Michael Jackson

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This paper discusses Michael Jackson's personal life. Providing details on his birth, childhood and style of parenting. The paper explores the lifelong psychological consequences of his mother's submission to Jackson's father and his disciplined upbringing.

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"Michael Jackson was born August 29, 1958, in the steel mill town of Gary, Indiana. As a child he was strictly controlled by his father and sheltered from the outside world by his mother, who was a Jehovah's Witness. Jackson's father's ill-tempered, disciplinarian style of child raising would have lifelong psychological consequences, as would his mother's gentle nature and submission to her husband. Jackson demonstrated a talent for music and dance as a child, and only a year after his father organized a family musical group around Jackson's three older brothers, he joined the act "and quickly established himself as a dynamic stage performer." He became a global pop star in the nineteen-eighties, but his career began to decline when the media began to focus on his increasingly bizarre eccentricities. "He was often ..."

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