Thursday, March 12, 2009

Tiffany Charles


Tiffany Charles was born in 1923 on the 3rd of March. Born and raised in New York. Her interests were painting acting and writing. Though the most important thing for her, was to gain her father’s love.
Background
Tiffany loved watching her mother dress up for gala diners, cocktail parties and events. Although she realized that things you do not need in life, look pretty for a while but won’t in fact make you truly happy. Her mother was a woman that loved to love beautiful things. She married Tiffany’s father, Dean Charles and gave birth to Tiffany and her older brother. The Charles family was tremendously wealthy for generations. They were the owners of Cadillac cars, Onassis jewelry, and lots of other companies here and there. They had houses everywhere, all around the world. Tiffany and her brother went to the finest schools in New York. They both finished high school and university.
Early Life
When Tiffany turned 6 in the year 1929, her father gave her a pony as a gift. Tiffany started to love her father more and more every day, not because he gave her a pony, because she thought he’s start showing her love. As days, months and thoughts passed her mind she couldn’t find a way to make him show love to her. In her later years, when she was a teenager, she saw that she wasn’t getting any interest from her father and she stopped trying, though it was always stuck in her head. Tiffany’s mother always filled her head up with so many lies about her father not showing her any affection.
Later Life
In 1944 she fell in love with a man called James Daniels. She married in 1946 and divorced 5 years after her marriage. She didn’t have any children during those years, although she did have an affair with James’s closest friend. She ended up pregnant with him but had an abortion and kept it a top secret. After the abortion, Tiffany starved herself until she became bulimic. No one if truth be told cared about how skeletal she looked, but she also found a way to hid this other one secret, in fact most people thought she was just thin. Men she’s been with said something similar to this: Tiffany was a very odd person sometimes but there was just something about her that made her stand out. After her marriage ended her father didn’t speak to her at all, giving her no excuse what so ever. This broke her heart in pieces.
She was nothing like usual wealthy women. You see Tiffany wasn’t very passionate about materialistic things. But she couldn’t help being around people who loved that sort of thing. She didn’t have much friends or closely related people to her. Most people wanted to become her friend because of how wealthy she was and this fact made Tiffany even more depressed and lost in her confusion.
Tiffany suffered a lot during her later years after she was a teenager. She started using drugs and she didn’t eat much food. She, in no way stopped being bulimic. The drugs she started to use were: Marijuana, Cocaine, and sleeping pills. She didn’t see her father very often, but whenever he’s see her he’s turn the other way. Her mother was too busy in things that didn’t interest Tiffany.
Tiffany was found dead in a hotel room, in the year 1960 on June 11th at approximately 7:45 a.m. She had committed suicide the last night she saw her father. She did leave a note on the table next to her bed she was found dead in. The note she wrote before she died wasn’t allowed for the press to know about. How they found about her life and her secrets, were because she had a diary and wrote everything, her thoughts, her wishes just everything was on there. Once she died, she obviously became famous and something I did not mention before, was that she had written a book when she was 17 years old and kept it under her jewelry box. They say that if she was still alive she’d be one of the most talented people in New York City.
Related Links:
http://www.whywouldyoukillyourself.com/
http://www.shekillsherdelfinahotelroom.com/
http://www.drugabuseandbulimia.com/
References:
http://www.tiffanycharlesbiography.com/
http://www.tiffanycharlesthelegend.com/
http://www.earlyandteenlifeoftiffcharles.com/
http://www.whytiffanycharleskillsherself.com/
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http://www.loveandpeacefortiffany.com/
http://www.loveaffairofcharles.com/
Hyperlink: School Tiffany and her brother went to was Regis High School and the University they both went to was the New York University, Tiffany also went to Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute.

Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Poverty In Haiti
















Haiti is one of the world’s poorest countries, where most of the population lives in poverty. The problems in the Haiti’s world was the effect of massive poverty that has been getting worse over the last decade. Everywhere you go on the island you see poor people roaming in the street, ruining the beautiful views. Haiti’s poverty affects people’s life styles, health, and state of mind because the environment that you live in has such an impact on these parts of life.
Haitians have a life expectancy of about 57 years old. Because of this, Haitian’s would have been married off at a very young age because of how long they can live. Most of Haiti’s population is illiterate, meaning that they are unable to read and write. Only the wealthy and scholars were able to write and read which was only about 5% of the population. Healthy living ways are very hard to keep in such poor conditions, for example only 25% of children get vaccinated and less then one forth of the populating has access to clean water. The trouble is that Haiti not only has people in these conditions, however there are so many people and they keep on reproducing among themselves from young ages.
One reason for Haiti’s tremendously big poverty problem is the government. Over the years there has never been a stable government, and the consequences of that has reflected onto the citizens of Haiti, such as the terrible places people are forced to live in. The government its self is not doing much to improve the situation that the country is in and it will take many, many years for them to come out of this position if it ever does get better.
This country is in what is called a “poverty trap”. The country of Haiti is put into this category because of all the little things that are added up, for example the high population growth, no money, and poor conditions. There is not much hope for Haiti to come out of its “poverty trap” and it will certainly need a lot of hard work put into the countries government and helping the poor people.
What needs to be done?
There are many different things that need to be done in Haiti. Help and assistance is urgent. Institutions are being made in Haiti in the last years though a lot more need to be done. The Government has to concentrate more on critical things. The things that really have to be done first are: maintaining public order, and economic stability, securing property rights, building a regulatory role for some sectors and investment in and maintenance of communications and transportation. There have been many achievements in the Haitian Police and the Central Bank has helped a lot too. But in this country, is a fairly large country, and so many things need to be done there.
A good first step would be making use of the capitalization program like telecommunications, electricity, water, water sector, ports and airports. All of these things will happen in a more rapid way if the economic stabilities in Haiti get improved. Another thing that would make Haiti a better place would be increasing recourses, making more educational schools, and the services to any basic human needs that are needed. Most of all these things need very well done plans for them to be successful, what I’m saying is that these things will need a long period of time to happen and the Haitian government shall keep trying to make these things possible.
When discussing about donations, governments from around the world hesitate to donate supplies for this country. Some are too scared some just don’t care. Well I know that people should help make this country recover from its poverty and all of the sad things that happen all of the time. Children that are born and don’t have any future, are being forced to do certain things they shouldn’t be doing. Wealthy families all around the world should donate large amounts of money to this poor country. I mean there must be much more help. And I know people can do this. Though donations were given to the Haitian government, in 1997 it wasn’t effective at all.
Bibliography: http://poverty2.forumone.com/library/view/8648






http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZbbM8OM9Dqw

Thursday, February 12, 2009

NYC

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      At night there was a Latin event. One of the biggest tin American Legend was performing that night, he was brilliant, it was spectacular I was completely amazed at how much talent this man had.   

      While I was exploring these buildings a bird flew and stopped right in front of me, I thought it was beautiful so I took a picture of the bird. When I took a picture a bunch of people came towards me to take a picture as well.  

      After that, we went to empire state building and saw Manhattan, Brooklyn and New Jersey. Although the day was kind of foggy I still took good pictures. I liked seeing all of those building. The man there which was explaining what these buildings were, he was explaining to us that all the people that come to work in Manhattan come from New Jersey and the Bronx, not all of them, but most of them.

      The next day we went to Times Square. Oh My God, it was insane I loved it! I couldn’t believe how many shows and gigs were going on there. All over Ads and people, there was a man dressed like a cowboy and he earned a living by all the tips he got of the women taking pictures with him all the time. I was full of excitement that day.

 When Natalie and my mum saw my ice cream, they also bought ice cream from that place, I was so busy eating my own I didn’t even try theirs. 

      I bought these glasses for $5 in the street, I thought they were funky so I wore them a few times, anyway, there was a selling ice cream, I got the most delicious ice cream I ever had! Yum it was so good. His ice cream was so heavenly.

So while we were just walking we saw a restaurant that had just opened, the waitress was very kind, so we sat there and I ordered an Iced Tea, but that iced tea was way too bitter I had to put 3 spoons of sugar in that drink. I was excited to see the rest of the city. 

A couple of hours passed and we wanted to see the neighborhood and just walk around, I was looking at how different things are New York than Cyprus. I saw this truck and it looked interesting because trucks here don’t have any drawings on them. So I took a picture. That say was sunny and fresh, there were workers taking out sodas out of the truck. 

On the 16th of June we flew to America. When we arrived we were tired, hungry and just wanted to sleep. When we got to JFK, my older sister was waiting for us, because she used to live there. A couple of minutes after, we were heading to Manhattan and we dropped my sister to her University.

Monday, January 19, 2009

My Point Of View

Political Issues Are An Issue For Adults

Yes, I can agree because when a government is in a bad crisis, then most people get affected, for example when there isn’t enough petrol, it is more expensive now in Cyprus we people don’t have enough water, so that affects people in Cyprus because the government saw these problems coming.

