The Life of Dolly Parton As I walk on the stage, I can see the spotlight shining on me. I can feel the butterflies in my stomach fluttering around. Suddenly, I remember the time when I was a little girl and I followed a butterfly a long ways. I ended up getting lost and wandering around in circles. Finally, I heard our cow’s bell clanking and I found my way home. I smiled as I sang “My coat of many colors that my momma made for me.” Being a singer was all I ever dreamed of. “I finished my song and looked to Porter for a reaction. He was never a man to let on much about what he was thinking. The way he just sat there for a minute or two with his hands on his chin made me more than a little nervous. Then, like a bolt from the blue, he blurted out, “Norma Jean’s getting married and moving to Oklahoma. I want you to be my new girl singer.” I think back to when Porter told me that he would like me to be on his show. I was speechless. It was so exciting for me. I will always …show more content…
be grateful to Porter for giving me the chance to show my God given talent. “Have a good night!!” I say as another fan walks out with his signed autograph. I look at the clock and I see it’s about time to leave. I look in front of me and there is a beautiful young girl standing there. She looked like she was about nine or ten. “What is your name honey?” I asked her. “Jolene” she replied. “Will you please sign this?” “Of course!” I said smiling. “You sure are pretty” I told her. That’s when I got the idea to write a song about Jolene. Not about a beautiful young girl, but about a fiery-haired woman who tried to steal my husband. Without any more thoughts I started to write. As I walk in from a day's work, my husband, Carl, says hello to me. We met at Laundromat called the Wishy Washy. I was standing there in my tight bell-bottomed pants as he drove by. He stopped and talked to me a while and he was handsome so I wasn’t bothered much. That’s how I met him. We met in 1964 and now it is 1973! We have been married for eight years now. Me and my family were very poor when I was growing up. I remember when I was a little girl and Mama made a coat for me. One fall when it was starting to get cold my mama found scraps of cloth and sewed them together to make a coat. As she sewed she told me a story from the Bible about Joseph’s coat of many colors. The night she finished it I wore it around the house until she made me take it off. I couldn’t wait to wear it to school the next day. The next day I got to school and all the other kids started laughing and making fun of me. My heart was broken. I didn’t understand how they could be so mean. I wonder how a child could be so mean to another. Even though we had no money I was as rich as I could be. Mama had sewn every piece with love. Tonight is a show night. I watch as all my fans are streaming in to see me. I walk out on the stage and everybody is clapping. I sing all my hits like “Dumb Blonde”, “Coat of Many Colors”, and “I Will Always Love You”. I smile as I sing. My voice sounds sweet and clear as it fills the room. When I was little I used to stand on the porch and imagine I was standing on a stage. I imagined that the chickens in the yard were people there to see me. I sang my heart out for those chickens. “Thank you” I said when I finished my song. I am not working with Porter anymore. My career is going very well. I don’t see myself as an actress, but one day I was sent the script for “9 to 5”. I accept even though I’m not an actress. I am doing the movie with Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin. I have butterflies in my stomach as I walk in the first day. I learn that the whole script will be rewritten and it won’t be shot in order. “Oh well that’s just great” I said to myself. “What’s wrong?” asked Jane. “I already memorized the script how it is” I replied.
“I didn’t know that it would be changed.” This will be hard to memorize something else. Jane and Lily thought that was really funny. I’m going to do the same for the next one, but I won’t tell them that. Each day was wonderful and the whole experience of doing 9 to 5 was so much fun. I wonder why it took me so long to get in the movies. I sat on the white bench outside my chapel. I am writing an autobiography titled “My Life: And Other Unfinished Business”. The words flow to my fingertips. The words come so easily for I know all I want to say. I write about my childhood and everything on from that. I write about all the good memories from my childhood, about people I have met and love dearly, and about my career. As I look back at my life I am reminded of how fortunate I have been. Everything turned out how I had hoped. God and I have a great relationship. I truly believe that God is in everything I do and that all of my work glorifies
him. I’m standing on a stage with thousands of people staring at me as I laugh and smile. “It costs a lot of money to look this cheap!” I say as the crowd laughs and smiles too. I’ve got my tight dress on and my five-inch heels. My dream was to make as many people happy as I could in this life. I’m not happy all the time, and I wouldn’t want to be because that would make me a shallow person. But I do try to find the good in everybody. I am now singing “In My Tennessee Mountain Home”. It is about my little home in Tennessee where I grew up. That home is where my incredible journey began.
On March 31 I had the pleasure of seeing Hello Dolly at Mandeville High School. As a talented theater student at the school, I take the shows that are put on very seriously. Being involved in the show, helping make set pieces, and working box office brings light to me as an individual, every little helping hand counts. I want to make sure that my school represents theater in the best way possible. With this production put on, I am proud to say that I am a theater student in Mandeville High.
What started out as a hobby transformed into a passion for an art form that allows me to use movements and expressions to tell a story. Whether I’m on stage in front of an audience of just friends and family, hundreds of strangers and a panel of judges, or the whole school, performing over thirty times, has helped me build lifelong
On a Wednesday night I saw Texas State Theatre and Dance Department's performance of A Chorus Line. The main plot of the musical entails the audition of 17 dancers for several Broadway roles on the chorus line. However, during their auditions the director Zach asks for personal stories of each dancer's life. Though the plot of this musical is seemingly simple in its twist on the traditional audition, it explores themes that reveal the human experience, the search for individuality, and the sense of self.
John Houston and Emily "Cissy" Houston•Whitney Elizabeth Houston was born on August 9th, 1963, in Newark, New Jersey. She is the daughter of Grammy-award-winning gospel singer, Emily “Cissy” Houston and John R. Houston, who managed his daughter’s production company.
