Blog Assignment #19 Tony Curtis

                                                                   Tony Curtis


                    Tony Curtis was the star of "Some Like it Hot" and "Sweet Smell of Success." He died last night at the age of 85. Tony Curtis died at his Henderson, Nevada, home on Wednesday night, September 29, 2010. His daughter, Jamie Lee Curtis told the Reuters, "My father leaves behind a legacy of great performance in movies and his paintings of assemblages."


                     Tony Curtis was born Bernard Schwartz on June 3, 1925, in New York City, New York. His parents' names were Emanuel and Helen Schwartz. His parents were Hungarian Jewish immigrants from Mátészalka, Hungary. Hungarian was the only language that Tony knew until he was five or six years old, postponing his schooling. His father was a tailor and his family lived behind his tailoring shop. Curtis said that when he was a child his mom beat him up and was aggressive.


                     Curtis played many roles in many movies when he was alive. He also appeared on television shows and television series. Throughout his life, Curtis liked painting as a second job. On his last years of life Curtis concentrated on painting instead of movies. A lot of his paintings can be seen at the Tony Vanderpoeg Gallery in Camel, California. 


                      Curtis had six wifes during his lifetime as an actor and painter. His first wife was actress Janet Leigh. During this marriage he had two children, Kelly and Jamie Lee Curtis. His second wife was Christine Kaufmann, an actress that played his co-star in one of his movies. During this marriage, he had two daughters, Alexandra and Allegra. He was also married to Leslie Allen, in which they had two children, Andria Savio, Lisa Deutsch, and was previously married to Jill Vandenberg Curtis.


                      Curtis recently died last night at his Las Vegas home in Nevada. He died on September 29, 2010 because of an apparent cardiac arrest. In a release to the Associated Press, his daughter, actress Jamie Lee Curtis stated:

   "My father leaves behind a legacy of great performances 

          in movies and in his paintings and assemblages. He leaves 

                     behind children and their families who loved him and respected him 

                and a wife and in-laws who were devoted to him. He also leaves 

        behind fans all over the world. He will be greatly missed.."

    

  

                       

blog assignment #18: Obama

President Obama

                President Barack Hussein Obama II was born on August 4, 1961. He is currently the forty-forth president of the United States. He has a Vice President named Joe Biden and he preceded by President George W. Bush. He is the first African-American to take office of being a president. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois.

                Obama has a wife, Michelle Obama, and two children, Malia Obama and Sasha Obama. Obama and his family live in a private house in Chicago, Illinois. Obama was originally born in Honolulu, Hawaii, but moved to Chicago when he was offered a job as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland. In 1991, Obama accepted a two-year position as Visiting Law and Government Fellow at the University of Chicago Law School to work on his first book.  

                 Obama was elected to the Illinois Senate in 1996, succeeding State Senator, Alice Palmer, as Senator from Illinois's 13th District. In January 2003, Obama became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee when Democrats, after a decade in the minority, regained a majority. Obama has been to a lot of states in the past. His father was originally from Kenya. His mother, Ann Dunham, was an anthropologist born in the United States. The couple separated when Barack was two years old and eventually divorced. Barack Obama's father moved back to Kenya following the divorce.

                 In May 2002, Obama commissioned a poll to assess his prospects in a 2004 U.S. Senate race. He also created a campaign committee, began raising funds and lined up political media consultant David Axelrod by August 2002, and formally announced his candidacy in January 2003. Obama sponsored legislation that would have required nuclear plant owners to notify state and local authorities of radioactive leaks, but the bill failed to pass in the full Senate after being heavily modified in committee.

                 In June 1989, Obama met Michelle Robinson when he was employed as a summer associate at the Chicago law firm of Sidley Austin. They began dating later that summer, and became engaged in 1991. They were married on October 3, 1992. The couple's first daughter, Malia Ann, was born on July 4, 1998, followed by a second daughter, Natasha ("Sasha"), on June 10, 2001. The Obama daughters attended the private University of Chicago Laboratory Schools. When they moved to Washington, D.C., in January 2009, the girls started at the private Sidwell Friends School.

Blog#17 More E-how

                   More E hows

1. How to Prune Dwarf Cherry Trees
2. How to Garden on a Budget
3. How to Make a Diaper Cake
4. How to Reinforce the Base of a Homecoming Mum
5. How to Make a Fan Fold in a Napkin
6. How to Have a Baby Shower
7. How to Make India Rose Luxurious Skin Oil
8. How to Tie a Tie
9. How to Choose Colors to Flatter Your Skin Tone
10. How to French Braid Hair

                      10 1980's Phrases

1. A-Duh!
2. Ahhhhh.........what a rush!
3. Anybody Got Any Cheese?
4. Bad to the bone
5. Cut, It, Out
6. Did I do that?
7. Dog-eat-dog
8. Happy days
9. Have Mercy!
10. No Problem!

