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- 1191: 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 ...
- 1192: 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 ...
- 1193: 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 ...
- 1194: 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 ...
- 1195: Edgar Allan Poe 6
- ... Elmira Royster. While away at college, he wrote her frequently but her father intercepted the letters (Thompson). Edgar was upset when he did not receive any replies. In addition to this disappointment, life at the school was chaotic and dangerous (Benfey). There were fights with students throwing bricks and bottles at professors and problems with students gambling. Edgar described one situation in a letter to John Allan in which he stated ... wrote about a student that bit another student, which Edgar described as, it is likely that pieces of flesh as large as my hand will be obliged to be cut out (Carlson). While away at school, Poe obtained large gambling debts and blamed John Allan for not providing proper financial support. When, Poe returned to Richmond during a school break, Allan reportedly broke off Poe s engagement to Elmira (Carlson). He (Allan) then sent Edgar to work at his company instead of sending him back to school (Thompson). In 1827, Edgar and John ...
- 1196: Davy Crockett
- ... his dealings with his father's customers, Davy must also have learned much about human nature and so refined his natural skills as a leader. While Davy lived there he spent four days at the school of Benjamin Kitchen. He had a fight with a boy at school and left home to escape a "licking" from his dad. He got a job helping to drive cattle to Virginia. In Virginia, he worked for farmers, wagoners and a hatmaker. After two and a half ... target and the best shot won the quarter of beef. Davy's aim became so good that more than once, he won all four quarters of beef. The son of Davy's employer conducted a school near-by, to which, for six months, Davy went four days a week and worked two. Except for the four days he had attended school when he was twelve, this was all the schooling ...
- 1197: Darwin
- ... His eldest sister, who in turn describes Darwin as being very slow, taught him how to read and write. She taught him the basics of education, leaving him to become a day-boy at the school of the Reverend G. Case, a Unitarian minister. He stayed here at that school for only a year before moving onto much more advanced studies. Now age nine, Charles enters into Dr. Butler's school in his hometown of Shrewsbury. He stayed here for the next seven years of his life. It is said that, "even at this age he showed a passion for natural history by collecting all ...
- 1198: Charles W. Chesnutt
- ... the great American novelist and short-story writers of the late 19th century. Chesnutt lived most of his childhood in Fayetteville, NC where he worked part time in a family grocery store and attended a school founded by the Freedmen's Bureau. By 14 he had published his first short story in a Fayetteville newspaper. I think I must write a book It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task. (1) At 15 Charles dropped out of school to support his family. By the age of 16, he had come to Charlotte to teach the city's black schoolchildren and also to support his family. He had an intense thirst for knowledge. At a time when few educational opportunities existed for black Americans, he studied math, music, literature and languages. He left Charlotte to take a job as assistant principal of the State Normal School. By age 22, he was its principal. There's time enough, but none to spare. (1) Lack of opportunity to advance led him to go to New York City to find work at Dow, ...
- 1199: Biography Of Frank Zappa
- ... a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to build. He first started his interest in drums at the age of 12. Going to summer school in Monterey to learn orchestral percussion. At the age of 13 he made his first song called "Ionisation" which consisted of nothing but drums and sirens. During this time he started a collection of r ... got from an auction. From there Frank concentrated on guitar solo records so he bought lots of records like Howlin' Wolf with Hubert Sumlin and Muddy Waters. On June 13th, 1958 Frank graduated from high school, but the thing was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year. His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote a score for the movie Run Home Slow. A couple months after he got married he formed a ...
- 1200: Booker T. Washington 3
- ... a curious child and learned about music at a young age. At this moment Frank's talent began to build. He first started his interest in drums at the age of 12. Going to summer school in Monterey to learn orchestral percussion. At the age of 13 he made his first song called "Ionisation" which consisted of nothing but drums and sirens. During this time he started a collection of r ... got from an auction. From there Frank concentrated on guitar solo records so he bought lots of records like Howlin' Wolf with Hubert Sumlin and Muddy Waters. On June 13th, 1958 Frank graduated from high school, but the thing was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year. His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote a score for the movie Run Home Slow. A couple months after he got married he formed a ...
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