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- 1271: Poul Voulkos Ceramist
- ... coming to L.A was a big thing for me," Voulkos remembers. "When I got that job, it was my big break. I didn't have to do dinner plates anymore. I got paid for teaching and didn't have to worry about selling. Being able to teach helped expand my vocabulary. I learned from my students. Ceramics in those days was quite boring," he says. "Scandinavian design. I fell for ...
- 1272: Galileo
- ... years later in the construction of an astronomical clock. In 1588, an essay on the center of gravity in solids obtained for him the title of the Archimedes of his time, and secured him a teaching spot in the University of Pisa. During the years immediately following, taking advantage of the celebrated leaning tower, he laid the foundation experimentally of the theory of falling bodies and demonstrated the falsity of the ...
- 1273: Einstein
- ... was disabled. Einsteins elementary education began at the Luitpold Gymnasium when he was ten. Here he first encountered the German spirit through the schools strict disciplinary policy. His disapproval of this method of teaching led to his reputation as a bad student and a rebel. It was probably this kind of education that caused Einstein to search for knowledge on his own. Surprisingly he did not begin looking for ...
- 1274: Booker T. Washington
- ... in the salt furnaces and coal mines of West Virginia. After a secondary education at Hampton Institute, he taught an upgraded school and experimented briefly with the study of law and the ministry, but a teaching position at Hampton decided his future career. In 1881 he founded Tuskegee Normal and Industrial on the Hampton model in the Black Belt of Alabama. Though Washington offered little that was innovative in industrial education ...
- 1275: Alexander Hamilton
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and would willingly risk my life, though not my character, to exalt my station." During adolescence, Hamilton had few opportunities for regular schooling. However, he possessed a commanding knowledge of French, due to the teaching of his late mother. This was a very rare trait in the English continental colonies. Hamilton was first published in the Royal Danish-American Gazette with his description of the terrible hurricane of August 30th ...
- 1276: A Biography Of Ralph Waldo Eme
- ... only 14, he entered Harvard, where he ran became a sort of secretary for the president of the university. When he graduated Harvard, at age 18, he became a teacher. When he got tired or teaching, he enrolled in the Divinity School, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, to become a preacher. After his graduation of the Divinity School, he started his minister career as a guest speaker at local churches. Three years after ...
- 1277: Beethoven
- ... mother was a singer in the service; his father was a court musician that had little motivation and a drinking problem. His father noticed that Beethoven had a gift at a young age, and began teaching him piano and violin. But Beethoven was a hard learner, he was self-involved and impatient. This probably led to why he was a loner and why he only went to academic school for three ...
- 1278: Santiago Ramon Y Cajal {Famous
- ... a Nobel Prize winner. It was especially stressful for him because he was the first histologist to win the prize for medicine. Consequently, Cajal spent much of the rest of his life giving lectures and teaching rather than doing independent work. Cajal continued to do groundbreaking work, but he did not ever equal the recognition he received for his nervous system staining technique. Cajal had a great scientific career that spanned ...
- 1279: Sylvia Plath Compare To Esther
- ... Plain, Massachusetts; she published her first poem when she was eight. Her father was a professor of entomology, when he past away he left psychological scars on Sylvia when she was eight. Her mother worked teaching in a medical/secretarial program at Boston University. By the time she entered Smith College on a scholarship in 1950 she already had an impressive list of publications. During the summer following her junior year ...
- 1280: Style Of J.D Salinger
- ... more of the Zen philosophy. Salinger''s creates a "Pact of Peace" which stops the conflict between the Germans and Polish during WWII (Hamilton in Bryfonski and Senick 143) . The "Pact of Peace" was a teaching used by Buddha in the Zen philosophy (Hamilton in ryfonski and Senick 143). Salinger uses Zen, in this case, to stop the conflict between the Polish and Germans(Hamilton in Bryfonski and Senick 143). In ...
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