Alisha Staples was born July 15, 1980. She is the daughter of Elnora Gray-Mason and William Staples. She was born in Hampton, Virginia. She has two older siblings. Pamela Huggins and Velma Williams. She is the mother of one child Monee’ Anderson. Alisha Staples attended Machen Elementary School, Jefferson Davis Middle School, and Spring Valley High School. She graduated in 1998; then she attended Kenneth Shuler for Cosmetology.
She grew up in the house with her dad and her two older sisters. Growing up in the house with her two older siblings she also had a dog named Lady. Summers were spent with friends and family. Every summer she spent at least one week with her grandparents in Slocab, Alabama. She and her dad were really close tending
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So she had to move to South Carolina with her mother and stepfather. Once she moved her she felt like her life had took a tragic turn. Her stepfather was abusive to her mother and he really didn’t want her to live with them. She felt out of place and she really missed her father and the way she was use to growing up.
As she felt like this she started to talk to her sister Gwen. Gwen being the protective big sister that she is then moved to South Carolina from Virginia. When she moved down here Alisha then went and moved in with her. Once she moved in then Alisha tried out for Spring Valley’s basketball team. She made the team and that became her outlet. Alisha had a lot of friends she was a very social person. Once life started going good for her, Alisha’s mother came and moved in with her and her sister. Her mom got tired of the abuse she was receiving from her husband.
Once they got her moved in and everything started to settle. Things were going great for awhile. Then her stepfather popped up at the house. He was basically stalking her mother. Alisha had know where to turn. Her life was falling apart as she knew it. But then she started to build her relationship with God. Once she started to build her relationship with God she then relied on her best friend, God, and basketball. Once she became a senior she then met Kelvin Anderson. They started dating and they went to prom
During that time in Liberia, there was a civil war going on causing her mother to make that decision of sending her only daughter away for a better life. Although she traveled with Pan Am, her family entrusted her to a man she didn’t know to bring to her extended family. The possessions she departed with were a suitcase some articles of African clothing and a purse. Her first twenty-four hours were scared and frightening. Once she arrived in New York, she had to take a bus to Providence, Rhode Island to meet her family. On the bus ride, in shock and terror she thought America was depressing by its appearance. Due to it being winter, she expected warm weather with blossomed flowers and
She lost another love by the name of Oluf, could not find much work, and lost hard-earned money through a bad business investment. After all this peril she took Russell and Doris and moved to Baltimore. Another move equaled more stress, less money, and more struggling to get by. With what seemed to be the world against her, she made it. She remarried, bought a house, and became the success she demanded of herself. Every step of the way Russell was exposed to all the ups and downs. His mother’s life during those times shaped and influenced his own.
Tunisha Thomas grew up in Brooklyn, New York. Her mother is from Grenada and father is Grenadian and Cuban.
Jenna Talackova is a transgender model who was born as Walter Talackov in Vancouver, British Columbia Canada. She started her gender transitioning process when she was 14 years and went for the gender reassignment surgery at 19 years of age.She is known for waging a war against the Miss Universe organisers, after being disqualified on the grounds of not being a natural born woman, she won the battle and competed in the Miss Universe Canada 2012 pageant.Earlier,she had also participated in Miss International Queen pageant in 2010 held in Thailand. She has also starred in Brave New Girls, a reality show based on her life and featured in the campaign of Lionesse cosmetics in
Don't you hate it when you check your phone/computer to look at the weather forecast, only to find out that the weather is just the opposite of what you expected? Well, in the show Law in Order, almost the same exact thing occurs. In episode 6, of season 16 of Law in Order, I think Nurse G screwed up - she shouldn't have sterilized Tracy Sands.
On her short visit home, how did her former life compare to her new life?
ended up where she was without her Father; no matter how much she dislikes him. Essentially
In the 1960’s the author was growing up with her mother and five other siblings, moving from place to place in search of a home where the
She work about three years there and then that store closed. She didn’t know what she was going to do, but thankfully there was a manager spot open in a small town called Sebring so in the middle of her daughters Vivian and Samantha’s school she moved them out to Sebring. They moved into a really small house, but it was perfect for their little family. However it was also very difficult. She had to make a huge decision to choose whether or not to keep her daughter Vivian back a year or move her on and cause her learning troubles in her future. She decided to keep her back a year and let her stay on pace and not cause her daughter in trouble in her future. Thankfully that was the right decision because her daughter was thriving in school. However she had to deal with her other daughter Samantha dropping out of high school, she
Aria Jordan is a intelligent and caring person who is constantly thriving to do her best at all times. My family is very interesting, but they are constantly supporting me and my interest. My interest include a multitude of things, such as learning and experiencing new things, and exploring the world around me. The activities I love always revolve around helping others, such as feeding the homeless or volunteering at a cat shelter. Or they include me learning new things, such as playing in jazz band, or participating in college club. Some experiences I value are the ones where I learn a new life skill, or experience incredible things that better me as a
It was between 1969 and 1970 her parents, Marie and George, decided their relationship was no longer working due to “unreconcilable differences” and got a divorce. She said that at the time the idea of divorce was becoming familiar and there was not much of a stigmatism. She said it was mainly her mother that wanted the divorce because she wanted more excitement in her life. She explained that her father worked a lot and when he did have free time he wanted to go hunting and fishing, while her mother wanted to go out and go dancing. Her father ended up buying a trailer and moving to Pittsburg California, which was only about 15 minutes away from where they lived. When she thinks back to when her parents split up, she expresses how “lost” she felt and how “unexpected” it was.
Taryn Simon is a photographer who was shot down by Walt Disney because he believes that photography shuts down the fantasy that guests are expected to uphold while visiting his theme parks. He went on the say that what is in the parks allow the guests to fantasize and escape reality. I suppose somehow a real image takes away the instinct mentally to create one's own. I feel that for business he has a point because Disneyland is supposed to mesmerize a person and take them on a journey that can not be taken anywhere else. If that image were to change to the public, it would not be as popular or profitable. On the other hand, I do think photography can have that same effect on one’s mind.
but apparently she had to get used to it. Liz's dad had died when she was 8,every since then Liz and her family haven’t been the same. Her mom started leaving for her work a lot more and taking more jobs that she has to travel around the world for. Liz felt alone she would come home to none after school. She missed her mom and dad,she missed getting hugs from her family when she came home from school.
She speaks about the death of her father and how it helped her to finally leave.
The costume designer I chose is Colleen Atwood. While she hasn’t designed for the stage, Colleen Atwood’s career spans 53 films in the last three decades. Alongside that, she’s been nominated for 11 Oscars, and out of those nominations, she’s won 3. Considering the fact that, according to Caroline Ryder (Citizens of Humanity), she set out to be a painter and an art teacher when she was a teenager, that’s quite a feat. Atwood attended Cornish College in Seattle, Washington to study painting. While attending Cornish College, she gained experience in the fashion industry by working in an Yves Saint Laurent boutique in the northwest chain store, Frederick & Nelson. She didn’t graduate from Cornish, but did move to New York City, where she studied at New York University.