USA - Campus Conflict
Journeyman Pictures
20 min 24 sec - Jan 15, 2007

Students at American universities are being asked to spy on their professors. Campus Watch, a pro-Israeli lobby group, relies on student informers to expose ‘anti-Semitic’ academics.

“There’s a right wing effort across America today to silence any criticism of Israel”, complains Prof Joseph Massad. He was singled out for criticism by Campus Watch after he pointed out that Israel has a large number of laws which discriminate between Jewish and non-Jewish citizens. “A member of Congress immediately called on Colombia University to fire me”, he recalls. “New York City Council called a special meeting about the intimidation of Jewish students at Columbia”. Massad’s lectures were frequently disrupted by hecklers and Campus Watch is now putting pressure on the university not to renew his contract. Campus Watch pays particular attention to professors who are up for promotion or review. Their biggest success to date has been forcing Yale to withdraw their job offer to an academic who accused the White House of; “deliberately misleading the US public” over Iraq. Now, they are lobbying for Congress to take control of funding for Middle Eastern Studies. This would give Congress the ability to end programmes run by professors who criticise government policies.

‘Lorelei’ By Heinrich Heine Read From Marilyn Monroe’s Book
‘Lorelei’ By Heinrich Heine Read From Marilyn Monroe’s Book
MarkBellinghaus
1 min 29 sec - Apr 30, 2007

Marilyn Monroe posed in 1952 for a photographer, sitting on her couch bed, in her Doheny apartment and reading her personal copy of THE POETRY AND PROSE OF HEINRICH HEINE.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heinrich_Heine
This book sold as part of the Lot. 553 (Marilyn Monroe’s books of European Poetry) at the legendary Christie’s auction in NYC, in 1999. This image was also printed inside the thick Christie’s catalog. This beautiful book is now part of The Mark Bellinghaus Marilyn Monroe Collection, and definetely one of the highlights of my collection, since the book is easy to recognize.

One of Marilyn Monroe’s most famous characters that she portrayed in her short but amazing movie career was named "Lorelei Lee," in her early blockbuster hit and signature movie "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," and the name "Lorelei" originated from an old German saga and legend, of a young beautiful blonde woman, sitting above the Rhine river, and combing her hair. It has been said, that numerous fishermen died, crashing their ships into the rocks, because of their vision of this beautiful blonde woman that was sitting up on top of a mountain, nude and brushing her long blonde hair with a golden comb.

The Lorelei by Heinrich Heine 1797 - 1856
Translated by Aaron Kramer
Read by Mark Bellinghaus

I cannot explain the sadness
That’s fallen on my breast.
An old, old fable haunts me,
And will not let me rest.

The air grows cool in the twilight,
And softly the Rhine flows on;
The peak of a mountain sparkles
Beneath the setting sun.

More lovely than a vision,
A girl sits high up there;
Her golden jewelry glistens,
She combs her golden hair.

With a comb of gold she combs it,
And sings an evensong;
The wonderful melody reaches
A boat, as it sails along.

The boatman hears, with an anguish
More wild than was ever known;
He’s blind to the rocks around him;
His eyes are for her alone.

–At last the waves devoured
The boat, and the boatman’s cry;
And this she did with her singing,
The golden Lorelei.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lorelei

For more about this topic, please visit also my other poetry blog:
http://marilynmonroepoetry.blogspot.com/

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 — August 5, 1962), was a Golden Globe Award-winning American actress, singer, model and pop icon. She was known for her comedic skills and screen presence, going on to become one of the most popular movie stars of the 1950s and early 1960s. At the later stages of her career, she worked towards serious roles with a measure of success. However, she faced disappointments in her career and personal life during her later years. Her death has been subject to speculation and conspiracy theories.
Contents
hide * 1 Childhood o 1.1 Her mother o 1.2 Her father o 1.3 Foster parents * 2 Career o 2.1 Early years o 2.2 Stardom o 2.3 Later years * 3 Marriages o 3.1 James Dougherty o 3.2 Joe DiMaggio o 3.3 Arthur Miller * 4 Death and aftermath o 4.1 Administration of estate * 5 Quotes * 6 Miscellaneous facts * 7 Filmography * 8 Awards and nominations * 9 See also * 10 References * 11 Further reading * 12 External links

Childhood

Her mother

Marilyn Monroe was born under the name of Norma Jeane Mortenson1 in the charity ward of the Los Angeles County Hospital.23 According to biographer Fred Lawrence Guiles, her grandmother, Della Monroe Grainger, had her baptized Norma Jeane Baker by Aimee Semple McPherson.2 She obtained an order from the City Court of the State of New York and legally changed her name to Marilyn Monroe on February 23, 1956. 4

Monroe’s maternal grandparents were Otis Elmer Monroe and Della Mae Hogan. Her mother Gladys Pearl Monroe was born in Porfirio Diaz, Mexico, now known as Piedras Negras, on May 27, 19025 where the family had gone, so Otis could work on the railroad. The family returned to California where Gladys’s brother Otis was born in 1905. Their father, suffering from syphilis which had invaded his brain, died in 1909 in Southern California State Hospital in San Bernardino County.6 Gladys married first to Jasper Baker May 1917 and had two children, Robert Kermit Baker (born January 24, 1918) and Berniece Baker (born July 30, 1919). They were both born in Los Angeles.78 After Gladys and her Kentucky-born husband divorced, the husband took the children and moved to Kentucky, according to Miracle’s book My Sister Marilyn. Gladys moved there as well, to be near her children. After living there for a while, she returned to Los Angeles.

Her father

After Gladys returned to Los Angeles, she married Martin Edward Mortenson (1897-1981) on Oct 11, 1924.9 They divorced six months into their marriage, according to My Sister Marilyn. Martin’s father, also named Martin, was born in Haugesund, Norway, and had immigrated to the United States about 1880 where he married Stella Higgins. Their son was born in Vallejo, California.10

Many biographers, such as Donald H. Wolfe in The Last Days of Marilyn Monroe, believe Norma Jeane’s biological father was Charles Stanley Gifford, a salesman for RKO Pictures where Gladys worked as a film-cutter. Monroe’s birth certificate lists Gladys’s second husband, Martin Edward Mortenson, as the father. While Mortenson left Gladys before Norma Jeane’s birth, some biographers think he may have been the father.11 In an interview with Lifetime, James Dougherty, her first husband, said Norma Jeane believed that Gifford was her father. Whoever the father was, he played no part in Monroe’s life.

Foster parents

Unable to persuade Della to take Norma Jeane, Gladys placed her with foster parents Albert and Ida Bolender of Hawthorne, California, where she lived until she was seven. In her autobiography My Story, Monroe states she thought Albert was a girl.

Gladys visited Norma Jeane every Saturday. One day, she announced that she had bought a house. A few months after they had moved in, Gladys suffered a breakdown. In My Story, Monroe recalls her mother "screaming and laughing" as she was forcibly removed to the State Hospital in Norwalk. According to My Sister Marilyn, Gladys’s brother, Marion, hanged himself upon his release from an asylum, and Della’s father did the same in a fit of depression.

Norma Jeane was declared a ward of state, and Gladys’s best friend, Grace McKee (later Goddard) became her guardian. After McKee married in 1935, Norma Jeane was sent to the Los Angeles Orphans Home (later renamed Hollygrove), and then to a succession of foster homes.

The Goddards were about to move to the east coast and could not take her. Grace approached the mother of James Dougherty about the possibility of her son marrying the girl. They married two weeks after she turned 16, so that Norma Jeane would not have to return to an orphanage or foster care.

