Rachel Lueken
Mr. Maynard
English 105
21 April 2015
Research Paper After moving from Ashland, Kentucky to Cincinnati, Ohio, the Maddox family lived a better life financially than most during their time period. Manson’s grandfather, Charlie Milles Maddox, worked for a railroad company who paid him a considerable amount of money until his untimely death in October 1931, but after his death, his wife, Nancy Maddox, and his children received a sixty dollar stipend from the railroad company (Guinn 10). Two years after the death of Charlie Maddox, Nancy Maddox was struck with tragedy again when her eldest daughter fell ill and died of pneumonia in 1933 (Guinn 11). Despite of all the losses she was faced with, Nancy heavily believed in God and the
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Nancy told Kathleen, “To remain in her home, Kathleen had to set aside her sinful ways and live according to biblical strictures (Guinn 16).’ Kathleen wanted out of the predicament as soon as possible, so she decided she would marry William Manson to escape her mother’s overbearing grip (Guinn 16). On November 12, 1934, Kathleen gave birth to Charles Milles Manson at Cincinnati General Hospital (Heffron n. pag.). After the birth of her son, Kathleen was a less than ideal mother to her baby. She would stay out late at night in bars to meet different men and would leave her baby with unfit babysitters take him to his grandmother’s house, but on occasion, Kathleen would have to take Manson to the bars. According to Jack Heffron, author of “Family Ties” from the online magazine Cincinnati Magazine, “Charles Manson’s mother traded him to a bartender, presumably in Cincinnati for a pitcher of beer,” (Heffron n. pag.). Kathleen was obviously in an unfit state to be raising a child. When Kathleen was not in the bars, she spent her nights on the street as a prostitute to earn money and would end up in jail for the crime; in return, Manson would be sent from foster homes to distant relatives to all boy institutions (Rothman n. pag.). Eventually, William Manson became fed up with his wife’s behavior and was granted a divorce just two and a half years after being married. The court decided he was not
Many RnB singers rank among the highest paid celebrities in the world. This isn’t a surprise, as RnB and its various sub-genres have been leading the popular music charts for decades. Big voices and slick dance moves often translate into successful careers and big paychecks. Here is a list of the 10 richest RnB singers in the world, who have earned extensive success through their music, tours and other various ventures.
What her reasons for it were I don’t know. But she did a good job. She raised twelve children. She led a good life.”
Susan Leigh Vaughan Smith was born September 26, 1971 in Union, South Carolina to Linda and Harry Vaughan. She was born the third child in the Vaughan family, with two older brothers. Linda Vaughan divorced Harry when Susan turned 7, and five weeks later Harry committed suicide at 37 (Montaldo). Within weeks of Linda and Harry’s divorce, Linda got remarried to Beverly (Bev) Russell, a local successful businessman. Linda and the children moved from their home into Bev’s, a larger house located in an exclusive subdivision in Union, South Carolina. Susan grew to be a well-liked teenager, and even became president of her Junior Civitan Club and Friendliest Female in her senior year (Montaldo). Everyone liked her, and she put on a great show at school. But after the last bell rang, she had to look forward to seeing Bev at home, something she feared above anything else. Bev had taken to molesting Susan when she turned sixteen, and it was not long afterward that she sought help with the local Department of Social Services (Wiki). The Department of Social services did little to help Susan, only making Bev attend a few counseling sessions (Wiki). When he returned home, he chastised Susan heavily for “airing their dirty laundry in public” and continued with the molestation (Montaldo). I believe thi...
As a child he was sent to many reform schools. He has spent the last four decades behind bars. He will never get out prison. He will eventually die in prison. This is the life of Charles Manson. Charles Manson is a sick and cruel criminal.
Nancy Hazel, later to become known as Nannie Doss, was born on November 4th, 1905 in Blue Mountain, Alabama. Nannie was one of five children of Jim Hazle and Louisa Holder Hazle. She endured an abusive, despondent youth with an oppressive, unfeeling father. Nannie never learned to read well, and her education was erratic due to her father pulling her out of school during the sixth grade to help work on the farm. Nancy was a prisoner in her own home. Her mother, however, was viewed as adoring and gracious to Nannie and her three sisters. Both Nannie and her mother hated James, who was a strict, often controlling father and husband with a nasty streak (http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/doss-nannie.htm). Her most loved diversion was understanding her mother 's romantic books and longing for a romantic eventual fate of her own. Eventually, Nannie would become obsessed in her mission for the ideal spouse and romance.
Shortly after Norma turned nine, she was adopted by her mother’s best friend, Grace McKee. She lived with Grace for six months. During those six months, Norma helped Grace prepare for her upcoming wedding to Ervin Goddard. Once Grace wed Ervin, Norma was sent to live with her great aunt, Olive Brunings. Shortly after living with Olive, Norma was sexually assaulted by Olive’s son. This was the starting point which would lead Norma down a winding path filled with substance abuse (Marilyn Monroe Biography 2).
In the book Margaret Sanger: A life of passion by Jean H. Baker. Margaret Sanger, the subject depicted in Baker’s novel Margaret Sanger: A Life of Passion is one of the leading women in the fight for birth control. Born in 1879 to Irish immigrant parents in Corning, New York she is the 6th of 11 children. Her mother was a devout Catholic and had a total of 18 pregnancies in her 22 year marriage 11 of which were births and 7 were miscarriages. “My mother died at 48”, says Sanger “My father died at 80”. Her mother was a victim of tuberculosis not long after her last child was born. Sanger grew up in poverty and soon realized that bigger families were associated with lower means. Sanger was not one for domesticated duties and soon defied social norms and went to nursing school her aspirations included becoming a doctor. She did not complete nursing school she instead married William Sanger, an architect and artist. They settled into domestic life for a short time in the suburbs. Together they had three children, two sons and a daughter. Soon a fire consumed their home and this was the turning point for Sanger. The family then moved back to the city and Sanger became a nurse. Their daughter would later die of pneumonia at a very young age due to horrible conditions at her boarding school. The two older sons would eventually grow to blame Sanger for her death and she would divorce her husband and maintain the company of several men after. Despite the number of suitors she acquires she will be single when she dies.
