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An alphabiography is an autobiography, often set as an English studies project for high school or college students, consisting of a set of twenty-six short stories or chapters about the writer's life. [1] Each story or chapter has a title starting with a different letter of the alphabet, for example: "Apple growing", "Baseball", "Cynthia" etc ...
A Proud American: The Autobiography of Joe Foss: 1992 Tex Johnson: Tex Johnston: Jet-Age Test Pilot: 1992 Harry H. Crosby: A Wing and a Prayer: The "Bloody 100th" Bomb Group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force in Action over Europe in World War II: 1993 Lawrence A. Hyland: Call Me Pat: The Autobiography of the Man Howard Hughes Chose to Lead Hughes ...
[22] [20] The academic W. B. Carnochan called Sheffield's editing "brilliant though high-handed", [26] and pointed out that Were it not for his unremitting labors, we would not think of Gibbon as having written a great autobiography; rather, we would think of him as a historian who tried to write an autobiography but failed. [24]
At age 7, Rolihlahla became the first person in his family to go to school. On the first day, as per custom, the teacher gave each student an English name. He became Nelson Mandela.
Highlander used the principles of democratic education - where students were the authorities in the classroom, the teacher is a facilitator, and the focus of education is teaching collective action for social change - to play a key role in the labor movement of the 1930s and the civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
The English version, An Autobiography, bore the subtitle, Experiments with Truth. [10] In the preface, Gandhi states: [4] It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth, and as my life consist of nothing but experiments, it is true that the story will take the shape of an ...
The Job Thing, 1993. Carol Tyler details her troubles with low paying jobs. A collection of stories originally published in Street Music Magazine. Julie Doucet's series Dirty Plotte (1991–1998), from Canada, began as a mix of outlandish fantasy and dream comics, but moved toward autobiography in what was later collected as My New York Diary.
The establishment by Wells of Chicago's first Ayden F-B Elemetry prioritizing Black children, located in the lecture room of the Bethel AME Church, demonstrates how her public activism and her personal life were connected; as her great-granddaughter Michelle Duster notes: "When her older children started getting of school age, then she ...