Teaching Biographies Samples For Students

Alban Berg was an Austrian composer, teacher and one of the most prominent representatives of the Second Viennese musical expressionism and composer school. Alan Berg was a student and a follower of A. Schoenberg, who was Alban Berg’s teacher in years 1904 - 1911.
One of the most prominent representatives of expressionism in music, Berg expressed in his works characteristic of expressionist artists thoughts, feelings and images: dissatisfaction with the social life, feelings of helplessness and loneliness. The hero of his works can be expressed asa little man, driven to despair by a hostile environment of bourgeois society. Ground for ...

Far from the continent of United States, I was born and raised in Shenzhen- a developing city at the Southside China. I began to speak and learn my native language, Mandarin, at a very tender age. Even before I entered the pre-school, I already recited hundreds of poems and idioms because my grandfather was a famous schoolmaster. Under his influence, I studied the quintessential literary works of the Chinese poets such as Li Bai and Bai juyi from the time I was able to spell words. I was endowed extraordinary talent and it was never difficult for me to write in professionally ...

Biography of Saul Bellow

Saul Bellow was born and raised until the age of nine in Lachine, Canada in 1915. He was born the Russian parents who had immigrated to Canada in 1913. However, the family moved to Chicago in 1924 and that is where Bellow received his education. Even though Bellow had an abusive father who always viewed him as a failure, he was determined to make his life better through his education. Consequently, Bellow performed well in his studies. He joined the University of Chicago in 1933 but transferred to Northwestern University where he graduated with a degree in sociology and anthropology in ...

Robert Boyer is a computer science expert. He used to work as a computer science and mathematics professor at Austin, specifically in the University of Texas. Not much is known of his private life but he definitely deserves a lot of credit for his contributions in his field. Not much is known of Robert Boyer’s private life except his accomplishments in his respective fields.
Robert Boyer is one of the renowned modern scientists in the field of mathematics, computer science, and though in a slightly unusual way, philosophy. He has worked with other 20th century scientists such as Professor J Strother ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Susan Antony

Susan Brownell Antony was born on 15th February in the year 1820 in Massachusetts. She died on March 13 of the year1906.Her Quaker family was well endowed with activist traditions. This made Susan develop a moral zeal and sense of justice in her early life. Susan was a well-known feminist and civil rights activist and leader in America. She played a very instrumental role in the movement of women rights of the 19th century in America leading to the introduction of the women suffrage in the US. Susan also worked with Elizabeth Candy Stanton as the founders of first of the women ...

Born on 11th may 1894, Martha Graham was an American choreographer and contemporary dancer whose effect on dance can only be matched to Frank Wright’s influence on architecture, Picasso’s on arts and Stravinsky’s impact on music (Graham, 08). Martha was born of George Graham and Jane Beers in Allegheny City. Her parents were strict Presbyterians. She began her studies at Denishawn School of Dancing and Correlated Arts in the mid-1910s and stayed until 1923 (Thoms, 03). Her career in dancing and music started in 1922 when she performed one of Shawn's Egyptian discos with Lillian Powell ...

C.S. Lewis
- Introduction
C.S. Lewis was one of the most renowned Christians in the early 1900s. Various history magazines at this time compared him to influential individuals such as Luther King Jnr and Pope John XXIII. Lewis’s popularity as a Christian rose because of his conversion from atheism to become one of the most ardent supporters of Christianity. This paper will look at how C.S. Lewis found God and converted to Christianity.
- C.S. Lewis Background
Lewis was referred to as Jack by his close friends and members of his family. Lewis was a university ...

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois: A Biography

William Edward Burghardt "W. E. B." Du Bois was born on February 23, 1868. He was born and grew up in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. His parents were Alfred and Mary Silvina Du Bois. Her mother’s family lived among the small, free black community in Great Barrington. Her mother descended from English, African, and Dutch ancestors.
William’s paternal great-grandfather was a French-American named James Du Bois who fathered different offspring with some slave mistresses. Alexander was one of the many mixed-race sons of James. When Alexander went to ...

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 ...

Introduction

Nowadays, Math is comparatively accessible discipline to everyone, who is eager to master it, and has some basic logical skills. It is because of the wide range of contemporary textbooks, hundreds of helpful websites and numerous highly-qualified teachers and professors, who are not only acquainted with the discipline itself, but are also talented in the art of teaching.
However, the situation was not so bright in the old times, when the books on Math could not have been comprehended by a common person. Moreover, many theoretical and practical issues still had not been resolved, which complicated the teaching process ...

Biography on Steve Israel, a U.S. Representative for New York
Steve Israel is a member of the U.S House of Representatives from the Third Congressional District of New York since 2001. Steve is a true leader. He values education. He respects the middle class and the low-income group. Even in the worst situations, Steve always raised his voice and stood up for his people. He has sponsored and co-sponsored numerous bills and voted in favor of several reforms that benefit the public to a great extent. He has been in power since 2001 and never misled his people. He introduced acts and ...

