Portland, Maine

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an american poet and educator who was born in Portland, Maine, on February 27, 1807. He studied at Bowdoin College. He stayed some time in London but after a while of living there he became a professor at Bowdoin and then later on in his life, a professor at Harvard College. He is viewed by some as a great poem but others criticize him for some of his work. He lived his last days translating works from foreign languages and writing poems. Henry died in 1882. The rapper Clifford Joseph Harris Jr., better known as T.I., is from Atlanta Georgia. He was born in September 25, 1980. His childhood wasn’t the best and dealt drugs as a young kid. Growing up though, he started rapping and time along with his work brought him where he is at right now. He’s a rapper, author, entrepreneur and many other things. When you look at these 2 people, you notice that they do not have much in common. Despite…

Nicholas Longworth is best remembered as the father of American winemaking. Longworth popularized the Catawba grape and created a widespread, if short-lived, enthusiasm for sparkling wines of the Ohio River Valley. He was also a well-regarded attorney, a massively successful real estate investor, and a tireless philanthropist who dedicated his enormous fortune to those whom he affectionately called “the devil’s poor.” When he was 19 years old, he moved west, eager to distance himself…

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was an acclaimed poet in the 1800s and the first non-British writer to have a honorary bust placed in Poet’s corner, Westminster Abbey, in 1884 (Belanger 1). He was very popular during his time and still is today. Many events in Longfellow’s life influenced what he wrote about and his style. Longfellow’s travels, schooling, and obstacles in life wholly created Longfellow’s simple and sentimental style of writing that was so admired. To begin, Longfellow was a…

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917, in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five siblings, his mother, Carolyn, and father N.C. Wyeth. He was a dominant force in the household and guided his son’s artistic abilities. Andrew Wyeth was a 20th Century painter. He is known for his realism in portraiture and pastorals, as seen in Christina’s World. In 1939 Andrew Wyeth had his first showing at the Art Alliance in Philadelphia. The following year he had his debut one-man show at New…

Stephen E. King was born in Portland, Maine on on September 21, 1947. King is one of the most successful horror writers of all time. His parents, Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King, divorced when King was a kid. King and his brother traveled to Indiana and Connecticut for a while. After a while the traveling became a hassle, so he moved to Maine with his mother and brother . Eventually, he graduated in 1966, from Lisbon Falls High School. King attended the University of Maine at Orono. He…

Stephen edward king was born in portland maine on september 21, 194 king and his older brother lived with their mom after their father left when he was just two years old (Stephen 1). Once his father left his mom ended up moving them to several different areas until she decided to stay in one place for the next six years. Stephen king later graduated in 1966 from high school then went to college were he graduated in 1770. After college king accepted a job as a english teacher, during this time…

Francis Petty grove was born in Calais, Maine, in 1812. While being educated in his home town. He grew up to enter into a number of independent business activities in New England. He paid fifty dollars for the land that is which known as Portland. He owned a lot of warehouses that made money off of grain, lumber, and salted fish. Later at the age of 75 he died, he was buried at Port Townshed. …

Geography is the study of the interaction between people within their environment at a place. It includes three factors: space, place, and environment. In this paper, I will first explain what those three factors entail. Then, I will relate the factors to Portland in detail. Finally, I will discuss the research a geographer would need to produce knowledge by exploration and observation in regards to a city. The central concepts of geography are the space, place, and environment. The three…

“What makes someone a trail blazer?” This question was posed to me by my mother when advised to expand my ideas when writing my essay. “What defines a trail blazer?” A trailblazer is defined as a pioneer and innovator. I was astonished to find that a word that is so influential to me would have two unstimulating words as its definition. So, I posed the question to myself “What makes me a trail blazer?”. My thoughts are a trail blazer is someone who creates their own pathway to success, while…

Oregon Episcopal School is a college prep school located in the suburbs of Portland Oregon (Speik, 1986). Included within their regular classes was their Basecamp Wilderness Education Program, designed, among other things, to give sophomores a chance to summit Mount Hood. The 1986 trip and attempt of summiting was scheduled for May 12th. According to Plummer in his article describing how the climb turned into a disaster, early that morning around 3:00 a.m. the group consisting of fifteen…