Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3,1904 in his grandmother's house in Washington D. His father Richard Thomas Drew was a carpet layer and the only black in the carpet and tile layer union. His mother Nora Burrell Drew was a graduate of Howard University's Miner Normal school in Washington D.C., she was a homemaker. The Drew family lived in a small city called Foggy Bottom near Washington D.C. Charles had a brother (Joseph), and two sister's (Nora and Elsie.) As a child he was always encouraged to take his studies seriously. As a child to get some money Charles was a newspaper boy for the "Washington Times" and the "Evening star." Soon he became a special-delivery boy for the U.S. Post Office.
Charles entered Paul Laurence Dunbar High, which was the best black college-preparatory school in the country. While in High school Charles became a four-letter man (a star in football, basketball, baseball, and track.) He received the school's best all around athlete award twice. At the age of 15 Charles" sister Elsie died from tuberculosis because there wasn't good medicine back then. At that moment he wanted to become a doctor. After Elsie's death the Drew family moved to Arlington, Virginia. After a lot of hard work in 1922 Charles was awarded a partial scholarship to Amherst College in Massachusetts. When he graduated from Amherst he decided to study Medicine. At first Charles was rejected from Howard University for medicine, but weeks later he was accepted to McGill University in Montreal, Canada. It was a five-year medical program. In 1933, Charles graduated with degrees of doctor of medicine and master of surgery. He won the William prize for the best senior in his class. After that he interned at the Montreal General and Royal Victoria Hospitals. There he researched the preservation of blood. Drew educated surgeons at Freedmen's. .
In the 1930's during World War II, Dr.Drew started to research the storage of blood, because he knew blood would be crucial.
Charles Richard Drew (1904 - 1950) Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington D.C. as the oldest of five children. ... Drew) was a carpet layer and his mother (Nora Burrell Drew) was a school teacher. ... Charles Drew soon graduated from there in 1933. ... This is what made Charles Drew famous his discovery about blood. ...
Renowned for both his originality and disregard for tradition, Charles Baudelaire is considered one of the greatest poets and critics of the nineteenth century. ... Charles-Pierre Baudelaire was born April 9, 1821. ... He used similar tactics as he drew himself further into the world of poetry. ... Charles Baudelaire died unrecognized in his mother's arms August 31, 1867. ...
Killer of Sheep by Charles Burnett is a film that effectively uses noir realism to portray to the viewer the everyday life and mundane routine that many people went through in the city of Los Angeles, especially in the poverty ridden neighborhood of Watts. ... School (which Burnett belonged to) drew from a diverse cross-section of filmmaking styles in order to formulate ˜an aesthetic ..appropriate to their conditions. ...
Charles Dickens Charles Dickens was born near Portsmouth on February 7, 1812. ... Charles" first love affair began at the age of eighteen, with Maria Bednell. ... Robert Seymor drew many illustrations for Charles" short texts. ... Charles decided to invest in a new radical newspaper, The Daily News. ... Charles" marriage had grown increasingly troubled, even though Catherine had born him ten children (Dickens, Charles John Huffam). ...
Charles Dickens was a very well known and loved author for his time. ... Later, Charles described his youth in the novel David Copperfield with little change from what had occurred in his own life. ... Phrases like "...but as the Artful drew forth the five-pound note at that instant, it is doubtful whether the sally... awakened his merriment" (Dickens, Oliver Twist 163) were common in reading his works. ...
Charles Dickens applies a variety of techniques in the opening of his novel "Great Expectations" which allow us to gain a deeper understanding of the novel. ... Pip explains "I drew a childish conclusion that my mother was freckled and sickly.... Bennett and Royle argue that "Charles Dickens novels are indisputably from the nineteenth century.... John Drew considers their approach to reaching readers innovative and said "Charles Dickens and his publishers were consummate Victorian entrepreneurs." In conclusion, from a close reading of the opening of "Great E...
Charles and Ray Eames" furniture and home were definitely attractive to look at. ... Their interpretation of us and our things in their pictures that they painted/drew were really great and depict us to a tee. They drew us as grotesque big-nosed human beings. ...
The main character of the novel, Charles Strickland, is a prosperous stockbroker. ... Strickland as a character Charles Strickland lived obscurely. He made enemies rather than friends. (23) There was much in his life which was strange and terrible, in his character something outrageous, and in his fate not a little that was pathetic. (24) It is obvious that there was much in the commonly received account of Strickland's life to embarrass a respectable family. (24) Mr Strickland has drawn the portrait of an excellent husband and father, a man of kindly temper, industrious habits and moral...
