Biography Of Robert Bruce Anthony Brownell

Toward the end of June the summer after he graduated, he sent his parents his transcripts. They didn't hear from him again, so in August they decided to go visit him is his apartment in Atlanta:

m. Although he decided to leave college early, he returned to the university in 1986 to complete his degree in geography.

Cullen was a really good student and attended Harvard. He had been a Phi Beta Kappa at NYU and he went continued to write once he got to Boston. (Brown, 2012) He traveled to and from Europe and stayed quite a bit in France. He had a brief marriage that ended in a divorce and did not wish to pursue this again for a while then finally remarried later in life./

After attending Howard University, Coates grasped a vision for his future and his family. “I wanted you to have your own life, apart from fear—even apart from me.” (Coates 1) discusses how he want his upbring to unparallel to his son’s life. He doesn’t want his son to live

life in the US since before he had gained entry into Fisk University, his first attended college.

Similar to Thoreau, McCandless does not associate being in solitude to being lonesome. Throughout his journey, McCandless avoids forming close bonds with others because it distracts him from his final goal of independence and transcendentalism. This lack of intimate relationships frees McCandless as seen through the journal entry he wrote before walking into the Alaskan Bush. He writes proudly that for two years he has roamed with no company and no comforts. He calls it, “Ultimate freedom” (Krakauer 163). The fact that he considers it more of a freedom than a loss to live in solidarity shows that like Thoreau, McCandless does not feel lonely when he is alone. According to his sister, Carine, even when he was younger, he was fine with being alone. She said that although he had friends, he could easily entertain himself and never seemed lonely when he was alone. Another instance in which McCandless’s dissociation of solitude and loneliness shows is in a letter he writes to Ron Franz, a man he met near Salton City. In this letter, he tells Franz to step outside his comfort zone and live a more adventurous life. Towards the end of the letter, he states, “You are wrong if you think Joy emanates only or principally from human relationships,” (Krakauer 57). This approach is how he is not lonely in solitude; he is capable of finding joy in things other than human contact.

odd jobs and eventually made his way to California where he met his future wife,

In 1850 he and his family moved to Wisconsin where he lived for 5 years until his mother died. He moved with his father back to Freeport. While he was a young man he got $1,000 of inheritance money from his Grandfather and went to Michigan in an attempt to join the University of Michigan.

But when he returned home, he found that he could not perform surgery or even work in the hospital in his hometown of Monroe, Louisiana because of his color. And so he set out from Louisiana to California in order to make a way for himself and for his family in a new land.

He attended the University of California (first to earn varsity letters in 4 sports) however due to financial needs he did not earn his degree.

While on his quest to nirvana, Chris was intent on cutting all ties with the people of his past: friends, family, peers, etc. In addition to leaving the others behind, he also avoided all potential oncoming relationships along the way as well. The noncommittal adolescent wrote about feeling “extremely uncomfortable with society,” and wanting to get closer to nature and simplicity. Ronald Franz, a lonely old man who gave McCandless a ride to Colorado, got so

in to take care of his mother. He never did return to the college to

     In the book, “Manchild in the Promised Land,” Claude Brown makes an incredible transformation from a drug-dealing ringleader in one of the most impoverished places in America during the 1940’s and 1950’s to become a successful, educated young man entering law school. This transformation made him one of the very few in his family and in Harlem to get out of the street life. It is difficult to pin point the change in Claude Brown’s life that separated him from the others. No single event changed Brown’s life and made him choose a new path. It was a combination of influences such as environment, intelligence, family or lack of, and the influence of people and their actions. It is difficult

After dropping out of high school in his Junior year, he moved to New York

Growing up, people realize that around the time of reaching a mature state, education has affected their personal family life in one way or the other. With that being said, in his essay, “The Achievement of Desire”, Richard Rodriguez headed towards a path where he was unconsciously distancing himself from his family and becoming much more independent than he had expected. Rodriguez gives the reader a sentimental idea of the two contrary lives he had growing up, the life he had as a child, and the life he has as an educated man. He continued believing in his aspiration of how benefits of education can remarkably outweigh the past struggles of both his family and himself. Like Rodriguez, I also, in the past, found some form of solitude