John Lennon

                                                                                                           

                                         Birth Date and Place

     John Winston Lennon was born on October 9th 1940 at Oxford St Maternity Hospital. While John was being delivered bombs were dropping left and right because of world war 2. Johns mother Julia had been married to Freddie, who was in the military, Freddie was on leave when John was being born. Mimi, Julia's sister, took over for her when Julia was recovering from having John since Freddie wasn't around. During that time Julia had lost touch with Freddie, as far as they knew he had been killed while being on deployment. As John got older another man came into his life, his mother's new boyfriend, who was also named John. Not too much longer into Julia starting over Freddie came back into the picture he was assuming things would be just as he left them little did he know they would be quite different. Throughout this time in his life he was thrown around quite a bit going back and forth between parents and Aunt.

                  

                             Family Members

Johns only family was his Mother Julia who was always apart of his life including his two sisters, his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George who raised him they didnt have children. Johns father wasnt always

there he came back and forth into John's life. He had a son from a former girlfriend in his college years. He eventually got married in his later life to a woman named Yoko and was married to her until he was killed.

                                                                                                           

            

               Childhood and School Life 

 John spent most of his childhood playing with the boys in his neighborhood, during his younger age he was living with his Aunt Mimi and Uncle George, in their neighborhood Pete Shotten was his best friend they were best friends all through their teen years. The boys started their own little club with all the younger kids, Lennon and Shotten started calling eachother Shennon and Lotten as a joke and it stuck for a long time. They always got into some kind of trouble their most famous ideas was to tie a rope to a tall tree that ran along the street and everytime a bus would come by they would swing out towards the bus and scare the people the drivers eventually caught on to the boys and their jokes. The Strawberry Feilds was another place John loved to go it was the local orphanage they always had music events or carnivals there. John

  was always so excited to go see what was new. The boys eventually formed a band, they called  themselves The Quarry Men the only things they had to use for instruments was household items once they grew up a bit more they started playing at the Strawberry Feilds when they had concerts. When John was about 6 his father came back into his life and they lived together for not that long then he realized he didnt want to live with him so he moved back in with his Aunt and Uncle. He did stay with his mother but not untill he was about 13 or so.

His school life in the beginning was very normal all of his teachers always had good things to say, up into his high school career thats when he started getting the reports that he wasnt doing well and a disruption in class and wasnt ever going anywhere. John knew what he wanted to do in life and doing actual school work wasnt it. Music was all he wanted.

                                     Hobbies and Activities

Music was Johns only true hobby besides causing trouble growing up. When he was in high school he was a writer in his school newspaper he always had some kind of controversy to cause. Everyone always looked forward to Johns next article. But music was always his main goal. On his downtime he liked to just hang out with the guys and joke around, once the Beatles formed his

favorite pass time with them was coming up with new lyrics. But after the Beatles had broken up John mainly enjoyed spending time with his wife Yoko they eventually wrote their own music together. He also enjoyed having his solo contract later on as well.

     

                                            Anecdotes

John always had to “make the show” by doing something crazy to attract the audience and keep them wanting more. Before the Beatles became the Beatles we know today, it was only John, Pete and Paul. John would run around on stage and yell out random things and get the crowd to join in with him and get them all hyped up. One night they were in a smaller club in Germany and John was getting all hyped up to get the crowd all hyped up, this was one of their first shows on their tour, in the middle of one of their songs john started yelling “Heil Hitler” and that got them going the crowed cheered for two encores after that show they became a hit in Germany after these shows.

  Another show they played in Germany on a different tour later on, they had just finished their first set and were on break, John randomly disappeared from the group at one point and they all walked back on stage and John was still nowhere to be found. Right before they started their second set he runs out with a toilet seat around his neck the crowd went wild, John being John didnt take it off for the rest of the show he had the crowd chanting their name even though they couldn't say “ the Beatles” he had them saying “Da Peedles” and thats what they were known as in Germany after that.

    

                                                         Career

       Johns career was all about his music from the day he started playing his first guitar and the day he sadly sang his last tune music was always his calling no matter what anyone said John always wanted to have a music career. He started young writing and playing his songs, once the Beatles started when it was John, Paul and Pete, John and Paul always wrote duets together that's where most of their songs came from. He always used his childhood memories or stories his family had

told him to write his songs. Once the Beatles that we all know today became a band (John, Paul, George and Ringo) John still wrote most of the songs with Paul there was always something new for John to write about he always had the most creative ideas. John had a very successful career even after the band broke up he went on his own and made his own music with his wife, his solo career lasted up until the day he was killed.

