Bob Marley: Reggae Legend Although Bob Marley didn’t have a formal education, he educated Americans with his music. Marley was born Robert Nesta Marley, at 2:30 am on February 6th 1945, in St. Ann Jamaica to the parents, Captain Norval Marley and Cedalla Booker. Soon after Bob Marley was born, his father left his mother. Although Captain Norval Marley was not there as a father figure for Bob, he did pay financial support and came to visit his son. In 1959 at age 14 Bob Marley quit school.
Chester W. Nimitz was born at Fredericksburg, TX on February 24, 1885 and was the son of Chester B. and Anna Nimitz. Nimitz's father died before he was born and as a young man he was influenced by his grandfather Charles H. Nimitz who had served as a merchant seaman. Attending Tivy High School, Kerrville, TX, Nimitz originally wished to attend West Point but was unable to do so as no appointments were available. Meeting with Congressman James L. Slayden, Nimitz was informed that one competitive appointment was available to Annapolis. Viewing the US Naval Academy as his best option for continuing his education, Nimitz devoted himself to studying and succeeded in winning the appointment.
He travels to his uncle Ramos’s house to receive further care and instruction. My first reaction is surprise at the events taking place, and how a boy only twelve years of age must endure these hardships. Journal Entry #2: Santiago is given a compass and a map, and is taught how to use a canoe by his uncle. Santiago is then instructed to sail to the United States, because the soldiers would arrive there soon to burn their house. He is told to sail first to the city of Fronteras, next to a lake named El Golfete, then to a river named the Río Dulce.
His assistant had to carry a footstool for him to reach the instruments during surveying work. At the age of seventeen he joined the Swedish army in Jämtland, serving in the Jämtland Field Ranger Regiment, as a Second Lieutenant, but was soon promoted to Lieutenant. He was sent to northern Sweden to do surveying, and in his spare time he constructed a heat engine which used the fumes from the fire instead of steam as a propellant. His skill and interest in mechanics made him resign from the army and move to England in 1826. However his heat engine was not a success, as his prototype was designed to burn birchwood and would not work well with coal (the main fuel used in England).
Shortly after his son Paul died my great grandfather, Matti Norppa, came to Canada on an Ocean Liner to Montreal and took a train to Kirkland Lake Ontario to become a gold miner. He would leave his wife (my great grandmother), his daughters Sirkka, Liana, Gert and his son Eric two years prior in Finland until he had enough money to get a house to bring them over to live with him. My great grandmother in the mean time sold all their assets in Finland and converted it to US dollars. Before she and the children came to Canada in 1938 she sewed pockets in a girdle to bring the $10,000 cash with her and smuggled the cash into Canada on an Ocean Liner also. When they arrived in
Haley was born in Ithaca, New York, on August 11, 1921. He is older then 3 brothers and a sister. Haley lived with his family in Henning, before he returned to Ithaca with his family when he was five years old. Haley's father was a professor of agriculture at Alabama A&M University. The younger Haley always spoke proudly of his father and the stuff of racism he had overcome.
James mother, Elizabeth died in 1808 when James was at the immature age of seven. Being so young still after his mothers death and with his father growing older, a family friend and commander by the name of David Porter informally adopted James with permission his father. James was to be trained for later on in life. Two years after being adopted James was appointed as midshipman at only nine and a half years old. While sailing with Porter on the Essex during the War of 1812, James changed his name to David after David Porter.
As a child he spoke five languages, and his English lacked an accent (p 91 s 152). A d’Anconia did not permit himself “to think he is born a d’Anconia” — he was “expected to become one” (p 91 s 152). Francisco d’Anconia’s father brought up his only son “all over the world” so he would “consider the world as his future domain” (p 90 s 152). When he was ten he spent the winter “in Madrid, at the home of the Duke of Alba” (p 92 s 152). The winter after that, he “shipped out as a cabin boy on a cargo steamer that carried d’Anconia copper” and worked for three months while his father searched for him.
Their son was to remain in Chicago to care for his business. He was not able to go with his family again because of some reasons, he to stay in Chicago for some few days. His wife and their four daughters left America on board the S S Ville du Harve and not far from the coast of England on Nov. 22, 1873 the ship was struck by an English sailing vessel. The ship was badly damaged, and all the passengers were asked to assemble on deck. His wife got her four children on deck and knelt with them to pray.
Brief Introduction on James Balwin (1924—1987) James was born in a poor family in the blacktown in NY. He had 8 little brothers and sisters. He self-educated himself and wrote a short story on Spanish revolution at 12, from then on, he began to write songs and playwrite. He began to sermon as a pastor in church as his father wished at 14. When 17, he left the church and claimed that he had seen though the hypocrisy of religion and he no longer believe in religion.