Learning Biographies Samples For Students

Thomas Hardy is one of the most renowned poets and novelist in the English literary history. He was born in the year 1940, in the English village of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset. His father Thomas was a stone mason and a master builder, and his mother Jemima was a highly educated woman who enjoyed reading and narrating folk tales of their region t the time. His parents are said to have influenced his life a great deal because he indeed loved country folk and had a passion for literature, as well as music. When he was eight years old, Hardy began school at Julia ...

Who I am

I am 23 years old lad born in Mississippi and raised at Texas. While growing up, my parents had a large plantation farm with many workers. My father had several managers who run his businesses and also his plantations. Observing the directors and those in power, I noticed that there were qualities that they lacked which affected negatively to the developing of my father’s businesses. This motivated me to become a manager one day.

What I pursue.

I pursue a degree in Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Honk Kong. Having seen the managers at my father’s empire conduct managerial responsibilities, which ...

Introduction

In the highpoint of my English teaching career, I found myself teaching English to Grade 4 Australian English learners. It was interesting because I am an Arab lady from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. And many people found it rather unusual for me to be teaching Native English speakers their own mother tongue. This essay will outline the progression of my career as an English teacher and how I got to the climax of my career, teaching native speakers of English. I will outline my background, origins, immersion into the Anglo-American culture and how my professional career developed as ...

Annotated Bibliography – MLA

Abdullah, Sayeh. “Challenges for Teaching English as a Second Language and their Remedies.” International Journal of Humanities and Management Science, vol. 3, no. 5, 2015, pp. 371-373. http://www.isaet.org/images/extraimages/P1215035.pdf. Accessed 16 January 2017.
Abdullah’s paper discusses what he calles “language shock” (371) and how learning English is not just about learning how to read, speak, and write it, but to also adjust to learning the new cultural context that English is spoken in.
This is very important to my own research as it helps me understand how words and sounds are not the only challenges in learning English.
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Arguably, Eleanor Roosevelt is one of the most know women leader in the world. Leadership in woman's career was a difficult task to undertake, but the wife of Franklin Roosevelt was an exception. Driven by her personal character, philosophies, and tremendous leadership skill, she became one of the influential individual with re-known leadership skills. Eleanor Roosevelt was born in the year 1884 in New York City. In her entire life, Eleanor Roosevelt was a courageous leader who could always stand on her philosophies, as well as being in the forefront in helping does who needed her help. In fact, Eleanor Roosevelt ...

Reflection Paper

Throughout my life, there have been many factors and influences that have led me to my current career choices; my personality has been shaped in such a way as to provide me with unique skills and interests suited for that career. In terms of career development, there are several theories that can help me link my personality to my aspirations in career counseling. In this reflection paper, several career development theories are used to evaluate my life and personality to the end of determining my suitability for the field of career counseling.

Donald's Super's theory of career development describes a 'life ...

Introduction

Mental events as asserted in behaviorism are considered to be unscientific and embrace the use of practical experiment in the collection of data other than the use of mental processes. Behaviorism, as argued by the different scholars of psychology, is an approach that is employed in the study of both animal and human behavior and holds that the conduct can be measured. However, it is paramount to appreciate the fact that the behaviorist denies the use of human mind and hold that behavior is an essential tool that can be utilized in the psychological studies. However, it is important ...

Everyone has listened to music at one point in their life. The effect that music has on people is phenomenal and such that the absence of music unimaginable. My musical experience is interesting as I have different tastes and sounds from different cultures. When I was growing up, I liked children’s jingles that mostly accompanied cartoon programs on television. On answering the question on my musical experience I realized that I had so much to learn about music from different generations and cultures.
My first stop was my grandparents. They had an interesting taste and view about ...

My name is S V and I was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York. My education autobiography started with home schooling until kindergarten. At this preliminary stage of my education life. My grandmother was a teacher’s assistant at PS 304 in Bedford Stuyvesant Brooklyn. She believed education starts at home and not in the classroom. She would bring home assignments from her place of work and assign it to my cousins and myself at home. So by the time it was time for my cousins and me to attend school we were prepared for school. This home school ...

