Thursday, June 10, 2010

Foods in the 2000's( Ahminah Waters)

Foods in the 2000's

  • Heinz easy squirt red & green ketchup
    Boston Market Homestyle Meals
    Pepsi Twist
    Colored M&M’s
    Vanilla Coke
    Folgers AromaSeal
    Kraft & supermac & cheese
    Wrigleys Slim Pack Gum
    Frosted Flakes Gold
    Cupcakes
    Pizza
    Meatloaf
    Starbucks

Music(Abby Romero)

Biography forEminem
Marshall Bruce Mathers III was born on the 17th October 1972, Kansas City, Missouri, USA. His mother was 15 at the time she gave birth. Six months later his father left him., Marshall spent his early childhood being shoved back and forth from Kansas City and Detroit. He settled on the Eastside of Detroit when he was 12. Switching schools every two to three months made it difficult to make friends, graduate and to stay out of trouble. Being a rap fan for most of his life, Marshall began rapping at the early age of 4. Rhyming words together, battling schoolmates in the lunchroom made him happy. When he was 14 he was very serious about his rapping skills and when he turned 17 he came up with a name he could call him self M&M and later on re-spelled it as Eminem.The name 'Eminem' came from his initials M(arshall) M(athers). People started rejecting him as a rapper because of his race.Marshall grew an anger that flows through his music to this day. After failing the 9th grade three times in a row, he quit school, but says that he doesn't consider himself stupid but that people should'nt follow his example.His very first album was titled "Infinite".It was then that his daughter, Hailie Jade Scott, was born on December 25th of 1995 with long time girlfriend Kim Scott. Having nothing to lose at all, flat broke and not knowing where he would be living the next week, Marshall set out to rant about life in general, the set quickly caught the ear of hip-hop's difficult-to-please underground. What came out of this was the Slim Shady EP, the early work for the later Dr. Dre revised Slim Shady LP. Down to nearly his last dime, he went into the 1997 Rap Olympics in Los Angeles, basically hoping to win the $1,500 cash price which he badly needed. After battling for an hour and throwing back every race diss thrown at him, Marshall made it to second place losing in a slip up. Furious that he had lost, Marshall didn't even notice that he had been spotted. In the crowd were a few producers from Interscope, and they were handed a copy of the "Infinite" tape by way of a demo. Dr. Dre got to hear it and eventually tracked him down. The two instantly hit it off, recording four songs in the their first six hours of working - three which made it to his first LP. After the album was finished, Dr. Dre asked Marshall to come work with him on his new album. He helped produce several tracks and was on the best songs of the album. It won 3 Grammies and was the first rap album ever to be nominated "Album of the Year", selling more than 8 million records in the United States alone. He also stunned critics when he shot down all homophobic remarks by performing "Stan" with Elton John. Eminem made a movie called 8 Mile (2002), and has gone back and brought his friend with him; D-12. Though 2001 was a rough year for the rapper, being charged with weapon offenses, divorcing his wife, and almost going to prison, Marshall explains his life today in one word.
His hit list top 12
Lose yourself, Hailie’s song, Sing for the moment, Stan, Mocking Bird, Like Toy Soldiers, Without Me, When Im Gone, The Way I Am, The Real Shady, Cleanin Out My Closet, 8 Mile.

Hip Hop
Artists such as Eminem, OutKast, T.I., Kanye West, The Game, 50 Cent, Nelly, Nas, Jay-Z, Missy Elliott, Lil Wayne, Ludacris, and Twin Creek Soldiers were among the dominant mainstream hip hop artists to have represented the Hip hop genre for the decade.

Rock
Rock remained popular in the beginning of the decade, despite the increasing popularity of hip-hop, but experienced a diminished presence on mainstream music charts by the end of the decade.

Alternative rock
Garage rock and post-punk revival
The White Stripes were one of the most successful emerging American rock acts of the decade.In the early 2000s, a new group of bands emerged into the mainstream which drew primary inspiration from post-punk and new wave and were variously characterised as part of a garage rock, post-punk or new wave revival.Nickelback has released seven number-one singles on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart and has sold over 35 million records.After the first wave of post-grunge bands lost their popularity, bands like, Puddle of Mudd and Nickelback took post-grunge into the 21st century with considerable commercial success, abandoning most of the angst and anger of the original movement for more conventional anthems, narratives and romantic songs.

Hard rock and heavy metal
During the early 2000s a new wave of metal began with interest in the newly emerging genre nu metal and genres of a similar style such as rap metal and the later mainstream success rap rock. The popularity of nu metl music carried over from the late 1990s, where it was introduced by early work from bands such as Korn, Deftones, Slipknot and Coal Chamber, into the early 2000s with the similar genre, rap rock, bringing in a wave of monster-hit artists such as Evanescence, Staind, Papa Roach, and Disturbed.

