Henry VIII (1491-1547) was the King of England from 1510 to 1547. He was a unique king with talent in music and sports. He married six wives during his life, and he influenced England a lot during his reign. This paper will examine his early life, his marriages with his six wives, his success in many battles, becoming the head of the Anglican Church, and his life as the King of England.
Henry VIII was born on June 28, a rainy day in the summer of 1491, at Greenwich Palace in England (Godwin 17). He was the third child and second son of King Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. He had an elder brother Arthur, an elder sister Margaret, and a younger sister Mary. He also had three other siblings, but only Arthur, Margaret, Henry and Mary survived early childhood. Henry was born as a member of the royal family, but he was not the heir-apparent to the English thrown because he was the second son. King Henry VII and Queen Elizabeth encouraged Prince Henry in his studies which made Henry a clever boy, and he enjoyed writing poems.
Henry’s brother Arthur died of illness in 1502 when Henry was ten years old (Cannon). The loss of his brother Arthur made Henry the heir-apparent to the English throne. On February 18, 1503, he became the Prince of Wales, Earl of Chester, and the Duke of York (Pollard 31). He also got engaged to Catherine of Aragon, who had been Henry’s brother Arthur’s wife, on June 25, 1503 (Pollard 32). The engagement was to keep good relations with Spain because Catherine was a Spanish princess. The preparations for Henry to become the King of England started from when he was young.
Henry was a very talented young man. He was an accomplished musician, a patron of the arts, and a fine athlete (Henry VIII king). He could speak four or five languages, and was good at singing, dancing, and playing musical instruments. He also enjoyed hunting and jousting. He was also known as a very tall and handsome prince (Starkey). The people in England loved Prince Henry, and expected him to become a wonderful king (Elton). On his fifteenth birthday in 1533, Henry suddenly broke off his engagements to Catherine of Aragon because he did not want to marry a woman who his father had decided.
Henry VII had been suffering from shock and unknown illness after the death of his son Arthur. On April 21, 1509, King Henry VII died of illness at ...
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Syphylis is an STD caused by bacteria in an open wound (Dugdale). Many people believed that the alignment of the stars and planets was the reason he got syphilis. Other people thought it was a new type of plague (Smith). Syphilis is contagious and many people think he got it from one of his six wives. Pregnant women with syphilis have a high chance of miscarriages or stillborns, this is why people think that he got it from one of his wives (“Syphilis”). It is also believed that Henry could have had the gout (Brown). Gout is a disease that targets men in the age range of 40-50 years. This disease causes pain and swelling in the toes and feet (“Go ask Alice”). Henry died in 1547 due to the gout and syphilis, which they classified as a brain disease and made him very aggressive
...cartoons. Roy, Walt’s older brother and Walt moved to Los Angeles to set up the Disney Brothers Cartoon Studio. Here they made the "Alice Comedies" and "Oswald the Lucky Rabbit." In 1926 Walt changed his cartoon studio name from Disney Bros. to what we now know it as today, Walt Disney Studios. ( www. JustDisney.com NP) Things took off in November of 1928 when Mickey and Minnie Mouse made their debut in "Steamboat Willie." This movie is what made Mickey, Minnie and Walt Disney famous. Early on, Walt Disney was working so hard he was having some trouble sleeping, so he took some sleeping pills to help him sleep. His wife, Lilly was unable to wake him up one morning and she called the doctor who prescribed a long trip for rest and relaxation. (Ford NP) After Walt came back home well rested, he went right back to work. He began to work on the first Disney movie! Walt wanted each of the dwarfs in “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” to be a distinct individual. The solution was to create names for them that would reflect their personalities. (Miller NP) "Snow White," which took three years to make, was released in 1937. This was the beginning to what we all know today as Disney movies.
...ttle over a year King Henry V returned to France and by early 1419 had taken Rouen, with the town’s 70,000 inhabitants surrendering to King Henry’s forces. In 1420 King Henry V had met with King Charles VI and together they had negotiated that upon the death of Charles, Henry would become King of France. This treaty was further solidified by the marriage of Henry to the daughter of King Charles VI, Catherine of Valois. While solidifying his position by attack the Dauphin held town of Meaux, King Henry V grew ill and after attempting to recover died, possibly from Dysentery, in Bois de Vincennes on the 31st of August 1422, aged 35.
Upon reading “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, many readers may find the character Nora to be a rather frivolous spending mother of three who is more concerned about putting up a front to make others think her life is perfect, rather than finding herself. At the beginning of the play, this may be true, but as the play unfolds, you see that Nora is not only trying to pay off a secret debt, but also a woman who is merely acting as her husbands “doll” fulfilling whatever he so asks of her. Nora is not only an independent woman who took a risk, but also a woman whose marriage was more along the lines of a father-child relationship.
...ample. Henry VIII was also responsible for the religious reformation in England and changed the religion of England from the Roman Catholic faith to the Protestant Religion, and established the Church of England. If it weren’t for King Henry VIII, England would not have been as wealthy as it was because of the dissolution of the monasteries. The Act of Appeals aided the constitutional development of England, once again, all thanks to Henry VIII.
