Who Is Jonathan?

Dr. Takacs and her husband, Norm, have two wonderful children, Ryan and Kyle. As a family they enjoy outdoor activities and traveling. Dr. Takacs is an avid reader and lover of dogs.

1. What was Phineas Gages’ personality like before the accident? Gage was an intelligent well balanced man full of life with a great personality and good leadership skills. Modest and reliable, capable of making careful decisions.

Phineas P. Gage was born in 1823. He was a railroad construction worker outside a small town of Cavendish, Vermont. On September 13, 1848, Phineas suffered from a traumatic brain injury, which caused severe damage to parts of his frontal brain due to his accident at work.

Barbara Anderson’s husband (Thor), her daughter (Katie; 5yrs old), and Anderson’s unborn child (Sarah) accompanied her to her field site.

His money helped pay for the creation of the University of Chicago, to which he gave more than $80 million before his death. He also helped found the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research, named Rockefeller University, in New York and the Rockefeller Foundation. In total he gave away more than $530 million to various causes.

her mother Lavinia Day Lofton who was a kindergarten teacher, also an active member of the

Jonathan Kozol, Savage Inequalities: Children in America’s Schools is an intense expose of unjust conditions in educating America’s children. Today’s society of living conditions, poverty, income, desegregation and political issues have forced inadequate education to many children across the country. Kozol discusses major reasons for discrepancies in schools: disparities of property taxes, racism and the conflict between state and local control. Kozol traveled to public schools researching conditions and the level of education in each school. He spoke with teachers, students, principals, superintendents and government officials to portray a clear picture of the

Jennifer Egan was a contemporary American literary novelist. She was born on September 6, 1962, in Chicago, Illinois (Schwartz). Her mother's name was Kay Egan and her father’s name was Donald Egan. Her parents divorced when she was two years old. Egan moved to San Francisco with her mother. After she graduated from Lowell High School she began touring Europe. Once she returned from Europe, she made up her mind and wanted to become a writer. She attended the University of Pennsylvania and received a B.A., she was later awarded a scholarship to attend St. John's College at the University of Cambridge in the United Kingdom, which is where she earned an M.A. in English literature (Hibler). She met the love of her life, a theater director David Herskovits. Egan and Herskovits got married and moved to New York. While taking care of her two sons, Manu and Raoul Egan was working different jobs and writing (Schwartz).

Frederick Augustus Washington Bailey was born on in 1818.the day of his birth is unknown. He was born into slavery.His parents are Harriet douglass and his Anthony Arren(his captain).He was born on the eastern shore of the tuckahoe in talbot county of Maryland.He lived with his grandparents Isaac and Betsey Bailey.When he was 10 his mother died only getting to see her 5 times.

Wendy Lankford was raised within a “traditional” family and grew up alongside her mother, father, and younger brother in my home state of Maryland. Today, she is married to Shane Lankford and together they care for three adopted sons; ages 22, 7, and 4. Wendy is a stay at home mom who is also actively engaged in her church community and with several nonprofit service groups. Both she and her husband have dedicated themselves to raising awareness and working on behalf of orphans, those with special needs, and those living in poverty.

She went to Cornell University and got her Bachelor’s degree. She was an elementary and middle school teacher at Agnes Irwin School in Rosemont.

that his father died in 1955 and he explains the situation of how Jonathan’s aunts on his dad’s

Jody is about an adopted child. It is about searching her natural parents. Who wants to know her true identity. This is the story of being human who has ever about the heart’s journey home. This is true to life story written by Jerry Hulse. Jody was an adopted daughter by Mary and Bruce Carr, who’s married dozen years before they adopt her. She was born on May 13, 1931 in Fort Wayne, Indiana. She was faces now serious surgery and the doctors needed her family background or medical history about her parents. When she was 16 years old, she knew that she was only an adopted daughter. Her adoptive parents never told her about it, only the place where she was born. And that is the only information to find her mother. Jerry Hulse her husband is the first travel editor in Los Angeles. He was died on 2002 at the age of 77.