                      10 Pictures of the 1980's

     

Blog Assignment #16: Happy News/Wacky

               15 How to's From ehow.com

1. How to Develop Money Management Skills
2. How to Get Healthy For Free
3. How to Remove Ballpoint Pen Ink Stains From Fabric
4. How to Choose Colors to Flatter Your Skin Tone
5. How to Apply Makeup in 10 Easy Steps
6. How to Teach Your Child Manners
7. How to Get Melted Crayon Out of Dryers and Clothing
8. How to Cure Bad Breath
9. How to Add Scent to a Candle
10. How to Cancel a Credit Card
11. How to Identify Spiders in Michigan
12. How to Know if a Town is Pet Friendly
13. How to Watch movies on a Wii
14. How to Buy Things on Amazon Without a Credit Card
15. How to be Mysterious
    
    

blog assignment #15: Africa/Storytelling

Cheikh Dia creates a montage of his typical Sunday

           

              This video was about a boy named Cheikh Dia who tells a summary of his typical Sunday. He was saying that on a typical Sunday he prays and then he has to go to school. He reads and studies at home (that is his school). He then plays with his older brother and some friends in the fields. He usually does laundry next and help his brother with homework. 

              At the end of his Sunday he keeps his family company. They also have a picnic and drink tea together. He said that he loves spending time with his family on Sundays. From this video I saw that American Sundays are very different from African Sundays. A lot of Americans don' t have school on Sundays. 

        

Dior Ka Shows the Importance of Her Everyday Task of Fetching Water From the Nearby Well

              In this video every day Dior Ka goes to the well and brings back water. A lot of girls in the village visit the well to get water every day as well. Once the buckets of water are full other girls help each other put the buckets on their heads witch are heavy and difficult to balance. Many women use towels under the bucket to keep it balanced.

  

               The water is used for many things like cooking, washing vegetables, and cleaning off rice to cook with. When the food is done everyone has a delicious meal all because of water. In America people have facets with running water in them. Many people have bottled water as well. Africa has a very different system than Americans do.

Coumba Dia Shares a Behind the Scenes Look at Her Family's Meal Preparation 

          In this video Coumba Dia shared a look at how her family's meal are prepared. Every day the women would prepare food for the entire village. Every day they make rice, vegetables, and fish (I am guessing that, that is all they had). The women had to clean the fish with only a knife, a bowl, and water before putting the fish in the pot. They would then add all the spices to the fish. All the women have fun in the kitchen like singing, joking, laughing, and dancing.

                 After the vegetables, rice, and fish are cooked the whole village comes and enjoys the meal. African meals and American meal are and are prepared very different. Most people have the men cut up the fish for the women to cook. Usually preparing a fish takes more tools to do it with. In conclusion Africans are very different from Americans. 

Blog Assignment #14: MediaC

#1 Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher Defy Talk of Marriage Trouble


            As Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher prepare to celebrate their fifth wedding anniversary on Friday, they are weathering a storm of rumors regarding their relationship. This story is very personal if you ask me because no one wants the whole world knowing that them and their spouse have marriage trouble. I know I wouldn't want rumors about my marriage spread around the world.


#2 How Jon Hamm Struggled with Depression


            "I was ... unarmoured by that. I struggled with chronic depression. I was in bad shape," he says. Hamm's mother had died of stomach cancer when he was only 10, and he went to live with his father. His parents had divorced when he was just a toddler. This story is very personal because who wants to know about death in the family or their depression. Media has defiantly crossed the line.




                                 Media Has Crossed the Line


               Media has crossed the line a lot since the first invented it. Media is nothing, but a gossip bowl overflowing. Media does not know when enough is enough. I would not want the whole world finding out that I could be arrested or that I am a drug attic. I am not going to be arrested and I am not a drug attic, but if I was I would not want the whole world judging me about it.


               Privacy is very important in media because a story could become too personal and it could hurt someone or start a huge fight. It could make someone's best friend turn into their worst enemy.  If a rumor gets spread around the world that isn't true then it would take a miracle for people to stop talking about it.

               Media Outlets are accountable for their actions because they can choose not to gossip about celebrities. They don't have to tell the whole world personal things that happen to celebrities, but they do anyway. Media Outlets gossip about everything from bad oufit choices to getting arrested. No one wants their personal life spread to the whole world.

               Privacy is not respected in media at all and they don't care. They think well nobody is going to get hurt, this is legal, I need the money, and who is going to blame me. Sometimes gossip hurts and once it is online it can't be erased and it can not be changed. Media Outlets publish everything from divorces to new marriages about people.

               We live in a media-frenzied world where celebrities can not even breathe without someone knowing about it. Everyone in the world somehow is going to see what the Media Outlets publish. They could watch gossip television shows, go on gossip websites, or someone could tell them. They are many ways that everybody could hear about gossip.





              

Blog Assignment #13: Declaration of Independence

             Declaration of Independence Questions


Question 1: How are the core values of American democracy incorporated into the Declaration?



