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Mary Dempster was the wife of Amasa Dempster, the Baptist priest of Deptford, Ontario, Canada. She was a kind lady and very introverted. While her husband was very religious and constantly felt as if God was testing him, Mary was not so involved in religion. However, she did not let her husband’s strong belief in God influence her life. She was calm, even-tempered, and believed that things would all eventually be resolved. Mary’s life changed when an incident occurred on December 27, 1908, which involved her being struck in the head with a snowball. The blow from the snowball was the cause of her premature birth to her son, Paul Dempster. Mary became extremely ill after this incident, and the townspeople began to look down at her with feelings of contempt. She was considered “simple” in the head for various reasons. When Paul was a baby, Mary breast-fed him in plain sight of the public. She was also considered to be incapable of performing simple tasks such as cooking and cleaning. Often times, Mary would travel around town and offer “bunches of wilted rhubarb, or some rank lettuce, or other stuff from her garden which was so ill tended … that nothing did well in it” (Davies 38) to the inhabitants of Deptford. Ultimately, it was the snowball hitting Mary which caused her to become “simple.” Hence, it was not revealed until later years that her “simplicity” was caused by a rock which was hidden inside of the snowball. Thus, it was not until a few years after Paul’s birth that…

of the revenue they would have obtained if the movie were not leaked. Fifth, studies show that the cause of the collapse of the record industry from 1998 to 2003 was because of file sharing. Sixth, MPAA, Motion Picture Association of America, roughly concluded that $16 billion of revenue is lost yearly to copyright of film, music, software and video. Lastly, NBC did a study where they removed all their materials off from iTunes. This resulted in an increase of piracy by 11.4…

American Pop Icons. Even though, both stars started from the same place, they both evolved at different times, and took different chances in their musical career. Brittney Jean Spears was born on December 2, 1981 in McComb, Mississippi. However, she was raised in Kentwood, Louisiana. In 1997, she signed with her first record label, Jive Records. As a result, in 1999 she came out with an album called Baby One More Time. In time, she became the best-selling teen artist of all time. For this…

It comes without surprise that Lara Fabian is an ultimate diva of contemporary music society. The incredible musician has over 1.2 million followers on Facebook and more that 69.7 k fans of Twitter. Over a year ago her songs on YouTube had reached over 312 million views, and all these explain her exemplary popularity. I have chosen to write about Lara Fabian because she is one of those superstars who have made significant strides in transforming the lives of their music fans. Fabian is my…

By 1988 Dolly was back to focusing on her musical career. She was nominated for two Grammys that year and won the Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group (Dolly Parton Awards). She shared this award with the great Linda Ronstadt and legendary Emmylou Harris. They received this award due to a hit off of their collaboration album, Trio. They later produced a second album Trio II. Dolly Parton also won a two People’s Choice Awards that year, Favorite All-Around Female Entertainer and…

still had a happy life she even said herself that “while we didn’t have much money we had a good life”(Dawn 1). Parton was the fourth of 12 children and her mother had one miscarriage(Freeman 1). Her parents Robert and Avie Lee always new that there was something special about her and believed she could do anything she set her mind to (Dawn 1). Parton has always had the ability to inspire others and with her type of talent she was able to inspire woman who had less authority and others who had…

lilkimzone.net lilkimzone.net Welcome back to part two of our article about Lil Kim. I am sure you learned a couple of things with the last article. Here are seven more interesting things you probably didn’t know about The Queen B. Number Seven: She Won A Grammy in 2002. Lil Kim won Best Pop Collaboration. in a remake of Patti Labelle's hit "Lady Marmalade" she featured singers Mya, Pink, and Christina Aguilera. The single won them the Grammy in 2002 for Best Pop Collaboration. Number Six: She…

When we think of major music events that are viewed by many young adults, the MTV Video Music Awards comes to mind. But who could have imagined that in 2013 roughly 10.1 million people would tune in the watch the “public sexual blossoming of Miley Cyrus”. (Deadline, 2013) “About five million of these viewer ages ranged from 12 to 34” which is a time when many people are still forming their identity. (Deadline, 2013) This was not the only shocking display from a female artist. Singers Lady Gaga…

After her stardom in Mickeys show she just kept getting bigger. She then started opening up for *NSYNC at the age of thirteen. In 1999 at the age of 18, Britney released her first hit …Baby one more time. That same year Britney received Female artist of the year at the Billboard Music Awards. That next January she won favorite pop/rock new artist. In February she was nominated for two awards at the Grammys. Later that year “Oops…I did it again” hit the radios and broke the record for most…

The world we currently live in is based on an amalgamation of ideas, where some achieve exponential success whilst others fade into obscurity. Malcolm Gladwell, through his book “Tipping Point” addresses the magic moment when these ideas cross the threshold and spread like wildfire (Gladwell, Preface). Moreover, he asserts that there are a number of factors that are at play in virtually every influential trend, ranging from the rise and decline of Airwalk shoes to an alarming escalation in…