Career

Early years

While her husband was in the Merchant Marine during World War II, Norma Jeane Dougherty moved in with her mother-in-law, and started to work in the Radioplane Company factory (owned by Hollywood actor Reginald Denny), spraying airplane parts with fire retardant and inspecting parachutes. Army photographer David Conover was scouting local factories, taking photos for a YANK magazine article about women contributing to the war effort. He saw her potential as a model and she was soon signed by The Blue Book modeling agency. In his book Finding Marilyn, Conover claimed the two had an affair that lasted years. Shortly after signing with the agency, Monroe had her hair cut, straightened, and lightened to golden blonde.

She became one of Blue Book’s most successful models, appearing on dozens of magazine covers. In 1946, she came to the attention of talent scout Ben Lyon. He arranged a screen test for her with 20th Century Fox. She was offered a standard six-month contract with a starting salary of $125 per week.12

Lyon suggested she adopt Marilyn (after Marilyn Miller) as her stage name, since Norma Jeane wasn’t considered commercial enough. For her last name, she took her mother’s maiden name. Thus, the twenty-year-old Norma Jeane Baker became Marilyn Monroe. During her first half year at Fox, Monroe was given no work, but Fox renewed her contract and she was given minor appearances in Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! and Dangerous Years, both released in 1947. In Scudda Hoo!, her part was edited out of the film except for a quick glimpse of her face when she speaks two words. Fox decided not to renew her contract again. Monroe returned to modelling and began to network and make contacts in Hollywood.

In 1948, a six-month stint at Columbia Pictures saw her star in Ladies of the Chorus, but the low-budget musical was not a success and Monroe was dropped yet again. She then met one of Hollywood’s top agents, Johnny Hyde, who had Fox re-sign her after MGM turned her down. Fox Vice-President Darryl F. Zanuck was not convinced of Monroe’s potential, but due to Hyde’s persistence, she gained supporting parts in Fox’s All About Eve and MGM’s The Asphalt Jungle. Even though the roles were small, movie-goers as well as critics took notice. Hyde also arranged for her to have minor plastic surgery on her nose and chin, adding that to earlier dental surgery.13141516

The next two years were filled with inconsequential roles in standard fare such as We’re Not Married! and Love Nest. However, RKO executives used her to boost box office potential of the Fritz Lang production Clash by Night. After the film performed well, Fox employed a similar tactic and she was cast as the ditzy receptionist with Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers in Howard Hawks’s slapstick comedy Monkey Business. Critics no longer ignored her, and both films’ success at the box office was partly attributed to Monroe’s growing popularity.

Fox finally gave her a starring role in 1952 with Don’t Bother to Knock, in which she portrayed a deranged babysitter who attacks the little girl in her care. It was a cheaply made B-movie, and although the reviews were mixed, they claimed that it demonstrated Monroe’s ability and confirmed that she was ready for more leading roles. Her performance in the film has since been noted as one of the finest of her career.17

Stardom
Marilyn Monroe
Playboy centerfold
appearance December 1953
Birthplace Los Angeles, California
Birthdate June 1, 1926
Measurements 35C - 22 - 35
Height 5 ft 5½ in
Weight 115 - 120 lb
Preceded by None
Succeeded by Margie Harrison
Monroe in Niagara
Monroe in Niagara

Monroe proved she could carry a big-budget film when she starred in Niagara in 1953. Movie critics focused on Monroe’s connection with the camera as much as on the sinister plot.18 She played an unbalanced woman planning to murder her husband.

Around this time, nude photos of Monroe began to surface, taken by photographer Tom Kelley when she had been struggling for work. Prints were bought by Hugh Hefner and, in December 1953, appeared in the first edition of Playboy. To the dismay of Fox, Monroe decided to publicly admit it was indeed her in the pictures. When a journalist asked her what she wore in bed she replied, "Chanel no.5". When asked what she had on during the photo shoot, she replied, "The radio".

Over the following months, Gentlemen Prefer Blondes and How to Marry a Millionaire cemented Monroe’s status as an A-list actress and she became one of the world’s biggest movie stars. The lavish Technicolor comedy films established Monroe’s "dumb blonde" on-screen persona.

In Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Monroe’s turn as gold-digging showgirl Lorelei Lee won her rave reviews,19 and the scene where she sang "Diamonds Are a Girl’s Best Friend" has inspired the likes of Madonna,20 Kylie Minogue21 and Geri Halliwell. In the Los Angeles premiere of the film, Monroe and co-star Jane Russell pressed their foot- and handprints in the cement in the forecourt of Grauman’s Chinese Theatre.
Monroe in a promotional still for The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957.
Monroe in a promotional still for The Prince and the Showgirl, 1957.

In How to Marry a Millionaire, Monroe was teamed up with Lauren Bacall and Betty Grable. She played a short-sighted dumb blonde, and even though the role was stereotypical, critics took note of her comedic timing.22

Her next two films, the western River of No Return and the musical There’s No Business Like Show Business, were not successful. Monroe got tired of the roles that Zanuck assigned her. After completing work on The Seven Year Itch in early 1955, she broke her contract and fled Hollywood to study acting at The Actors Studio in New York. Fox would not accede to her contract demands and insisted she return to work on productions she considered inappropriate, such as The Girl in Pink Tights (which was never filmed), The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, and How to Be Very, Very Popular.

Monroe stayed in New York. As The Seven Year Itch raced to the top of the box office in the summer of 1955, and with Fox starlets Jayne Mansfield and Sheree North failing to click with audiences, Zanuck admitted defeat and Monroe returned to Hollywood. A new contract was drawn up, giving Monroe approval of the director as well as the option to act in other studios’ projects.

The first film to be made under the contract was Bus Stop, directed by Joshua Logan. She played Chérie,23 a saloon bar singer who falls in love with a cowboy. Monroe deliberately appeared badly made-up and unglamorous.

She was nominated for a Golden Globe for the performance and was praised by critics. Bosley Crowther of The New York Times proclaimed: "Hold on to your chairs, everybody, and get set for a rattling surprise. Marilyn Monroe has finally proved herself an actress." In his autobiography, Movie Stars, Real People and Me, director Joshua Logan wrote: "I found Marilyn to be one of the great talents of all time… She struck me as being a much brighter person than I had ever imagined, and I think that was the first time I learned that intelligence and, yes brilliance have nothing to do with education."

Monroe formed her own production company with friend and photographer Milton H. Greene. Marilyn Monroe Productions released its first and only film The Prince and the Showgirl in 1957 to mixed reviews. Along with executive-producing the film, she starred opposite the acclaimed British actor Laurence Olivier, who also directed it.

Olivier became furious at her habit of being late to the set, as well as her dependency on her drama coach, Paula Strasberg. Monroe’s performance was hailed by critics, especially in Europe, where she was handed the David di Donatello, the Italian equivalent of the Academy Award, as well as the French Crystal Star Award. She was also nominated for the British BAFTA award.

Later years

In 1959, she scored the biggest hit of her career starring alongside Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Billy Wilder’s comedy Some Like It Hot. After shooting finished, Wilder publicly blasted Monroe for her difficult on-set behavior. Soon, however, Wilder’s attitude softened, and he hailed her as a great comedienne. Some Like It Hot is consistently rated as one of the best films ever made.24 Monroe’s performance earned her a Golden Globe for best actress in musical or comedy.

After Some Like It Hot, Monroe shot Let’s Make Love directed by George Cukor and co-starring Yves Montand. Monroe was forced to shoot the picture because of her obligations to Twentieth Century-Fox. While the film was not a commercial or critical success, it included one of Monroe’s legendary musical numbers, Cole Porter’s "My Heart Belongs to Daddy".
Screen tests for Something’s Got to Give.
Screen tests for Something’s Got to Give.

