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- 6311: Marlowe Cut Short
- ... Marlowe, the author of many wonderful poems and plays, was born on February 6, 1564, the same year that the infamous William Shakespeare was born. Marlowe was raised in Canterbury, England and attended King's School in Canterbury in 1579 and 1580 after which he received a scholarship to Corpus Christi College in Cambridge and was expected to take a post in the Anglican Church. Marlowe received his bachelor of arts ...
- 6312: Sinclair Lewis
- ... Isabel Warner. During his childhood he became very introverted since he didn't have many friends and he became interested in writing. In 1902, Lewis entered the Oberlin Academy in Ohio. He later left this school and enrolled in Yale. During his time in Yale University, he became the editor of the "Yale Literary Magazine". For two summers he worked on cattleboats. On his other summer vacations he went to England ...
- 6313: Martin Luther King Jr. 9
- ... playmates was cut short by their parents. When he was 11 a white woman struck him and called him a "nigger." A bright student, he was admitted to Morehouse College at 15, without completing high school. He decided to become a minister and at 18 was ordained in his fathers church. After graduating from Morehouse in 1948, he entered Crozer Theological Seminary in Chester, Pa. He was the ~ledictorian of his ...
- 6314: Fahrenheit 451: Criticizing The Modern World
- ... Programming is happening in our very world. Take schools for example. Consider Pavlov’s experiment with ringing bells to provoke an automatic response in dogs. He rang a bell; the dogs salivated expecting food. The school board rings a bell, and students rise to show respect for the American flag because ‘now is the designated time to be patriotic, and you will or face consequences”. The bell rings, students stand. The ...
- 6315: Martin Luther King Jr. And Malcolm X
- ... suffered through the ravages of integrated schooling. Although an intelligent student who shared the dream of being a lawyer with Martin Luther King, Malcolm X s anger and disillusionment caused him to drop out of school. He started to use cocaine and set up a burglary ring to support his expensive habit. Malcolm X s hostility and promotion of violence as a way of getting change was well established in his ...
- 6316: She’s Worth More Than a Diamond
- ... over to evil. When town authorities, shocked at Pearl’s apparent belief that she was plucked from a rose bush and not created by God, recommend she be taken from Hester and placed in a school, Hester responds with the following: “God gave me this child!... She is my happiness, she is my torture none the less! Pearl keeps me here in life!...Ye shall not take her! I will die ...
- 6317: 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 ...
- 6318: Martin Luther Reformation
- ... home environment. His parents were very pious people and brought him up to be one too. His parents also gave him a strong sense of superstition. At the age of 14 Luther went to grammar school at Magdeburg. There he got attracted to the Church and particularly the Lollards. Then in 1498 he moved to Eisenach and came in contact with a warmer church life than he was use too. He ...
- 6319: 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 ...
- 6320: 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 ...
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