WHENEVER PERCY JULIAN TOLD his friends about his life‚ and how he had overcome all the obstacles from his beginning as the grandson of a slave‚ born "at the corner of Jeff Davis Avenue and South Oak Street in Montgomery‚ Alabama‚ the Capital in the cradle of the confederacy‚"1 to scientist‚ inventor‚ business leader‚ humanist‚ protagonist of human rights‚ he liked to illustrate this long arduous climb by Donald Adams’ The Seventh Fold: My dear friends‚ who daily climb uncertain hills in the
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In the essay‚ Inspired Eccentricity‚ it is clear that bell hooks had two very unconventional grandparents. In the relationship of Baba and Daddy Gus‚ role reversal was visible in almost every aspect of their lives. As the author said‚ Baba and Daddy Gus were‚ strangers and lovers - two eccentrics who created their own world. They were a combination that perfectly completed each other‚ yet every part of their separate lives was equally important to their successful marriage. Bell hooks wrote‚ They
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Savion Glover was born on November 19‚ 1973‚ in Newark‚ New Jersey. His parents were Willie Mitchell and Yvette Glover‚ his mother who raised him was a gospel and jazz singer. She worked as an assistant‚ and has mentioned that she believes Savion was tapping in the womb‚ she could feel and see him moving in the womb to the rhythms as she typed on the typewriter. Ms. Glover raised Savion Glover and his two brothers in Newark‚ New Jersey where they shared a home with Ms. Glover’s brother and sister
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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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Morgan Hocking was born December 13‚ 1997. She was originally born in Crawfordsville Indiana‚ but at the age of 14 she moved to another city that is twenty minutes outside of Crawfordsville‚ Ladoga. Someone who she admires the most is her mother. She admires her mother because she views her as strong. Morgan’s parents divorced when she was six years old. Hocking’s father is frequently in and out of jail‚ which left her mother to raise two children by herself. Morgan Hocking is a freshman here at
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Jilly Bean was born in Columbus‚ Ohio. Girl was only one-inch tall an she stayed like dat for her whole life. She likeded bein’ small. Buh dere was sumhm different bout her. She was always good at solving problems and knowin’ when people is lyin. At duh age of 9 Jilly was so good at solvin’ problems and detectin’ lies dat it was like the girl could read errybodies mind. Jilly always loveded two thangs‚ swimmin’ an school. Jilly Bean loveded ta go swimmin’ wit her friends. She swam in fruit loops
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happy with his life and he struggles with problems such as getting words down on his paper which is quite a course for an author. But in the trivial world of William one great memory‚ of a gift from his mother‚ lights up. Just like the one special biography‚ about Christine‚ lights up in his bookshelf. The story starts in Medias res. William is at home gathered by a “pile of notes and facts”. As it is explained‚ by the third person narrator‚ the house is “quiet” and William is home alone with his
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central insight that literature is written by actual people and that understanding an author’s life can help readers more thoroughly comprehend the work. Anyone who reads the biography of a writer quickly sees how much an author’s experience shapes—both directly and indirectly—what he or she creates. Reading that biography will also change (and usually deepen) our response to the work. Sometimes even knowing a single important fact illuminates our reading of a poem or story. Learning‚ for example
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In fact‚ millions of children are growing up without parents‚ many of which are brought up by their grandparents. More grandparents are gaining custody over their grandchildren every day. In the past 30 years the number of children being cared for by their grandparents has nearly doubled to 4.5 million‚ representing 6.3% of all U.S children (Bryson.) Many times guardianship is given to grandparents due to death or illness‚ neglect and improper care‚ teenage pregnancy‚ or incarceration of the birthparents
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Florence Price‚ Composer The purpose of a biography is to enhance the reader’s knowledge about a particular person’s life‚ in this case‚ Florence Beatrice Price‚ and offer a sort of historical background focusing on significant events‚ accomplishments‚ and personal aspects of that particular individual’s life. Ideally‚ the writer molds complex biographical factsbirth and death‚ education‚ ambition‚ conflict‚ milieu‚ work‚ relationship‚ accidentinto a book [or article] that has the independent
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