First Question
The following are the names that Hanover students have supplied on being asked to name the first ten people who come to mind for American history through the Civil War. The list is organized with the most often cited names first. Thirteen Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 147 students; this year, 12 students took the survey. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of students (out of this year's 12 and out of the total 147) who include that name on their list.
Eleven students (one this term) listed Thomas Edison (who
doesn't fit the time limits).
Six students (two this term) listed Martin Luther King, Jr. (who doesn't fit the time limit).
Five students (none this term) listed Henry
Ford (who doesn't fit the time limits).
One to four students listed the following
people who don't fit the geographical or time limits:John
F. Kennedy, Rosa Parks, Theodore Roosevelt, John Henry, Florence
Nightingale, Alexander Graham Bell, George Washington Carver,
Napoleon, Scarlett O'Hara, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Jean-Jacques
Rousseau, Woodrow Wilson, George W. Bush, Rhett Butler, Jimmy
Carter, Jon Carter, Bill Clinton, Leonardo Da Vinci, Walt
Disney, Dwight Eisenhower, Elizabeth (no last name), Samuel
Jackson, Sarah Orne Jewett, John (no last name), Helen Keller,
King Henry VIII, John Locke, Ferdinand Magellan, Malcolm X,
Thurgood Marshall, Margaret Mitchell, Richard Nixon, Barack
Obama, Lee Harvey Oswold, Mr. & Mrs. Albert Parker, Alice
Paul, Ronald Reagan, Jackie Robinson, Eleanor Roosevelt,
Roosevelt (no first name), Col. Harlan Sanders, Margaret Sanger,
John Taylor, Amerigo Vespucci, Betsy White
Second Question
The following are the names that Hanover students have supplied on being asked the follow-up question, "What are the first ten names that come to mind, if you exclude presidents, generals, statesmen, or other figures in official public life?" The list is organized with the most often cited names first. Thirteen Great Works classes have taken this survey since Fall 2004, for a total of 147 students; this year, 12 students took the survey. The numbers in parentheses represent the number of students (out of this year's 12 and out of the total 147) who include that name on their list.
Six students (none this term) listed Thomas Edison (who does
not fit the time limits).
Four students (one this term) listed Henry Ford (who does not
fit the time limits).
One to three students listed the following people who don't
fit the occupational, geographical, or time limits:
Jane Addams, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Calamity Jane (Canary),
George Washington Carver, Willa Cather, Joshua Chamberlain, Jim
Crowe, Madame Curie, Walt Disney, Albert Einstein, Anne Frank,
Betty Friedan, grandparents of students, John Hancock, Doc
Holiday, Rose Hulman, Zora Neale Hurston, Thomas Jefferson, Sarah
Orne Jewett, John (no last name), Helen Keller, Martin Luther
King, Jr., John Locke, Billy the Kid (McCarty), Michelangelo,
Margaret Mitchell, Marilyn Monroe, Florence Nightingale, Scarlett
O'Hara, Lee Harvey Oswald, Rosa Parks, Alice Paul, Tom Petty,
Pablo Picasso, John Procter, John D. Rockefeller, Eleanor
Roosevelt, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Babe Ruth, Margaret Sanger,
Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Amerigo Vespucci, Madame C.J. Walker,
Booker T. Washington, Watson & Crick, Betsy White, Laura
Ingalls Wilder, Wright brothers.
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