He is remembered for relentlessly fighting to preserve the Union and emancipate the slaves. Background Essay Lincoln was born in Hodgenville, Kentucky on Feb 12, 1809. Raised by poor parents, he received less than a year of formal education by the time he reached the age of 21. His primary means of education was schooling at home, using borrowed books and the Bible. At the age of 22, he moved to the Illinois village of New Salem in 1831, and continued his self-education by borrowing books and teaching himself subjects such as grammar, history, mathematics, and law.
1. Ray Bradbury was born in Waukegan, Illinois on August 20, 1920. He graduated from a Los Angeles high school in 1938. He published his first short story in a fan magazine in 1938, the same year he graduated from high school. He couldn’t afford college but instead he sold newspapers on the street.
John lived in a farm-like environment with many small ranches with his two sisters, Esther and Elizabeth (cited 6). As John began to grow up, he was trying to survive with his poor financial situation. John went to Standford University but he never graduated. A few years later he left and moved to New York to become a free lance in writing in 1925
One thing I enjoyed most was stories about people in my family I didn’t know. My great grandfather name is Lee Merriweather, he was born on December 7 1889. He worked as a janitor at Booker T. Washington high school. He worked there for 10 years and he got another job at The Spaghetti Warehouse in Memphis Tn. There he was a stocker, so he loaded and unloaded the trucks that came in with inventory.
Chapter 4 QuikTrip: Staffed by Passionate and Compassionate People After graduating from the University of Oklahoma and then completing a tour of duty with the Air Force, Chester Cadieux "endured what he describes as '10 months of frustration' as a printing salesman. He had no clear plan of how to escape from the printing business, but he knew he wanted to own and operate his own company. "1 To scratch his entrepreneurial itch, Cadieux, in collaboration with a long-time friend from junior high school, opened a small convenience grocery store in Tulsa, Oklahoma on September 25, 1958. Cadieux and his partner offered little product selection and had high prices—just like their competitors—and they barely eked out a profit during their first few years in business.2 For the next several years QuikTrip expanded the number of stores in its chain but continued with limited product selection and high prices. Meanwhile, competitors were springing up everywhere.
He studied cuisine in Europe for more than 30 years, before returning to the United States in 1994. Homeless, McClain sold Real Change newspapers and became one of the organizations top sellers. Known for his long hours in front of the Safeway door, McClain would greet potential customers with the question, “Real Change, sir?” When customers walked passed, he often told them to “Have a nice day.” Founded in 1994, Real Change was conceived as "Puget Sounds's newspaper of the poor and homeless." About four years ago, Real Change dropped the "poor and homeless" tagline. In addition, they added two journalists to the staff, rather than relying so much on volunteers.
Arpaio was raised by his dad who was a grocery store owner, because his mom died during labor. Arpaio graduated high school and worked in his dad’s store until he was 18 when he joined the Army. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1954 in the “Medical Detachment Division” and was also a M.P. After he was honorably discharged from the army in 1954, he moved to Washington, D.C. and became a police officer, a few years later he moved to Las Vegas. He served as a police officer there for 6 months before he was appointed as a special agent with the DEA.
The Life of E. Lynn Harris E. Lynn Harris was born in Flint, Michigan, but was raised with his three sisters in Little Rock, Arkansas. He attended the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville where he became the school’s first black yearbook editor, the first black male cheerleader, and the president of his fraternity. He was an honors graduate in journalism. Harris worked for IBM, Hewlett-Packard, and AT&T for 13 years while living in Dallas, Washington, D.C. and Atlanta. E. Lynn quit his job to write his first novel, Invisible Life, but could not find a publisher, so he published it himself in 1991 and sold only to black owned bookstores, hair salons, and book clubs, before Anchor Books discovered him.
President Harding Born on a farm in November 2, 1865 Harding was the eldest of eight children of George Tryon Harding and Phoebe Dickerson Harding; his ancestry combined English, Scottish, and Dutch stock. His father later left farming to become a physician. Following a mediocre education at local schools in Ohio and three years at Ohio Central College, Harding tried his hand at several vocations until in 1884 he bought a struggling weekly newspaper in Marion, Ohio, to which he devoted himself. Seven years thereafter, he married Florence Kling De Wolfe (Florence Harding), and she proved instrumental in transforming the Marion Star into a financially successful daily paper. Soon Harding, a man of little discernible intellect or imagination,
When he was only a boy he and his mother were kidnapped from the farm and taken away to Arkansas. After the Civil War, his father Moses Carver found him, took him back to the farm, and raised him. At the age of ten, Carver left the Moses plantation and wound up in Minneapolis, Kansas. There, he attended high school at Minneapolis High School. At the age of thirty, he was finally accepted into Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa as