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- 1441: Jane Austen: Her Life and Work
- ... spent their whole life together, from birth till Austen's death, where Jane died "with her head pillowed on Cassandra's shoulder." (Wright, pg. 11) At age 7 , Cassandra and Jane "sent to a small school run by a relative. (Wright, pg.7) They didn't stay there long because Mrs. Cawley, the teacher and relative, moved away to Southampton. (Wright, pg. 11) Soon after Jane left Mrs. Cawleys school, she caught a horrible fever. It was called " putrid throat, a septic throat characteristic of typhus fever." (Howard, pg. 14) This fever almost killed Jane and Cassandra both. (Wright, pg. 7) This happened in 1792. (Wright, pg. 7) In 1797, Jane and Cassandra were sent to Mrs. Latournelle's Abbey School of Reading. They spent two years at this school to learn how to be "a lady". (Wright, pg. 7) After that, Jane went home and was "home taught" from there on out. (Howard, pg. ...
- 1442: Jimmy Carter: The 39th President of the United States
- ... and then moved to Archery, Georgia, just outside of Plains. He lived there until he was seventeen years old, participating in the family's peanut farm. In the year of 1941, Jimmy graduated from high school, which wasn't common for a farm boy at the time. He then spent a year at Georgia Southwestern College, then left for another year at the Georgia Institute of Technology. After his college education, Jimmy started his career in the military. In1943, Jimmy enrolled in the United States Naval Academy. He continued at that school for three years, and then became a commissioned officer. He also married Eleanor Rosalynn Smith that year. Then, in 1948, Jimmy went into Submarine School until 1952. His father died, so Jimmy went to take over the family's business (Hudson). II. Jimmy Carter's political career began started very quickly in 1962. He had lived a normal life ...
- 1443: Important People in History
- ... and the poor. He called this class conflict. The rich people who owned the production were called the capitalists, and the poor who had nothing were called the proletariats. Marx was the founder of conflict school of sociology. He believed that the people struggled for power and wealth. Weber, Max - Sociologist (1864- 1920) Weber believed that Marx had placed to uch emphasis on the economic factors on describing the problems between ... people of New Guinea and the nearby Trobriand Islands in the South Pacific. What he did there was to record details of their social institutions. He was one of the earliest supporters of the functionalist school of social science. He rejected the Darwin evolution theory, believing instead that civilization of northern Europe were more advanced than those of Africa and the Pacific, and that anthropology's role was to explain and ... involves three stages. The first one is the preparatory stage. The children watch the behavours of others and try to imitate them. They talk to their imaginary friends. Stage two is when children are in school and they play and take on the roles of adults. Stage three is when a child enters a stage where they begin to understand the rules of different roles within a team.They begin ...
- 1444: Biography of William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 1445: Life of William Shakespeare
- ... was born in Stratford in 1564. He was one of eight children. The Shakespeare's were well respected prominent people. When William Shakespeare was about seven years old, he probably began attending the Stratford Grammar School with other boys of his social class. Students went to school year round attending school for nine hours a day. The teachers were strict disciplinarians. Though Shakespeare spent long hours at school, his boyhood was probably fascinating. Stratford was a lively town and during holidays, it was known to ...
- 1446: Symbols in Poe's Writing
- ... vomiting blood. When his mother died, Poe was adopted by John Allan (Perry XI) and C. In 1815 John Allan and his family moved to England. While in England Poe was sent to a private school. In the spring of 1826, Poe entered the University of Virginia. At the University he had an excellent scholastic record. Almost at once he ran into difficulties. His foster father did not provide any financial support for school fees and other necessities. Poe became homesick. At school he began to drink. Soon he was in debt for over two thousand dollars. Poe discovered that he could not depend on his foster father for any financial needs. John Allan refused to pay ...
- 1447: Biography: Anne Sullivan (1866-1936)
- ... s background was one of extreme poverty and misery. When she was five years old she lost her sight, and was put into a poorhouse when her family broke up. Eventually she attended the Perkins School for the Blind in Boston. She was nicknamed "Spitfire" because she behaved badly and was very rude; however the school's director realized that she could become a talented pupil. Several years later, after two operations, she regained her sight and graduated with honours. Life with Helen She came to work with Helen when she was 20 years old and a graduate of the Perkins School for the Blind. Her persistence in trying to reach the deaf-blind child was rewarded in the now famous incident at the backyard pump. That breakthrough was immortalized in Gibson's play, books, on ...
- 1448: David Letterman
- ... what I feel toward Letterman, you have to look at some of the main points in his life. First of all, Dave was exactly an A student. He struggled all of his life through grade school to college. He also wasn't very popular. He stated, " I remember standing around. . . with the other losers, watching all the athletes play sports. All we could do is make fun and ridicule them." He was never good at anything until high school. "All I ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class clown, making fun of everything and everyone." This personality trait was what gave him his thousands of faithful fans, watching his show every night to see Dave rip to shreds ...
- 1449: Aristotle vs. Copernicus
- ... the Macedonian capital, where he became the tutor of the king's young son Alexander, later known as Alexander the Great. In 335, when Alexander became king, Aristotle returned to Athens and established his own school, the Lyceum. Because much of the discussion in his school took place while teachers and students were walking about the Lyceum grounds, Aristotle's school came to be known as the Peripatetic ("walking" or "strolling") school. Upon the death of Alexander in 323 bc , strong anti- Macedonian feeling developed in Athens, and Aristotle retired to a family estate in ...
- 1450: The Work of J.D. Salinger
- ... J.D. Salinger show the quest for happiness through religion, loneliness, and symbolism. Salinger's works often use religion in order to portray comfort. In Salinger's Nine Stories Franny Glass keeps reciting the "Jesus Prayer" to cope with the suicide of her brother Seymour (Bloom in Bryfonski and Senick 69). Salinger is able to use this prayer as a means of comfort for Franny. The prayer stands for the last hope for Franny in this situation. Franny would be lost if their was no prayer. (Bryfonski and Senick 71). Salinger shows us comfort in Catcher in the Rye. Holden Caufield, ...
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