... his high school graduation he enrolled at Fisk University in Nashville, Tennessee. There he "discovered his Blackness" and made a lifelong commitment to his people. He taught in rural Black schools in Tennessee during summer vacations, thus expanding his awareness of his Black culture. Du Bois graduated from Fisk in 1888, and entered Harvard as a junior. During college he preferred the company of Black students and Black Bostonians. He graduated from Harvard in 1890. Yet he felt that he needed further preparation and study in order to be able to apply "philosophy to an historical interpretation of race relations." He decided to spend another two years at ...

... secrets in his works, but "keeping the in most me behind it's veil". Close friend and respected author of the time Herman Melville believed that there was a dark secret in Hawthorne's life that, if known, would explain the mysteries of his literary career. (McGoldrick 82) Sibling incest was a theme that heavily concerned Hawthorne in two unfinished manuscripts, as well as one of his early literary works which he later retracted. The retracted piece's time set was early Salem, Massachusetts. The story involved a family structure much like that of Hawthorne's own family. The two siblings in the work, brother and sister, lived in deep affection, "lonely and suffici ...

... justice. Also, through the character's journeys, we are usually able to find some sort of empathy. Walker has a way of setting you in the life of real people through their language and brutal honesty. Every one of the characters in Walkers plays speak in a stream of immediate thought and are all in their own little world of self-denial where they have perfectly valid reasons for the eccentric, oddball things that they do. In Escape From Happiness, we find a uniquely dysfunctional family with every character showing similar, but individual motivations towards something better for themselves or the people around them. This play in particular is surreal in thi ...

... from New Orleans to New York about six months before the birth of Billy. Sometime between 1862 & 1864, Billy’s father, William H. McCarty died. No one seems to be sure of the exact date since no death certificate or obituary has been located yet. Soon after the death, his mother married a man named William Antrim in 1873. Up until the age of twelve Billy showed no signs prophesying his desperate and disastrous future ahead. He was a favorite with all classes and ages, especially the old and the young. And he most loved his mother. He loved and honored her more than anything else on earth. But what was to come in the next few years were not for the best. Bil ...

... artist. Arthur Schlesinger says that “However in his last year of school he failed German and Mathematics, and only succeeded in Gym and Drawing. He drooped out of school at the age of 16, spending a total of 10 years in school,”(Arthur M. Schlesinger 1985, 14) Even though he didn’t have a normal amount of education, he still became the leader of Germany. Adolf Hitler, nevertheless, was a great orator and when he spoke, everybody listened. He sometimes spoke several times a day, moving from town to town seemingly tireless. Ken McVay had this to say about this subject, “He was a tireless speaker and before he came to power would sometimes give as many as th ...

... was born on the seventeen of January 1706. Like every Boston boy he could read and write, knew something about history, and had knew a few Orthodox Catechism scriptures by heart (McMaster 3). “The story of the life of Ben Franklin began at a time when Queen Anne still ruled the colonies; when the colonies were but ten in number, and when the population of the ten did not sum up to be four hundred thousand souls; ... when pirates infested the Atlantic coast; when there was no such thing as a stage coach in the land; ...and when Ann Pollard, the first white women that ever set foot on the soil of Boston, was still enjoying a hale old age” (McMaster 1). “It was ...

... While borrowing money from the bank, her husband was spending more than he was earning. “It is my conclusion that Maria Melville never committed herself emotionally to her husband, but remained primarily attached to the well off Gansevoort family.” (Humford 23) Allan Melville was also attached financially to the Gansevoorts for support. There is a lot of evidence concerning Melville’s relation to his mother Maria Melville. “Apparently the older son Gansevoort who carried the mother's maiden name was distinctly her favorite.” (Edinger 7) This was a sense of alienation the Herman Melville felt from his mother. This was one of the first symbolists to the Biblical I ...

... were young they would play with each other and sometimes with their mother and father. When they were grown up enough to do real services they went to the field with their parents: not to play, but to toil. They did not cultivate tobacco, but they found it in the wild. All of Geronimo's tribe smoked, both men and woman. No boy was allowed to smoke until he could hunt alone and kill large game such as; wolves, bear, deer, etc. Geronimo's father died when Geronimo was at a young age. They wrapped his father in his finest clothes, painted his face, wrapped a rich blanket around him, saddled his favorite horse, bore his arms in front of him, and led his hor ...

... up to now had come to an end. Hitler had entered a primary school. The second occurrence was that his father retired on a annual support from the Austrian civil service. This meant that young Adolf had been under the watchful eyes of both his teacher at school and his father at home. His father, Alois, was used to giving orders and having them obeyed from his kids because of his occupation in the civil service. Therefore, he was very strict. Alois Hitler never had a pleasant relationship with any of his children. Hitler was said to have a really good singing voice and took part in his school’s choir. He also was a very smart boy, doing well in s ...

... interest in gases also augmented from our studies in meteorology. My older brother always comments on my weather apparatus that I carried around everywhere I went. I couldn’t help but to always study the weather and atmosphere. Lately I have been working on the law of multiple porportions, but I’m still trying to acquire as much as I can on it first before I make a public advent with it. Take care Sincerely, Jonathan Dalton Mr. John Gough was the blind son of a wealthy tradesman who taught Dalton almost every thing you possibly could have needed to acquire the brilliance that John Dalton had. Dalton really flourished with Mr. Gough and they were very ...