Charles Manson’s illicit upbringing contributed to the manipulative criminal he grew up to be. He was born in Cincinnati, Ohio in 1934 to an unmarried 16-year-old mother, and to a father he never met. When he was only 5-years-old, his mother was sentenced to prison for armed robbery. After moving from household to household in foster care, then later being expelled from boarding school, Manson commit his first crime in 1948 when he was caught and convicted for robbing a grocery store. He spent the rest of his adolescence and early adulthood in and out of jail for car theft, forging checks, and running a prostitution ring. In between sentences he married and divorced two women, and had two children. In prison, where he did most of his growing up, he learned to play the guitar, and became obsessed with the Beatles. Manson was released in the spring of 1967, despite asking to stay (Bugliosi 14-38). Manson never felt like he belonged to normal society, as he spent so much of his time in prison. “I never realized that the people outside [of prison] are much different from the people inside. People inside if you lie, you get punched… There’s a certain amount of truth in prison. And being raised in prison, I was pretty much raised in light of that truth” (Journey). ...
Charles Mason first lived in Ohio with his mother was Kathleen Maddox a 16 year old girl that had been an alcoholic and prostitute. She married a man William Manson, but the marriage didn’t last long and Charles was placed in a boys school. He spend a lot of his childhood in and out of facilities and juvenile halls. Although he would run
Before William Randolph Hearst and mystery morgue in Dave's had a child Patricia Lake she carried the secret around for more than 60 years even after the death of hers in 1951 and Dave a deceased letter but 10 hours before she died from complications of lung cancer in a desert Hospital on October 3rd Patricia than clave Lake told her son she wanted the world to know who she really was what her birth certificate did not reflect her death certificate would even after the owner obituary was published one man called the mortuary and raise holy hell author Lake junior said from his mother's Indian Wells home where portraits of Hearst and days cover the wall indeed the sit have a point all the proof Lake had to offer were countless stories and a suspicious familiar nose and long face whatever the truth late undeniable lead a glamorous life at the center of one of Hollywood's most enduring rumors at the time of the Stars sign for lash the incomes it was arranged that the newborn baby be given to Dave Sister Rose a curious girl whose own child had died in in Basie that dead child birth certificate was altered and the baby's name Patricia became the daughter of rose and George Van Club at least on paper she lived with run Club at Hearst paid the bill sending her to a Catholic School in New York and Boston George Van clave meanwhile Zoom from a lolly Arrow shut model to head to Kurt hers complication pictures Patricia spent much of her youth at the ranch the family named for the San Simeon
Among the large array of sex symbols that our country has been introduced to, Marilyn Monroe has remained as the most prominent provocative figure of the twentieth century. Born Norma Jean, the aspiring movie star, singer and actress lead an evasive life, one which author Fred Lawrence Guiles demystifies in his biography Legend: The Life and Death of Marilyn Monroe. The author takes his audience through the struggles and successes that Monroe faced, beginning with her early years and up until her final years filled with havoc, and ultimately death. Guiles especially depicts Marilyn’s dependence on others, as well as her inability to be alone throughout her life and as she reaches the height of her fame during the 1950’s and 60’s. Although flawed, this portrayal offers insight into the life of a very troubled yet unique woman.
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Despite the media's depiction of a happy and glamorous life, Marilyn Monroe's Life was far from it; her addiction to sleeping pills and constant drinking made her paranoid, and her paranoia ruined most of her marriages and friendships. In the Marilyn Monroe Confidental by Lena Pepitone, Marilyn Lives a lonely life with only her seamstress to confide in, with her husband spending most of his time in his study and never having enough time for her; Marilyn's only company was her dramatic coaches, seamstress and her husband's parents.
Norma Jeane Baker, also known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 daughter of Gladys Baker and an unknown father. Most of Marilyn’s childhood was spent in foster homes after her mother was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and deemed unfit to care for her in 1933. In numerous foster homes Marilyn was sexually assaulted. In 1942 Marilyn married her neighbor, Jim so she wouldn’t be relocated to another foster home. Marilyn dropped high school and became a housewife with a husband who was deployed in World War II. In September 1946, she divorced Dougherty, who was against her having a career (“Marilyn Monroe”). In her life she had a total of nineteen flings, one of them involving President Kennedy, and three marriages originated out of the flings, but they all ended in divorce. The events in her early childhood shaped her to the confident woman she became.
Marilyn Monroe was an undeterred woman through most of her life. Her beginnings were often regarded as exceedingly unfavorable. Born Norma Jeane Morteson, Monroe was daughter to a single, mentally unstable mother and was often subjected to frequent relocation with different foster families. Her early hardships led to her first marriage at age 16 to James Dougherty. He brought Marilyn happiness, an emotion she had not frequently visited in her childhood. During their four years of marriage, James enlisted in the army. Marylin intended to support him, so she took up a job in a factory inspecting parachutes. Marilyn’s life changed when a photographer looking for new models, discovered her; they needed fresh faces to help with