Beauty Shop

  This movie is about a single mother (Queen Latifah) who aspires to be a hair stylist and won’t stop till her dose. So she quits the salon the she was working at (Jose’) and decides to buy her own salon. But it wasn’t that easy so she tries to get a loan only to be turned down by the bank. Up until she dose the banker a favor by giving her a makeover for her to impress her one true love and that’s when she is approved.

So she buy an old run down shack along with it’s three ghetto fabulous stylist (Golden Brookes, Sherri Shepard, Alfre Woodard) who know that this shop is not going to make it. They are surprise even more when Gina invites and one friend Lynn (Alicia Sliver Stone) to become a stylist think me tell that she is white. They couldn’t help but see her as an outcast. But once they understood that she could do hair just as well as they could they started to treat her like one of the girls. Gina has special hair supplies that she makes that can fix any kind of hair and when she gets and offers to present it in front of cover girl jumped at the offer, but one jealous employee mixed with one way to forward customer sends all that o a down fall. So they decided just to go out and hang with the girls little do they know that while their partying her shop was being destroyed by her former boss Jose’. And when she is called back to her shop because of a disturbance she can’t believe what she sees. So when she thinks that she minds as well quit her employees come through for and even get her a celb. And after that her shop starts to blossom.

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Roads to Paris

 This book is about a nine year old girl named Paris who has a white father and black mother; (Paris has blonde hair but darker skin) and her older brother Malcolm who are both in foster care because there mother was an alcoholic. At beginning of the book Paris is in an abusive home of foster parents. Who beat her and stuff her in closets. So she and her brother decided to run away to their grandmothers house were they stay for days. And on the fourth day Paris is awaked by the screaming of her brother. Paris runs to the living room where she finds a lady from social services dragging her brother out of the door she runs to try to stop her but her grandmother holds her back and this fills Paris with rage. Once Malcolm is gone her grandmother lets go of Paris and she vows never to talk to her again.             About two days later Paris is taken to a new family. She knows that they will be just like her other foster family and that she just going to have to run away again. To her surprise the Lincolns are nothing like she thought they are loving and caring and don’t beat on her. She actually starts to like them. And finally she has found a friend. Just when she thinks that things can’t get any better they she starts to sing in her churches choir. Then out if the blue she gets a letter from her mother saying that she want Paris to come and visit her. Paris’s Feelings are all mixed up because she wants to see her mother but then she doesn’t want her t ruin what she has with the Lincolns because that’s the only real family she has ever had.            After she got back from her mother she was so happy because her mother is going to let her visit Malcolm. After about a month Paris’s mother writes to the Lincolns telling them that she want her back.                                  What will Paris Do? To find that out you have to read the book. Recommendation: I recommend this book to people who like sorrow or sadness and triumph. This book helped me understand that everyone is not the same. Some people might hurt you but then another person can come around and heal a broken heart. Also this girl went from not being able to survive with out her brother, but then she learns that she can learn to live without him from a while and became a stronger person without him. And with that I think that any person that believes that they need a certain person to get by should read this and they will also become stronger individuals.    

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SomeOne to Love Me

 This book is about a teenage girl named Cindy Gibson who has a really rough life at home and in school. When Cindy was first born her mother was young and wild and not ready to settle down and become an adult yet. So she looks for the first person to dump her baby on to. And this person was an old women who lived down the hall from her and had offered once she saw Cindy and her mother in the hall to baby sit her when ever her mother need to get away. So Cindy was left over at the old women’s constantly and when she got older she even began to call her mother. And her real mother didn’t like that so she would make fun of Cindy when ever they were alone, but she never did it when any one else was around. With that and many other things lead Cindy to begin to hate her mother some times she never wanted to come home.When Cindy was 11yrs old a very big tragedy happened the women who she called her mother had been killed. During a robbery and Cindy also finds out from one of the officers that she was raped. She didn’t know what to do so she did the only thing she could do she ran up to her apartment. And her mother was no help she just ridiculed her. Her she started screaming at her. After a Cindy decided that she wasn’t going to school any more. But her friend Jamie wouldn’t let her go that easily. Jamie told her that she had to help her because when her old boyfriend beat her up Cindy was there for her. So Jamie tried really hard to do all she could for Cindy when she was a school but when she was at home she couldn’t help because of her mother’s boyfriend. He was always calling her names and making fun of her. Cindy tried many times to tell her mother but she never believed her. So she decided to get a boyfriend and she chose Bobby Wallace who use to be Jamie old boy friend, But Cindy didn’t care.She found out that everything that might look good to you isn’t good for. Recommendation: I think this book would be good for a person who thinks that they need a boyfriend or a girlfriend to survive when truly all you need is a true friend.

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