Fred McFeely Rogers
Fred McFeely Rogers was born on March 20, 1928 in Latrobe, Pennsylvania. He
studied at Dartmouth College in Hanover between 1946 and 1948. Mr. Rogers received
his BA in Music Composition in 1951, from Rolling College in Winter Park, Florida.
After college, Mr. Rogers studied in the Ministry and intended to preach after he
was ordained in 1962, but was diverted by television. Mr. Rogers began working for a
local Children’s channel series “The Children’s Corner.” While working for this local
channel, In 1963, Mr. Rogers moved to Toronto where he began working for a Canadian
Broadcasting Company and had his debut in “MisteRogers” In 1966 he received the
rights to move the program to Pittsburgh. Here, Mr. Rogers aired his Internationally
known “Mr. Rogers Neighborhood” from 1968 – 2001.
Mr. Rogers has received many awards for his television show. He received 4
Emmy awards, 1 for lifetime achievement. He received the Peabody Award in 1983 “in
Recognition of 25 beautiful years in the neighborhood.” Mr. Rogers also received the
Presidential Medal of Freedom for Contributions to childrens education. As stated by
President George W. Bush at the ceremony, “Fred Rogers has proven that television can
soothe the soul and nurture the spirit and teach the very young.”
Not all of Mr. Rogers life was perfect. Throughout his career, Mr. Rogers has
faced some criticism and even had some Urban Legends develop. “I feel the greatest gift
we can give to anybody is the gift of our honest self” as put by Mr. Roger. When in fact,
that is not how others always viewed him. One of these Urban Legends was the claim
that Mr. Rogers had a violent past.
Bill Cosby was born in Germantown, Pennsylvania on July 12, 1937 as William Henry Cosby, Jr. In the 1950’s, Bill Cosby dropped out of high school to join the Navy. He did attend college on a football scholarship at Temple University years later. He also completed his doctorate in education at the University of Massachusetts during the 1970‘s.
In 1946, he founded a construction company and by the age of 35, was a millionaire. In about the 1950’s he started devoting over eight hours a day to reading the Bible. In 1959, he and two other men founded the Family Radio Station where he began preaching on the air. This network grew to over 140 stations across the world, reaching A...
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what others thought of him. His life symbolized what a lot of people have gone
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to desire "greater gifts." Some have argued that it cannot "be said that any ...
For one to understand the concept and meaning of the word altruism, he or she must be able to understand the meaning and concept of egoism, morals, and ethics. Each term represents one’s desire to do what he or she believes is ethical. In this paper I will discuss and provide five scenarios describing several occasions in which I have performed a good deed to help another individual or have witnessed someone else do a good deed to help another individual.
...esult, the more directly one sees their personal efforts impact someone else, the more happiness one can gain from the experience of giving. Sometimes generosity requires pushing past a feeling of reluctance because people all instinctively want to keep good things for themselves, but once one is over this feeling, they will feel satisfaction in knowing that they have made a difference in someone else’s life. However, if one lives without generosity but is not selfish, they can still have pleasure from other virtues.
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