Don Federico García Rodríguez, his father, was an energetic and prosperous farmer who gave Federico his passion (Federico 3). The mother Doña Vicenta Lorca, was a woman of intelligence, education, and imagination, a former school teacher who nurtured his musical and poetic interests (Federico 3). His Gonzalez 2 correct name was and is García Lorca, but from an early age, the poet called himself Lorca, and others followed his example(Federico 3). From his earliest years, his interests were artistic. He learned 5 popular songs.
He was born in Persia to native Persian speaking parents in the village of Wakhsh. The most important influences upon young Rumi, besides his father, are said to be the Persian poets Attar and Sanai. Rumi in one poem expresses his appreciation: "Attar was the spirit, Sanai his eyes twain, And in time thereafter, Came we in their train" and mentions in another poem: "Attar has traversed the seven cities of Love, We are still at the turn of one street". Rumi met another Sufi saint and mystic, Shams-e Tabrizi, on 15 November 1244 that completely changed his life. From an accomplished teacher and jurist, Rumi was transformed into an ascetic.
Also, Dehon was very interested in knowledge and learning. When Dehon was a sophomore in high school that’s when he decided he wanted to dedicate his life to God and become a priest. Although during his high school years he forgot about his faith, right after high school Dehon wanted to go to the seminary; his father had other plans. In 1859, Dehon’s father sent him to Paris for Law School. When in Paris, Dehon earned his bachelors degree in science.
The Wonderful life of Amedeo Avogadro Early Life: Amdeo Avogadro was born Lorenzo Romano Amedeo Carlo Avogadro de Quaregna e di Cerreto in the capital city Turin sometime in 1776.His father was Filippo Avogadro, conte di Quaregna e Cerreto a well know lawyer. Following his dad’s footsteps he studied law. He went to college when he was only thirteen. Then graduated when he was sixteen and had his doctorate by the time he was twenty in 1796. While practicing law he became interested in philosophy and math.
Ovid/Vergil Composition Publius Ovidius Naso was born in March of 43 BC in Sulmo, Rome. The son of a wealthy equestrian family, he was automatically set up for public work. His father wished for him to become a great orator but those dreams were quelched when his son went to Rome to study rhetoric and law. While in Rome, Ovid explored his love of poetry. By the time he turned thirty Ovid had already been married and divorced a few times.
KhaKhaled Hosseini Khaled Hosseini was born in Afghanistan and was the oldest of five children. He spent the first years of his childhood in Kabul. His family lived in the affluent Wazir Akbar Khan district of the city, in a cultivated, cosmopolitan atmosphere, where women lived and worked as equals with men. His father worked for the foreign ministry, while his mother taught Persian literature, and Khaled grew up loving the treasures of classical Persian poetry. His imagination was also fired by movies from India and the USA, and he enjoyed the sport of kite fighting he portrayed so vividly in The Kite Runner.
He graduated with his doctorate in 1796 at the age of 20. Shortly after this accomplishment he decided to dedicate his studies to physics and mathematics. He became a high school teacher in 1809 in the city of Vercelli (“Life of Amedeo Avogadro”). Although not much is known about his personal life he had a reputation for being a religious man as well as somewhat of a ladies man. Avogadro was also the father to 6 children, all of which were boys (“History of Avogadro”, Anne Marie Helmenstine).
He grew up in California as the son of farm workers. His interest in drama began early when he was six years old. He watched a teacher used part of a paper bag to make paper-mâché masks for a theater production. This experience led him to the theater. He received his Bachelor Arts in English from the San Jose State University, where he produced his first play.
Galileo told his father that he wanted be a monk after four years. That’s when he was tooken out the monastery. He joined the University of Pisa to study medicine at seventeen years in 1581. Galileo became famous when he evented the Law of Pendelum at the age of twenty which is used to regulate clocks. When he took a lamp that was swinging back and forth, he realized that each swing was exactly the same when it swings back and forth whether it’s large or small.
You could say that was the start of his career as a composer. Menken attended Rochelle High School in his home town and after graduation went to Pre-med school to become a dentist. Lucky for us he later changed his major to music. After college Alen attended the BMI Lehman Engel Musical Theater Workshop in New York where he worked at local clubs writing jingles and songs as an accompanist. Alen Menken got his first big break in January of 1979 with Howard Ashman in the Off-Broadway production “God Bless you, Mr. Rosewater.” Three years later he received a Drama Desk Award nomination for Outstanding Music in his Off-Broadway Production “Little Shop of Horrors” and from that in January of 1987 Menken was given his first Oscar nomination for a song with in it called “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space.” In 1990 Menken was nominated for three Oscar nominations and three Golden Globe Nominations and went on to win two of each for his work in the Walt Disney production “The Little Mermaid”.