Emo
Emo broke into mainstream culture in the early 2000s with the platinum-selling success of Jimmy Eat World's Bleed American (2001) and Dashboard Confessional's The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most (2003). The new emo had a far greater appeal amongst adolescents than its earlier incarnations. At the same time, use of the term emo expanded beyond the musical genre, becoming associated with fashion, a hairstyle and any music that expressed emotion. In recent years the term emo has been applied by critics and journalists to a variety of artists, including multi-platinum acts such as Fall Out Boy and My Chemical Romance and disparate groups such as Paramore and Panic at the Disco, even when they protest the label.

Pop
Singer Britney Spears is the best selling female performer of the decade.Christina Aguilera is considered to be one of the best-selling female artist of the decade.Teen Pop became an extremely popular genre in the early 2000s with success of teenaged pop-singers Britney Spears, Christina Aguilera, Jessica Simpson, and Mandy Moore. This trend dissolved dramatically due to modern R&B and hip-hop influenced music that dominated throughout the middle of the decade. Britney Spears became eventually the decade's best-selling female artist selling over 85 million albums worldwide as well as the fifth best-selling artist in the U.S.In 2002, a new "teen pop rock" movement began. Avril Lavigne was arguably the first and lead artist to take this new direction in pop music, with hits such as "Complicated", "Sk8er Boi" at the beginning of the decade and "Girlfriend" at the end Lavigne leads this genre throughout all the decade worldwide, her contemporaries such stars as, Michelle Branch and Vanessa Carlton not far behind with their own success.Lady Gaga took the later part of the decade by storm. Her debut album, The Fame, was released on August 19, 2008.

Thursday, June 3, 2010

Al Gore

Al Gore was born March 31, 1948 in Washington D.C. He attended St. Albans School from 1956-1965, after graduating he enrolled in Harvard Univeristy in 1965, the only college he applied to. In 1967 Gore took a course on elimate science which made a strong impression on him, influencing him the direction of enviromental concerns. He graduated with a Bachelor Of Arts degree in government cumlaude on June 12, 1969.

Al Gore served as the 45th Vice President of the United States from 1993-2001 Under Bill Clinton. He Is Currently an author, business person, and American enviromental activist who starred in the in the 2006 documentry An Ineconvinient truth, which won an acadamy award in 2007. He was involved in American Politics for 24 years, serving first in the U.S. House Of Representives (1985-1993) before becoming Vice President. Gore was the the democratic nominee for president in the 2000 presidential election. Gore is the recipient of a number of awards. He and the Intergovernmental Panel on climate change were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007. He Is currently the founder and chair of Alliance For Climate Protection , the Co-Founder and chair of Current Investment Managment, The Co-Founder and chair of Current Tr, a member of the board of directors of Apple Inc. , and a senor advisor to Google.

Osama bin Ladin

Osama bin Laden was born in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia on March 10, 1957. His father was a wealthy businessman with close ties to the Saudi royal family. From 1068-1976 he attented the "elite" secular Al-Thager Model School. He studied economics and business administration at King Abdulaziz University. Some reports suggest that bin Laden earned a degree in civil engineering in 1979, or a degree in public administration in 1981. At university his main interest was religion, where he was involved in both interpreting the Quran an jihad and charitable work. He also wrote poetry. After leaving college in 1979 bin Ladin joined Abdullah Azzam to fight the Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan and lived for a time in Peshawar.

Rudy Guiliani

Rudy Guiliani was born May 28, 1944 in the New York city borough of Brooklyn. Rudy attended catholic school, St. Anne's in Garden City South. He then moved back to Brooklyn and attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School, graduating in 1961 with an 85% of average. He went to Manhattan College in Riverdale, Bronx, where he majored in Political Science with a minor in Philosophy. There he considered becoming a priest, after having studied Theology for four years in college. He graduated in 1965. He eventually decided to fore go the priest hood, instead attending New York University School of Law in Manhattan, where he made law review and graduated Cum Laude with a Juris Doctor in 1968.


Rudy served as Mayor of New York City from 1994-2001. A Democrat and Independent in the 1970's and a Republican since the 1980's, Guiliani: served in the U.S. Attorney's office for the Southern District of New York, eventually becoming U.S. Attorney. He prosecuted a number of high-profile cases, including ones against organized crime and wall street financiers. He served two terms as mayor of New York City, having having run on the Republican and the Liberal lines. He was credited with initiating improvements and with a reduction in crime pressing the city's quality of life initiatives. After leaving office as a mayor, he founded Guiliani Partners, a security consulting business. Guiliani considered running for both Governor and Senator in 2010, but decided not to run and remain active in his business career.

