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- 3121: Zora Neale Hurston
- ... 1918 when she had finished her high school requirements, Zora had attended multiple schools, in order to gain the best education as an African American female. 1918-1919 Zora attended Howard Prep School in Washington D.C. In 1920 she earned her associates degree and in 1924 earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in anthropology at Howard University (Lyons 24-6). During the latter part of her education she attended Barnard ... rare, a black woman studying anthropology as well as attending college was unheard of (Otfinoski 47). Education for Zora never stopped, as she went to Columbia University in 1935 in hopes of achieving her Ph.D. on a Fellowship for the Rosenwald Foundation. Zora's efforts in obtaining her Ph.D. were lacking. Her education received a boost in 1939 when she received an Honorary Doctor of Letters degree from Morgan State College (Hurston 204). This was the pinnacle and end of her academic achievements. ...
- 3122: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- ... Figaro had been well received. The composer was already well known and liked when he arrived in the Bohemian capital. He added to these successes by conducting Figaro and other works including the Symphony in D, K. 504, and he signed a contract for a new opera to be produced in Prague for which Da Ponte supplied the libretto. Don Giovanni, the result of their collaboration, turned out to everyone's ... had little more than two weeks to write the music. To accomplish this feat, he enlisted the help of his pupil, Süssmayer, who composed the recitatives. Both of them worked feverishly, even during their three-day journey to Prague. Success was only moderate, and the Empress allegedly referred to Tito as "una porcheria tedesca." All accounts agree that Mozart's health had deteriorated visibly and rapidly. The incredible haste with which ...
- 3123: Thomas Hardy
- ... childhood in a tiny lyric: She sat here in her chair, smiling into the fire; He who played stood there, 2 Bowing it higher and higher. Childlike, I danced in a dream; Blessings emblazoned that day; Everything glowed with a gleam; Yet we were looking away! As a young child, Hardy mastered the violin learning over 100 tunes. He also sang in the Stansford Church every Sunday. It seems to be ... to expect more from him. Some of his most known are Under The Greenwood Tree, The Mayor of Casterbridge, A Pair of Blue Eyes, Jude The Obscure, Far From the Madding Crowd, Tess of the D’Ubervilles, The Hand of 6 Ethelberta, The Trumpet Major, The Well Beloved, Two on a Tower, and his first, Desperate Remedies. Trevor Johnson didn’t mention any negative condemnation so he probably thought Hardy was ...
- 3124: Thomas Edison
- ... not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Thomas couldn't learn. Nancy also became angry at the teacher's strict ways. "She took Thomas ... the operation. He said being deaf helped him concentrate. When Edison was 21, he got a job in Boston as an expert night telegraph operator. Even though he worked nights, he slept little during the day. He was too busy experimenting with electrical currents. Edison worked to improve a telegraph machine that would send many messages at the same time over the same wire. He borrowed money from a friend, and ... personally manage this large staff. The story goes that when a new employee once asked about lab rules, Edison said, "there ain't no rules around here! We're tryin' to accomplish somep'n." Every day Edison toured this huge facility to see what was going on. But he spent most of his time doing paperwork instead of experiments. He did his paperwork in the library. The research library was ...
- 3125: Terry Fox
- ... he ran his first half-mile in the dark. For fifteen months of training and after running 3159 miles his stump was raw and bleeding. Terry ran 101 days everyday he ran 23 miles a day and only stopped for Christmas because his mother asked him. Terry was always determined. One day when his artificial leg broke he hitchhiked home and fixed his leg and ran another 5 miles. He told his mother about his journey to run across Canada his mother told him he was crazy ... the greatest Adventure of his life, "I loved it," Terry said. " I enjoyed myself so much and that was what other people couldn’t realize. They thought I was going through a nightmare running all day long. People thought I was going through hell. Maybe I was partly, but still I was doing what I wanted and a dream was coming true and that, above everything else, made it all ...
