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- 1251: James Francis
- ... In 1951, he was one of the first men to be admitted to the National Football Foundation s Hall of Fame. Knowing that Jim had athletic capabilities, Hiram Thorpe, his father, sent him off to school in Pennsylvania, away from his home, Prague, Oklahoma. Hiram said, I want him to go make something of himself, for he cannot do it here. 1 Thorpe began his athletic career at the Carlisle (Pa.) Indian Industrial School. As story goes, Glenn Warner, the coach of the Carlisle football school, made Jim try out for the football team by the means of a test. Thorpe was instructed to carry the ball from one end zone to the other end zone while the whole first- ...
- 1252: John Steinbeck
- ... John received a copy of the book Morte d Arthur. This was the first book John ever owned. He later said it was a great influence upon his life. During his years at Salinas High School, John excelled in English. At the end of his Freshman year in High School John had determined that he wanted to become a writer. At the end of his Senior year John applied to Stanford University and was accepted as an English major. Coming of his success in high school John felt very confidante that he would succeed. To pay for his education John went to school half a year and worked the other half. John found college boring and felt that he was ...
- 1253: John Dalton 4
- ... and while his family had food, they were still poor. His father Joseph was a weaver and John recieved most of his early education from his father. At the age of 12, John opened a school in Eagelsfield where he was the master. He was often threatened by the older boys who wanted to fight him because he was smarter, but he managed to keep in control for 2 years.Due to a poor salary, John was forced to leave his school and work in the fields with his brother. In 1781 John and his brother moved to Kendall. There John, his cousin George, and his brother ran a school where they offered English,Latin,Greek,French and twenty one mathematics and science course. Their school had sixty pupils. After twelve years at Kendall John started doing lectures and answering questions for mens magazines. ...
- 1254: Isaac Asimov
- ... the anxiety of what the future had in store for them. They made their home in Brooklyn, New York where they opened a candy store (Erlanger 9). When he was nine years of age, after school he worked in his parent's candy store. It was then that began reading science fiction magazines. He had to struggle to read these magazines because his father would not permit him to read "such ... to forget his library books (Erlanger 11). However, this reading material was the only thing that his dad would let him touch on the magazine rack. Young Isaac was a brilliant student. He went through school more quickly than other students. But there was one thing holding him back which was him being a class clown. He was frequently in trouble for talking in class (Erlanger 16). The person he could ... Isaac were both seven, they parted as a result of both families moving. The Asimovs moved on Essex street near Judah's new candy store. As the years went on and he graduated Boys High School in 1935, he applied to Columbia University and took on Chemistry as a major (Erlanger 18). This prompted his father to buy him a used typewriter. Although Isaac showed a great deal of interest ...
- 1255: How Raphael Personifies The Renaissance
- ... has a different painting on it. The architecture alone manifests the true heart of the High Renaissance. Each wall of the room has an arch support, and Raphael incorporated the arch into his works. The School of Athens covers one of the walls of the Stanza della Segnatura. The School of Athens exhibits ancient Greek philosophers and many scientists of the ancient times. In the center of the fresco stands Plato and Aristotle, two of the greatest minds of ancient times. The painting depicts the ... Raphael created. During this time, he produced many religious paintings, tapestry designs, palace decorations, and portraits. Furthermore, to Raphael s advantage, he had a very large workshop in which his masterpieces came to life. The School of Athens and the three companion paintings, illustrate the historical development of theology, poetry, and jurisprudence, constitute a celebration of culture equal in scope to Dante s Paradise and Limbo combined (de Santis, de ...
