...Carrie Underwood Interview What is country music to you? “To me it is the least tainted ,It isn’t about sex or how well you can dance….Its the most respectable kind of music. It’s honest. The people are genuinely talented. I don’t know one country artist who has ever been accused of lip singing. What was your childhood like? I was born `and raised on a farm “I had a very happy childhood full of the wonderful simple things that children love to do”, “Growing up in the country, I enjoyed things like playing on dirt roads,climbing trees, catching little woodland creatures and of course, singing” Did you graduate from college? “I graduated magna cum laude from Northeastern State Univeristy in Oklahoma with a bachelors in mass communications, American idol even helped me check off one course requirement , I’ve obviously done enough with television there was my internship right there !” weeks later she took home 4 academy country music awards, Including Top New female vocalist and single of the year, ”Jesus Take The Wheel” What are you best known for? “I don’t exactly know what people know me for but I would think most know me for my American Idol fourth season winning and going on to win multiple grammy and academy of country music awards.” What’s it like winning big at the CMA’s ? “God has blessed be with so many wonderful things in my life ,and I will spend my entire life trying to figure out why, if you had told me a few years ago I would have been nominated with...
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...A Mother’s Influence Stephen King’s novel, Carrie, is the story of a girl who uncovers her unique ability on her path to womanhood and power. Stephen King wrote his story about Carrie three years after he graduated from college. During the 1970s, while King was in college, he was transformed by the idea of Women’s Liberation and how it would influence both males and females. King used interstitial, grotesque, sexual, gender, power, and violent literary elements with components of the European and American gothic genre to create a Supernatural Horror/Drama that reflected on life during the time period. Carrie White was raised by her widowed mother, Margaret White, on Carlin St. in Chamberlain, Maine during the mid 1970s. Throughout Carrie’s childhood, she was the subject of mental and physical abuse. Her mother and late father, Ralph White, were religious zealots who attempted to conceal Carrie from the outside world. Often times, when Carrie acted out, Margaret would inflict physical pain upon herself and sentence Carrie the closet to punish her for her wrongdoings. The abuse did not stop at home. At the age of 17, Carry had her first menstrual cycle in the girls’ shower of her high school Ewan Consolidated High School. After the girls recognized Carrie’s confusion and panic, they began to collectively ridicule her until Mrs. Desjardin, their instructor could come to Carrie’s aid. On the way home from school that day, Carrie discovered her telekinetic ability and the mechanism...
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...11, 2011, is upon us, I felt it would be fitting to discuss a song dedicated to the United States military. The song I chose is by Carrie Underwood, the title is Just a Dream. This song is not only moving for the United States military and their families; I feel that anyone can relate to these lyrics. I think this way because that dreadful day affected all of us as a nation. I love this song because the way she organized the lyrics is incredible; she begins the song with a mood and as the song progresses, the mood takes a dramatic turn. The song begins by starting with a cheerful and happy mood, and when the stage is set the mood changes to dark and depressing. The second line of the song is “all dressed in white, going to the church that night”. By these few words alone, one can clearly tell that she seems to be awaiting the walk down the aisle for her wedding. She explains that she is getting ready for her wedding, and she is marrying her fiancé that is in the United States military. Just a few lines later, it is revealed that she is not going to her wedding; she is going to her fiancé’s funeral. Her fiancé had been killed in combat, and she just can’t believe he is gone. This is where the title “Just a Dream” comes from, she wanted to be his forever and now that is now possible. Even more so than the song itself, the music video for Carrie Underwood’s “Just a Dream” is even more moving. After a brief intro, there is a bride that is actually standing at the end of the aisle...
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...18 years have come nd gone For momma they flew by But for me they drug on and on We were loading up that Chevy Both tryin' not to cry Momma kept on talking Putting off good-bye Then she took my hards nd said 'Baby don't forget ' Before you hit the highway You better stop for gas There's a 50 in the ashtray In case you run short on cash Here's a map nd here's a Bible If you ever lose your way Just one more thing before you leave Don't forget to remember me' This downtown apartment sure Makes me miss home And those bills there on the counter Telling me I'm on my own And just like every Sunday I called Momma up last night And even when it's not,I tell her Everything is alright Before we hung up I said 'Hey momma, don't forget to tell my Baby sister I'll see her in the fall And tell Memaw that I miss her Yeah, I should give her a call And make sure u tell daddy that I'm still his little girl Yeah ,I still feel like im where I'm Suppose to be Don't forget to remember me' Tonight I find myself kneeling by the Bed to pray I haven't done this in a while So I don't know to say but Lord I feel so small sometimes in This big ol' place Yeah,I know there are more Important things, But don't forget to remember me Don't forget to remember...