Bill Clinton

Bill Clinton was born August 19, 1946. He attented St.John's Catholic Elementary School, Ramble Elementary School, and the Hot Springs High School. With the aid of scholarships, Clinton attended the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, recieving a Bachelor of Science in Foreign Science degree in 1968. Upon graduation he won a Rhodes Scholarship to University College, Oxford where he studied Philosophy, Politcs and Economics, though as a result of switching programs and leaving early for Yale, he did not obtain a degree there.


Bill Clinton is the 42nd President of the United States from 1993-2001. At 46 he was the third-youngest president. He became president at the end of the cold war, and is known as the first baby boomer president. Clinton was described as a New Democratic adn was largely known for the Third Way Philosophy of governance that came to epitomize his two terms as president. His policies, on issues such as the North American Free Trade Agreement and Welfare reform, have been described as centrist. Clinton presided over the longest period of peace-time economic expansion in American history, which included a balance budget and a federal surplus. He helped Arkansas transform its econmony and significantly improve the state's educational system. He became a leading figure among the New Democrats. He served as chair of the National Govenors Association from 1986-1987, bringing him to an audience beyond Arkansas.

Hilary Clinton

Hilary Clinton was born in october 20, 1947 in chicago illinois at edge water hospital. As a child she attended school at park ridge. She attended Maine East High School where she participated in student council, the school newspaper, and was selected for National Honer Society. For her senior year, she was redistricted to Maine South High School, where she was national Merit Finalist and graduated in the top five percent of her class of 1964. Hilary enrolled In Wellesley Collage, where she majored in polictical science. During her freshmen year, she served as president of the Wellseley Young Republicans.

Hilary Clinton is the 67th U.S.A secretary of the state, serving in the administration of president Barach Obama. She was a u.s senator for New York from 2001-2009. As the wife of the 42nd president of the U.S. Bill Clinton, she was the first lady of the U.S.A from 1993-2001. In the 2008 election, Clinton was a leading candidate for the Democratic Presidential Nomination. In 1994 as first lady of the U.S., her major initiative, the clinton health care plan, failed to gain approval from the U.S. congress. In 1997 Clinton played a role in advocating the creation of the state of the Children's Health Insurence Program, the adoption and safe Families Act, and the Fosler Care Independence Act. After moving to the state of New York, Clinton was elected as a U.S. senator in 2000. That election marved the first time an American First Lady had run for public office.

Nancy Pelosi

Nancy Pelosi was born March 20,1940 in Baltimore, Maryland. Pelosi was involved with politics from an early age. She graduated from the institute of Notre Dame, a catholic all-girls high school in Baltimore, and from Trinity College in Washington, D.C., in 1962 with a B.A. in political science.
Nancy Pelosi is both and current speaker of the United States of Representatives. Before being elected speaker in the 110th congress, she was the House Minerity Leader from 2003-2007, holding the post during the 108th & 109th congress.Pelosi is the first female speaker of the House. She is also the first Californian and first Italian-American to hold the post. As speaker, Pelosi is second in the line of President succession, following Vice President joe Biden, which makes her the highest- ranking female politician in american history.

Barack Obama

Barack Obama was born on augast 4,1961 at Kapi'olani Hospita in Hanolulu, Hawaii. Obama is the first president to be born in Hawaii. From ages six to ten,obama attended local schools in Jakarta, including Besuki Public School and St.Francis of Assisi school. In 1971. Obama returned to Honolulu to live with his maternalgrandparents, and attended Punahou School, a private college prepatery school, from the fifth grade until his graduation from high school in 1979. following high school, obama moved to l.A in 1981 he transferred to Columbia University , Where he majored in Political science with a speciality in international relations and graduated with a B.A in 1983. He worked for a year at the Business International Corporation, then at the New York Public Interest Research.

Obama served three terms in the Illinois senate from 1997 to 2004. Following an unsuccessful bid for a seat in U.S House of Representatives in 2000, he ran for United States in 2004. In 2008 general election, he defeated Republican Nominee John MCCain and was inaugurated as president on January 20,2009.As president, Obama signed economic stimulus legislation in the form of the American Recovery and renvestment Act in February 2009. On october 8, 2009 , Obama was named the 2009 nobel peace prize lawereate. in March Obama signed the

George Bush

George Bush was born July 6, 1946 in New Heaven, Connecticut. As a child Bush attended public schools in Midland, Texas. He went to the Kinkaid School, a prep school in Houston, for two years.Bush finished his high school years at Philips Academy, a boarding scholl in Andover, Massachusettes. Bush attended Yale University from 1964 to 1968, graduating with a Bachelors of Art degree in history. Begining in the fall of 1973, Bush attended Harvard Business school, where he earned an MBA. He is the only U.S. President to have earned an MBA. After graduating from Yale University in 1968, and Harvard Business school in 1975, Bush worked in his family's oil business.

