Jessica’s dad Doug, suffered a brain injury when he fell off his horse in his thirty’s. He was in coma for 5 months and wasn’t certain to make it out or not. Jessica seemed to be impacted by the tragedy. Lorance is Catholic and lives with her parents, Clarice and George and her brother Taylor. They do not attend church regularly though.
Pascal decided to learn about geometry, a topic he had only heard of but never studied, in his spare time. By age thirteen, he had proven the 32nd proposition of Euclid and discovered an error in Rene Descartes geometry. His father put Pascal’s knowledge in mathematics towards hand totaling long columns of numbers to his job. Pascal later went on the create the pascaline, a device fourteen by five by three inches that could do calculations, which can now be considered the first mechanical calculator. In 1650, Pascal suddenly decided to avidly study religion, but returned to his previous lifestyle three years later, conducting experiments on the pressure exerted by gases and liquids, inventing the arithmetical triangle, and created the calculus of probabilities together with Fermat.
As a freshman, he injured his knee and developed a leg infection which extended into his groin and which his doctor diagnosed as life threatening; the doctor insisted that the leg be amputated but Dwight refused to allow it, and miraculously recovered, though he had to repeat his freshman year. He and his brother Edgar both wanted to attend college, though they lacked the money. They made a pact to take alternate years at college while the other worked, in order to earn the tuitions. Edgar took the first turn at school, and Dwight was employed as a night supervisor at the Belle Springs Creamery. Edgar asked for a second year, Dwight consented and worked for a second year.
Adams was born on February 20, 1902 in San Francisco, California. He was raised by a distinctly upper class parents Charles Hitchcock Adams and Olive Bray Adams. Olive had Ansel at the age of forty and he was his only son. At the age of four an aftershock of the great earthquake and fire of 1906 threw Adams to the ground and badly broke his nose, marking him for life. Adams nose accident gave him a difficult time to fit in school.
Imagine a healthy man, sixty years old, recently retired, with many years left to spend with his wife, four children, ten grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren. Then one day he begins experiencing difficulty swallowing and slurred speech. After being told by his daughter that these could be symptoms of a stroke, he turns to his doctor for answers. As his swallowing and speech worsen, each diagnostic test is inconclusive. Finally, after several months of increasing frustration and decreasing health, he is diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS.
Russell Werner Lee, son of Burton and Adeline Lee, was born in Ottawa, Illinois, on July 21, 1903. At age five his parents divorced and at age ten he watched as his mother dies from being hit by an automobile. His life wasn’t easy growing up. He attended Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana for four years and disliked the ways of military treatment. Lee graduated from Lehigh University, Pennsylvania with a degree in chemical engineering.
His dad was a doctor so he learned much about the fields of medicine and death. The very first encounter he ever had with bones happened when he was only twelve years old on a hunting trip with his dad. The most interesting thing about Snow is his sporadic and inconsistent achievements in school. It started in high school sophomore year when he was actually expelled for a fire cracker incident. 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.
Peter Palchinsky: Ghost of the Executed Engineer The background story of this case is something we need to fully analyze to explain the ethics that will be incorporated in this case. Peter Palchinsky was the oldest of five children, his mother encouraged him to read from a library his family inherited. The library gave him a large interest in science at an early age, in the fall of 1893 he join the Mining Institute in St. Petersburg. Palchinsky was later hired to investigate the working and the living conditions they had in the coal mines, when asked about the conditions his criticism was not taken well. The Socialist Revolutionary Party was a group Palchinsky was highly interested in, though no one knew whether he was actively involved with any movements, or if he was just a sympathizer.
Gavrilo Princip was born in the remote village of Obljaj near Bosansko Grahovo, at the time de jure part of Bosnia Vilayet within the Ottoman Empire, however the province had since 1878 been occupied by Austria-Hungary which governed it as its condominium, a de facto part of Austria-Hungary. His parents, Petar, a postman, and Marija (née Mićić) had nine children, six of whom died in infancy. His impoverished parents could not provide for him and sent him to live with an older brother in Zagreb, now the capital of Croatia. On 6 October 1908, Bosnia-Herzegovina was declared a part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire by Emperor Franz Joseph. This created a stir among Slavic people of southern Europe and the Russian Tsar, who opposed the annexation.
In one example, he discusses the time his six year old son was hit by a car and was in the hospital for a month. Gore said it turned his world upside down, causing him to question how he should spend his time on this earth. He states, “I visited Antarctica and gained a new ability...that what we take for granted might not be here for our children.” With this story, he uses the strategy of appealing to pity because he discusses his injured young son. Gore also discusses living on a tobacco farm as a child. One of the childhood stories he tells is of when his sister, who had been close to him, began smoking.