- 3126: Richard Rodriguez
- Close Reading "It mattered that education was changing me. It never ceased to matter. My brother and sisters would giggle at our mother’s mispronounced words. They’d correct her gently. My mother laughed girlishly one night, trying not to pronounce sheep as ship. From a distance I listened sullenly. From that distance, pretending not to notice on another occasion, I saw my ... to him every night. (A strange sounding book-Winnie the Pooh.) Immediately, I wanted to know, what is it like?" My companion, however, thought I wanted to know about the plot of the book. Another day, my mother surprised me by asking for a "nice" book to read. "Something not too hard you think I might like." Carefully I chose one, Willa Cather’s My ‘Antonia. But when, several weeks later ...
- 3127: Picasso
- ... be frozen into a historical monument by practicing only one style"(Jaffe, 44). This particular idea made lasting impressions for 20th century art. (Dunkun, 146) A certain painting that Picasso did called the Les Demoiselles d 'Avignon is "recognized as the most important painting in the history of modern art"(Selfridge, 49). It had dimensions, the human form was reassembled into pieces, and it set the stage for abstract art. During ... 1. Complications at birth 2. Was saved by his uncle C. Genetic love for art 1. Father was a painter 2. Drew astonoshing pictures at age of four 3. Paid little attention to Scholl work D. Rolled in his father school 1. Showed a lot of interest 2. Family moved to Malaga 3. Uncle Salved was intrigued by Picassso's work a. provided him with a studio and allowance E. Wasn ... for the stage 3. Got interested in one of the ballerinas: Olga Kokholora a. got married to Olga in 1921 b. moved to "high society" area c. very quickly moved back to less elite area d. started an affair with 18 year old Marie Theresa Walter J. Served as a director of a Spain's Prado Museum 1. Painted a mural for the Spanish Pavilion K. Nazi Party 1. Harassed ...
- 3128: Pete Rose
- ... play in high school and signed him to a contract with the Reds farm system. Pete started out at the class "A" level. He rose up quickly making the starting roster for the Reds opening day team in the same year, 1963. On opening day Pete said he wasn't nervous at all until about 10 minutes before the game. It hit him that he was now starting for the Cincinnati Reds, when not more than a year ago he ... baseball; this agreement said that nothing in the agreement "should be deemed either an admission or denial by Peter Edward Rose of the allegation that he bet on any Major League Baseball game." However, the day that the agreement was released, Bart Giamatti told reporters that he had concluded that Rose bet on baseball. This shows that the Commissioner did not believe that agreement, and that he thought that Rose ...
- 3129: Paul Revere
- ... toll the bell of Christ’s church a young boy heard the first gun of the revolution. Revere didn’t know this yet but his honorable duty lay within that revolution. On the twenty-second day of July, 1754 Reveres father died in his sleep. He was buried in the Old Granary. Paul was very distraught over losing his father. They were close, more like friends than father and son. After ... well as the rest of Boston. Paul Revere loved his children and couldn’t bear the fact of losing them. He called them his little lambs. Luckily none of them died nor did Sara. Pope day of this year, November 5 1764, got out of hand and riots were started. Many were killed and brutally maimed. Revere was outraged over this, but this was the last completely unrestrained old-fashioned pope day in Boston. Times were rough now for the Reveres, with five children to support Revere is forced to take up new traded to make ends meat. He joins the sundry clubs, revolutionary in character, ...
- 3130: Oliver North
- ... he was assigned to counterinsurgency operations in which he met General Singlaub and General Secord, then lieutenant colonels. After coming back from Vietnam, he served as a planner in the Marine Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C. After being promoted to Major in the Marine Corps, North led a detachment of Marines who were to assist the rescuers of the aborted mission to free U.S. hostages in Tehran. A little ... Sept. 16, 1991, after hearings on the immunity issue, on the motion of Independent Council. Today, Oliver North has his own talk radio show, his own website, and a chance to run for President one day. Although many tried to get him to take the fall by himself, he refused to go down. He is still widely respected as a military officer, as a political strategist, and as a political candidate ...
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