Children of the early 70s will also remember him as the voice of Templeton the rat in 1973’s Charlottes Web. Although his career was very successful, Paul was a very troubled soul. He grew up in a stable, loving family, and had an older brother whom he idolized. When the brother was killed in world war two, Paul never got over it so the first of his troubles was unresolved grief. Paul was also a gay man in a time when it was not acceptable;especially in Hollywood, to be open about it.
Since he was a child star, what he gained in performing experience cost him his childhood, he didnt get to do things other kids would do, go to a park, play with other children. He was often referred to as being Peter Pan like, the boy who never grew up. Because his personality was a bit like a childs (positively), he was able to relate to kids too, and a 12 year old cancer sufferer even said Michael cured him just by being him. He had
Ward says “Despite his injury, despite the fact that he could not read and that neither he nor his wife could write, Henry Johnson never failed to find ways to support his family” (6). This
I was very shy and anti-social so I didn’t have a lot of friends. I was also very skinny and frail so when I started boxing, I lost a lot of fights. To boost my confidence I bragged a lot. I wasn’t a particularly hard puncher or very skilled yet but my opponents didn’t have to know that! Whenever I had a fight, I would talk smack and tell my opponent that I was going to knock them out!
They went into a great deal of detail as to how they were intricately designed by God to help people along the way. This seemed too much at the time for my six year old mind to be able to comprehend so I simply clutched my GI Joe action figure and endured the remainder of the ride home. Looking back on my life I see that most of what I deemed as foolishness coming from the mouth of my now deceased parents can now be viewed as pertinent information that was so profound and full of wisdom. As I matured I too found myself always in positions of wanting to help people. As a young man in his early 20’s, I felt that if I was able to be of some sort of assistance to my fellow-man I could not only fulfill my purpose but hopefully change the world, one person at a time.
It’s the same thing as looking up to someone as you’re role model. Times change and with it so do people. I remember how when I was growing up watching Disney movies like the “Parent Trap,” I would look up to young stars like Lindsay Lohan as role models and hero’s and how I loved the influence they had on kids like my age but, now the stars that were once great hero’s and influences started to fall just like Lindsay Lohan and their reputation for being a role model changed dramatically so, that now instead of being counted on by their fans, they are not being wanted. Lindsay had recently been charged for jewelry theft and this is one example of stars ruining their reputation for being a hero or role model and something like this tells us a lot about how much these stars have changed. “I just want to be on set again and left alone to just work!
Pacettas Rules for Leadership Kevin J American Military University Frank Pacetta had a lot of native talent but he squandered it in his early years with Xerox (Pacetta p.12). Luckily for Xerox and himself, he was never fired and received the training and mentorship that he needed to morph into the type of leader who would take charge of a failing district and turn it into one of the top performers in the country. Mr. Pacettas parents were a large influence on him as a person but also as a leader and boss. His mother had to take care of his brother who was handicap and he heard stories about how great of a boss his father was. Mr. Pacetta would take the never quit attitude from his mother and the business and people savvy of his father and combine them to make one outstanding mentor and leader.
I was privileged to know one for 42 years, he was my father. To most people he was this plain little man with scars on his face, but to me he was bigger than any action figure movie star. Dad was what I’d call a silent hero, a very soft spoken man who didn’t like talking about himself or any heroic actions he had ever done, but in 2006, my son had to do a college paper about the person he admired the most, he chose his grandfather. From that interview I heard my father speak for the first time of things he had never shared with any of his children. To hear this 82 year old man tell his stories it was heart wrenching.
He is a child not planned for or not wanted. Neglect begins, therefore, before he is born” this is a quote by Pearl Buck that addresses the primary reason for child neglect. Many people see neglect as a silent problem because neglect is passive and often characterized by depression and resignation. According to Walker (2008), “While newspapers and TV news shows regularly highlight stories of child physical and sexual abuse, the companion problem, child neglect, hardly gets a mention. Neglect, unless accompanied by pictures of squalor or emaciated kids, is much harder to capture in a headline or sound bites” (p. 1).
Most of my friends smoke, yet I have never smoked. Do I feel awkward, no. As kids we are taught to be ourselves, nobody likes a copy cat. Yet we are all guilty of doing something we probably shouldn’t just to fit in. Have you ever wanted to upgrade you house because your friends upgraded theirs.