Rheumatic fever left Dean with a heart condition, resulting in frequent absence from school, and he seemed to welcome the change when his mother remarried, moving the family to Texas. A part-time business making candy soon expanded to become their livelihood, and Corll was generous with samples as he sought to win new friends. Corll was drafted into the United States Army on 10 August 1964, and assigned to Fort Polk, Louisiana for basic training. He was later assigned to Fort Benning, Georgia, before his permanent assignment at Fort Hood, Texas as a radio repairman. Corll reportedly hated military service; he applied for a hardship discharge on the grounds that he was needed within his family's business (Candy Shop).
Cold Sassy Tree By Olive Ann burns The book Cold Sassy Tree, by Olive Ann Burns, takes place in Cold Sassy, Georgia. The protagonists are Rucker Blackslee and a young man that goes by the name of Will Tweedy. Rucker Blakeslee and his new bride, Miss Love Simpson, attempt to live happily and ignore the town's and the Blackslee family's general condemnation of their union. Will struggles to grow up and maintain his integrity with all the drama that is happening. This novel is about an old man growing young because after his wife Mattie Lou Blakeslee passed away he decided to move on and make Miss Love Simpson his new bride.
Born in Loudun, France, Marie married her first cousin, Auguste Antigny, in 1920. The marriage lasted until his death from supposed pleurisy on July 21, 1927. When his body was eventually exhumed, 60 mg of arsenic was found in his remains. In 1928, Marie married her second husband Léon Besnard.When Léon Besnard's parents inherited family wealth, the couple invited them to move in with them. Soon thereafter, his father died, apparently from eating poisoned mushrooms.
She had a miscarriage before, so the doctors didn’t know their chances. On February 12, 1982 in Bright Hospital she bore a beautiful baby girl and boy, however, with no job and low unemployment benefits, she had to keep only one. She prayed, yet, couldn’t find an answer. So, she decided to move to the United States and she took her son, Joseph Banks. She found a job at a prestigious law firm in Chicago, Burton and Michaels.
Lucille Ball was born August 6, 1911 in Jamestown, New York. Henry Ball was her father who worked as a telephone lineman for Bell Company, and her mother was Desiree (DeDe) Hunt (Discovery Biography). When Lucille was born, her life didn’t exactly stand still; According to Discovering Biography: “Henry Ball’s job required frequent transfers, and within three years after her birth, Lucille moved to Jamestown to Anaconda, Montana, and then to Wyandotte, Michigan.” As time went on tragedy fell upon Lucille’s life when her father died from a typhoid fever in February 1915 (Discovering Biography). Though the loss of a loved one may leave sorrow behind, one biographer had said that the death of her father had driven Lucille into playacting (Discovering Biography). With her mother left widowed, Lucille lived with her grandparents where her grandfather, Fred Hunt, described as “an eccentric socialist who enjoyed the theatre” by Discovering Biography, who often took the family to shows and encouraged Lucille to get involved with plays.
Review: A Raisin in The Sun Langston Hughes once wrote a poem that asked the question, what happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up like a raisin in the sun, or does it explode? Well Loraine Hansberry decided to answer his question, except his answer could not be as simple as a poem, no, he wrote a whole play. His play was about an African American family, the Youngers, who lived in a small apartment in Chicago in the 1950’s. Throughout the movie the family faces many hardships, starting with the loss of their father, but along with hardships comes opportunity for the Youngers.
The aunt had been married before but the husband left on a journey to America a day afterward and he never came back,”In 1924 just a few days after our village celebrated seventeen hurry-up weddings- to make sure that every man came home responsibly-... your aunt's new husband sailed for America... it was your Grandfather's last trip.” (Kingston 30). This probably made the aunt start thinking differently and gave her the spark to start the “acts” of rebellion. The aunt seems to become lonely in a sense that she thinks her husband will never come to be in her life again, so that it probably where she falls in love with another man. After her family found out about her sin they made her sit in the “outcast table” because how much she disrespected them. Adultery was greatly frowned upon because the author states, “Adultery is extravagance," which meant adultery was such a great sin that when
Great Gatsby Treasure Hunt 1) F. Scott Fitzgerald- Major influence on his life and writing . In June 1918 Fitzgerald was assigned to Camp Sheridan, Alabama. He fell in love with Zelda Syre 18 yrs old. His romance intensified and hopes for success for his novel but was rejected by Scribners for the second time. When the war ended he was sent overseas and in 1919 he went to New York to seek fortune to marry.
In 1920 he was the Vice Presidential candidate on a ticket with James Cox. They lost to Warren G Harding. While in his thirties Roosevelt, vacationing at his summer home on Campobello Island, suffered an attack of poliomyelitis. For the rest of his life, he was unable to walk without assistance. Inspired by his own experience with the illness, he would later found the March of Dimes to raise money for research into a cure for polio, as well as a national foundation at Warm Springs, Georgia for
In 1957 she became pregnant again, but this time it was a success, Caroline Kennedy was born in November. Their second child John Jr. was born three years after Caroline. Jacqueline gave birth to one more child but this child was of the Kennedy Curse, Patrick Kennedy died thee days after his birth. A month after the death of their 3rd child Jacqueline witnessed her husbands’ death while riding in a car, he was shot and killed. Years went by and Jacqueline remarried, but in 1994 at the age of 65 she fell victim to cancer and died later in that year in May.