Holidays

popular singer, a prostitute, and persecuted, Billie Holiday spend her life batting abuse, addiction and racial discrimination. Billie was an iconic figure living ahead of her time. On a time of segregation, when expressing your opinion could cost your life, she was fearless. Billie Holiday was a fighter, a female that will revolution music and will make an unforgettable contribution to music and society. Eleanora Harris, famously known as Billie Holiday, was born on April 7, 1915 in…

The service organization that I received training by was the Holiday Inn; I was hired to work at the front desk. I have worked in a couple different service jobs, but this particular one required training that I had never experienced before. After I got hired I had to complete various training exercises: video demonstrations, role plays, housekeeping duties, computer program test, tour of the building, and phone conversations. I had to pass each exercise in order to be on the schedule. There…

Models of Relationship Growth in a Roman Holiday Scholars have conducted several models that explain and demonstrate the development of relationships. These models can be applied and demonstrated in several movies including the 1953 classic, Roman Holiday. The film portrays the life of a young princess who decides to escape her life of royalty and spend a day amongst the people of Rome, where she falls in love with an American journalist. While observing the film, three models of relationship…

The most memorable holiday in my life was in 2009. We were at home sitting down, We went into the living room and waited for are relatives to come to our house for christmas. Then when they arrived we chatted for a while then we had hotcoca and then we ordered pizza. When it arrived we ate until we could eat no more After that we sat in the living room and watched some tv for a while until my grandpa ordered cookie pizza like 3 of them and he went and got it. When he came back we ate the…

It’s the time of year where holiday music becomes apart of the variety of music we, as consumers, are exposed to. Ranging from radio, Christmas carollers, malls, and coffee shops. Christmas songs originate from Christian and religious traditions celebrating the birth of Jesus and bringing feelings of rejoice to those around them. The purpose of most holiday music is to positively affect the listener at all three levels of listening. The place I decided to focus on this type of music…

Greed is something that affects us all. It can change a person completely weather it’s for the good or the bad. In A Christmas Carol, Scrooge was a greedy, rich, and lonely man. When 3 ghosts visited him, they presented Scrooge’s past, present and future. Scrooge realized that he needed to change in order for a better future. In It’s A Wonderful Life, George Bailey and his bank lost $8,000. George started to only care about the money and took his family and friends for granted. His guardian…

Chippy’s Christmas It was Christmas Eve and Mr. and Mrs. McBaster were getting ready to go see their parents in New Orleans. “Chippy! We will be gone for a while. Please look after baby Ashley. Okay.” said Mrs. McBaster. Ashley was laying in her beautiful crib with violet spirals and pretty pink dots. Chippy walked over to her crib and Ashley climbed out of it onto Chippy’s fluffy black fur. She clutched his fur tight and she troggled down the stairs to the den. Laying in the den, there was a…

My Holiday to Beijing I sat on the hill the wind pushing my hair softly in all directions, I had an photo album in my lap containing all the memories of my recent trip to Beijing. Looking at the photos made me remember all the wonderful times and fun I had during the trip. I remembered the time when I was at the airport, having emotions at the time which were indescribable, my heart was racing like a bomb and my eyes shinning with joy. I could see myself walking onto the plane I knew in my…

discriminated and ambushed daily. Holiday performed “Strange Fruit,” she was jeopardizing herself in terms of releasing the song out in 1939, this song made Americans look bad because they were harmful to the Africans. This song was written to get an image of how African Americans were being treated in the South between 1882 and 1968. The song “Strange Fruit” is associated with historical incidents of the South, segregation and police brutality. Billie Holiday felt…

billion in 2014 – 2016 through projects by central and state government and private sector the industry is looking to grow enormously. Mahindra Holidays & Resorts India Ltd is one of the leading companies in leisure hospitality…