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- 6641: Herman Melville Defined
- ... his grandfathers’ Revolutionary War heroes. This prompted him to seek a brave, courageous life, and then put his experiences on paper. Allan Melville died when his son was only twelve. This forced Herman to quit school and find work to help support the family. This cut his education short, and he never actually returned to organized schooling. He found jobs teaching writing at various schools but found it “unrewarding, boring, and ...
- 6642: Michelangelo
- ... Florentine official named Ludovico Buonarroti with connections to the ruling Medici family, placed his 13-year-old son in the workshop of the painter Domenico Ghirlandaio. After about two years, Michelangelo studied at the sculpture school in the Medici gardens and shortly thereafter was invited into the household of Lorenzo de Medici. He became acquainted with such humanists as Marsilio Ficino and the poet Politian, who were frequent visitors. Michelangelo produced ...
- 6643: Michelangeo - Renaissance Man
- ... several generations been small-scale bankers in Florence; his father failed to maintain this status. He had only occasional government jobs. At an early age his father recognized his intelligence and sent him to the school of a master, who taught grammar. His mind however, was on art not his studies. Painters and sculptors at work fascinated Michelangelo. He made friends with a student who encouraged him to follow his own ...
- 6644: Thomas Aquinas
- ... will be found to equal him." His father was the count of Aquino. Thomas received his early education from at the abbey of Monte Cassino, but Thomas was so big and quiet that during his school days his fellow students called him “ the dumb ox.” But before long, however, his true intelligence shone through his quiet exterior. Then Thomas entered the University of Naples. At the University of Naples his preceptors ...
- 6645: Stonewall Jackson
- ... north I feel I know more about the Union’s role. Stonewall Jackson was born in 1824, in Clarksburg, Virginia (now West Virginia), with the name Thomas Jonathan Jackson. He went through an inadequate country school as a child there. In 1842, he managed to secure a place for himself at the U.S. Military Academy. While there he was assigned to a war zone in Mexico (during the Mexican War ...
- 6646: Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
- ... and Freud himself an avowed atheist. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious. Medicine and law were the professions then open to Jewish men, and in 1873 he entered the University of Vienna medical school. He was interested in science above all; the idea of practicing medicine was slightly repugnant to him. He hoped to go into neurophysiological research, but pure research was hard to manage in those days unless ...
- 6647: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... created the muppets which led to his great success with children. Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to ...
- 6648: Sean Gagnon
- ... was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon- yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 kg monster with a very mean steak. He just happens to play ice hockey for a living. Only this time, he is the one beating everyone up. Gagnon has ...
- 6649: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... into the world with a bright future. (Freedman, p.8-11) While growing up, Roosevelt never attended public schools, always private. In 1896, Franklin’ s parents placed him in Groton, a very exclusive prep/boarding school, located in Massachusetts. (Freedman, p.13) It was at Groton, where Roosevelt would learn about manners, etiquette, as well as how to be successful later in life, which he soon would be on his way ...
- 6650: Richard Nixon
- Richard Nixon Richard Millhouse Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913. His father, Frank Nixon, had many failing businesses that took the family different places. After high school, Nixon attended Duke University. He tried twice to become class president. Finally he succeeded. Soon after his college schooling, Nixon enrolled in the Navy. War broke out and he was sent to fight. He was ...
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