She knew Norma Jeane was too close for comfort and tried her best to make sure no one found out about the secret she was so desperately trying to hide. About a year passed after she signed her contract with 20th Century-Fox, it was during this time that Marilyn Monroe finally had an opportunity for a role in a movie. (Taraborrelli) While her career seemed to be taking off, there were several incidents concerning Ms. Monroe that had raised a few eyebrows. Diana Herbert, a woman whom Marilyn met while filming Scudda-Hoo! Scudda Hay!, recalled an incident during a pool party she hosted at her family’s mansion in Bel Air.
Marilyn’s affair with the Kennedy brothers was not a well kept secret. However, some people still believe, the John Kennedy part of the affairs were all a hoax (Hosenball). If the affair rumors were true, then the president ended it in 1962 (Was). Still the romance and sex affair with Bobby was true (Taraborrelli). Marilyn believed that Bobby would leave his wife for her, and when she found out it was a lie, she became extremely depressed.
Andrea Yates was a middle aged woman when she gave birth to her first child Noah. Shortly after marrying her husband, Rusty, she gave up her career as a registered nurse so she could start a family; not long after that was when she fell pregnant with Noah, once Noah was born Andrea was faced with the decision to return to her career or not. It has been said that Andrea would have wanted to return to work but she decided to be a full-time mother. Throughout the 8 years of their marriage leading up to this tragic event, Andrea spent the majority of her time in a state of pregnancy or nursing her younger children. She also had many visits to see psychiatric doctors/nurses and had many psychiatric treatments and was prescribed drugs such as Wellbutrin, Zoloft, Effexor and Haldon, which are a combination of anti-depressants and anti-psychotics (Yates, A.
When she was eighteen Sophia was introduced to Leo Tolstoy, who began to visit the family often. Although it was thought that he favored her elder sister, Lisa, Leo proposed to Sophia on September 17, 1862. The couple was married a mere week later, in Moscow, and immediately retreated to the Tolstoy family estate, Yasnaya Polyana. Sophia had been keeping a diary from the time she was eleven but had it destroyed just before the wedding. On the other hand, in an act similar to a character created in his work Anna Karenina, Leo asked his new bride to read his personal diaries.
PLOT SUMMARY AND THEME OF THE NOVEL: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou begins with a little girl named Marguerite “Maya” Johnson and her older brother, Bailey Jr. arriving in Stamps, Arkansas. They move into a store with their grandma whom they call “Momma”; she takes care of them for three to four years. When they are at age seven and eight, their father comes to get them, and he drops them off at their mother’s house; they stay with their mom whose boyfriend rapes Maya. After that event, Maya moves back to Stamps. Maya moves back in with her mother; she begins to seek male attention and has sex with a boy from up the street of her mom’s house.
After that, she joined a well-known model agency called Blue Book, where the manager told her to dye her dark hair to a platinum-blond. From that moment she became a successful and material girl, showing the world her dreamt body and using glossy jewelry and furs, she became an icon of fashion and movies, and the dream of every photographer. Her first movie roll was in 1948 in "Ladies of Chorus", then she made a string of hit movies, such us "Gentlemen prefer them blond", "How to marry a millionaire", etc. She married 3 times, and divorced because of infidelities. She was alcoholic and drug-addicted due to her emotional imbalance and the problems of insecurity she had.
She is the daughter of Bailey Johnson and Vivian Baxter. Angelou was raised in Stamps, Arkansas by her paternal grandmother Annie Henderson, along with her brother Bailey. Annie Henderson, whom Angelou called “Momma”, was her only stability after her parents divorced. Her brother Bailey would later give her the name Maya. At an early age Angelou was raped by a friend of her mother’s while visiting her mother in St. Louis.
Early Life Oprah Gail Winfrey was born on January 29, 1954 to a teenage mom Vernita Lee, and father Vernon Winfrey in Kosciusko, Mississippi. After her birth, Oprah’s mother was unable to fully take care of her and moved to Milwaukee to find work, and planned on later moving her daughter in with her. In her mother’s absence Oprah was left in the care of her grandmother, Hattie Mae Lee, who taught her how to read and had young Oprah participating in various church activities. As said, Oprah was moved to the city with her mother at the age of 6, but this move brought troubles to Oprah’s life as she was constantly raped between the ages of nine and 13 by male family members and a family friend. A little while later in her teenage years, Oprah’s promiscuity caused her to become pregnant, but didn’t end well as the child died as an infant.
Little did anyone know that the events that would soon occur dramatically would change Horney’s life in many ways. After experiencing a little of what medical school offered, Horney met and married a fellow student. She continued her studies and a year later a baby girl was born to Karen and Oscar, the first of three daughters. Horney watched as her husband disciplined the children in the
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