.... make fun and ridicule them." He was never good at anything until high school. "All I ever knew how to do was to make people laugh. In high school I was the class clown, making fun of everything and everyone." This personality trait was what gave him his thousands of faithful fans, watching his show every night to see Dave rip to shreds anyone who dare challenge him. Another thing that was important to him was his mother and father. His father, Joseph Letterman, and Dave went fishing quite often when he was young. Dave looked up to his father tremendously. When Joseph had his first heart attack when he was thirty-six, Dave and his father started to drift away. Later, ....

.... very Protestant family. His brother, Warren Hamilton Lewis, known by his nickname as Warnie, had been born on June 16, 1895. When Lewis turned four, he adopted his new nickname, Jack, and was used for the rest of his life (Gibson 3). In 1905, the family moved to Little Lea, which was a house on the outskirts of Belfast. However Lewis' life turned for the worse when he was nine years old. His mother died of cancer on August 23, 1908, Albert Lewis' birthday. Hoping that her sons would carry God in their hearts, Augusta left Jack and Warnie bibles signed "from mommy, with fondest Love, August 1908" (“Amiee Barnes,” Clive Staples Lewis. Online.). In September of that same ye ....

.... in front of him, Douglass says, “I have often been awakened at the dawn of day by the most heart-rending shrieks of an own aunt of mine, whom he used to tie up to a joist, and whip upon her naked back till she was literally covered with blood (3). Remember Douglass was very young at the time. I believe this was one of meanest men in his life. The importance of this relationship was that Douglass would gain stronger view towards slavery and it’s misfortunes. This would also drive his want for freedom. Douglass eventually becomes the property Thomas Auld of who loans him to his brother Hugh Auld. Keep in mind Lucretia could be Douglass’s sister. This was a good thing ....

.... brothers and three sisters, the first of which died at a young age. Of the remainder, Henry was named heir to the English throne, Richard was to succeed his mother's Aquitane and Geoffrey was to inherit Brittany. John was the poorest to fair out receiving nothing from his father. It is this action that gave him the name John Lackland. At a young age of twelve, Richard pledged homage to the King of France for lands of his. At the age of fourteen, Richard was named the Duke of Aquitane in the church of St. Hillaire at Poitiers (one of the lands made homage to the French King.) Henry's sons, who had been given lands but no real power revolted against t ....

.... conversation is the worship, to which all right action is submission; that overpowering reality which confutes our tricks and talents, and constrains every one to pass for what he is, and to speak from his character, and not from his tongue, and which evermore tends to pass into our thought and hand, and become wisdom, and virtue, and power, and beauty(52). In this quotation Emerson says that the common instinct instilled in man lets him see the truth for himself. This reality found from the shared over-soul, is the purest form of truth. All men have this ability to perceive the truth, and a common knowledge of goodness unites and unifies us all. Man’s instinctive actio ....

.... the English from France and give the crown back to the rightful king. She lived the rest of her life listening to them and trying to obey them. Joan told her uncle what the angels were saying and her uncle was told to take her back home until she grew up. In 1429 she moved back to Vancouleurs were she persuaded the people to follow her. The people also helped her find transportation and safety to get her to where she was going. While in France Joan used the voices in her head to help the Dauphin, Charles VII. She told the Dauphin how she was capable of saving France and she was given a large French army to lead. The army she was given won many wars against the Engli ....

.... a grocery store to real estate. When Thomas was seven years old, his family moved to Port Huron, Michigan. He was a very curious child who asked a lot of questions. "Edison began school in Port Huron, Michigan when he was seven. His teacher, the Reverend G. B. Engle considered Thomas to be a dull student."(Allen pg. 22) Thomas especially did not like math. And he asked too many questions. The story goes that the teacher whipped students who asked questions. After three months of school, the teacher called Thomas, "addled". Thomas was pissed. The next day, Nancy Edison brought Thomas back to school to talk with Reverend Engle. The teacher told his mother that Th ....

.... Stonewall, Texas to his loving parents Samuel and Rebekah. His father was a man who had a love for politics and instilled it into his son at an early age. Lyndon would hide “under tables or stand behind doors, straining to hear every word of his father’s evening bull sessions with political friends” (Schulman, 7). His father would also take him on trips with Sam Johnson, a member of the Texas State Legislation. On such trips, he learned his father’s liberalism and also learned a strategy of Sam’s by “getting really close to someone, nose to nose, when he wanted to convince them of something” (7). These tactics and others such as Sam’s honesty in regards ....