Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".

Her mother ’ s marriage to Agrippa was her second marriage, as Julia the Elder was widowed from her first marriage, to her paternal cousin Marcus Claudius Marcellus and they had no children.

She returned with her children to Italy with Germanicus ’ ashes.

Her remaining children were raised between her, Livia Drusilla and Germanicus ’ mother Antonia Minor.

Conservationist Gifford Pinchot, Chief of the United States Forest Service, embraced McCreight ’ s recommendations and asked the President speak to the public school children of the United States about conservation.

With his father's declination of the position as minister of the court ; during his young boyhood ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá witnessed his parents ' various charitable endeavours, which included converting part of the home to a hospital ward for women and children.

The death of his children caused ` Abdu ’ l-Bahá immense grief – in particular the death of his son Husayn Effendi came at a difficult time following the death of his mother and uncle.

Helen Beatrix Potter ( 28 July 186622 December 1943 ) was an English author, illustrator, natural scientist and conservationist best known for her imaginative children ’ s books featuring animals such as those in The Tale of Peter Rabbit which celebrated the British landscape and country life.

She continued to write, illustrate and design spin-off merchandise based on her children ’ s books for Warne until the duties of land management and diminishing eyesight made it difficult to continue.

She and Beatrix remained friends throughout their lives and Annie's eight children were the recipients of many of Potter ’ s delightful picture letters.

It was Annie who later suggested that these letters might make good children ’ s books.

" It became one of the most famous children ’ s letters ever written and the basis of Potter ’ s future career as a writer-artist-storyteller.

Please see bibliography for some of the many critical evaluations of her opus of children ’ s literature, including Modernist interpretations of Humphrey Carpenter and Katherine Chandler.

In 1971 Shirley McNaughton started a pioneer program at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC ), aimed to children with cerebral palsy, from the approach of augmentative and alternative communication ( AAC ).

As told above, Blissymbolics was used in 1971 to help children at the Ontario Crippled Children ’ s Centre ( OCCC, now the Bloorview Kids Rehab ) in Toronto, Canada.

It is useful for community dances where “ keeping on the correct side ” is difficult because of a large gender imbalance, for children ’ s dances and for groups who want to add a little variety and a creative learning experience to their traditional dance venue.

The marriage, however, caused a stir within St. Thomas ’ small Jewish community, either because Rachel was outside the faith or because she was previously married to Frederick's uncle, and in subsequent years his four children were forced to attend the all-black primary school.

In 1871 he married his mother ’ s maid, Julie Vellay, a vineyard grower ’ s daughter, with whom he would later have seven children.

Following Castel ’ s death, she was left to support her mother, a niece, and her two children.

* Dartmoor is frequently mentioned in the Agent Z series of comical children ’ s books written by Mark Haddon.

" It ’ s the natural law, as women fare so fares the world, their children, and that ’ s everybody.

The true purpose behind kindergarten is “ to provide a child-centered, preschool curriculum for three to seven year old children that aimed at unfolding the child ’ s physical, intellectual, and moral nature with balanced emphasis on each of them .”

An economic dependence on commodities, such as diamond s being mined by these children in Sierra Leone, is correlated with an increased risk of civil war.

When Elizabeth was 3 years old, the family moved to 142 Long Acre, where they were to live for 2 years, whilst two more children were born and her father moved up in the world, becoming not only the manager of a larger pawnbroker ’ s shop, but also a silversmith.

Meanwhile, Newson ’ s malting business expanded and five more children were born, Alice ( 1842 ), Millicent ( 1847 ), who was to become a leader in the constitutional campaign for women's suffrage, Sam ( 1850 ), Josephine ( 1853 ) and George ( 1854 ).

According to the National Conference of State Legislatures, 76 % of the money handed out for Arizona ’ s voucher program has gone to children already in private schools.

He replaced traditional readers, spellers and grammar books with children ’ s own writing, literature, and teacher prepared materials.

Aeolus and Enarete had many children, although the precise number and identities of these children vary from author to author in the ancient sources.

Two years later, she returned to her husband and children at his urging, and she went on to become a well-known Danish author, living to the age of 83.

