Idols Essay

artists like a Beyonce or Ciara. She is the true princess and one of the originals of R&B that every artist looked up too. Her spirit will always be carried in the music industry in every new singing dancing artist that emerges to the scene. She is a idol. Aaliyah was the one of the main artists that opened new doors to different ways of performing music, but as the famous actress Regina King stated in an interview about Aaliyah, “I know that people say that Janet opened a lot of doors for a lot of

Integrity and Success What is the line between cheating and just “helping out?” Is there a hierarchy of honesty which places people into categories based on the extent of their cheating? Whether or not there are different “levels” of dishonesty, people often sacrifice their integrity in order to succeed. However, is this always the best method of getting ahead in life? While it may be easier to excel in the professional world by cheating, Tom Hanks, Simon Cowell, and Malala Yousafzai have proven

On Wednesday, September 21 at 7:00 p.m. the beginning of the Valley Idol competition took place at the Eckilson-Mabee Theatre inside the Tech Center. Mikalah Vogelsmeier was in charge of the event and had chosen three judges to observe the performance of each contestant. There were four contestants, Matheus Macedo, Anissa Abrego, Christopher Contreras, and Shelby Hicks. Macedo is a sophomore here at the college that is studying Accounting. For the opening, Macedo performed “One Dance” by Drake

Ellen DeGeneres, beloved media icon and entertainment pioneer, have reached deep into the audiences' hearts since her first comedy stand-up appearances in the eighties through her works on television today. While many Americans now know DeGeneres for her syndicated talk show, The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and her countless awards, such as the Emmy Awards, American Comedy Awards, and People's Choice Awards, she is more than just a television celebrity. Both on screen and off screen, Ellen DeGeneres plays

Ellen DeGeneres is an Emmy Award winning talk show host and an incomparable comedian. Numerous may distinguish her as the voice of Dory on Finding Nemo, or even as a judge on American Idol. Her idiosyncratic spirit is so infectious she drives the audience to laugh as a matter of fact, cry at her will, regardless of whether the joke is humorous or not, the manner in which she delivers the joke lures such a positive criticism from Ellen’s viewers. Ellen is not fearful of being unique. She dialogs about

to the whole occasion and I admired the way they searched the ladies handbags going into the church with such discretion and subtlety. Thank you boys. Thank you to our readers, for their beautiful readings. I felt that like Will Young from Pop Idol, they took each piece and "made it their own". They also did a much better job than Gareth Gates would have done! Talking of Will & Gareth: Talented, young, attractive, gay icons... the Best Man, Craig, is none of those things... except of course

Underwood grew up in small town Checotah, Oklahoma where her passion for singing began in her church choir. From there her talent and fame only escalated. She came into the public’s eye in 2004 when she auditioned and later won season 4 of American Idol- earning her college credit towards a Mass Communications degree that she graduated with shortly after her win (“Carrie Underwood” People). Underwood was later named the highest debuting country artist in history for her record-shattering album Some

merely trying to save himself from a curse. Micah’ mother also sins. When Micah returns the silver, she doesn’t curse but she blesses him. Her values, like Micah’s, are not in line with God’s. She blesses him and the hires a silversmith to make her son idols, a clear sin against God, and he keeps them. The mother doesn’t condemn her son because she is as much of a thief as he is. In 17:3 she says, “I wholly dedicate the silver from my hand to the Lord for my son to make a graven image and a molten image;

Time to break out those foam fingers, platinum blond wigs, and schoolgirl uniforms and get ready to join Christina Aguilera in some celebrity impersonations! In a promotional commercial released for the season finale of NBC’s The Voice Aguilera impersonated several of her fellow female pop stars while imagining how their try-outs for a judging position on the show would proceed. Christina Aguilera tweeted out a link to the video with the caption “this was so fun! Fun tribute to those I love

Do you know how to make pottery? You make a shape of pottery you want with a clay and put it into the fire, which is temperature of 850 degrees. That smooth clay becomes hard when it goes into the fire. However, if you drop the pottery which goes into the fire once, it will crack. To make the hardest pottery, you put into the fire again and again. This means that the hot fire is significant step to make pottery stronger. Hot fire is like a failure. If people endure the failure and never give up