Answer 1: Core democratic values are the fundamental beliefs and constitutional principles of American society, which unite all Americans. These values are expressed in the Declaration of Independence, the United States constitution and other significant documents, speeches, and writing of the nation as references. 

Question 2: 

What responsibilities does the government have to honoring these core values? What responsibilities do individual citizens have to preserve these core values?

Answer 2: The government has responsibilities that have to honor these core values. These responsibilities are that it knows the importance of human life, liberty, the pursuit of happiness, common good, justice, equality among people, diversity among cultures, truth, popular sovereignty, and patriotism. 

Individual citizens have to preserve certain responsibilities that are keeping these  core values and following the laws. They have to realize the importance of their life, know that they have liberty, know the pursuit of happiness, do common good, keep justice, keep equality among peers, keep diversity between cultures, tell the truth, popular sovereignty, and keep patriotism.

Question 3: How might some or all of these core values be important to the preservation of a free and independent press? 


Answer 3: These core values are knowing that we all have liberty, patriotism, and more. The core values that are important to the preservation of a free and independent press are Liberty, Patriotism, etc.


Question 4: Identify the core values of American constitutional democracy that allow private citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions. 


Answer 4: I would have to say that there are many of the core values that allow that. Some are telling the truth, equality, diversity, liberty, popular 

sovereignty, patriotism, and more of them. Basically most of them allow p

rivate citizens to collect, edit and further distribute information to others and how the values help drive these actions. 



Question 5: What responsibilities do producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information?


Answer 5: The responsibilities that producers of information have to these core values and their fellow citizens when distributing information are that they have give information that follows these core values like trustworthiness,  equality, diversity, etc.

Blog Assignment #12-M.Antoinette

                                                            Marie Antoinette


                 Marie Antoinette's full name was Maria Antonia Josepha Johanna, and she lived from November 2, 1755 to October 16, 1793. Marie was an Archduchess of Austria and the Queen of France. She also was the Queen of Navarre and was the fifteenth and penultimate child of Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and Emperor Francis I. When she was fourteen she married Louis Auguste, Dauphin of France. She became Dauphine de France because of the marriage. 


                 Marie's  husband ascended the throne of France as King Louis XVI, in May 1774 because of the death of King Louis XV. That is when she obtained the name, Queen of France and Navarre. After they have been married for seven years, they had a daughter named, Marie Thérèse Charlotte. The stories of Antoinette's excesses are vastly overstated. In fact, rather than ignoring France's financial crisis, she reduced the royal household staff, which eliminated many unnecessary positions that were based on privilege. That caused a mob of people to get angry.


                 She is often credited with saying the famous phrase “If they have no bread, then let them eat cake!” Oddly enough, there is no evidence that Marie Antoinette ever uttered those words. During her reign of royalty she was known as an extravagant woman who spent excessive amounts of money on clothing, furniture, gambling and diamonds. After an attempted escape from France from the mobs of people that turned wrong, the royal family was held captive for several years until they were put on trial for treason. After Marie Antoinette’s short and unfair trial she was condemned to death. Marie Antoinette was beheaded on October 16th, 1793 at the Place de la Concorde in Paris at age thirty-seven.

Blog Assignment #11-part 3

#1 Reggie Bush: No admission of Guilt

Who? Reggie Bush said Thursday that his decision to relinquish his Heisman Trophy should not be seen as an admission that he and his family improperly accepted cash and gifts from sports agents while he played for USC.

What? While Reggie played for USC his family was accused of improperly accepting cash and gifts from sports agents.

When? This happened today Sept. 16, 2010

Where? This happened in Metarie, LA.

Why? Reggie said that his decision should be seen as an admission.

How? He doesn't believe that his family improperly accepted cash and gifts from sports agents.

#2 No Dale Earnhardt Jr. Changes Planned

Who? The owner of Hendrick Motor sports has no plan to separate Dale Earnhardt Jr. from crew chief Lance McGrew going into the Chase or next season.

What? Dale had been having troubles and the press were wondering if he was going to stay in Nascar.

When? "That's correct," Rick Hendrick said on Saturday, Sept. 4, 2010

Where? He said this in Hampton, GA.

Why? Dale Earnhardt Jr.'s struggles started speculation that Hendrick might make a change going into the Chase that begins in two weeks at New Hampshire.
How?  "If you miss the Chase and you just decide you're gonna change something just to be changing it I think that's a mistake," Hendrick said during a press conference to name a three-year extension with Quaker State motor oil that includes a four-race deal on Mark Martin's car in 2011.
#3 Michael 'Mickey' Mangham dies

Who? Michael 'Mickey' Mangham, a former LSU tiger's right end, died.

What? Michael was a former LSU tiger's football player who scored the only touchdown in a win against Clemson in the 1959 Super Bowl, died.

When? He died today, Sept. 16, 2010.

Where? Mangham's daughter, Elizabeth, said her father died Thursday at his home in Lafayette.
 Why? She also said that he died of a heart attack at age seventy-one.

How? His body broke down after his heart attack, I guess.