Natalie Cole Substance Abuse

Nina Simone was and is something potent, fascinating for some people. Once people heard her, they could not avoid the fact that she was an incredible musician. She is considered as a jazz, rock, pop, folk, black musician. A repertoire broad as hers, ranging from melodic songs, blues, spiritual songs, and gospel to themes borrowed from African folklore, made her an artist difficult to classify, and in fact her biography appears in compilations of literature on Jazz, Rock, Pop and Soul. As one critic has said, she was all and nothing: an independent and temperamental spirit, unique and incomparable. She was Nina

On March 17, 1919, Nathaniel Coles, son of Edward and Perlina Coles, was born in Montgomery, Alabama. Edward Coles was a Baptist minister and Perlina Coles was a Pianist and Choir Director (Nat King Cole, St. James Encyclopedia). In 1921,

Her rise to fame and privileged life also identify her as a tragic hero, the famous family that she was surrounded with helped her to develop her love for music and aided the jumpstart of her career. Finally, Whitney had personal and decisive flaws, including a lack of self esteem concerning her personal character and a poor spouse choice, which ultimately lead Whitney to experience a downfall that included alcoholism, drug abuse, and, eventually, death. America was left void of their hero, once a mere young girl with stunning talent, beauty, and

Nat King Cole was born in Montgomery, Alabama, on March 17, 1919. Cole, the son of a Baptist pastor, first learned to play the piano around the age of four with help from his mother, a church choir director. He owes most of his popular musical fame to his soft baritone voice, which he used to perform in big band and jazz genres.

Nat” King” Cole was born Nathaniel Adams Cole on March 17, 1919 in Montgomery, AL. His father, Pastor Coles was a butcher before he became a Baptist minister. The only

After that song my daughter's fame was sealed, everyone knew my Aaliyah’s name. Now look at my daughter she’s writing songs for movies, right now she’s singing a song for Disney, Dr. Dolittle, and she got the part in, “Romeo must die.” I don’t know what my daughter can’t do. Even though there was that mishap with R.kelly and the marriage licence, i’m so very proud of my baby, my superstar but because Aaliyah is now a singer and actor.

Cheryl Strayed faced many emotionally traumatizing events and instead of blacking them out and staying quiet, she exposed them so people could learn from her story and realize everyone faces troubles, so there is no need to hide them. Her worst pain came from her mother dying. Cheryl chose to deal with that in a poor manner, which she now realizes and accepts. She did drugs to escape her reality, and she slept around soon becoming numb to any and all emotions. She received a lot of negative criticism for behaving that way, but everyone handles situations differently. She was a stronger person to be able to face her mistakes and even much more to share them with the entire world. She also had to deal with her sick horse. The horse was very ill and her stepfather didn't know how to kill a horse without pain. They decided to shoot him, but he didn't die, so they shot him again and again until they ran out of bullets. This was

It was a sunny afternoon, my friend and I were having a little talk, and she brought up the topic that she had an abnormal fear of the opposite sex, mentioning that she felt uncomfortable whenever she talked to men. She added that she was too anxious to look at their eyes or faces that she sweated every time she did. I tried to help her by suggesting a few reasonable causes of her phobia: the divorce of her parents, raised up by her mother all alone, studying in girl’s school and the forbiddance of young love in Chinese culture. All these factors further isolated her from making appropriate contact with the opposite sex in her puberty. In fact, these social institutions, such as family, education, economics, social

The basic thing nobody asks is why do people take drugs of any sort? Why do we have these accessories to normal living to life? I mean, is there something wrong with society that’s making us so pressurized that we cannot live without guarding ourselves against it? – John Lennon. Drug and Alcohol addiction is a serious physical and psychological problem that can affect many aspects of an individual. Drug addiction is a serious problem that is gradually overcoming the community and organizations must be eager to avoid this continuation. Drug and Alcohol abuse leads to increased accidental deaths, internal conflict and detachment with family members.

I will explore the life of a white 23-year-old female college student named Becky who still lives at home with both her parents in the suburbs. Becky has a boyfriend named Jason who is 28 and a high school dropout. Recently Becky’s mother found a package of heroin and cocaine in her daughter’s room however when she confronted her daughter Becky denied that the substance belongs to her. It was not until long that Becky’s drug problem became known when she was picked up from a club trying to buy drugs from an undercover police officer. Becky has been court ordered to go detox then to a rehabilitation center for 90 days as well as attend Narcotics Anonymous and Alcohol Anonymous. Becky’s boyfriend was not

Alexis Neiers feared the physical symptoms of withdrawal, she knew them well her first detox took place in her jail cell. Far more terrifying for Alexis than the physical withdrawals was the end of the “numbness” of the drugs. Without heroin she would have to face the realities of the abuse she had faced as a child no longer being able to block out the traumatic event of her past. Neiers drug abuse as a coping method with childhood sexual abuse is an indicative symptom of some degree of post- traumatic stress disorder. Neiers is amongst those with post-traumatic stress syndrome who had gone without treatment and chose instead to self-medicate. (Breslau, N.

28 Days is about a woman named Gwen Cummings (played by Sandra Bullock), an alcoholic, who crashes a stolen limousine while intoxicated on the day of her sister’s wedding. She is then court-ordered to a rehabilitation center for 28 days to be treated for Substance Use Disorder (SUD), specifically for Alcohol Use Disorder (AUD). At first, she is reluctant from participating in any treatment programs and refuses to admit that she is an alcoholic. This film shows Gwen’s journey to recovery, where she struggles through withdrawal, has many flashback memories, goes through therapy, and also becomes friends with the other patients along the way. Ultimately, she begins to restore a relationship with her sister, Lily, while also realizing that her boyfriend, Jasper, is a bad influence, as she tries to regain her life.

She was able to overcome all that to become an important influence to many musicians like Neneh Cherry who believes that Billie holiday was a “role model, an innovator, and activist” (Griffin). But also a really strong black women because back then it was difficult for a “women who wasn’t white” to make it as far as she did (Griffin). Even though her songs were about abuse and sorrow, she didn’t want other musicians to copy her singing style, instead she wanted musicians to advance the “wisdom and spirituality of songs like Strange Fruit and God Bless the Child” because those two songs have meaning behind them like “Strange Fruit” that song was created by a “teacher named Abel Meeropol” and asked holiday if she could sing it. Holiday was scared

It is said that this hard lifestyle began to affect her work. Her songs were no longer filled with youthful emotions, but a sort of bitter regret. Even with the change in her music still had a great impact on other artists of her time and later. (www.numberonestars.com, 2010)

Attention material: She is the most popular female artist since 2006 when she started as a country singer; she has won many Grammy Awards, Kids Choice Awards and People’s Choice Awards with her incredible talent. She is generous, creative and successful; this could be no other than our beloved Taylor Swift.