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This 12 page paper provides an overview of the life of movie mogul and industrialist Howard Hughes, who was born a child of privilege. As a young boy, Hughes watched his father's successes as a tool manufacturer and industrial developer and paid little attention to his education. Though he never graduated from high school, Hughes' father paid Rice University to allow him to attend classes. Upon his father's death when Hughes was 18, he inherited the family business, which would become the cornerstone for his own business empire. Biblography lists 5 sources.
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Though he never graduated from high school, Hughes father paid Rice University to allow him to attend classes. Upon his fathers death when Hughes was 18, he inherited the
family business, which would become the cornerstone for his own business empire. The death of Howard Hughes parents in 1922 (mother) and 1924 (father) would leave him very much
alone in the world. Though his uncle helped to manage the family business in the absence of Hughes father, Howard Hughes would finally buy out other family members in
order to maintain the company under sole control. Though he was successful in maintaining the engineering business, he sought to pursue a movie producing and display his talents as
an aviator, playboy and man-around-town (BBC Science and Nature). Though a successful entrepreneur, Howard Hughes also suffered from obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD). While other people with OCD would
carry out ritual behaviors on their own, Hughes was able to pay other people to act out his compulsions, and so his employees were often required to participate in repetitive
behaviors to maintain a germ-free environment (BBC Science and Nature). Though Hughes was a movie producer and playboy involved with some of the major starlets of his era (including
Jean Harlow and Katherine Hepburn), his OCD would dominate his life. Hughes lived his final decade of life as a social recluse, addicted to opiates and unable to consume
normal types of food for fear of the presence of bacteria (BBC Science and Nature). After his death in 1976, it was said that his body was so emaciated
that it was unrecognizable; Hughes body was identified by his fingerprints at the time of death (BBC Science and Nature). Psychoanalytic The psychoanalytic aspect of assessing personality
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