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- 3161: Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy Onassis
- ... her mother divorced and remarried to Hugh D. Auchincloss II in 1942. Jackie then moved with her mother to Newport, Rhode Island (22-23). The government source also indicates that Jackie attended Miss Porters School for Girls in Connecticut and Vassar College where she excelled in history, literature, art and French. Her junior year she spent at the Sorbonne in Paris, studying French and learning more about the French culture ... yanked her kids out of the maelstrom, says David Horowitz, co-author of The Kennedy's: An American Drama(14). Being a protective mother has rewarded Jacqueline. Caroline has graduated from Rodcliffe and Columbia Law School and married an artist and designer Edwin Schlossberg in 1986. Caroline also co-authored a best seller: In Our Defense: The Bill of Rights In Action. (4) John Jr. worked as an assistant district attorney ...
- 3162: William Blake
- ... to be often strikingly original through other people's eyes. In 1767, he wanted to become an artist at the young age of 10. In pursuit of this dream, he attended the Henry Pars Engraving School in the Strand. By 1772, he was an apprentice to an engraver, James Basire, who taught him the secrets of the trade very well. Basire sent him to make drawings of the sculptures in Westminster Abbey, which sparked his interest in Gothic art. Blake's father was a hosier, and sent him to the Royal Academy in 1779 as an engraving student. While at school, Blake absorbed the religious symbolism and linear design characteristic of Gothic style. While studying there, he rebelled against the academic conventions of Sir Joshua Reynolds, president of the academy. Contrary to modern standards, he decided ...
- 3163: A Separate Peace 3
- ... Europe. Gene simply replied to the shirt by calling Finny nuts, but deep down inside Gene was jealous of Finny s boldness. Another incident of Finny s openness, or boldness is when he wore the school tie as a belt. Gene was anxiously waiting for Finny to get yelled at, but because of his openness he was able to talk his way out of getting into trouble. Finny claimed that he ... anyone his real height. This tore Gene up inside. This is also and early indication that Gene feels that Finny feels better than him. Another case of Finny s modesty is when he breaks the school swim record. Gene wanted to get an official time keeper so Finny could get a plaque with his name on it, but Finny simply replied, no, in my heard I know I can beat it ...
- 3164: Depression The Sadness Disease
- ... that 1 out of every 6 people has had a major depressive episode in their life. It is estimated that it costs the nation a sum of 43 billion dollars a year in medication, lost school days, lost workdays, and professional care for depression. Tens of thousands of people out of the 15 million attempts to commit suicide because of depression and about 16,000 of those people succeed. Depression loosely ... Depression is not common in young children, but abuse, losses, and having a seriously depressed parent increase the risk. Their symptoms tend to be behavioral. One must notice unusual irritability, aggressive outbursts, and problems at school. There are many symptoms that are included in the diagnosis of depression. There are major indicators that people should be aware of to let people know that they might have the possibility of having depression ...
- 3165: Nelson Mandela
- ... stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane). After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, Nelson Mandela was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a ...
- 3166: George Wallace
- ... full of beatings and problems. Racism was the norm and Wallace took full advantage of this ploy to gain political attention. George Corley Wallace was born on August 25, 1919. While attending Barber County High School, he was involved with boxing and football. George even won the state Golden Gloves bantamweight championship not once but twice. Wallace then attended the University of Alabama Law School; this was the same year his father died. Wallace was strapped for cash, so he worked his way through college by boxing professionally, waiting on tables, and driving a taxi. He received his degree in ...
- 3167: Comparative Essasy - Comparing
- ... I could not go out for a couple of days. She showed me the way she grew up. She would make me help her with the housework! I remember the time I got suspended from school. By the time I went back to school my house was spotless. Needless to say, I was never suspended again and I actually seen something that I had never seen before. That space behind the stove! My father could care less about what ...
- 3168: Red Grange
- ... good at all sports, but chose to concentrate on football and a good choice that was Red Grange is now known as the best open field runner of all time. When Grange was in High School his sophomore year he started at left end until the game where a quarter back of the opposing team said Grange look at that airplane because airplanes were so rare Grange looked and the quarterback scored to his side. So from that time on Grange started in the backfield of Wheaton High School. But I think that one of the biggest impacts that the red head had on his community was all of the dedication that he had toward children and elder people he has given so much ...
- 3169: Charles Dickens
- ... Charles was two years old, his father was transferred to London and he brought the family with him, then he was moved to Chatham in 1817 and later back to London in 1821, Charles attended school in Chatham for a year. Charles' father was deep in money debt so they moved to Marshalsea Prison Lodging expect for Charles who started earning his own money by working at Warren's Blacking Warehouse at the age of 12. When Dickens was 13, he went back to school at Wellington Academy in Hampton for two and half years and later got work as clerkship that he did not like, he was more into being a reporter. By March 1832, he joined the reporting ...
- 3170: Peter Tchaikovsky
- ... Votkinsk, in the city of Vyatka, Russia, May 7, 1840. Second in a family of five sons and one daughter, to whom he was extremely devoted. Once in his early teens when he was in school at St. Petersburg and his mother started to drive to another city, he had to be held back while she got into the carriage, and the moment he was free ran and tried to hold ... to hope for anything serious. But all the same, these forces exist. Thus Moussorgsky [Mussorgsky], with all his ugliness, speaks a new idiom. . . .We may reasonably hope that Russia will one day produce a whole school of strong men who will open new paths in art." The first decade of Tchaikovsky's life in Moscow was one of much struggle, intensified by several attacks of the nervous depression and morbid self ...
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