Born on June 26, 1854 into a rural Nova Scotian farming community to a liberal family with a love of learning, young Robert Laird Borden was educated at the local school, Acacia Villa Academy. So promising were his intellectual abilities, that he became an assistant school master in classical studies at the Academy at the age of fourteen. By then, he had mastered Latin, French, and German, along with English (primeministers.ca). At nineteen, he was offered a teaching position to teach classics and mathematics in the small town of Matawan, New Jersey. Seeing no future in teaching, he returned to Nova Scotia two years later, in 1874, and began articling for a Halifax law firm, not having the means to study law in university.
In “Walking,” the author Henry David Thoreau reflects on the art of walking, humanity, and the natural world. Thoreau was a 19th century American writer, poet, philosopher, environmentalist, abolitionist, and transcendentalist. At the young age of 16 Thoreau entered Harvard College where he studied a broad variety of subjects including Latin and Greek grammar. After his graduation, he met transcendentalist pioneers Ralph Waldo Emerson and William Ellery Channing, where he too became a disciple in the school in transcendentalism. His highly popular and esteemed works includes Walking among others: Walden, Civil Disobedience, and more.
The author has written two best seller books namely the Tipping Point and Blink that sold millions of copies internationally. Short Summary and Idea of the Book: Gladwell defined Outlier as people who do not fit into our normal understanding of achievement. The author vividly explained the purpose of the book as he stated that “It's not enough to ask what successful
Lock gained an excellent education due to his father’s commander, Alexander Popham, who became the local MP and was his patronage. In 1647 Locke attended the Westminster School in London where he lived and received a stipend. At the age of twenty, in 1652, he went to Christ Church in Oxford. Education in Oxford was medieval. Conversations with tutors and between undergraduates at school were in Latin.
A Life in Brief Thomas Jefferson, the author of the Declaration of Independence, spent his childhood roaming the woods and studying his books on a remote plantation in the Virginia Piedmont. Thanks to the prosperity of his father, Jefferson had an excellent education. After years in boarding school, where he excelled in classical languages, Jefferson enrolled in William and Mary College in his home state of Virginia, taking classes in science, mathematics, rhetoric, philosophy, and literature. He also studied law, and by the time he was admitted to the Virginia bar in April 1767, many considered him to have one of the nation's best legal minds. Shaping America's Political Philosophy Jefferson was shy in person, but his pen proved to be a mighty weapon.
He enrolled at Swarthmore College and graduated with high honors. He then left for Scotland to attend school at St. Andrews. After several different stops in his educating career, he ended up at Harvard University as an assistant to a professor, where he found himself editing history books for the University. The year was 1939 and World War II was just beginning. America had not yet stepped into the war, but the population knew that America’s involvement was inevitable.
On July 6, 1946, in New Haven, Connecticut, a son was born to Barbarba and George Bush Sr. and named him George Walker Bush Jr. He was named after his father and ended up being the oldest and having 6 brothers and sisters. Bush went to public schools and then when the Bush family moved to Houston, Texas he finished his high school years at Phillips Academy a private school. After graduation, Bush went to Yale
George Washington was born at Pope’s Creek in 1732 George Washington was born on February 22, 1732 (February 11, 1731/2 Old Style) at Pope’s Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia, about 40 miles south of Mount Vernon. His great-grandfather came to America from England in 1657 aboard a ship named Sea Horse of London Eager to learn a new and important trade, George Washington read mathematical texts to learn the geometric principles necessary for surveying. At seventeen years of age and largely through the Fairfax influence that he had cultivated, Washington secured an appointment as county surveyor for the newly created frontier county of Culpeper, Virginia. He was well on his way to a successful and profitable career. Not only did he receive substantial fees fur surveying, but he discovered firsthand an ability to identify and select the best plots of land for purchase, an especially important consideration in colonial In 1754 Washington led an attack that started a world war Directed to press Virginia and Britain’s claim to the Ohio country to the French, George Washington led a force of soldiers from the Virginia Regiment and
George W. Bush was born July 6, 1946 in New Haven, Connecticut. He was one of the six kids of George H. W. Bush and Barbara Bush. His grandfather was a U.S Senator in Connecticut. From 1961 to 1964 he attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Mass., the boarding school from which his father had graduated. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Yale University, and was the president of his fraternity.
Primary Source review #2 The Social Gospel Washington Gladden (1836-1918) was a leading American Congregational pastor and very early in its existence, a leader in the Social Gospel movement. He held pulpit positions in New York and Massachusetts. He was also one of the leading members of the Progressive Movement, serving for two years as a member of the Columbus, Ohio city council and campaigning against Boss Tweed as acting editor of the New York Independent. Gladden was one of the first leading U.S. religious figures to support unionization of the workforce; he also opposed racial segregation. He was a prolific writer, with 40 books to his credit, as well as a number of hymns.