Jay’s DEFINTION of ADDICTION Post – Amy Winehouse

October 14, 2021

Jay’s DEFINTION of ADDICTION Post – Amy Winehouse

Addiction is a desire that overwhelms body and soul. There’s nothing wrong with wanting things in life, but people often begin to think more about their desire than they think of themselves. When this happens, they lose sense of who they are and what they are about. For Amy Winehouse, her addiction killed her. It wasn’t the crack. It wasn’t the heroin. It was the alcohol that she began drinking at age 14. She drank every day. More specifically, she was a nervous and frightened performer. She claimed she needed alcohol to get on stage. At a certain point she would drink before every performance. Then she began drinking during every performance. Once she got so drunk, she would continue into the night. At a certain point, she couldn’t stop. Although the people around her loved her and tried to help her, she refused to go to rehab: “No!, No!, No!” When she died at the age 27, she had been drinking no n-stop for days. Her blood alcohol was THREE times the legal limit. The autopsy showed that the alcohol depressed her central nervous system and brought about respiratory arrest. That’s medical talk. In other words, Amy drank herself to death

In my class workshops, I introduce Jay's Definition Mindmap. I encourage my students to choose questions and writing prompts from my mindmap (below) that apply to their essay topics. Creating extended definitions for their essays will be both FUN and MEANINGFUL. The definition paragraphs will provide important dimension to their writing. Their definitions aren't coming from someone else; they are are coming from their own knowledge and experience.

Estimados Estudiantes: Choose 4-5 prompts from my chart to help you develop your definitions. Skip the prompts you don't like. Respond with 2-3 sentences or each prompt. Create your own order. Use your essay topics to illustrate your defintion. Copy and Paste everything together. You will see your extended definition appear before your eyes. This is going to be great. You will see. Keep Working Hard!

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PAULINA SANCHEZ

March 6, 2022

An inspirational person is the ability of the human being to motivate others to do something different from their state of conformity. Frida was one of the people who inspired many people even after death. Many people began to follow her because of her resilience to face any adversity that life presented to her. An example of this was when she remained bedridden for many months after her first accident. Despite the fact that she was depressed for a time, she, with the help of her parents, looking for a way to paint again from her bed. But it wasn’t just that, she was painting herself with the help of the mirror, showing her feelings and her situation to the flower of skin. On the other hand, we can easily identify people who are very negative or non-inspirational people, they always complain, they have an excuse for everything and above all, they are unable to see beyond their noses. That is, they do not know how to recognize when someone else did something really good and inspired others to do it too. Frida, besides being a successful artist, was an inspiration especially for women, since she broke many barriers during her life. She got up from her several depressions due to the loss of her children, she struggled to get ahead despite her multiple accidents, although she did not leave Diego because of his infidelities, she opened a new relationship which made her feel better and freed from any charge of conscience. This is why she has also been a pride and logo for the LGTB + community. All this that she did, she captured it and today we can appreciate it in her surreal and inspiring art. She is without a doubt a great example of not giving up and moving forward in the face of any adversity.

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