Step sisters since the age of 6 and 10, Candy Clinkscale and Linda Snoddy were both widows by the age of 85, making them excellent candidates to interview. Candy Clinkscale age 72 was born March 14, 1946 on the south side of Columbus, Ohio. Her relationship to the researcher is the grandmothers older step sister, formally known as an aunt. Clinkscale, who was born to a mother of European descent, is one fourth African American but identifies herself as an Caucasian female. Growing up, Clinkscale was born into an impoverished family but heightened her social economic status after marrying her husband Leroy Clinkscale III. Leroy was a native from Detroit, Michigan of African American descent. The two met at Central State University in Xenia, …show more content…
Ohio where she pledged Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority Incorporated, and Leroy pledged a service fraternity. Their involvement in greek life brought the two together. They were married soon after college graduation in the Spring of 1969. A year after marriage, the two moved to a wealthy suburb outside of Detroit Michigan. Both worked as privately contracted accountants which made decent money on top of Leroy's inherited wealth.
The couple was well off financially. During the next 13 years of marriage Candy gave birth to four biological children and adopted two more. The Clinkscales remained married for 49 years until the death of Leroy in January of 2018. He was preceded in death by his wife, 6 children, and 8 grandchildren. Similar to her older step sister, Linda Snoddy was native of Columbus, Ohio. She was born January 16, 1950 on the south east side of Columbus to a middle class family. Her mother remarried Candy’s father Clearance Peal in 1956 and her family remained middle class because her step father was a World War II army veteran. Her relationship to the researcher is the grandmothers older biological sister formally known as an aunt. She met her late husband Wayne Snoddy in 1968 at Ohio University in Athens Ohio. The two met through a mutual friend. They were soon married and relocated to Longview Texas after graduation in 1971. In Texas ,Wayne would open up one of two engineering/architect firms and Linda would teach kindergarten at the local elementary school. They had their first son Bryan in 1974 and two daughters after with in the span of 7
years. With both Linda and Wayne having college degrees, they maintained a middle class lifestyle much like the one Linda grew up in. Wayne passed away in August of 2016 leaving behind his business to his wife and 12 grandchildren.
Skittles and starburst are two fantastic and delicious candies! Skittles and starburst have many similarities and differences; they differ in their flavors, colouring, shape, and prize. Consumers should purchase skittles because it creates the perfect rainbow, showing all the colors of their kindred spectrum, while getting a taste of all their special flavors.These two candies, both have their equal similarities and differences, share normality, which make them alike. These are both, in actuality, soft candies that makes for an immediate example of their likeness.Each candy exemplarily makes details in creating peace in one's mind to provide the eater into another world, showing a side of themselves which has never been brought by any other candies, creating their own world of tranquility through the taste of fruitful flavor.
Words have a way of changing the way we view the world. They can completely alter our perception of what is true and what is false. Take the tale of Skidmore and Manchester, as dictated in the story ‘The Curse of the Poisoned Pretzel.’ The way the author portrays the character of Skidmore shows just how easily words can change how we see someone by making you believe that Skidmore is guilty of his brother‘s murder, without ever formally saying so.
Rosa Lee Cunningham is a 52-year old African American female. She is 5-foot-1-inch, 145 pounds. Rosa Lee is married however, is living separately from her husband. She has eight adult children, Bobby, Richard, Ronnie, Donna (Patty), Alvin, Eric, Donald (Ducky) and one child who name she did not disclose. She bore her eldest child at age fourteen and six different men fathered her children. At Rosa Lee’s recent hospital admission to Howard University Hospital emergency room blood test revealed she is still using heroin. Though Rosa Lee recently enrolled in a drug-treatment program it does not appear that she has any intention on ending her drug usage. When asked why she no longer uses heroin she stated she doesn’t always have the resources to support her addiction. Rosa Lee is unemployed and receiving very little in government assistance. She appears to
All over the world, marriage is one of the main things that define a woman’s life. In fact, for women, marriage goes a long way to determine much in their lives including happiness, overall quality of life whether or not they are able to set and achieve their life goals. Some women go into marriages that allow them to follow the paths they have chosen and achieve their goals while for other women, marriage could mean the end of their life goals. For Janie, the lead character in Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, who was married twice first to Joe sparks, and to Vergile Tea Cake, her two marriages to these men greatly affected her happiness, quality of life and pursuit of her life goals in various ways, based on the personality of each of the men. Although both men were very different from each other, they were also similar in some ways.