                                         
 Reason for Fame     

      The Beatles was Johns main reason for fame. Even though he started out as just an average neighborhood kid playing in a band he became one of the biggest bands in the whole world. Before he was even 10 he knew he wanted to go somewhere with his music. Once the Beatles had started they were only noticeable in Europe not so much in the US yet but they became so big in England and Germany people were wanting to buy their songs little did they know these boys were only a small town band, eventually they talked to a man who owned a record store and he produces their records they flew off the shelfs! At that time though they weren't all old enough to get into clubs and such so they had only captured the younger audience which had been a hit but not long after they captured the older generation as well as the world.

                             Later life and Death

John didn't have much of a later life but the time that he did have he spent it with his wife and writing his own music along with writing music with his wife, he did go on to have a solo contract and produced his own songs for a long time after the Beatles broke up.

  December 8th John was walking out to meet a limo to take him and his wife to their Dakota group. On the way he met a man passing by on the street Mark David Chapman, who was obsessed with Lennon and the Beatles, before Lennon got into the limo Chapman had stopped him and asked for a picture and an autograph in his book “Double Fantasy”, he told Lennon about how much of a fan he

was and how excited his family would be to see he met him. Later that night, it was about 11 pm, Lennon heard someone call his name as he went to turn gunshots fired and Chapman stood holding a gun. Johns wife Yoko cried out in pain watching her husband fall to the ground a by passer looked at Chapman and asked if he knew what he just did and Chapman simply looked at him and said “Yes i just killed John Lennon.” and walked away into a hallway and kept on reading his book. The bystander called the police and Chapman was arrested that night. Sadly as for John he was gone. And that was the day we lost the one and only John Winston Lennon.  

                                   

Old Nickelodeon Shows

 

       Who remembers the good old shows on Nickelodeon? If you’re a 90’s baby I know if you heard “move it football head!” you would recognize that it would be Helga from Hey Arnold. There’s always those few little things you remember no matter how old you get, yes you know every once in awhile you get flashbacks of the shows you used to watch as a kid. Remember Cat Dog, Hey Arnold, Ren and Stimpy, All That, Keenan and Kel, the Amanda Show, SpongeBob, Rocket Power, Slime Time, Roccos Modern Life, Rugrats, Legends of the Hidden Temple, Angry Beavers, Doug, Figure it Out, and the Wild Thornberry’s. If you brought up any of the shows I’ve listed I’m almost positive anyone born in the 90s would know most of them.
       Rugrats was the first Nicktoon to premiere on Nickelodeon on 8/11/91. Doug, Ren and Stimpy and the Wild Thornberry’s also premiered on the same night. Through out its time on the air Rugrats gained 20 awards and held the most episodes for one show until Spongebob hit its 173 episode in 2012. Looking back on those shows you will always remember the trouble the babies in Rugrats got into or the funny things the monkey said in the wild Thornberry’s. Rocket Power! You know you always wished you had a cool hand shake like Reggie, Otto, Twister and Sam did or you called someone a “Shoe Be” if anyone ever wore their sandals with socks, the show aired on August 16, 1999 it stayed on until July 30, 2004 with their very last episode called “The Big Day”.What about Rocco? From Rocco’s Modern life! Even though we never knew exactly what he was if he was a dog or small kangaroo it was always a fun show to watch, going back now and seeing the show you will find a lot of adult humor, the show didn’t last more than a few seasons before they stopped playing it. Who remembers being scared of the Mayan Temple Guards in Legends of the Hidden Temple one of the most popular children’s game show contests, it aired on September 11, 1993, and sadly didn’t last very long it stopped playing in 1995. Dancing lobsters?! Crazy skits about inflatable air bags you can wear like back packs? Skits about meatloaf! Must be the Amanda Show starring Amanda Bynes, her show was a child’s version of SNL, the show aired in 1999 and randomly stopped in 2002, it could have possibly been because half of her cast got their own show which created Drake and Josh in that same year. Dagget and Norbert Beaver? I bet you remember those names! Those crazy beavers that lived in their den on a river and never failed to get in some sort of trouble it was on Nickelodeon in America for awhile then went off air and came back on in Canada not too long after. Darwin? The only monkey that was just as smart as Einstein and was well dressed? Yes that’s the same one from the Wild Thornberry’s he always had something smart to say and always tried to help Eliza out but she never listened and he always had to come to the rescue, the show aired in 1998 and lasted until 2004 when the show was cancelled. That’s brand spanking new! Hey that’s Doug! How could you forget Doug Funnie the awkward teen age boy who never seemed to catch a break with anything he ever did. Doug was also one of the first shows to air on August 11 1991 and ended in the beginning of 1994 but it also came back on ABC for the children’s time on Saturday mornings. Who doesn’t love orange soda! I know Keenan Thompson and Kel Mitchell do! Who didn’t love all the crazy times they had together. They always got in some sort of trouble but never failed to work their way out of it. The show aired in 1996 and was off air in 2000.

