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- 1371: 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 ...
- 1372: 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 ...
- 1373: 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 ...
- 1374: 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 ...
- 1375: 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 ...
- 1376: 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 ...
- 1377: 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 ...
- 1378: 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 ...
- 1379: John Dos Passos
- ... with France began when he was very young, and his knowledge of the language was quite thorough. Much of his French expertise is showed off in his works, including Manhattan Transfer. Dos Passos first attended school in the District of Colombia. As he grew up, he spent some of his childhood in Tidewater Virginia. He began attending Choate School where his first published writings were articles for the Choate School News. Upon completing Choate School at the age of fifteen, he entered Harvard University in 1912. At Harvard, he continued his journalism by joining the Harvard Monthly. While at Harvard, he developed a close, ...
- 1380: Kurt Cobain
- ... the rest of the kids my age. But Cobain's music touched on what I was not able realize at my age, that being yourself is all right no matter what the "trendy" junior high school kids thought. Though I would not understand the impact of his music or what his words meant to him, and that those songs would pull me through the hardest times in my life. Research Question ... 2). He was passed around from aunts and uncles, to his grand parents. He started his creative process first through art(Wilson 2-3). Where by later he turned down two art scholarships to art school, and never did finish high-school. Then when he was 15 he started playing the guitar, also he found the underworld of drugs(Wilson 3-4). He played the guitar and did drugs by himself until the age of 18, ...
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