.... did. So, his first job was painting bureaus on fresh plaster. He made enough money doing this, he was happy. had many talents in art. His best were with the brush, and the hammer and chisel. After painting on fresh plaster, painted from life. He also sculpted from life. A great man in Italy named Lorenzo lived in a palace and was wealthy. liked him, so he sculpted a wonderful mystical fawn head for him. Lorenzo was speechless. He asked to live with him in his palace. After two years in the palace, Lorenzo died and was left alone. His father wanted some of his money. loved his father with all of his heart. was not doing well with money at .....

.... push him to make the greatest contributions to the film industry which leave an ever increasing impact on film today and the world. Throughout history, it is apparent that those who are recognized as "great ones" were influenced in some way or another to become the leader who they are. In George Lucas' case, he was greatly influenced in his late teens and early twenties. Lucas claims to have chased girls and raced cars throughout high school, and barely made it through (Moritz 258). Soon after high school, Lucas attended Modesto Junior College in California and continued to work on cars as his main interest (Moritz 258). In Smith, Lucas is quoted sayin .....

.... 30) and took great pleasure in the outdoors. In 1849, Muir and his family emigrated to Wisconsin to homestead. The great forests of Northern United States captivated him and fueled his desire to learn more. Muir later enrolled in courses in chemistry, geology, and botany at the University of Wisconsin. After his education, Muir began working in a factory inventing small machines and contraptions. However, a serious working accident in the factory left Muir temporarily blind. When he finally regained his vision, he vowed to live life to the fullest and devote everything he had to nature. At the age of 29, Muir made a thousand-mile walk from Indianapoli .....

.... almost directly from Milne’s Winnie-the-Pooh. And though his life may not have always been perfect, Milne’s wonderful tales never failed to create a utopian setting. A. A. Milne was born on January 18, 1882. His parents were John Vine Milne and Sarah Marie Milne. (Second Plays) As a child, he attended the school for young boys that his father ran. Milne was never terribly close to his mother and would often eschew her. Milne referred to her as “restfully aloof.” (Page at Pooh Corner) His parents had three children, all sons. Milne was the youngest and often wished he had a sister. At the school he attended, Henley House, he .....

.... an economic crisis that was quickly spiraling downward. Banks failed, people panicked, and the nation looked to someone, anyone, for help. Hoover, sensing the country's desperation, but realizing his lack of power, and the feelings of resentment harbored towards him looked to Roosevelt. He asked the president-elect to join in economic planning, support policies, and most importantly to reassure the nation. While both authors note Roosevelt's unwillingness to cooperate with Hoover they site different reasons for it. Burns talks of Roosevelt's belief that the nation was not yet his domain, and that Hoover had the authority to handle the situation. In addition, Bu .....

.... up with a plan for moral perfection, task that is impossible for humans to conquer, but that never discouraged Franklin. He once stated, “but on the whole, though I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was by the Endeavor a better and happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it. His inventions, such as the open heating stove, the bifocals, and other neat gadgets helped suit the needs of people across the world. He was a tinkerer, one that was always playing, trying to figure out, asking himself just how can I improve this or invent something better. Another reflec .....

.... Gates was a wonder. He received an A in an economics class without attending and cramming the night before the final exam. In June 1975, dropped out of Harvard to pursue a career in computers full time. Later that year after dropping out of Harvard he moved to New Mexico. There he and Allen Kay established Microsoft to produce their Basic for the MITS. Eighteen months later they were a few hundred thousand dollars richer and were hired by Tandy to develop software for its radio shack computers. Gates and Allen then moved their headquarters to Seattle, Washington. In Seattle, Gates re-wrote an operating system and called it MS-DOS, which stands for Micros .....

.... early works are largely historical sketches and symbolic and allegorical tales dealing with moral conflicts and the effects of Puritanism on colonial New England. Because Hawthorne was unable to earn a living by literary work, in 1839 Hawthorne took a job as weigher in the Boston, Massachusetts, customhouse. Two years later he returned to writing and produced a series of sketches of New England history for children, Grandfather's Chair: A History for Youth, which was published in 1841. The same year he joined the communal society at Brook Farm near Boston, hoping to be able to live in such comfort that he could marry and still have time to devote to his writ .....