“It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.”(Leadbeater) Many people believe the way something is perceived, is always the way that it appears to be. In reality, there might be more to a person he is willing to show. If we assume that the way someone or something is seen is always as it appears to be, we would be lying to ourselves. A surplus of people are not exactly how they are seen to be. We should not judge someone too harshly as we may not have all of the facts or details of what is really happening to a person. Perceptions can override our abilities to correctly judge our peers and even ourselves, which can be very impactful.…
My name is Aaliyah and the person that I admire and the person that im writing about is Sabrina Carpenter. Sabrina is a funny girl she is a singer and an actor. She is also independent and strong.…
Marie Antoinette was born in Vienna Austria on November 2, 1755. She was the 15th child of the Holy Roman Emperor Francis I and Empress Maria Theresa. In 1770 she married Louis-Auguste, the Dauphin of France. She was the Queen of France from 1774-1792. She was the mother of four children. At first, she was adored by her subjects. Eventually, though, she came to be disliked and even blamed for France’s financial crisis. The reasons for this dislike included her loyalties to Austria—France’s sworn enemy—and her extravagant lifestyle, profligate spending, big hair, and even bigger dresses. She was thus nicknamed Madame Deficit (French: Mrs. Debt). With the fall of the French government and the beginning of the French revolution, the royal family…
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…
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…
Gloria Estefan is a Cuban born singer and writer. Her singing career climaxed in the 80’s and 90’s, while her writing was more of a side project back in 2005.…
There are many celebrities going for plastic surgery these days for the purpose of enhancing their image and popularity in social media. Melissa Gilbert plastic surgery can be taken as one of the greatest examples of a celebrity trying to receive higher recognition in public. These days, people do not get surprised when they hear that a celebrity has undergone plastic surgery because it is normal for celebrities to undergo plastic surgery these days.…
According to the official Lilith fair website, the festival is named after the legendary Lilith, who refused to obey Adam and instead bolted from the Garden of Eden to search the Earth for adventure. In 1996, concert promoters and radio stations refused to let two female musicians Sarah McLachlan-a Canadian musician and Paula Cole- an American singer-songwriter touring together because the corporate music community don’t think multiple female musicians have enough talents to convince people buying substantial concert tickets. That really made Sarah McLachlan became frustrated, so she decided to book her own tour with Paula Cole in her home town on September 14, 1996. The first Lilith Fair was born a year later with the cooperation of the Nettwerk Music Group 's Dan Fraser and Terry McBride, and New York talent agent Marty Diamond. Lilith fair earned an unexpected gross income $16 million in the first year and ranked 16th among the year 's Top 100 Tours. It took place during the summers of 1997 to 1999, and was revived in the summer of 2010. Although this fair didn’t stem from an idea to serve for politic movements, but in its initial three years, Lilith Fair raised over $10M for women 's charities throughout North America. It was the most successful all-female music festival in history, one of the…
Some may know Whitney Houston, then there are some who has just heard of her. Well there are people like me that see’s Whitney Houston as a legend. But even as this historical figure we see her also as living proof that everyone has their own way of life. She’s the type of artist that isn’t only famous for her music. So let me just give you a little bit of this history. Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born August, 9, 1963 in Newark, New Jersey. Her parents were John Russell Houston Jr. and gospel singer Cissy Houston. Whitney was the youngest of thee and the only girl, she always knew what she wanted to do with her life and was very good at it. Whitney was raised as a Baptist and attended New Hope Baptist Church. By 11 Whitney was regularly performing at her church as a soloist. At the age of 14 then became a backup singer on the Michael Zager Band’s Single “Life’s A Party”. During this time she was offered many record deals but her mom turned…
Lady Gaga dared to bare it all in a very racy photo by just wearing thigh-waisted pink thong bikini bottoms and went topless. The 29-year-old star was sitting on the poolside while looking from faraway at her Malibu mansion on Monday.…
"Don't let anyone tell you that you have to be a certain way. Be unique. Be what you feel", this was mentioned by Melissa Etheridge, a famous American signer who lives a life with cancer. Although she may look different due to the lost of her hair, she always celebrates her individuality. Melissa Etheridge and I have something in common; we're both unique in our own way. Ever since I was born, I was diagnosed with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), a disorder that stays with me for the rest of my life. It is my companion. I'm able to visualize the world differently than others. My imagination is beyond ordinary, and my curiosity is unlimited. I'm never afraid to challenge my teachers' ideas and take a stand for my own beliefs. Although many people view me differently, I believe that my uniqueness makes me stronger as an individual.…
American jazz vocalist Ella Fitzgerald was the “first lady” of singing, swing, bebop, and ballads. Her career spanned over sixty years, she sold millions of records, and won multiple Grammy awards. She known all over the world. Ella Fitzgerald greatly impacted the way jazz music is today through her use of scatting and her perfect voice.…
Frida Kahlo was born on July 6, 1907 in Coyoacán, Mexico. Her birth name is Magdalena Carmen Frieda Kahlo Y Caldrón. Frida is best known for her self-portraits. Frida's art work has been celebrated in Mexico as an emblem of native tradition, and also for feminists for its vivid detail of female life & form. Her work features Mexican tradition and is often described as folk art. Frida had an unpredictable marriage with another Mexican artist, Diego Rivera. All her life she has suffered through health problems, which were mostly caused by a traffic accident she survived as a teenager.…
The feature article “Sexed up tween advertising shows fashion needs to grow up”, by Emma Rush and Caroline Norma, is an extremely effective protest text against the sexual exploitation of young girls in the fashion industry. Its textual form allows it to strategically target influential audiences and the article itself is written so that the composer’s disapproval of sexed-up, young models is clearly seen. As a protest text, it also manages to maintain its reader’s interest and motivation for action throughout viewing which heightens its effectiveness.…
In today’s popular culture, the media as well as society have played a pivotal role in the way individuals not only perceive themselves, but others as well. The pursuit of beauty, for instance, has affected women for some time now. The media, society, and their sub consciousness taunt women day and night. It seems today as if women will stop at nothing towards achieving what the media perceives as beautiful. Pop culture has even begun to affect young girls today. Pageantry has tainted the way young girls perceive themselves as well. Skip Hollandsworth’s “Toddlers in Tiaras” article addresses the impact that pageantry has prevented young girls from experiencing a normal childhood and becoming hyperconscious about their physicality. In addition, pop culture today has taken a toll on the way young girls perceive themselves. Stephanie Hanes’s “Little Girls of Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect” addresses the effects that these epitomized fictional characters have on young females. Today the issue of self-image through the influence of pop culture has greatly influenced the way individuals look at themselves, particularly younger women. This issue has been prevalent for some time now but is now having a bigger impact in young girls today. This deprives them from the opportunity to live a normal childhood and grow as a person of character rather than a person primarily focused on looks.…