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Автор: innok 1.05.2008 - 22:38 |
Забавно, любопытно и работает как успокоительное, для родителей старших школьников и студентов High School and Elementary School Dropouts Dropped Out, But Later Received High-School Diploma Equivalency Status (months, years, or decades later: equivalency diploma, honorary diploma, admission to a college or university, or other schooling or training of high merit) Dropped Out of High School, Joined Military, & Eventually Received Diploma Equivalency Status Total Names: 717 Males: 548 Females: 169 Billionaires: 25 Millionaires: uncounted U.S. Presidents: 8 Astronauts: 1 (Valentina Tereshkova) Nobel Prize Winners: 10 (6 Literature, 2 Peace, 1 Physics, 1 Chemistry) Nobel Prize Nominees: 11 (includes above and Heather Mills) Olympic Medal Winners: 8 (7 Gold Medalists, one Silver Medalist) Oscar Winners: 62 Oscar Nominees: 104 (includes above) Other Award Winners: uncounted Best-Selling Authors: 55 Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients (U.S.'s highest civilian honor): 14 Congressional Gold Medal recipients (U.S.): 12 United Nations Goodwill Ambassadors: 2 (Roger Moore, Angelina Jolie) Knighthoods: 27 Damehoods: 3 Note: Individuals leave school prior to graduation for a variety of reasons, not just the automatically assumed "failing grades" or being a "troublemaker." Other reasons include a health problem, pregnancy, a need to help the family earn income, a tragic loss to the family, a need to care for siblings or an ailing parent, frequent relocation, war or natural catastrophe conditions in home country, unresolved problems with teachers or classmates, boredom due to education quality issues, or a desire to devote full time to an already established or emerging professional career. There are high-school dropouts in the membership of Mensa, the high-IQ organization. Alternative terms for "dropout" used by the military and educational institutions are "non-high school graduate" and "high-school nongraduate." While it is a fact and very important to stress that more opportunities exist for individuals who have at least a high school diploma, the names on these lists also add considerable weight to the discussion of what constitutes markers of human intelligence and a person's potential worth to society and historically civilization as a whole. These names represent examples of human perseverance, creativity, and in a great many instances genius. These are the most comprehensive lists ever compiled on this subject, but are by no means complete. http://www.angelfire.com/stars4/lists/dropouts.html Famous Alums Authors: F Scott Fitzgerald dropped out of Princeton, Dec. 1915 William Faulkner dropped out of the University of Mississippi Edward Albee (playwright) dropped out of Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut, after 3 semesters Comics: Woody Allen (Woody Allen) was expelled from New York University and City College of New York Steve Martin (wild & crazy guy) dropped out of Long Beach State College, where he was a philosophy major; though Steve had excellent grades, he says he became disillusioned upon reading Wittgenstein's view that "all philosophical problems can be reduced to problems of semantics"!! Rosie O'Donnell (movies, tv, K-mart ads) dropped out of Dickinson College and Boston University Ellen DeGeneres (tv) dropped out of University of New Orleans Dan Aykroyd (SNL) dropped out of Carleton University, Ottawa Computers: Bill Gates (Microsoft) dropped out of Harvard, 1976 Steve Jobs (Apple, NeXT, Pixar) left Reed College in Portland, Oregon, after 1 semester Steve Wozniak (with Jobs, founded Apple Computer) Lawrence Ellison (Oracle Computer) Michael Dell (Dell Computer) dropped out of the University of Texas Other Business: David Geffen (Geffen Records, Dreamworks SKG) flunked out of University of Texas, Austin, AND Brooklyn College, NY H Wayne Huizenga (Blockbuster Video millionaire, owner of Miami Dolphins, Florida Panthers and Florida Marlins) attended Calvin College, Grand Rapids, Michigan, for 3 semesters Ted Turner (media mogul) -kicked out, I hear! Ron Popeil (tv huckster, RONCO) William Hanna (Hanna-Barbera) Conservatives: Barry Goldwater ( berRepublican, Au H2O) Can you believe the anti-hippie himself tuned in, turned on, and dropped out? (Well, he dropped out at least) Rush Limbaugh (media personality, tie salesman) spent 1 year at Southeastern Missouri State University before dropping out Movies/TV: Tom Hanks (actor) dropped out of CalState, Sacramento Dustin Hoffman (actor) Warren Beatty (actor) Richard Gere (actor) Burt Reynolds (former actor) Sharon Stone (actress) Bruce Willis (parody of an actor) James Cameron (director of "Independence Day") James Dean (actor, rebel, postage stamp) Bill Murray (SNL, movies) Andie MacDowell (actress) Michael Keaton (actor) Dennis Quaid (actor) Kevin Sorbo (tv's Hercules) Marisa Tomei (actress) Brad Pitt (actor) Stan Brakhage (experimental filmmaker) Music: David Byrne (Talking Heads) dropped out of the Rhode Island School of Design Perry Farrell (Jane's Addiction, Porno for Pyros) Trent Reznor (Nine Inch Nails) Yoko Ono (you know) dropped out of Sarah Lawrence College Burl Ives (appears in Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer Christmas Special!) Arlo Guthrie (singer) dropped out of Rocky Mountain College, Billings, Montana Charlie Rich (Memphis blues musician, singer, songwriter) Other Media: Nina Totenberg (public radio) dropped out of Boston University |