... After graduating, he joined the army and served as a medical officer during World War I. He was awarded the Canadian military cross for bravery. After the war, he practiced medicine in London, Ontario, until 1921, when he and Charles Best began their research into the hormone insulin. Banting, along with John J.R. Macleod, head of the physiology department at the University of Toronto, experiment with dogs in the discovery of insulin, finally in 1922 they succeed in discovering insulin. (The extract was then purified further and tested in a human on January 11, 1922.) They were awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine ...

... Queen Elizabeth explained to the college that Marlowe had been sent to this seminary on matters relating to national security. Due to the Queen's intervention the Cambridge officials granted Marlowe his masters degree. From this incident many people believe that Marlowe was a spy for the government and that he continued to work for the Queen after he obtained his degree. After Marlowe obtained his masters degree he went to London to work on his new profession as an author. He began getting into a lot of trouble with the law and having enemies around every corner. On May 18, 1593 a warrant was issued for Marlowe ...

... he turned to surveying. In 1748 he was appointed to survey Lord Fairfax's lands in the Shenandoah Valley. He helped lay out the Virginia town of Belhaven (now Alexandria) in 1749 and was appointed surveyor for Culpeper County. George accompanied his brother to Barbados in an effort to cure Lawrence of tuberculo sis, but Lawrence died in 1752 after returning to America. George inherited the Mount Vernon estate. Washington first gained public notice in October 1753 when he was dispatched by Gov. Robert Dinwiddie to warn the French commander at Fort Le Boeuf against further encroachment on territory claimed by ...

... on the Ohio Valley land that was claimed by the king. Dinwiddle sent one messenger, but he failed. He gave Washington the order to warn the French on October 31, 1753. His party consisted of an interpreter, a guide, two men that were experienced traders with the Native Americans, and two others. Washington left in November from Cumberland, Maryland, and traveled to Fort-Le Boeuf. When he arrived, he discovered that the French would fight for their land. The party nearly escaped from the French. Washington was next appointed lieutenant colonel to an expedition to the Ohio Valley. In April, 1754, he set ou ...

... the prestigious Art Institute of Chicago, where my studies were as successful as ever. I was prevented from returning the following fall due to a severe case of typhoid fever. By 1907, I was ready to attend school again, this time at New York City’s Art Students League. I continued to enjoy my success almost without interruption. I began a series of one-year teaching positions which I held in Amarillo, Texas in 1912-1913, as a drawing supervisor in its elementary schools; at Columbia College, South Carolina, in 1915-1916; and at west Texas Normal College in 1916-1917, and I taught summers at the University of ...

... During his 20s, Jefferson read voraciously in Enlightenment philosophy, 17th-century English history, political theory, and law. Drawing on this learning, he drafted in1774a Summary View of the Rights of British America as instructions for Virginia's delegates to the First Continental Congress, which met to consider the colonies' grievances against Great Britain. Virginia leaders instead adopted a more legalistic set of instructions,, and Summary View was published anonymously as a pamphlet. As Jefferson's authorship became widely known, however, he moved suddenly into the front rank of American political ...

... and negative means of expression. and Collective Soul’s poetry are similar in some ways when broken down correctly. Collective Soul writes " why drink the water from my hand? Contagious as you think I am" reflects the same ideas that shares when She says, "Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom" These two parts of their writings are asking a similar question. Why do you choose to seclude me from you’re world am I something you wouldn’t expect from another human? "Don’t scream about don’t think aloud turn your head now baby just spit me out don’t wo ...

... one it was his dream to become an artist or architect. He was not a bad artist, as his surviving paintings and drawings show but he never showed any originality or creative imagination. To fullfil his dream he had moved to Vienna the capital of Austria where the Academy of arts was located. He failed the first time he tried to get admission and in the next year, 1907 he tried again and was very sure of success. To his surprise he failed again. In fact the Dean of the academy was not very impressed with his performance, and gave him a really hard time and said to him "You will never be painter." The rejection really c ...

... the cases that came before the Chief s court, he was determined to become a lawyer. Hearing the elders stories of his ancestors struggles during the wars of resistance gave him dreams of making his own contribution to the freedom struggle of his people (Ngubane). After receiving a primary education at a local mission school, was sent to Healdtown, a Wesleyan secondary school. He then enrolled at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesbur ...

... to Philadelphia, he got a job in the print shop of Samuel Keimer. Soon the governor of Pennsylvania, who was Sir William Keith, took an interest in young Benjamin. He promised to back Franklin in his own printing business and sent Ben to England to get a printing press. The governor didn't keep his promise and Franklin was stranded in England. Franklin spent a year and a half in England and worked in a few different printing houses. He returned to Philadelphia and soon was back in the printing business. In 1728, Franklin and a partner, Hugh Meredith, opened their own print shop. They printed a newspaper calle ...