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...Catt and Women’s Suffrage As the 1900s evolved and modernized the American society, American ideas and beliefs evolved to satisfy the needs of numerous Americans. This is evident with women and their struggle to obtain the basic right of suffrage. As numerous women in the 1900s received education, they started to become self-independent and prevailed over their dominant husbands. These educated women fought to overcome their unfortunate future of becoming an ignorant, weak housewife and obtain their self-independence. Carrie Chapman Catt, a women’s rights activist and suffragette, is known for being the main perpetrator in the fight for the 19th Amendment. Catt, alongside the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), focused solely on women’s suffrage by insisting the federal government ratifies a federal amendment. In one of Catt’s speeches to the NAWSA in 1902, Catt addressed her opinions and thoughts about the prejudice against women. Through the use of asyndeton, hypophora, diction, syntax, tone, and parallelism...
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...Carrie Meeber is nothing more than "a lone figure in a tossing, thoughtless sea". In Sister Carrie by Theordore Drieser, Carrie is portrayed as a very out of the box protagonist. In the novel, Carrie is sent away by her parents to Chicago, seeking money and work. She is immediately seduced by Drouet and abducted by Hurstwood. She escapes Hurstwood but is still tied to her final fate. She's not like any other protagonist; she is greedy, naive and cruel. In the beginning of the novel, Carrie expresses her dislike of country living. She wants money and material belongings. "Money was something that was a power in itself." Carrie saw money as a power object and she would do anything to climb her way up this mountain of "power". It seems as though country living has given Carrie a very twisted view of what money is and what it can do to your life and that, in turn, has made Carrie a very greedy person. After arriving in Chicago, Carrie is immediately impressed and blinded by the flashy belongings of Drouet. "He reached down in his hip pocket and took out a fat purse. It was filled with slips of paper, some milage books and a roll of green books." Carrie mindlessly follows Drouet and his line of money and in the end gets cheated by him and becomes nothing but a mistress. Her mindless following of a man in a flashy suit with a wad of cash, portrays Carrie as being very obviously young and naive. Carrie is also portrayed as a cruel, merciless girl who will crush anyone below her....
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...2/15/2009 2/22/2009 http://www.epinions.com/content_461069979268 The Matters at Mansfield: Or, the Crawford Affair by Carrie Bebris Long Review Carrie Bebris - The Matters at Mansfield: Or, the Crawford Affair 2 Helpful I would not recommend it, as I found it truly boring Mr. and Mrs Darcy were in it Not much interesting here " This book is the fourth in the Mr. And Mrs. Darcy Mystery, coming after the highly entertaining North by Northanger. The truth is, I had a great deal of difficulty getting through this book, and I was very disappointed. I had been looking forward to this series of books since first watching the PBS series of Pride and Prejudice with Jennifer Ehle and Colin Firth. The book started off interestingly...
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...Positioning and Differentiation with Health Care Organizations Two health care organizations located in the same area are Cedars-Sinai Medical Center and City of Hope Research Hospital, both in Los Angeles. Both facilities cater to and are championed by Hollywood celebrities, so in many respects they are similar. Their positioning and differentiation is distinctive in other respects, however. This paper will examine the positioning and differentiation of both organizations, noting their similarities and differences. Cedars-Sinai can boast that “Many a star has been born, literally” there (“Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,” 2008). Its location, “where Los Angeles meets Beverly Hills and West Hollywood,” ensures that it serves movie stars and other Hollywood celebrities, and this visibility prompts exceptional care (“Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,” 2008). In addition to its star-studded patient list, the hospital is also known for being a teaching and research hospital that has approximately 600 different research programs (“Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,” 2008). Even its Board of Directors boasts such notables as Steven Spielberg and Sherry Lansing, and it enjoys celebrity supporters such as Barbra Streisand, Denzel Washington, Mel Gibson, and others (“Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,” 2008; “Cedars-Sinai Medical Center,” n.d.). Cedars-Sinai’s positioning and differentiation are both related to its celebrity image. It has positioned itself as the hospital to the stars by extending...
