President, Jimmy Carter grew up in the small town of Plains Georgia. No one could have predicted what his future hold when he was born on October 1, 1924. The death of his father brought Jimmy into the families farming business he became a community leader, then Georgia’s governor, and eventually, president of the United States. As president, Carter was nown as a piecemaker. Since then he has build many homes for families in…
Actor, comedian, musician. Born on September 9, 1966, in New York City. Raised in Manchester, New Hampshire, as one of seven children, Sandler was always the class clown. However, he never aspired to be a comedian until age 17 when his brother encouraged him to perform at a Boston comedy club.…
Cesar Estrada Chavez was born March 31, 1927, on the small farm near Yuma, Arizona that his grandfather homesteaded during the 1880's. At age 10, life began as a migrant farm worker when his father lost the land during the Depression. These were bitterly poor years for Cesar, his parents, brothers and sisters. Together with thousands of other displaced families, the Chavez family migrated throughout the Southwest, laboring in fields and vineyards. Cesar left school after the eighth grade to help support his family.…
1. J.R. Cash was born February 26th 1932 in Kingsland, Arkansas. To a very religious…
Born Henry Louis Aaron On February 5 , 1934 . Hank Aaron Was Born In Mobile , Alabama . Aaron And His Family Moved To The Middle-Class Toulminville Neighborhood When He Was 8 Years Old. Aaron Developed A Strong Affinity For Baseball And Football At A Young Age, And Tended To Focus More Heavily On Sports Than His Studies. During His Freshman And Sophomore Years , He Attended Central High School, A Segregated High School In Mobile, Where He Excelled At Both Football And Baseball. On The Baseball Diamond , He Played Shortstop And Third Base . In His Junior Year , Aaron Transferred To The Josephine Allen Institute , A Neighboring Private School That Had An Organized Baseball Program . Before The End Of His First Year At Allen , He Had More Than Proved His Abilities On The Baseball Field. Then, Perhaps Sensing That He Had A Bigger Future Ahead Of Him , In 1951 , The 18-Year-Old Aaron Quit School To Play For The Negro Baseball League's Indianopolis Clowns .…
On February 26, 1932 the star was born in Kingsland, Arkansas. The middle child out of seven children. Growing up during the Great Depression was a humbling experience for Cash. His father was a farmer who didn’t have a lot of money but their family began growing cotton and that was how they made a living. Starting at the early age of five John joined his family in the cotton fields picking cotton. First he was the water boy. Once he got a little older he started picking the cotton with the rest of the family. Songs echoed up and down the fields as the workers including Cash sang gospel and blues as they worked. Although the work was strenuous, John talks about this experience in a positive way. Grateful that he was able to spend this time with his family making memories he will forever cherish. In his autobiography titled “Cash”, he describes each worker and how much cotton they filled in each other their sacks. One memory he shares is that his father would always pick two rows at a time. Adler’s Early Memories theory is shown in this situation because John talks about how even though his father picked two rows at a time, he always picked just one. He picked one row because he said, “It looked like you were making more progress that way to others of course, but more importantly to yourself” (Cash, 1997). This shows his achievement mastery as High on Control. Even though he only picked one row and his father picked more, he felt like he mastered it because he believed he was making more progress that way. His transition from water boy to…
Gene Autry, originally Orvon Grover Autry, was born on September 29, 1907 in the small town of Tioga, Texas. By the age of five Autry had already been taking lessons on how to sing from his mother and grandfather. As a young adult, Autry worked normal jobs but always found time to sing with his guitar. It wasn 't until 1929 that Gene Autry made his original breakout into entertainment by performing on the radio. Autry married Ina May Spivey in 1932…
Roots music is defined as American traditional music made up of early blues, country, folk, and rock influences. Revival of roots became an homage to the artists who defined this early art form and popularized it for contemporary music today. In the sixties, the rise of rock n roll, folk revival, and counter culture was sweeping the nation. Music was experimental, and popularity of genres were rapidly changing as one young man was making his start in the music scene. That young man was Bruce Springsteen. With a career that spans though some of the most culturally changing decade, he culminated a dedicated fan base over the years with groundbreaking records. Springsteen has become the epitome of patriotism, by using combined rooted traditions…
Burt Bacharach was born on May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri. Although being born in Kansas City, Bacharach did most of his growing up in New York. Bacharach never had any interest in music growing up, instead he wanted to be a football player but that was a dream he wasn't physically adapted to do. Bacharach's dreams were crushed, that was until his mother taught him to play the piano at the age of twelve. Bacharach enjoyed playing piano very much but he never really planned on making a musical career off of his abilities and it wasn't until he heard the fine flowing movements and melodies of Jazz that it would change his musical talent into a passion. Bacharach loved everything about jazz an would do anything to hear it, even going as…
Jimi Hendrix was one of the most influential and talented musicians of the 20th century, and through his work he made rock music what it is today. His talent with a guitar was what made him so popular in his own time. The reason he became a rock and roll legend in the 20th century was because of his new style, outrageous performances and his powerful lyrics which captivated his audiences. His new style of music involved, "...the extensive use but sensitively nuanced use of feedback, distortion, and other electronically manipulated sound effects." ("Hendrix, Jimi"). Some found the performances he put on to be crazy or insane, but his fans found them to be inspiring. Nevertheless, "The true power of his genius lay in his musical and lyrical candor." (Fricke).…
In 1950, he Cash graduated from Dyess High School. He decided to work a few odd jobs, but eventually, he decided to go on a four-year stay in the United States Air Force (“Johnny Cash” 2). In 1954, just after returning from his military duties, on August 7th Johnny Cash married Vivian Liberto. Just nine short months later, Vivian conceived their first of four daughters. The family resided in…
John Wayne Gacy was born in Chicago, Illinois on March 17 1942. Gacy had an uneventful childhood up until the age of eleven. While out playing he had been struck on the head by a swing. Subsequently he suffered fainting fits for many years.…
Louis Armstrong was born on August 4th, 1901 in one of the poorest sections of New Orleans, Louisiana. When Armstrong was just a young boy his mother, Mayann Armstrong,…
Andrew Carnegie was born on November 25,1835 in Dunfermline, Scotland. His father worked as a handloom weaver. At the age of 13, in1848 Carnegie came to america with his family. He worked in a factory, earning $1.20 a week. A year went by and he found a job as a telegraph messenger. In 1853 he then took a job at the Pennsylvania railroad. Three years later Carnegie was promoted to superintendent.…
Steve Jobs was born on February 24, 1955 in San Francisco. He graduated from Homestead High School in Cupertino, and enrolled in Reed College in Portland. One semester later he had dropped (All about Steve, n.d.). At age of 19, Jobs took up a job at video-game manufacturer Atari and struck a friendship with fellow designer Steve Wozniak in the workplace (All about Steve, n.d.).…