- 1256: Harry S. Truman
- ... a bookworm--a sissy, as he said himself later on, using the dreaded word. 3. Education When Truman was six years old, his family moved to Independence, Missouri, where he attended the Presbyterian Church Sunday school. There he met five-year-old Elizabeth Virginia ( Bess ) Wallace, with whom he was later to fall in love. Truman did not begin regular school until he was eight, and by then he was wearing thick glasses to correct extreme nearsightedness. His poor eyesight did not interfere with his two interests, music and reading. He got up each day at ... read four or five histories or biographies a week and acquired an exhaustive knowledge of great military battles and of the lives of the world s greatest leaders. In 1901, when Truman graduated from high school, his future was uncertain. College had been ruled out by his family s financial situation, and appointment to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point was eliminated by his poor eyesight. 4. Family ...
- 1257: George Lucas
- ... most have received millions of dollars in profit. Although it sounds as if he had an easy life, in reality, Lucas had to struggle in order to get ahead. Not being interested or involved in school, Lucas turned his attention to cars. When he reached driving age, his father gave him a nice, small, safe car. However, passionate about cars and racing, Lucas revved up his engine and turned it into ... change in his life. It ultimately led him to success. Lucas was in a car crash in 1962, which ended his racing career before it even started. He missed his graduation ceremony at his high school, but joked that the only reason he got a diploma was because his teachers felt sorry for him. As a result, Lucas looked for other options to fill his void in life. Since his grades ... not that hard to get into as reputation indicated. Lucas applied, and was accepted, for his junior year. Although the idea was unpopular with his father, Lucas was not stopped in pursing his career. At school, he realized that he had to work his but off to stay on top. He did not mind the hard work. Lucas actually felt relaxed staying up all night editing film. Even when a ...
- 1258: Frank Sinatra
- ... comedic wit. He was extremely popular with his classmates. Though all the students adored him, the teachers did not; his grades were less than satisfactory, causing him to drop out of A.J. Demarest High School in the middle of his senior year. By his mother s request, he finished his education with one year at Drake Business School (Sinatra 21). According to Sinatra, school was very uninteresting, and homework was something we never bothered with (qtd. in Sinatra 18). We were referring to his gang of friends, who he spent most of his time with. This is when ...
- 1259: Famous People With Mental Illnesses
- ... poetry and literature. At sixteen, after the tragic deaths of his sister and father, he entered the University of Leipzig to study law; but this didn't last long, and soon he had left the school to pursue music with all his energies. He suffered from the disease know as Bipolar depression. Schumann began to suffer from mental illness in the early 1840 s. Even while accepting a position at Mendelssohn ... He is buried in St. Louis, Missouri. Newton, Sir Isaac (1642-1727), was one of the foremost scientific intellects of all time. Born at Wools Thorpe, near Grant ham in Lincoln shire, where he attended school, he entered Cambridge University in 1661; he was elected a Fellow of Trinity College in 1667, and Locution Professor of Mathematics in 1669. Newton was a premature child and was very small at birth. Except ... was born on February 7th, 1812. Dickens had high anxiety problems. His father was in prison because he woes in debt. That meant Dickens had to work when young, so he couldn t go to school. He was forced to quit school when was around 10 years old. He was always afraid of anything to do with money. His phobia in money resulted Patty Duke: Her manic-depressive disorder began ...
- 1260: Emerson
- ... one died of tuberculosis in 1836. Emerson was also not a very healthy person. He had lung disease and periods of temporary blindness until he was thirty years old. (Clendenning) He attended the Boston Latin School from 1812 to 1817. Emerson then started to study at Harvard College in August 1817. He worked his way through college as a messenger and writer because of the financial strain on his family after ... that the best thing about college was having a room to himself. Emerson graduated in the thirtieth position in a class of fifty-nine in 1821. Afterwards, he taught in his older brother's private school for three years so that he could help his family to pay their debts off. He did not like it and was not satisfied. When he turned twenty-one, he decided to join the ministry. Emerson enrolled in the Harvard Divinity School in 1825 to study theology. He then married Ellen Louisa Tucker of Concord, New Hampshire on September 10, 1829. Emerson was licensed to preach on October 1826. He became a Unitarian pastor at the ...
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