Nicholas graduated from Notre Dame in 1988 with a degree in finance and married his wife, Cathy, in 1989, a year that would also bring a deep sadness to Nicholas' life — his mother passed away at the age of 47 from a horseback riding accident. That year was also when Nicholas wrote his second novel, The Royal Murders, which also remains unpublished. Over the next three years, Nicholas experimented with jobs in a number of industries, including real estate appraisal, home restoration, food service, and dental supply sales. With little training in medical sales, Nicholas then started an orthopedic products manufacturing company that brought in little income. He experienced two bright
Maya Streloff 14th/04 /2012 Social Studies 9 John Kay (Flying Shuttle) John Kay was the twelfth child born. He was born in the Lancashire hamlet of Walmersley just north of Bury in England in June 17th 1704. John Kay’s father Robert owned the park estate in Walmersley, but before John Kay was born his father had died and his mother was responsible for his education till she was remarried. At age twenty-two John Kay only had forty dollars and an education until he was fourteen. After John Kay has traveled the country with his brother William they both got married to Bury women.
When he was 20 he was selected to go to China for 6 months for an international Christian conference and he says that his new experiences so broadened his thinking that he began to doubt some of his basic religious views. He graduated and got married to his childhood sweetheart against his parents’ wishes. He decided not to follow a career in religious work and switched to a clinical psychology programme and received his Ph.D in 1931. While completing his doctoral work, he engaged in child study and he first started working as a psychologist in New York with the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children. At this clinic he learned about Otto Rank’s theory and therapy techniques which started him on the road to developing his client centred approach.
His father, an attorney, died two months before he was born (BIO). Not being able to provide for her son Jonathan’s mother went back to England leaving her son to be raised by her late husband’s brother (BIO). Also, an attorney Swift’s uncle was a member of the respected attorney and judges group Gray’s Inn. In 1673 he was enrolled in Kilkenny Grammar School, one of the best schools in Ireland at that time (BIO). Transitioning from poverty to a rigorous private school was challenging.
Chad Fitzgerald Mr. Kester English 102 11/19/12 Character Analysis of Holden Caulfield in "The Catcher in the Rye" J.D. Salinger was born on January 1, 1919, in New York City. Salinger was the youngest of two and the only boy born to his parents, Sol and Miriam Salinger. Salinger was always considered intelligent, however he flunked out of the McBurney School near his home in upper west New York. After flunking out of school, his parents decided to send him to Valley Forge Military Academy in Wayne, Pennsylvania (Haudgruff; Salinger).
This was a latter copy of the Meyers Grosses Konversations-Lexikon encyclopaedia which contained how to create the sonata form first movement of quartets. His family had to get the book through their instalment plan. His father passed away due to pneumonia when he was sixteen so he got a job as a bank clerk to support his family's financial situation. He did this for five years and also met Alexander Von Zemlinsky (1871-1942) who was the a rising composer himself and was a conductor of the polyhymnia amateur orchestra where Schoenberg also played the cello. He quit his job and became a conductor for the Mödling Choral Society and also became a “chorusmaster of the Stockerau Metalworkers' Singers' Union” Zimlinsky later became Schoenberg's brother in law after he married Mathilde Von Zimlinsky.
At the young age of 18 he was called to the army. He was injured in 1917 at the Battle of Cambrai during a gas attack. After that he spent most of his time in war training new recruits. He continued his education when the war was finished, and in 1921 earned a scholarship to study at the Royal College of Art. He was happy that he got into art school at the age of 21 because he said that at the age of 21 he was old enough to know how to get something out of it.
Albert Bandura: His Theory Khadijah Muhammad Missouri Baptist University Born on December 4th, 1925 in a small town called Mundare, Albert Bandura was the youngest child of 6. He was the only boy and his parents emigrated to Canada from Eastern Europe. With no formal education, his parents worked hard until they saved enough money to buy a house for the entire family. Bandura’s father taught himself to read 3 languages which included Russian, Polish, and German. His father also served as a member of the school board.
Kant attended a grammar school whose teacher was a Pietist doctrine candidate. He later enrolled in the university as a theological student although he enrolled in primarily in mathematics and physic classes. He was forced to withdraw from classes when his father fell ill and later died in 1746. “He found employment as a family tutor and, during the nine years that he gave to it, worked for three different families. With them he was introduced to the influential society of the city, acquired social grace, and made his farthest travels from his native city—some 60 miles (96 km) away to the town of Arnsdorf.
John Keats was born near London in 1795 and orphaned by the age of 14; his father died as the result of an accident and his mother died of tuberculosis (Bush). Although he had four siblings, all but his sister died before him and as a result of the ‘family illness’, consumption (Bush). While he struggled through finance issues his whole life, he never knew that he had funds left to him and his siblings that could have eased most of struggles in life. Despite the hardships, he went to school and earned his license to practice medicine, although he abandoned the field to devote himself to literature by 1814 (Reisman). What success Keat’s enjoyed was limited and one could say his ‘productive’ years came between the years 1817-1821 (Keats.com).