Christina Aguilera

Speech The poem “The Dispossessed” and the song “Say Something” have both shaped my personal understanding of the wider world and in particular relationships. This song and poem both deal with the idea of relationships in very different negative ways. Through an analysis of this song and poem I will show how they portray different relationships and how this has changed my view of the world. The poem “The Dispossessed” By Oodgeroo Noonuccal captures from a third person perspective the loss of…

Christina Aguilera is going to be coaching this season instead of Gwen, but Blake and Gwen will be together once again. The Boot shared that Gwen is joining Blake Shelton on the upcoming season as his mentor. The coaches always bring on someone to help them out…

Rap/Hip-Hop is currently one of the largest music genres in today’s society. Marshall Bruce Mathers III, more commonly known as Eminem, is one of the most successful artist in the rap game with almost 150 awards (Wikipedia) to his name - one being the artist of the decade award; this almost certainly has to be accompanied with a sense of pride. During Eminem’s early career, he portrayed asshole like characteristics and would have taken that sense of pride and turned it into offensive pride. It…

painting whose description brought to mind a common stereotype about Africans as well as African Americans. The painting was called “Mrs. Thomas Donovan and Elinor Donovan” created by Joshua Johnston. The painting wasn’t the most expressive. It was hardly colorful. Joshua Johnston was charged with painting a picture of a high born woman with her daughter. In the picture the woman wore dark clothing while wearing ‘shepherdess’ hat. She held her daughter Elinor in her lap along with a bowl of…

Selena Quintanilla was star eyed even from childhood. She had always been playful, happy, and most importantly, a great singer. Though she got better over time of course. Selena’s dream was not originally to be a musician, but her father had imposed the idea on her at a young age by making her and her siblings play music together. Her sister and brother weren’t as enthusiastic about the idea as she was, but over time they came to love the idea of practicing and rehearsing together. In the…

Is Ignorance Bliss? “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life…” (Asimov, Isaac). Many people are ignorant to the subject of anti-intellectualism or just don’t see it as a big issue. There are two definitions of anti-intellectualism, “A person opposed to or hostile toward intellectuals and the modern academic, artistic, social, religious, and other theories associated with them” and also, “A person who believes that intellect and…

received a combined total of around ten minutes of recognition, tacked onto the beginning of a sports assembly (759). He mentions in his essay that the internet praises high school drop outs. He states, “With such well known cultural icons as Christina Aguilera and Sammy Sosa qualifying for such a list, any drive towards intelligence or education becomes laughable in the eyes of media-inundated young people (Noted Dropouts)” (760). This is saying to society that you do not have to go above and…

On a beautiful Sunday afternoon in Westminster, Colorado, my parents Craig and Michelle Habben sat in Westminster Lutheran Church. Lyndsay, who was my cousin, was getting confirmed; my parents, along with the rest of my dad’s side of the family, sat and supported her. My mom Michelle had been experiencing some pain and discomfort all day, therefore, she didn’t get any sleep the night before. Once my mom noticed that she was having contractions five minutes apart, she knew for sure she was in…

into the last stage of the competition. 40. The group came on National Television Awards in 2012 to perform "Don't Let Go (Love)". 41. Little Mix refers the Spice Girls, Beyoncé, Michael Jackson, Destiny’s Child, En Vogue, TLC, Nicki Minaj, Christina Aguilera and Rihanna as their musical impact. 42. Their autobiography released by Harper Collins is titled “Ready to Fly”. 43. They have promoted Schwarzkopf hair dye Live Colour XXL product through their “How Ya Doin” number. 44. The number…

I struggle to understand why anyone would go and see a drag queen play a leading lady in musical theatre.” (Barnes, 2015. 119) The purpose of this dissertation is to discuss the portrayal of drag queens within musical theatre and how, if any, societies perceptions have changed over the last 40 plus years. This research will be revised between 1970 to the present day, which will include case studies from three major plays/films and one television show. Those being discussed will include, The…