.... with Science Fiction. This forever curved his path towards writing Science Fiction. Also in early 1930 Olaf Stapledon's Last and First Men was published, this beautifully written piece of science fiction was to have a profound effect on Clarke's writing. The last major event in Clarke's early life is on a sadder note. His father died in 1931 when Clarke was only 14 years old. As a result most of the major characters in his novels perish. (www.acclarke) In his later life there were also several events that helped to shape Clarke's writing style. In 1941 Clarke joined the Royal Air Force as an Aircraft hand Radio Wireless Mechanic/Aircraftmen Class 2 .....

.... same as his grandfather had. During his childhood, he was a Shepard, just as all the Prophets of God once were. He became a merchant in his young adulthood. He was known as the ‘Amin’. The word Amin means honest, reliable, and trustworthy. It signified the highest standard of moral and public life. Abu Daud writes that a merchant promised to meet him at a place to discuss something concerning trade. The merchant forgot to keep his promise and could not reach the place at the time agreed upon. When three days later the merchant passed from the place of their meeting he found the Prophet (s) standing there to fulfill his part of the promise. .....

.... movement as we know it. lead a simple life in Montgomery, Alabama. Married to Raymond Parks, she worked as a seamstress in a department store but silently protested segregation by avoiding areas where segregation was most obvious. To her it was humiliating to have to feel so inferior to whites. In addition to her job she also worked with the Montgomery Voters League, an organization which helped African Americans pass the tests which had been set up to keep them from voting. She was also well known for her work with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP). Parks was a hard-working woman and very well respected for her .....

.... him to manage her now much enlarged estate, but even then Newton's interests ran more toward books and mathematical diversions. His family decided that he should be prepared for the university, and he entered Trinity College, Cambridge, in June 1661. Newton received his bachelor's degree in 1665. After an intermission of nearly two years to avoid the plague, Newton returned to Trinity, which elected him to a fellowship in 1667. He received his master's degree in 1668. Newton ignored much of the established curriculum of the university to pursue his own interests: mathematics and natural philosophy. Proceeding entirely on his own, he investigated the lates .....

.... a conservative house, specializing in well-made reproductions of famous paintings. When he was twenty Vincent was transferred, with a fine recommendation, to the London branch of Goupil's. He found a room in the home of Mrs. Loyer, who with her daughter Ursula, and therefore began the first of his several disastrous encounters with women. He fell in love with the girl, but evidently did not bother to tell her. When Vincent shared his feelings with Ursula, he discovered that the thought of loving him had never entered her head. In 1875 Uncle Cent arranged for him to be transferred to the Paris office in the hope that his spirits might be revived by a chang .....

.... had the greatest impact on his writings. Through slavery, he was able to develop the necessary emotion and experiences for him to become a successful abolitionist writer. He grew up as a slave, experiencing all of the hardships that are included, such as whippings, scarce meals, and other harsh treatment. His thirst for freedom , and his burning hatred of slavery caused him to write Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass, and other similar biographies. In his Narrative, he wrote the complete story of his miserable life as a slave and his strife to obtain freedom. The main motivational force behind his character (himself) was to make it through anothe .....

.... commission for his work. It was at Le Havre that Monet met the painter Eugène Boudin. While Boudin's own paintings have never been held in that high regard, he is seen as having played a critical role in the education of Monet. Born of a seafaring family in 1824, Boudin was obsessed with the idea of painting outdoors or en plein air . The two painters met in 1856 and, at first, Monet resisted Boudin's offer of tuition but he eventually relaxed his protestations and before long, the two had forged a relationship that was to last a lifetime. Although Monet soon left Le Havre to spend a large part of his life traveling throughout Europe, he return .....

.... the local ABC affiliate KTRK. Ron soon becomes the most important man in her life. "It was the most intense relationship I was ever around," says Kershaw's friend, journalist Dick Williams. "For both Ron and Jessica, it would be more than love, more than hate, but an obsession," (Nash, 101). One day, Jessica shows up at work badly bruised. She and Ron have been fighting, and everyone knows it. They break up and make up repeatedly, a cycle that continues throughout her life. Jessica Savitch gets a career boost when she leaps from Houston to KYW T.V. in Philadelphia, the fourth largest market. She goes on to produce three award winning series and anchors t .....