* Derek Benz ( b. 1971 ), American author of fantasy fiction for children

Other luminaries include Keith Johnstone, the British teacher and writer – author of Impro, who founded the Theatre Machine and whose teachings form the foundation of the popular shortform Theatresports format, Dick Chudnow, founder of ComedySportz which evolved its family-friendly show format from Johnstone's Theatersports, Stan Wells, creator of the " Clap-In " longform style and founder of The Empty Stage Comedy Theatre in Los Angeles, and Bill Johnson, creator / director of The Magic Meathands, who pioneered the concept of " Commun-edy Outreach " by tailoring performances to non-traditional audiences, such as the homeless and foster children.

Bedi was one of three children born into a family that had devoted itself to India's fight for independence from British colonial rule. His father, Baba Pyare Lal Bedi, a Punjabi Sikh, was an author and philosopher.

In, the author names three women in sequence: “ Mary Magdalene, and Mary the mother of James and Joses, and the mother of Zebedee's children .” In the Gospel of Mark, the author lists a group of women three times, and each time, Mary Magdalene ’ s name appears first.

In 1991, the controversial author Kitty Kelley wrote an unauthorized and largely uncited biography about Nancy Reagan, repeating accounts of a poor relationship with her children and introducing rumors of alleged sexual relations with singer Frank Sinatra.

The Australian author Geraldine Brooks wrote a memoir entitled Foreign Correspondence ( 1997 ) about her childhood, which was enriched by her exchanges of letters with other children in Australia and overseas and her travels as an adult in search of the people they had become.

The writer Theodor Fontane, painter Adolf von Menzel, and Dadaist Kurt Schwitters were all guests ; Karl Liebknecht, the Spartacus Communist movement leader read a lot here and even made some key political speeches from the pavement terrace, while author Erich Kästner wrote part of his 1929 bestseller for children, Emil und die Detektive ( Emil and the Detectives ), on the same terrace and made the café the setting for an important scene in the book.

There has been speculation that Heinlein's intense obsession with his privacy was due at least in part to the apparent contradiction between his unconventional private life and his career as an author of books for children, but For Us, The Living also explicitly discusses the political importance Heinlein attached to privacy as a matter of principle.

Although he continued to be extremely popular and widely read, both at home and abroad, Scott's critical reputation declined in the last half of the nineteenth century as serious writers turned from romanticism to realism, and Scott began to be regarded as an author suitable for children.

However, concerning children born in the United States to parents who are not U. S. citizens ( and not foreign diplomats ), three Senators, including Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lyman Trumbull, the author of the Civil Rights Act, as well as President Andrew Johnson, asserted that both the Civil Rights Act and the Fourteenth Amendment would confer citizenship on them at birth, and no Senator offered a contrary opinion.

* Mary Ellen, ( 1856 – 1908 ) who married the mathematician and author Charles Howard Hinton and had four children: George ( 1882 – 1943 ), Eric (* 1884 ), William ( 1886 – 1909 ) and Sebastian ( 1887 – 1923 ) inventor of the Jungle gym.

An analysis of diagnosis of children reported in scientific publications, 44 case studies of single patients were found to be evenly distributed ( i. e. each case study was reported by a different author ) but in articles regarding groups of patients, four researchers were responsible for the majority of the reports.

Her children are popular science writer and co-author Dorion Sagan, software developer and founder of Sagan Technology, Jeremy Sagan, New York City criminal defense lawyer Zachary Margulis-Ohnuma, and teacher and author Jennifer Margulis.

The lack of scientific foundation is acknowledged by some believers, including Doreen Virtue, author of The Care and Feeding of Indigos, and James Twyman, who produced two films on indigo children and who offers materials and courses related to the phenomenon.

As author Malcolm Gladwell has stated, " Sesame Street was built around a single, breakthrough insight: that if you can hold the attention of children, you can educate them ".

Jansson is principally known as the author of the Moomin books – stories for children that involve Jansson's creations, the Moomins.

Kathleen Wendy Herald Peyton ( born 2 August 1929 ), who writes primarily as K. M. Peyton, is a British author of fiction for children and young adults.