This Girl Can Sang!!!

 Carlissa Weathers


  Fantasia Barrino came to fame after winning American Idol season three in 2004. She is a native of High Point, North Carolina where she used her singing voice in church and the family band in many events around the city. Singing was just a mere hobby for Fantasia but after a very tramatizing past of abuse, pregnancy, and rape, she knew she needed something that would help change her world in a positive way. Winning American Idol was just the beginning for her. America fell in love with her beautiful soulful voice. Fantasia is one who can sing any song and sound good doing it bringing emotion, soul and church to every word she sings. She is definitely the best female vocalist of my generation and no one is like her. Dont even compare her to anyone else because Fantasia is one of a kind and Oprah seems to agree, placing her as the lead in the musical play, The Color Purple.

Love and Hip Hop

     The new season of love and hip hop aired on Monday, November 14, 2011 and it was definitely an episode to remember. It already started off with confessions, fight, and a breakup. The show evolves around artists and their family as they battle love for each other and their love for the hip hop game. It feature artists such as Jim Jones, Fabulous, Olivia and Somaya and each artist not only have to focus on their music but also their love life. Jim being pressured by his girl to get married, Fab has a girl thats never been out public with him, Olivia trying to get back in the music game and Somaya struggling as a developing artist. Everyone in this show fighting for a different type of love, while being in the hip hop light. Who knows what will happen this season? Will Jim buy a wedding ring or will Somaya finally become a big star? This will definitely be a good season and I will be tuned in to every episode.

http://www.vh1.com/shows/love_and_hip_hop/season_2/series.jhtml

http://rapfix.mtv.com/2011/11/21/love-hip-hop-yandy-smith-on-fight-jim-jones-chrissy-lampkin-mama-jones/

http://www.tmz.com/2011/11/22/jim-jones-love-and-hip-hop-juelz-santana-chrissy-lampkin-thanksgiving/

http://theurbandaily.com/tv/shamika-sanders/love-hip-hop-episode-2-chrissy-yandy-go-at-it-video/

Rosa Parks

Carlissa Weathers
November 3, 2011



Rosa Parks is the mother of Modern Civil Rights Movement. Rosa Parks was born February 4, 1913 in Tuskegee, Alabama. On December 1, 1955 was the day that her life changed forever. After a long day of work, Rosa Parks took a bus ride home and decided to sit in a seat near the frot. Back then, only whites were allowed to ride in the front of city buses. After being asked to move and refusing, Rosa Parks was arrested. There were those before Rosa that refuse to give up there seat, but the day she refused was the beginning of the Montgomery Bus Boycott. African American decided that they would no longer ride the bus if they were not able to sit wherever. Gladly, Rosa Parks lived to see African Americans gain there freedom. She passed away October 24, 2005 in Detroit, Michigan. Her funeral lasted for many hours with many guest such as, Barrack Obama, Jesse Jackson, and many civil rights activist. Al Sharpton was one of many who spoke on her behalf. He let everyone know that she made a difference. She made the world respect her people the day she refused to move. Also that we as a people need to be thankful for where we at now, and to not let everybody who was fighting for freedom work go invane. Rosa wanted equal opportunity for everyone, she changed the lives of many and will continue to be honored for many years to come.

http://www.rosaparks.org/

http://www.biography.com/people/rosa-parks-9433715

http://teacher.scholastic.com/rosa/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCLVs2FuPCA

http://www.rosaparksfacts.com/

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8A9gvb5Fh0

http://www.holidays.net/mlk/rosa.htm

Twitter

Carlissa Weathers
October 24, 2011



    Everyone in America knows about or own a Twitter. Twitter is a social network that is used by many people to keep in touch with one another by reading tweets. It seems that lately social networks have been the cause of many teen on teen violence. Many use sites such as Twitter and Facebook to keep up on fellow peers while others use it to harass people. People can go on there and say whatever they want to, to whomever they want. If somebody read something that they dont like, all they have to do is reply to it and thats where all the problems start. Then, you can show your location everytime you tweet so all your followers can know where you are at every minute. I just think that overall, Twitter is a big problem. To me its a waste of time and its just a way for people to keep tabs on others every move. Even though Twitter is a very popular site, it is not the #1 social network that people choose to go on. According to http://www.ebizba.com/ as of November 2011, Facebook is still the #1 social network, with Twitter coming in at #2. Facebook has an estimate of 700,000,000 monthly visitor and Twitter has only 200,000,000. I do believe that Twitter will become the most popular social network within the next year.


http://twitter.com/

http://mashable.com/guidebook/twitter/

http://social-networking-websites-review.toptenreviews.com/

http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/social-networking-websites

http://ryankett.hubpages.com/hub/Largest-Social-Networking-Sites

http://www.seoinc.com/seo-blog/the-top-10-biggest-social-networking-sites-infographic/

Beyonce, How Far Along Are You?

     Beyonce announces the good news the evening of at the VMA's that she is pregnant! Rumor has it that Beyonce is wearing a fake baby bump!After making an appearance on an Australian television show, the camera catches her sqaushing her stomach as she sits down. So, is she exaggerating her pregnancy with a padded bump? Many want to know if she faking her pregnancy, while a surrogate mother carry the baby? Is her bump really as big as she want us to believe? Beyonce has not yet respond to any of these accusations but did announce that she will be coming out with a maternity clothing line.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2047888/Is-Beyonce-wearing-fake-baby-bump.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

http://www.iphotodownload.info/download/beyonce-pregnant-vma-2011/

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1669849/beyonce-pregnant-vmas.jhtml

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/beyonce-pregnant-music-video-countdown-jay-z-245243

http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/beyonce-pregnant-feel-love-growing-inside/story?id=14402726