equal rights for the mentally ill in the 1800s. In this time, the mentally ill had little to no rights. There wasn’t care and support available to them, and instead they were thrown in prisons. Dorothea Dix was born on April 4, 1802 in Hampden, Maine. She was the oldest of three children, and raised her younger siblings. Her father was a religious fanatic and an abusive alcoholic, and her mother struggled with depression and other mental illness and was not able to care for her children. At

age, his father left the family under the pretense of "going to buy a pack of cigarettes" leaving his mother to raise two children by herself. At times they came under great financial strain. At the age of 11, King’s family had moved back to Durham, Maine. While King was still a child, he supposedly witnessed his friend get struck and killed by a passing train. Though not able to recall the event, his family had told him that after leaving to go and play with his friend, King returned. Speechless

Stephen King is an author who came from humble beginnings but, became famous through his passion for horror and writing. King was born in Portland, Maine in 1947. As a young child, King loved spine-chilling comic books and science-fiction movies with monsters. Later on, King sent his strange short stories to science-fiction magazines during high school. None of these stories were published. King had always lived in small towns. As a result, the setting of his stories were in small towns for

Have you ever watched a movie or a tv show, or even read a book, in which any character has two different sides? It was probably..., the good one and the evil one? And those sides are always opposites… Right? If this plot is not a strange thing to you, have you ever thought why is this idea/theme so present in many ways inside the pop culture? In 1886 the book "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde", written by Robert Louis Stevenson, was released and became one of the most popular Stevenson's

Where Do You Stand? William skimmed the article. The article detailed efforts underway in Boston, Providence, Montpelier, and Augusta to reconstitute the Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine state governments. Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Maine had scheduled state constitutional conventions to meet on Thanksgiving Day to repeal and replace the changes made to their state constitutions, and reconstitute centralized authority. The article noted that Connecticut

writers of our time. Stephen Edwin King used to be born on September 21, 1947. Born in Portland, Maine, he used to be the 2d son of Donald and Nellie Ruth Pillsbury King. He faced hardships developing up, including his father forsaking him when he was more youthful and the bloodless warfare paranoia. King graduated from Lisbon Falls excessive tuition in 1966. He then attended & graduated the university of Maine in 1970, majored in English and started working as an English trainer. His first publication

Dorothea dix- religion and reform Dorothea Lynde Dix was one of the most important people in the reform movement for many reasons. She was a driving force behind the reform of prisons and asylums across the country. Without Dorothea Dix’s influence, thousands of criminals and mentally ill would be dying and mistreated in these facilities. But who was Dorothea Dix? She was a teacher, author, and an activist, who had a very horrible childhood living with an abusive and alcoholic father. She created

books for the “Asylum Movement,” taught the mentally ill and prisoners, and caused the reformation of hundreds of hospitals. Dix was the eldest child and only daughter of Joseph Dix and Mary Bigelow. She was born on April 4, 1802, in Hampden, Maine, on