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This 6 page paper begins by reporting and discussing events and experiences in Lincoln's childhood and early life and comments on certain events may have shaped his personality according to theorists. The next part of the paper discusses Lincoln's developmental level according to Maslow's hierarchy of needs and moral development according to Kohlberg. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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1996). In 1812, when Abe was three years old, an infant brother died, in 1818, he suffered two traumas, first he was kicked in the head by a mule or
horse and was not expected to live and later that same year, his mother died (The History Place, 1996). With her death, Abe lost all family encouragement for learning but
he continued to read and study anyway. A year later, his father married a widow with three children and it is reported that Abe became close with his stepmother (The
History Place, 1996). Ten years later, when Lincoln was 19, his beloved sister died in childbirth (The History Place, 1996). Reports indicate he sobbed and cried about her death, reports
also suggest her death may have brought back the emotions he felt when his mother died (Ability Magazine, 2007). Lincoln had very little formal schooling, a few months in
Kentucky and a few months in Indiana but he read constantly, enough so that in 1836, he obtained his law license (The History Place, 1996). It was after he was
elected to the Illinois Assembly that he studied law (The History Place, 1996). He held several jobs in his life beginning with working on the family farm and also for
hire on other farms (The History Place, 1996). The same year his sister died, he and a friend, Allen Gentry took a flatboat of produce from Indiana to sell
in New Orleans, during the trip they were attacked by seven black men but they held victorious (The History Place, 1996). When they were in New Orleans, Lincoln witnessed the
first slave auction in his life (The History Place, 1996). He was unlucky in love, also. He was in love with a woman named Ann Rutledge but she died
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