Educator, Activist, Psychoanalyst, Philosopher, World Traveler, Philanthropist. Prynce (born Prince, sometimes called Pryns) Hopkins was a closely watched figure in his day, with his exploits, travels and marriages reported by the international press. He launched influential schools, operated a swank hotel, was arrested for his writings about pacifism at the start of WWI, and wrote 19 books on a range of topics. Hopkins was born in Oakland, California, and was mostly raised by close friends of the family while his parents traveled. Hopkins, himself was soon traveling and never stopped. Over the years, Hopkins acquired a BS from Yale in engineering, an MA from Columbia in education (after short stays at MIT and Stanford to continue his engineering studies), and a PhD from the University of London in psychology. In 1911, Hopkins patented a form of helicopter (patent 1,001,849). His father, Charles, married Ruth Singer in 1868, heir to the Singer Sewing Machine fortune. When she passed away, the stock passed first to Charles, then to Prynce upon his father's death. Prynce's mother was Mary Isabelle Booth, Charles' third wife. The family home in Santa Barbara, and which Prynce owned for many years, was the striking rock and plaster El Nido on upper Garden Street. After his father's death (1913), Prynce Hopkins began using his inheritance. That same year, Hopkins opened the Boyland school on the Riviera in Santa Barbara. The school was successful and required larger facilities, so Hopkins purchased 30 acres overlooking Oak Park in Santa Barbara. On it he built a large school, most noted for its one-acre map of the world where children could sail between the continents. The school was closed in 1918 after Hopkins and other school leader... ... middle of paper ... ...nched the magazine Science and Society in London and founded the Committee for the Psychological Study of International Problems. Hopkins ran unsuccessfully for a democratic seat in the California State Assembly in 1945 on a platform of "Human Needs First." At this time, he launched Freedom Magazine which remained in circulation only about a year. In 1948, he received some notoriety for his book Gone Up In Smoke, an early analysis of the dangers of smoking. His many books included An Instinctive Philosophy (1916), The Ethics of Murder (1917), Psychology of Social Movements (1938), Religious Beliefs and Practices in the Land of the Incas (1938), From Gods to Dictators (1944), A Westerner Looks East (1951), his autobiography, Both Hands Before the Fire (1961), and World Invisible (1963). Shortly before is death at the age of 85, he traveled once again around the world.
When reading two passages, one by M.F.K. Fisher on the French port of Marseilles and the other by Maya Angelou on the small town of Stamps, I noticed that the passages had some similarities but where entirely different in their effect and the handling of language resources. While Angelou and Fisher organized and constructed their passages similarly, the persona and rhetoric of the authors are opposite.
Jasper Jones is a coming of age novel that the author Craig Silvey has set in 1965, in the small town of Corrigan; thick with secrecy and mistrust. Charlie Bucktin, an innocent boy at the young age of thirteen, has been forced to mature and grow up over a life changing, challenging summer. With a little help from Jasper Jones, Charlie discovers new knowledge about the society and the seemingly perfect town that he is living in, as well as the people that are closest to him. The most important ideas and issues that Craig Silvey portrays in Jasper Jones are: coming of age and identity, injustice and racism. These themes have a great impact on the reader. While discovering and facing these new issues, Charlie and his best friend Jeffrey Lu gain a greater awareness of human nature and how to deal with the challenges that life can throw at you.
He tried to portray the world through the terms of compassion and hope, but at the same time “he was profoundly disturbed by the brutality of totalitarianism and the savagery of war,”
He (JFK) wrote Profiles in Courage, which won the Pulitzer Prize in History. (Freidel and Sidey).
Image there was a career that revolved mainly around helping people; making sure they they have a place to sleep, food to eat, or just for moral support to motivate them to take that extra step. That career exists and it’s called social work. Social work is a job for advocates who help those lesser achieve whatever it is they need to live a better life. Today there are around 700,000 social workers in the field, but that wouldn’t have been possible if it wasn’t for Jane Addams (Boman 2). Jane Addams can be credited with starting the career of social work, and in the span of her life, has made many contributions to our society. Throughout her life Addams was the co-owner of the Hull House, a community home that housed immigrants, classes, and
Today is December 14, 1799. My denomination is Charles Williams. I wanted to commence this diary so I could pass it on to my progenies to show them how this paramount this duration is. It is the turning point and the climax of the history of the American land. Whoever is reading this you must well know that getting independence was not a facile job. An abundance of blood was spilled on this land. Even after the long war for independence, incipient quandaries commenced to breakthrough. First of all, money, and trading was one of the most paramount quandaries after the war. Trading was genuinely hard since the British ships were still out at optically discern if they optically discerned any American vessels they would have assailed it for sure.
