When she was little, she wanted to practice ballet while her little brother wanted to learn Tae Kwon Do.…
Blac Chyna is all about that life -- at least in the court of law, that is.…
Born on December 13 1942, Fergie Jenkins is a former black Canadian, professional baseball player. He was a Major League Baseball pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago Cubs, Texas Rangers, and Boston Red Sox, from the years of 1965 through 1983. In 1991, Ferguson Jenkins became the first Canadian to be inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In this presentation, I’ll be talking about how Ferguson Jenkins dealt with racism, did Jenkins ever win a World Series, what teams he played for, was he inducted into the Hall of Fame, and was he ever respected as a black Canadian baseball player.…
Jodi Arias was accused of shooting and stabbing her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander in Mesa Arizona, June 2008. Travis Alexander, a 30-year-old businessman, well-known motivational speaker and devout Mormon. With a single gunshot to the right brow and being stabbed 29 times, Travis was then left for dead in a stand up shower in his bathroom for several days. When Arias was questioned by the police she stated that she had not seen Travis since April of 2008. She then claimed she had seen two men kill him, then eventually saying that she killed him out of self-defense (Warren, 2013). According to Arias, the dysfunction of their relationship reached its climax when she killed Alexander in self-defense after he became enraged following a day of sex and a gun accident, forcing her to fight for her life. This was the third different account of how Alexander's death had occurred that Arias had offered police, which both prosecutors and observers felt severely damaged…
Blake Lively was born in Tarzana, California on August 25, 1987. The daughter of actors Elaine Lively and Ernie Lively, the youngest of five children, Blake showed potential from an early age. Her first role was Trixie, the Tooth Fairy in the 1998 movie Sandman, directed by her dad, Ernie Lively. Her big break came along a few years later with The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. In 2005 Blake was finishing high school when she got the co-starring role of Bridget. After The Sisterhood, Blake went bake to high school for her senior year to have the life of a regular teenager- or a very busy regular teenager. The multi-talented girl was class president, a cheerleader, and preformed with the choir. Blake also starred in Accepted alongside Justin Long, in 2006. Her biggest role of all came in 2007 when Lively landed the role of Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl. Some of her more recent works include Green Lantern and Savages. Earlier last year Lively and Ryan Reynolds, her Green Lantern…
Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born in Newark, New Jersey, on August 9, 1963 to gospel and R&B singer Cissy Houston. “By age 11, Houston was performing as a soloist in the junior gospel choir at her Baptist church. As a teenager, she began accompanying her mother in concert, and went on to back artists like Lou Rawls and Chaka Khan” (Huey, Steve). Houston is now described as one of the biggest female pop stars of all time. Over her twenty-seven years in the spotlight that began in 1984, Houston has progressed to become a well-known and admirable icon in both music and film. She has proven herself to be an extraordinary hit maker. Throughout years in stardom, she collectively has sold over 120 million albums worldwide. She also reached “a film box office total of over a half billion dollars” (D., Lisa). She was the only artist to chart seven consecutive #1 Billboard Hot 100 hits, with songs such as “Greatest Love of All”; the first female artist to enter the Billboard 200 album chart at #1 with her second album, Whitney; and the only artist with seven consecutive multi-platinum albums. Although Houston has had numerous amounts of…
Nikki Giovanni was an African American poet, author, professor, and civil rights activist. She has won over 62 awards for her poetry, books, records, tapes, and CDs including seven NAACP image awards, the Langston Hughes award, and the Gwendolyn Brooks award (Giovanni, “Awards and Honors”). Nikki Giovanni was born on June 7, 1943 in Knoxville, Tennessee, but was raised in Cincinnati, Ohio (Aybar, “Nikki Giovanni”). She would often visit her grandparents, who lived in Knoxville, and they influenced her work greatly by teaching her from a young age to fight injustice (Aybar, “Nikki Giovanni”). Although the majority of Giovanni’s works were written with a militant tone, “Winter Poem” uses nature to express the same ideas she writes about in her other works.…
On May 15, 2017 I Interviewed Olivia Zamora about what It means to be American to her. She comes from a humble family. When she was 17 she arrived to America, where she would work to provide a good living for her family. Growing up in Mexico compared to the United states was different for her, as she didn’t know the language, streets, or the people. She had to face very difficult decisions, where it would change her life completely and let go of people she deeply cared about. Olivia, is very open minded and respects everyone no matter the color skin, race, religion, and beliefs.…
Elvis faced many hardships in his life one of them was racial issues the other where 1.Elvis’s father was in jail when elvis was born, 2.His twin died at birth, 3.his family relied on local donations from the church and neighbors, 4.Elvis was in the army, 5.His mom died when elvis was born…
My major is choir. I chose this figure because she inspired me, not with her behavior, but with her talents. Whitney Houston was an important figure because she was an amazing talented lady. Her life wasn’t perfect; she went through many personal and family issues. She was going the right direction until things got bad.…
Alicia Augello Cook was born on January 25th 1981 in New York. Alicia started playing the piano at age seven and began to take piano lessons. She grew up in a single family household with her mother due to her father’s absence at the age of five. Alicia first noticed her passion in music at a very young age and always dreamt of making it big and performing but never thought that it would actually happen. She had a lot of faith and took everything she did very seriously.…
A shy little girl, who was born in texas and raised to be a star. Beyonce sold more than 40 million albums worldwide.Beyonce rose to fame in the late 1990s as the lead singer of the R&B girl group Destiny's Child, which is one of the world's best-selling girl groups of all time. She believes in change and is very out spoken in her music.Beyonce is a singer, record producer, and actress. This is why she is a role model and continues to inspire millions.…
The article, “Cissy Houston on Whitney: ‘She was raised well, she knew better’ than to use drugs” is about Whitney Houston’s mother talking about Whitney’s childhood. Whitney’s mother is still mourning for her loss, but tough minded about her drug addictions. She believes that good parents do not always have good children and vice versa. Whitney’s mother says it is the person’s responsibility, when they reach a certain age, to choose to be a bad or good person. Cissy discussed how she raised Whitney in a good home and gave her the tools to choose not to do drugs. Cissy thinks that being called “Whitey” early in the music business and her marriage to Bobby Brown may have led to her drug abuse.(1)…
McCabe, Kathy. "Review - Fleetwood Mac rock Syndey at Acer Arena." The Daily Telegraph 8 December 2009.…
Big Payback Notes • Early conflict in the the fiscal underpinnings of hiphop. There was significant backlash from urban purists (essentially those living and breathing hiphop’s four elements by DJing, MCing, breakdancing, and graffiti tagging in its raw street setting) who disliked the commerical sensibiltiies of the Sugar Hill Gang and the mercenary attitudes of rap’s first music label Sugar Hill Records. Term “hiphop” begot cultural factions between those who saw themselves as lubricant partygoers (the Sugar Hill Gang and Joe and Sylvia Robinson) and others who saw themselves as serious artists (Kool Herc hiphop’s sole originator and rising phenom Joey “Run DMC” Simmons). • Rock & Roll proved that the music, the fashion, and the energy could be…