He was the eldest son of Yoshihito. ... Shortly after returning to Japan, Hirohito became regent for his father, who became mentally ill. As regent, he performed imperial duties on his father's behalf. After his father's death in 1926, Hirohito became emperor. ... His first son, Akihito, succeeded him. ...
"He was the second son. "The oldest son would go into the army, the next brother would be a doctor, a brother after that would be a businessman- (Ondaatje, 182). ... The war took her husband and her father. ... The father was already dead. ... Even her lifelong friend of her fathers, Caravaggio is suffering from the war. ...
Second, his father retired from his job as a mid-level customs official with a full pension. ... Adolf's father was abusive and cruel to his older brother Alois. ... Adolf's father had always wanted him to pursue a technical or engineering career. So when Adolf broke the news that he wanted to pursue art to his father, it resulted in a permeant and bitter struggle between father and son (Patrick, 2006). ... Being abused by his father made him short tempered and vengeful. ...
He was the son of two Irish immigrants, William and Mary Ford. ... Ford helped his father with the harvest and also attended school in a one-room schoolhouse. At age fifteen he left school to work on his father's farm full time. ... When he returned his father gave him 40 acres to start his own farm. ... Ford had a stroke in 1938 but returned to run the company and resume the presidency after his son, Edsel Ford, died in 1943 (World Book Encyclopedia: Henry Ford). ...
Moreover, the story is also about a conflicted mother-son relationship. Krebs' small-town mother cannot comprehend her son's struggles and sufferings caused by the war. She devotes herself to her religion and never questions her own values; she manipulates her son. ... Her sermons to her son lack any power to heal his spiritual wounds. ... Krebs' noncommittal father is obviously dominated by his wife; she makes the decisions. ...
With husbands, father, and brothers enlisting the need for women to enter the work force quickly grew. ... With husbands and son's overseas many women drove trackers, plowed the fields and harvested hay while tending their gardens, raising chickens and putting down preserves in the fall (Veterans Affairs Canada, 2013). ... Many watched their older siblings; father's and relatives go off to war. ... Grief was common as many families received the tragic report that their father's and brother's would never be coming home (Summerside War Effort, n.d). ...
Before his first birthday, his family had moved to Munich where young Albert's father, Hermann Einstein, and uncle set up a small electro-chemical business. ... Albert's mother, Pauline Einstein, had an intense passion for music and literature, and it was she that first introduced her son to the violin in which he found much joy and relaxation. ... A favorite toy of his was his father's compass, and he often marveled at his uncle's explanations of algebra. ... Einstein was now able to move to Prague with his wife and two sons, Hans Albert and Eduard. ...
Hitler was the son of a man named Alois. Alois Hitler's father was a Custom official's, and his mother was named Klara. ... Adolf's father was very strict with him, and ignored him most of the time because Adolf liked to dream. As you can see Adolf did not idealize his father very much, and his death in 1903 actually came as a relief to Adolf. ...
"I received a call at midnight saying that my mother had run out of her house and been picked up by the Skokie police", said her son Howard Reich. ... His son's words were "I couldn't even comprehend thatI thought it was a dream" (Chicago Tribune, "Prisoner of Her Past"). ... Never did it occur to her son that it all had to do with her being a child during the Holocaust. ...
Upon prophet Muhammads death, a group of muslim leaders elected Muhammads father in law, Abu Bakr, to be secular head of Islam. However, Ali, Muhammads son- in-law and cousin who was also considered to be successor of Muhammad, had to acknowledge Abu Bakr as Caliph through force of arms. ... Another civil war, mainly because of power struggle occurred during this period (680-694), in which Alis son Hussein was killed by Muawiyyas son and successor named Yazid at Karbala in Iraq. ...
They had six boys and their seventh son died of infancy. They moved to a house in Abilene, Kansas where they raised their six sons. Each one of their six sons was successful in life. ... My father and I play golf at this course in Ocean Shores. ...
The government of South Carolina wanted nothing more than to revert back to the ideals of the Founding Fathers, which sounds quite familiar to those of us in this particular time period. The Tea Party, which became widely popular in 2009, is a modern day political party whose main goal is to turn Americas thinking process upside down and also revert back to the ideals of our Founding Fathers. ... This idea has been around since the formation of the Daughters of the Confederation, Sons of Confederate Veterans, and those who actively resisted the racial integration during the 1950s and 1960s. ...
"The cornel has warned us, you know, about your sons wicked thieving ways. ... Tommo doesn't only show cowardice at war but also when he was a young when he was out with his father, cutting down trees for firewood and the tree starts to fall in front of him and he froze. His father jumped out in front of him just in time to save him, but instead lost his life. Tommo blames himself for his father's death, wishing he could have moved out of the way in time. ...
Her father was somewhat of a camera lover and exposed her to the wonders of photography as well. Margaret's father, Joseph White was an inventor and an engineer. ... When Chapman was away one day, his mother blurted out that she never wanted to talk to her again because she had taken her son from her. ...
His schoolmates called him "Pater Langweil- (Father Bore) which just 10% in the junior class in the Leoti High School knew (survey of junior class). ... He married in the same year a Serbian fellow student, Mileva Marec and had with her two sons, Albert Jr. and Edward. ...
He enrolled at Cornell University in 1940, and, under pressure from his father and older brother, studied chemistry and biology. ... In the book, The Hoenikker family closely parallels Vonnegut's own family, consisting of an elder son who is a scientist, a tall middle daughter, and a younger son who joins Delta Upsilon. ...
Still today people are finding strength and trying to keep faith by making it through a death of a family member, even living everyday knowing that their son, daughter, mother, father, sister, brother and even husband or wife is fighting a war. ...
Hemingway, Mondrian, and the New Deal: all of these are related in one way or another. They all deal with some of the greatest people in world history. Hemingway was, and still is, described as the greatest and most influential writer in history; Mondrian invented a lot of new artistic styles, such ...
Japan is one of the world's leading powers, second only to the United States in terms of economic and technological advancement. It is also a fascinating country with a long history, rich culture and a keen sense of global citizenship. Japan is a country that has evolved from an agricultural, sub-standard industrial society to one of the world's most advance, industrial and technological countries in the world. It is also one of the closest allies and most important economic partners of the U.S. The scale of Japan's growth is easy to demonstrate but understanding the reason i...
Eddie Rickenbacker, was born in Columbus, Ohio, on October 8, 1890, the son of Swiss immigrants William and Elizabeth Reichenbacher.[1] At a very young age, some claiming twelve while others said he was fourteen, Rickenbacker's father was murdered and Eddie dropped out of school and worked at various jobs to help support the family. ...
