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23B “One night in room 23B please,” blurted Cora as she thrusts her credit card out towards the petite concierge behind the desk without an ounce of uncertainty. The small man had a gleaming noticeable forced smile that projected all the way above the desk, but the moment Cora utter the room number he slipped into a solid stare of pure shock. “Ma’am I highly suggest any other room in this fine hotel. Here at the Gadsden we have over 30 floors of..” “No thank you.” Cora interrupted before the man

“It most certainly is not,” retorted Phillie. “Freddie is that terrible man from those awful movies made years ago. The man who would attack children in their sleep.” “Freddie Krueger,” Ernest clarified. “The other kids started calling Neil that after he was burned in the fire.” “I’m sorry, I had no idea,” I uttered finding myself in shock. “He was just introduced to me as Freddie, nobody ever let on…” “Oh, don’t worry about it, son,” Ernest said as Phillie then headed off into another

Simmons, the co-founder of Def Jam Records. Biography of Russell Simmons Russell Simmons was

college. Russell Simmons passion was music so he left college to pursue his dreams. He met a guy named Rick Rubin and created Def Jam Records to promote local rap artist. They both gave all there money to make this record company to become successful.

4. Step 4 in the career planning model is to develop a plan that will enable you to attain your objectives. Cite an example in the case on how Jay-Z went about achieving his objective of taking control of his music career?Jay-Z “became the CEO of Def Jam.” This shows that he went straight to becoming a leader rather than becoming a rapper and listening to a manager. He knew he had the skills to do

an opportunity in the underground music genre Hip-hop (p.154). From that moment on Russell knew he could capitalize off hip-hop. Not only did Russell take a chance on an opportunity, he formed a great record label with his friend Rick Rubin called Def Jam Records. However his success did not stop there Russell went on to create a clothing line, Rush Communications and many other ventures. With his knowledge of street entrepreneurship and the philosophy of “keeping it real” (p.154-155), Russell

Rick Rubin Who is Rick Rubin? If you do not know that is okay, Rick Rubin is a famous music producer. He first started out at Def Jam Records, then left the label in 1987 due to a conflict of opinions. He then started his own record label in Los Angeles, California called Def American Records in 1988; he later changed the name in 1992 to American Records. He has had much success with his record label; Rick Rubin as produced music from heavy metal like the Slayer, to country music’s Johnny Cash

Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson was born on May 2, 1972 in Hayward, California. He is strongly known for being a WWE wrestler, and an actor for the famous series The Fast and the Furious and many more. I believe that he is a successful man because he came from having absolutely nothing to making millions. A lot of people aren’t very motivated to actually make a change in their life, but he didn’t give up on himself. That is why I strongly believe that he is successful; however

Naomi Campbell Receives the CFDA Fashion Icon Award Practically everyone in the fashion world knows who Naomi Campbell is. The supermodel is this year’s recipient of the CFDA Fashion Icon Award. In the 90’s, Campbell defined the term glamazon. She became a huge part of a decade of milestones through her appearances in Versace fashion shows and also made a cameo in George Michaels’ music video. Her relevance in the fashion industry never seems to decline even after three decades later. She truly

Throughout time there have been many movies depicting what some would call, tragedies: Titanic, The Fault In Our Stars, generally every film created based off any Nicholas Sparks novel, and every play created by Shakespeare. Even with these so-called tragedies, one specific film seems to come into mind automatically when reading the requirements given by Aristotle of what makes a tragedy a true tragedy. In Aristotle's own words, “a tragedy is a mix of six things: plot, characters, diction, thought