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- 1341: The Catcher In The Rye: Holden
- ... speculated widely about the possible connection. This gave the book even more notoriety. So what is 'The Catcher In The Rye' actually about ? Superficially the story of a young man's expulsion from yet another school, 'The Catcher In The Rye' is in fact a perceptive study of one individual's understanding of his human condition. Holden Caulfield, a teenager growing up in 1950s New York, has been expelled school for poor achievement once again. In an attempt to deal with this he leaves school a few days prior to the end of term, and goes to New York to 'take a vacation' before returning to his parents' inevitable wrath. Told as a monologue, the book describes Holden's ...
- 1342: The Admirable Eleanor Roosevelt
- ... alone with only uncles and her grandmother. In 1899 at the age of 15 her uncles out of control drunkenness scared Eleanor’s grandmother of Eleanor’s safety. She sent Eleanor away to a boarding school in England. In 1902 she returned to New York at the age of 18. She was ready to come out in the world and find a husband. Eleanor was not very good at small talk ... she set up at the capital a place where Anderson the African American could sing. By doing this she gained the respect of many African Americans in the United States. When Eleanor went to boarding school the other girls there loved and respected her more then any of the other girls. Eleanor was so intelligent and mysterious she also gained the love of her teacher. Several girls in the school came to her for advise, and she made a lot of them feel more comfortable and at home. Many people sitting back and learning of Eleanor’s numerous accomplishments, gained her the privilege to ...
- 1343: Jordan Does It All
- ... born. He was really born in Brooklyn, New York (Michael Jordan’s, 1999). Later in his childhood his family moved to Wilmington, North Carolina (Michael Jordan’s, 1999). He attended and graduated from Laney High School in Wilmington. Now Michael can be found living in Highland Park with his family and dog. He has a wife, Juanita, and has three children; Jeffrey; Marcus; and Jasmine (Michael Jordan’s, 1999). It doesn ... Michael always thought practice was a proving ground(Vancil, 1996, p. 29). Jordan didn’t make the basketball team the first year that he went out (Sporting News, 1999). Being cut from the Laney High School basketball team in his sophomore year made Michael go home and work harder on his game. He worked so hard in order to get better so that he could make the team the next year. Jordan then made his high school team the next year. After two years of high school basketball and going to Five-Star Basketball Camp, Jordan had the reputation as the best guard in the south (Sporting News, 1999). In 1981 ...
- 1344: The Life and Times of Edgar ALlan Poe
- ... age for attending the university was about nineteen years back in 1830, while Edgar was only a month past seventeen. The student life was chaotic and at times even dangerous. During a riot in the school's first year, masked students threw bricks and bottles at the professors. During Edgar's year, seven students were expelled or suspended for high-stakes gambling. The violence and chaos took up much room in ... in December 1835 by reviewing "Norman Leslie", a much- heralded novel written by a New York lawyer, Theodore Fay, which became a best-seller. In the review Edgar called Fay's style "unworthy of a school-boy" and he completely ridiculed the novel. Edgar did not only comment on the literary quality but also on the grammar, punctuation and syntax. As a proof reader he was unequaled and his criticism was ... to dwell over the past, and the failure of letting it go. Philadelphia Poe educated Virginia in their house in Philadelphia. He taught languages and algebra, such subjects that he had been good at in school. He also provided a piano and a harp for Sissy, to satisfy her taste for music. After two and a half years of free-lancing Poe found a steady income in William Evans Burton ( ...
- 1345: The Life and Times of Peter Straub
- ... he was sexually abused. He has never spoken of the details, or who had done the reprehensible deed.3 Because of his exceptional learning abilities, Peter Straub went on a scholarship to Milwaukee County Day School and was loved by all his English teachers. During this period of his life, he discovered many great writers and also jazz music. Straub said this about jazz; “Probably, the way I heard jazz, the ... he felt actual writing was beyond him even though actual writing was truly his forte. Soon after receiving his degree in English, Peter married Susan Bitker, and took a job teaching English at his old school, which had only recently been renamed University School of Milwaukee. Fearing he would turn into a chalk-laden drone, he packed is bags and moved to Dublin, Ireland to work on a Doctorate, and eventually start writing seriously. During his 3 years ...
- 1346: Life of Charles Robert Darwin
- ... died. She had had poor health since the birth of her second child, Caroline. Dr. Darwin became grumpy, and impatient after the death of his wife. At the age of nine Charles went to Shrewsbury School, where his older brother Erasmus was already attending school. The school was very strict, and Charles found the lessons mindless and boring. No Science was taught, and perhaps the only thing he felt joy in was famous literature. He read all the great works of ...
- 1347: Flo Hyman
- ... Dream, was possibly the greatest athlete in the sport of volleyball and Houston Cougar history. The highlights of her greatest performance were awesome. After Hyman’s junior year at the University of Houston, Hyman left school to join a Colorado organization, which was barely holding together. Although they didn’t have a coach for months and failed to qualify for the Montreal Olympics, Hyman stuck with the team and saw that ... upcoming Olympics. She had been studying math and physical education for three years at the University of Houston. “When she dropped out to go train at Colorado, she told her friends, ‘You can go to school when you’re sixty. You’re only young once, and you can only do this once.’” (“Marfan Syndrome: A Silent Killer”, Sports Illustrated, 1986, pg. 13). Hyman’s mother said that when she made the decision to leave school to go train for volleyball, Hyman told her, “I had to recognize my pain threshold. When I hit the floor, I have to realize it’s not as if I broke a bone. Pushing ...
- 1348: Rosa Parks
- ... Rosa McCauly Parks was born in Tuskegee, Alabama, in 1913 and grew up on a small farm. When her mother had saved enough money to pay for it, Rosa had began to attend a private school when she was 11 years old. But, while she was attending high school, her mother had become ill so she had to quit. After quitting high school, she got a job as a house servant and began sending money back to her family. When she married Raymond Parks, she returned to high school and graduated. In 1943 she joined the NAACP ...
- 1349: Irwin Allen Ginsberg
- Irwin Allen Ginsberg Irwin Allen Ginsberg was born on June 3, 1926 in Newark, New Jeresy. Louis Ginsberg, Allen’s dad, was a published poet, a high school teacher and a Jewish Socialist. His wife, Naomi, was a radical Communist and nudist who went tragically insane in early adulthood. A shy and complicated child growing up in Paterson, New Jersey, Allen's home ... he also had to struggle to comprehend what was happening inside him, because he was consumed by lust for other boys his age. He discovered the poetry of Walt Whitman (the original Beatnik) in high school, despite his interest in poetry he followed his father's advice and planned on a career as a lawyer. This was what he had in mind when he began his freshman year at Columbia University ... the San Fransisco Be-In in 1967. In 1970 Ginsberg met with Tibetan guru Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche. Ginsberg soon accepted Trungpa as his personal guru. He and poet Anne Waldman joined to create a poetry school, “The Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics”, at Trungpa's Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado. In the early eighties Ginsberg joined the punk rock movement, appearing on the Clash's 'Combat Rock' album and ...
- 1350: Herman Melville
- ... on August 1st of 1819. He is the third child and second son of his father, Allan Melville, and mother, Maria Gansevoot. At age five or six he began attending the New-York Male High School. Upon competition of the New-York Male High School he attended the Columbia Grammar School in New York. At this time his father’s business is starting to fail so the family moves up state to Albany in October of 1930. Melville attended the Albany Academy from 1830 to ...
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