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The Life of Amy Winehouse Even though Amy was a drug addict and alcohol abuser, She still managed to release platinum-selling albums. Originating from the little known town of Southgate in north London, her inspiring music helped rise the popularity for female musicians in the industry. Amy was born in Enfield, London, in England September 14, 1983. She was raised into a culturally jewish family, but they didn’t consider themselves religious. Amy’s mother was Janis Winehouse, she was a pharmacist. Her father was Mitchell Winehouse. He was a part-time taxi driver. Amy also had an older sibling, Alex. He helped his mother around the house with Amy, at the young age of only four. Growing up in Southgate was rough for Amy and Alex. Amy’s uncles who were professional jazz musicians, she wanted to follow in their footsteps. When Amy turned nine years old, her father left the family. This drove Amy to pursue in music, but also hurt her mentally. She attempted suicide att 10. She began to cut her wrists to relieve herself from her troubles. She then took the advice of her grandmother to go to theatre school for a start in her career. Amy begin to train at Susi Earnshaw Theatre school. While attending, she started to write and record music with a neighborhood friend, Juliette Ashby. They created a short-lived music group called “Sweet & Sour”. Music was a way to keep her from thinking about her father, but Amy couldn’t handle the pressure. She began to smoke marijuana and started to get tattoos and care little about what she did anymore. Amy attended Susi for four years, then decided to seek full-time training at Sylvia Young Theatre school. Months later she got to appear in an episode of “The Fast Show” a 1997 tv series. Her disrespe... ... middle of paper ... ... a happy girl.” Works Cited “All Music.”All Music. N.p.,n.d. Web 18 Mar. 2014 “Amy’s Loves, Boyfriends And relationships” Amy Winehouse Forever. N.p.,n.d. Web 18. Mar. 2014 “Amy Winehouse Biography,” Amy Winehouse. N.p.,n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2014 “Amy Winehouse First Attempted Suicide at Age 10, New Book Claims, “NY Daily News, N.P.,n.d.web.19 Mar.2014 “Amy Winehouse.” Lyrics, Song Lyrics-LyricsFreak.com,N.p.,n.d.Web. 17 Mar. 2014 “Biography.” IMDb. IMDb.com,n.d. web. 18 Mar. 2014 Brennan, Shawn. “Winehouse, Amy.” World Book Advanced. World Book, Zoly. Web. 18 Mar. 2014, “Newscast: Toxicology test states Amy Winehouse died due to alcohol” NBC Nightly News 26 Oct. 2011 Resources Context Web. 18 Mar. 2014, “USA TODAY” USA TODAY.COM.N.p.,n.d. Web. 10 Mar. 2014 “27 things You Ought to know about Amy Winehouse.” The Lives of India,N.p.,n.d. Web. 19 Mar. 2014
At the beginning of the story, Amy is a gangly and awkward pre-teen, not caring what others think, playing in mud, and painting on her skin with the blue clay from the creek. As summer comes to an end, Amy stops dressing in her grungy t-shirts and cut off jean shorts, and more like her popular preppy friends at school, as it is more important to her that she wears what her friends wear, rather than what she likes to wear. At school, all of her friends’ names end with an “i”, so hers changes to
Her parents were fundamentalist in their religion beliefs and commitment to straightening their family financially. Her parents worked hard and were money driven. Houston 's parents attended church regularly. Her mother worked hard to teach Aja about morals and ethics. She often felt that she was the try and error child. Her parents often made things very difficult for her but this allowed for her to grow and learn to compromise at a young age. She remembers always being strong minded and determined. Her younger sisters often envied her not realizing that she normally had to go through a lot of loop holes to get and it end up not being what she needed. She often ruined opportunities for her younger sisters who would complain that she always got what she wanted and they did
Amy Tan is a Chinese-American author. She had become Americanized, according to her mother, who still held traditional Chinese values. They fought sometimes, just as the women and daughters of The Joy Luck Club, over who was right and who was wrong regarding many problems they encountered. Tan most likely modeled The Joy Luck Club after her relationship with her mother. She even dedicated the novel “To my mother and the memory of her mother. You asked me once what I wo...
Does Amy’s beauty and mystique represent something deeper? In Katherine Anne Porter’s “Old Mortality,” there is an obvious obsession amongst most of the novella’s characters with Amy’s beauty. Most of the female characters throughout the novella are often compared to Amy by her family’s elders. These characters are often described as coming close to embodying Amy’s beauty (or not at all), but it is generally recognized that no one will ever be able to be quite as beautiful as Amy was. While there are a few descriptions of Amy’s physical appearance throughout the novella, there seems to be more of a focus on her careless behavior. Many of the novella’s central figures identify this kind of behavior as something that contributed to her charm
Before the songstress appeared on the pop scene, the name “Madonna” was used in reference to the Christian Mother of God. The original “Madonna” was the symbol of Roman Catholicism and Western Christianity. Madonna the entertainer however proved she was unlike this original female figure. She violated all the innocent icons of religion and femininity and by using the phrase “like a virgin” she began a long string of inserting religious, political and sexual references into the world of pop music.