In a close and controversial election, Bush was elected President im 2000 as the Republican Candidate, defeating then vice president Al Gore in the Electoral College. Eight months into Bush's first term as president, the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks occured. In response, Bush announced a global war on terrorism, ordered an invasion of Afghanistan, that same year and an invasion on Iraq in 2003. In addition to national security issues, Bush promoted policies on the economy, health care, education, and social security reform. He signed into law broad tax cuts, the No Child Left Behind Act, the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, and medicare prescription drug benefits for seniors. He tenure saw national debates on immigration and social security.

Bush successully ran for re-election against Democratic senator John Henry in 2004, in another relatively close election. After his re-election, Bush recieved increasingly heated criticism over its handling of Hurricane Katrina. In December 2007, the United States entered its longest post-world war II recesion. Though Bush was popular within the U.S.for much of his term, his popularity declined shortly during his second term. He is currently a Public Speaker and is writing a book about his presidency.

Hilary Clinton

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Hilary Clinton was born october 20, 1947 in chicago illinois at edgewater hospital. as a child she attented school at park ridge. she attended maine east high school were she participated in student council, the school newspaper, and was selected for national honer society. For her senior year, she was redistricted to maine south high school, where she was national merit finalist and graduated in the top five percent of her class of 1964. Hilary enrolled wellesley collage, where she majored in political science. During her freshmen year, she served as president of the wellseley young republicans.

Tony Blair

Tony Blair was born May 6, 1953 in Edinburgh, Scotland. After attending The Cherister School in Durham in north-east England from 1961-1966, he boarded at Fettes College, an independent school in Scotland. After Fettes, Blair spent a year in London, where he attempted to find fame as a rock music promoter before reading jurisprudence at St.John's College, Oxford. After graduating from Oxford in 1976, with a second class Honours BA in Jurisprudence, Blair became a member of Lincoln's Inn, and enrolled as a pupil barrister.


Tony Blair is a British Labour Politician who served as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from May 2, 1997 to June 27, 2007. He was the member of Parliament for Sedgfield from 1983-2007 and the leader of Labour Party from 1994-2007; he resigned all these positions in June 2007. Blair is the Labour Party's longest-serving Prime Minister; the only person to have led the Labour Party to three consecutive general election victories; and the only Labour Prime Minister to serve consecutive terms, more than one of which was at least four years long. In May 2008, he launched his Tony Blair Faith Foundation. This was followed in July 2009, by the launching of the Faith and Globalisation Initiative with Yale University in the USA, Durham University in the UK, and National University of Singapore in Asia to deliver postgraduate progamme in partnership with the Foundation. Once elected, Blair's ascent was rapid, and he recieved his first front-bench appointment in 1984 as assistant Treasury Spokesman.

Sarah Palin

Sarah Palin was born on February 11th, 1964 in Sandport Idaho. She attended Wasilla High School where sje was the head of the fellowship of Christian Athletes. She attended Hawaii Pacific University in the fall of 1982 and North Idaho College in the spring of 1985. In June 2008, the alumni Association of North Idaho College gave her its distinguished Alumni Achievement award. She also attended Matanuska-Susitna College in the fall of 1985. She returned to the University of Idaho in the spring of 1986, receiving her bachelor's degree in communicatons with an emphasis in journalism from there in 1987.

Sara Palin is an American politician, author, speaker, and political news commentator who served as the govenor of Alaska from 2006 untill she resigned in 2009 . She was the republican nominee for vice president of the United States in 2008. Palin was a member of the Wasilla, Alaska city council from 1996-2002, she chaired the Alaska oil and Gas conservation commission from 2003 untill she reigned in 2004. In November 2006 she became the youngest person and the first women ever elected govenor of Alaska. In April 2010, Sarah Palin was selected as one of the 100 world's most influential people by TIME magazine. Palin promoted oil and natural gas in the Arctic National wild life Refoge. While being govenor in Alaska , Palin declared that top priorities of her administraion would be resource development , education and work force development, public health and safety, and transportation and instructure development. She had championd ethics reformed through out her election campaign. Her first legislative action after taking office was to push for a bipartisan ethics reform bill.