What exactly is it that is thought to factor into the picture perfect life? Money? Women? Fame? Success? For one man, all of these things gave him the bizarre, flamboyant lifestyle he is most known for. Highly remembered for his extravagant personal life, successful business decisions, and eccentric medical issues, Howard Hughes has changed the world of Hollywood and business greatly. Hughe’s legacy lives on at this moment, throughout our everyday life.
Howard Hughes was born December 24, 1905 in Houston Texas. As a child, Hughes had already started to show an interest in engineering. Its is said that when Hughes was a teenager, hs mother would not allow him to get a motorcycle, claiming they were unsafe. He soon motorized his bicycle using
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Mr. Hughes never had very stable relationships, although women tended to swarm him no matter where he was at. Before moving out to California, Hughes decided to marry high class Ella Rice in 1925. After only three years of marriage, the couple divorced. He soon set out on his movie making career and began seeing many acclaimed Hollywood actresses. Between 1931 and 1933 it is said he had relations with over 50 actresses including Katharine Hepburn, Ava Gardner, Lana Turner, Bette Davis among them. …show more content…
In 1933 he founded the Hughes Aircraft Company in Glendale, California. Nine years later he moved it to Culver City, where it grew into one of the most profitable aircraft companies in the world. Hughes received many awards and risked his life multiple times to set records as an aviator. In January 1936 he set a new transcontinental speed record, flying from Los Angeles to Newark, New Jersey, in nine hours and twenty-seven minutes. In 1938, with a crew of four, he flew around the world in three days, nineteen hours, and twenty-eight minutes. During the fall of 1939 his company began designs for new kinds of military aircraft in the event of America's possible involvement in war. (Thomas) Howard Hughes is credited with many aviation innovations such as the first retractable landing gear. As an aviator, Hughes is well known for the H-4 Hercules, also known as the Spruce Goose. He worked on the Spruce Goose for years. Its purpose was to be a seaplane used for transporting troops and cargo across the Atlantic Ocean during World War II. Once it was done in 1947, the Spruce Goose was flown only one time and never went into production. It is currently housed in the Evergreen Aviation Museum in McMinnville, Oregon.
Babe Ruth, or George Herman as his birth name states, was born February 6, 1895 in Baltimore, Maryland.
Born in Brazil, Ind., on Feb. 14, 1913, Jimmy grew up fast when his coal miner father died from lung disease in 1920. His mother took in laundry to keep the family together and the children also helped with after school jobs. Hoffa later described his mother lovingly as a frontier type woman "who believed that Duty and Discipline were spelled with capital D's."
Howard Allan Stern was born January 12, 1954 in New York, New York to parents Ray and Ben Stern. For the first 15 years of his life, Stern lived in Roosevelt, Long Island, NY. Sterns love for radio was inherited from his father, who owned part of a recording studio. Stern displayed a love of performing from an early age. Encouraged by his mother, Stern would create puppet shows for his friends, and then perform them in his basement. The shows of course would have Sterns personal touch of being outrageous. Sterns social life growing up was not the best. Roosevelt having a large African American population made it hard for Stern to fit in and he the target of school fights. The Stern family moved to Rockville Centre, in 1969, when Stern was 15.
President Jimmy Carter was born October 1924 in a little town called Plains located in Georgia. As a young boy, he grew up in Archery a little nearby community and Jimmy Carter was drawn into farming just the same way his father James Earl Carter was. His family was surrounded by peanut crops, politic talk and being faithful to the Baptist religion. While he attended school in a public school of Plains his father took care of the crops and worked as a business man; his mother Lillian Gordy Carter was working as a registered nurse.
Hughes mother went through protracted separations and reconciliations in her second marriage (she and her son from this marriage would live with him off and on in later years. He was raised by alternately by her, by his maternal grandmother, and, after his grandmother’s death, by family friends. By the time he was fourteen, he had lived in Joplin; Buffalo; Cleveland; Lawrence, Kansas; Mexico City; Topeka, Kansas; Colorado Springs; Kansas City; and Lincoln, Illinois. In 1915, he was class poet of his grammar-school graduating class in Lincoln. From 1916 to 1920, he attended Central High School in Cleveland, where he was a star athlete, wrote poetry and short stories (and published many of them in the Central High Monthly), and on his own read such modern poets as Paul Laurence Dunbar, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, and Carl Sandburg. His classmates were for the most part the children of European immigrants, who treated him largely without discrimination and introduced him to leftist political ideas.
