Of French, English, German, and Irish descent, Emmy-winning talk-show host Ellen Lee DeGeneres was born into a family of four in Metairie, Louisiana. At age 16 in 1973, Ellen DeGeneres's father, insurance salesman Elliot Everett DeGeneres, divorced her mother, speech therapist Elizabeth Jane "Betty" Pfeffer.1 Shortly after, however, DeGeneres's mother married salesman Roy Gruessendorf, whom moved the family (which included DeGeneres's brother Vance) to Atlanta, Texas.
Ellen DeGeneres graduated from Atlanta High School in 1976. Then, she continued her education at the University of New Orleans as a communication major; she dropped out after one semester. Ellen DeGeneres claimed that that she was "not book smart."2
After college, Ellen DeGeneres subsisted on a variety of jobs; she became a clerk, a salesperson, a waitress, a housepainter, a hostess, and a bartender. The origin of DeGeneres's stand-up comedy started in small clubs and coffee houses. However, Ellen DeGeneres's career was not jumpstarted until 1981, when she performed as the emcee for Clyde's Comedy Club in New Orleans. In the early 1980s, Ellen began to tour around America; she was named as Showtime's Funniest Person in America by 1982.3 Consequently in 1986, DeGeneres appeared on The Tonight Show starring Johnny Carson, whom compared her to Bob Newhart.4 Furthermore, DeGeneres was the first comedienne to be summoned to an onscreen chat with Carson after her performance.5
Ellen DeGeneres's first appearance
She got pregnant at 15 and continued to go to high school graduating from Reid Continuation High School as class valedictorian. She then attended California State University, Long Beach and studied business administration.
On July 6th, 1979, Kevin Hart, world renown comedian and actor, was born. He was born to two wonderful parents named Nancy Hart (Mother) and Henry Witherspoon (Father). He was the youngest of two boys. They were mainly raised by their mother, acting as a single parent as a result of Henry Witherspoon’s problems with a drug addiction and the law.
Sotomayor graduated from Cardinal Spellman High School in the Bronx in 1972. She then entered Princeton University were she became involved with Puerto Rican Groups on campus. Sotomayor graduated from Princeton University in 1976. She received the Pyne Prize, the highest academic honor that is awarded to students who will receive a degree.
She attended East Carolina University in Greenville, North Carolina. While in attendance, Disbrow studied Business Administration. She graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1998, before relocating to Raleigh, North Carolina to live and work.
Four million African American women were slaves in the years between 1619 between 1865 (Sterling 3). Slave women did not keep diaries and hardly wrote letters thus it is so hard for historians to track their lives. Black women were the most exploited working force. Ellen Craft was a great woman, she overcame the biggest struggle of her life during hard times for an African American women.
After high school Betsey attended Pratt Institute to study fine arts. After a year, she transferred to Syracuse University and graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude in 1964.
To start with, Ellen wasn’t in the best of situations when this whole story started- her mother was sick with rheumatic fever, and her father was a drunk
After high school, DeGeneres did not know what she wanted to do with her life. At the age of 19, one of DeGeneres’ friends was killed in a car accident and DeGeneres was living in an apartment basement with no money. She suddenly had a calling from God and realized she wanted to be the first woman on the Tonight Show and take the path of stand-up. However, this was a challenge for her to constantly hide her secret of her being gay. She was worried people wouldn’t listen to her and was living with shame and fear. Eventually, DeGeneres came to realization that she wanted to be honest with herself and she told everyone who she really was. Even though she did not receive any job offers for three years she knew she was doing the right thing due to the
Ed was born in 1937 and raised in Massachusetts with his mother and biological father. His mother was born in England and traveled to Canada to be
After high school, she did her undergraduate work at Oklahoma State University and graduated with honors in 1977. Afterwards, Anita attended Yale Law School where she graduated with her Juris Doctorate in 1980. After graduation she went to work with Wald, Harkrader and Ross law firm in Washington D.C. While working there she met Clarence Tomas.
Stephen King attended Durham Elementary School and graduated from Lisbon Falls High School in 1966. He then went on to the University of Maine where he graduated with a Bachelor of Science in English in 1970. King wrote or a column in his college newspaper called “The Main Campus1. King received a teaching certificate but could not find work so made many selling short stories. He eventually was hired as a teacher at Hampton Academy
At seventeen, Selena earned a high school diploma from the American School of Correspondence in Chicago, and was also accepted at Louisiana State University. She enrolled at Pacific Western University, taking up business administration as her major subject.
She graduated in 1932 but, she did not attend college. When she was young, it was still unusual for women, especially upper-class women from privileged backgrounds, to attend college. She attended the Allen wood Academy, a finishing school in England, and was married by the time she was twenty.
Dr. Seuss received his education from Dartmouth College and the Lincoln College of Oxford. While attending Dartmouth College, Dr. Seuss worked as an editor for a humor magazine where his artistic style and creative characters first appeared. He studied English, but
"The Ellen DeGeneres Show" almost didn't make it to the air. A decade ago, Warner Bros. struggled to license the show to TV station groups around the country. Station chiefs worried that DeGeneres' humor would be "too dirty" for the middle-aged homemakers who watch daytime TV, Warner executives recalled. Producers sent DeGeneres to do her stand-up routine for station executives to demonstrate that her comedy was tame. (James,