.... Beatrice and Alfred Roberts in the flat above her parents small grocery store. Margaret's father was the greatest influence in Margaret's life, politically as well as religiously and socially. Alfred Roberts came to Grantham during the First World War where he met and married Beatrice Stevenson. "The young couple worked hard and saved money with a passion. Before long Alfred opened his own grocery shop, and eventually he came to own two." (Mayer,1979) Alfred often discussed current events with his two daughters, and also his keenly-held political beliefs. Margaret's father had a considerable effect on her political bel .....

.... according to his masters. John Allan took his family and moved to Great Britain to set up business in 1815. The Allan family stayed in Britain for five years where Poe did not excel in school but his performance did not drop either. The stay in Britain was a complete failure, not surprisingly considering the lack of happiness in the family, in almost every way. Francis became very sick and never fully recovered. John and his family had moved back to Virginia where Poe applied for the University of Virginia. University of Virginia admitted Poe in 1826 where he studied French, Spanish, Italian, and Latin. He had an e .....

.... the five provinces in the Maritimes. After this he was appointed Prime Minister of Canada and then won the federal election the next year in 1867 for the Conservative Party. He wanted to build a strong nation so he began the Intercolonial Railway in 1871 that ran from Halifax to the Pacific Coast, and included Canada's two new provinces Manitoba and British Columbia and the North West Territories. It is because of him that we have the Canadian Pacific Railway today as well as Banff National Park in Alberta. John A. McDonald help to protect Canada products by starting a system called tariffs. This was to protect Canada from letting .....

.... hundred thousand souls; ... when pirates infested the Atlantic coast; when there was no such thing as a stage coach in the land; ...and when Ann Pollard, the first white women that ever set foot on the soil of Boston, was still enjoying a hale old age” (McMaster 1). “It was when he seven that Franklin had another experience he often recalled. One holiday they gave him a little money to spend on whatever he liked. He headed straight for the toy shop but on the way met a boy blowing a whistle. Charmed by the sound, he gave the boy all his money for it. Coming home, he whistled piercingly all over the small house, annoying hi .....

.... of the cultures of other countries to write. Hughes traveled all over the world as a seaman. He went to the Soviet Union, Haiti, Japan, Spain, Genoa, France, and other parts of Europe. Hughes was an author, anthologist, librettist, songwriter, columnist, translator, founder of theaters, and a poetical innovator in jazz technology. Hughes liked to write in many genres such as prose, comedy, drama, fiction, biographies, autobiographies, and TV and radio scripts. was the father of the Harlem Renaissance and made many contributions on the behalf of African- Americans which led to the end of discrimination and segregation(Davis) .....

.... was a Unitarian and a Whig who was involved in the anti-slavery movement. As a child, Florence was very close to her father, who without a son, treated her as his friend and companion. Florence's mother, Fanny Nightingale, also came from a Unitarian family. Both Florence and Parthenope were born while they were on vacation in Italy. The Nightingales were a very rich and wealthy family. Flo and Pop grew up with a very privileged childhood. They had many gardens to play in, ponies to ride, and numerous cats, dogs, and birds to take care of. They lived in a large house in a town called Derbyshire, near London. They called it "Em .....

.... Prison, and in English society, there was little chance for Moll to escape this class. But Moll had the blessing of the kind "nurse" who raised her, kept her out of the dreaded servitude, and found a high class family for Moll to live and grow up with. Moll was a beautiful girl and thanks to her "nurse" and this family, she was well along the road to truly becoming a gentlewoman. Had events continued flawlessly from here, Moll might have achieved her goal without any pain, suffering, or remorse. Unfortunately, this was not to be the case. Moll's problems began with her relationship with the eldest brother. Her vanity and e .....

.... many times in this story. "The swamp was thickly grown with great gloomy pines and hemlocks." (Washington Irving. p. 57) In The Devil and Tom Walker, the setting is portrayed in the same dark manner. It is the forest where Tom Walker meets the Devil. Another similarity in both of the "short stories" is that a supernatural figure is the terror of each story. The supernatural being in The Legend of Sleepy Hollow is the Headless Horsemen. To the people of Tarrytown, the story of the Headless Horsemen is that he was a Hessian soldier that had his head shot off by a cannon ball. The soldier rides around at midnight looking for .....

.... to be extremely dependent on the wealth of his grandfather's estate. Fitzgerald attended the St. Paul Academy as a child. In 1911 he entered the Newman School in Hackensack, NJ. Growing up with a father who was out of work and who relied on his wife's inheritance gave Fitzgerald a mixed feeling of guilt and shame and yet he felt love for both his parents. These inner conflicts in his early life could have contributed to his inability to manage his finances, along with his constant obsession of gaining extreme wealth. Fitzgerald later went to Princeton University, where writing and football were his main interests. It .....

.... in his earlier works. Picasso then developed a cubism style of painting. This means that Picasso painted people and things very different than how they really looked. He painted people who had eyes and noses in the wrong places. Picasso's father even thought that his paintings were too strange. During 1915m, Picasso began to return to realism in a series of portrait drawings, although he began to work simultaneously on Cubism. He was a great painter, but he was good at other things too. He made sculptures, prints, drawings, dishes and bowls, and even costumes and scenery for plays. When Picasso died in 1973, more of .....