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- 731: Kobe Bryant
- ... see where his son gets his magnetic, easy-going personality. The elder Bryant sits with his wife, daughter Shaya and one of her friends as they watch the Lakers manhandle the Toronto Raptors. Unlike many sports parents, Jelly is very low-key about his involvement in his son's career. "I'm a good listener," he says. "I keep my eyes and ears open to what he's really saying, and ...
- 732: John F. Kennedy 2
- ... in the suburbs of Boston but as his family grew his father's income increased and they moved back to Brookline. John had a seemingly happy childhood. He attended private selementary schools where he played sports and games. Though never making the varsity, his father encouraged him to take part in athletics. He was taught by Roman Catholic lawmen at Canturbery School and later spent four years at the Choate School ...
- 733: John F. Kennedy
- ... brother Joe were strong rivals. Jack was quiet and often shy, but held his owns in fights with Joe. "The boys enjoyed playing touch football."(The World Book Encyclopedia, 261). His childhood was full of sports, fun and activity. This all ended when he grew up old enough to leave for school. Kennedy attended elementary schools in Brookline and Riverdale. "In 1930, when he was 13 years old, his father sent ...
- 734: Jane Addams
- ... that they would try to become productive. Hull-House offered educational opportunities for anyone who wanted to attend with no political or economic restrictions. Hull-House also offered the opportunity for recreation, such as supervised sports matches, which hundreds of youths seemed to prefer. Jane Addams' makes an important statement that "The educational activities of a Settlement, as well as its philanthropic, civic, and social undertakings, are but differing manifestations of ...
- 735: Jackie Robinson 2
- ... Ga., on Jan. 31, 1919. He grew up in Pasadena, Calif. In high school and at Pasadena Junior College he demonstrated great athletic skill in track, basketball, football, and baseball. He continued to excel in sports at the University of California at Los Angeles. He left school in 1941 and was drafted the following year for Army service during World War II. After receiving a medical discharge in 1945, he spent ...
- 736: Isadora Duncan
- ... overflowing theaters. Isadora Duncan never lived beyond that trip to Paris, for she died on September 14, 1927 after having dinner with her life-long friend, Mary Desti. After dinner, she hopped into a Bugatti sports car with the agent from the car company. She was wearing a long, elegant, red scarf, and as Mary Desti looked on in horror, that scarf got caught in the axis of the spinning wheel ...
- 737: Harry Elmer Barnes
- ... presses to controversial volumes. Published volumes are being consigned to sanctioned burnings by the "firemen." Around the world, news of immolations like Elstner's are blacked out. We are supposed to occupy our minds with sports on big-screen TV's, video arcades, fast food, cellular telephones to occupy our minds while traveling, lap top computers and even on-flight computer games. Computerized "chat rooms" that enable us to "speak" to ...
- 738: Generation-x
- ... the X Generation in terms of spending money on recreation. Recreation has become a culture of its own. Rollerblading, paintballing, jetskiing, video games, snowboarding, bungee jumping, and of course the mall. .X-treme. X-treme sports and pastimes is a X Generation phenomena. Always looking for new thrills, the Gen-Xers have been watching as technology improved or created new equipment to go higher, faster, at lower cost. i.e. in ...
- 739: Ferdinand Graf Von Zeppelin
- ... production of the covering material on one's own. To the Zeppelin-Imperium soon belonged the Zeppelin Welfare GmbH, which was created when Zeppelin desired. This institution promoted social projects such as housing developments or sports sites. Particularly to mention the commitment of Zeppelin is in the aircraft construction. Besides the building of airships, this field also interested him very strongly. In the year 1907, he assigned his co-worker engineer ...
- 740: Ernest Hemingway 4
- ... shapes and designs which future Hemingway s criticism and scholarship is likely to extend, refurbish, and correct (Rovit 163). Hemingway like to use metaphors in his writings. Typically he will use the metaphors of games, sports, bullfights, and wars to describe his views on life. Baseball, football, horseracing, hunting and fishing provided him with his consistent metaphors for expression (Lesniak 31,32). The metaphor of violent games provided Hemingway with a ...
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