Jennifer Lopez Jennifer Lopez was born on July 24, 1969, in the Castle Hill section of the Bronx.Her Father was a computer technician.Her mother was a Kindergarden teacher.Jennifer was the middle child of three sisters.All of jennifers sisters are musically talented. Although Jennifers mother was scared by her decission to pursue a Musical career,Jennifer still went after her dream. After high school she moved out and began on her quest to become a star. She got her start on " In Living Color" After two years on living color she went to dance for Janet Jackson. Just when you think her career is doing amazing as it is it takes off more, Jennifer Lopez then stars in her first major film called "My Family ".
It sold all kinds of brands, but the brand that sold the most was Air Jordan. With prices well above $100, they sold like hot cakes and the age group that bought them were teenagers. Every month a new shoe comes out. And every time that happens, they sell out-fast, some times with in minutes. Michael Jordan through his God given talent has sold hundreds of thousands of pairs around the world to his loyal costumers, who continue to collect.
Winfrey won many nominations, and awards. Such as, Most Popular Daytime Show Host, Best Supporting Actress, Golden Globe, Oscars, Emmy (more than 40 times), Best Daytime Talk Show Host (won many times), Number One Talk Show Host for twenty-one seasons, Television performed of the year, Favorite Television Performer of the Year (people choice awards), 100 most influential people in the world, Academy award and many others. She is a big Philanthropist, she speaks to churches, schools, and at many other places. When she graduated from East High, she received a scholarship to Tennessee State. In high school Oprah had many accomplishments, she broadcasted, and also was the leader of the school's student council.
But hosting a talk show wasn't all Winfrey had in mind. Although untrained as an actress, she was nominated for an Oscar for her powerful performance as a slave in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple. (Two decades later Winfrey produced a musical version on Broadway.) She created Harpo productions to house her show and to produce socially relevant films. She also launched a monthly book segment on her show and her selections immediately became best sellers.
All of the time and effort eventually paid off when Selena turned fourteen and recorded her first album for a record company. Selena did well in school but as she grew more popular she had to travel a lot to perform, so her dad pulled her out of school when she was in eighth grade. She had to finish her education on the road she received her high school diploma at the age of seventeen from The American School of Correspondence in Chicago, Illinois. She then released her third album Alpha, in 1986. The way Selena became a famous singer is because her dad would make her and her brothers play a couple songs every day after school.
With over 30,000 copies of her novel, To Kill a Mockingbird, sold in over 40 languages, Harper Lee is within the ranks of history’s greatest and most magnificent authors. Harper Lee’s life before her novel was published greatly affected To Kill a Mockingbird which shows a pure representation of childhood and growing up. Miss Lee’s life before To Kill a Mockingbird was written was completely changed with book’s unheralded success. Lee was born in the (then) small town of Monroeville, Alabama with the population of about 7,000 at that time. The day of her birth was April 28, 1926.
And it is not uncommon for members of parade Krewes to spend an average of $800-$2,000 per parade ride on the beads that they will toss over the course of their parade route. Also, Krewes must submit their bead orders in September to ensure that they will be ready for Carnival season early the next year. In recent years the distribution of beads has been equated to rowdy behavior. This has mainly involved men demanding that women show certain parts of their bodies to earn their beads. Many long-time Mardi Gras attendees will point out that this mainly happens in the French Quarter and not along the actual parade route, where the fun and true purpose of Mardi Gras continues to prosper.
At age 17, Winfrey won the Miss Black Tennessee beauty pageant. She also attracted the attention of the local black radio station, WVOL, which hired her to do the news part-time. She worked there during her senior year of high school, and again while in her first two years of college. Winfrey's career choice in media would not have surprised her grandmother, who once said that ever since Winfrey could talk, she was on stage. As a child she played games interviewing her corncob doll and the crows on the fence of her family's property.
It came down to a penalty shot by Brandi Chastain who put in the winning goal (Radnedge). This event took women’s soccer to a whole new level. The team made the covers of major magazines, and the front pages of the major newspapers (Orlian). The entire country, not just the soccer community now recognized women’s soccer. Attendance for the Women’s Cup totaled 658,000 for an average of 38,000 fans per game.
Without a change, all women would still be living life as a housewife like Lucy from “I Love Lucy” (Lamb) Divorce rates have increased since the 1950’s and the couples are getting divorced under different circumstances. Parenting styles and household structures have also changes since the 1950’s (Elliot). During the 1950s, divorce was not widely accepted, so marriages we stronger during this time. Marriage rates in the 1950’s were at their highest in this time period compared to the years prior (Elliot). In the 1950’s, interracial marriages were not accepted or legal in some states.