Arthur Miller wrote what became her and her co-star Clark Gable’s last completed film, The Misfits. The exhausting shoot took place in the hot Nevada desert. Monroe, Gable and Montgomery Clift delivered performances that are considered excellent by contemporary movie critics.25 Tabloid magazines blamed Gable’s death of a heart attack on Monroe, claiming she had given him a hard time on the set. Gable, however, insisted on doing his own stunts and was a heavy smoker. After Gable’s death, Monroe attended the baptism of his son.

Some of the most famous photographs of her were taken by Douglas Kirkland in 1961 as a feature for the 25th anniversary issue of LOOK magazine.

Monroe returned to Hollywood to resume filming on the George Cukor comedy Something’s Got to Give, a never-finished film that has become legendary for problems on the set and proved a costly debacle for Fox. In May 1962, she made her last significant public appearance, singing Happy Birthday, Mr. President at a televised birthday party for President John F. Kennedy.

After shooting what was claimed to have been the first ever nude scene by a major motion picture actress, Monroe’s attendance on the set became even more erratic. On June 1, her thirty-sixth birthday, she attended a charity event at Dodger Stadium.
Happy Birthday, Mr. President May 1962
Happy Birthday, Mr. President May 1962

Already financially strained by the production costs of Cleopatra, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Fox dropped Monroe from the film and replaced her with Lee Remick. However, co-star Dean Martin, who had a clause in his contract giving him an approval over his co-star, was unwilling to work with anyone but Monroe. She was rehired.

Monroe conducted a lengthy interview with Life, in which she expressed how bitter she was about Hollywood labeling her as a dumb blonde and how much she loved her audience.26 She also did a photo shoot for Vogue, and began discussing a future film project with Gene Kelly and Frank Sinatra, according to the Donald Spoto biography. Furthermore, she was planning to star in a biopic of Jean Harlow. Other projects being considered for her were What a Way to Go! (in which Shirley MacLaine would replace her), Kiss Me, Stupid, a comedy starring Dean Martin (and Kim Novak taking on Monroe’s role) and a musical version of A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

Before the shooting of Something’s Got to Give resumed, Monroe was found dead in her Los Angeles home on the morning of August 5, 1962. She remains one of the 20th century’s legendary public figures and archetypal Hollywood movie stars. * Play media Play "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" in browser (beta) Download Happy Birthday, Mr. President (file info) o Marilyn Monroe’s performance of the song o Problems listening to the file? See media help.

Marriages

James Dougherty

Monroe married James Dougherty on June 19, 1942. In The Secret Happiness of Marilyn Monroe and To Norma Jeane with Love, Jimmie, he claimed they were in love but dreams of stardom lured her away. In 1953 he wrote a piece called "Marilyn Monroe Was My Wife" for Photoplay, in which he claimed that he left her.

In the 2004 documentary Marilyn’s Man, Dougherty made three new claims: he was her Svengali and invented the "Marilyn Monroe" persona, studio executives forced her to divorce him, and that he was her only true love.

He remarried in 1947. When informed of her death, the August 6, 1962 New York Times reported that he replied "I’m sorry," and continued his LAPD patrol. He did not attend Monroe’s funeral.

His sister wrote in the 12/1952 Modern Screen Magazine that Dougherty left Monroe because she wanted to pursue modeling. He admitted to A&E Network that his mother asked him to marry her, and told Lifetime in 1996 that he cut off her allotment after being served with divorce papers. The 1999 Christie’s auction of Monroe’s estate revealed that she kept nothing from Dougherty except their divorce decree.

Joe DiMaggio

In 1951 Joe DiMaggio saw a picture of Monroe with two Chicago White Sox players, but did not ask the man who arranged the stunt to set up a date until 1952. She wrote in My Story that she did not want to meet him, fearing a stereotypical jock. They eloped at San Francisco’s City Hall on January 14, 1954. During the honeymoon, they visited Japan, and she was asked to visit Korea. She performed ten shows over four days in freezing temperatures for over 100,000 servicemen. Biographers have noted that DiMaggio, who stayed in Japan, was not pleased with his wife’s decision during what he wanted to be an intimate trip.
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio in an undated photo. Photo:Howard Frank Archives. This image has an uncertain copyright status and is pending deletion. You can comment on the removal.
Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio in an undated photo. Photo:Howard Frank Archives. This image has an uncertain copyright status and is pending deletion. You can comment on the removal.

Back home, she wrote him a letter about her dreams for their future, dated February 28, 1954: "My Dad, I don’t know how to tell you just how much I miss you. I love you till my heart could burst… I want to just be where you are and be just what you want me to be… I want someday for you to be proud of me as a person and as your wife and as the mother of the rest of your children (two at least! I’ve decided)…"27 —20px, 20px

DiMaggio biographer Maury Allen quoted New York Yankees PR man Arthur Richman that Joe told him everything went wrong from the trip to Japan on. Fred Lawrence Guiles speculated that Joe, knowing the power and hollowness of fame, wanted desperately to head off what he was convinced was her "collision-course with disaster." On September 14, 1954, she filmed the now-iconic skirt-blowing scene for The Seven Year Itch in front of New York’s Trans-Lux Theater. Bill Kobrin, then Fox’s east coast correspondent, told the June 26, 2006 Palm Springs Desert Sun that it was Billy Wilder’s idea to turn it into a media circus: "… every time her dress came up and the crowd started to get excited, DiMaggio just blew up." The couple later had a "yelling battle" in the theater lobby.28 She filed for divorce on grounds of mental cruelty 274 days after the wedding.

Years later, she turned to him for help. In February 1961, her psychiatrist arranged for her to be admitted to the Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic, where, according to Donald Spoto, she was placed in the ward for the most seriously disturbed. Unable to check herself out, she called DiMaggio, who secured her release. She later joined him in Florida. Their "just good friends" claim did not stop rumors of remarriage. Archive footage shows Bob Hope jokingly dedicated Best Song nominee The Second Time Around to them at the 1960 Academy Awards telecast.

According to Maury Allen, on August 1, 1962, DiMaggio — alarmed by how his ex-wife had fallen in with people he felt detrimental to her, such as Frank Sinatra and his "Rat Pack" — quit his job with a PX supplier to ask her to remarry him. He claimed her body and arranged her funeral, barring Hollywood’s elite. For twenty years, he had a dozen red roses delivered to her crypt three times a week. Unlike her other two husbands, he never talked about her publicly, wrote a tell-all, or remarried.

Arthur Miller

On June 29, 1956, Monroe married playwright Arthur Miller, whom she had first met in 1951, in a civil ceremony in White Plains, New York. City Court Judge Seymour Robinowitz presided over the hushed ceremony in the law office of Sam Slavitt (the wedding had been kept secret from both the press and the public). Nominally raised as a Christian, she converted to Judaism before marrying Miller. After she finished shooting The Prince and the Showgirl with Laurence Olivier, the couple returned to the United States from England and discovered she was pregnant. However, she suffered from endometriosis and the pregnancy was found to be ectopic. A subsequent pregnancy ended in miscarriage.

Miller’s screenplay for The Misfits, a story about a despairing divorcée, was meant to be a Valentine gift for his wife, but by the time filming started in 1960 their marriage was beyond repair. A Mexican divorce was granted on January 24, 1961. On February 17, 1962, Miller married Inge Morath, one of the Magnum photographers recording the making of The Misfits.

