Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3, 1904 in Washington D. Drew) was a carpet layer and his mother (Nora Burrell Drew) was a school teacher. As a student he was very athletic and excelled in academics. In 1922 he graduated from Paul Laurence Dunbar High School with medals from his junior and senior years for his athletic achievements. Later on he graduated in 1926 from Amherst College in western Massachusetts. .
Then he decided that he wanted to go into medicine, so he decided to accept a job at Morgan State College as a professor of chemistry and biology. In 1928 with enough money saved up from the job as a professor, he was finally able to attend medical school. Later he was accepted to McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Charles Drew soon graduated from there in 1933. He was top five in his class. He became an assistant surgeon at Freedmen's Hospital in Washington D.C. This is when he devoted his research to studying blood transfusions and the storing of blood. During his research he discovered that plasma which is the liquid portion of the blood that does not contain cells, could be dried and stored for an extended period of time without deteriorating. This is what made Charles Drew famous his discovery about blood.
On April 2, 1950 he died in car accident because he fell asleep behind the wheel of the car. He left behind a legacy of life saving techniques that benefit us today. Now he has schools named after him because of his contributions to the medical field. He also has blood banks named after him too. .
Charles Richard Drew was born on June 3,1904 in his grandmother's house in Washington D.C. ... The Drew family lived in a small city called Foggy Bottom near Washington D.C. ... After Elsie's death the Drew family moved to Arlington, Virginia. ... Drew educated surgeons at Freedmen's. ... Charles Richard Drew died in an automobile accident. ...
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...
