Biography of Albert Arnold Gore
On March 31, 1948 Albert Arnold Gore Jr. was born in Washington D.C.
He was born into a highly political family. Albert Gore Sr. was
serving his fifth term in the U.S. House of Representatives,
representing Tennessee's fourth Congressional District. His mother
Pauline worked side by side with her husband in the office. Al was
their second child. He had an older sister Nancy who was ten years
older than him. Albert Gore Jr. lived two different lives while
growing up. During the winter months he lived with his parents in an
apartment in the Fairfax Hotel. During the summer months and vacation
he moved to the Gore's 250-acre farm in Carthage, Tennessee.
When Al was young, he attended elementary school in Carthage until the
fourth grade. After that, Al started at the St. Albans School for Boys
in Washington D.C. Albert achieved excellent grades and became a
serious student. As Gore's senior year drew close he won various
awards for academic achievement. He was a National Merit Scholarship
Finalist and was granted the college of his choice. Al selected
Harvard University.
Gore had a roommate in college named John Tyson who was a burly
African American football player. They shared many of the same
interests. At Harvard, Albert Jr. majored in American Government. In
March of 1966 Al Gore registered for the draft in Tennessee. From 1969
to 1971 Gore served in Vietnam in the U.S. Army as an Army information
specialist, although he slightly opposed the United States'
involvement in this incident. Al married Mary Elizabeth Aictheson
(known as "Tipper") on May 19th 1970. After Gore returned from Vietnam
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for technology initiatives. Gore was a strong supporter of the
"information superhighway" (which would later come to be known as he
internet), which was currently a fiber-optic based network that could
connect people to sources of information, education, and
entertainment.
"Al Gore" by Betty Burford, is an adequate account of the subject's
life until 1994. It begins with a chapter on the 1992 Democratic
National Convention, where the author states Al Gore as a candidate
for Vice-President of the United States. Then in short chapters she
describes in great detail his early life through his well-known
political career. The book explains his ups and downs through life as
well as his triumphs and obstacles he faced. The picture Burford
paints of Al Gore Jr. is one of confidence, sincerity, and dedication.
Adolf Hitler was born April 20, 1889 to Klara and Alois Hitler in a small town in Austria called Braunau. Braunau was located about 65 miles from munich and about 30 miles north from Salzburg. Adolf grew up not having as much money as they would like but still made it work with what they had. Adolfs dad, Alois Hitler was a mid- level customs worker while his mom did not have a job so she could take care of the children. He had five siblings, but only one survived childhood due to illnesses and lack of medicine. Paula Hitler, his sister was the only sibling that survived childhood while Gustav, Ida, Otto, and Edmund. Besides them, he did have a stepbrother named Alois and step-sister named Angela from his father's previous marriages. His father had two marriages before Adolf was born. Adolf’s father was fifty-one when he had him, and died when Adolf was only thirteen. Adolfs mom, Klara had died of breast cancer in 1908 (Early Years).
school. It was a wonder that he got into Notre Dame with his high school record.
At the age of thirteen he began working in order to earn money for college. He was a shoe shiner, an elevator boy, and a paper boy. He attended the all-black Armstrong High School, where he acted in plays, was a sergeant in the Cadet Corps, and earned good grades, graduating at the age of 16.
Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908 in Texas; he was the oldest child of five other siblings. His father a farmer, Sam Ealy Johnson Jr, also represented the USA as a legislator was married to his mother, Rebekah Baines Johnson. Lyndon graduated from Southwest State Teachers College in 1930, today the school is known as Texas State University – San Marcus. To assist in paying for his education he took jobs teaching underprivileged Mexican-American students, it was during this time while talking and teaching he was exposed to discrimination and poverty, which made a deep
When Cullen entered high school he went to DeWitt Clinton High School in The Bronx. He excelled at school academically while emphasizing his skills at poetry and in oratorical contest. At DeWitt he was elected into the honor society, editor of the weekly newspaper, and elected vice-president of his graduating class. He was an all around star at his school. In January 1922, he graduated with honors in Latin, Greek, Mathematics, and French.