Joe Sparks and Vergil Tea Cakes: Comparative and Contrast. All over the world, marriage is one of the main things that define a woman’s life. In fact, for women, marriage goes a long way to determining much of their lives, including happiness, overall quality of life, whether or not they are able to set and achieve their life goals. Some women go into marriages that allow them to follow the paths they have chosen and achieve their goals, while for other women, marriage could mean the end of their life goals. For Janie, the lead character in Zora Neale Hurston’s
Lucille Ball, also known as Lucy, had a difficult childhood but discovered her gifts despite the hard challenges of life. When Lucille was four years old her dad, Henry Durrell Ball, died of Typhoid fever (Ball 55). Her Mother, or as Lucille called her, DeDe, was very depressed after Henry died. DeDe continued to get more depressed after Lucille’s brother, Fred or as most people called him, Freddy, was born. Having a newborn and an active four-year-old, DeDe struggled to be an attentive mother. In an attempt
Nellie and Wesley married on August 25, 1896. She chose this marriage because she loved Annie McClung and Annie raised her son very well. He was raised to know that women’s work was not confined to the home (***** website). Nellie McClung stated that, “he believed in me… I would not have to lay aside my ambitions if I married him. He would not want me to devote my life to him, he often said so” (*****1981). This affirms that i...
In 1982 Debra Lynn’s best friend, Lou-Ann married Jerry Sternadel. Jerry was a divorced multimillionaire; he had a plumbing business, was a landowner and investor, and also bred and raced quarter horses with great success. He lived a life of excess; Jerry had a shocking sex life: he was a complete Don Juan and lots of mistresses. Even worse, Jerry had even slept with his stepdaughter,
I am not the type of girl that gets startled easily but, you can’t help but to get chills when you watch the film Candy Man and read the novel The Forbidden. Both perspectives of this scary yet insightful figure is enough to keep you on your toes while following each story. The Candy Man and The Forbidden keeps you intrigued with its turns and twist to the story. I found it hard to follow the story line but, this worked to the writers benefit. The twist and turns forced me to pay attention to things I would have missed if everything was clear. One aspect of both stories that was clear was, the difference between the image of the Candy Man in the Candy Man and The Forbidden.
Ida Barnett Wells’ parents were extremely involved in the Republican Party throughout the Reconstruction. Unfortunately, they died in a yellow fever outbreak in the late 1870s as well as one of Ida’s sibling. This catastrophe unfortunately left Ida B. Wells to take care of her other brothers and sisters. However, Ida Wells was once a student at Rust College, where she obtained her early education, unfortunately she stopped going to school at the age of sixteen (Biography.com Editors, 2016).
In the 1840’s, the Perkins’ family worked in the brick-making factory, and they were wealthy for a short period of time. Many businesses collapsed and were bought out, so the wealth didn’t last long. In 1870, the Perkins’ turned to dairy farming to get their money. Shortly after, Frances’ father, Frederick married a woman by the name of Susan Bean. On April 10th, 1880 in Boston, Massachusetts Fannie Coralie Perkins was born. In 1884, when Fannie was four years old, Frederick and Susan had a second child, Ethel (Downey 7). Fannie was very close to her family her entire life. She often spoke of ancestors, she adored and their ways of thinking helped her when she had to make big decisions later on in her life.
One trait that the grandmother possesses is the ability to manipulate the other characters indirectly. For example, the grandmother tries to convince the father into going to Tennessee rather Florida by telling him about a loose criminal. “‘I wouldn’t take my children in any direction with a criminal like that aloose in it. I couldn’t answer to my conscience if I did” (1). The grandmother is attempting to play on the father’s parental concern and change his mind about where the family goes on vacation. She does not actually care about The Misfit being loose, the grandmother just wants to satisfy her demands. If the family had been going to Tennessee and The Misfit was loose in Tennessee, the grandmother most likely would have not said anything because she would be getting exactly what she wanted. Later on, the grandmother tricks the family into visiting an old house by telling the children about a hidden panel in the walls of the house. “‘There was a secret panel in this house,’ she said craftily, not
Shirley Jackson grew up in a home like any other normal middle-class family. She lived with both of her parents in Burlington, California. Growing up, Shirley had a lot of tense relations with her parents, but mostly with her mother. Leslie Jackson, Shirley’s mother, set high standards for Shirley by the ways she was perceived by society and social norms. Shirley always seemed to disappoint her mother. The emotionally tearing and psychologically damaging relationship with her mother escalated to the point where her mother even told her she wished she had aborted Shirley. Roberta Rubenstein makes a great point in her work: House Mothers and Haunted Daughters: Shirley Jackson and Female Gothic, of the mental stress her mother put on her as a child that carried on throughout her life. Rubenstein says, “Throughout her life, Shirley was distressed by her mother’s profound insensitivity to her actual personality, combined with persistent attempts to control her unconven...
Meta: Candy is the theme of the moment within the world of slots, with Mobilots jumping on the trend with its latest release. Promising to deliver a taste worth savouring, is this game as sugary sweet as it proclaims?