This happens every day to people all over the world, even me, and is a topic that people need to hear and understand. When my older brother Bobby was 12 years old he was diagnosed with ADHD and prescribed heavy doses of Ritalin year round. I personally feel this was the start of his relationship with addiction. Throughout the next 25 years his addiction to drugs got worse with heavier drugs. When he was 32 he tried heroin for the first time and this was the demon that finally took his life at the age of 40.
This house was a shot gun house, you could fire a gun from the front door and it goes straight through the back door not hitting anything. On January 8, 1935 Gladys delivered a stillborn son named Jesse Garon the 35 minutes later Elvis Aron was born. The new parents were unable to pay the doctors bill, so he collected welfare. By the time Elvis was three his father was sent to prison for forgery. He pled guilty and sentenced to three years at Parchment Farms Penitentiary.
His sales earned him gold, platuim, and multi platuim awards (Elvis.com). Presley was nominated for fourteen Grammys but only won three which one was the Grammy Lifetime Achivment Award (Elvis.com). Tragically, Presley life ended on August 16, 1977 at only fourty-two years old (Elvis.com). He died of heart failure which was due to his his drug addiction (Elvis.com). He started taking pills to sleep, pills to wake up.
surviving the holocaust Joseph, who is better known as Joe Schertz, was born in the southern part of Poland in a town named, Przemysl in 1933. Due to a fall that caused an injury to his head, he lost his hearing and became deaf when he was a year old. He came from a well-to-do family. His father was a well known cantor. They lived in a mansion before the World War II.
The Early Years Theodore Robert Cowell was born on November 24, 1946 to Louise Cowell following her stay of three months at the Elizabeth Lund Home for Unwed Mothers in Vermont. Ted's biological father, who was an Air Force veteran, was unknown to his son throughout his life. Shortly after his birth, Ted and his mother moved back to the home of his grandparents in Philadelphia. While growing up, Ted was led to believe that his grandparents were his parents and his natural mother was his older sister. The charade was created in order to protect his biological mother from harsh criticism and prejudice of being an unwed mother.
This viral infection caused President Roosevelt’s legs to become paralyzed. Even though President Roosevelt became crippled, he still remained a prominent president in the 1900s. Some of his decisions during his terms still affect Americans today in positive aspects. President Roosevelt was not the only president to suffer physically, President William Howard Taft also suffered from a condition that numerous American’s deal with today, narcolepsy. Narcolepsy causes a person to fall asleep at any given moment.
Dahmer was paroled from the work release camp two months early, and he soon moved into a new apartment. Shortly thereafter, he began a string of murders that ended with his arrest in 1991 (Wikipedia, June 2009. Jeffrey Dahmer: Early Life). As early as 1989, when Jeff was facing sentencing for child molestation, Lionel felt that his "son would never be more than he seemed to be — a liar, an alcoholic, a thief, an exhibitionist, a molester of children. I could not imagine how he had become such a ruined soul... For the first time, I no longer believed that my efforts and resources alone would be enough to save my son.
Vickie Pleake Professor Spencer English 121 18 June 2013 Elvis Presley’s Career Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo Mississippi on January 8, 1935 in his parents’ home. He was a twin at birth but his brother Jessie Garen, was stillborn. The home Elvis was born in was built by his father, Vernon, for $180.00. Elvis came from humble beginnings, he grew up in poverty. While growing up and through his adult life Elvis was close to his mother, Gladys.
Elvis was supposed to be a twin but, Jesse Garon was stillborn. Due to one of the first traumatic events, Elvis got his middle name, Aaron which he later changed to Aron to represent his brother’s loss. Elvis grew up in Tupelo, Mississippi. He had a very normal early life until he was introduced to music.
Client’s father is an alcoholic that spends most of his time in prison. The client’s father attended Alcohol Anonymous for a year receiving one chip for his sobriety. The stress of the divorce triggered him to start drinking again. The client’s mother is a frequent cocaine user, that spent time away from home leaving Troy with his drunken father. The client lived with his Grandparents while his father finished serving his 5 year sentence for robbery and his mother spent two years in recovery.