Early Life From the beginning, Aileen Carol Pittman was dealt an unlucky hand. Her mother, Diane Wuornos, got pregnant with her as a teenager, and her father, Leo Dale Pittman, was in prison and he hung himself before she was ever able to meet him. Leo was also a psychopathic child molester. Born on February 29, 1956, she was abandoned by her mother not too many years later. By the age of four, she had been abandoned, and eventually ended up living with her grandparents with her elder brother, Keith. Unfortunately, this was possibly an even worse situation than living with her mother would have been. To begin with, her grandparents decided not to tell her and Keith that they were their grandparents, and decided to just say they were their adoptive parents. It was not made known to Aileen until she was twelve that she had been living with her grandparents. Aileen's grandmother was an abusive alcoholic, and her grandfather abused her physically and sexually. Aileen's grandfather sexually abused her, and she was also having sexual relations with her own brother. The sex with her brother led to her Also, Dr. Bernard, who was the states psychologist, said that Aileen had a borderline personality disorder and an antisocial personality disorder. Unfortunately for Aileen, neither of these were severe enough for it to be considered the cause of her actions. Her IQ was also evaluated and was an eighty-one, but in order to be considered retarded ones IQ must be a seventy or lower, so this did not help her escape the death penalty. During this phase, many of the disturbing things that occurred during her childhood were brought to light. More psychologists were brought in, and some of them saw her as a very disturbed woman, who was ruined by her childhood. It was also concluded that she might have suffered brain damage, and she could not change her ways in order to obey the
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
Kathleen Orr, popularly known as Kathy Orr is a meteorologist for the Fox 29 Weather Authority team on WTXF in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She was born on October 19, 1965 and grew up in Westckave, Geddes, New York with her family. The information about her parents and her siblings are still unknown. As per bio obtained online, Kathy Orr is also an author. She has written a number of books like Seductive Deceiver, The drifter's revenge and many others. She graduated in Public Communications from S. I. Newhouse which is affiliated to Syracuse University.
5-Anna Arnold Hedgeman-Born on July 5,1899 in Marshalltown,Iowa, Anna Arnold was a political activist and educator. As a kid,her family was the only family that lived in the Anoka,Minnesoda community. She learned how to read and write at home and didnt attend school untill the age of seven. After high school,she attened Hamline University in St. Paul,Minnesoda. She graduated with a Bachlor`s degree in English. She was the first african american to recieve this degree at this university. While she was in college,she heard Dr.W.E.B DuBois give a speech that made her want to become a teacher. After she graduated from college,she accepted a teaching job at Rust College in Holly Springs,Mississipi and taught english and history for two years. While in Missippi,she experienced racial segregation and discrimination for the first time,witch motivated her to join the civil rights movement.
When most people think of Texas legacies they think of Sam Houston or Davy Crockett, but they don’t usually think of people like Jane Long. Jane Long is known as ‘The Mother of Texas’. She was given that nickname because she was the first english speaking woman in Texas to give birth.
Helene Melanie Lebel, one of two daughters born to a Jewish family, was raised as a Catholic in Vienna. Her father died during World War I when Helene was only 5 years old, and when Helene was 15, her mother remarried. Helene entered law school, but at age 19, she started showing signs of an illness. By 1935, her illness became so bad severe that she had to give up her law studies. Helene was diagnosed with Schizophrenia and was placed in Vienna’s Steinhof Psychiatric Hospital. Although her condition improved in 1940, Helene was forced to stay in Steinhof. Her parents believed she would soon be released, but in August, her mother was informed that Helene was transferred to Niedernhart. She was actually transported to Brandenburg, Germany where she was led into a gas chamber or room? disguised as a shower room, and was gassed to death. Helene was listed as dying in her room of “acute schizophrenic excitement”.
At any point in time, someone’s world can be turned upside down by an unthinkable horror in a matter of seconds. On June 20th, 2001 in a small, suburban household in Houston, TX, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in a bathtub after her husband left for work. The crime is unimaginable, yes, but the history leading up to the crime is just as important to the story. Andrea Yates childhood, adulthood, and medical history are all potent pieces of knowledge necessary to understanding the crime she committed.
...ced to life in prison on March 14, 2001, for killing her five children. I agree that Andrea was sane, but the right punishment should have been the death penalty.
