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Paulo Freire was born in Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil on September 19, 1921 and he died on May 2, 1997. Due to the 1929 world depression his family had to move and live in jaboatao, he lived here for most of his childhood and teenage years. He began attending law school in Recife in 1943, a year later he married Elza Maia Costa Oliveira who was a primary school teacher. He started his practice but before his first case he changed his mind and wanted to become a teacher. He mastered Portuguese language, learned Spanish, French and English. In the year 1946 he took over as Director of the Pernambuco Department of Education and Culture of SESI which is the Social Service of Industry. After working for at least 10 years at the Department of Education and Culture of SESI he wrote books about education and how the past influences the future. He also became one of the founders of the Capibaribe Institute in Recife which was and still is a private school committed to a high level scientific, ethical and moral education and democratic standards. In the 1960’s Paulo also participated in movements for popular education, and pushed to make millions of adults literate. He was known as a Brazilian educationalist.
http://www.paulofreireinstitute.org/PF-life_and_work_by_Peter.html
http://www.infed.org/thinkers/et-freir.htm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulo_Freire
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=3&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108

E.D. Hirsch known as Edward Hirsch was born on January 20, 1950 in Skokie, Illinois. Edward went to Grinnell College in Iowa and graduated in 1972. He then studied the relationship of violence to poetic in England, Wales, and France. He earned his PhD in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He married his wife Janet Landay in 1977. He wrote books of poetry such as For the Sleepwalkers in 1981, Wild Gratitude in 1986, The Night Parade in 1989, and Earthly Measures in 1944. In 1985 he has taught as a professor of English at the University of Houston.
http://www.hoover.org/bios/hirsch.html
http://www.enotes.com/omen/author-biography
http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/introduction_literature/poetry/hirsch.html
http://web.ebscohost.com.prxy8.ursus.maine.edu/ehost/pdf?vid=11&hid=120&sid=2ccbf954-e11c-41e0-952d-a612f18b45ab%40sessionmgr108