Carl Sandburg: A Brief Biography

Elbert Frank Cox was born on December 5, 1895 in Evansville, Indiana. Cox was an African American, Lived in an racially mixed neighborhood but went to a segregated school. Cox was the oldest out of three kids, His father was an elementary school principal who graduated from Evansville College and did graduate work at Indiana University. The Cox family learned that education was important and was inspire by it. Cox developed a talent skillset in math which lead him towards Indiana University where he studied mathematics, physics, and chemistry. In 1917 Elbert Frank Cox graduated from Indiana University with his A.B. degree. Later that year Cox entered the army to serve in World War I. After that Cox returned to pursue a career in teaching a high school math instructor in Henderson, Kentucky.

Dred Scott was an African American man that went to trial to sue for his freedom in 1847. He was living in Missouri, which was a slave state. He was then taken to Illinois and Minnesota, they were both free states. Dred Scott was sold to Sandford in a free state and tried to sue for his freedom. The United States Supreme court said that “African ancestry whether you were free or not, will never become citizens of the United States and cannot sue in a federal court.” ( Taney, 1857) Sandford had him as a slave for a long period of time when Dred Scott finally chose to sue. The Declaration of Independence and the The Constitution had never included or mentioned slaves being treated equally.

Carl Eugene Watts was born in Killeen, Texas to Richard Eugene Watts and Dorothy Mae Young. His father was a private first class in the Army, and his mother was a kindergarten art teacher. When Watts was less than two years of age, his parents separated and he was raised by his mother. Watts and his mother moved to Inkster, Michigan, and in 1962, Dorothy Mae married a mechanic named Norman Caesar with whom she had two daughters. After the divorce Carl began spending a lot of his time with his grandmother. When his mother relocated to Detroit, Carl remained with his grandmother for a while.

Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography is an inspiring tale of his personal, as well as public achievement throughout his life. Franklin’s life embodies the exemplary model of a life composed of discipline, self-reliance and self improvement. From his humble beginnings as an apprentice candle and soap maker in his father’s business to a successful business man, author, philosopher, civil activist, politician scientist, inventor, and diplomat, above all Benjamin Franklin was, and still is, an American Icon and truly a pioneer of the American Dream.

J.D. Salinger had a pretty good life growing up. He was born in New York City on January 1, 1919. Salinger’s academics weren 't one of his priorities, but he did want to become one of the most famous authors. After failing several prep schools, he finally graduated from Valley Forge Military Academy in Pennsylvania (Telgen 117). He went to numerous colleges including Columbia University but didn 't graduate from any.

At the age of 16, he got his first job at the local waste management company in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and had worked there until his death. He pushed for better stature such as pushing for African Americans to be

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.

Brands, H.W.. The first American: the life and times of Benjamin Franklin. New York: Doubleday,

His mother Beth Rickey was a Louisiana political activist. He went to college at the University of Michigan Law school”(The branch rickey miracle, sbnation.com). After college, he became a professional baseball player and played for the St. Louis browns in 1913. While he was playing for the team, he was called upon to fight in World War 1, which led him to have great leadership qualities. He learned how to be discipline and most importantly, he learned how to control his emotions when someone criticized Jackie in a racial

On March 6, 1857, two days after the inauguration of Buchanan, the Supreme Court rendered a decision in the case of Dred Scott v. Sandford. Dred Scott, born a slave in Virginia in about 1800, was taken to St. Louis in 1830 and sold, relocated to Illinois, then to the Wisconsin Territory, and finally back to St. Louis in 1842. While in the Wisconsin Territory, Scott eventually married and had two daughters. After the death of his owner, in 1843, Scott aggressively tried to buy his freedom. In 1846, Harriet Scott influenced her husband to file suit in the Missouri courts, claiming residence in Illinois and the Wisconsin Territory made him a free African American. A jury decided in his favor, but state Supreme Court ruled against him. When the case rose on appeal to the Supreme Court, the nation apprehensively awaited the decision on whether freedom once granted could be lost by

When George was a kid George worked in the fields near his hometown of Humboldt, KS, and later at the Humboldts, Cement plant. He attended 2 colleges Pitt State and Kansas State University. He later became a teacher at Coffeyville Junior College in Coffeyville, Kansas after his graduation.

Carl Von Clausewitz and Helmuth Moltke the Elder were both practitioners and theorists of the war art in the 19th century. Their military thoughts on war’s character and its dynamics have influenced the later militaries in the conduct of war. Particularly, the Clausewitzian concept of the “culminating point of victory” and the Moltke’s principle of “Auftragstaktik”, or mission type tactics by a decentralized command were implemented and culminated in the battlefield of World War II. Moreover, today, the US Army has adopted both concepts in its latest refined “AirLand Battle” doctrine recognizing their importance in the operational art of modern warfare.

If it is difficulty that shows what men are, there should be no doubt about what kind of man Carl Brashear is. The Navy's first African-American Master Diver, Brashear faced difficulties that would have defeated most people. His spirit and determination resulted not only in his overcoming great odds to become a U.S. Navy diver, but also in his surviving the loss of a leg in an accident on the USS Hoist in 1966 - and more amazingly - in his attaining the rank of Master Diver.

Benjamin Franklin is revered by Americans as one of its most revered and adored founding fathers. For foreigners, Benjamin Franklin became the very icon of America, not only because he was accomplished, but because he was a new man, a man that could only have been made in America. Franklin came to be seen as the embodiment of American values.

     Carl Sandburg may be one of our most influential poets in American history, he knew the American working man and his necessities. Sandburg used his poetry to explicate to the economy how life is, can, and could be. Carl Sandburg was born in Galesburg, Illinois January 6, 1878 to Swedish immigrant parents with the names of August and Clara Johnson. His family was extremely poor. Carl left school at the age of thirteen to work odd jobs from bricklaying to dish washing to earn money to support the family. At seventeen, he left home to travel to Kansas as a hobo, there he turned to the army for help. He served eight months in Puerto Rico during the Spanish-American war.