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- 6321: Sigmund Freud: 1856 - 1939
- ... and Freud himself an avowed atheist. Freud was a good student, and very ambitious. Medicine and law were the professions then open to Jewish men, and in 1873 he entered the University of Vienna medical school. He was interested in science above all; the idea of practicing medicine was slightly repugnant to him. He hoped to go into neurophysiological research, but pure research was hard to manage in those days unless ...
- 6322: Michael Jordan 3
- ... his league. By the age of fifteen, he wasn't the star in baseball as he once was. He was still very good, but he had lost some of his focus. Later, in his high school career, he dropped baseball to pursue another interest. Soon Michael adopted the game of basketball. When Michael reached the ninth grade, he tried out for the basketball team. Coach Lynch, Michael's coach, cut Michael ...
- 6323: Jim Henson, a Gentle Genius
- ... created the muppets which led to his great success with children. Henson was very successful in life. He accomplished many things that people might dream of as a child. His success first started in high school when his family first moved to Washington and he became fascinated by television. In the summer of 1954, just before he entered the University of Maryland he learned that a local station needed someone to ...
- 6324: Sean Gagnon
- ... was the one that had gotten in the end. But by looking at Gagnon (gon- yoe) he is definately all grown up. The skinny kid who once stood 180 cm as a junior in high school is now a 189 cm, 96 kg monster with a very mean steak. He just happens to play ice hockey for a living. Only this time, he is the one beating everyone up. Gagnon has ...
- 6325: Franklin Delano Roosevelt
- ... into the world with a bright future. (Freedman, p.8-11) While growing up, Roosevelt never attended public schools, always private. In 1896, Franklin’ s parents placed him in Groton, a very exclusive prep/boarding school, located in Massachusetts. (Freedman, p.13) It was at Groton, where Roosevelt would learn about manners, etiquette, as well as how to be successful later in life, which he soon would be on his way ...
- 6326: Richard Nixon
- Richard Nixon Richard Millhouse Nixon was born in Yorba Linda, California in 1913. His father, Frank Nixon, had many failing businesses that took the family different places. After high school, Nixon attended Duke University. He tried twice to become class president. Finally he succeeded. Soon after his college schooling, Nixon enrolled in the Navy. War broke out and he was sent to fight. He was ...
- 6327: Maya Angelou
- ... dance. In 1940 she and her brother moved to San Francisco to be with their mother, who had remarried. She gave birth to her son Clyde Johnson, just a few month after graduating a high school in 1945.At 22, she married Tosho Angelos, a former sailor of Greek descent, but she left her marriage two and half years later and set out to become a professional dancer. Maya Angelou spent ...
- 6328: Michael Jackson
- ... broke down, he paid expenses for forty disadvantages children from ‘The Thelma Marshall Children’s Home for Orphans, foster children and abandoned children, The Hoosier Boys Home and The Donzels Work Study Program for High School students working toward a college education, to attend the three date in Detroit. After he visited his home town he performed in a concert at Place Stadium in Vancouver, Canada, donating money to the needy ...
- 6329: The Works and Influence of Christopher Marlowe
- ... writers in history because of his great plays and poems. “Marlowe was born in 1564, the same year as William Shakespeare” (Biographical par. 1). “Marlowe was the son of a shoemaker and attended King’s School, Canterbury and Corpus Christi College”(“Christopher Marlowe” par. 2).” In 1584, he received his Bachelor of Arts. He then left his studies to work for the government as some sort of secret agent or spy ...
- 6330: Ralph Waldo Emerson
- ... the whole.” If this is true at least Harvard is where he says his, “...mind commenced its characteristic and beautiful activity.” Over the years Emerson became interested in the church and eventually enrolled in divinity school. In 1829 Emerson married seventeen year old Ellen Tucker, however seven months later, she died of “consumption.” With Ellen’s death, Emerson’s and most tender and loving relationship was lost. It is possible that ...
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