In the narrative “Doughnut Shops and Doormen” a woman named Amy develops her life around a repetitive ideal. The story begins, “I have to have him. Have to have [Chris Cornell, former lead singer of Soundgarden] for real someday, not just in my fantasies” (288). Amy has convinced herself of this because Chris Cornell has been her only concern “for the past ten years” (288). Because of the dedication she has put into her “relationship” with Chris, she has created a bond with...
She is quite a good songwriter as well but she is not world famous but most thinks she does well singing in clubs but often most of the time she moved on to the another place once they notice she age because she does not want them to a think she is some monster so she often moved one place or another. She does not really attach to a person because she knows whoever she attach will die and she would be alone again and well love she believe is not opinion.But another part of her is well she has got attach to good animals but it was never with people because people are the different
Elizabeth Ann Pederson was born on July 18, 1951, in the Hibbing General Hospital. She weighed 6 pounds 14 ounces. She was welcomed into the family by her father and mother, Peter and Lydia, and her older brother Kenny. Ann had one extra finger that was removed shortly after she was born. She also had a birthmark on her heel. After I saw the birthmark, I wondered if there was something wrong with her, said Lydia. After five days in the hospital she went home. Ann’s home was in Buhl, Minnesota, where Ann lived all her 40 years and 10 months of her life. Soon the Pederson family found out that Ann was mentally disabled. They then had to fight society from that moment forward.
Whitney Elizabeth Houston, formerly known as Whitney Huston, was a famous celebrity. This legend’s life was taken from substance use and heart failure. The influential international musical icon and Grammy winner’s stage presence did not reveal a woman with an addiction. My first perception of Whitney believes that she had a hidden wild side that was concealed, and in bondage until she met Bobby Brown to later discover this was her own demon she was battling and Bobby was not the cause. After seeing Whitney Houston act in movies and recalling the unforgettable number #1 hit songs produced by this artist brings sadness as a fan.
On March 26, 1955 Ellen Hopkins was born in Long Beach, California. She was adopted by an older couple, her father Albert was 72 and her mother Valerie, was 42 at the time. Always wanting to meet her birth parents, Ellen found her birth mother Toni Chandler in the year 2000. She herself had been writing poetry her entire life. She also found out she has a half sister named Fran, and a birth father who she has yet to meet. Ellen had a cheerful childhood growing up in neighborhood full of famous people such as Elvis Presley, Bob Hope, Kirk Douglas and Arnold Palmer. She won almost every creative writing contest she entered at Santa Ynez Valley Union High School which ...
Stabbed, stoned, and killed. She died at the hands of those she hoped to help. Amy Biehl was a college student going to South Africa to study more about the systems of society. Instead, she turned to dedicating herself to end apartheid wishing South Africa a better society. Amy Biehl studied about systems of society when she saw South Africa’s society and wanted to change it. She is known to have a rather compassionate heart regarding society. This woman’s life was taken from her when she dedicated it all to ending apartheid. On her last day at South Africa, a mob gathered, soon stabbing and stoning her to death. According to others familiar with her, she would have understood that the mob who killed her, killed her out of their hatred for
The first conflict that changed Amy was the Floraes taking over the world. This changed almost everything about Amy and her life. Amy was lonely. She all alone for the first few months living in The After. She was just there, trying her best to survive and mourning her family and friends. Amy had lost almost everything she had known. Amy had lost her family, her friends, and eventually her house. Amy had given up on her family being alive. She thought they had been eaten by the Floraes. Amy also had to become more independent. She was living by herself, getting her food by herself, and surviving by herself. She only had herself, and after a while, Baby.
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Based on her impulsive actions, and sudden fear of being abandoned by someone, she shows signs of borderline personality disorder. She also experienced unstable relationships with people (spoiler alert) like the man she was friends with and eventually killing him, framing him as a rapist and emotional abuser. Amy Dunne also experienced symptoms of Munchausen Syndrome. This syndrome is a mental disorder where a person repeatedly acts as if he/she is physically/mentally ill. In Gone girl, this is an ongoing issue for Amy Dunne. (spoiler alert) Not only does she paint the image that she is dead to her husband and family, but creating a new identity, and causing harm to herself and others. I rate this film a 4 out of 4 stars. It had me on the edge of my seat the entire time and kept me guessing even after seeing the
On Saturday November 5th I had the pleasure of attending an Adele concert at the Frank Erwin Center on campus. There was no opening act and the concert lasted two and a half hours. She sang 19 songs, which included 7 of her most famous: “Hello” (her opener), “Someone Like You”, “Set Fire to the Rain”, “Rolling in the Deep”, “Chasing Pavements”, “Rumor Has It”, and “Send My Love (To Your New Lover)”. I have been a fan of Adele since I heard her song “Rumor Has It” on the radio in middle school, so when I saw that she had a concert in Austin, TX on my campus, I decided to jump at the opportunity. In this paper I will focus on the details and events that took place at the concert as well as diving into Adele as an artist.