Benjamin Franklin Norris, one of the leading figures in the naturalistic style of writing, was born in Chicago in 1970. During his teenage years he moved to 1822 Sacramento Street to live with his father in San Francisco. He traveled to Paris and studied Art and was first exposed to one of his influential writers Emile Zola. He returned to San Francisco and studied the philosophy of evolution at the University of California at Berkley. He transferred to Harvard and took writing classes under Lewis E Gates. Upon graduating he attempted to make a name for himself as a travel writer. He traveled to South Africa and wrote an article about the Boer war. His plans to stay there were cut short as he was captured by the Boer army and deported back to the United States. When he returned to San Francisco, Norris began writing for the magazine The Wave. It was at The Wave that he wrote his first published article that later turned into a novel. Norris continued to work as a journalist, covering the Spanish-American war and he published a few more novels. In 1900, he began work on his second trilogy and most influential set of writings called The Epic of Wheat. The first book of his trilogy, The Octopus, was published in 1901. The second novel, The Pitt, was just near finished when he suffered from appendicitis and had to go under the knife to have his appendix removed. Unfortunately he never recovered from his surgery, and the third book of his trilogy was never written. Norris was mar...
Price Waterhouse should educate its partners and employees about accepted work practices and should institute diversity training in order to educate members that stereotyping is unacceptable. Ann Hopkins should be admitted as partner to the firm and welcomed as a valuable addition to senior management.
The novel I chose this year was “Crank” BY Ellen Hopkins. This book is introduces many topics most don’t like to bring up to children now a days. It is banned in many locations. It is related to drugs, abusive language and sexual moments. The book is about Ellen Hopkins daughter’s drug abuse with crystal meth. In the book she experienced extremely hard moments. She has to try her best to overcome all the darkness in her life.
grew up in Europe and spent his young adult life under the direction of Freud. In 1933
Leonard Covello presented, as a “Teacher with the Heart” by Vitto Perrone is one of many educators who truly loved what he did. Covello, Italian immigrant who came to the U.S. in 1896 with his family seeking better live. As a young man had to leave school and go to work in order to help support his family. Fortunately, returned to school, finished it and became later on one of the best teachers and friends ever. During his school years, his name was changed by one of his teachers from original Leonardo Coviello. He started to question educational system and had awareness of inequality. He was always proud of his culture, love that he had for his students and others came out as a involvement in community centers and formation of Il Italiano Club. As an educator his teaching and help was in hands-on form. Covello was often visiting students’ homes and even use the school for open hours. He had lots of respect for others and anyone could come ask him for help or just to talk. His involvement keeps him in touch with dropped out students and is willing to help them get back to school.
Born in the Russian Empire, Igor Sikorsky Created the first successful helicopter. He was fascinated by aeronautics from a young age. Igor was a psychologist because of his mother and gained a strong love for art and Leonardo da Vinci. He traveled a lot around Europe when he was young. Igor also came to the U.S. and became a school teacher. Which he then proceeded to start his own aerospace company.
Doyle’s first novel came in the 1980’s. The novel was titled Your Granny’s a Hunger Striker; Doyle said it was “brilliant,” but after that it went completely downhill. Later in the 80’s, approximately 1986, he published the first successful novel of his writing career. The name of it was The Commitments, which, with the help of a friend, he published himself under the “King Farouk” imprint, and sold himself. One copy of his book landed at William Heinemann, a London-based publishing house. Heinemann enjoyed the book so much he decided to publish it himself in 1987. Two years later, Random House published the book in the United States. This was Doyle’s big start. After his success he wrote two more novels, The Snapper, and The Van. The Van was such a well written novel that it was a finalist for the 1991 Booker Prize Award. Finally in 1993, success struck again.
...ard University, and at the University of Texas at Austin. He gave a lecture called “Charles Eliot Norton Lectures” in 1952 and 1955 that later was collected as “six nonlectures”. During his last decade of his life he spent time at his summer house and traveled, fulfilling speaking engagements. He died on September 3, 1962 at the age of 62 in North Conway, New Hampshire of a stroke at the Memorial Hospital. He was cremated and had his remains buried in lot 748 Althaeas Path, in Section 6, in Forest Hills Cemetery. His third wife died in 1969 and was buried in an adjoining plot.
...about 50 year, Wells devoted most of his life to writing and his output during this time. Wells stayed productive until the very end of his life, but his attitude started to change in a negative way in his last days. The last thing he wrote was in 1945’s “Mind at the End of Its Tether”. It was an essay which was completed when he was going to pass soon. He died in London August 13, 1946.