Have you ever wondered how big the Milky Way really is? Well,an American astronomer named Harlow Sharpley gave us the accurate answer to this question in 1920.He began his research in 1914 with studying stars called Global Clusters.He continued his studies and stayed persistent throughout the years until he found the answers he was looking for.Our world is unbelievably big and there are so many undiscovered things out there that there is no limit for the amount that we can learn about it.Up until 1920 we didn’t even have an idea of the actual size of the Milky Way,But thanks to this man we are at least given a range of the amount of things out there that are waiting to be discovered.Throughout his early years,and adult life he has always been very interested in learning new things and in pushing with his interests he made many contributions to Astronomy.
Harlow was born on November 2nd in 1885 on a farm in Nashville Missouri.His parents were named Willis and Sarah Sharpley.Growing up even though he was an only child Harlow had no self motivation to push himself through the work and pressure that school put on him.He dropped out of school only receiving a 5th grade education.Harlow continued to educate himself at home and took up writing.He became a newspaper reporter,covering crime stories.This was not enough for Harlow,eventually he got tired of his life at home and decided that he wanted to go back to school and get a real education because he realized that it was needed for him to make it farther in life and make something of himself.He returned to school by joining a 6-year High School program in which he graduated out of in only two years and as valedictorian.Although as a young boy Harlow didn’t make the best decisions h...
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... doubt and of others doubt on him,he rose very high above that.He proved everyone wrong and proved to himself that he was a smart person who deserved to have a successful life.He is an inspiration to everyone that there is always a way to come back and fix your mistakes.He knew he was better than staying at home and doing nothing.He had a passion for learning and knew that staying at home doing nothing wasn’t who he was and wasn't what he wanted to do with his life.He wanted to make a difference and he did just that.Not only did he have a successful career but he had a great life with a big family that he created.He proved the wonders that could come from putting in the effort and believing in yourself.Thanks to Harlow,the great deal importance of a good education and how far having a good one can take you in life is shown.There are no limits out there for us.
In Alan Lightman’s, “Our Place in the Universe,” he describes his experiences in the Greek Isles explaining how meek it made him feel to be surrounded by the vast ocean with no land in sight except a small strip of brown in the distance. Great thinkers throughout history, have been exploring the visible variety of shapes, colors, and sizes, though the greatest of these are size, from the smallest atom to gargantuan stars. These massive differences in size change the way we view ourselves in the universe. (470) Garth Illingworth, from the University of California, has studied galaxies more than 13 billion light years away from us.
He mostly would rather hang around the adults than with the kids in the school yard. He was very intelligent, but he found school to be very boring. He dropped out of school at the age of sixteen. But he did earn a GED a year after. Some say that the reason he liked being around adults so much was because at the same time he was being sexually abused by his uncle and older neighbor.
When he was fifteen years old, his mother died from appendicitis. From fifteen years of age to his college years, he lived in an all-white neighborhood. From 1914-1917, he shifted from many colleges and academic courses of study as well as he changed his cultural identity growing up. He studied physical education, agriculture, and literature at a total of six colleges and universities from Wisconsin to New York. Although he never completed a degree, his educational pursuits laid the foundation for his writing career.
During his lifetime, he was a very dedicated and hardworking person who accomplished many things. Many people believe that he was a hot headed person, meaning that he was quick tempered, but that meant he could focus and get his stuff done. People also believe that
Sweatt graduated from Jack Yates High School, a segregated school, in 1930(Burns). Following his high school graduation, Herman attended Wiley College where he earned an undergraduate degree (Burns). He took the job of a principal for a few years as a young graduate, but shortly after decided that he still had an overwhelming hunger for knowledge. Sweatt then attended the medical program at the University of Michigan in 1937 for a couple of years before he...
Much of Henry David Thoreau’s work was affected by his early life and education. Henry David Thoreau was born into a normal middle class family in Concord Massachusetts on July 12, 1817. Thoreau’s family were shopkeepers and later operated a small but profitable business making pencils and selling graphite that later turned out to be very prosperous (Sattelmeyer 1). The fact that Henry’s family had money made it possible for him to get a good education. Instead of following the family business which could have been a prosperous decision, Henry went to better his education in high hopes of making something of himself. This decision marks the starting point of Thoreau’s educational adventure.
Ernest Hemmingway was born in Oak Park, Illinois, on July 21, 1899. Early in his life Hemmingway expressed a strong interest in the outdoors. He started fishing and hunting with his father very early. Hemmingway was educated in the public schools and as soon as he completed high school he started working for the Kansas City Star. After several years of working for them he moved to Spain. Here he became an ambulance driver and infantryman in World War II. He was also a war correspondent during the Spanish Civil War. During the war he was one of the first wounded. He was shot in the knee and spent a while in a hospital in Milan, Italy. Here he met Agnes, a nurse, and fell in love with here but she didn’t love him and he was deeply hurt by this. Then he went to France and spent several years there as a correspondent for the Toronto Star. It was here he that began his serious writing career. After that Hemmingway moved to Spain. It was here that he developed a love for bullfighting. He spent day after day watching the fighters. He even decided to try it for a short time but wasn’t very successful. He realized that by watching and writing he could express the art of bullfighting to everyone. After this Hemmingway moved to Cuba and became a deep-sea fisherman. He spent all day out on the sea and often went out just to be on the ocean. Hemmingway was very successful at fishing and loved the way of life in Cuba. Hemmingway then decided to take up deep big game hunting in Africa. This to he was very successful at and became a world-renowned hunter. After this he moved back to the states and spent a couple more years writing.
