Edward Dunlop's Childhood

He was often punished when his brothers weren 't, even if they were doing the same thing. He was able to be adventurous but instead was stuck with guilt. Throughout his years he also faced the emotional toll of abuse in many ways. One way his mother did this was by no longer calling him by his name, and not referring to him as a human. Dave states in his book, “that death would be better than my prospects for any kind of happiness. I was nothing but an “it”.” Children and adolescents go through a stage where they are trying to figure out who they are. With an abusive mother who takes away your identity it would be really hard to figure out who you are and you would be confused on what roles to play. Erikson’s stages emphasize family and culture. Erikson noted that psychological conflicts, especially in childhood within families, affect people lifelong.

was a remarkable student, he excelled on his high school work and was was educated by one of the best professor in

During the years prior to Elie's Wiesel's experience in the Holocaust, Elie and his father shared a distant relationship that lacked a tremendous amount of support and communications but, eventually, their bond strengthens as they rely on each other for survival and comfort.

Elie Wiesel teaches readers many lessons, including bravery, determination and kindness. Within these qualities he teaches the reader how he displayed set traits.

had to raise his two brothers because their father wasn’t able to care for them after he became an alcoholic because of the passing of his wife.

the 13 yr. old son of known civil rights activist Roland Childs. He and his brother were very close

Theodore arrived to be welcomed by his brother, who thought a curse was on Theodore’s house. After giving birth, Alice died of Bright’s disease, an inflammation of the kidneys. His mother was also sick with what they thought was a cold, but it actually was typhoid fever. By 2:00 p.m. on February 14, both Alice and his mother were dead. Theodore wrote in his diary, “The light has gone out of my life” (Markham 33). As life moved on for Theodore, he began to meet with an old childhood friend, Edith Carrow. He still suffered the pain of the death of Alice and never forgot her beauty and strong personality. Edith was just the woman he needed. On December 6, 1886, they were married in London. Their first son, Theodore junior, was born in 1887, followed by Kermit, Ethel, Archibald, and Quentin, the last of his children with Edith. With all of these children and also Alice, his daughter from his first wife, Roosevelt expressed the boyish enthusiasm that had always been the central part of his life.

The purpose of a story is not solely just to share lessons and truths about human nature but to also share stories of the past. Recognizing history and the knowledge acquired through stories is crucial in growing as an individual and as an entire society. People may be inclined to forget awful wars or events of the past. However, the act of forgetting these stories is an effort to avoid confronting the terrors and mistakes of the past. For instance, in Night, Elie Wiesel’s purpose in writing his memoir on his experiences of the Holocaust and in the death

Anna is Alice’s oldest daughter; she’s a successful lawyer and is married to Charles, also a lawyer. Anna is strong and fiercely independent just like her mother. Anna deals with her mother’s disease by suggesting that if her mom “thinks for a second” then maybe she’ll be able to remember things (p. 173). Anna, however still makes time to care for her mom when her dad is away.

Two-year-old Alice Walker was as boastful and energetic as they come. She was a product of her environment;

This childhood motivated him to go to university and eventually help other indigenous Australians to follow suit. After Perkins went to the University of Sydney, from where he graduated in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts he eventually

Have you ever heard about Elie Wiesel? Elie Wiesel is a Holocaust survivor. He got taken to a concentration camp at the young age of 14 with his mother, father, and his older and younger sisters. After he got freed, the Holocaust had such an impact on him that he wrote multiple books over it. Even though he went through a lot of trauma, he was still strong the whole way through and decided to share his story with the world.

In 1860, Alice Magaw was born in Ohio (Nelson & Wilstead, 2009). For the majority of Magaw’s childhood, she lived in Michigan with her brothers and sisters (Nelson & Wilstead, 2009). Magaw’s father was in the grocery business and one of his sons followed in his footsteps in this way (Thatcher, 1953). Magaw was 22 years old when the family moved to Rochester, Minnesota (Nelson & Wilstead, 2009). The move was their last together before some of Magaw’s siblings began leaving home and Magaw’s mother died (Nelson & Wilstead, 2009). Magaw died in Hudson, Wisconsin from complications related to diabetes at the age of 68 (CRNA Profiles, n.d.; Nelson & Wilstead, 2009).

There are many different factors that play a role in the disorder of Schizophrenia. At the beginning of the movie, “Alice in Wonderland” we find out that Alice’s father has passed away. With this being said, this could have been an environmental factor that played a role in Alice’s coming of Schizophrenia. As talked about in lecture, personal tragedies experienced by families are one of these environmental factors and fits into what happened with Alice and her family.

brother at a school in Kendal, where he was to remain for 12 years. He