In January 1964, Miller’s play After the Fall opened, featuring a beautiful and devouring shrew named Maggie. The similarities between Maggie and Monroe did not go unnoticed by audiences and critics (including Helen Hayes).

Simone Signoret noted in her autobiography the morbidity of Miller and Elia Kazan resuming their professional association "over a casket". In interviews and in his autobiography, Miller insisted that Maggie was not based on Monroe. However, he never pretended that his last Broadway-bound work, Finishing the Picture, was not based on the making of The Misfits. He appeared in the documentary The Century of the Self lamenting the psychological work being done on her before her death.

Death and aftermath Main article: Death of Marilyn Monroe

Monroe’s last home was in Brentwood in Los Angeles. She was found dead by her housekeeper on August 5, 1962. Her death was ruled as an overdose of sleeping pills. Questions remain about the circumstances and timeline of housekeeper Eunice Murray’s discovery of Monroe’s body. Also, some conspiracy theories involve John and Robert Kennedy.

On August 8, 1962, Monroe was interred in a crypt at Corridor of Memories, #24, at the Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery in Los Angeles, California. Lee Strasberg delivered the eulogy.

Administration of estate

In her will, Monroe left Lee Strasberg control of 75% of her estate. She expressed her desire that Strasberg, or, if he predeceased her, her executor, "distribute her personal effects among my friends, colleagues and those to whom I am devoted."29

Strasberg willed his portion to his widow, Anna. She declared she would never sell Monroe’s personal items after successfully suing Odyssey Auctions in 1994 to prevent the sale of items which were withheld by Monroe’s former business manager, Inez Melson. However, in October 1999 Christie’s auctioned the bulk of the items Monroe willed to Lee Strasberg, netting US$12.3 million.

Anna Strasberg is currently in litigation against the children of four photographers to determine rights of publicity, which permits the licensing of images of deceased personages for commercial purposes. The decision as to whether Monroe was a resident of California, where she died, or New York, where her will was probated, is worth millions.30

On 4 May 2007, a federal judge in New York ruled that Monroe’s rights of publicity ended upon her death, thus allowing the family of photographer Sam Shaw to sell photos of Monroe.31

Quotes
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I think that when you are famous every weakness is exaggerated. (…) Goethe said, "Talent is developed in privacy," you know? And it’s really true. (…) Creativity has got to start with humanity and when you’re a human being, you feel, you suffer. You’re gay, you’re sick, you’re nervous or whatever.32
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" Say goodbye to Pat, say goodbye to the president, and say goodbye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy….I’ll see, I’ll see. 33 "

Miscellaneous facts

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This article has been tagged since June 2007. * Ella Fitzgerald credited Monroe with helping her launch her mainstream career by securing her a gig at the then-segregated Mocambo. 1 * Hugh Hefner purchased the crypt beside Monroe for himself. 34 * Monroe’s films made over $200,000,000 on their first run, according to her New York Times obituary. * Tiles on the doorstep of Monroe’s Brentwood home bore the Latin inscription, "Cursum Perficio," commonly translated as "My journey is over." (or "I have completed my course."). * The Jean Louis gown in which Monroe sang "Happy Birthday, Mr. President" to John F. Kennedy in May 1962 was sold at Christie’s auction in 1999 for $1,267,500. * In February 2007’s issue of Premiere magazine Mickey Rooney claims to have given her the name Marilyn Monroe. * Many days after Monroe’s death, Mrs. Eunice Murray attempted to cash her last paycheck from Monroe, and it was declined and marked "deceased." This check, one of the last that Monroe ever wrote on her Roxbury Drive Branch account at City National Bank in Beverly Hills, is today on display at the Hollywood Entertainment Museum in Hollywood, CA. * Marilyn Manson formed his name after combining the names of Marilyn Monroe and Charles Manson. * It has been rumored for years and reported in Ripley’s Believe It Or Not that Marilyn Monroe had 6 toes on her left foot, but this was false. The rumor started after a photo shoot in 1946 on a beach in California where a clump of sand made it appear she had an extra toe. 35 * The punk band The Misfits derived their title after Monroe’s film of the same name, due to lead singer Glenn Danzig’s interest in Marilyn Monroe. The band also has a song "Who Killed Marilyn?".

Filmography
Film Year Salary
Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! 1948 $150/week
The Asphalt Jungle 1950 $1,050
All About Eve 1950 $500/week, with one-week guarantee
We’re Not Married 1952 $750/week
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes 1953 $1,250/week
The Seven Year Itch 1955 $1,500/week
Some Like It Hot 1959 $200,000 plus 10% gross over $4 million
The Misfits 1961 $250,000
Something’s Got to Give 1962 $100,000
v • d • e
Filmography
Dangerous Years (1947) Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948) Ladies of the Chorus (1948) Green Grass of Wyoming (1948) You Were Meant for Me (1948) Love Happy (1949) A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950) The Asphalt Jungle (1950) The Fireball (1950) All About Eve (1950) Right Cross (1950) Home Town Story (1951) As Young as You Feel (1951) Love Nest (1951) Let’s Make It Legal (1951) We’re Not Married! (1952) O. Henry’s Full House (1952) Clash by Night (1952) Monkey Business (1952) Don’t Bother to Knock (1952) Niagara (1953) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) How to Marry a Millionaire (1953) River of No Return (1954) There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954) The Seven Year Itch (1955) Bus Stop (1956) The Prince and the Showgirl (1957) Some Like it Hot (1959) Let’s Make Love (1960) The Misfits (1961) Something’s Got to Give (1962)

Awards and nominations * 1952 Photoplay Award: Special Award * 1953 Golden Globe Henrietta Award: World Film Favorite Female. * 1953 Photoplay Award: Most Popular Female Star * 1956 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Seven Year Itch * 1956 Golden Globe nomination: Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Bus Stop * 1958 BAFTA Film Award nomination: Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl * 1958 David di Donatello Award (Italian): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl * 1959 Crystal Star Award (French): Best Foreign Actress for The Prince and the Showgirl * 1960 Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress in Comedy or Musical for Some Like It Hot * 1962 Golden Globe, World Film Favorite: Female * Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame 6104 Hollywood Blvd. * 1999 she was ranked as the sixth greatest female star of all time by the American Film Institute in their list AFI’s 100 Years… 100 Stars.

Awards
Preceded by
Rosalind Russell
for Auntie Mame Golden Globe Award for Best Actress - Motion Picture Musical or Comedy
for Some Like It Hot
1960 Succeeded by
Shirley MacLaine
for The Apartment

See also * Death of Marilyn Monroe * Marilyn Monroe in popular culture * Mark Bellinghaus * Berniece Baker Miracle, her half-sister * Look alike contest Monroe’s popularity as a costume

