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Born on November 3, 1905, in Boston Massachusetts, Harlem Renaissance famous writer, Lois Mailou Jones was born not knowing the artistic, knowledgeable, and well-known lady she would become. Lois was an African American women who was a successful artist and teacher. She taught at Howard University, was the First African American to exhibit art at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and received countless acknowledgements through her life and after she deceased. Despite the challenges Lois may…

1809, Edgar Allan Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts. Poe’s father and mother, both professional actors, died before the poet was three years old, and John and Frances Allan raised him as a foster child in Richmond, Virginia. John Allan, a prosperous tobacco exporter, sent Poe to the best boarding schools and later to the University of Virginia, where Poe excelled academically. After less than one year of school, however, he was forced to leave the university when Allan refused to pay Poe’s…

female patrons of the arts during the Victorian era. A leading art collector, she fulfilled a dream to share her treasures from around the world when she founded the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in Boston, Massachusetts. Gardner did not conform to the conservative code of conduct expected of Boston matrons at the time and instead, is remembered for having a “zest for life, an energetic intellectual curiosity and a love of travel” (Carter). From a young age, Isabella Stewart Gardner lead an…

He started off as an assistant at the College of Charleston. He moved from there, to Northeastern University, to Duquesne University, and finally to Louisville under Rick as an assistant coach. From Louisville he did receive a head coaching job at the University of Minnesota. Taking the job, he would replace Tubby Smith. He remains there to this day. Richard and Rick have played coached against each other. Rick has won the game…

White in 1895, who was a major inspiration for his poetry until her death on March 20, 1938. Frost moved in the United States in 1915 where in New England gave frost the subjects of his finest poems. He published "A Boy's Will" in 1913 and "North of Boston" in 1914 which established his reputation. By the 1920's Frost…

New York and orphaned at a young age and was raised by her mother’s family. She attended Oberlin College which was a college that did a lot of work with the abolition of slavery which greatly influenced her work. After College Edmonia moved to Boston and became friends with sculptor Edward Brackett and he taught her sculpting and encouraged her to…

accomplishments, and facts about the famous author himself. Poe was born in Boston, Massachusetts on January 19, 1809. His parents were traveling actors while he was growing up. His father left the family after his wife died in 1811. After he left, Poe and his siblings William Henry Leonard Poe, and Rosalie Mackenzie Poe, were adopted to John Allan and had moved to Richmond, Virginia. After that time, Poe enrolled in the university of Virginia in 1826. His first book was published in 1827…

advancing her career. She desired an occupation that would allow her to understand herself better and travel around the world. On that condition, being bilingual has its advantages when the United Fruit Company needed a secretary at their Boston office in Massachusetts. It was then that my grandma took the opportunity to leave her home, Guatemala. It was her chance to escape the dangerous gang violence, receive better payment, and gain more opportunities to travel. Regardless, it was difficult…

During elementary school my mother was working toward a masters degree in physical therapy. In preparation for tests and exams any time she caught me in front of the television, in the living room of our apartment, I became a studying tool and test subject. While watching Barney and Elmo reruns, my q-angles were measured and the endpoint of my ACL tested using the Lachman test. I tell you this because growing up in this environment I developed my interest in the human body and medicine. What…

Theories of Personality Major Paper: Violet Harmon This paper is about the personality of Violet Harmon, a main character in the rapidly growing television show American Horror Story. I will describe her life in a case study below and from there on I will describe the study of her personality from both a psychoanalytic viewpoint and a non-psychoanalytic viewpoint, in doing so I will bring up many of the psychologist theories that we have covered throughout the semester such as Sigmund Freud,…