... high school, beginning your independence. You keep telling yourself this is a new world full of opportunity, a fresh start, and whatever lies ahead is whatever you shape it to be. Then you realize it is not as simple as you wished it to be, because you are not a freshman, this is not your first day of school ... cards, copying homework, studying last minute for the test in the up coming period, a lot of memorable moments. From there, I said my last goodbye to the school. I promised myself I would never turn back, on the way out the door, I saw that gym door half open. People were playing ...

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... job with a major architect-developer, known as Clarence True. Here he served as an office boy. In addition, Van Allen attended night school at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn. In 1902 was hired by Clinton and Russell Architecture firm to be a draftsmen on the Hotel Astor in Times ... . He received commission for several big buildings, including the Gidding Building, and the Bainbridge Building. Although these buildings were developed to a high degree of complexity they were appreciated mostly by cognoscente's. In 1924, Van Alen designed the Childs restaurant which became the first building co...

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... in California. The community was a comfortable environment for him to live in because of the encouragement of independence and initiative. His parents didn't want him to be a writer. They wanted him to have a true profession as a lawyer. His early interest in reading led him through school, with his main interest in science. At age 15 he decided to become a writer, influenced by ... an English teacher, and faintly remembered by schoolmates for spending so much time in his room writing. After graduating from high school, he went to Stanford University in1920. (www.kirjasto.sci.fi/johnste...

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... was born in Boston, in the colony of Massachusetts. He was the youngest son in a large, poor family. When he was ten, Ben left school to work in the family's shop making soap and candles. He soon found his job dull. He loved to read newspapers and books, so he ... first lending library and the first volunteer fire department in the United States. He helped raise money for a city hospital. He also helped begin a school that later became the University of Pennsylvania. Franklin was interested in solving everyday problems, too. He noticed that his fireplace did not heat his room ... helped...

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