Angelina Jolie was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California to actor Jon Voight, and actress Bertrand. She has one older brother James Haven. Angelina graduated from high school at age 16. She then attended New York University. Angelina started acting at a young age. She became popular by taking on the title role Lara Croft. Off-screen Angelina has become involved in international charity projects. Especially those involving refugees. She often appears in many Most Beautiful Women lists, and she has a personal life that is avidly covered by the press. In her earliest years she began absorbing the acting craft from her parents. At age 11 Angelina began studying at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute where she was seen in several stage productions. At age 16 she took up a career in modeling and appeared in some music videos. Angelina appeared in various small films where she got good notice including hackers and Firefox. She started becoming more popular when she played strong roles in movies in True Women and George Wallce, which won her a Golden Globe award and an Emmy nomination. Angelina got a break when she won a leading role in the successful feature The Bone Collector staring alongside Denzel Washington. In the same year she gave a tour de foree performance in girl, interpreted playing opposite Winona Ryder. Angelina with her new found prominence she began to get in depth attention from the press. Numerous aspects of her personal life became news. At her wedding to her Hackers co-star Jonny Lee Miller, she had displayed her husband’s name on the back of her shirt painted in her own blood. Angelina and Jonny got divorced, and in 2000 she married her pushing Tin co-star Billy Bob Thornton. She had become the fifth wife o... ... middle of paper ... ...ina revealed in a New York Times Op-Ed she made her decision to have a mastectomy after discovering she carries the BRCA1 gene mutation, the single rare gene mutation that produces a high risk of developing cancer. “Angelina to me is more than a world class beauty; she is a world class citizen. Her caste is everyman, despite its surreal circumstance. She is a celebrity actually worthy of celebration. This woman deserves a term of her own and it’s not celebrity or saint she would be the first one to admit that. She is a rare example of the grounded rising above the flighty in a self-absorbed society, and I can’t applaud, admire, and thank her enough”. Angelina and Brad continue to pursue acting careers and humanitarian projects. Angelina has not only changed the way people view woman, she has helped children around the world and made this world a better place.
Jesse James was born on September 5th, 1847 in Kearney, Mo Jesses parents are Robert S. and Zerelda James. His mother Zerelda James was born on January 29, 1825 in Woodford county Kentucky. His father was Robert S. James was born July 17, 1818 in Logan county in Kentucky he married his wife in 1841. He attended Georgetown collage in Kentucky after received his diploma he and his wife moved to Missouri. This is when they decided to have Jesse’s oldest brother frank once born they bought a farm.
Cultural Analysis Queen Latifah played a big role in the hip hop industry as a female MC, and still is relevant to this day. She influenced millions of people especially in the black community for equality between women and men. She’s an American song-writer, actress, fashion producer, model, female MC, feminist, television producer, record producer, and talk show hostess. The Hip-hop culture began around the 1970’s in Bronx, New York and it was mostly amongst the Black and Latino community at that time. Hip Hop emerged out of an atmosphere of disappointment, anger, hate, discrimination, and disillusionment which; made it easy for the audience to comprehend and enjoy the music not as a song, but as a public personal message for each person to understand.
The woman described is Angelina Velasquez, a Mexican immigrant, who was profiled by the New York Times last year in Immokalee a town in the south western part of Florida. She described the horrible working conditions in previous years in Florida, however, she also claimed that these abuses had stopped.
According to many movie critics and fans, Marilyn Monroe was one of the most talented and well-known entertainers and fashion icons of the twentieth century based on her success as an actress, singer, model, and her remarkable personality. Marilyn Monroe once said, “Fame will go by, and, so long, I’ve had you, fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle. So at least it’s something I experience, but that’s not where I live” (Marilyn Monroe 26).
Born Audrey Kathleen Ruston on May 4, 1929 to parents Joseph Hepburn-Ruston and Ella van Heemstra, Audrey lived with her two half-brothers, in Brussels, Belgium. She and her brothers lived a luscious life as young children, seeing that her mother was a Dutch Baroness who was descended from French and English kings and her father a well-known business man and banker. Audrey’s father later appended Hepburn to his surname, thus Audrey becoming Hepburn-Ruston (Biography of Audrey Hepburn.) In 1935 Joseph and Ella divorced, and Audrey recalled it to be one of the most traumatic events of her life. In the early years after the divorce, Audrey and her mother lived in England, but with the outbreak of World War II, her mother moved them to the Netherlands; this area was neutral and her mother’s home country. Much to her mother’s dismay, on May 10, 1940, Nazi Germans invaded the Netherlands and Audrey’s family, consisting of Audrey’s mother and her two half-brothers were forced to endure hardships of war (Audrey Hepburn 1929-1993.) Audrey suffered severely during the war, and became increasingly malnourished (Facts about Audrey Hepburn.)