These were the good old shows that no matter how old we get we will always remember them, but like any other generation were always going to say our childhood shows were the best and were always going to say that we had the best childhood but the generation before us is going to say that I Love Lucy and Leave it to Beaver are the best shows around but we all have our own opinions and our good old shows will always be our good old shows just as their good old shows will be there’s

Catalog

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My mom watches kids 24/7 she treats them as her own if they get in trouble she scolds them and if they do well they get appraisal for doing good, they're always out doing something whether its the ranch, going to my grandparents in Julian or just hanging out in front yard the kids are always active and learning, Blake and Aiden are 3 and Kane is 2. 

The days we watched my mom with the kids it was like any other day, by the time we got home from school it was lunch time for them so mom would ask them to clean up the toys Aiden wasn’t happy about cleaning up and got mad mom simply told him you have to clean up if you don’t want to eat lunch and go ride bikes he still wouldn’t so she got down on his level and told him firmly but nicely that he needed to help the other boys clean up he still refused and threw toys so he got a time out. Blake and Kane cleaned up like they were told. After Aidens time out he knew he wasn’t doing what was asked of him so he helped clean up and got to ride bikes after lunch.

  The next day I was home with the boys all day if they are good for the majority of the day they get rewarded with doing arts and crafts or going to the racnh for the day. The day that we went to the Ranch they did so well they were listing so well and doing everything mom asked. Regaurdless of their age they are a great help.They help feed the horses and walk them with moms help. Even though Blake wasnt to happy about going home that day he still listened to mom and did what he was asked and had said sorry for not agreeing.

We took the boys to Veijas and walked around like we usually do, they asked if they

were allowed to go play in the water all three got upset that we told them no they couldnt play in the water because it was to cold so Kane ran towards the water anyways, he got in trouble for running away from us so he wasnt allowed to have ice cream as their treat at the end of the day he got mad that he couldnt have ice cream when we all got it and threw a fit. Mom pulled him aside and talked to him about why he didnt get any he understood why and came around to behaving for the rest of the time that we were there.

Another day we watched my mom with the kids it was a normal day at home the boys didnt want to do anything but play with their new train tracks, so they ate breakfast and helped clean up, they played with no issues all the way untill lunch, when they knew it was lunch time they all cleaned up without being asked and got them selfs ready for lunch they had a really good day and followed all the rules she didnt have to say anything to them.

The last day we watched my mom Sierra and I had just come home from school and Kane was just waking up from a nap and wanted to play a bingo game mom helped play the game, she was helping Kane play against Sierra they played alphabet bingo and pop ups for about an hour. Kane always looked to mom for help durring the game she was always there for help and show him the right way to play the game.

Coraline

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                  Coraline? What kind of name is that you may wonder?  Its the name of young lady 

played by Dakota Fanning. Along with the Mother played by Terri Hatcher and the father played by Charlie Jones. Coraline is a stop motion film directed by Henry Selick. Designed by Neil Gaiman and brought to life in 2009.

Coraline is a movie about a young girl who moves to a new house and discovers a small door in the wall of her new house, when she asks her mother to unlock it for her they find nothing but a brick wall, they think nothing of it. Until later that night a mouse from the other world sneeks through the door, leads Coraline to the other world which causes a large amount of problems for her. She meets her other mother which Coraline thinks is the most amazing person at the time...for the time being that is, she thinks the same of her other father as well. As time goes by she realizes that everything isnt what it seems and isnt perfect. SPOILER! Dont read any further if you havent seen the movie.

 As Coralines other mother traps her in the other world Coraline realizes what shes trying to do so she tries to escaspe, she makes it home but realizes that she has taken her real parents to the other world and is holding them hostage. Coraline goes back into the other world and makes a deal with her other mother that if she wins a game she is allowed to go home, back to her normal life, with her real parents. She does all the other mother wanted and fights to get back home..does she make it home? youll have to watch the movie and see!
    The costume desgin of this movie took time and patience none the less, it took a lot of time to plan out what each character would wear and when. Take into concideration that its a stop motion film so costumes have to be made for almost every movement the character makes, say Coraline falls in the dirt, 4 to 8 costumes may need to be made for them do do the scene of her falling in the dirt.
  Set design is another aspect of filiming along with costume design they have to go through and make the set peices move one at a time for an example flowers, if they wanted to make the flowers move in the brease they would have to take a shot of the scene and then go back and move the flower every time to look like they are flowing in the wind.
  All together the movie looked prettty good they did a good job on costume design and set design, although some scences lookes as though they were still a bit slow in reasction time. The story line its self seems kind of dark for a childrens movie, other than that the movie was all over done pretty well.

