Barbra Streisand

(Zweig 126). This rule contradicted the belief that one can pick stocks without doing any homework. In the 1980s and early 1990s, the most popular investing slogan, “buy what you know” (Zweig 125). An example of buying what one knows is what Barbra Streisand once said, ‘“We go to Starbucks every day, so I buy Starbucks…

We packed all the food in the fridge and took showers and went to sleep right away. My ears perked up when I heard Barbra Streisand on the TV and I got up swiftly and my heart started racing and palms sweating because it finally kicked in, ‘’I am in New York City!” I ran to the window and was completely appalled there were people walking very swiftly not even worried about…

Ryan Erik Adamsons,based in Chicago, is an active composer, performer, and educator. He received a Bachelor of Science Degrees in Jazz Studies and Brass Performance from the University of Akron (OH), and a Masters of Music concentrating in Jazz Composition from DePaul University in Chicago (IL). He currently works as an Artist Advisor at the Denis Wick/Vandoren Musician’s Advisory Studio in downtown Chicago, and serves on the Board of Directors for the Chicago Jazz Orchestra as their Director of…

The amendment was proposed to provide voting rights to the Black. A few supporters of the suffrage movement like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton denied any support to the amendment because it did not have any clause for women’s right to vote. The movement gained momentum during World War I (WWI). When WWI was declared as the war for democracy by President Woodrow Wilson, women took the streets claiming that the US was not a democracy. In 1918, the President gave a pro-suffrage speech…

A discrimination impact human’s health in terrible terrible ways. (Gilbert Herdt , 2001). Discrimination is a disease. (Roger Staubach, 2002). How I wish we lived in a time when laws were not necessary to safeguard us from discrimination. (Barbra Streisand, 1999). Discrimination is discrimination even when people say its tradition. (DaShanne Stokes,…

Watergate as defined by most historians, is one of the most prominent scandals that erupted in the years of Richard Nixon 's second term involving the break-down of Nixon 's administration amidst a very dangerous political scandal that shocked the beliefs of the American people and changed the view of the commander-in-chief 's position forever. Watergate is known as the largest abuse of power by an executive office in modern American history. President Nixon and his administration were not the…

I’m Looking Through You, Where Did You Go? Lennon-McCartney once wrote,“You’re thinking of me, the same old way, you were above me, but not today.” Over the course of 4 weeks we read the play Death of a Salesman By Arthur Miller, the play follows a man named Willy Loman. Who goes through flashbacks quite oftenly, from talking to his dead brother to learning about the time Willy cheated on Linda. These flashbacks make selling harder and harder for Willy, never coming back with anything to show…

Roses, Conard-Pyle, David Austin Roses, Heirloom Roses, Justice Miniature Roses and Oregon Miniature Roses. I have even been able to interact with several entertainment celebrities as a result of my love of roses and photography. I have assisted Barbra Streisand, Suzy and Jeff Bridges and Cliff Robertson in choosing roses, toured Sam Eliot through my home garden and presented Lynn Anderson who sang “I Never Promised You a Rose Garden”, with a 24”x36” photograph of the rose ‘Lynn Anderson,’ which…

“A film is made up of a hundred or more hidden things,” Vincente Minnelli once said in an interview. The quote seems to sum up Minnelli’s layered film making style. In this essay I will be exploring the themes of feminism, one of the hundred or more hidden things in Minnelli’s work. The essay will move through the life of Minnelli, analysing films from both the beginning and end of his career in the context of the time in which they were made. Vincente Minnelli was born Lester Anthony Minnelli…