The relationship between Oluremi Faust, also known as Mimi and the infamous Stevie J is one that has been on the rocks sense the first season. With Stevie J’s continuous infidelity and the lack of support that Stevie j gives Mimi with the up bring of their daughter, it shows society how the African American father is not around and is usually a “rolling stone” for lack of better words. Mimi is constantly at ends with Stevie J and his mistress in an emotional war that often takes her away from being a unstable parent. The show also portrays her as a dependent of Stevie J but Mimi is actually an entrepreneur. This side of her is often lost in the drama of her love life.
On the way up, the pressure of stardom nearly destroyed her. "To cope with life in the music business, I had to get wasted all the time," she admits. But her music spoke to the streets. She brought the rawness of classic soul into the hip-hop era. Andre says: "We took her pain and put it on a platform to be the communicator for all that generation of women who grew up in the Eighties in a single parent decade, with crack being the main drug - which took whole households out."
As Alyson was taking drug with her boyfriend she started to become an addict. The drugs started to change Alyson’s behavior and she turned from the good responsible girl to the bad one. She dropped out of school and her drug addition started to affect her family because she no longer cared about her family anymore. Alyson’s relationship with her sister also started to decline. Alyson started to argue with her sister more often than before.
In this movie “Losing Isaiah” Khaiah was under the influence of drugs and at the time didn’t realize she was putting her child in danger when she left him. But does that make her an unfit mother? It shouldn’t be about the color of one’s skin or a stereotype. I will agree with the director, Stephen Gyllenhaal that no one is perfect, and everyone makes mistakes. PLOT SUMMARY by the Director Two woman of different social, economic and ethnic find themselves in a bitter, emotional custody
In the book Crank by Ellen Hopkins the main character Kristina goes through the struggle of addiction with drugs, she goes all the way down to rock bottom in life, although she went through hell she ended up with a happy ending. The theme of this story is never to give into peer pressure, addiction is so powerful, you have to fight it everyday. Before Kristina starts her journey with the “monster” she visits her dad after years of her parents being divorced; The reason her parents were divorced was because of his drug use. But when she visits her dad she falls into depression and starts to fall with the wrong crowd and meets the “monster” aka meth. While she is in New Mexico she was introduced to partying and adam, the one she fell in
Genetically induced psychotic behaviors caused Yates to commit a heinous crime without remorse and receive a lesser sentence in criminal court. Genetic Evidence and Psychological Factors in Criminal Behavior Biology plays a major role in the case of Andrea Yates. Although unknown to Yates in the beginning, her immediate family had a history of mental illnesses. Her brother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder and two other siblings suffered from depression. After her oldest child was born, Yates developed postpartum psychosis, which caused her to experience hallucinations of stabbings (McLellan, December 2, 2006).
This puppet-master behavior slowly begins to deteriorate Kaeleigh’s life and reputation, causing confusion and torn relationships; “Frigid. His term or Ian’s (her boyfriend)? It’s going to bug me all day. I always thought Ian was on my side, that he understood, if not everything, that I am only lukewarm because I’m damaged. Frigid?
From day one Gary showed signs of violence, learning disabilities, and was overwhelmed with guilt of sexual fantasies about his mother only then too became sickened with his imaginations. Eventually his sexual appetite started to increased. Gary began soliciting prostitutes in his twenty‘s contracting STDs while in the military. After the military Gary went on to lead a normal life by getting married and divorce three times and having a son . Thereafter, continuously showing signs of failures.
I have chosen to research Frida Kahlo and Georgia O’Keefe because they are very inspiring women artists. Frida Kahlo pushed the boundaries of what was expected from a traditional Latin American female artist. She led a life full of emotional and physical pain. From an early diagnosis of polio, to a life altering bus accident, to a marriage riddled with infidelities, Frida's often-difficult life was the inspiration for her art. Her exploration of herself and the world she lived in broke social norms, artistically, and politically, causing both outrage and awe from those who viewed her paintings.
In 1845, her brother, Branwell Brontë had become addicted to opium, a highly addictive drug that came from opium poppies, and was used in narcotics in medicine. This heavily affected his health, and led to his early death in 1848. Because of the multiple deaths that have taken place in her life, this led her to favoritism in elegies and other pieces with dark tones and moods. It opened an ability to really feel and experience her poems. She and her sister wrote under names of men, and shortly after Emily’s and her sister Anne’s death, Charlotte, being the last living Brontë, confessed to their false names before her