In sharing stories of faith and life experience, an author shapes both personal and public perception of what it is to live with Christian faith. To write is to give voice to thoughts from the mind’s inner tissue and the spirit’s impulse, to interlock energy and life into communication of ideas and conceptions. As a transformative thinking process, autobiography transcends physical limits. In reading Breathing Space, I became familiar with Neumark’s personal world, familiar with her feeling on relationships, her church, her sense of mission and her desires for God’s presence in her life. Though I had never met her before she flew to campus to speak about her book, I felt as though I knew her on sight. This suspension of physical limitations on the transmission of thought and feeling holds an incredible potential for communication of faith, though it is not necessarily reciprocal; she hadn’t a clue ...
A Christian, when faced with the challenge of writing, finds himself in a dilemma: how is he to complete the task? Should he create an allegory? Should he try to teach a lesson reflecting God’s glory? Or should he follow secular trends and current desires in literature? To this, many Christians would say, “Certainly not!” Dorothy L. Sayers and Flannery O’Connor both aim to answer the first question of any Christian writer: How do I write a story with my beliefs?
As these few tales reveal, my memories of writing are strongly connected with the intense emotions I felt as I grew up. They are filled with joy, disappointment, boredom, and pride. I believe that each of these experiences has brought me to where I am today. I can only look to the future and hope that my growth will continue, and my writing will reflect those changes within me. As a writer, I have grown immeasurably and will continue to so long as I can find some paper and a pencil.
Jubilee Music Enrichment has taught me to be confident and to believe in myself even though things may be hard. Instead of saying “I CAN”T,” I say “I CAN.”
I began journaling on Wednesday, November 26th. The first week or so of my journaling was characterized by spiritual exploration and even little leaps of faith, while I was trying to keep focused on my academics in spite of an indistinguishable illness that, even today, has my doctors confounded. My first experience sets the mood for my thoughts about the importance of how to shine in many different settings, and challenges me to this day. For the sake of authenticity, I didn't correct my English errors in my journaling, and I think it makes it a little more real. I write exactly how I would talk.
Our hesitation to crown a queen does not keep us from collecting both Dolly and Patsy stories alike. We love the tales where Willie N. has a staring role as himself. Back in his 50$ a week songwriting days, Willie cranked out a little
In this first part of this paper I will be explaining my worldview. There are three influences I will focus on to give an in depth look at how I came to my worldview. The three influences are religion, family, and my career choice. I think the biggest part of my worldview comes from my religion so I will start with that. I am a Christian and with that comes certain beliefs. Those beliefs lead my life daily and contribute to my worldview. One those beliefs is to spread his word. God’s word is such an important part to look at because it gives a framework to guide my life in every aspect. The Bible is filled with commandments, stories, and scripture that reference to how to look at life from a moral, social, and personal standpoint. We can actually begin to see the purpose for our through the word as well. Life’s purpose, according to the Bible, is for God’s glory. We are supposed to praise, worship, proclaim him, and follow his will. “Everyone who is called by my name, and whom I have created for my glory, whom I have formed, even whom I have made,” (Isaiah 43:7) I like this verse because I feel like it reminds me of what God has done for me. From that ...
In the first stage of psychosocial development, children from day one (birth) to 18 months will experience the basic “trust versus mistrust.” This stage involves children establishing a sense of trust with the world and those around them, all dependent on the care and attention they receive from their caregivers. If a child’s needs are consistently met, he or she will begin to develop trust that will also determine how well he trusts people and things later in life. If the child’s needs are not met, he or she could develop a belief that the world is inconsistent and unpredictable. Dolly Parton was the fourth child of twelve, born to two loving and supportive parents.
“My life is story telling. I believe in stories in their incredible power to keep people alive, to keep the living alive and the dead.”
It was on a Friday morning at 4:30 A.M. that happiness and joy filled the hearts of both my parents. I was born on November 29, 1996 at Broward General Hospital in Fort Lauderdale Florida. My parents had five children, and among the five children that they had, I was the third (or middle) child from them. It started off as two boys, then I came along as the first girl, after it was another boy, then finally, another baby girl; so total was three boys and two girls. The way that my parents lived and treated each other was the same as if any other married couple that loved each other so much. They’ve gone through a lot to get to where they are now today, but they made it and along the way had us five children. They have been really strong with each other which made them only have the five of us and no other step children. My mom is a great cook and enjoy cooking for us; this is probably where my passion for culinary comes from. My dad is an amazing tailor, he is very good at making our clothes, and my passion for fashion probably came from him. My dad is also a teacher, one of the best math teacher I know, he is passionate about his job and his family is the center of his universe. I cannot finish this chapter without mentioning my grandmother, I was lucky enough to have ever met. I had spent part of my life time with her, like the rest of the family she is sweet, my grandmother Abelus,
The initial 10 week Autobiography Writing Workshop exceeded the expectations of Chris, as the workshop facilitator, and the participating writers. Chris continues to hear memorable accounts, in the workshops that have followed the first endeavor. While a few of the stories might make the local news, probably none would receive national attention, but that isn’t the point of the journey. The experience of growth in the individuals and the group, from starting out, worried about how their writing will be received, to the excitement in meeting each week to learn more about themselves and the other participants. Sharing what they have written with the group, improves their writing skills and confidence as they find their own voice. Each participant selects two pages they wrote, inspired by a theme that brought back a memory, to read to the group. The writers are fascinated by each other’s stories. Often times, finding connections to our own journeys though the life experiences of others, even though our lives may have been quite different. Every week, at least one writer will express that another