... came to love. He often would fall in love with a woman and then marry her, and then fall in love with another a few years later. Hemingway married a total of four times during his life. Hemingway started his desire for true love in 1918, when he was in Italy and fell in love with a ... next year she wrote telling him things would not workout and he was heartbroken. Not to long later however he fell in love with Hadley Richardson and married her in September of 1921. Hadley became pregnant in 1923 and gave birth to a son. In 1926, Hemingway began an affair with Pauline Pfeiffer and ... s...

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... There is Schwimmer (the nerdy-but-nice-Ross, not to mention slightly neurotic [Hiltbrand 1]); Aniston (Rachel, the spoiled rich girl who started of the show by getting her first jolt of reality as the waitress at the local coffee shop), Arquette (compulsively neat, overachieving Monica, the girl you hated in seventh grade), Leblanc ... number two, divorced him shortly after their London marriage in season five because she realized he was still in love with Rachel; and Rachel he married in season seven when they drunkenly ended up in a chapel in Las Vegas saying their vows without any re...

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... working at a local cafe called Landers Coffee Shop. She waited on George every weekday morning. One morning he confronted her and asked, "How about you and me getting married, hun?"(183) It only took her a few minutes to think before she replied, yes. After only three months of being aquatinted they had tied the knot. Helen ... very upset by this. Their home was in Sudbury, Mass. which meant George would only be able to visit when he was playing in Boston. Helen was getting tired of being home in such a big house by her self. So in an effort to relieve Helen of her loneliness, in 1921 ...

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... children? Or Why are teens in such a rush to have sex? These are topics on talk shows and at meetings. With children as young as 12 having sex and sometimes getting pregnant as a result, it is so complex to answer these questions. There are many theories expressed by adults who work with pregnant teens. Trying to pinpoint this social problem amongst ... community is deceased. When the teens get pregnant they tend go on welfare because they know that the system would take care of them and their child. These mothers become married to the system. They don't work because they know that they...

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... on, everything changed, it had a huge effect in my life. I can identify the outcome of this stage of my life with Erikson's stage three (3) Learning Initiative versus Guilt (Purpose). I started getting aggressive at times, I felt guilt of the situation even though it wasn't my fault. I was fearful and depended completely on my mother for safety. When my parents got divorced, the ... , not knowing there was something better yet to come. My parents had decided, after being divorced for ten years that they were going to give it another try and get married once again. I couldn't believe it w...

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... . After working as a model for a number of years--Helmsley would be one of several Chesterfield cigarette girls to grace that company's print ads--she married attorney Leo Panzirer in 1939, and had a son, Jay. Helmsley and Panzirer divorced, after their son was older and at this time the 42- ... and rent-collector--divorced his first wife of 33 years and made his new vice president his new wife. Leona Helmsley did not let being married to a man worth approximately $5 billion stop her from continuing to advance her own career. Leona switched from real estate to hotel management when ... ...

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... guy nothing was ever good enough for him. If you had and Cornelius Vanderbilt wanted it there wasn't much you could do to keep him from getting it. This is the kind of attitude that put him on top of the world. After establishing his steamboat Vanderbilt became a very vigorous competitor, ... the business. By the 1880's the company was one of the largest and richest manufacturing concerns in the world. Rockefeller main concern wasn't always business he married Laura Celestia Spelman in 1864. They had three daughters Bessie, Edith, and Alta and one son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. In 1862 Roc...

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... to help southern slaves to the northern states for freedom. So now a part of that organization, Frederick sent for his fiancée, Anna Murray, and the two were married in September later that same year, and together they settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts. There in Massachusetts he found a job working as a common laboror, and him and ... Columbia, and along with that he published his third autobiography. The next year Frederick's wife Anna Murray died so Frederick was now a widow, but two years later he married a women named Helen Pitts one of his former secretaries. After serving as ...

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... machine, didn't you? All right, now you've got it." "Yes, but all that money." "We managed to get the furniture paid for and that was a lot more. Anyway, I was getting fed up seeing you wear yourself out over a washboard" (Bell, 335). Dobie seems to hold no reservations of buying large items on credit, something that his forefathers would have been ... more American is the way in which he selects his wife. While Dobie's father and grandfather picked their wives at an early age, with the idea of getting a family established, Dobie rejects this idea of getting married right away, and wait...

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... actor, filmmaker and composer was one of the biggest stars of the silent film era. Appearing in short films just as the Great War was getting started, he would be one of the world's biggest stars by the time it ended. In the ensuing decades he starred in numerous popular feature ... the world's major conflicts became more direct with the release of The Great Dictator (1940), a direct parody of Adolf Hitler right as World War II was getting into full swing. Meanwhile, Chaplin's huge level of popularity and lifestyle began attracting suspicion in an increasingly paranoid United States of A...

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... in order to receive a degree as a Registered Nurse. (Chesler 1992) Most women in Margaret's position would not have tried to juggle a career and family, but she was set on getting married. She married William Sanger on August 18, 1902, even though they had only known each other for six months. She had not graduated from nursing school yet, and it was prohibited for ... ...

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... protégé of Jelinger's who had been a student at the Academy, and who had several grounds breaking professional productions to his credit. Grace got involved with Richardson who was married at the time and when her parents found out they were furious. They told Grace she was never allowed to she Richardson again. They even made her move home and ... a number of romantic adventures, so he could hardly complain at the evidence that Grace had been playing the field. "She had become a career carnivore,"" he said. "She was rapacious about getting famous and being important. She'd already ta...