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...The song Temporary Home was featured on Carrie Underwood’s hit album Play On that was released in October of 2009. This song had no impact on me at all until March of 2010. One of my dearest friends, Breanna Nicole Barber, was in a motorcycle dirt bike accident. She fell off of the bike hitting her head causing major brain damage. She was a vegetable and was taken off of life support. Her funeral was several days later and it was really the most unbelievable thing that has ever happened to me. They played Temporary Home at her funeral. I knew what a temporary home meant to me. It meant that one day I’d be at my final destination and that would be heaven. In these next few paragraphs I will reinforce the word ‘temporary’. I’ll describe to you my idea of why Carrie Underwood addresses 3 different stages of life. The word ‘temporary’ is specifically reinforced numerous times throughout the song. Carrie uses phrases like, “house that will never be a home”, “nowhere to go”, “passing through”, and “just a stop”. We have a clear understanding of most of these things and that they intend on being for a short period of time. [What about these words/phrases?] Carrie introduces three different stages of life throughout the song. First she mentions a little boy who is in foster care that keeps getting moved and placed in homes that feel unwelcoming to him. Then she mentions a single mom that needs help, has a baby, and practically has nothing. Lastly she mentions an old...
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...How music connects to time Before I get write about the music I grew up with I wanted to say that this is the best assignment so far. I love music not only listening to it but writing it and singing it as well. Here goes, when I was growing up I listened to a lot of music from the 50’s and 60’s my parents grew up during this time and loved this type of music I enjoyed this type of music and still do. I heard songs from Leslie Gore, Elvis, Dion and the Belmont’s Ray Patterson just to name a few. Sometimes I would cry and sometimes I would be happy depending on what song I was listening to let me explain. When I heard the song Sunshine Lollipops and Rainbows from Leslie Gore I would be happy I thought that if we had sunshine rainbows and lollipops (I love lollipops) then the world would be peaceful and everyone would want to live in it. the song that I always made me cry was tell Laura I love her by Ray Patterson the reason I cried was it was sad it’s a song about how a guy is in love with a girl and all he wants to do is marry her so he decides that the only way to get her a ring is to enter a stock car race well he dies while he is racing and Laura is left alone without the man she loves. I think that if I had to reflect on how these songs helped me through childhood I would have to say that they helped me to understand that life is not about sunshine rainbows and lollipops but about love and death. Leslie Gore: Sunshine Lollipops...
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...athlete, he is a loving husband and dad to twins. He was fortunate enough to marry his college sweetheart. I am a huge fan of this player, but while researching more information about him, I came across that he co-authored a children’s book entitled Family Huddle, which in text and pictures describes a little about his childhood with his brothers. He has also done voiceovers with his brothers on an episode of The Simpsons in 2009. We have seen this famous athlete on numerous sports channels, but you may have also seen him in a few commercials including Papa Johns. About three years ago he purchased 21 Papa Johns franchise. He has also been on an episode of Saturday Night Live where he hosted with a country singer by the name of Carrie Underwood on his 31st birthday. He graduated from college with a bachelor’s degree on Speech Communication along with a minor in business. After his athletic career is has been said that he plans to earn a masters degree in sports management. He had blunders, but his most notable one was when he mooned a friend during a physical causing a gag that offended the assistant trainer who reported the incident causing my famous person to be barred from eating with his teammates for two weeks. On the other hand, during his career of an athlete, he has played on two teams starting in the year of 1998; the first team he played with, for fourteen years, he had such achievement, and it has only continued on this second team in which he was picked...
