage, Rosa Parks worked at several different jobs, as an insurance saleswoman and as a seamstress, doing alterrations either in a shop or in peoples homes. Through the Depression, both ...
- 272: The Drinking Age: An 18-Year-Olds Right
- ... enough of a deterrent to keep underage teens from drinking and driving. The current standard MLDA is 21, many feel this is unfair because it crosses to many age and social barriers. For instance, many college juniors and seniors can drink, but sophomores and freshman cannot. This automatically breeds unlawful activity, because college freshman and sophomores can't "party with their friends" according to the law. By the time most high school seniors graduate they have already turned 18, and those who haven't soon will. If the minimum drinking age were lowered to 18 or 19 it would dramatically cut down on the number of incidents of illegal drinking on college campuses. A minimum drinking age of ten obviously makes no sense because no one would expect a 10-year-old to be able to distinguish between an alcoholic beverage and a non-alcoholic one. ...
- 273: Franny And Zooey: Franny
- ... spiritual growth. Franny s quest for religion caused her to become pessimistic, bitter, and emotionally unstable. Franny held many strong beliefs that caused her to view her surroundings pessimistically. After spending three years contently in college, Franny changed her view of the college experience. She decided that college was one more dopey inane place in the world. (Salinger, 146) She failed to see college as a place that allows one to increase his or her knowledge and independence. Similarly, she thought that ...
- 274: Brett Farve Bio
- ... him as one, and scored 4 touchdowns. As a teenager Brett grew up about the same as anyone else. Since he grew up in a totally football enclosed family, with his brother playing football in college and his father being a coach, he loved the game. He has the same posters, and the same dreams and heroes as most kids of today. In high school he played quarterback as he decided ... only played football, he also played baseball. He earned five letters in baseball (he led team in batting all five seasons) and three in football at Hancock North Central High School. He went on to college at Southern Miss. He holds 16 records for being a quarter back at this college. A car accident held Brett from finishing his senior year of college football. The accident, most likely, cost him a NFL first round pick in 1991. To his astonishment he was drafted in the ...
- 275: Calvin Coolidge
- ... a belief in man's perfectibility." (Touchman 65). Coolidge's beliefs were derived mostly from his mother and from his homelife and the simple democratic neighborhood of Plymouth Notch. Only will it be in his college years will the ideas of frugality and caution be reinforced when he attended college at Amherst College in Massachusetts. It is these beliefs which will guide him for the rest of his life both politically and socially. Coolidge was the first in his family to attend college. His years in Amherst ...
- 276: Their Eyes Were Watching God R
- ... Morgan Academy, now called Morgan State University, from which she graduated in June of 1918. She then enrolled in the Howard Prep School followed by later enrollment in Howard University. In 1928 Hurston attended Barnard College where she studied anthropology under Franz Boas. After she graduated, Zora returned to Eatonville to begin work on anthropology. Four years after Hurston received her B.A. from Barnard she enrolled in Columbia University to ... s trials built the basis for her best work. Therefore, the work that has denoted her as one of the twentieth century's most influential authors did not come until after she had graduated from college. However, the literature she composed in college was by no means inferior. She was a defiant free-spirit even during her early college career. While working on an anthropological study for her mentor, Franz Boas, she was exposed to voo doo, ...
- 277: Kurt Vonnegut And Slaughter-Ho
- ... Released to an American society struggling to come to grips with its involvement in another war - in a small Asian country called Vietnam - Vonnegut's magnum opus struck a nerve, especially with young people on college campuses across the country. Although its author termed the work a "failure," readers did not agree, as Slaughterhouse Five became a best-seller and pushed Vonnegut into the national spotlight for the first time. His ... also had high praise for the city's widespread system of free libraries whose attendants seemed, to his young mind, to be "angels of fun and information." After graduating from Shortridge, Vonnegut went east to college, enrolling at Cornell University. If he had gotten his way, the young man would have become a third-generation Indianapolis architect. His father, however, was so full of sorrow and anger about having had no ... he has said, "it is nothing if not ambivalent." When he asks himself what person in American history he would most like to have been, Vonnegut admits to nominating none other than Joshua Lawrence Chamberlin, college professor and Civil War hero whose valiant bayonet charged helped save the day for the Union at the Battle of Gettysburg. Although Vonnegut received instruction on the 240-millimeter howitzer, which he later dubbed ...
- 278: Phish
- ... the time. Fish taught himself how to play the drums by locking himself in his room and trying to copy the sound of bands such as Black Sabbath and Led Zeppelin. When he moved to college, he started to move toward jazz and hardcore. Now, all they needed was a bass player. The three placed flyers all over campus and the first replay was Mike Gordon which joined the band soon ... named Nectar Rorris which is who gave them this huge opportunity. On Friday, December 1, 1984, Phish performed its first of many gigs at Nectars. Following the bands performance at the 1985 Goddard College Springfest, keyboardist Page McConnell introduced himself to the members of Phish and expressed a desire to join the group. Soon he was brought aboard. Page was a member of Goddard College which was desperate for undergraduate enrollment. This turned out to be an advantage for Trey because he was about to get kicked out of UVM anyway, for a prank that got out of hand. ...
- 279: Family Values
- ... was not right to lie. I will never forget that valuable lesson my father taught me that day. My third most valuable belief is education. Having come from a family with both parents without a college degree. My parents strongly believed that education was a value for future success. They had me observe how they both had to work to make ends meet. Both of them explained however if they had received a college education thing would have been a little easier around the family. They now realize the value of a college education and what it means to the whole family. It would have meant mom could have stayed home with us during younger years and built our values up even more then they are now. ...
- 280: The Transition of Power From President to President
- ... Lyndon B. Johnson Johnson believed in a Great Society for the American people and their fellow men elsewhere. Born on August 27, 1908, in central Texas and worked his way through Southwest Texas State Teachers College, he taught Mexican kids and those who were in poverty. He was married to Claudia Taylor who helped in his campaign for the House of Representatives in 1937. He was elected to the senate in ... by politics. Although the peace-talks were under way he died before seeing them of a heart-attack on January 22, 1973. Richard M. Nixon Nixon; born in California in 1913, he studied at Whittier College and Duke University Law School before devoting his time to the study of law. Marrying Patricia Ryan in 1940, he fathered two girls, Patricia and Julie. During the War of the World II, he served ... and revitalize urban areas. Ronald Reagan On February 6, 1911, Reagan was born to Nelle and John Reagan in Tampico, Illinois. He attended high school in nearby Dixon and then worked his way through Eureka College. There, he studied economics and sociology, played on the football team, and acted in school plays. Upon graduation, he became a radio sports announcer. A screen test in 1937 won him a contract in ...
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