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Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington, D.C. He was very athletic as a child. Charles attended Dunbar High School where he won letters in track, baseball, basketball and football. He won the James E. Walker Memorial Medal as outstanding all-around athlete.

Time, what is time, and why is it important? Well time is a concept that humans’ brains can perceive, in fact their brains basically construct the past, the present, and the future. Basically, time is a measurement system, and without it the human race wouldn’t have ever existed. Humans have a very simple understanding of time, and they still do not understand its full potential. Humans only understand the measurement of time, and the manipulation and capturing of time overwhelms them. To this day the only way humans have captured time is their memory, and even then they still get it wrong sometimes.

Early Life-Charles was first seen on March 5th, 1836 in Macoupin county, illinois. He was the 4th of 5 children When he was little, he was one of the most observant and curious children in his family. Charles quit school at age seven. After flunking out of school, he and one of his brothers, Elijah, caught their first Mustang together, since then he wanted to be one of the best horsemen in America. At age 15 he started riding horses and became a jockey. His mother had 4-5 divorces, each after one child. Then he and his family moved to Port Sullivan.

Charles W. Adams was born in Boston, Massachusetts on August 16, 1817.] His parents were Benjamin and Susannah Goodhue Adams. Benjamin was related to President of the United States John Adams.In 1819, the Adams family moved to New Albany, Indiana, where Charles was a clerk in a mercantile house between 1830 and 1835. Adams moved to Helena, Arkansas in 1835 and became a cashier in a mercantile house. In 1837, he became cashier of the Real Estate Bank of Arkansas. After studying law at night, he became a lawyer in 1839. In the early 1840s, Adams slaveholder.entered into a law partnership with William K. Sebastian, who became a United States Senator in 1848.Adams was a judge from 1852 to 1854.He also became a large cotton planter and

Thomas Douglas was born to Annie and Thomas Douglas in Camelon, Falkirk in Scotland. His father was an iron moulder who fought in the Boer War. He suffered

Edgar Allan Poe was born on January 19, 1809 to Eliza and David Jr, who were traveling actors, members of a repertory company in Boston. Before Edgar was three, both his parents passed away. John Allan, a wealthy tobacco farmer from Richmond, Virginia, raised him from there on, even though Allan never officially adopted him. By age 13, he had written enough poetry to publish a book, but his headmaster persuaded him not to. However, Poe attended the best schools available and went to University of Virginia at Charlottesville in 1825. Although Poe was academically distinguished, he was forced to leave after less than a year due to bad debts and no financial support from Allan. He returned to Richmond to his fiancés home but found out she was engaged to someone else. In 1827, Poe published his first book, “Tamerlane” and a few other poems at age 18. Then the only mother he had ever known had died of tuberculosis. Poe enlisted in the US Military Academy at West Point. Allan

Sinclair, was born on September 20th, 1878 in Baltimore, Maryland; being the only child of Priscilla Harden and Upton B. Sinclair Sr. (an alcoholic). Sinclair, lived a troubled childhood, unable

Chuck Close was born on July 5, 1940 in Monroe, Washington. His father, Leslie Durward Close, was a sheet metal worker, and his mother Mildred Wagner was a trained pianist. Chuck Close’s hobbies as a kid where painting and art. Suffering from severe dyslexia, Close did poorly in school but found happiness in making art. After earning his MFA from Yale in 1964, Close turned out to be one of the most famous American art world by creating large-scale, photorealist portraits that

In chapter 22, the Andrew Mcbride is in search of his Jewish roots not just his black ones, he wants to tell his wife and children about it and for them to have pride in who they are. That being said, James is back in Suffolk in the year 1992, trying to get into the synagogue where the Shilskys had once worshipped. In this chapter, James by now has searched for all types of records of his Jewish family. For example, he says “ I had spent considerable time looking for school records, court records, and other documents with mixed results”(McBride 172) James met instead with man named Aubrey Rubenstein, whose father had taken over his grandfather’s store when Ruth's father left town. Aubrey used James's tape recorder to send a greeting to Ruth,

Charles’s birth name is Charles Milles Maddox. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio and on November 12, 1934. His mother was an alcoholic and prostitute who sold him for beer. She was 16-years old when she had him and placed him in a boys school. At age 12 he was in and out many reform schools trying to reunite with his mother.

Charles Young was born on March 12, 1864 in Kentucky. He was born to parents Arminta Bruen and Gabriel Young, who had just escaped from slavery before Charles was born. When Charles Young went to school, he attended an all white high school in Ripley.He one of the only African Americans in the school. He graduated from the Ripley high school in 1880.After high school he went and taught for a few years in a black school that had just opened up in his area. In 1883, Young decided to take a competitive test to be put in as a cadet, in the U.S. Army at West Point. He ended up having the second highest score in the area but, the number one student was not able to leave. Young went to West Point in 1884 where again, he was of the only African Americans

Charles Portis was born in El Dorado (Union County) Arkansas on December 28,1933. His parents were Samuel Palmer Portis and Alice Portis, and he has two brothers and one sister. Charles and his family moved across various towns across southern Arkansas. They were educated in whatever town they were living in at the time.(Cunningham)

 He was born in Brooklyn, New York on November 14, 1900. He was the youngest of five children whom are Ralph, Leon, Laurine, and Joesephine. Him and his siblings spent their childhood living above his parents department store. He developed an interest in the piano, receiving guidance from his older sister; Laurine. She also introduced him to Ragtime and Opera. His parents were Sarah Mittenthal Copland and Harris Morris Copland whom were

Dr. Seuss was known for making amazing children books. His full name is Theodor Seuss Geisel. He was born in Springfield Massachusetts on March 2, 1904 to Theodor Robert Geisel and Henrietta Seuss Geisel. Seuss grew up with his two sisters, Henrietta and Marnie Geisel. Sadly, at the age of 5, his sister Henrietta passed away from

Try to imagine this… You are really skilled in something you enjoy, and doing that task is pleasing and makes you happy. Then one day you’re paralyzed and you have to remaster doing that certain skill. Chuck Close was an amazing artist who did just that. He does photorealism portraits, he also uses grid method for everything he did. Close had a very remarkable skill, that made him famous.