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Literacy Journalism

"Ariana Grande"

Grande began her music career at age 15 in the 2008 Broadway musical 13. She rose to fame for playing Cat Valentine in the Nickelodeon television series Victorious (2010–2013) and Sam & Cat (2013–2014). Grande signed with Republic Records in 2011 after label executives viewed YouTube videos of her covering songs. Her 1950s doo-wop-influenced pop and R&B debut album,[2] Yours Truly (2013), topped the US Billboard 200, while its lead single, "The Way", reached the top ten of the US Billboard Hot 100. Grande's voice and whistle register on the album drew immediate comparisons to Mariah Carey.

Grande continued to explore pop and R&B in her second and third studio albums, My Everything (2014) and Dangerous Woman (2016). My Everything experimented with EDM and achieved global success with its singles "Problem", "Break Free" and "Bang Bang", while Dangerous Woman became her first of four consecutive number-one albums in the UK. Personal struggles influenced her trap-infused fourth and fifth studio albums, Sweetener (2018) and Thank U, Next (2019), both of which were critical and commercial successes. Sweetener won the Grammy Award for Best Pop Vocal Album, and Thank U, Next broke the record for the largest streaming week for a pop album and was nominated for Album of the Year. The singles "Thank U, Next", "7 Rings", and "Break Up with Your Girlfriend, I'm Bored" made Grande the first solo artist to hold the top three spots on the Hot 100 simultaneously and the first woman to succeed herself at the top of the UK Singles Chart. Her 2020 collaborations "Stuck with U" with Justin Bieber and "Rain on Me" with Lady Gaga helped her break the record for most number-one debuts on the Hot 100, the latter winning the Grammy Award for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance. Grande expanded on the trap genre with her sixth studio album, Positions (2020), which both the album and its title track debuted at number one in the UK and the US. Her collaborations with The Weeknd on the remixes of "Save Your Tears" and "Die for You" garnered her sixth and seventh US number-one singles, respectively.

Grande is one of the world's best-selling music artists; she has sold over 90 million records globally and all of her studio albums have been certified platinum or higher. She has also broken a variety of records on the Billboard chart, with her albums, songs and as an artist. Grande is the most streamed female artist of all time, the most streamed female artist of 2010s on Spotify and Apple Music, the most followed female artist on Spotify, and the most subscribed female solo artist on YouTube. Nine of Grande's songs and seven of her music videos reached 1 billion streams and views on Spotify and Vevo, respectively. She is the female artist with the most one billion songs on the former platform. Grande has been included on Time's annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world (2016 and 2019) and the Forbes Celebrity 100 (2019–2020). Grande was named Woman of the Year (2018), the greatest pop star of 2019, and the most successful female artist to debut in the 2010s by Billboard. Furthermore, Rolling Stone placed her in their list of 200 Greatest Singers of All Time (2023). Besides music, Grande has worked with many charitable organizations and advocates for animal rights, mental health, and gender, racial, and LGBT equality. Grande has also ventured into the cosmetics and fashion industries. Grande has a large following on social media; she became the most followed woman on Instagram in 2019 and has over 370 million followers as of 2023. Her fragrance line, which was released in 2015, exceeded $1 billion in sales through 2022.I

Facial Recognition

"Jungkook"

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On June 12, 2013, Jungkook made his debut as a member of BTS with the release of the single 2 Cool 4 Skool.[15] Under BTS, he has sung three solo songs. The first, a pop track titled "Begin", from the 2016 album Wings, tells his story of moving to Seoul at a young age to become an idol and expresses his gratitude towards his bandmates for taking care of him during that time.[16] The second, a future bass song titled "Euphoria", was released with an accompanying nine-minute short film on April 5, 2018, as the introduction to the third part of BTS' "Love Yourself" series.[17] Produced by DJ Swivel, the song charted at number five on the Billboard Bubbling Under Hot 100. Its full studio version was included on BTS' Love Yourself: Answer compilation album, released on August 24.[1] The third solo, "My Time", off the band's 2020 studio album Map of the Soul: 7, is an R&B song about forgoing teenage experiences because of his career,[18] and charted at number 84 on the US Billboard Hot 100. "Euphoria" and "My Time" are the first and second longest-charting solo tracks among K-pop singers on the Billboard World Digital Song Sales chart, having spent a record 90 and 85 weeks respectively on the ranking.[19]

Aside from singing, Jungkook has also helped produce two songs for BTS: "Love is Not Over", from the band's 2015 extended play (EP) The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 1, and "Magic Shop", from the band's 2018 album Love Yourself: Tear—he is credited as the main producer for both tracks.[20][21]

In October 2018, Jungkook was ordained alongside his bandmates with the fifth-class Hwagwan Order of Cultural Merit by the President of South Korea, Moon Jae-in.[22][23] He was appointed Special Presidential Envoy for Future Generations and Culture, again alongside his bandmates, by Moon in July 2021, in order to help "lead the global agenda for future generations" and "expand South Korea's diplomatic efforts and global standing" in the international community.[24]

Testimony

"Time is gold"

The saying "Time is Gold" is a saying we always hear especially among the elderly. They may be saying this because time is very important to a person. You can't get back the times and seasons that have passed or been lost. So while there's still a chance, while it's still time to do something with your family, friends or even yourself, do it. You should not make it last longer because when the time comes when you can no longer do it, you will have the thought that you wish you had done it when you could. Our lives are short so let's make the time and time we have now.

Travelogue

"Pagudpud ilocos Norte"

When I was in Ilocos we always went to Pagudpud because Pagudpud is beautiful, many tourists go to Pagudpud because it is one of the famous sights in Ilocos Norte because it is so beautiful and most of the famous vloggers and the Patapat Bridge go there This winding road is beautiful and in Bangui, the windmills and the sands there are beautiful, and then it's beautiful to look at the sea and the coconut trees.

Definition Essay

"To know Love"

Whether it's an infliction of pain, an intense feeling of pleasure, or a source of immense hurt, the three vastly different reactions are common side effects of love. In fact, love has been known to cause an endless number of emotional possibilities. It is important to consider how love is able to manifest itself into the many aspects of our lives. For example, how is love able to leave us wallowing in a bed of guilt, fortitude, agony, denial, or cause an overwhelming blissful sensation? Or, in more extreme cases, how has its intense side effects been able to cause people to physically harm themselves? Never has a single word been known to both have been rooted in selfless and selfish acts, showing itself as warmth and kindness, or maliciousness, guile, hate, or abandonment. Yet, the single word, love, arguably has the most versatile meaning of any word known. The average person will agree that "love" has been overused so much so, that it's original meaning has been diluted over the years, which has resulted in an inherent change from its intended purpose. For example, it often proceeds or has been associated with statements such as, "I'm sorry, will you forgive me?" or "come on don't you love me?" Love in the context of forgiveness is vastly different from its enabling context as used in the second statement. Which context coincides with its original meaning and which has been the result of evolutionary over usage? In fact, as this essay will discuss neither statement uses or associates "love" as its original definition intended. The rest of this essay attempts to refocus our modern day abuse of the word, love, and visit its original roots.