References 1. Birth Certificate
2. a b http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/bi…
3. http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_7…
4. http://www.marilynmonroe.com/about/fa…
5. Social Security Death Index showing "Gladys Eley, last residence Gainesville, Alachua, Florida, Born: 27 May 1900, Died: Mar 1984, SSN issued by Oregon (Before 1951)"
6. California Death Index (on microfilm) 1905-1929 on vitalsearch-ca.com showing "Otis Monroe, age 44, died Jul 22, 1909. San Bernardino County"
7. *California Birth Index showing Berniece and "Hermitt" as listed.
8. " 1920 Census Sheet 12A, Dwelling 95, Family 95, Precinct 5, Venice, Los Angeles Co, California showing "Jasper N Baker, 31 b KY; Gladys 18 b Mexico; Hermit 1 11/12 b CA; Berneice 2/12 b CA; Audry, brother, 18, b KY
9. Martin Edward Mortensen in the New York Times. Stating that the one who died in 1981 in Riverside, is the same one who was married to Marilyn’s mother. "… found copies of Miss Monroe’s birth certificate at Mr. Mortensen’s apartment, as well as marriage and divorce papers for Mr. Mortensen and Gladys Baker, Miss Monroe’s mother….The birth certificate lists the father as Edward Mortensen, age 29."
10. World War I Draft Registration Card showing "Edward M Mortensen, born Feb 26, 1897, in Vallejo, California; Gas Fitter for LA Gas & Electric Corp, father born in Haugesund, Norway, mother Stella; registered in Los Angeles County, California Jun 5, 1918."
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Further reading * Baty, S. Paige (1995). American Monroe: The Making of a Body Politic. University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-08806-9. Examines Monroe’s stature as an icon. * Belmont, Georges (2000). Marilyn Monroe and the Camera. Te Neues Publishing Company. ISBN 3-8238-5467-4. Monroe’s "love affair" with the camera. * Churchwell, Sarah (2004). The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe. Metropolitan Books. ISBN 0-8050-7818-5. Explores Western Civilization’s fixation with Monroe. * Cunningham, Ernest W. (1997). The Ultimate Marilyn. Renaissance Books. ISBN 1-58063-003-0. A compendium of facts, fantasies and scandals about Marilyn Monroe. * Gilmore, John (2007). Inside Marilyn Monroe: A Memoir. Ferine Books. ISBN 0-9788968-0-7. Examination of Monroe’s personal and professional life. * Guiles, Fred Lawrence (1993). Norma Jean: The Life of Marilyn Monroe. Paragon House Publishers. ISBN 1-55778-583-X. Reissue of a biography cited in this article. * Mailer, Norman (1973). Marilyn: A Biography. Grosset & Dunlap. ISBN 0-448-01029-1. His controversial take on Monroe. * My Sister Marilyn, Miracle, Berniece Baker and Mona Raw Baker. Publisher: Algonquin Books; first edition (1994) Hardcover: 238 pages ISBN 1565120701 * Monroe, Marilyn (2000). My Story. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 0-8154-1102-2. Reprint of her memoirs, ghost-written by Ben Hecht; introduction by Andrea Dworkin. * Rollyson, Carl E. (1993). Marilyn Monroe: A Life of the Actress. Da Capo Press. ISBN 0-306-80542-1. Scholarly look at her films. * Spoto, Donald (2001). Marilyn Monroe: The Biography. Cooper Square Press. ISBN 0-8154-1183-9. Biography cited in this article. * Smith, Matthew (2004). Marilyn’s Last Words: Her Secret Tapes and Mysterious Death. Carroll & Graf Publishers. ISBN 0-7867-1380-1. Alleged transcripts of Monroe’s therapy sessions. * Taylor, Roger G. (2006). Marilyn in Art. Chaucer Press. ISBN 1-904957-02-1. Examines Monroe’s influence on numerous artists. * Vitacco-Robles, Gary (2003). Cursum Perficio: Marilyn Monroe’s Brentwood Hacienda: The Story of Her Final Months. IUniverse. ISBN 0-595-01082-2 * Victor, Adam (1999). The Complete Marilyn Monroe. Thames and Hudson Ltd. ISBN 0-500-01978-9. * Steinem, Gloria (1988). Marilyn: Norma Jeane, photos by George Barris. Signet. (1988) ISBN 0451155963

Today people prefer to have a business instead of a job because of the freedom that it gives them. When you have a job, you will always have a boss to please; you will always have something that will keep you late the very day your son has that important baseball game (and he wanted you to be there to cheer for him); you will always be on duty even if you are at home.

A home-based business is a good alternative to a job, when the job gives you more trouble than it gives you money. It is not too difficult to set up your own home-based business nowadays. You have all the help you need on the Internet and determination and hard work are what you need to achieve success in business.

The Path to Success in Business

First, you can borrow from friends for capital. The first thing you will need to launch your business will be financing. In order to keep the burden of repayment at the lowest possible level, you should first attempt to raise money from your friends and relatives, which can be returned within a flexible time frame pre-determined at the time of lending. It is very important that you borrow with clear-cut understanding on the repayment schedule, or you will risk some very sour relationships in its wake.

The second place you can look to for financing is by borrowing from financial institutions. After you have collected all that was possible from friends and relatives, and you still need money, you will have to seek out appropriate financial organizations/ lenders who can lend you the rest of the capital. For this, you will need a good business plan professionally drawn up showing your projected expenses and profits. You should be able to present it realistically and convincingly for the lender to agree to finance you.

Next, you need to establish the business. This is a crucial ingredient in achieving success in business and one of the most trying. You will need to market your wares well with the help of different types of advertising and marketing strategy.

Fourth, you should take advantage of the Internet. The Internet is one of the most powerful business tools we have today. This is why to achieve success in business it is imperative that the business has an online presence. In this way, you can advertise your wares directly to a global market of billions of people, rather than local few thousands.

Finally, you must work, work, and work some more. The main ingredient for achieving success in business and in anything else, in fact, is hard work. Without hard work, success does not exist.

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What is the Key to Business Success?

You see rags-to-riches stories in the newspapers and you wonder what the key to business success is; how to get it, where to find it. Actually, there is not one key but three to business success and the following few lines will briefly describe each one of them.

The first key is focus. You need to be extremely focused to know what you want to achieve in business and in life. There are people who promise themselves that by this age I will have achieved this much. And they do so. How? They have made up their minds about their goal and from then on this goal will be the foremost thing on their minds. Every decision that they take after the goal fixation will be in terms of achieving this goal. There is no deviation from the focus, once it is determined.

The second key is planning. There is no success, let alone business success, without a plan of action. Once you have found and agreed upon your goal, you will have to back it up with a long-term plan and a short-term plan. The long-term plan has the ultimate result broken up in maybe five or ten years time periods. The short-term plan however will have the long terms plan broken into bite-sized plans, which have to be achieved and monitored over short periods of time, say monthly, three-monthly and six-monthly. These plans are what will determine the business success for an entrepreneur. Without an adequate business plan it will not be possible to translate the dream into reality because the ladder would be missing.

The third key is resources. Resources can be finance, human resources, knowledge, and so on. The ability to build on whatever resources one has to create an adequate base is what makes a business success story come true. It is not possible to start any venture without adequate finance and people to support it. The way to create and use these resources in the beginning will make or break your venture.

A good businessperson, for example, minimizes financial drain by first borrowing from friends and family for capital, which will spare him/her from paying interest. The same stands true for the use of human resources. In order to cut costs to the minimum possible, for the initial phase, you could use the help of your family members in the launching of the business.

If you have these three keys, then in no time you will achieve success in your business.

Some Elements of a Great Success Strategy in College

Most people understand that in order to make a successful run in college, one should have a plan of attack, or a success strategy. What most people, especially college-bound freshmen, fail to realize however is that almost all the plans that meet with success have a few elements in common. So if you want your success strategy to work, make sure you incorporate a few of the following elements into the plan.

Element # 1: Simplicity

Often, when a success strategy fails, it is not because the person who implemented the plan was incompetent, but rather the plan itself was much too complicated. The academic world, like the business world outside the walls, doesn’t like a success strategy that has too many moving parts, or is too cumbersome. Instead, keep it simple and straightforward. For example, a good success strategy for getting an A on the mid term is to study about 15 minutes a day, every day until the test day, and then get a good night’s rest. This plan is a good one since it is easy to follow.