Problems young people face, are the same everywhere


I don’t agree with this statement, teenagers in some Arabic countries have terrible lives for example, they can’t show some parts of their bodies, they can’t show their hair or face. Living like that is like living in jail in compare to how lifestyle of teens is in the U.S., Europe and more continents. But then on the other side I kind of agree when looking at another point of view like when a new kid goes to a new school in town, most kids aren’t in the best behavior. You can see that in schools are like different societies. Kids have issues and complexes with themselves sometimes. For example when a kid wants to fit in a group of other kids, then they might do foolish things to fit in.

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Big Band Sounds from 1935


Episode - Big Band Time
Date - 2008-11-21
Time - 07:25:00
Website - http://music.podcast.com/

Big Band Sounds from 1935 this week. Don't forget that this is your source for memories of the best of the Big Band Era. Join us each week as we explore the world of Big Bands, Jazz, and the Blues.

Why did i pick this podcast?

Jazz music has been one of my favorite types of music. I usually listen to jazz music when I want to relax and chill out. The Era of Jazz was incredible, all that passion for jazz and all the old time artists. Then Jazz music was about real talent. Nowadays artists imitate music from that Era (the early 1900’s). In the year 1935 there was a very big industry on Jazz music and number of different things. My favorite artists from that decade are these: Lee Wiley, Ella Fitzgerald and of course Louis Armstrong. Jazz was also used for the old time cartoons.
When Jazz became big in the industry of music, actors, dancers and singers wanted to be part of it. Jazz was usually sang, danced and acted by African Americans. Jazz music was also played in Europe at the time. Jazz was all over the place. It was played on radio stations day and night. Jazz was all about love and dance. People loved it. It was the most famous type of music. This brought something new to the table. Artists started singing and dancing to Jazz in a very rapid way.
I wish people my age still danced and listened to this type of music. Not how it is now, where you go to a party or something similar and the only music playing is R&B or Pop. Jazz has inspired me to be more open minded about the last Era. Then things were not as fake as now, artists had their own unique look, they didn’t try to look like someone else, like now artists start becoming famous because they started off copying someone else’s work. I wouldn’t mind going back in time to live those years.

Sunday, November 16, 2008

I'm the one.


193 years old, mature, and thirsty for young girls at about 90 something years of age. My favorite places to hang out are cold dark slimy corners. I eat fish. The best type for me would look like this: too ugly to be eaten, scrawny, and gloomy. I hate sunlight. I do not want any hairy girls, or any Goblins. I was a very happy hobbit at one point in my life but when I lost the ring I was too disillusioned to even think about getting over it, and eventually became a creature. I developed a lisp, I’m kind of lazy, sometimes I’m hideous and I’m wild. So don't wait for anyone else. Im the one.
my email: slimygross@hotmail.com
my number: 8976322340569000324535
love you.

Tuesday, October 14, 2008

I Read to Her and She Remembers


The movie I chose is The Notebook. I chose this movie because it impressed me and I know I’m not the only one who loves this movie. This movie is one of my favorite movies. I love it, I crave it. Whenever I watch it I want to watch it again. I enjoyed watching this film not only because it had a meaning to it, because it wasn’t predictable at all. It’s not like the movies that Hollywood or Bollywood make nowadays that have no point and are just funny.
In this film, there is an old man called Noah telling an old woman Allie Hamilton, a beautiful story of two young people a long time ago, that she sure heard before. These two youngsters met at the carnival. They then ended their blissful relationship because her parents especially her mother did not like the boy because he wasn’t wealthy enough, so they moved to elsewhere. Allie was heartbroken by this; she waited for a letter on the mail for quite a while, then passed days, months, and years of no letter on the mail. She had taken a decision to move on and forget all about the boy. Then Allie met a striking beautiful wealthy man and got married to him. The day she was trying her wedding dress on she grabs the newspaper of that day and finds her first love on the first picture, she then goes to his old house. When she got there she got out of her car and said these exact words: I saw your picture on the paper and I just passed by to see if you’re okay. Their feelings never died. They were still there. Allie had to take a hard decision, who to choose, her first love or the handsome wealthy husband.
Director: Nick Cassavetes
Writers: Nicholas Sparks and Jan Sardi.
Stars: Ryan Gosling, Tim Ivey, Rachel Mc Adams, Starletta DuPois, James Garner, Gena Rowlands, Sam Shepard, Joan Allen, Ed Grady.
Date of release: 25 June 2004 (USA)