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.
Feeling that she needed to socialise, Cady’s parents enrolled her to North Shore High school. On her first day of North Shore High school, Cady was often left out and she was unfamiliarised with the school’s surroundings and people. On the second day, Cady had become friends with two social outcasts, Janis Ian and Damian. Janis and Damian had misled Cady into thinking that they were taking to G14 for her Health Education class but instead, they brought her to the back of the school where they skipped class. This is where Janis had stated that they were friends and Cady stayed with them.
Elizabeth Kenyon On March 4, Kenyon left her apartment in Coral Gables to visit her parents in Pompano Beach, a trip she made every weekend. According to Bruce Gibney, in his book, The Beauty Queen Killer, Beth’s father noticed bruises on her arms and legs that day. Alarmed, he asked her what had happened. She
The Story of Tammy Sarah Calhoun Developmental Psychology Professor Wyatt DeVry University Tammy was born on October 4, 1954 in the small town of Belleville, Illinois. Tammy was the fourth child of Birdie and Gerald and was overall a happy healthy child. She had aspirations of becoming an astronaut when she was a child, and loved playing in her pretend spaceship that she and her brother Tim made out of cardboard boxes. Tammy had a very active imagination and loved to come up with all different kinds of play. Tammy made decent grades all throughout her grade and high school years.
Elizabeth 09.01.12 Pre-Ged essay MSSD's Bad Girl I was a very bad girl in Model Secondary for the School Deaf (MSSD)'s dorm with my roommates and friends. We did a lot bad things but three things what I did done got me into the trouble stealing pagers, throwing toilet paper soaked with water, and pulling down the for alarm. I were looked back at these actions that I would never do again because I am grown woman. My roommates and I had old sidekick 2’s and we saw some students had sidekick 3 which was newly released phones. I don’t know how it started us talking about it and made a plan to
The next time that the two girls were teased by their parents, Elsie challenged her father, telling him that if he lent them his camera, a Midg quarter plate, the two girls would try to take a photograph of one of the fairies. While Arthur, Elsie's father, wasn't happy about it, after being pestered by his wife and daughter, he eventually gave in. After loading the camera with a glass plate and setting the camera's shutter speed of 1/50s, the girls took the camera down to the beck to photograph a fairy. 'Elsie had already prepared her fairy figures when no one was about,' says Frances in her book. The figures were painted onto a stiff paper and poked into the ground using flat-headed hatpins which was stuck onto
Kristina and her boyfriend finally get an apartment together and the also move in Kristina’s son, against her mother’s wishes. Things are very tense in the tiny apartment due to a shortage of meth and the lack of income and it finally peaks one night when Kristina and Trey are especially irritable and it ends in a physical confrontation and Kristina calls her mother to take the baby back home with
I tried not to look the way I felt- like I didn’t belong there with them.” Also, she narrates difficulties that she faced after high-school graduation. Financial difficulties forced her to stop her higher education “Financial difficulties forced my family of eight to move”. Then, she shows how she succeeded, despite her mother’s disapproval toward parents who seek higher education. Her son was the better motivation. He kindled her ambition to be a better student.
Long writes “I love my son but he terrifies me.” Long’s son has threatened to kill her for wanting him to return over do library books. She has gone as-far-as setting up safety plans for his other siblings when his violent rages start. Her final straw was on her way to take him to school. He was upset about having to change his pants. He calls her names and goes into a screaming rage.
Peaches by Jodi Lynn Anderson Genre: Juvenile Fiction Publication Date: 2005 Recommended Age Group: 14 and Up Summary: A fun and lively novel about three teenage girls from Georgia. Birdie lives with her Dad on a farm where they grow peaches. Leeda, Birdie’s cousin, lives with affluent parents and sister Danay in a nice and slightly snotty neighborhood. Murphy lives with her single mother in a trailer park. They meet up on the farm during spring break after Leeda volunteered to work there over the summer to get away from her family and Murphy was sent there for community service after she broke into Birdie’s house and got caught stealing liquor.