One of the world's greatest people . And now . . . They're all gone .
The Kennedy brothers
In the United States, the phrase Kennedy family commonly refers to the family descending from the marriage of the Irish-American Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. and Rose Elizabeth Fitzgerald, and is prominent in American politics and government. Their political involvement has revolved around the Democratic Party. Havard University educations have been common among them, and they have contributed heavily to that university's John F. Kennedy School of Government. The wealth, glamour, and photogenic quality of the family members, as well as their extensive and continuing commitment to public service, has elevated them to iconic status over the past half-century.
With the 1960 election of U.S president John F. Kennedy, he and his two then-surviving brothers, Robert F. Kennedy and Edward M. Kennedy, all held prominent positions in the federal government, and received intensive publicity, often emphasizing their youth (relative to comparably influential politicians), allure, education and collective future in politics.
The family has undergone (then, before, and since) a series of deaths and other reverses that could not be fully remedied by wealth, sometimes called "the Kennedy curse"; it has included the John F. Kennedy assassination; the Robert F. Kennedy assassination; four aircraft crashes (Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr., Kathleen Kennedy, Edward M. Kennedy, and John F. Kennedy, Jr.); a fatal skiing accident (Michael LeMoyne Kennedy); a failed prefrontol lobotomy on Rosemary Kennedy, carried out in the hope of calming the young woman's violent outbursts but resulting in more severe mental retardation; and at least three sets of allegations against individual family members and their relatives by marriage, including a murder conviction(Michael Skakel) and a controversial fatal single-car crash (Chappaquiddick incident ). Most recently, US Senator Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts, the last surviving brother of the Kennedy family, died at age 77 after battling brain cancer.
With ♥,
Jessie :)
I just got back from Taiping!! I skipped school to go Taiping for some personal reasons! :D . Hehehe . It was a fun day alright but now, I'm loaded with stupid homework . Hmm . The people there won't change, wouldn't they? Hmm . Today was fun! Practically walked under the rain the whole day in Taiping . Rained cats and dogs, gee whiz . Ahh, I should've snapped a picture of the river . Was at the river bank doing something with my aunties and cousins . Haha . Was fun! Regretted not snapping a picture and posting it at my facebook account . Sighs :'( . These are great memories . I shouted something really loud because we were actually told to do so by a nun but no one did so I shouted it myself . My aunty gave me a back up . She clapped after I shouted :) . Haha . Everyone who drove pass the river were like starring . Wasn't embarrassing because it leads to a benefit for someone I dearly love :) .
Apparently, school was a normal day but extra funny during Geography lesson . Well, that's what my friends told me . I'm not surprised if it was really funny during Geography lesson because it was Mr. Prakash who was teaching the lesson . He has always been funny :D . Like really funny .
Hmm . Gonna go back to school tomorrow . Gah, this week is ending real soon . Gonna miss it a lot :'( .
With ♥,
Jessie :)