Comparing Aileen Wournos And Oprah Winfrey

She received her Cosmetology license in 1996 from Career Beauty College in Rexburg, Idaho. Rhonda met her first husband Jeff Ingram in 1997, when she moved to Salt Lake City, Utah. Together they had three sons; Jeffrey, Nicholas, and Alex Ingram. Rhonda divorced Jeff in 2003.

However, he stayed at SLU as a student. (L12) (L47) While attending St. Louis U., in 1950, he ran away with his second cousin, Connye Hanna, and married in Pocahontas, Arkansas. Connye was the granddaughter of Lizzie’s sister, Rachel (Lorne) Hall.

Times have changed since my grandmother was going up. Joyce Ann Thigpen was born on February 17th, 1946 to Edward Franklin Rich and Dorthy Thigpen in her grandmother 's house on a little farm four miles from Trenton, North Carolina. Because her parents were not married when she was born, she was adopted by her grandmother, Mary Ann Thigpen. Joyce met a lineman who was working on power lines on my family’s land. On August 2, 1962, Joyce married the linemen, my granddaddy, Frank Linney Roark Sr., at the young age of sixteen.

In her youth, Sandra Cribb never attended kindergarten or preschool. She did however, go to grades one through twelve and then completed two years of college at Northern Illinois University. During grades one to three she went to a one room school house in Wisconsin. Her first job was in high school and she worked after school for three hours a day as a tray girl. As a tray girl, she worked in a local hospital and would bring in dinner trays to patients and then when they would finish dinner, she would go back to the room, take the tray and bring it to the kitchen.

With this success, poverty soon followed because a white neighbor poisoned the mules in spite of the family’s success. Fannie Lou was able to read and write and in 1944, the owner of the land hired her as a time and record keeper. In 1945, Fannie Lou married Perry Hamer who was a tractor driver. The couple then settled in the city known as Ruleville and were sharecroppers there for another eighteen years.

Not only 2 years later Elenaors father died. After her fsther died her grandma took over her and her brother. Her grandmother decided to have Elenaor attend a very prestige a all girls boarding school in which the head master was a female. That female head master did not only have her eyes set on producing well educated and well diciplend women who would just become house wives. No she wanted to produce women

She as well left Holiday at a young age to go work as a maid up in Baltimore. Because of this, Holiday had to go live with one of her relatives. At the age of 6, Holiday began working. While she was living with her cousin, she was mistreated very often and almost sexually

They spent lots of time together and had very sweet and passionate experiences. Sadly she had to leave her aunt’s house, leave the first boys she has ever been in love with and go back to a torturous place, her home. When she got back, she got beat up a lot more because while living with her aunt, she learned how to stand up for herself and grow up. That didn’t sit well with her father and he beat her up for standing up for herself at the dinner table. Of course it didn’t faze her mother because she was eat herself, but it emotionally hurt her younger siblings.

For my research paper, I want to explore how people born into poverty are resilient and hardworking individuals, opposed to lazy and hopeless individuals. This issue was seen in Jeannette Walls’ memoir The Glass Castle throughout her childhood until she went to New York. During her childhood, Jeanette and her siblings were bullied. They were bullied because their clothes looked ratty, they looked greasy, and often times eat out of the garbage because their parents didn’t have enough money to buy food.

As a result of her young pregnancy, her grandparents kicked her out, but eventually she gave up the child and moved back into their residence. However, after more family hardships Wuornos began living on her own and began to engage in prostitution to acquire money to survive. She was also engaging in heavy drug abuse. Given all of that information I would have to say that Wuornos experienced a very traumatic upbringing and that it could have affected her immensely. That being said, she fits perfectly within the Trauma-Control Model, which makes me believe that her childhood could have absolutely motivated her to become the person she did.

Madam C.J. Walker Madam C.J. Walker was one of the first American women to become a self-made millionaire. She was born Sarah Breedlove on December 23, 1867. Walker was orphaned at six, married at fourteen, and widowed at twenty with a two-year-old daughter to care for. She resettled in St. Louis and went to work as a laundress. Her early years reflected patterns that were all too common for black women in her generation.

When parks was two years old her parents separated and Parks brother and her lived with their mother on their grandparents farm. Rosa at a young age was taught to read buy her mother and attended segregated, one-room school in Alabama. The rest of Parks education she attended segregated schools, including the city 's industrial school for girls. Parks

Growing up, Evelyn didn 't have very many friends and was quite lonely. In her teenage years, her mother encouraged her to seduce wealthy, older men using her good looks and charm. Vvv n 1942, Evelyn

They had one daughter, A’Lelia McWilliams, born June 6, 1885. Moses died in 1887. In 1888, Breedlove and her daughter moved to Saint Louis, Missouri. Breedlove began to work as a laundress, hardly earning more than one dollar a day.

Jericka was born on 3/21/2002 in Bay City, Michigan, Jericka’s parents report she has a normal birth and that all developmental milestones were met. Jericka reports that she believes that her biological mother did drink alcohol when she was pregnant with her. Jericka’s family reports that she had a well-cared for childhood until the age of five when her biological parents divorced. At this time Jericka went and lived with her biological father Dave and his girlfriend Tiona.