Outline the main features in the background and rise to prominence of the twentieth-century personality you have studied. Albert Speer Albert Speer was a prominent figure in Hitler’s quest to build support for the Third Reich. Speer was born in Mannheim, Germany in 1905 to a wealthy middle-class family. His father was a successful architect and with his busy lifestyle Speer’s childhood lacked affection causing an emotional distance between Speer and his parents which would later have an impact on relations which Speer created in the ultimate search for a mentor. After abandoning his dream of becoming a mathematician Speer began his career in architecture and in 1923 attended the Institute of Technology in Karlsruhe, finishing his architecture course in 1927.
Even when he was a long boy, rube always knew what he had wanted to do with his life. However Rube was not able to pursue his lifelong dream right away, for his parent did not like the idea of his son of his son being a struggling artist. Max Goldberg wanted his son to become an engineer Rube began attending Lowell High school until 1900 when he graduated. Like
Lee attended a preparatory high school that led him into Harvard at the young age of 16. As an undergraduate he studied philosophy and political science but was still undecided with what he wanted to select as a career. This upset his father who had wanted him to follow in his footsteps with business. Lee received his AB degree in 1883 and graduated from Harvard Law in 1888. After graduating from Harvard Law, he began to work in a law firm in Boston.
His father jedidiah always wanted his son to grow up with a great education. Unlike Samuel’s brother he did not like school. After attending Phillips Academy in Andover, Samuel went on to Yale College to receive instruction in the subjects of religious philosophy, mathematics and science. While at Yale, he attended lectures on electricity. In 1810, he graduated from Yale.
Charles L. Reason Algebra II Trig Charles L. Reason was born July 21, 1818 in New York City to West Indies immigrants Michael and Elizabeth Reason. Charles attended the African Free School along with his brothers Elmer and Patrick both who are important historical figures in their own right. An excellent student in mathematics, Reason became an instructor in 1832 at the school at age fourteen this became a striking matter for the news, receiving a salary of $25 a year. He used some of his earnings to hire tutors to improve his knowledge. Later, he decided to enter the ministry but was rejected because of his race by the General Theological Seminary of the Protestant Episcopal Church in New York City.
His father was Martin Cortes de Monroy and mother Dona Catalina Pizarro Alta Marino. The family was of minor nobility but with little means. Cortes was described as a sickly child. By the age of fourteen he was sent to study at the University of Salamanca. After two years of schooling for Cortes, before he returned to Medellin to the annoyance of his parents who had hoped to see him equipped for a profitable legal career.
Martin Luther was born on November 10, 1483, in Eisleben, Germany. To Hans and Margarette Luther, Hans Luther wanted his promising son to have a better life and become a lawyer. At age seven, Martin Luther entered school in Mansfeld. At 14, he went to Magdeburg, where he continued his studies. In 1498, he returned to Eisleben and entered in a school, studying grammar, rhetoric and logic.
Volta’s uncles who controlled his education decided that he should study law; however Volta’s fascination with natural sciences made them change their mind and allowed him to study physics and chemistry. This interest had initially been instilled by his friend who was known as Giulio Cesare Gattoni. (Ian Poole, para 2) Alessandro Volta’s parent played a very weak emotional role in his life. In fact it is said that when his mother died Volta had just come from his European tour of 1781-1782 and when he arrived in Milan he had that his mother was sick but instead of going to see him he stayed in Milan to
Dominique Allen Burriss AP English III October 17, 2012 Thomas Paine Thomas Paine was born in Thetford, England on January 29, 1737. His father, Joseph Paine, had high hopes for what Thomas was to accomplish throughout his life but, despite the fact that he is commonly known for his successfully revolutionary pamphlet Common Sense (written with magnificent eloquence), Paine actually failed in numerous activities in his early ages (Biddle). Paine had failed out of school at the age of twelve. Still having a little hope, his father let Thomas be his apprentice in his trading business, but he wasn’t very successful in that occupation(Kreis). At the age of nineteen Paine went out to sea, but the expedition didn’t last as long as it was thought
Born 10. July 1856 in the Austrian Empire in the village of Smiljan. Tesla had problems in his early years in school although he is claimed to have photographic memory supported by his ability to be able to memorize whole books. He also had this gift and at once disadvantage of occasionally having hallucinations or only flashes of light appearing infront of his eyes. The hallucinations were often connected to some idea or word and they visualised an invention in its precize form even before it was constructed.