Element # 2: Adaptability

You’ve probably learned by living in the dormitories that things can change at the drop of a hat. In order for your time at college to be put to good use, having a success strategy that can easily adapt is a must. If a success strategy is too rigid, it can easily be broken and discarded. For example, if you have the flexibility in your success strategy to study a half hour on Thursday and less on Friday, you’ll be able to go out and relax with your friends while still getting the necessary studying accomplished.

Element # 3: Results Oriented

Even the most patient person alive will quickly become discouraged with their success strategy if they fail to see results. So instead of making the huge goal of passing all your classes the only goal, break the goals of your success strategy down into a few bite sized morsels. If you’re able to see the results from your smaller plans, your larger success strategy will quickly fall into place.

Of course, creating the perfect success strategy for your time at college will take a few tries. There is really no one particular plan that works for everyone. For example, a football player’s success strategy might include a five mile run, while a concert pianist might require an hour or two of extra practice time. Whatever you find your plan to be, make sure that the success strategy you choose is the best for you.

You’ve finally broken down and visited the animal shelter. That small golden retriever puppy was just perfect for your young daughter to learn the responsibility of having a pet. Of course, the puppy will have to be trained, and perhaps the most important success factor in whether or not you keep the dog is getting it housebroken as quickly as possible. Below are some tips to help you and your daughter in achieving your goal that much faster.

Tip # 1: Have Enough Time

One success factor in training your new puppy is time. Either you or your child will have to spend a great deal of time with the puppy to help it to understand that he or she cannot go to the bathroom inside the house. Just like a child when they are one or two years old, the dog simply doesn’t know how to hold their bowel movements or urinations until they get the opportunity to go outside. So basically in the beginning a person must keep an eye on them and transport them outside when they are beginning to have an accident. Some people even confine the puppy to an area such as the kitchen and allow them to relieve themselves on paper. Once they learn to go on the paper, it’s a fairly easy trick to transport the paper outside and convince them to follow.

Tip # 2: Be Consistent

Another success factor in housebreaking your pet is consistency. Puppies respond best to a consistent routine. Feeding times should be the same time each day, as well as bed times and play times. That way, when you take your puppy outside for a walk after eating, the puppy will associate the urge to go to relieve him with the outside world.

Tip # 3: Praise Often for Good Deeds.

One success factor that is often overlooked in the frustration of puppy training is the idea of praise. A puppy is like anyone else; it is much easier to get results with positive re-enforcement than with negative re-enforcement. Therefore, when your puppy does relieve himself outside, praise him or her accordingly. Soon they’ll learn to associate the two things as being part of the same success factor.

Of course, the most important success factor ties together all three of the lesser ones presented above. And that is patience. Housebreaking your new pet will not happen overnight, but with a little bit of love and a lot of patience, it will happen. Just keep your head up and keep at it. Eventually both your puppy and you will succeed at this most important success factor.

The Role of Determination in Any Weight Loss Success Story

Weight has become a weighty problem for most people all over the world. In the US the problem is aggravated by the junk food fad and the Internet which is substituting the role that was played by the TV some 10-20 years ago.

Weight Loss Clinics A Booming Business

Since the problem of excess weight is increasing day-by-day, entrepreneurs saw the opportunity to set up a new industry, i.e. the weight loss industry. This includes the gyms which teach exercises that build up muscle tone and reduce flab. It also includes the health drinks that guarantee a certain amount of weight loss over a period of time.

You also have to include in this category plastic surgery, or liposuction, in order to restore the dignity and will to live to many desperate overweight people. Then, lastly, there is the most common method of controlling weight, i.e. through diet control.

What is Behind the Weight Loss Success Story?

It is extremely easy to gain weight. In fact, it is always surprising to see how a 100 gm chocolate bar can turn into a two pound gain overnight. Losing weight is another matter. You have to work hard at it, and usually give up before you have even started. People who have achieved weight loss success are people who decided that they want to loose weight and stuck to that decision for as long as it took.

Determination is the only thing that will keep you on track to a weight loss success story. In order to ensure that your determination does not flounder, you will need to enlist the help of all those who are around you your family, your friends, your boss and colleagues; in other words, everyone. Like you would fight an addiction, this struggle has to be a collective one if you want to ensure that you meet with complete weight loss success.

You will need to have your diet drawn up by a nutritionist and an exercise regime that would have to be followed strictly to the letter. Do not attempt dieting or exercising without consulting a specialist and informing your physician. It can be dangerous and some times even fatal.

Once you have the details of your program all you have to do is to stick to the routine with total commitment and determination. Be prepared for slow results in the beginning and an initial feeling of disappointment; but once the routine sets in it will become easier to follow and maintain helping you achieve weight loss success in the end.

MLM Success Training: Creating Enthusiasm in Others

For multi level marketing (MLM) to work, you must be able to create enthusiasm in other people. Multi level marketing absolutely will not work if you cant find anyone else to join your organization. The whole point of MLM is to find others who will join your organization. Then, those people will find others and so on until a giant chain of people is formed. As money flows upwards throughout that chain, the top of the chain can eventually retire and just collect all the money coming in. Therefore, when conducting MLM success training, it is very important to teach the people in your organization how to create enthusiasm in others.

Keep Everyone on the Same Page

MLM success training should be a part of any MLM organization. That way, you can ensure that everyone in your organization is operating in roughly the same way. When everyones on the same page, it makes solving problems easier, it keeps the entire organization together and it helps everyone learn the techniques it takes to become successful. Part of this MLM success training should include how to create enthusiasm in others. If the people in your organization arent creating excitement in others, the people they recruit could get burned out and eventually quit. This is bad for MLM. If people quit, the chain quits growing and eventually youre back to square one and youll just have to start over.

Enthusiasm in Others

The best way to teach how to create enthusiasm in others is to remind the people in your organization that they must stay motivated themselves. Only by staying motivated and excited about what theyre doing can they hope to make others motivated. The fact is, if you dont care about what youre doing, your recruits wont either. Lack of excitement is like a virus that can destroy any MLM organizations chain. For this reason, staying excited must be a part of any MLM success training.

MLM success training can be conducted by you or you can outsource. There are several companies who offer MLM success training for a fee. The money is worth it, however, when you consider how strong your organization will be and how much money you can potentially make.

If you want your MLM organization to succeed, stay motivated, teach others how to stay motivated and teach your organization how to transfer that motivation to others. Then, you can sit back and watch your organization grow. Making money can make anyone excited. In MLM, however, being excited is the only way to make money.

Be Your Own Success Coach

You are the best person who can act as your success coach. Why? It is simple. You know yourself best; your strong and weak points, likes and dislikes which are key to achieving success in any field.

Understand Yourself

If you dont know yourself then nobody will. Take the time and set down your weaknesses, strengths, goals and the time frame in which you want to achieve them. Write down where you want to be in 5 or 10 years from today and how you plan to get there, then, work toward it.

Self-Motivation

Wake up the success coach in you to work with your strengths and weaknesses. The road to success is never easy whatever your goal; be it a difficult exam, planning a budget and working with it or fighting a disease. Self-motivation is very important in those days that you are down in the dumps and feel like you will never make it out.

Being your own success coach means you should never stop the process of improving yourself but also rewarding your successes. It is important that after you have achieved a set goal to stop and celebrate your victory. This will give you the strength to face many other failures or difficulties that may come along the path to success.

Periodical Analysis

A good success coach will conduct periodical analysis of the progress made of the set goals. Thus, you will be able to know whether in time if you are moving towards or away from the set goals as well as if you are doing something wrong, it can be corrected in good time. If a set goal cannot be achieved to matter what, it is better to realize the same sooner rather than later and move on to an alternative plan or goal.