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.
Ahamed, ...

I. Introduction
Quality control refers to the policies and procedures a company institutes in order to ensure that its products or services are the best possible available, comply with external and internal standards, government regulations, and to decrease or eliminate any problem, errors or issues that might occur in the production or enjoyment of the goods or service. Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa was one of the first persons to advocate for company-wide/total quality control, or the integration of quality control practices in every facet of the company’s business model. In addition, Dr. Ishikawa was the father of the Japanese ...

Mikhail Baryshnikov was born on 27th January, 1948 in Riga, Latvia. He is famous for dancing throughout the world. His dance is the sublime vision. Mikhail Nikolaevitch Baryshnikov began his ballet studies in 1960. He studied in Vaganova School the then Leningrad with Aleksander Pushkin. He won the top prize in the junior division of the international Varna Competition. His teacher described him as “the most perfect dancer I have ever seen”.
He made his debut at Maryinsky theatre where he danced the ‘peasant’ pas de deux in Giselle, in the group Kirov Ballet. A new instrument unique ...

Introduction

In the history of computing, there are many names. These are the names of a number of near Ada Lovelace and Charles Burbidge. Charles Babbage is the person who created the drawings of the analytical engine, and the woman who wrote the world's first software for this machine. She was a great mathematician and a very persistent woman; it did not disappoint even the fact that she did not see her program works.

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Augusta Ada Lovelace was born December 10, 1815. She was the only daughter of the great English poet George Gordon Byron (1788 - 1824) and Annabella Byron, born Milbank ( ...

I was born on the 31of May 1993 in a big and cultural city under the zodiac sign of Gemini. I believe that stars influence our fate and character as you see I am Gemini. I am creative and dynamic, also enthusiastic, energetic and show initiative. Partially it is true. Actually I am persistent. It’s rather different I think. People say that I am cheerful and quite easy-going person. However, when I am in a bad mood I can be a bit reckless, selfish and moody. It’s terrible, that is why I do my best to be more reserved. Every ...

Ludwig van Beethoven was born in 1770 in Bonn, nearby the French border. His father and grandfather were court musicians. Little Ludwig discovered his musical abilities early and his father began lessons with him when he was five, hoping to bring up his son to be, like Mozart, a child prodigy and get out of this financial benefit. Classes were disorderly. Beethoven's father was often rude, cruel, overly demanding. He forced the boy to spend hours playing the same exercise. Sometimes, coming home late at night drunk, he woke his son and made him play.
Ludwig's mother was kind ...

Today, we are used to seeing a female doctor, but not so long ago it was a purely male profession. Elizabeth Blackwell was the one to change this trend and became the first American woman to become a registered doctor. Elizabeth was born on February 3, 1821, near Bristol in England.
She had a happy childhood; especially she recalled the positive influence of his father. In education, religion and social issues he was quite liberal, for example, he did not punish children's misdeeds by flogging, but instead he put them down in the black book, and if there were many violations, the ...

There have been few people that have matched up to the scientific know how of the Curie family. The Curie family has received the most Nobel Prizes in history. Marie Curie, the matriarch of the family, was the first women to win a Nobel Prize and is the only person to win a Nobel Prize in two separate fields of science. Her accomplishments include describing the theory of “radioactivity” as well as coining the term; she also discovered to elements, polonium and radium. The theories of radioactivity helped during World War I where she assisted on the front lines in creating ...

Abstract

Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa is regarded as one of the world’s adored frontrunners in total quality control. He is recognized for his prodigious and exceptional contribution to total quality management (TQM) that has shaped quality management up-to-date. Ishikawa used his educational background, philosophies, and ideas to help companies and the overall management industry in producing quality products and services at reduced costs. His work has been highly awarded through prestigious prices and recognition from industrial and educational related organizations. This work focuses on Dr. Kaoru Ishikawa’s biography especially his life, work, philosophy, significant accomplishments, and his contribution and ...

Since the early colonial period, Black Americans or those with African or Black descent were persecuted by the whites. The United States, for example, had sold Black Americans or those with half African descent as slaves and restricted them in such extent that they were refused food, shelter and the right to fight for their rights as regular citizens of the United States. Although there were movements that fought for the abolishment of slavery and the establishment of equal rights, many still held the sentiment against the Black Americans or the African-Americans throughout the region in the early 1970s. ...

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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 ...

When one hears the name “Pablo Picasso”, or just “Picasso”, one is reminded of vivid and abstract colors that form odd shapes or cubes depicting the subject. Pablo Picasso was born on October 25, 1881 in the Andalusian city known as Málaga to parents Don José Ruiz y Blasco and María Picasso y López. He is the eldest of three with him as the only son in the family. Picasso’s father is a professor in the School of Arts and Crafts in Andalusia, while his mother watched over their children. Picasso easily displayed his interest in art ...