Essays Tagged: "birth name"
Confucius and His Influence on Far Eastern Culture
l people in the far east was Confucius. Confucius (K'ung Futzu is how he is called in China but his birth name was K'ung Ch'iu) was a very important Chinese philosopher who saw in life that there was ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy > Classical Philosophy
An essay that talks about the life of Lewis Carroll
.Lewis Carroll was not born with the name Lewis Carroll. It became his pen name when he changed his birth name Charles Lutwidge Dodgeson into the Latin form of "Carolus Lodovicus," then simplifying it ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith
Biography of Saint Paul
g Jew of the Diaspora, Saul changed his everyday name to Paul, a name similar to that of his Hebrew birth name.Paul's letters reflect a devoted knowledge of the Greek Language, something he probably l ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Religion & Faith > Christianity
Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: From Bondage to Freedom.
n autobiography of Frederick Douglass taking place in the nineteenth century. Frederick Bailey, his birth name, was a slave in Maryland who made an escape to New York, and eventually to Massachusetts. ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Martin Luther King Jr. His life all the way up until he was assasinated, the awards he won, and what he was known for.
n January 15, 1929 at noon, on Tuesday to Alberta Williams King and Martin Luther King Sr. Martin's birth place was Atlanta, Georgia. Michael Luther King Jr. was his given birth name but later changed ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Life of Maya Angelou
well known African American women of today.Maya was born April 4th 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Her birth name is Marguerite Johnson, and it wasn't until her early twenties that she was given the name ... to attend George Washington High School, and graduated in 1945. Shortly after graduation, Maya gave birth to her son Guy Bailey Johnson. Throughout my research on Maya, I found many dates and time per ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays
Martin Luther King "The Times of a Dream"
ll the downfalls of hatred with a peaceful weapon.Martin Luther King was born in 1929, although his birth name is Michael King, his father Reverend Martin Luther King, Sr. "Daddy King" had an inspirat ...
Subjects: Law & Government Essays > Civil Rights > Black Awareness & Racism
General Grant Bioagraphy/Battle of Shiloh
in Point Pleasant, Clermont County, Ohio around twenty-five miles away from the Ohio River. Grants birth name was Hiram Ulysses Grant her maiden name was Simpson which after she got married it became ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History
Marie Curie
Marie Curie, her birth name was Maria Sklodowski, was born in Warsaw, Poland in November the 7th, 1867, her original ... sband did a lot of research and analyses on radioactivity. Curie isolated polonium, named after her birthplace, and radium. However she later discovered that she had not discovered pure radium and wor ...
Subjects: Science Essays > Physics
The Most Influential Philosopher in History, Plato
The Greek philosopher we all know as Plato wasn't actually named Plato. The birth name given to him by his wealthy Athenian parents was Aristocles. In his school days he receiv ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Philosophy
John Ford
beth, Maine; John Ford was going to become one of the world's greatest movie legends. Ford's birth name was actually Sean Aloysius O'Feeney. His parents, John and Barbara, were both Irish immig ... did some minor acting. John appeared in a few silent movies and rode as one of the clansmen in "The Birth of a Nation" by D. W. Griffith in 1915. It was considered the first major motion picture ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings (Challenges In The Book)
mother. Her autobiography, I know why the caged bird sings tells the story of Margaret Johnson, her birth name, growing up living in a poor black town with her grandmother. Maya Angelou faces many cha ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Ghenghis Khan: Childhood, beginning of empire, culture.
gn of great leader ship and divine. Genghis Khan didn't obtain his name till his rise to power, his birth name was Temujin, and he was born some time between 1150's to 1160's. at the age of three he w ...
Subjects: History Term Papers > Asian History
John wayne
and Wayne the man. Before the start of his movie career he played football at USC under his birth name, Marion Michael Morrison. He held many behind-the-scene jobs at Fox before moving in fron ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies
Autism
Thomas Cruise Mapother IV Born on July 3, 1962, Tom Cruise's birth name is Thomas Cruise Mapother IV. He was born in Syracuse, New York and was the third of four ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis
The Trials and Triumphs of Robert E. Hayden
sa and Gladys Sheffey. Asa and Gladys were experiencing marital problems; they separated before the birth of their son. Gladys Sheffey felt confused; she wanted to be involved in her son?s life but co ... adoption. A couple named William and Sue Ellen Hayden took young Asa in. The couple then had Asa?s birth name changed to Robert Earl Hayden.American poet, Robert Earl Hayden, had a reputation for fin ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
My name
Are there many things you want to know about my name? Well, my birth name is Qui, but many people call me Florence. I like my name for many reasons. One reason I l ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing
Andy Warhol: A Visionary Artist
as a visionary artist, he changed the way art itself is viewed around the world.Andrew Warhola, his birth name, was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania on August 6th 1928. He grew up in Oakland, a town in ...
Subjects: Art Essays > Artists