  

X-Factor!

                                                                X Factor

Its Wednesday night do you know what that means!? X Factor Premier! If you didn’t watch you don’t know what your missing! The judges, Simon Cowell, Demi Lovato, LA Reid and Britney Spears, are both shocked and disgusted in what they see when some of the contestants come on stage. They start off in Austin Texas where they meet some people who have the talent and others who as Simon says “should have never been let on stage.” One young lady comes on and impresses the judges they say they have a good start to their day. Their not so lucky after her there were a lot of people who didn’t live up to the standards. Another older man comes on he is 50 years old, Shaun Paterson, he claims to be the best and says he’s a song writer/dancer Simon seems skeptic about this one everyone else is so far entertained Shaun says he is singing his original song, he sings, and gets kicked. off Britney looks at everyone shocked at what they just saw, Simon comments that he “should never sing again” they see more and more failures later in the show one young lady comes on and she claims to be “the best” and “no one can beat her” she sings Fireworks by Katy Perry and completely bombs the song she was very monotone with her voice. Simon, LA, Britney and Demi all agree that she “sounded like she was dying” and “should never sing on TV ever again”. As she leaves in a hissy fit LA asks “where’s all the talent?!” Well they got talent when they came to San Francisco but he defiantly was different Quatrele walks on stage with a wedding veil, white jacket, short white lacy shorts, fish nets and well yes he’s shocking to look at, the judges ask him questions about himself, he defiantly isn’t afraid to be himself! He sings and blows the crowd away LA is the first to speak up he denies Quatrele to go on Demi, Britney and Simon all let him through to the next level. LA asks Simon “What happened to you?! Your nice all of a sudden!” as that day goes along there’s more No’s than Yes’s.
One man Don Phillups comes on stage and instantly Britney recognizes who he is, about 10 years ago they recorded a song together he had gone through some hard ships so he stopped singing he came back to try to make a come back. He sings Halo by Beyonce, Simon stops him in the midst of his performance and tells him that he’s not what their looking for Demi and LA agree that he wont be making it through. He turns to Britney hoping she will say something good to him, the only thing she can bare to get out is “No”
He goes off stage an emotional wreck, Britney tears up a bit as well. They move on to Rhode Island where they meet Janelle Garcia, she has a “Pat Benatar sound” and they like it the judges are very impressed with her and tell her “they cant wait to see her again”

Next they meet a young lady Julian age 19, she comes on stage and her and Demi hit home they both went through similar struggles in their life Julian was also bullied growing up, she sings Who You Are by Jesse J and starts crying after the songs finished Demi tears up as well gets up from the judges table to hug this young lady Demi continues to tell her “you’ve made it this far don’t give up you’re a strong girl” the judges have nothing but complements for her Simon and LA both say they have never heard so much pain and emotion put into a song the way she sang it, she makes it through to the next level.

                                                      X Factor Day 2

Back to the fun of X Factor, they start out in San Francisco again where they meet Johnny a young man just trying to make it in the big time, LA and Simon enjoy his stage presence, Demi and Britney tell him he has a good voice and he makes it through to the next level. Next a girl named Alexa comes about she tries to talk down to everyone making herself seem better, when she walks on stage Demi and Britney both look at each other like where did she come from she sings Promises by Nero, no one was impressed she sang very monotone and blah they tell her she wasn’t good enough. More and more people come on stage and no one impresses the judges. Back to Rohde Island they go where they meet Patrick, who believes he is Britney’s brother, he walks on stage with a bouquet of flowers for Britney pours his heart out to her about how he loves her and how they are related he tells the judges that hes going to sing Circus by Britney as hes singing they all look at each other in shock he was just about half crazy and half terrible. When they stop him to tell him he didn’t make it he freaks out telling everyone how he loves Britney, which freaks her out, they tell him he didn’t make it and he storms off stage in a huff. After more people they finally get one a young girl named Carly, 13, sings Feeling Good by Nina Simone and does amazing she blows away the judges Demi says that she is “absolutely obsessed with her now” and Simon tells her “A star has been born today” and she makes it trough to the next level. Don’t forget to watch the next episode to see what happens!

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