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  Peter Wiggin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
At the age of twelve, Peter convinces Valentine to use their parents' network identities (and eventually identities that they have obtained for themselves) to submit to the world writings under the names of Locke (Peter) and Demosthenes (Valentine).
Peter dislikes being told what to do, but recognizes that this is the only action he can take, as it is only a matter of time before Achilles, now pulling the strings in India, takes action to expose or kill him.
Peter justifies himself by saying that reporting sooner would have done nothing to stop it, as he would not have been believed; and that even if he was, neither India or Thailand had the capacity to resist the Chinese aggression.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Wiggin   (1459 words)

  
 Shadow of the Giant - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
Peter Wiggin, Hegemon of Earth, along with Petra Arkanian, comes to visit Alai, who is now the Caliph of the Muslim League.
The rest of the book deals with Peter Wiggin working to create a world government free of war through his Free People of Earth alliance, while Caliph Alai of the Muslim League and Virlomi, now the virtual goddess of India, have other plans for "uniting" the world under them.
Against this back-drop of world political machinations by the former Battle School children is the extremely personal story of Bean, who because of his genetic modifications, finds himself running out of time before he dies, along with his wife, Petra, struggling to find their missing children.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Shadow_of_the_Giant   (719 words)

  
 Daily Egyptian: 09/03/96: Airport controller will take 1940s plane to Alaska   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Peter Wiggin says he has been dreaming of travelling to Alaska and exploring the mysteries of the Pacific Northwest for 10 years.
Wiggin said that the move is considered a promotion and that he was given a choice of locations to be transferred to.
Wiggin said he prefers flying to other forms of transportation because there is a feeling of freedom involved and considerably less traffic.
www.dailyegyptian.com /fall96/090396/alaska.html   (633 words)

  
 Portsmouth Herald Local News: Thankful to be back on U.S. soil
Jason Wiggin of Kittery, Maine, will be helping his uncle, Peter Wiggin of Stratham, this summer after a tour of duty in Iraq with the Army Reserve.
The younger man, Jason Wiggin, worked quietly, lifting handfuls of stone dust from a trench so he could use the dust to pack around the granite blocks he would be laying.
Wiggin, 21, and a resident of Kittery, Maine, is working with his uncle, Peter Wiggin of Stratham, over the summer.
www.seacoastonline.com /2005news/05222005/news/43611.htm   (672 words)

  
 Hatrack River Forum: Peter Wiggin (Enders brother)
Peter's creulty and it's impacts on ender are illustrated frequently throughout the entire novel.
Peter's story line is provided with no such vehicle for demonstrating Peter's maturity is provided, in all honesty because he's already too complex a character to completely flesh out without taking the spotlight away from Bean, who's the focus of the novels.
Peter was born to parents consciously choosing an environment of duplicity and fear.
www.hatrack.com /cgi-bin/ubbmain/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic;f=1;t=003924;p=3   (5732 words)

  
 Valentine Wiggin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
She used the gambit in the hopes that Peter would realize that if the record came out it would not necessarily convict him of anything, but it would be a damaging enough record to keep him out of politics, a realm he wished desperately to enter.
During this time, Valentine recognized that Peter often was trying to manipulate her for his own purposes, though Valentine felt like she was maniupulating Peter as well.
Peter was denied entrance because he lacked the fundamental charisma of a leader - people would follow him out of like-minded goals, but never show him the same devotion and love that Ender could command.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Valentine_Wiggin   (564 words)

  
 Exeter News-Letter News: Getting elbows deep into town's history
STRATHAM - Thomas Wiggin, English pioneer settler in New Hampshire in 1631 who died in 1667, was in the upper echelon of the colony's society.
The archaeologists at the Wiggin site are in the final, intensive excavation stage of the project, after digging for more than four weeks, and having spent time working near the site in 1992, 1994 and 2000.
Peter Wiggin contacted the state in 1989 to research the possibility of Wiggin Sr.
www.seacoastonline.com /2002news/exeter/08302002/news/21801.htm   (739 words)

  
 Exeter News-Letter Local News: Brush with fox brings rabies alert
A state veterinarian said this week that Wiggin and his family responded correctly to the threat of rabies, but there’s little danger from the way they were exposed.
The Wiggins observed the proper hygiene precautions, double-bagging the animal with bleach inside the bag and treating the area where it had been with bleach.
While the fox had rubbed against Wiggin’s wife and her clothing, the state is only concerned when the fox’s saliva or blood comes in contact with the human’s skin.
www.seacoastonline.com /2004news/exeter/11262004/news/50710.htm   (818 words)