Conclusion

We all have a success coach in us waiting to be activated and take over our lives thus, driving us to success and happiness.

Discipline, determination and the will to succeed are the greatest values of any success coach and who else but you can have those qualities when it comes to achieving your own goals.

Look inside and unleash the success coach within you to achieve anything you set your mind on. Success is half way achieved when you start working towards it and are determined to do your very best in order to make it. Believe in yourself or no one else will.

Online Business Success: Be Successful in the Comfort of Your Own Home

When you think of business success, you usually think of a hard working person who travels to work everyday. However, with the popularity of the Internet, more and more people now enjoy online business success. Online business success means that those successful people never have to commute to work. They never have to spend money on expensive gas for their vehicles and they can enjoy all the money and success in the comfort of their own home. The best part is they can stay in their pajamas all day long if they choose to do so.

Online Business Success is Not Easy

It is important to note that just because these people are enjoying online business success, this doesnt mean that online success is easy. Whatever online business you choose, its going to require a lot of work. Usually, the people enjoying online business success are involved in some kind of multi level marketing online. That means they must learn how to make new contacts. In this sort of business, meeting and getting others to join your business is crucial to success. If you dont network and meet new people, you may never know what online business success is all about.

While online businesses require a lot of work, they are preferable to many people because you can conduct business anywhere, anytime. Theres no reason to travel to and from an office everyday. Work can be conducted in your bedroom, in your pajamas if you wish. This is both good and bad for some people. Its good in that it doesnt require people to keep a traditional nine to five work schedule. Business can be done anywhere, anytime, which means they can sleep in late and still conduct successful business. However, online businesses can be bad because it can cause many people to get lazy. It takes a special person to be able to find online business success. That person must be self motivated, not be distracted by home distractions such as kids and television and the person must be able to network. If the person has what it takes, online business success is just a few keystrokes away.

Do You Hate Your Nine To Five?

Online business success is great for those who hate the rigors of the traditional nine to five. They can stay in their pajamas as they network with others over their computer. They never have to drive to an office, spending excessive money on gasoline. If they have what it takes, then they can have online business success and can finally join the rest who have found success with nothing more than a computer and an Internet connection.

There is not one particular key to success, there are many. However, there are many myths surrounding this concept. Some of the major points regarding the key to success are discussed below.

Money is the key to success False. Money, by itself, is not the key to success, though it is a very important factor in its establishment. There are people who inherit a great deal of money but within a decade or so, they are almost penniless. The success of a venture does not depend on the money, though it is a very important factor.

Experience is the key to success False. It is true that experience can make you wise and put you on the path to success. However, this too is not the key to success. Experience is the butter on the bread.

Hard work is the key to success - True without hard work nothing is possible. Any success is the direct result of a lot of hard work without which nothing is actually possible.

Team work is the key to success True nobody can succeed on his/her own. Success would be the outcome of the joint efforts put in by the family, by the colleagues, by all those who are involved with the work.

Thirst for improvement and knowledge is the key to success True a true professional, never stops learning. A successful person knows the importance of information and knowledge and hence never allows himself/ herself to stagnate. There will always be the thirst for knowledge and a continuous improvement of skills will be important for a successful person.

Motivation is the key to success False While motivation is an extremely important factor in the overall picture, motivation by itself has no value. Its value will be visible when team work is in cohesive action and things work out smoothly.

From the above, it is easy to see that there is not just one key to success. When used together they will bring about luck and prosperity. The above attributes are needed in different measures in order to make that one key to success. The quantity of each ingredient will be judged according to the individual capacity and inclination.

It is not surprising the key to success is still elusive for many people. Maybe with time, there will be many places where the teenagers can come and ask for counseling regarding the proverbial key to success.

How to Achieve Success at University?

For people who get admission to a university it is a dream-come-true situation. The next step after they receive the enrollment in the university is wondering how to achieve success at university. This question comes, because most of the time, the students will have to support themselves and their family with a part time or full time job side by side with studying.

It is Easy if You Know How

A popular saying goes, There are many ways to cut an apple pie. Similarly, there are many ways to achieve success at university. Once you enroll in the school, first befriend your roommates and make a point to know each others likes and dislikes. Then, befriend as many colleagues as you can. Once the classes start, you should have enough people you can request to write notes for you and even help you with your assignments.

Get the Assignments Outsourced

Go to the Internet for help in this area. One of the major factors of your success at university will be based on the quality of assignments you turn in. In case you do not have the time to complete your assignments, get on the Net and search of sites where you can outsource them. For a tiny fee, you can have the assignments done by ghost writers/ freelancers which can keep you high on the favorite list.

Remember, it is very important to hand over your assignments in time if you are serious of achieving success at university. Hence, you should be extremely careful about such things and plan if you want to outsource your work. The best time gap would be 5-6 days.

Opt for Online University Degree

In case nothing really works and you seem lost in balancing the job and your wish to achieve success at university, you should consider switching to e-learning. There are many reputed universities which are now offering online degrees to people the world over.

The main advantage of the e-learning degree is that you can study whenever you want and however much you want. You will have flexi time for the submission of your assignments and you will permitted to extend the time required for the degree as per your convenience up to a maximum of five years. This system is specifically designed to empower everybody to achieve his/her full potential and success at university.

The Secret to Financial Success

We all seek and work toward financial success and independence through our jobs and investments but few of us seem to achieve it successfully in a lifetime. What is it that we do wrong or not enough that sets us back no matter how hard we try?

What is The Secret to Financial Success?

The secret to financial success lays with you and in recognizing your strong and weak points so you can learn to work with them towards your advantage. Here are a few suggestions that will unveil the secret to financial success:

Plan a budget Make as many budget break downs as you want, daily/weekly/monthly yearly; the more planning and organizing you do the more in control you will be of your finances.

Spend less than you make I know it is easier said than done but it is not impossible to achieve. Earn your worth by finding the right job for your skills and demanding the right pay; a good salary will have you motivated to do a good job at all times.

Eliminate and avoid credit card debt One of the main obstacles to financial success is credit card debt. Work out a plan to pay off all debts and stick to it; this will give you a larger sum in your hand to work with every week/month.

Save every month as much as possible for those rainy days. Financial success is achieved by saving monthly whatever you can; this adds up in the long run and it will help you a great deal in times of need.

Put together a retirement plan. A very important step to financial independence for those days when you cannot work anymore is a retirement plan. Start one today.

Learn how to invest. Fortunately today there are many institutions both online and otherwise that helps one understand and learn the art of investing successfully. Do not follow get rich schemes, remember if something sounds too good to be true, it probably is.

Conclusion

Planning and working your budget is the secret to financial success; be realistic and make long term plans, dont expect an overnight miracle in your finances and stick to the initial plan no matter what the temptation.

Anyone can achieve financial success through hard work and determination. It is all up to each one of us to discipline ourselves and thus, achieve success.

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How would you like to see your name in your local newspaper, or better yet a national publication talking about you and how you became a home business success story? It can happen, as it has happened to many familiar people.

Many famous authors do not have to travel to an office everyday as they work from home. They are some of the best examples of a home business success story you can find. Many more, however, created a business from their home and became such a home business success story they had to hire more help and move into bigger quarters.

Bill Gates co-founded Microsoft in a garage at home and his is an impressive home business success story, although he doesnt work from home anymore. His could be an example of how to become a home business success story.

