... producing girls. Because of this, her mother was sent to a clinic for tests (Morton 10). She was only 23 at the time. This is ironic because today we now know the sex of the baby is determined by the father. Even though she was too young to understand, Diana believed she was to blame for her father’s disappointment. Finally, a few years later her mother delivered a boy to carry on the Spencer name. Although Diana had a beautiful christening at Sandringham Church with well-to-do Godparents, her brother Charles’s christening was a major event at Westminster Abbey. The Queen was the principal Godparent. The Spencer children were privileged but not snobbish. They were t ...

... and served briefly in the Black Hawk War. Lincoln lost in 1832 as an Illinois legislator. Two years later he made it as a Whig. As a Whig, he supported the Second Bank of the United States (The Illinois State Bank). Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926. Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871. In February 1860, Lincoln made his first major political appearance in the North ...

... point of all lives became speculative and often doubted. People began to search for new meanings in life. Ralph Waldo Emerson set the tone for the age when he stated, “Who so would be (hu)man, must be non-conformist.” believed and practiced this philosophy. Dickinson was brought up by a stern, authoritarian father. In her childhood she was shy and already different from other children. After attending Amherst Academy with other scrupulous thinkers she began to develop into a free-willed person. Many of Dickinson’s friends had continued with their Christianity and her family put an enormous amount of pressure on her to convert. No longer the submissive youn ...

... exposed, although we are not allowed to release much of this information but we can say that this third party was a major Hollywood player. Michael claims that he was not actually having an affair but merely providing sexual favors in order to get a speedy production for the sequel to his past smash hit movie "The Moon Walker". Though, this extra parter denys this and says there has been an on going relationship since before the hookup of Jackson and Presley. Are these aligations true? I think so. The divorce was made final late last week, now Michael has moved in Permanently to his large day care center complex, better known as "I've got my Hand ...

... best nigger in the world... forever unfitting him for the duties of a slave." As a slave child some experiences were hard to describe. Douglass witnessed, as a child, what he called a "horrible exhibition." He lived with his Aunt in one of the master's corridors. The master was an inhumane slave holder. He would sometimes take great pleasure in whipping a slave. Douglass was often times awakened by the screams of his Aunt. She would be tied and whipped on her back. The master would whip her till he was literally covered in blood. "No words, no tears, no prayers, from his gory victim, seemed to move his iron heart from its bloody purpose." The louder she screamed ...

... in the nation—where residents bring home an average yearly income of $10,890 …where one in every six persons is a food-stamp recipient, one of every three babies born has an unwed mother, and the violent crime rate is ninth highest in the nation…I am meeting seventeen-year-old girls who have had one sometimes two children. Without a chance for college… [they are] vulnerable to the first young man who looks at them (7-8). As she talks about this she seems surprised that things like this actually occur. She then meets Patrick Sonnier, a death row inmate. Through him she is once again thrown into a world that she is unfamiliar with but she quickly learns all abou ...

... father, Joe, Sr., was a successful businessman with many political connections. Appointed by President Roosevelt, Joe, Sr., was given the chair of the Securities and Exchange Commission and later the prestigious position of United States ambassador to Great Britain(Anderson 98). His mother, Rose, was a loving housewife and took young John on frequent trips around historic Boston learning about American revolutionary history. Both parents impressed on their children that their country had been good to the Kennedys. Whatever benefits the family received from the country they were told, must be returned by performing some service for the country(Anderson 12). The Kenn ...

... In college, his short film, Amblin was shown at the Atlanta Film Festival and led to the boy genius's Universal Studios directing contract at the age of twenty. Spielberg learned his craft doing television work, which included an episode of the Rod Serling series Night Gallery and the classic cult movie Duel. His first feature, The Sugarland Express, was released in 1974, and he was soon offered the chance to direct a thriller about a great white shark terrorizing a small New England beach town. Jaws cost $8.5 million and grossed $260 million. Spielberg followed it up two years later with Close Encounters of the Third Kind, earning a Best Director Oscar nomin ...

... toward science and math. A favorite toy of his was his father’s compass, and he often listened to his uncle’s explanations of algebra. Although young Albert was intrigued by science, he was considered a slow learner. But despite his curiosity toward math, neither his parents, nor his school teachers thought much of his mental abilities. His uncle often joked that not everyone was born to become a professor. He also was interested in music, so his mother taught him how to play a violin that would help him to relax, and think more carefully on problems. When he was ten, he made a decision that he changed his life. He decided that he would not be as o ...

... Shakespeare. But most of his knowledge that he used as an author came from what he observed around him. He was a keen observer of life and had a great understanding of human nature, particularly of young people. Dickens became a newspaper reporter in the late 1820’s. He covered debates in Parliament and wrote feature articles of the ever changing London scene. Dickens’ first publication was done under the pseudonym Boz in 1836. It consisted of articles he wrote for the “Monthly Magazine” and the “Evening Chronicle.” These articles surveyed manners and conditions of the time. Dickens’ personal unhappiness marred his pub ...