Jay Cooke was born on August 10th, 1821, to Eleutheros and Martha Carswell Cooke. He was born in Sandusky, Ohio, where his father was a pioneer lawyer and a member of the Ohio General Assembly. His father was also a member of Congress from 1831 to 1833. In 1838, Cooke went to Philadelphia and entered the banking house of E.W. Clarke & Co. as a clerk. He became a business partner in 1842, and January 1st, 1861 he opened his own private banking house of Jay Cooke and Company in Philadelphia.…
The son of famed sculptor Charles Keck, Dr. Keck was born in California and spent his early years in mounds,oklahoma, where his father’s studio was located.…
Kelly was born in December 1854, near the town of Beveridge in Victoria. When he was 12, his Irish father John 'Red' Kelly, an ex-convict, died of dropsy, forcing Kelly to leave school and become the family breadwinner. Soon after, his mother Ellen moved the family to a slab hut in the tiny Victorian community of Greta to be near her own family, the Quinns, who were squatters. Greta was something of a lawless outpost, and the young Kelly soon grew into an accomplished troublemaker.…
Harry S Truman was born on May 8, 1884, and was the oldest child of 3. He was born in Lamar, Missouri on a small farm in a room barely big enough for a bed. After 8 months of living in Lamar, the family decided to move to Harrisonville, Missouri. There, his mother gives birth to 2 children, John Vivian Truman in 1886, and Mary Jane Truman in 1889. Truman never attended college, but worked a variety of jobs throughout high school. In 1905, he enrolled into the missouri court guard and served until 1911. He had tried enrolling before, but his poor eyesight prevented him from ever making it, but he secretly memorized the vision test, and made it in. In 1917, he re enrolled into the army and fought in World War I, and he was promoted to captain of Battery D, 129th Field Artillery. On June 28th, Truman resigned from the army and married Bess Wallace, and gave birth to Margaret Truman on February 17, 1924.…
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain was born in Brewer, Maine on September 8, 1828. Chamberlain was the oldest sibling out of five, Thomas Chamberlain, Horace Beriah Chamberlain, John Chamberlain, Sarah Barstow Chamberlain. His parents were Joshua and Sarah Chamberlain. Chamberlain before going to college would work in a brickyard. He would teach in 1846. Joshua would then go to college and study Greek, Latin, Rhetoric at Bowdoin College. He would graduate in 1852. Chamberlain would then go…
Henry S. Truman was born on May eighth, 1884 in the farm town of Lamar, Missouri. As a young man he aspired to go to West Point, but his poor eyesight…
Last week we went to the Phoenix Theatre in Leister Square to see Blood Brothers. When we walked into the theatre, I noticed that the proscenium arch stage was slanted which put everything on the stage in perspective. There was no live orchestra, and all the sound travelled easily throughout the room as it was quite a small theatre. Before the play, I had been told that the story was based in Liverpool and I had high expectations as it is one of the longest-running musicals in the West End. Behind the gauze, I could see the backdrop which was mostly grey and had houses and other buildings on it. It looked as if the scene was set in the heart of Liverpool. Due to the artwork on the programs, it was obvious that this production would be about the life of two brothers, and the different ways in which they grow up. The use of the clasping of hands symbolised a forbidden or unlikely friendship between the different classes that there were at this time.…
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born on January 31, 1919, in Cairo, Georgia, a sleepy Southern town near the Florida border. Jackie was the youngest of five children, four boys and a girl, born to impoverished sharecroppers Jerry and Mallie Robinson. Jerry Robinson deserted the family six months after Jackie was born. Mallie Robinson, a strong, devoutly religious woman, moved the struggling family across the country by rail to Pasadena, California, in 1920 when Jackie was fourteen-months old. She worked as a domestic to support her family; leftovers from the kitchens of families she worked for often constituted their daily diet.…
Born in the barracks of unnamed military base in Little Rock, Arkansas, on January 26 1880 there was not a time in Douglas MacArthur’s life that he was not in some way involved in the military(U.S. History). Douglas MacArthur’s father was Lieutenant General Arthur MacArthur Jr., a Union Civil War hero.…
Harry Truman was born on May 8, 1884. He was born in Lamar Missouri, his father traded livestock here. His father taught him that honor was everything. As a child Harry always loved to read. He was considered a bright boy and he even skipped the third grade. He also loved to play the piano when he was a child. He had many different kinds of jobs, just about all that Jackson county had to offer. Harry grew up on a…
Dorsey moved around a lot when he was younger. Dorsey was a student at Bishop DuBourg High school. When he graduated high school, he started at Missouri University of Science and Technology. Later in his life, he moved and transferred to New York University. He dropped out of college before receiving his degree.…
Jack Roosevelt “Jackie” Robinson was born on January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia. Jackie was born into a poor family, and he was the youngest of four siblings. Jackie’s parents were Mallie and Jerry Robinson (Biography.com Editors).…
Truman grew up on a farm in Missouri. He served in France during the First World War. He served in local posts and became a Senator in 1934. During WWII Truman first gained a national reputation by heading the “Truman Committee” which exposed waste,…
Jack Roosevelt Robinson was born January 31, 1919 in Cairo, Georgia ( “Jackie Robinson” ). Jackie’s father abandoned him and his family when he was…
The Playwright stated life is concerned with the ongoing struggle between love and fear based on the universal questions being raised. In each scene portrayed during the play the same universal questions were focused on. In the first scene with the journalist couple in the car, the universal question, why do we fear, is put into context when the husband is telling his wife why should we fear the urban legends in the car. However, another universal question, why do we love, is a major fragment of the first scene additionally; it’s put into context when the wife starts questioning why should they travel towards shadow lake where the urban legends took place at for their story. Moreover, while watching the preceding scenes I notice a constant…