.... as lieutenant of artillery, Jackson was assigned to the war zone in Mexico. There he first met Robert E. Lee. Jackson served at Veracruz, Contreras, Chapultepec, and Mexico City, and rose to the temporary rank of major within a year. In 1850, after the Mexican war was over he went to Florida to fight the Seminole Indians. Jackson left the army in 1850 and became a math professor at Virginia Military Institute where he taught for ten years. He was not a very good teacher of math. Many students mocked him and made fun of how religious he was. In 1853, he married Elinor Junkin, who died a year later. In 1857, he married Mary Anna Morrison. Jackson joined the Confederacy a ....

.... on to Illinois. Lincoln tried various occupations and served briefly in the Black Hawk War. Lincoln lost in 1832 as an Illinois legislator. Two years later he made it as a Whig. As a Whig, he supported the Second Bank of the United States (The Illinois State Bank). Abraham later married on November 4,1842. He married Mary Todd. They were married for sixty-four years. In those sixty-four years, they had four children. Robert Todd Lincoln was born in 1843 and died in 1926. Edward Baker Lincoln lived from 1846-1850, William Wallace Lincoln lived from 1850-1862, and finally, Thomas Tad Lincoln lived from 1853-1871. In February 1860, Lincoln made his first ....

.... must be lifted away and isolated from worldly surroundings (Farr, pg. 9). It appears that Dickinson took these words to heart. Her poems convey both a sense of intellectual superiority and a sense of isolation that she seems to both cherish and yearn to liberate herself from. Both the structure of her poems and her syntax reveal the contradictions within a poet whose imagination was fed by her solitude but who also desired tangible sensual experiences. It is unlikely that her poems would be so insightful and perceptive had she been engaged in the daily business of dealing with people, for it is only by removing herself from the world that she could analyze it. Dickinson's ....

.... he was twenty-two, he took his money that he earned; $103.58 in cash and he started a home. On July 26, 1829, Lee's mother died. Robert was at her bed when she died. Then on June 30, 1831 Lee married Mary Curtis. On September 16, 1832, Mary gave birth to George Washington Curtis Lee. Then in 1835 they had their second child, Mary Curtis. Mrs. Lee was put on bed-rest for many months due to illness. They had five more children: William Henry Fitzgerald, Annie, Agnes, Robert and last Mildred. When he was home, they all attended episcopal Church where he was raised. On May 13, 1846 the United States declared was on their southern neighbor. When Lee was 39, he headed for Mexico. L ....

.... natural born performer and that she had a great amount of singing talent. Abraham decided to start a band, he was afraid that the same thing would happen to her, so he decided to teach her some Spanish songs, but one problem, only knew how to speak English, so went on with most of her life not even knowing what the words meant that she was singing. Well in order to start the band they would need more then so Abraham made Abraham III (nicknamed A.B.) her older brother, and Suzette, her older sister. A.B. already knowing the drums, Suzette already knowing the drum, and having an awesome voice started their band, " Y Los Dinos". They started practicing together and ....

.... Henry. Henry studied his father's machines and in no time at all, he knew them from A to Z. Not only did he study his father's machines, but any other he could find in his community. Henry was very interested in finding how the energy of steam was controlled and put to work. There was an old, deserted sawmill near the Ford farm that stirred Henry's interest every time he passed it. One afternoon, he picked up a few tools and headed for the old mill to find how steam was regulated to enable the saws to work. He examined the steam ports and saw how the slide valve controlled the steam. Shortly afterwards, as Henry and his father were going into town, they met a huge, stea ....

.... cursed. Shortly after his birth, Poe’s father abandoned the family and left Poe and his mother to fend for themselves. Not long after that, the cruel hands of fate had worked their horrid magic once again by claiming his mother. In 1811, when Poe was two, his mother passed away, leaving him with his second depressing loss (540). After his father’s cowardly retreat and mother’s sudden death, Poe was left in the capable hand of his godfather, John Allan. John Allan was a wealthy merchant based in Richmond, Virginia with the means, knowledge and affluence to provide a good life for Poe (“Poe, Edgar Allan,” Encyclopedia Britannica 540). In 1815, Poe and his new family ....

.... was because of the prohibition. Gambling was another business that paid off. Gambling stations were set up all over cities. Prostitution and Murders were also crimes that made gangsters money. Alphonse was the biggest force in organized crime. He started his career of crime in Boston, as an apprentice to Johnny Torrio. That is where he earned the unforgettable nickname “Scarface.” It was in a bar when made some rude comments about a woman. Minutes later, the woman’s brother sliced in the face. This man was a friend of Charles “Lucky” Luciano. Al was punished and forced to apologize. Al did not become a leader until he went to Chicago. At the time h ....