Whitney Houston's Major Accomplishments

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According to Webster Dictionary, "entertainment is the act of amusing or entertaining people" (Marian-Webster Dictionary). As you may know Michael Jackson and Whitney Houston have passed away, but Sam Smith, Photography, and Kevin Hart are still alive and they are all well known. So as Americans, we may enjoy looking at photographs of famous people. Sam Smith is an entertainer who has been photographed a lot. Sam Smith has always been a natural singer, but he also had been inspired by the soulful singers Aretha Franklin and Stevie Wonder. In 2009, Sam's mother wanted him to be successful so she decides to promote his singing while she was on company time, which had gotten her fired. When Sam would write his albums he would make them personal, …show more content…
Whitney Houston was known to be a chronic cocaine user with a heart problem. She had been signed at the age of 19 by Clone Davis of Arista Records, and by 2006 she had a Guinness World Record for most awarded female of all time. A year later she decided to take a break from her career and she also got a divorce. When she took her break, she had stopped doing drugs, but when her career took off again all the stress caused her to get back involved with drugs. Whitney had been to two rehabilitation programs, but still had several relapses. On February 11, 2012 Whitney Houston had died fro having a heart attack causing her to drown. When Whitney had passed away, she had an acute dose of cocaine in her system, but when investigators searched her room there was no sign of cocaine. Some people are saying that the person who supplied was the one to remove it from her room. Whitney was buried next to her father at the Fairview Cemetery in Westfield New Jersey. Her funeral was four hours long but was filled with lots of friends, family, other superstars and lots of …show more content…
In 1827 Joseph Nicephore came up with the first photographic image with a camera obsura. Inn 1975 the 1st digital camera was created by a man that goes by the name Steve Sasson. The first color photograph was created by "a Scottish physicist James Clerk Maxwell" (15 interesting facts about photography). Photography is used so much for social media, for example "Facebook users on an average upload 350 million photos daily and there are a total 240 billion photos uploaded on Facebook" (15 interesting facts about photography). Photography has such a large history because so many people helped it

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