The audience knows Angelina Jolie as an excellent actress. She is using her celebrity influence to push for worldwide action toward the Syrian refugee crisis through emotional articles, essays through newspapers, magazines to share her experience with the audience. Angelina Jolie spent time with a Syrian refugee family during a humanitarian trip and said that the conflict in Syria has "created a wave of human suffering." Syrians are suffering from the bombs, chemical weapons, rape and massacres (Jolie, 44). For example, she mentioned a story in her essay “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary”a family of eight children with no parents, their father had been killed and mother was taken by ISIS (Jolie, 44). Angelina Jolie is very emotional when it comes to the fight against the refugee crisis, in her article “A new level of refugee suffering: Complementary” she recalls the stories which she heard from the Syrian refugees which made her speechless and very emotional toward helping these refugees to raise the issue to the world and helping them to defend the country and resolve the refugee crisis (Jolie, 45). Angelina Jolie evokes – “ How can you speak when a women your own age looks you in the eye and tells you that her whole family was killed in front of her, and that she now lives alone in a tent and has minimal
Jolie’s unusual American experience translates into her children’s lives. 16-year-old Maddox holds the title as an executive producer on Jolie’s upcoming film (Buckley 2017). In addition to this coveted title, he has the opportunity to not only learn, but also practice and excel in his foreign language studies such as French. As a result of Jolie’s occupation and immense wealth, her children are able to benefit and obtain upward class mobility. Jolie is able to provide for them numerous tutors and worldly experiences because of her director status and immense wealth. Annette Lareau’s concept of “concerted cultivation” is readily applied through Jolie’s children; the children possess extremely busy lives all while maintaining an airtight unit of trust, respect, and communication with Jolie that all help to engage the children’s logical, reasoning, and argumentative faculties (Lareau 2011, 2). As a result, Jolie’s children will likely grow up to be hardworking and affluent adults ready to challenge authority and navigate bureaucracy. Jolie’s parental platform provides the opportunities and resources for her children to thrive in an upper class
Sarah and Angelina could have impacted many to stand up for their rights and beliefs. They faced many hardships, because they are women. The sisters never gave up, even when sick or on their death beds they both pushed for what they believed in. They tried to aid whoever they could and make the United States a better home for
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JonBenet Ramsey, daughter of a socialite and wealthy businessman, John and Patsy Ramsey, was born on August 6, 1990. JonBenet followed in the footsteps of her mother winning multiple child beauty pageants (Worthen). On the morning
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I have chosen to make my biographical narrative about Kylie Jenner. Everyone’s opinions on Kylie are different, but I personally don’t think that she is that bad. Most debates about the Jenner and Kardashian family are why they are even famous. I actually have no idea how any of their careers started, but the things that Kylie has accomplished herself are definitely good reasons for her to be known by many people.
The Celebrity as a Commodity Hurst introduced the idea of a commodity in the text. By definition, a commodity is something that is of use, advantage, or value. More directly, Hurst showed how people by use of their skills, looks, or names, could be used as advantages in society. He uses the examples of celebrities, sports figures, and beautiful people to show that people can be commodities. All of these groups bring some sort of recognition or attraction that is beneficial to a company, firm, or individual.
Audrey Hepburn was a model, actress, and humanitarian. She mostly recognized for being a film and fashion icon in the 1950s-1960s. Although, Audrey was a very successful woman and had a very successful career, she didn’t start out that way. Audrey lived a difficult life and had to work her way to the top. She struggled throughout her childhood and teen years, and was finally able to make a name for herself in her early 20’s.
Angelina Jolie has been an actress for more than thirty three years. In 1990, Jolie became a popular actress. She gave a star-making performance in the 1998 television film. In 2009, Jolie received an Oscar nomination for best actress for her role in Changeling film. When Jolie shoots a film, she often brings her characters’ stories into her real life. It is not that she becomes the character but it is that the character becomes her. Jolie is good at doing actress on her way.