As the years goes by, Wuornos life was becoming unstable and a nightmare. As a result, Wuornos childhood is well defined on how and why she became a criminal and killed those seven men victims. Her life consists of abandonment, mental and physical abuse by family, peers and neighborhood. While her mother was a teenager when she gave birth to Wuornos. Her father was absent in her life and abuse her mother. After he absent father was in jail for the rape of an underage child. Wuornos was abandoned by her mother as a teenager and left with grandparents. On the video stated she was emotional, sexually and physical abused by both grandparents. She became a prostitution to earn a living in the street of Florida. The life of Wuornos could be associated in with a diverse of theories of crime behavior. There are three various theories that could describe the life and subsequent in crimes of Aileen Wuornos. These three theories consist of biological/biosocial theory, self-control theory, and social control
September 2015. The school year has commenced, new students have filled the hallways and the classes of Jules-Verne. This year we have welcomed a new comer, Genoise Etman from the CSF school in Kelowna, École de l’Anse-aux Sable. Genoise a grade 10 student, is full of inspiration, dedication and perseverance and is ready to begin her high school journey with full of enthusiasm and energy. Genoise has shown a great success in many areas, she has been a dancer since a very young age, she practiced ballet,tap.jazz and lyrical, although she loves to dance she has put her passion aside to concentrate on her education to be able to follow her dream to become a medical doctor in the future. Etman, has been determined to succeed in her best abilities
What is it like to live a life with Narcissistic personality disorder (NPD)? Narcissism is a pervasive pattern of grandiosity, need for admiration, and lack of empathy. People with this disorder can be vindictive, selfish, cunning person. They do not care who is harmed or hurt. Abigail was the leader of all of the girls that were seen dancing and calling on evil spirits. Abigail would threaten the girls by saying if they said anything, she would kill or harm them severely. She wanted what she couldn’t have, so that made her psychologically unstable. Abigail William’s would be convicted in today’s court because she gave many threats to kill the girls who were with her the night they were dancing if they spoke up in court, her behavior caused harm to many even though she may not have physically done damage herself and due to previous court cases, some people diagnosed with Narcissism were found innocent due to their mental instability but others were guilty because they were mentally unstable. As it is shown, Narcissistic Personality Disorder causes her to be selfish, arrogant, dangerous, and obsess over the man she could not have, because Abigail threatened the girls she was with the night they were dancing, to not confess to anything in court.
Mary Wigman is considered to be one of the pioneers of modern dance alongside Isadora Duncan, Loie Fuller, and others (Ambrosio). Modern dance developed as a rebellion of the restrictions of ballet in order to express movement as an essence of life ("Mary Wigman Biography"). Mary Wigman was a German dancer and Choreographer, born in Hanover, Germany on November 13th, 1886 ("Mary Wigman Biography"). When she was very young she went on a trip to Amsterdam where she attended a dance performance by three students of Emile Jaques-Dalcroze ("Mary Wigman Biography"). This performance leads Wigman to become very fascinated with dance as an expression of life rather than just strict movement ("Mary Wigman Biography"). In 1911 despite her parent’s disapproval, Wigman enrolled in Jaques-Dalcroze’s dance school in Dresden-Hellerau ("Mary Wigman Biography"). Two years later she furthered her dance education by traveling to Switzerland for a dance summer course by Rudolf von Laban, she
The life of Charlotte Perkins Gilman began on July 3, 1860, this was the day an inspiring, passionate, prominent American feminist activist and public figure was born. Gilman was born to her mother Mary Perkins and father Frederic Beecher Perkins. She had one brother, Thomas Adie, who was only 14 months older than Charlotte. Some months after Charlotte was born, Frederic, the provider and man of the house, decided to abandon the new family of four. Mary was no longer able to support her small family as she was a homemaker, so most often the family was with Marys’ fathers’ aunts, Isabella Beecher Hooker, Catharine Beecher, and Harriet Beecher Stowe! Unbelievable, right? Clearly talent runs in the family. As some may know two of the three women are notable women of history, the most famous of the three Harriet Beecher Stowe who wrote “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”.
She was raised by her grandmother together with her brother and evidently lacked the parental guidance as a child since her mother had abandoned her when she was only four years old (Seal, 2014). Her father on the other hand was a known child molester and psychopath who later hanged himself in prison. This is an evident genealogical aspect and coupled with the assertions mentioned above; these are some of the biological developmental and environmental factors that may have led to her indulgence in crime. Aileen also claims that she became pregnant at a tender age of 14, a pregnancy that she inconsistently blames on either her grandfather’s friend or her brother. The decision to adopt the baby could also be a resound proof that it could have altered her attitudes when growing up and it is also backed up by the fact that she chose a woman for a spouse and not a man (Frei, Graf & Dittmann, 2006). This is a factor that can be pegged on the fact that she probably grew a hatred for men after being impregnated by an individual she knew too
When viewed from a strictly medical, psychological aspect, Andrea Yates medical history indicates that after the birth of her first child, she began to suffer from various forms of depression and suicide attempts. If one only examines the paper trail and doesn’t think beyond what the medical history does or does not indicate, then perhaps, Andrea would be innocent by reason of mental insanity as the 2006 acquittal suggest. However, when viewed form a legal aspect there are several inconstancies that challenge if this former nurse was insane or if she in fact premeditated the murder of her children as well as her acquittal.