  
 Peter Wiggin - Orson Scott Card Wiki - A Wikia wiki   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Peter is the first child of Theresa and John Paul Wiggin and the brother of Ender and Valentine Wiggin.
Peter, either to manipulate Valentine, or to ensure that the identities were complex, wrote the more reasonable Locke, while Valentine wrote the more belligerant Demosthenes.
Peter, with the help of Bean eventually cemented his position of power and was well respected through-out his rule.
ansible.wikia.com /wiki/Peter_Wiggin   (511 words)

  
 Borders - Feature - Shadow Puppets
Even though "Hegemon" was essentially an empty title now, since most of the world's population resided in countries that had withdrawn their recognition of the authority of the office, Peter Wiggin had been using Bean's soldiers well.
The death of the foreign minister of a heart attack in Washington DC only minutes before meeting with the U.S. President—they might really think Peter Wiggin's reach was that long, or that he thought the Chinese foreign minister, a party hack, was worth assassinating.
Peter Wiggin had all kinds of contacts throughout the world, a collection of informants that was gradually turning into a serious network of spies, but as far as Bean could tell, Peter was still just playing a game.
www.bordersstores.com /features/feature.jsp?file=shadowpuppets   (743 words)

  
 wiggin.net/wigblog Paul B. Wiggin   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Wiggin served in the Army Signal Corps as a cryptographer in Germany and Georgia.
Wiggin was a swimming instructor at the Young Mens Christian Association (YMCA) of Montclair and a water safety instructor for the American Red Cross in Montclair.
Wiggin was also a vigil member of the Order of the Arrow, and an honored member and past president of the Old Guard of Camp Glen Gray.
wiggin.net /wigblog/archives/paul_b_wiggin   (989 words)

  
 characterization
Peter torments Ender and is cruel and ruthless.
When Peter was six he had his monitor removed.
After school that day a group of kids surrounded him with the intention of beating him up since the monitor was no longer there to show what was happening.
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 W&D | Practices | Franchise and Distribution
Wiggin and Dana is pleased to announce that 22 of its attorneys have been named in the 2006 edition of the annual Best Lawyers in America®.
Wiggin and Dana announces that it has once again been ranked among the top firms in Connecticut for Employment, Litigation and Real Estate for the second year in a row in the legal directory Chambers USA: America's Leading Business Lawyers.
Wiggin & Dana announces the expansion of its franchise litigation practice with the addition of new partner Joseph Schumacher.
www.wiggin.com /practices/news.asp?groupid=41   (1670 words)

  
 Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Shadow of the Hegemon, Ender Ser. Series #6
Meanwhile, Locke, also known as Peter Wiggin, Ender's brother, is working on his own plan to control the world by more peaceful means and become Hegemon, with Bean as his shadow, or background aide.
It tells the story of the boy Ender Wiggin and his hard-won victory over an alien race that would have destroyed the Earth and all of humanity.
Peter Wiggin, Ender's older brother, has already been manipulating the politics of Earth from behind the scenes.
www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=51725137   (862 words)

  
 Meet Peter Wiggins
Peter splits his time between online editing in the UK and round the world for all the major terrestrial broadcasters, and since the beginning of 2003, running his own uncompressed Final Cut Pro and Shake 10 bit uncompressed editing/compositing system.
Peter was the first person in the UK to use Profile hard disk recorders as edit servers and ranks himself as a ‘pioneer’ of the use of the Sony DME 7000 into sports editing.
Peter also gives Cow members a look at some of the features of Grass Valley Group's newsroom system and ends his first installment of his IBC report with a couple other notable mentions that he's seen so far at IBC 2004.
www.creativecow.net /leaders/wiggins_peter/wiggins_peter.html   (875 words)

  
 Card's Shadow of the Hegemon
Bean enlists the help of Peter Wiggin, who is Ender's older brother and, unknown to all but Bean and a few highly placed I.F. leaders, Locke, the highly-respected political commentator whose columns are widely read on the worldwide Net.
Peter, as Locke, has carved out enormous influence on the world scene, and now desires to become the Hegemon, an office roughly analogous to head of the United Nations.
With Peter's assistance, Bean is granted a highly placed position in the Thai military, and from there he attempts to prevent Achilles from taking over the world by manipulating various countries (including India, Pakistan, and China) into waging war against each other.
www.adherents.com /lit/bk_Card_Hegemon.html   (1895 words)

  
 Orson Scott Card:  Shadow of the Hegemon
It is up to Bean, who is presumed dead, and Peter Wiggin, who is known to the world under his pseudonyms of Locke and Demosthenes, to rescue the other children and help the world avert a catastrophe.
One of the strongest scenes in the novel is when Bean sits down with Ender and Peter Wiggins’ mother and tries to understand how and why she raised her three children in the manner she did.
Wiggin and the reader, the debate the two characters hold is intrinsic to understanding how people get to be the was they are and why parents don’t always appear to act in their children’s best interest.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/hegemon.html   (750 words)