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... children. His father was a wealthy merchant, and his mother, an English woman, was the granddaughter of a clergyman. The first thirty-two years of his life were spent in New York getting educated and inspired. When he was young he began reading novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Sinbad the Sailor, and The World Displayed. As he became older he began studying law ... . This idea got a very good response and production of the periodical was astounding. Irving's success in social life and literature was shadowed by a personal tragedy. He was engaged to be married to Matilda Hoffmann who died a...

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... York. The life she leads in New York is causing her enormous amounts of grief and she eventually sinks deep into depression. In describing the time just before she got married, she states, "I hurt the people I cared about, and insulted those I did not. I cut myself off from the one person who was closer to me than any other. I cried until I was ... has been visiting" for too long. She grows homesick when her lengthy vacation loses its sense of newness. Her depression grows worse until she eventually leaves the city. She makes getting married when she does sound like an alternative to se...

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... and moved to quieter landscapes, vanished without hardly a sound. (175) However, Carmichael did not vanish. He moved to Guinea to escape police harassment and married South African singer Miriam Makeba. They divorced in 1978 and he later married physician Marlyatou Barry. In 1971, Carmichael published his speeches and a series of essays entitled Stokely Speaks: Black Power Back to Pan Africanism. In 1994 ... I first heard about the Negroes sitting in at lunch counters down South, I thought they were just a bunch of publicity hounds. But one night when I saw those young kids on TV, getti...

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... Pelican. Robert gave yet another retrospective exhibition at the Whitechepel Gallery, London and won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale. Robert Rauschenberg was getting well known all across the United States and the world. He was getting invited to main historical events all over the world. But one of the events he was gratified to be at in 1968 when he ... . Robert Rauschenberg now lives in New York City and in Captiva Island, Florida. Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most influential people in American history. Even though Robert Rauschenberg was married many people do not know th...

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... Pelican. Robert gave yet another retrospective exhibition at the Whitechepel Gallery, London and won the Grand Prix at the Venice Biennale. Robert Rauschenberg was getting well known all across the United States and the world. He was getting invited to main historical events all over the world. But one of the events he was gratified to be at in 1968 when he ... . Robert Rauschenberg now lives in New York City and in Captiva Island, Florida. Robert Rauschenberg is one of the most influential people in American history. Even though Robert Rauschenberg was married many people do not know th...

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Divorce happens to 50% of the people that are married. In most divorces the children involved believe they are responsible for it. When a child believes that he or she is the cause of a divorce, many different kinds of results may ... helped with the culmination of statistics for my research. At first I thought about giving out surveys and using them as my main resource. As I started to form questions I realized that getting the type of answers needed would prove to be very difficult. The type of questions that needed to be asked could be considered quite personal and better asked in a face...

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... of the most amazing feets to had been accomplished in the history of organized crime. He was raised in Paterson, New Jersey, where his father had run several bars. He married his high school sweetheart and spent three years working for the government in naval intelligence before joining the FBI. Pistone had been an FBI agent since July of 1969 and ... the mafia was governed around the ability to make money. Infractions could often be overlooked if the associate was a good moneymaker, but even so, there was always the threat of getting "wacked". In the followong few months, Pistone becam...

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... , but the evidence is clear that he had little interest in law and little enthusiasm to be a lawyer. Well before he finished his work at Columbia, young Franklin Roosevelt had married his distant cousin Anna Eleanor Roosevelt. They had been in love for some time and were determined to marry in spite of the opposition of Franklin's mother. All of the ... , not willing to accept failure, Roosevelt then attempted to stack the Supreme Court with associates willing to accept his programs. He then devised more methods of achieving his goals of getting the United States out of the Great Depressi...

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... lady it was already done she had made a name for herself politically. Eleanor's background in politics goes back to her Uncle Teddy who was once the President of the U.S. Eleanor married a young amiable Harvard student by the name of Franklin Roosevelt. But soon Franklin became bored with Business Law and Eleanor pushed him to go into politics. Aided by a Democratic landslide ... allow her to take a second off and now she had a new calling as she moved towards a problem that was everywhere, racism. It was clear to everyone that the blacks were getting the short end of the New Deal Aid, ...

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... accent the rest of her life. Her third master, the Dumonts, is where she was sent when she was thirteen and stayed for seventeen years. It is also where Isabella married her husband Thomas and continued to have five children with him. The state of New York in 1817 passed a law saying that all blacks are free but not until July ... what was really happening and made them open their eyes and see the horror that they live amongst. It was 1846 when Sojourner truth finally owned her own house by getting a loan from Samuel Hill. Even though she was illiterate that did not stop her. She was ab...

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... single parent families, and of children born out of wedlock. Like mentioned before, women-headed households have the hardest time affording child care for their children. Only 9% of families with married parents fall below the national poverty level, while 46% of female-headed households are below that same level. Because of these findings plus numerous others, Congress decided that states are ... so that parents can go to work, it will also have economic benefits in the future. This is due to the fact that with sufficient child care, children will be getting an educational edge that sh...

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... life began to change, she was no longer the child she was and was beginning to feel old. She drove off her friends and instead of seeking help she got married. Eventually Didion could not even enter parts of the city at certain times of the day, and could no longer enjoy the places she once visited. She conveys her absolute ... due to the negative effects the city had on Didion and her psyche. While Didion's overall experience in New York was a positive one, she had enough of it. She was getting too old and was ready to settle down somewhere closer to home and at a slower pace. The nega...

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... to drink even though he told Helen he would refrain. While at the saloon Helen recapped how well off Francis and her were before Francis became a chronic alcoholic. It was getting late now and Francis and Helen needed to find a place to sleep so they headed down to their old friend Jack's house to see if they could get out of ... be promiscuous. William Kennedy definitely addresses the concept of promiscuity when Francis relives the moments he spent with the lady who lived next door to him during his childhood. This married woman would invite Francis over, cook him extravagant dinners a...

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