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- 9921: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau
- ... return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life" (Emerson 25). Unlike Thoreau, Emerson did have a connection with the church. During his youth he studied at a ministry school and later served as a "supply" preacher and junior minister (www.poets.org/LIT/poet/rwemefst.htm). "What is more alive among the works of art than our plain old wooden church...with the ancient ...
- 9922: Robert Kennedy
- ... 1962), To Seek a Never World (1967), and Thirteen Days: A Memoir of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969) Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts. He graduated from Harvard University and the University of Virginia Law School. His son Joesph Kennedy of Massachusetts became a member of the U.S. House of Representatives in 1987. June 6th, 1968 after making a speech at the Ambassdor Hotel in Los Angeles, Kennedy made his ...
- 9923: Emperor Hadrian of Rome
- ... by creating a barrier, not a line of defense. Hadrian's wall was an eighty-mile long wall that stretched across northern England. The wall was twenty feet thick at the base, and fifteen feet high. "More than twenty seven million cubic feet of stone were used by the soldier-builders for this amazing fortification(Readers Digest 92)." Towers and gates were built into the wall every one Roman mile. Ditches ...
- 9924: Malcolm X
- ... later in his life that white people destroyed his family. Malcolm then became a fine student and dreamed of becoming a lawyer when he grew up. But he got discouraged by his teacher and left school after the eighth grade to go live with a relative in Boston, Massachusetts. In 1942 he moved to a black section of New York City. He lived as a gambler, cheating to make money. He ...
- 9925: George Bernard Shaw: The Man, The Myth, The Legend
- ... other ways. When he was young, a servant took him to the slums. From that experience he acquired a lifelong hatred of poverty (Collier's 649). Shaw was a poor student at the Wesleyan Connexional School despite private tutoring (Kunitz 1268). However, most of his education was gained at home through a thorough background in music, art, and extensive reading. He always had the eagerness and determination to write. His writings ...
- 9926: John Quincy Adams
- ... John and give him a good education. He became the first of his family to go to college when he entered Harvard in 1751. For the next six years he read intensly while he taught school and studied law in Boston. In 1762 he began a fourteen year successful law career. In 1761 he began to think, write and act against British oppression and for the right of colonies to self ...
- 9927: Herbert George Wells
- ... science-fantasy novels with their prophetic depictions of the triumphs of technology as well as the horrors of 20th-century warfare. Wells was born September 21, 1866, in Bromley, Kent, and educated at the Normal School of Science in London, to which he won a scholarship. He worked as a draper's apprentice, bookkeeper, tutor, and journalist until 1895, when he became a full- time writer. Wells's 10-year relationship ...
- 9928: Harper Lee
- ... she entered Huntington College in Montgomery, Alabama. She became a Fulbright Scholar and spent a year at Oxford University. She also attended University of Alabama for four years studying law. In 1950, she quit the school and moved to New York City where she worked for Eastern Airlines and British Overseas Air Corporation. She began writing at a young age, but she was never successful at getting any of her literary ...
- 9929: Cleopatra VII
- ... the military back-up Caesar had with his Roman soldiers, the best army in the world. The Romans then started to hate Cleopatra and her exotic ways and charms. Cleopatra was powerful. She was optimistic, high-spirited, always a winner using skill or just plain cheating, popular, a queen, and a loyal friend. Now, if you're thinking Cleopatra is too flirtatious and a slut, you're wrong. Cleopatra also was ...
- 9930: The Life of Beethoven
- ... father hoped to make Ludwig a gifted child like the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. His father taught him how to play piano and violin. Even though his general education was not continued after elementary school, he studied piano, violin, and French horn. At age 11, Ludwig became assistant to the organist of the local court. In 1783, he first accompanied opera rehearsals at the keyboard. From 1788 to 1792, Beethoven ...
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