Scott Williams Research Paper

Gardner found that there are eight intelligences and could possibly be more. Howard Gardner attended the University of Harvard, he was originally going to study history. After he attended a year at London school of economics. He started Harvard’s developmental psychology doctoral program in 1966 and became part of the Project Zero research team (a long-term study of human intellectual and creative development). His interest in human cognition was influenced by his tutor Erik Erikson.

My historical figure paper is on Whitney M. Young Jr. Whitney M. Young Jr. was born July 31 1921. Young was raised in rural Lincoln Ridge. Whitney Sr. and Laura Ray Young are Whitney M. Young Jr parents. Young grew up on the campus of Lincoln Institute. Lincoln Institute is a vocational high school for black students.

Provide a short biography of the author (be sure to provide a citation for the source used). The author of this document is Benjamin Banneker. As per the learning module, “Benjamin Banneker was born free near Baltimore, Maryland in 1731. His father was an enslaved West African from Guinea and his mother was the child of a female European indentured servant and an enslaved African who gained his freedom before she was born.” Mr. Banneker was a self- educated mathematician, astronomer, ran his family’s farm, and a writer among other things. He is mostly known for creating a wooden clock that ran every hour for over forty years, helping survey our nation’s capital, his widely read almanacs, and his letters to Thomas Jefferson.

Michael Jordan grew up in Wilmington, North Carolina but was born in Brooklyn New York City on February 17, 1963. Michael Jordan 's parents were James and Dolores Jordan. He had 5 kids Marcus, Jeffrey, Isabelle, Jasmine, and Victoria Jordan. Michael Jordan had a social movement on police brutality and what he did was donated $1000000 to International Association of chiefs of Police institute for Community Police relations. Michael Jordan went to college and got his bachelor 's degree in geography at the University of North Carolina

James Dwight Dana was born on February 12, 1813 in Utica, NY. His parents were Harriet Dwight and James Dana. At Utica high school, his teacher Fay Edgerton encouraged and developed his love and interest for science. He graduated in 1830 and enrolled in Yale College, where he studied natural history and geology. He graduated in 1833 and for two years, he became a mathematical instructor to midshipmen in the navy.

The Man Edward Said was born in Mandatory Palestine to a Palestinian father and a Lebanese mother. He was largely educated in Cairo, Alexandria, and finally at an elite prep school in the United States. He would go on to complete his Bachelor of Arts at Princeton, in addition to a Masters of Arts and Doctors of Philosophy in English Literature at Harvard. With his education completed, in 1963 Said joined the faculty of Columbia University, where he would continue to work for the next four decades until his death. Orientalism Said’s book Orientalism is easily his most famous work.

Dr. John M. Gandy (1870-1947) was born on October 31, 1870 in Oktibbeha County, Mississippi. Gandy started his education in a one room school system in Mississippi. Gandy education consisted only of a seventh grade education By the age of fifteen Gandy already began teaching at a school in Stone Mountain, Mississippi after receiving a third grade teaching certificate. While studying at Columbia University in New York, he took nonresident graduate courses and earned a Ph.D. at Illinois Wesleyan University. (Jones, “Gandy”) Receiving degrees of Doctor of Philosophy from Morgan State University in 1920 soon after appointed professor of Greek and Latin at Virginia Normal and College Institute.

My research paper is about North Carolina AKA Tar Heels it was found on December 11, 1789 in Chapel Hill North Carolina. As of 2013 the underbody student body count is 18350 and 10785 graduate students, (29,135) total students. There nickname is Tar Heels, there school color is Carolina blue, and there mascot is Rameses. North Carolina is a public school which basically means it was founded by the government to give residents an opportunity to receive public college education. Tuition for 2016-2017 school year cost 24,898 dollars for North Carolina residents and 51,466 dollars for out of state residents, and for 4 years it cost 99,596 dollars for North Carolina residents and 205,864 dollars for out of state residents.

Bimbi showed Malcolm the value of education, which caused him to learn and study English and Latin. Then one day, his brother, Reginald, gave Malcolm the idea to join the Nation on Islam and become a Black Muslim, a group that was founded by Elijah Muhammad. After being in prison for seven years, Malcolm was granted parole. While on parole, he moved to Detroit to live with his brother Wilfred. Then inspired by the Black Muslims, Malcolm Little changed his name to Malcolm X, which represented the lost name of his African ancestors.

Evers oldest brother Charles became the field secretary in honor of his brother. In 1969 Charles also became the first African American mayor of Mississippi. 40 years later people like civil rights veterans, government officials and students from schools all over Mississippi gathered around his grave and honored his legacy. Also in honor of Evers a cargo ship was also named

Ulysses S. Grant was a man of true courage although he faced alcohol addiction and business failure, he skillfully led the North to victory and helped give African Americans several rights and freedoms. Ulysses S. Grant was born on April 27, 1822 in Point Pleasant, Ohio to Jesse Grant, a tanner, and Hannah Grant, a homemaker (Broadwater 4). At seventeen, Grant was accepted into West Point, the college of choice of his father. Grant went to West Point, New York and soon began his residency. He graduated in four years, in the bottom half of his class (Worldbook Online).

Duane Elwood Hanson was an American figurative sculptor who was known for his trompe l’oeil style sculptures. He was born on January 17, 1925 in Alexandria, Minnesota and died on January 6, 1996. Hanson attended Macalester College, where he obtained his bachelor’s degree in 1946. From there, Hanson furthered his education by studying at the University of Minnesota, eventually obtaining his M.F.A in sculpture at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1951. He spent a few years teaching in Germany, where he met George Grygo, a German artist who worked with fiberglass and polyester.

As the quote reads above, we often only remember Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and tend to forget about Thurgood Marshall who also and important figure of the civil rights movement as Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X were. Thurgood Marshall was the first black supreme court justice. Marshall was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1908. In his college years he went to the historically black Lincoln University. After, he applied at University of Maryland Law School but was denied because he was black.

In 1679, Newton 's mother died which caused him to become extremely isolated for six months; he used this time to study gravity. Although Newton is best known for his work on gravity he also had many physical inventions. He is also known for the invention of calculus as well as another mathematician who they say invented it at the same time. Later on, he then published a book titled Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica which is considered to be one of the most influential books in the history of science today. Newton was elected president of Royal Society after the death of Robert Hookes in 170 3.