Encouragement is a common word throughout this paper. The best thing that can be done about the problem of dwindling enrollment in technical college is to encourage people considering this schooling. Encourage people to look into this type of education, because we do need more Blue Collar workers in our future. Encourage current or past students to talk about their experiences in tech schools with people who are confused about what they want to do in their life. Encourage them that this option is NOT for under achievers, but for over achievers.
He was a human that had emotions, he experienced grief with the multiple miscarriages and deaths of his sons and the betrayals of his wife’s, Anne Boleyn and Katherine Howard. Also the death of Jane Seymour, the only wife to give him a male heir, brought him into a depression. These events changed Henry’s perspective of his own self, that he was without a legal heir, his health was horrendous and he was being betrayed by those closest to him. Lipscomb describes the transformation of Henry from the popular prince to the tyrant king know today. As shown, “the last decade of his reign, Henry VIII had begun to act as a tyrant. The glittering, brilliant monarch of the accession, toppled into old age by betrayal, aggravated into irascibility and suspicion as a result of ill health and corrupted by absolute power, had become a despot”. Henry is not thought of as the good Christian, but Lipscomb writes throughout this book that Henry was very serious about his religious affiliations. Lipscomb portrays Henry VIII as, “a man of strong feeling but little emotional intelligence, willful and obstinate but also fiery and charismatic, intelligent but blinkered, attempting to rule and preserve his honor against his profound sense of duty and heavy responsibility to fulfil his divinely ordained role”. In other words he was an emotional mess that did not know what to do with his feelings, so he bottled them up and south to seek
Luckily for his career, Henry VII died that same year, allowing him to become active once more as an under-sheriff of London, where his mannerisms and process of decision earned a reputation for impartiality and fairness that went echoing about the city . Life once again resumed a steady pace, until in 1511, when his life was shaken by his wife , Jane, died in childbirth, giving rise to another inner crisis – once again he had the chance for a sort of monasticism, but rather than fear sin, he remarried within a month to Alice Middleton before entering the decade of his life where the sights of current Lord Chancellor, Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, as well as the King’s began to create the stage for his downfall after having seen his talents in Parliament, hearing of his reputation, and his time as under-sheriff, he soon was recruited as an ambassador to the Low
Career and technical education courses are intended to prepare high school students to enter the work force in a skilled trade. It equips the students with the experience and education necessary to succeed in an average skill level job while maintaining the student’s interest. In an article that focuses on an aviation CTE program, a “senior policy analyst at the Morrison Institute, said that Career and Technical Education provides another opportunity for students who struggle in high school.” The assumption is that students who struggle in high school presumably do not want another four years of education to attain a bachelor’s degree. Until recently, schools have been excessively geared towards college readiness. The dogma was elementary school, high school, college, without exception. With this “one size fits all” education system in place, a different education course had to evolve. CTE courses offer a break from the tedious grind by introducing career readiness as an alternative. In place of the four years in a college, CTE programs gives student...
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The king next in line was King Henry VIII, Henry VII’s son. Henry was known as one of the most feared kings in England, he is also the reason for the pope and church splitting up, which is also known as the Reformation. Henry became king in 1509, soon after his father had passed away then late...
On June 28th, 1491, a boy was born in Greenwich Palace to Henry VII and Elizabeth of York. (Scarisbrick 1968) They named their son Henry VIII, after Henry VII. Henry was the second of the four sons that Elizabeth and Henry would have but he was the only one to survive to adulthood. His older brother was Arthur, and his two sisters were Margaret and Mary, and they would be the only ones who survived infancy. However, every ruler has a weakness, and Henry’s was women. The impact of women on Henry would show, even in his reign as king.
In his play, A Doll 's House, Henrik Ibsen develops the character of Torvald’s wife, named Nora. Nora struggles to define her individuality as she seems to play two different characters. Partly living as Torvald 's perfect wife, while also living day by day to attempting to conceal a big secret from her husband that could potentially destroy his business. While trapped within Nora 's degrading marriage that consists of many animal names, secretly, her character develops into determined and intelligent women. It is in this secret, that Nora recognizes she must break away from her marriage and follow her dreams of being a strong independent woman.
In conclusion, Henry VIII life was marked with tragedy and achievements. The overall reign of the Tudor Dynasty is the same. There were three children of Henry that took the throne: Edward, who improved some of the protestant problems, but was largely unsuccessful; "Bloody Mary" who murdered, destroyed, and angered the populace of England; and finally Elizabeth took the throne. It's ironic but Henry's least expected heir was actually the best. Princess Elizabeth saved the country with her intelligence, wisdom, and ingenuity, brought England to become a world power. To the best state the country had been in for years. Henry would have been proud of Elizabeth the Virgin Queen. Too bad the fate of not having an heir to the throne repeated and the dynasty was given over to the Spanish.