On January 15th, noontime, in the year of 1929, a man of great pride, diligence, and intellect would be brought into the world. When his time came forth, he would display an image of humanity living, loving, and coming together as brothers and sisters under God, to outweigh the inequality ingrained in society for hundred of years. He was a smart man, smart indeed, but overall he was well motivated, driven, and willing to work for what he wanted. He embodied the mindset that anything was possible if you put your mind to it. Follow your dreams and they will become reality.
William Henry Cosby Jr., also known as Bill Cosby, was born on July 12th, 1937 in Germantown, Pennsylvania. Even as a child people called him a comedian. His mother repeatedly told her kids that there is a better life out there past their poverty town if they worked for it. His father was away a lot because he was in the navy. Cosby helped his mother by doing odd end jobs to help pay the bills. Bill dropped out of high school in tenth grade because he couldn’t wait to start working. He worked on fixing shoes then auto mufflers. That didn’t satisfy him so he made his future brighter and joined the navy. He served from 1956-1961. There he ran track, played football, basketball, and baseball. In the navy he trained as a physical therapist and he also completed his high school degree. His travels in the Navy went into to the south where there was heavy segregation. Cosby won a track-and-field scholarship to Temple University and majored in physical education. Bill Cosby filled in at coffeehouse; this is where his career all started. He told jokes and he was a hit! Cosby’s reputation as a funny bartender helped him earn offers from other clubs. He made his way through a couple more nightclubs then he made it to New York City’s Gaslight Café. This is where he met Woody Allen. All those comedian jobs were getting in the way of school. He left school but he finished with an undergraduate degree in physical education. In 1965 he appe...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was a philosopher and transcendentalist of the 19th century, composing controversial, philosophical and religious essays in order to inform people. Emerson was a strong influence on other personalities of his time, including American figures such as; “Henry Thoreau” and “Walt Whitman”. “Emerson’s father (William Emerson) influenced the good taste of Emerson’s essays due to he was a man of the church.” William died because of a stomach cancer just two weeks before Ralph Waldo fulfilled eight years old. This death leads the family to an edge of poverty and a life of limited luxuries. That’s the point when Emerson’s career began. “His mother managed so that all of her children could get accepted into Harvard University with scholarships.” There was Ralph's stop when he was only fourteen years old. In Harvard College he was an apprentice under the president of the constitution. The task was to accuse his colleagues in criminal activity letting the ‘faculty’ know. Meanwhile, Emerson began keeping a list of books he had read and started a journal in a series of notebooks that would be called ‘World Wide’. Emerson performed odd jobs to cover his school expenses, including as a waiter for the Junior Commons and occasionally working as a teacher with his uncle Samuel in Waltham, Massachusetts. He began his famous Journal, an anthology and patchwork of passages that surprised and astonished his readers with their comments, ended up reaching 182 volumes. In his senior year at Harvard, Emerson decided to take his middle name as Waldo. He attended class Poetry; as usual, and presented an original poem on Harvard's Class Day, a month before his official graduation. On August 29, 1821, when he was 18 not noted as a student he...
Richard Nathaniel Wright was born on September 4th 1908 close to Natchez, Mississippi (Ferris 542). His father, Nathaniel Wright, was an illiterate sharecropper, and his mother, Ella Wilson, was a schoolteacher. When Wright was about five years old his father left the house forcing his mother to take one more work. For several years him and his brother spent time in an orphanage. He moved from school to school for many years and graduated as valedictorian of his ninth grade class in June of 1925 from Smith Robertson Junior High School in Jackson during June 1925. Once he was finished with grade school he started at Lanier High School. After only a few weeks he dropped out to work so he could save up enough money to go to Memphis. He was a jack of all trades so he worked on many small jobs. When he was seventeen he had finally saved up enough and was off to Memphis. He worked as a dishwasher and delivery boy for an optical company while in Memphis. He star...
rockets and understanding science. He knew that he didn't belong to Coalwood and that he could do something great in his life. The people believed in him after they realized he wasn't giving up. Let the inspirations keep inspiring.
Space has always been a pivotal and utmost important subject for many years. In the past, scientists have made monumental advances in this field such as sending people into orbit and landing a man on the moon. Of course, this has only barely been explored and we still have a lot more to see of the ever-vast outer space. One of the most significant topics of all of science has only been touched and there’s still more to come.
The Universe is a collection of millions of galaxies and extends beyond human imagination. After the big bang, the universe was found to be composed of radiation and subatomic particles. Information following big bang is arguable on how galaxies formed, that is whether small particles merged to form clusters and eventually galaxies or whether the universe systematized as immense clumps of matter that later fragmented into galaxies (Nasa World book, 2013). A galaxy is a massive area of empty space full of dust, gases (mainly 75% Hydrogen and 25%Helium), atoms, about 100-200 billion stars, interstellar clouds and planets, attracted to the center by gravitational force of attraction. Based on recent research, 170 billion galaxies have been estimated to exist, with only tens of thousands been discovered (Deutsch, 2011).
Bell, from a young age, displayed a level of intelligence. He was known to experiment and collect plant specimens, and invented a wheat-dehusking machine for his neighbor. While Bell attended school, though, he often skipped school and had poor grades. He dropped out of high school when he was fifteen. However, Bell had a great interest in multiple areas of science. He earned a renewed thirst for learning after spending a year with his elocutionist grandfather. Bell soon earned a job in elocution and music and attended the Universities of England and London.