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- 6491: Life Of Baruch Spinoza
- ... are not as smart as him are any worse.” I believe that our world should not exist on the opinions of people who are not up to the level of the philosophers that went to school and studied for years.. Therefore, I think that facts are better than opinions, of a young adult who has no experience in the field or study of Baruch Spinoza. This does not mean that I ...
- 6492: Lewis Carroll
- ... was isolated for most of his childhood, so he made up games to amuse himself, and his brothers and sisters. His father educated Charles up to the age of twelve. Then he was sent to school. Here he earned good grades in classical languages and mathematics as well as a good reputation for defending himself. He was once called “a boy who knew how to use his fists in a righteous ...
- 6493: James Baldwin
- ... life and also the main character in much of his work. In 1938, at the wish of his stepfather, James converted and preached for three years at the Fireside Pentecostal Assembly. Finally, after graduating high school, he left the ministry and pursued his dream of writing. Baldwin drifted from job to job, writing in between and eventually moved to Europe at the age of 24. Baldwin has written the reason for ...
- 6494: Carl Gauss
- ... time that Carl was teaching himself to read aloud, he also taught himself the meanings of number symbols and learned to do arithmetical calculations. When Carl Gauss reached the age of seven, he began elementary school. His potential for brilliance was recognized immediately. Gauss's teacher Herr Buttner, had assigned the class a difficult problem of addition in which the students were to find the sum of the integers from one ...
- 6495: Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X’s anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X’s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ...
- 6496: Nicolaus Copernicus
- ... many others he went to Italy to study medicine and law (Smith 1039). Before he left, his uncle appointed him a church administrator in Fronbork. He then used the money from there to pay for school. Copernicus began to study canon lay at the University of Bologna in 1497. At that time he, was living at the home of mathematics professor, Domenico Maria de Novara. Copernicus astronomical and geographical interests were ...
- 6497: Jack London
- ... poor, John being a door-to-door salesman. Unable to make a living in San Francisco, they moved to Oakland, where they leased a farm. There in Oakland, Jack began to develop his mind at school. Unfortunately, also in Oakland was Jack s first experience with alcohol. At age seven, Jack began drinking his stepfather s beer, which lead to his problem of alcoholism. Later in his life, he wrote of ...
- 6498: Thomas Jefferson
- ... closed the harbor of Boston, Massachusetts, in retaliation for a protest incident. Jefferson was one who controversially suggested that the day the act went into effect should be declared "a day of fasting, humiliation, and prayer." During 1775 and 1776 Jefferson sat in the Continental Congress. During this time the American Revolution broke out. In the congress Jefferson wrote his most famous document, the Declaration of Independence. As an expression of ...
- 6499: Jack Robinson
- ... and worked with children. He also earned extra money by playing for a semi-pro football team, known as the Honolulu Bears. In 1941 Robinson joined the United States Army. After graduating from Officers Candidate School, Robinson became a second lieutenant in what was then segregated army. Troubled by the mistreatment of black soldiers in his unit, Robinson protested the U.S. Army's discriminatory practices. Military police at Fort Hood ...
- 6500: Frederick Douglass's Physical and Intellectual Struggles
- ... began to bear heavily upon [his] my heart."(32) At that point, Douglass's true strength began to show and his true development began. Douglass used the strength gained from literacy to hold a Sabbath school that taught other slaves how to read. Douglass also used literacy in an escape attempt. When Douglass tried to escape for the first time his writing skills were used to make fake "protections". These were ...
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