In order to succeed in any home business endeavor involves knowing about the product or service you will offer. Many folks fail in home-based businesses because many are designed to make other people rich. Understanding your market and how your product or service fits into that market is another great way to ensure becoming a home business success story.

It Helps to Use What You Plan to Sell

Some of the most successful home-based businesses were started by people who actually used the products and liked them before they decided to get into the business of selling them. There are many a home business success story involving Avon, Herbalife and many others who were using the products before the opportunity of selling them came forward.

There are many home businesses that require having parties for crowd demonstrations and those can be very successful, but the party atmosphere may not be for everyone. Some folks are more comfortable in a one-on-one situation and have become a home business success story by following their natural ability to talk to people.

The more successful people have learned to separate home from business and, over time, have found the more time they spend working on their business, the more they can become a home business success story.

Just remember a few simple tips if you hope to become a home business success story. Learn to actually work from home and keep your two aspects of being at home separated. Explain to others, especially family, that your home-based business is just that, a business you operate from home, and interruptions are not acceptable just as they wouldnt be if you worked in an office.

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Entrepreneurs and Some Sops That They Can Take Advantage of From Society

Every successful business venture has a dynamic brain behind it that pulls the strings and calls the shots and makes a tidy sum of money as well. The secret behind a business success story lies somewhere hidden behind the cloak of secrecy, carefully concealed to put off would-be competitors and copy cats. What good would it be if everyone knew the secret to the success of a business venture? Though there are people who sell their stories, these are few and they charge quite a bit of money for revealing their business success story. Anyway, it is all about entrepreneurs that invest their money, accept risks and reap the rewards of overcoming the odds and succeeding in their ventures.

An entrepreneur gets encouragement from society in the form of obtaining cheap capital, tax exemptions as well as receiving management advice. By focusing his entire attention on niche markets, which are very small and which may have thus escaped the attention of larger corporations, he can carve out a place in the sun for himself. There are many successful entrepreneurs that have a business success story to tell and an even larger audience just waiting for the latest tidbit to whet their insatiable appetite for learning and getting to know how people succeed and what are the secrets to this success.

A lesson to be learned from any good business success story is that no matter what the circumstances are, and no matter how difficult the prospect of success seems, a willing and able person, who dedicates all his energies to overcoming the hazards and pitfalls along the way and realizes that there is a silver lining to every cloud will through, dint of hard work and perseverance, come out a winner. This is not to imply that such people do not have shrewd brains and that all they need to succeed is to put in a lot of hours laboring over some problem, but what it really boils down to is that, once they espy a demand, they are able to profitably supply this demand with goods and/or services and make a tidy profit as well. Maybe it is a case of the right person being at the right place for the right reasons or may be it is luck. Call it what you like. Some people succeed doing the same things that others do but emerge winners and live to tell others about their business success story while others simply labor on and keep wondering what it is that they have done wrong that keeps them at the bottom of the heap.

How Different are Successful People?

Have you ever watched in awe a highly successful person on the TV wondering what makes that person so great? Have you wondered how certain girls or boys become so very popular in your school when you are struggling with making and maintaining two friends? Have you ever wondered what makes successful people successful?

The Basic Characteristics of Successful People

Many factors make the successful people stand out in a crowd. One of the most obvious traits is an unflinching self-confidence. Successful people always believe in themselves and in what they want to do; they do so with such a passion that others around them start believing it too.

Take the example of the Wright brothers who wanted to construct a machine that flew. They believed that it was possible in spite if the skepticism of the world at large; and in the end they were successful. Take another example, Thomas Edison, who worked so hard to make the light bulb. Everyone in the end gave up but he kept on. And because of his self-confidence, today we have electric bulbs.

Successful people are always hard working. It is very common for successful people to work 18 hours a day every day of the year. What others take as workaholism, is a way of life for them. They work so hard not because they are chasing success, but because they are very passionate about their work. Passion is another major trait that you will find in all the successful people.

These people are normal people like you and me, but driven with extraordinary determination to achieve their goals, whatever this may be. Their success is measured through their determination and perseverance to achieve this goal at all costs. You will notice that in most cases successful people do not have a real family life. If they do, the thanks would always go to a supportive spouse or life partner.

This is mainly because no man or woman can be passionate about two things at the same time in their lives. So, when they are married to their work, they divorce everything else. As their efforts meet with success, they become more and more engrossed in their quest and forget everything else.

They say everything has a price in life and this the price successful people pay for their achievements. However, ask each one of them, if they were given a second chance in life would they live any different? The answer will always be, Never in a million of years!

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Success in the broadest of terms is, achieving the goal you set out for yourself. Many things determine a persons capacity to achieve success, be it on personal or professional front. Among the most important are: hard work, determination, self-confidence, good planning and an excellent support system.

First, there is no success anywhere in this world without a good measure of hard work. It does not matter in what field you are seeking success, hard work is one ingredient, which will always remain constant in the recipe. People who love success and aim for it are not afraid of hard work, rather they are afraid of too much leisure time.

All successful people show exceptional determination when it comes to achieving their set goals. Many times determination is described as a one-track mind because these people behave in such a way that it does not seem they consider anything else other than reaching their goal.

To enjoy success, one must have self-confidence; the belief in oneself is one of the most important factors in any success story. There have been instances when great people in history worked almost alone because at that time no one believed in them; however, their determination and self-confidence brought them success and in its wake the much-deserved recognition. It is very important to believe in one self, when others do not.

Once you have set a goal, a good amount of planning is required to achieve it. Without planning there is no way you can achieve any success because you will not be focused enough to concentrate on accomplishing your goal(s). The planning should be done both long-term and short-term; the long-term showing the larger picture, while the short-term would provide the day-to-day guide to success.

You must have a strong support system in order to achieve your goals. This vital system includes your family, your colleagues, and all those who support you in this endeavor. There is no way that you can achieve any type of success without any outside support. When this external support totally matches your needs, then your road to success becomes easier.

In the end, you will find that success is the amalgamation of a number of factors, which represent the attitude and the hunger to achieve ones goal with single minded determination. Anyone can be successful in any field provided they are totally committed to it.

Everyone Needs a Plan for Home Business Success

There are many questions you have to answer honestly if you hope to become a home business success. While organization and discipline are two key areas that can help create home business success, there are other equally important issues you will need to deal with.

Because you are going to be the only one working the business you have to know if you are willing to work hard enough handle the bookkeeping, handle the tax returns, and find the market for what your business is offering. Many aspects of bookkeeping can be handled through professional bookkeeping software. QuickbooksPro is an inexpensive program that helps you do it all.

Having the proper equipment in your home office also helps to make you become a home business success. A good computer, a reasonably good fax machine, a speaker phone and odds and ends of office supplies such as paper, pens, a staple are in paper clips are just a few of the common supplies you will need to set up your home office.

Challenges of a Home-Based Business

While there are many benefits and advantages to having a home based business, there are also pitfalls into which you can fall which can slow your progress to becoming a home business success. Some of the advantages include tax breaks, being able to set your own hours and not having to share the profits.

Some of the pitfalls include the understanding from family and friends that just because you are home all day doesnt mean you have nothing to do. Its not unusual for people to misunderstand what you do all day. To become a home business success you need to learn to separate home from work. If your job took you out of the home that stack of dishes in the sink would still be there at the end of the day.

That laundry building up would not get done if you were working away from the house, yet many people will take time out to do household chores instead of working towards their goal of becoming a home business success.

If you are married, and havent learned yet, you will have to learn to ignore your spouse. Most people working from home think they have all the time in the world, yet you dont want to work 24 hours a day simply because others also plan things for you to do when you should be working at becoming a home business success.

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