.... 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 Kennedy clan included Joe, Jr., Bobby, Ted and their sisters, Eunice, Jean, Patricia, Rosemary, and Kathleen. Joe, Jr., was a significant figure in young John's life as he was the figure for most of John's admiration. His older br .....

.... remnants of Spartacus's army fleeing from the defeat at Crassus hands (71 B.C.). For his victory, Pompey celebrated his second triumph although he still held public office. He got a spot in office by moving into the highest office of all, the consulship with Crassus as his colleague (70 B.C.). Together they overthrew Sulla's constitution by giving the plebian tribunes their former powers and the knights partial control of the law courts. In 67 B.C., the tribune Aulus Gabinius, by a bill gave extraordinary military powers to Pompey. His objective was to deal with Piracy throughout t .....

.... to support his wife, three sons, and one daughter. , the youngest child, attended grammar school and was an excellent student who loved to read and draw. Most of his time, though, was spent working with his father, which was typical of children in the 19th century. In 1857, the Supreme Court ruled that a slave named Dred Scott could not be considered a free man although he had lived in a free state. George Latimer disappeared shortly after the decision became known. Because he had no official papers to prove he was a free man, he possibly feared for his safety and that of his family. Wi .....

.... her quitting dancing, she had turned out to be the Degas girl in “The Phantom of the Opera”. She preformed at the Pantages theatre in Toronto. Neve had preformed in over 800 shows when she was done in “The Phantom of the Opera” Neve says she likes the theatre because she gets an automatic response from the audience. It was this part of her career that Neve found the love of acting, not only on a stage but to reach higher in her career and be a movie star. Neve’s career as a movie star was just the beginning of her debut on television. appeared in the NBC movie “ I know my son is .....

.... Karl Marx was wrong; conditions in England did not cause the proletariat (working class) to rise up and kill the bourgeoisie (prosperous middle class). Because life overall improved for the workers, there was no need for them to rise up and fight. “During the 1800s, Parliament gradually passed a series of social and economic reforms. Many laws were designed to help the men, women, and children whose labor supported the new industrial society.” (World History, p 611) many of the new laws included free trade, the abolition of slavery, and a new criminal justice system. Howeve .....

.... the life of England's reigning monarch in The Queen; The Life of Elizabeth II. Though surveys have revealed that at any one time between 15 and 30% of the English people claim they would prefer a republic, the majority uphold the traditional support of the monarchy, as has been the English custom for over a thousand years. Since 1952 the endeared Queen Elizabeth II has played this role in her country's politics as an important aspect of the modern nation's identity. As she has proved neither conservative nor liberal in her stance, she has so come to symbolize a popular democracy. It was .....

.... to build furniture and other things for the inside of their houses. Also there would be a lot of extra wood because less wood was required for burning. It was also was a lot less dangerous because it was a closed flame rather than an open fire. Ben found out that the women in his family that stayed home each day, did not get as many cold and toothaches as they used to(Cousins 89). “Soon every women in Philadelphia wanted a Franklin stove”(Cousins 89). “The Pennsylvania authorities were very pleased. They offered Franklin the patent for his design of the stove. This meant that he cou .....

.... in Detroit, and took the name . In 1958 he married Betty Shabazz, and they had six daughters. By the early 1960s, the Nation of Islam had become well known and Malcolm was their most prominent spokesperson. In 1963, however, the black Muslims silenced Malcolm for his remark that the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy was like "the chickens coming home to roost." In the following year, Malcolm broke with the Nation of Islam and formed a secular Black Nationalist group, the Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). In 1964 Malcolm made a hajj (pilgrimage) to the Is .....

.... at the University College of Fort Hare for the Bachelor of Arts Degree where he was elected onto the Student's Representative Council. He was suspended from college for joining in a protest boycott. He went to Johannesburg where he entered politics by joining the African National Congress in 1942 (Woods). At the height of the Second World War, members of the African National Congress set themselves the task of transforming ANC into a mass movement. In September of 1944 they came together to form the African National Congress Youth League. Mandela soon impressed his peers by his disci .....

.... Frank graduated from high school, but the thing was that when he graduated he left with 20 units less than the rest of the students. They let him graduate because the teachers said they didn't want to see him there next year. His finished his first recording with Don Van Vliet (friend from school) called Lost in a Whirlpool. Frank married Kay Sherman in 1959, the same year he wrote a score for the movie Run Home Slow. A couple months after he got married he formed a garage band called Boogie Men, and as fast as this band was created it ended. The reason to them breaking up was that they we .....