  
 Books By Orson Scott Card - Shadow Puppets - Chapter 1
Peter was trained for nothing except writing essays, shmoozing with politicians, playing at geopolitics.
Unless, of course, the change in mission was because Peter Wiggin knew that it would fail and he didn't want to risk losing Bean.
Peter had also brought Petra out of hiding and yet claimed she had never been safer.
www.hatrack.com /cgi-bin/print_friendly.cgi?page=/osc/books/shadow_puppets01.shtml   (2989 words)

  
 BOOK REVIEW: In the Shadow of Ender’s Game -- Shadow Puppets is the Latest Installment in Ender’s Earth Saga
Peter foolishly believes he can trust Achilles, and frees him from the Chinese in order to use him.
Very quickly, Peter becomes yet another person to understand that Achilles is in fact using him, and must scramble in order to avoid his own destruction.
Peter’s parents, John and Theresa Wiggin, are two characters who deservingly receive a great deal more attention in this book.
www-tech.mit.edu /V122/N51/Shadow_Puppets_.51a.html   (722 words)

  
 Ender's Game Peter Wiggin
Ender's older brother, Peter, scares him to death.
Peter is particularly hostile towards Ender, jealous that the I.F. considers Ender superior after his own intelligence was unrecognized.
(The Fleet eliminated Peter from their roster of Battle School candidates because of his sadistic nature.) At school, Peter torments other children by finding "what they most feared and [making] sure they faced it often." Peter's cruelty is disguised by his dark and handsome appearance and his ability to hide his actions.
www.enotes.com /enders-game/9772   (159 words)

  
 The Official Time-Waster's Guide v3.0
While great events do happen--Peter Wiggin’s emergence into real-world politics, for example--they occur with an almost random nonchalance, as if Card realizes that the book lacks the conceptual greatness that has marked many of his other works.
They are presented as if their only worthy adversaries are people in the same ‘club.’ It is taken for granted that Peter can capture the title of Hegemon, and that Achilles will come to dominate any country that takes him in.
However, it is still a recommended read for anyone interested in the continuing adventures of Bean, as it does nicely advance his character, as well as give some depth to Peter and his family.
www.timewastersguide.com /view.php?id=504   (1371 words)

  
 Ender Wiggin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (via CobWeb/3.1 planetlab2.cs.virginia.edu)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Andrew "Ender" Wiggin is a fictional character from Orson Scott Card's science fiction story Ender's Game and its sequels (Speaker for the Dead, Xenocide, Children of the Mind), as well as in the second part of the spin-off series, Ender's Shadow.
Ender was the youngest of three children at a time of a strict two-child policy, his existence called for by a program aiming to produce commanders for humanity's war against the Formics, or buggers.
The generals had noted the exceptional but unusable abilities of his older siblings, Peter (who was originally said to be too aggressive and impossible to cooperate with) and Valentine (who was too kind and willing to compromise).
en.wikipedia.org.cob-web.org:8888 /wiki/Ender_Wiggin   (1017 words)

  
 Orson Scott Card:  Shadow Puppets
Following Ender's Shadow and Shadow of the Hegemon, Shadow Puppets tells the story of Peter Wiggin's greatest mistake and how he managed to extricate himself from it.
In addition to the crisis Achilles' presence causes for Peter, Card explores the personal relationship between Bean, who is afraid of his genetic alterations and their affects on himself and any progeny he might have, and Petra, whose love for Bean is such that she is willing to deal with those issues.
The Peter Wiggins of Shadow Puppets is not quite the megalomaniac despot depicted in Speaker for the Dead.
www.sfsite.com /~silverag/puppet.html   (658 words)

  
 Amazon.fr : Shadow of the Hegemon: Livres en anglais: Orson Scott Card   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
Peter Wiggins, Ender's brother, has foreseen that the talented children are in danger of being killed or kidnapped.
Peter, Ender's brother, who was too ruthless to make it to Battle School, also works to rule the planet, but through more peaceful, political means.
Consequently, it is hard to judge this novel because there is more of the story to be told and the ending has very much of a "to be continued" feeling.
www.amazon.fr /Shadow-Hegemon-Orson-Scott-Card/dp/0312876513   (1220 words)

  
 Title
It's strongest point was the additional insight it gave into Peter Wiggin, Bean, and the other children Ender fought alongside.
Those on a mission to save the kidnapped children have to decide whether capturing the power-hungry Achilles is worth opening the door for power-hungry Peter Wiggin to take over the world instead.
Since I thought that it was pretty clear that Peter would be a more ethical leader, and that he might scheme to acquire power but probably would not murder to get it, so this seemed like a non-issue.
www.maxsroom.org /reviews/ShadowHegemon.html   (693 words)

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