... he also showed promise as a painter. His art teacher steered him away from art and encouraged him to enroll at State Agricultural College in Ames. There he earned his bachelors degree. He then went to the Ames Experiment Station where he was employed by Louis Pammel. In 1896, Carver went to Tuskegee Institute to lead the newly established department of agriculture. For the rest of his life, Carver put together a laboratory, made useless and over-farmed land farmable, and continued research. Much of the land in the South had been over-farmed. All of the soil's nutrients had been depleted by the cotton and tobacco pl ...

... about Tiger is his mastery of the game of golf. At the young age of 23, Tiger has already won 11 tournaments, eight of which are on the PGA tour. He won the 1997 Masters, which secured him a place in history as the youngest Masters champion ever. His twelve-stroke win at the Masters was the biggest margin of victory ever in the history the Masters. It all started when at the age of 6 months, when Tiger watched his father hit golf balls into a net and began imitating his swing. His golfing talent took off from there. At age 2, he appeared on the “Mike Douglas show� putting with Bob hope. At age 3, he shot a ...

... of Chancellorsville on May 2 to 4, an important victory for the Confederates, Lee divided his army into three corps, commanded by three lieutenant generals: James Longstreet, Richard Stoddert Ewell, and Ambrose Powell Hill (Johnson 91). Lee then formulated a plan for invading Pennsylvania, hoping to avert another federal offensive in Virginia and planning to fight if he could get the federal army into a vulnerable position; he also hoped that the invasion might increase Northern war-weariness and lead the North to recognize the independence of the Confederate States of America (Johnson 85). In pursuit of thi ...

... him for the better. She believed that she had been impregnated by the god Zeus in the form of a snake. She also made Alexander believe that he was a descendant of Achilles. Because of the affiliation that Alexander thought he had with Achilles, Alexander carried a copy of the Iliad with him wherever he went. It is also supposed that Olympia played a part in the assassination of Alexander's father Philip. Within Alexander's childhood lay the beginning's of a true warrior's career. His favorite literature, the Iliad, was an epic battle that gave Alexander insight into the eyes of past heroes. His teacher, Arist ...

... formal education himself, he directed that his son be given complete classical training. He studied with Reverend Mr. Maury, a classical scholar, for two years and in 1760 he attended William and Mary College. After graduating from William and Mary in 1762, Jefferson studied law for five years under George Wythe. In January of 1772, he married Martha Wayles Skelton and established a residence at Monticello. When they moved to Monticello, only a small one room building was completed. Jefferson was thirty when he began his political career. He was elected to the Virginia House of Burgess in 1769, where his first acti ...

... Twain was raised in Hannibal, Missouri, a town on the Mississippi river. After the death of his father in 1847, Twain joined his brother Orion's newspaper, the Hannibal Journal. During this time he became accustomed with much of the frontier humor of the time. From 1853 to 1857, Twain worked in many cities as a printer, and wrote articles for his brother's newspapers under various nicknames. After a visit to New Orleans, he learned how to pilot a steamboat. That became his job until the Civil War closed the Mississippi River, and it set him up for "Old Times on the Mississippi" and "Life on the Mi ...

... world. For someone who never held elective office, wielded a great deal of political power. She wrote now laws and appointed no high officials, yet the self-knowledge and profound humility that invested her regard for every human being has made the story of her life a morality play that brightens the American memory. "There is no human being," wrote in one of her several columns that she frequently wrote for newspaper, from whom we cannot learn something if we are interested enough to dig deep." This basic sense fo kinship with which she approaced the world dictated her vocation of helpfulness. The honesty with ...

... in December.(Bookshelf ’98) In April of 1940 Portrait of the Artist as a Young Dog was published and in September Dylan began working for Strand Films, Inc. He remained with Strand through the conclusion of the Second World War. His second child Aeronwy, Byrn Thomas was born in March of 1943. Deaths and Entrances was released in 1946. Three years later his child, Colm Garan Hart Thomas, was born. In 1952 his final volume, Collected Poems, was published. In addition to the work previously mentioned, he also published many short stories, wrote filmscripts, broadcast stories, did a series lecture tours in ...

... attending school, but in 1917 his family returned to Chicago.2 In Chicago he took a summer job on a railroad. When he began at McKinley High School, he took the money he earned to pay for art classes at the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts.3 When he was sixteen he lied about his age to join the American Red Cross during World War I. Walt Disney had difficulty holding a steady job. His father advised him to take a job at the Chicago jelly factory. But, he determinedly replied," I want to be an artist."4 His first endeavor was the Iwerks-Disney firm. He and his friend , Ub Iwerks, rented a small studio ...

... time to time our nation is blessed by the presence of men and women who bear the mark of greatness, who help us see a better vision of what we can become. Hubert Humphrey was such a man." Humphrey begin his road to sucess at the 1948 Democratic national convention. This where he spoke of Truman's Civil Rights proposals. This lead to his election to the U.S. Senate that same year and gave him the reputation as a fire-breathing Midwestern liberal. Humphrey had a good Vice-Presidential term, he was known as the backbone to the Johnson administration. He ran all foreign conflicts etc.. There was two Presidents dur ...