Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787-1851) Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (December 10, 1787–September 10, 1851) was born in Philadelphia. In 1805 he graduated from Yale University. He wanted to do many things such as study law, engage in trade, or study divinity. In 1814 Gallaudet became a preacher. After pursuing with that Gallaudet became interested in writing children's books.
BIOGRAPHY Matthew Barney was born in 1967 in California, and with 6 years old moved with his family to the state of Idaho. When he was 12 years old, his parents divorced and his mother moved to New York, where he had often visited her, and where he was exposed to contemporary art. He worked as a model after high school, and left Boise to attend Yale University, in Connecticut. Initially he signed up for a premed course wanting to be a plastic surgeon, but after two semesters he switched to art department. Due his dedication and originality, he could study in School of Art while still undergraduate.
Robert Cormier began writing when he was in first grade. He first goal was to become a writer when he was in seventh grade. When he began writing he said, “I can’t remember a time when I was trying to get something down on paper.” A nun at Robert’s school encouraged him to write a poem. He attended Leominster High School, graduating as president of his class. As a freshman at Fitchburg State College, he had his first story published when a college
While his father Barney was the son of Ukrainian immigrants, his mother Ida was a British Jew. Howard’s mother was deceased by the year 1923, he was only nine years old. Howard’s first book he wrote was Two Valleys, published in 1933. Howard was only at the age of nineteen. Some of the characters in this book are Adam who is a teenage boy living in Lexington, Massachusetts, with his father Moses.
William Raspberry, a nationally syndicated columnist for the Washington Post, was born in Okolona, Mississippi, in 1935. He attended Indiana Central College, earning a degree in history in 1958, and was awarded a Doctorate of Humane Letters there in 1973. Raspberry has worked for the Washington Post since 1962, first as a reporter-editor, then as urban-affairs columnist. He has taught journalism at Howard University, has lectured on race relations and public education, and has been a television commentator in Washington, D C. GOOD ADVICE FOR THE COLLEGE-BOUND High school counselors need to get their hands on a little pamphlet just published by the University of Virginia. Its 22 pages contain more useful advice, guidance and perspective
THE REMAINS OF THE DAY The remains of day is the third novel writing by Ishiguro Kasuo, he was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954. His family moved to England in 1960. He became a British citizen in 1982. In 1974 Ishiguro began at the University of Kent at Canterbury and the University of East Anglia and he graduated in 1978. He received some honors: a Bachelor of Arts in English and Philosophy.
Anthony Giddens Anthony Giddens was born January 18, 1938 in London to Thomas George and Nell Maude Giddens. He was born into a lower middle class family and was the first in his family to go to college. He began his education at the Minchenden Grammer School in Southgate of London. He then went on to Hull University where he obtained his bachelor’s in sociology and psychology in 1959 and the London School of Economics where he graduated with his masters in sociology in 1961. In 1976, Anthony Giddens received is doctorial degree from the University of Cambridge and went on to teach at different colleges.
Mick Jagger was born July 26, 1943 in Dartford, Kent, England. Originally named “Michael Philip Jagger”, he later changed it to the iconic “Mick Jagger”. Mick’s parents are Eva and Joe Jagger. He went to school at the London School of Economics, from 1962 to 1964. He then met up with his friend from his childhood, Keith Richards.
Her parents immigrated to the United States from Calcutta, India and she was born in London, England in 1967. She was then raised in Rhode Island where her father worked as a librarian and her mother as a teacher. Lahiri received a B.A in English Literature at Barnard College, and later received her M.A in English, Creative writing, and Comparative Studies in Literature and the Arts, as well as a Ph.D in Renaissance Studies from Boston University. During her six years at Boston University, Lahiri worked on short stories, nine of which were collected in her debut book, Interpreter of Maladies, published in 1999. The stories are about problems in the lives of Indians or Indian immigrants, with themes such as difficulties in marriage, and the gap between first and second generation United States immigrants.
It was during his time at Iowa that Bandura’s interest in the behaviourist tradition and learning theory grew. In 1953 he accepted a teaching position at Stanford University. At Stanford Bandura collaborated with his first graduate student, Richard Walters, to explore behaviourist and learning theories. The collaboration led to Bandura’s first book, Adolescent Aggression, in 1959. Bandura is most famously known for his “Social Learning Theory”, which he recently renamed “Social Cognitive Theory”.