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...want to Hold Your Hand- Glee Love Bug- Jonas Brothers One Time- Justin Bieber Hello, is it Me you’re Looking For Girlfriend- Avril Lavigne Boy’s Like Girls Teardrops on My Guitar- Taylor Swift CrushCrushCrush- Paramore PYT- Michael Jackson I’ll Be There- Michael Jackson Attraction Songs Stole My Heart – One Direction Loved You First- One Direction Boom Clap- Charlie XCX Just the Way You Are- Bruno Mars I Want Crazy- Hunter Hayes Tattooed Heart- Ariana Grande It’s Gonna Be Love- Mandy Moore I Melt- Rascal Flatts Things I’ll Never Say- Avril Lavigne Every Breath You Take- The Police I’ll Be There- Jackson 5 You Are Not Alone- Michael Jackson The Way You Make Me Feel- Michael Jackson Cheat Songs Before He Cheats- Carrie Underwood Say My Name- Destiny’s Child Jolene- Dolly Parton There Ya Go- Pink Take a Bow- Rhianna Long Distance Songs A Thousand Miles- Vanessa Carlton Far Away- Nickelback The Power of Love- Celine Dion Your Call- Second Hand Serenade Commitment Songs I’m Yours- Jason Mraz Everything Has Changed- Taylor Swift Slow Down- Selena Gomez Unconditionally- Katy Perry Never Say Never- The Fray I Wanna Grow Old With You- Adam Sandler the Wedding Singer It’s Your Love- Faith Hill and Tim McGraw I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing- Aerosmith Love at First Sight Songs Hello, Is It Me You’re Looking For Love At First Sight- Michael Buble Photograph- Ed Sheeran Love Story- Taylor Swift All My Life- K-Ci and JoJo Without Love-...
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...A Psychological Case Study of Carrie Fisher Introduction Carrie Fisher is an actress who grew up in Hollywood already in the spotlight because her parents were famous. She also is a writer of several books about her life and battling her drug addiction problems. She is most famous for her role as Princess Leia in the blockbuster trilogy Star Wars. Her more popular books are Postcards from the Edge and Wishful Drinking. She is also well known for being the poster supporter of people with mental illness. While other famous people have stayed out of the spotlight Carrie Fisher has embraced it to help others struggling to get help and support them showing they are not alone in their mental illness. Carrie Fisher was diagnosed with Bipolar 1 Disorder...
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...360 (Final Draft) The genre of country music has brought about many controversial issues, like in the example of Carrie Underwood’s catchy tune, cheating and retribution. The bluntness of this enriched genre of music, based on our patriotic roots as Americans, gives off a distasteful and bitter taste to those who don’t see themselves above country- loving or uneducated ‘hicks.’ Critics of country music in the article ‘Acting Naturally: Cultural Distinction and Critiques of Pure Country’ cannot comprehend what is portrayed in this type of music, something of which us ‘hicks’ like to refer to as the ‘simple life’. Country music may be controversial, but it has been able to overcome the stereotypes so that now even those who aren’t living the ‘country life’ can enjoy its passion- filled quality. Country music has always been a very popular form of expression that has been loved by people since its’ beginning in the stereotyped, southern sound form. Also considered to own the fastest growing audience in America, country music has certainly earned its place being the favorite form of music in many people’s hearts. However, just because we as we choose to listen to this music, does not mean “we're all store-bought cowboys and armchair hillbillies.” In fact, classifying a person according to the music they decide to listen to does little to describe the actual person. These people are found in all different types of music; limiting these trend lovers to just country music is...
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...Carry Nation or Carrie Nation was a strong believer in doing what was best for the people of America and would try to help thought otherwise. Nation's past was very influential what she did and why she did it. Nation got married in 1867 to Charles Gloyd, a physician. Gloyd had a drinking problem and was a very heavy drinker. When the couple had a child named Charlien who was born with a condition and Nation blamed the condition on Gloyd's drinking problem. Soon after Carry Nation left Gloyd and became a teacher. Years later in 1877 she remarried to a man named David Nation. David and Carry moved to Texas where she would teach Sunday school. There she mainly spoke out about the evils of drinking, but would also talk about tobacco and women's rights and would known as “Mother Nation”. Nation started to see her life as if she was a profit. She started noticing more things that would lead her to that conclusion as if God was directing her life. “She began to experience visions and a sense of divine protection. The latter seemed to be confirmed when her rooming house was left untouched by a town fire in 1889. She even believed her name, Carry A. Nation, was foreordained.” (Social Issues). Moreover Carry Nation's past was her main influence for starting her ideals and well the main reason for her prohibition reform. Carry A. Nation, believed that drinking was the cause of many problems in American society during the time of the late 1800s. She would try to help those in need no matter...
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