Edward E. Davis, also known as Earl Davis, was born in early 1916. He is currently 97 years old, and is at least the oldest living World War II veteran in Smyth County, Virginia. At age twenty five, on September 8, 1941, Davis was drafted into the United States Army and was sent for basic training in South Carolina. He was one of five children, all boys, and they all served in the United States military. His official title in the United States Army was to be a carrier, a mortar gunner and ammunition carrier. Davis was married to Mary Irene Tolliver Davis, who unfortunately passed away on March 29, 2005 at 82 years old.
...l Gore and his powerpoint on Global Warming (Snopes, par. 3), her deeds are still greatly appreciated. Her brave efforts will never be forgotten; her legacy will live on forever.
ranching. Lyndon's father was a rancher and part-time politician, but did not inherit the family's
his life with petty crime in Brooklyn, New York. After escalating his way up in
His presentation in the documentary was all but dull. He has his audience’s attention and uses graphs, pictures, and actual statistics to support his research. One of the several charts Al Gore uses in his presentation is well presented and accurately depicts the effect of this climate crisis. Carbon Dioxide is at its highest peak as of now according to the chart Al Gore presents and he emphasizes the increased rate by using a mechanical lift that elevates him to the peak of the Co2 level on the chart. This leaves the audience in shock and as a result it allows the audience to understand the reality of the carbon dioxide level and its relationship with temperature as it increases the amount of heat being trapped inside earth’s outer layer. Gore does a great job in emphasizing how literally carbon dioxide is “off the charts” and as a result temperature increases as well. As stated in the film, in the course of 50 years or so if people don’t take action against this issue it will become irreversible. It is not fair to our future generations but as Al Gore states, “This is not a political issue, so much as moral issue, and if we allow this to continue to happen it is deeply
At a backyard barbecue in 1977 George was introduced to his future wife Laura a school teacher and librarian. Bush proposed to her after only a three-month courtship, and they married on November 5 of 1977, the same year that they met. The pair settled in Midland, Texas George’s childhood town. On November 25, 1981 ...
“All good ideas arrive by chance” (Max Ernst). Max Ernst born 1891 in Bruhl, Germany. He was a painter, sculptor, graphic artist and a poet. Max Ernst came from a large middle-class family of nine and was the third born. His father Phillipp was an amateur painter and was a teacher to the deaf. A good deal of Ernst's work as an adult sought to undermine authority including that of his father. Max was a founding member of the Surrealist group in Paris. Although many speculate on the ideas that Max had there are numerous pieces of artwork that are an amazing sight. His works and iconic paintings have been seen all around the world and
In the documentary, An Inconvenient Truth, former presidential nominee Al Gore illuminates the detrimental effects of global warming. Throughout the documentary, Gore discusses the scientific opinion on global warming, which at the time was considered to be a taboo, and argues that, though an “inconvenient truth,” global warming is an actual, catastrophic issue. He states that global warming “is not really a political issue, so much as a moral one.” In addition, Gore contends that global warming is human-caused and specifically emphasizes America’s harmful contributions to its catastrophic dangers. As a result, Gore challenges his viewers to take action in joining the efforts to reduce the long term effects of global warming.
Edward Albee burst onto the American theatrical scene in the late 1950s with a variety of plays that detailed the agonies and disillusionment of that decade and the transition from the calm Eisenhower to the turbulent 1960s. Albee became a serious dramatist dealing with serious but always relevant themes, primarily having to do with the predicament of humanity in a society with moral decay, as well as the conflict between reality and illusion. His work is considered to be unique, uncompromising, controversial, elliptical, and provocative.
In 1973, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) initiated a research program to investigate techniques and technologies for interlinking packet networks of various kinds. It then expanded to other governmental agencies and then to higher education. This was called the Internetting project and the system of networks, which emerged from the research, was known as the "Internet." Al Gore is described as "an advocate of the information superhighway". He helped bring it to our national attention that he invented the Internet. It is not true that he invented the Internet but it is true that he had a small part in its development. Since the early sixties, when Al Gore was still in high school, the development of networking technology had already started. It is true that the Internet has grown and flourished tremendously during Gore's tenure, but that hardly means he caused it to happen.