Ralph Waldo Ellison was born on March 1st 1914 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He was named after journalist and poet Ralph Waldo Emerson. Ellison’s father died in a work related accident when he was just three years old. His
For his entire life, Houdini claimed that he was born on April 6, 1874 in Appleton Wisconsin. The fact was, however, that he was born on March 24, 1874, in Budapest, Hungary. His father was a religious teacher , his mother a stay at home wife. He had six siblings that survived adulthood. His father emigrated to America and changed the spelling
...n. Amid massive worldwide publicity, Irving was sentenced to 2 ½ years in federal prison only two months after he appeared on the cover of Time. It was money that etched Howard Hughes into the public mind. The sound of his name was associated with untold wealth, wealth supposedly accumulated through his gift for turning all he touched to gold. left the world with a spectacular legacy that will be remembered for years to come. His contributions to the film business, such as attention to detail and high budget spending, are still being used to this day. Howard’s cutting edge technology used to build his many planes has let to development of many aircrafts presently in use. In truth, we are left with two Howard Hugheses- the public and the private: the rational disguise and the world of shadows, of instinct to preserve and protect at any cost the image he had created. That it has taken so many years for the veil to part is tribute both to his genius and to his tragedy.
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No one can be exempt from experiencing the hardships in life. Great success comes from failures. But not everyone has great success because they do not continue on after the failures. Some of us instead give up rather than continue to venture forward to achieve our goals and dreams. With that in mind, it is important to look at what motivates humans to continue on after failures. Walt Disney like everyone else in this world had successful ventures and complete failures. But, unlike those people who just give up after failing one time. Walt Disney kept on going and he soon succeeded. Walt Disney moved forward because of his goals and perseverance in life. There were many people who talked about Disney’s life, Neal Gabler stresses Disney’s early commitment to innovation’’(Gabler, 2006, p. 121). And as Schickel notes, ‘‘Mickey would become a symbol of the unconquerably chipper American spirit in the depths of the Depression’’(Schickel,1998, p.124). In essence, as shown by his life, his thoughts on work and achievements and his thought on his career and family, Walt Disney was motivated mostly by the goals he wished to achieve that had to do with motivation for art and his family rather than the being motivated by someone with incentives or being seemingly
Hughes was born in Joplin, Missouri on February 1, 1902. He was born into a black family of abolitionists and his parents were both bookkeepers. When Hughes was young his parents separated, causing his father to move to Mexico and his mother to leave him for quite a while in search of a steady job. Hughes could never call a place ?home? for too long because he was always moving from one place to another or living with different family members and friends. This constant movement affected his writing because he learned about many different people and life styles from the places he lived.
After working numerous menial jobs, Hughes stumbled upon a profession that truly suited him. He became a merchant seaman and recurrently visited various ports in West Africa. From these travels he learned that he loved seeing new and foreign places. Instead of returning to the United States, Hughes spent time living in far off places such as Pans, Genoa, and Rome. In each location he gathered information and experience that he began writing about. Upon returning to the U.S., Hughes released his first publication and gained instant attention and fame. Now comfortable with what he wanted for his life, Hughes returned to college and grad...
James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. Langston was still a baby when his parents separated, and his father went to Mexico. Hughes grew up and went to school in Lawrence, Kansas, where his grandmother helped bring him up. After she died, he and his mother lived in Lincoln, Illinois for a time. Shortly, they moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Langston attended Central High School in Cleveland, Ohio, but began writing poetry in the eighth grade. In the eighth grade, he was selected as Class Poet.
James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin , Missouri . His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico . He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln , Illinois , to live with his mother and her husband, before the family eventually settled in Cleveland , Ohio . It was in Lincoln , Illinois , that Hughes began writing poetry. Following graduation, he spent a year in Mexico and a year at Columbia University . During these years, he held odd jobs as an assistant cook, launderer, and a busboy, and travelled to Africa and Europe working as a seaman. In November 1924, he moved to Washington , D.C. Hughes's first book of poetry, The Weary Blues, was published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1926. He finished his college education at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania three years later. In 1930 his first novel, Not Without Laughter, won the Harmon gold medal for literature.
Hughes did not accomplish great achievements in his life so easily. He was diagnosed with obsessive-compulsive Disorder or OCD. Due to this condition, he had made sure everything was made perfect and in an organized manner. His condition nearly killed him at one point of his life. As depicted in the film, his condition only worsened later in his life.