.... Marshall died in 1165. John would leave a legacy behind that would influence William’s life and spark the future of his outstanding career both as a soldier and a courtier. At age thirteen William was sent to William De Tancarville, to begin his military training for the knighthood. William De Tancarville was known throughout Europe as one of the grander patrons of knighthood. In the Tancarville household, William would learn courtliness in addition to all other prerequisites found in a professional soldier of the day. After six years of being a squire in the Tancarville Household, Marshall was knighted in 1166. In 1170, Kin .....

.... had been laid off. By 1934, two fifths of home owners lost their houses, and New York listed 100 deaths from starvation. About 37% of American had irregular eating habits, and generally did not get three meals a day. Only about 8% were getting only one meal a day, and this was not stolid food. Day after day, people lived off of bread, potatoes, macaroni, spaghetti, canned soups and thin gravy. Meat and vegetables were rarely served. A common response, often heard, when children were asked if they had eaten today was “No, this is my sisters’ day to eat.” In 1937 the Ohio river burst it’s banks and killed over .....

.... laws within your city. Of course you will get convicted for this, and it doesn’t change the idea that you acted against the city. follows by explaining what is taught to each citizen. You are told that you were born with certain laws. Your father and mother brought you to the world in which they live and thus you should respect and obey by their rules. The laws were already there. That means, that your mother and father are as important as the city and you should respect the city as so. describes the city and its laws more preciously. You don’t have the same rights as your parents. They educated you and thought y .....

.... Allan, the wife of a merchant in Richmond learned about the Poe babies. She had no children of her own and liked handsome little Edgar a lot more than his sister. She took him home with her, and another family took his little sister Rosalie. Mrs. Allan would have liked to adopt Edgar, but her husband was unwilling to commit himself. At that time people thought acting was immoral. John Allan could not help regarding the little son of actor parents as a questionable person to inherit his name and the fortune he was busy accumulating. He was willing however, to support the child, and in time came to be proud of Edgar's good l .....

.... Forster wouldn't fight in the First World War, instead he worked for the International Red Cross. Two years later Forster moved to India where he worked as a personal secretary for Mahaharajah of Dewas. This resulted in his novel, A Passage to India. When he returned to England he wrote many critiques and articles but never wrote any more novels. died on June 7, 1970. Many critics are split on 's writings, although most things written are positive and they all seem to agree on the same things. His use of characters and their development and his story lines all seem to be the same and have the same theme. All the characters in his .....

.... the Bosheviks. The newspaper first appeared in 1912, on May 5. In March 7, 1913 he had to be returned in St. Petersberg and had gotten arrested then was deported to Siberia (Amaricana). In 1912, Joseph was rewardedfrom Lenin by coopting him to the Bolshevik Central Commi ttee. He started going by the name of Stalin,which means "man of steel." Stalin was appointed to the mundane adminastrative posts (Grolier). In 1917, March 15, the Czar's abduction had led to even more social chaos in Russian. As a party member Joseph was chaired on April 11the national conference of Bosheviks delegates urged cooperation with the temporary existing successo .....

.... his books showed the results of his five years spent there. His books display a considerable reading of the Greek and Roman historians, and the medieval and Renaissance fabalists and the biological sciences (Shaw 11). He then moved to New York and tried his hand as a construction worker and as a reporter for the American. (Covici , xxxv). Steinbeck then moved back to California and lived with his wife at Pacific Grove. In 1934, he wrote for the San Franciso News, he was assigned to write several articles about the 3,000 migrants flooded in at Kings County. The plight of the migrant workers motivated him to help and document their s .....

.... River to sell by the ton to button makers. When his mother moved the family to Detroit , six years after her husband's death, Jimmy hauled ashes and passed out leaflets for patent medicines at factory gates. He quit school at fourteen in the middle of his seventh grade year, to work full time."(133) During Hoffa's childhood he was asked to give up his boyish ways and become the man of the house. His years as a teenager were also charged with a special kind of radiant energy. At the youthful age of seventeen Hoffa was unloading boxcars at the Kroger grocery chain warehouse in Detroit for thirty-two cents an hour. It was there that .....

.... meaning "great soul." Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi was born on Oct. 2, 1869, in Porbandar, near Bombay. His family belonged to the Hindu merchant caste Vaisya. His father had been prime minister of several small native states. Gandhi was married when he was only 13 years old. When he was 19 he defied custom by going abroad to study. He studied law at University College in London. Fellow students snubbed him because he was an Indian. In his lonely hours he studied philosophy. In his reading he discovered the principle of nonviolence as enunciated in Henry David Thoreau's "Civil Disobedience," and he was persuaded by John Rus .....

.... Acushnet. He quickly grew to hate it and deserted ship with a fellow mate on an unfamiliar island. Melville crossed paths with a cannibal tribe called the Typee. After a month on the island he returned to his homeland and told stories to family and friends. They encouraged him to write of his adventures. The result was his first two well-known novels: Typee and Omoo. Shortly after this Melville married Elizabeth Shaw, and together they had four children. During his career, Melville was known as a great writer only for his early adventure novels. He was more interested in writing about “passion, innocence, religion, philosophy, and .....