materials for school. Higher Education Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx in 1972 and entered the ivy-league Princeton University. The young Latina woman felt overwhelmed by her new school; after her first mid-term paper returned to her with low marks‚ she sought help with more English and writing classes. She also became highly involved with the Puerto Rican groups on campus‚ including Accion Puertorriquena and The Third World Center. The groups‚ she said provided
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Katherine Johnson Katherine Johnson is an African-American physicist and mathematician. She was born on august 26 ‚ 1918. Apparently‚ she is still alive and she is 98 years old.She was born in White Sulphur Spring ‚ West Virginia.She worked at NASA for 33 years.She was hired by NACA in 1953 to work as a human computer and retired from NASA in 1986.She started high school at the age of 10 and at the age of 18 ‚ she graduated summa cum laude with degrees in mathematics and French.She has been honored
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with Paul McAteer‚ has given her instructions to keep quiet. So although she is willing to exchange pleasantries‚ although she will countenance the odd off-the-record conversation‚ and although she admits she will be taking "offers" to write her biography after this is over‚ Martha Billes’s lips are‚ for the time being‚ officially buttoned. Her friends‚ however‚ are not so restrained. After receiving the OK from Martha‚ they will phone‚ sometimes unbidden‚ to tell you how Martha has been misrepresented
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Skinny‚ shy and awkward‚ teenaged Bill Gates seemed an unlikely successor to his overachieving parents. His father‚ powerfully built and 6’6’’ tall‚ was a prominent Seattle attorney‚ and his gregarious mother served on charitable boards and ran the United Way. While he showed enormous talent for math and logic‚ young Bill‚ a middle child‚ was no one’s idea of a natural leader‚ let alone a future billionaire who would reinvent American business. Born in 1955‚ Gates attended public elementary school
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Karl Schwarzkopf Research Paper Part One The English author J.R.R. Tolkien if often regarded as one of the most popular and influential authors of all time. Although Tolkien is best well known for his work The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit‚ he has written many other pieces. He was born in 1892 and experienced many life altering events such as two world wars and the Cold War. His unique writing style was influenced by events affecting him throughout his life. The years of and around World
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Who is Fredrick Douglass? Do you know a man who was one of the most eminent human- rights leaders of the 19th Century? How about the first black citizen to hold high ranks in the U.S. government? How about a consultant for President Abraham Lincoln? You might have heard of him but do you know what he accomplished? His name is Fredrick Douglass. Here’s some information about him. Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey‚ who later became Fredrick Douglass‚ was born on February 1818 in a
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Hypatia of Alexandria was Born in Alexandria Egypt around 370 ad‚daughter of theon who had been a professor at University of Alexandria‚she was born into the educated life. Hypatia had been a mathematician and also a greek philosopher of her time.Furthermore she had been later described as a beautifully and well-proportioned Woman later after her death. Historical events of Hypatia in her life was that she was first women to make a substantial contribution to the development of mathematics
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Biography of GEOFFREY CHAUCER GEOFFREY CHAUCER‚ English poet. The name Chaucer‚ a French form of the Latin calcearius‚ a shoemaker‚ is found in London and the eastern counties as early as the second half of the 13th century. Some of the London Chaucers lived in Cordwainer Street‚ in the shoemakers’ quarter; several of them‚ however‚ were vintners‚ and among others the poet’s father John‚ and probably also his grandfather Robert. Legal pleadings inform us that in December 1324 John Chaucer was
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Beethoven. However‚ his exact date of birth is uncertain‚ Beethoven was baptized on December 17‚ 1770. It was a law that babies be baptized within twenty-four hours of birth‚ however‚ Beethoven believed he was born in 1772 even when provided official papers that proved his birth year. Beethoven had two younger siblings‚ Caspar and Johann. It has been noted that Beethoven’s father began teaching him music between the births of his younger brothers. His father was considered an average court singer who
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Ever feel like the luckiest person in the world? Some people may‚ whiles others do not. Mariska Hargitay is among the people who do‚ “I look at all the things life has allowed me to do and I feel like the luckiest person in the world.” (Silverman). This quote comes from her journey throughout her childhood‚ Career‚ and her family. Mariska was born January 23‚ 1964 in Santa Monica‚ California. She has two brothers Zoltan and Mickey Jr.‚ and she was the youngest (Vixen). Mariska had a rough childhood
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