Charles Monroe Schulz was the creator and cartoonist of the comic strip Peanuts. Charles has won two Peabody awards, two Reuben awards and five Emmy awards on his comic strip. Charles is also a member of the Cartoonist Hall of Fame. When Charles was a boy, he started to draw when he was only six years old. In second grade, he was awarded one of the most outstanding students in his class. When he was older, Charles was so smart that he was allowed to skip two grades in high school. After high school, he took some art classes from the Art Institute.
Charles Monroe Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, on November 26, 1922. He was the only son of Carl and Dena Halverson Schulz. Charles' dad Carl, owned and worked in his own barber shop
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Charles was inspired from Milton Caniff and Bill Mauldin. Charles has only took one five week vacation on the cartoon in late 1997. In 1951, Charles moved to Colorado Springs, Colorado were he married Joyce Halverson. Later, his son, Monte, was born in Colorado. His other three children were born in Minnesota except for their adopted daughter, Meredith Hodges. He painted a wall in Colorado for his daughter Meredith. The wall had Patty, Charlie Brown, and Snoopy. The wall was removed in 2001 to be donated to the Charles M. Schulz Museum in Santa Rosa, California. Schulz's family stayed in Minneapolis until 1958. Then they moved to Sebastopol,California, where Schulz built his first studio. The studio was where Schulz was interviewed for the unaired television documentary A Boy Named Charlie Brown. Some of the footage was later used in a documentary titled Charlie Brown and Charles Schulz. New TV specials have been produced since Charles' death, but the stories are from past strips. In November 1999, Charles had a stroke. Later after the stroke, He found out that he had colon cancer. He announced his retirement on December 14, 1999. Retiring was very hard for
Theodor Seuss Geisel (aka Dr. Seuss) was born in Springfield, Massachusetts on March 2, 1904. His father worked in the family brewery, Kuhlmbach & Geisel, which locals pronounced, "come back and guzzle” until prohibition. His mother’s maiden name was Seuss. She was the daughter of a baker in Springfield. Seuss had an older sister named Marnie (Kibler, 1987).
Theodor Seuss was born in Springfield, Mass. on March 2, 1904 and died on September 24, 1991. He graduated from Dartmouth College. Dr. Seuss was a children's author who target young readers. His first book was "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" and was followed by many other famous stories such as, "How The Grinch Stole Christmas" and to one of his most famous books "The Cat in The Hat". Dr. Seuss is a well know author world-wide.
Ray Charles one of the greatest African-American artists of all time. He left a legacy of hits and Grammy awards, but the musicians he influenced were very diverse in genre as the music he wrote, arranged, performed, and recorded. Ray Charles died at the age of 73 on June 10, 2004 from acute liver disease. Months after his death on October 29, 2004 the movie Ray was released to the U.S on a budget of forty million dollars. The film went on to become a box-office hit, earning over $100 million dollars with an additional $75 million internationally. It ended up with a worldwide gross of over $175 million.
The Peanuts appeared in seven newspapers when it was first printed on October 2, 1950 (Friedman, Megan). World War II had just ended, and Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang provided a fun and uplifting escape from the devastation of war. Over the following years, the comic became a booming sensation. In 1965, only fifteen years after its first publication, the Peanuts gang was featured on the cover of Time. Even NASA thought that Schulz’s comic was out of this world; Charlie Brown and Snoopy travelled to the moon when the Apollo X crew named their command and lunar modules after them in 1969 (Friedman, Megan). The Peanuts made the Guinness World Records in 1984 for appearing in its 2000th newspaper. The easily recognizable characters have been spotted as balloons at the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade annually since 2002. The last Peanuts comic was published on January 3, 2000--but that wouldn’t be the last America would see of them.
Dr. Seuss was born in Springfield, MA on March 2, 1904 as Theodor Seuss Geisel (Dr. Seuss At Work). He attended Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire. He did his undergraduate work at Dartmouth; postgraduate, Oxford and Sorbonne( SV DO or C; S, DO or C) (Geisel, Theodor Seuss). Seuss became the editor-in-chief for Dartmouth’s Jack-o-lantern, the college’s humor magazine. It was now when he started signing his works with the pseudonym, Dr. Seuss. After his studies became too much to handle, he quit college and toured around Europe. When he returned home he began pursuing a career in cartooning (All About Dr. Seuss). He illustrated a collection of children’s saying called Boners. These sayings were not a huge success. He pushed for his original book, To Think I Saw it on Mulberry Street to be published seventeen times.
The death of Robert Johnson was tragic and the myths that surround him will last forever. In August 1938, Johnson played the last show of his life. The jealous husband of a woman that he began an affair with while in Greenwood, Mississippi poisoned Johnson. During the show the husband poisoned Johnson's whiskey. Johnson died on August 13th, 1938, three days after he was poisoned.
Charles grew up in a wealthy family and had everything pretty much going for him. He was always full of curiosity coming up, always wanted to know how different things worked, and would try different experiments. "Charles always tried various experiments. One of these, after he'd read the New Testament account of Jesus walking on water, was an attempt to walk on water. He didn't use faith or magic, but science, with the help of a mechanical device he made out of two planks held together with hinges." (Josepha Sherman, page 16) Aside from the wealth they had poor health, in London there was pollution everywhere and all kinds of toxicants in the air. This caused Charles siblings after him to die before they reached to age of one. "Even so, the air wouldn't have been to clean, thanks to carelessly tossed garbage, horses in the street, and poor sewer...The Babbage’s decided that the wisest thing to do was send Charles away from London, out into the cleaner countryside." (Josepha Sherman, page 14) At the age of
During the last two years of Francis’ life, his health was destroyed. He felt tremendous pain in his eyes, spleen, and liver, stomach and have contracted malaria. Francis knew his last days were nearing. He asked his attendants to sing to him, for Francis enjoyed the sound of music. St. Francis died on October 3rd, 1226, while singing his nature song, Canticle of the Sun.
... years in a row. Theodor Seuss Geisel passed away in 1991 at his home in California.
...69, Armstrong would go to the hospital with heart problems in 1959, Just ten years before that, he would be hospitalized for a heart attack.(Louis Armstrong) Louis Armstrong would die in 1971, one source however says he died in his sleep, another of of a heart attack.
...d his mind continued to rapidly deteriorate. After five more agonizing years of severe pain and loss of memory from syphilis, Capone finally died on January 25, 1947 of cardiac arrest.11
“The third day- it was Wednesday of the first week- Charles bounced a see-saw on to the head of a little girl and made her bleed,” (1). In the short story “Charles” written by Shirley Jackson, Laurie, the main character of the story, is a young kindergartener who is able to run around causing trouble at school and at the same time, pretend that it is only another boy in his class that is making the trouble. “Charles” teaches you that parents do not know everything about their child even though the child lives in the same house as them. Laurie’s parents do not know what he is like at school. Laurie is flamboyant, and arrogant yet creative and those characteristics make him the perfect troublemaker.
...25, 1947 when he died of cardiac arrest at his Palm Island palace-in Biscayne Bay,In Florida, Just eight days after his 48th birthday.
The cancer spread to his femur, pelvis and bladder. John Cheever died on June 28th in 1982 in Ossining, New York.
...pt up his busy tour schedule until a few years before died. The great trumpet player Louis Armstrong died in Queens, New York July 6, 1971. Louis had won a massive amount of awards for his trumpet skills. Louis was described as a quick and inventive musical minded person. Louis was also built a house museum in his memory.