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He was expelled during his junior year because of a prank. His family allowed him to join the navy, but he soon found that more discipline was present in the Navy than at Yale. In 1810 Cooper took a furlough, and never returned to active duty. James Fenimore Cooper married Susan De Lancy in 1811, and for the next ten years he lived as a country gentleman. However, after the death of all five of his elder brothers he became responsible for supporting their widows and paying their debts.

This unfortunately cost him his career in the miltary. After he was out of the military, he was nominated as a presidential candidate, but not surprising to Geoge he lost the election. George wanted to live a normal life after this and due to investments he would be able to live comfortably for a long time. Later he and his family traveled to England and spent three and half years touring all over Europe. While he was in Europe President Lincoln was assassinated, when George heard this news he was devastated.

His father was a tinkerer and a very poor man. John Bunyan had very little education and was thought to only amount to a tinkerer. However, when he was just a boy his mother passed away; and his father remarried only two months later. John Bunyan was so appalled by his father’s expedient remarriage that he left to go join the Parliamentary Army (Latham). There is very little known ab... ... middle of paper ... ...t read novels on the shelves today.

After only two days, he had to return home because “his mother had died of ‘Inflammation of the Brain’– perhaps meningitis or a stroke – at the age of forty- seven” (2) This did not seem to distract Carroll much or if it did it did not show, for he returned right back to Oxford where “the following year he achieved a first in Honour Moderations, and was nominated to a Studentship (2). He later won the Christ Church Mathematical Lectureship that he held for twenty-six years. “The income was good but the work bored him” (2). “He became deacon of the Church of England in 1861 but chose not to go further” ( Bla... ... middle of paper ... ...e in which many pages from his diary were missing. Years later after Alice was married, Carroll sent her a letter that read, “I’ve had scores of child friends but they have been quite a different thing” (Vink).

Tim Sickenger, 74, dealt with many failures, some that may have seemed impossible to rebound from. His first mortgage company went bankrupt and he had to pay expenses for fifty employees. He was able to bounce back from that, but only to have to quit another failing company at the worst possible time, his first child had just been born. Sarah Hartigan, 73, is someone who has an immense grit, the woman survived breast cancer. But, she did not flex her grit in the interview.

Things went by smoothly, until both Alexander and Rachel became ill. Unfortunately, his mother died at age 38, in 1768. As for Alexander, he overcame his illness and continued working at St. Croix as an accounting clerk, which helped better his skills in financing. Though it is clear the founding father was against slavery in the future, as a young man, Hamilton was placed in charge of international commerce, or the importation of slaves. Once his mother died, the brothers moved in with Peter Lytton, their cousin, in 1769.

John’s mother took her husbands’ death very hard. She could no longer run the stable business that her husband ran for so many years. With these facts in place, Frances then looks to remarry to help run the business. Barely two months after her husbands’ death, she remarried a minor bank clerk named William Rawlings on June 27, 1804. William was a fortune hunter and the children did not like him at all.

His boss was looking to fire him for a long time. His whole life, he has had the wrong idea. “Success doesn’t come from just luck, popularity, or personality. All throughout the Death of a Salesman, Loman tells his two sons, Biff and Happy, that the key to success in life is to be “well liked” and that all you need is “a smile and a shoeshine.” (Brett) However, Willy completely ignored his true calling of working with his hands, to become a business man. He was so infatuated with the American Dream, he didn’t realize that he wasn’t a good Salesman, and would have succeeded as ... ... middle of paper ... ...ity to indulge in a world that doesn’t exist.

Coleridge and Southey began to dream of a Utopian community. In April 1795 he married Sara Fricker, the sister of Southey’s fiancé. In 1796 , the couple had their first child, a son named Hartely, even though Sara was still engaged to another man. Sara and Coleridge got married in Bristol, on October 4, 1795. Coleridge’s first marriage was not good, he was very unhappy.

Thomas Jefferson was born on April 13, 1743, at Shadwell plantation in western Virginia, he’s a notable architect granted that he is really famous for being the president, and one of America’s foundering fathers. Thomas received credit for his successful life but some may not know how he became a success. Jefferson’s father contributed to Thomas’s success because his father had enough money to put him through school to get a good education. Jefferson looked to his teachers for help since his father died when Thomas was four-teen. Starting from age six, he goes through the whole schooling process which involves high school and college; then he continues on to write the declaration of independence, become the governor of Virginia, travel to France, and become president granting him the ability to be a successful individual.