Shirley Bassey's Greatest Hits
she did big spender the james bond themesong diamonds are forever also goldfinger.
She was born and raised in Tiger Bay, Wales a working class area. Her
father was a West Indian seaman and died when she was only two. She
later helped to support her family by working in an Enamel factory.
She made her professional debut at 16 appearing in a touring review
"Memories of Al Jolson". Her first major hit was "The Banana Boat
Song" and she later sang "Goldfinger" in the James Bond movie of the
same name. Her daughter died of drowning in 1985 and the british
tabloid newspapers reported there were implications of neglect for her
daughter. She currently lives in Switzerland.
Shirley Bassey
The 61-year-old star had her first Number One hit with As I Love You
in January 1959.
More recently she sang at the opening ceremony of the Rugby World Cup
at the Millennium Stadium in her home town.
She also recorded the World Cup theme with opera singer Bryn Terfel.
Last month she unveiled her wax double at the famous Madame Tussaud's
waxworks in London.
She was born Shirley Veronica Bassey on January 8, 1937, the youngest
of seven children.
Vocal talents
She grew up in Cardiff, the daughter of a ship's fireman, Henry
Bassey, and his wife Eliza Jane.
In 1952, Shirley left school to work in the packing department of a
sausage factory, all the while singing at local clubs.
It was not long before Shirley turned professional, and even though
she quit show business to become a waitress, her talent would not be
ignored.
In 1955, Shirley appeared at the Astor Club in London, and the world
began to take notice of her vocal talents.
'Disco diva'
Her first single was Burn My Candle, but her first real hit was Banana
The main character of this book is Susan Caraway, but everyone knows her as Stargirl. Stargirl is about 16 years old. She is in 10th grade. Her hair is the color of sand and falls to her shoulders. A “sprinkle” of freckles crosses her nose. Mostly, she looked like a hundred other girls in school, except for two things. She didn’t wear makeup and her eyes were bigger than anyone else’s in the school. Also, she wore outrageous clothes. Normal for her was a long floor-brushing pioneer dress or skirt. Stargirl is definitely different. She’s a fun loving, free-spirited girl who no one had ever met before. She was the friendliest person in school. She loves all people, even people who don’t play for her school’s team. She doesn’t care what others think about her clothes or how she acts. The lesson that Stargirl learned was that you can’t change who you are. If you change for someone else, you will only make yourself miserable. She also learned that the people who really care about you will like you for who you are. The people who truly love you won’t ask you to change who you are.
Shirley Come on Joe let me show you the sites you know you and me
There has been a long standing debate between the socio-economic theories of capitalism and socialism. The current socio-economic system is capitalism but many feel it is not ideal due to the fact that it is based on making a profit. On the other hand, socialism is based on equality of all, which is enacted by paying all workers the same amount of money regardless of occupation. Miriam J. Wells is against capitalism and holds a socialist view point. According to Wells, politics shape the advantages and disadvantages that certain groups of people hold. The government plays an immense role on how things are structured in the fields in order to make a profit based on capitalism. Wells’ argument of capitalism being an unjust system due to politics affecting the class structure and workforce through the Bracero program, enactment of the Alien Land Law, and the return to sharecropping is quite strong even though there is a weakness in her argument due to her straying from the topic at hand and not offering an argument for the capitalist side.
Maria Semple’s book, Where’d You Go Bernadette is about a daughter's search for answers as to where her mother disappeared to. As a reward for Bee’s perfect grades, she request a family trip to Antarctica. Her father, Elgin Branch, is a very important man to Microsoft and is rarely home. Bernadette Fox, Bee’s mother, is a former architect that won a MacArthur grant and stays in the house whenever she can do to her agoraphobia. She avoids leaving the house by having her virtual assistant, Manjula, who claims to work for a company out of India, make her calls, reservations, and orders. The book is told through various documents, which mostly emails but sometimes have accounts written in Bee’s point of view. Bernadette will slowly be pushed over
Can one individual change a large group of people? Can the effort of one person be enough to break up a faulty tradition practicing by a society? In most cases the answer would be ‘yes’ and in some ‘no’. Many individuals try and succeed but many fail just like the main character Tessie Hutchinson in Shirley Jackson’s short story “The Lottery”. When someone hears the word “lottery”, he or she may think that someone will be rewarded with prize. But “The Lottery” By Shirley Jackson is different than what one thinks. In the story, a lottery is going to be conducted not like Mega Million or Powerball one play here. In the story, the person who wins the lottery is stoned to death instead of being rewarded with the prize. Tessie Hutchinson, the major character in the story, is wife of Mr. Bill Hutchinson and also a mother of three siblings and a married daughter. Jackson presents Mrs. Hutchinson as a strong rebellious character. Mrs. Hutchinson plays two different roles in this story. She is excitedly participating in the lottery ceremony at the beginning but her character shifts when her husband picks the winning lottery of death for their family. Mrs. Hutchinson is presented as a blind follower of old tradition, a strong rebellious character and a selfish and careless person in the society.
