John Simpson Kirkpatrick was born in England, in South Shields to a Scottish couple in 1892. Simpson was educated from the age of 6 to his 13th birthday, learning how to read and write fluently. In June 1903 he decided to leave school and start work on a horse drawn milk delivery run. He was a member of the Territorial Army (the British Army reserve corps) serving with the Royal Field Artillery in a Howitzer Battery at South Shields. In 1909 Simpson’s father died and he wanted to follow in his footsteps, so he joined the Merchant Navy at 17 years of age, working as a stoker and steward.
After this he started his higher education at New Mexico Military institute in Roswell where his grades started to drop until a student there showed him how to study. He received his Associates Degree there and went on to attend Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He decided that partying would be his main priority and flunked out quickly. In 1951 he received his Bachelors Degree from Eastern New Mexico University then transferred to well respect Texas Tech University where he got his masters degree in Zoology. In 1958 he continued his schooling at University of Arizona where he received a Ph.D. in studying the growth of Savannah
Robert Maynard Hutchins (January 17, 1899 – May 17, 1977), was an educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School (1927–1929), and president (1929–1945) and chancellor (1945–1951) of the University of Chicago.. Hutchins was able to implement his ideas regarding a two-year, generalist bachelors during his tenure at Chicago, and subsequently had designated those studying in depth in a field as masters students. He moreover pulled Chicago out of the Big Ten Conference and eliminated the school’s football program, which he saw as a campus distraction. He also worked to eliminate fraternities and religious organizations for the same reason While modified and reduced in form, the collegiate curriculum at the University of Chicago to this day
His time in England was what sparked his interest in Gothic Literature. In 1820, Poe’s family had gone back to Richmond, where he continued to excel in school. Jane Stith Stanton, a classmates’ mother who had offered support to Edgar when the other children teased him, died in 1824. Soon after, his first period of depression began. After John Allen’s business went through a bit of hardship, he came into some money, and was able to send Edgar to the University of Virginia.
Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and was a student of Plato’s at the academy for twenty years. He left Athens only too return and create a new school called the lyceum. He left Athens again when he was charged with impiety only to die of natural causes the next year. He developed the theory of causes, which were his way of understanding an objects existence. The four causes are: The material cause, this is the material it’s made of.
Also, his high debts led to taxes which he imposed on the citizens of Spain. Philip II did nothing a leader should do, a leader should be able to allow there people to be secure, allow the people to allow them to grow financially, and allow them to follow their religion of choice. Since Phillip failed at leading his people his whole kingship can be considered a failure. If Phillip II changed his tactics then his kingship may have led to success and prosperity. But in the end Philip II will go down in the Books as a Catholic Zealot who was reckless with money, and the loser of the Spanish armada.
“They’re a rotten crowd…You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.” These words stated were the last words Nick Carraway said to Jay Gatsby before he met his demise. Nick Carraway, who said he was “inclined to reserve all judgments,” as stated in the beginning of the novel, finally makes discernment here. He called Daisy, Tom, Jordan, and all the upper class morally rotten. He knows and believes that Gatsby is worth more than them all. Gatsby’s heroism in the war, determination in the pursuit of his dreams, and his tenacious devotion to the love of Daisy forms Nick’s final opinion which leads him to give him the compliment.
Socrate Socrates was the son of Sophroniscus, an Athenian stone mason and sculptor. He learned his father's craft and apparently practiced it for many years before devoting his time almost completely too intellectual interests. Details of his early life are scanty, although he appears to have had no more than an ordinary Greek education. He did, however, take a keen interest in the works of the natural philosophers, and Plato (Parmenides, 127C) records the fact that Socrates met Zeno of Elea and Parmenides on their trip to Athens, which probably took place about 450 B.C. Socrates wrote nothing; therefore evidence for his life and activities must come from the writings of Plato and Xenophon.
In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, Fitzgerald connects his characters to how American business works and makes his readers question what they find important. Jay Gatsby’s love for Daisy is a mask for his true love of money and social status, which ultimately leads to his lonely death. The extreme desire and belief that Gatsby has to better himself economically proves he not only looks to accomplish the American Dream but he is a symbol of the American Dream. Even from an early age, money was on Gatsby’s mind. The schedule he makes for himself, “General Resolves: No wasting time at Shafters or [a name, indecipherable].
How it is relative to my life, and how do I view the article about Epictetus. Epictetus was a former slave in Rome, who was owned my a wealthy man name Epaphroditos, and a secretary named Nero during Epictetus early life. During Epictetus early life he started to become an educated man studying Stoics philosophy under the teaching of Musonius Rufus. As time passed by Epictetus was finally a free man when his secretary Nero had passed away on 68 A.D., upon Nero’s’ death Epictetus shortly started to teach philosophy to where he ventured out to Greece to where he discovered a philosophical