We Must Tell Our Own Story

Introduction

There exists in the world of sociology some controversy between two theories of thought. The debate is usually over a question like this “Which has more control over an individual’s life agency or structure?”
One side argues that people are confined behind the boundaries of social structures. How a person behaves within the structure is controlled by the boundaries or his perception of the boundaries. How a person acts depends on how the social structure (or hierarchy of social structures) “allows” him to act. There is free will only as it fits into the power structure of social systems. ...

Berman, Eli, et al. "Do working men rebel? Insurgency and unemployment in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines." Journal of Conflict Resolution 55.4 (2011): 496-528.A large part of the Afghan population is unemployed because of the war making any economic activity impossible. Unemployment is bad for the economy as it as wise men say, an idle mind is the devils work shop. People start thinking of illegal ways of making money.
Clarke, Richard A. Against all enemies: Inside America's war on terror. Simon and Schuster, 2004.According to this book, there are cases of insider attacks, where American soldiers ...

I was born in the Highlands of Ethiopia where I spent most of my childhood life. The suburbs of Addis Ababa city was my first home. My parents; Mr. and Mrs. Kahia , my elder brother called Sammy, my younger brother called Jimmy and I made up our family. These are the people who made my early childhood life. At the age of three, I was very much attached to my mother. I remember how sad it felt when she left me for the market every early morning. I could cry uncontrollably with emotions attached. She could then promise me ...

It was a time of transformation; it was the early 13th century and add this very moment the two tectonic plates of religion and global trade were shifting and capturing new geographies. Genghis Khan proved to be a revolution in the Mongolian history and he conquered without fail with an idea of creating universal harmony through subjugation of all other races. His methods included a lot of slaughter to gain access to other empires and by the time he died is Empire got extended to Russia and China and was also touching the areas that led to Christian Europe.
Man (2006) ...

Sophie Germain

Learning about women mathematicians and inventors is an instance that presents must scepticism due to the Romanisation that only men in the early years have held interest in math or science. However, there were notable women figures as noted by Osen (1975) in these two fields that have enabled men to understand unfamiliar concepts these women were able to address. One of these women was the Frenchwoman Sophie Germain. Sophie Germain was born to Ambroise Francois and Marie Germain on April 1, 1776. France, in this period, was filled with political conflicts considering the late 18th century France was ...

Biography of John Dewey

John Dewey is the American philosopher who can be seen as the leader of the pragmatism school of thought. This pragmatism school of thought is in essence the naturalistic view that knowledge surfaces when a human being actively adjusts to his surroundings instead of observing the world in a static, inactive manner (Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy). His philosophy is focused on stretching the mind in an active manner and experience. Dewey himself is evidence for the experiences, he has used theories of “modern biology, psychology, physics, and the historical sciences” (Hook, 2008, p.3). His influence from these theories and on these ...

Biography:

The quest for understanding is perhaps most apparent when it comes to the assessment of entrepreneurs and the effects of their workings in the world of business. Entrepreneurship is a practical activity that is acquired either through entrepreneurship genes or through learning/acquiring specific behavioral traits that can enable individuals to become active in entrepreneurship (Strategic Direction, 2011). One of the most influential persons in the world of entrepreneurship is Carlos Slim Helu, who owns varied properties ranging from telecommunications, retail, manufacturing, banking, and insurance. According to Forbes Business Magazine, Carlos Slim Helu is the richest man in the world with a ...

Some of you might know me by my birth name, Gaius Octavius Thurinus, or Augustus meaning “the revered one” the title I have earned and have been granted by the senate of Rome. I’m the first emperor of Rome, and of course many of you might also recognize me as the nephew of my great uncle Julius Caesar. I’ve been ruling Rome from 27 BC – 14AD. It almost feels as I have been supporting Rome since 63 BC the year I was born.

Due to the fact that my father Gaius Octavius governor of Macedonia on 61 ...

Mary Whiton Calkins grew up in a male dominated society. This was during the late 1800s and early 1900s when almost every one was a male chauvinist. She had to struggle through out her education especially in 1984 when her younger sister died and her mother’s health condition deteriorated forcing her to drop out of school for a year. When her sister, Mauda, died she spent the entire year tutoring her two young brothers. During this hard period she also studied Greek. During her life she put adequate effort and determination worth inspiring. (Zedler, 1995). This is noticed in her contribution ...