Michael Jackson is known as the greatest entertainer of all-time. Even though he became known for classic pop hits such as Beat It, Billie Jean, and Thriller, Jackson is more than a one-dimensional artist. Jackson have the ability to cover all genre of music from techno to gospel. Next to pop, love songs are Jackson’s second strongest suit in music. In 1982, Jackson released The Lady in my Life, arguably his greatest love ballads of his career. Unlike Trey Songz who used the vulgar and infidelity language about his sex-partner, from the opening lines of “There be no darkness tonight, lady our love will shine,” Jackson captured the nature of
Ray Bradbury’s “Sound of Thunder” and Gloria Skurzynski’s “Nethergrave” are both fascinating stories, placed other realities, about how someone’s mistakes can backfire into something much larger. When Eckle steps off the path, and Jeremy turns himself into something he isn’t online, their lives completely change.
In the passage “Can We Talk “extracted from Beverly Tatum’s book Why are all the blacks sitting together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race. (2003, the author shares her thoughts on the ongoing phenomenon of racism and the reason for its continued presence in today’s America.
The song “Mississippi Goddam” was written by the singer Nina Simone. She created the song in less than an hour with “Four Women” and “To be Young, Gifted and Black”. The song is Nina Simone’s response the murder of Medgar Evers in Mississippi, and the 16th Street Baptist church bombing in Birmingham which killed four black children. During this time the Civil rights movement was in full swing and Evers was one of Mississippi’s most impassioned activist and visionary for change. With the tension between white and black people at an all-time high after the verdict of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, it put a target on Evers’ back. In June of 1963, Evers arrived at his home and was shot in the back before he reached the door. This song was
The stories of Suyuan and Jing-Mei Woo reveal some of Amy Tan's main themes in the novel. One important theme is that we must get to know and understand our parents in order to fully understand ourselves. June spends the first half of her life believing that she is a disappointment to her mother and has been unsuccessful in life. However, when she learns more about her mother's past and discovers that her mother is proud of her good heart and concern for others, she realizes that she has accomplished something by doing small things to the best of her ability. She learns that one does not have to be famous, or a genius, or greatly wealthy in order to be successful. Another important theme is that we need to make our own choices in life and find our own life's importance. When June was a child, her mother was constantly pushing her to try different things that she had no interest in. Because she did not care about any of these things, she did not really try to be successful, and therefore, would never accomplish anything great. We build our own importance in life by deeply caring about something that we choose and putting all of our effort into developing or accomplishing this.
hirley St. Hill was born in New York City on November 30, 1924 she was the oldest of four daughters. Her parents were Charles and Ruby St.Hill. In 1927 at age 3 Shirley was sent to live on her grandmother’s farm in Barbados. She attended British grammar school and picked up the Caribbean accent that marked her speech. Shirley moved back to New York in 1934 at the age of 11 and went on to graduate in 1946 from Brooklyn College with honors later earning a masters degree from Columbia University. During this time it was difficult for black college graduates to find jobs. After being rejected by many companies, she obtained a job at the Mt.Calvary childcare center in Harlem.
- Explain briefly what your selected ballad is about and the reasons why you picked it.
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson is a swipe at real life societies whose guideline for morality is skewed because of their institutionalized traditions. The Lottery is an event held every year on June 27th where a family name is drawn. Then the immediate family of which the name was drawn draws pieces of paper. The person who draws the black dot gets stoned to death by the community. This is a long held tradition of the community and the community does it this because it all they’ve grew up with. On page 300 it says, “Take a paper out of the box, Davy,” Mr. Summers said. Davy put his hand into the box and laughed.” This quote shows the little boy does not know the severity of this situation and that there is a chance he could be picked for the
“The Lottery”, by Shirley Jackson is a short story about a disturbing social practice in a village. Besides, there were about three hundred citizens in the small village where the setting took place. The introduction of “the lottery” is about an event that takes place every year on 27th in the month of June, where the community members of this tradition organize a lottery. Everyone in the village including small children to adults is expected to participate. Besides, when this story was introduced at the very first in 1948 by Shirley Jackson, many people were upset. This is because this story was so strange to undertake in modern enlightened times.
Florence by Alice Childress This 1950 play by Alice Childress takes place in a train station waiting room in a very small town in the south. The play describes how Miss Whitney, an old black woman, discovers that her premonition of the success of her daughter, Florence, as a black actress is undesirably similar to that of a racist, white society. This troubling discovery has just as strong an impact on the reader as it does on Miss Whitney. This drama teaches the reader how the views and opinions of individuals or groups can influence other individuals or groups to approach situations with the same reaction, although their views and opinions may be opposite. Marge, Miss Whitney's other daughter, first introduces this frame of mind to as she accompanies Miss Whitney at the train station.