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Informative Essay: Jessie Jo's Life And Campaign

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The English singer and songwriter, Jessie J had her head shaved for charity, and the Price Tag hitmaker inspired a cancer-sufferer.

The 26 year old Sophie Watford lives in London, has said farewell to her hair, after Sophie was diagnosed with stage three lung cancer. Then she donated her hair to The Little Princess Trust charity, an institution that makes a real hair into wigs.

What Sophie Watford did have raised an impressive £3,600, and is now donating to the British Heart Foundation - Sophie Watford 's place of work that often raises funds from cake sales. Watford was inspired to make the move by Jessie J, where the singer donated her long lock of a woman 's hair to the Princess charity for Comic Relief.

Sophie Watford stated, "Jessie J showed that you don 't need hair to look alright - and she looks beautiful." Watford also said, "My hair was also …show more content…

However, the Academy Award winning actress made a determined attempt to change the name of J.E.B. Stuart High School in Falls Church, Virginia - which the school was named before, to honor a Confederate general Thurgood Marshall - the first African American Supreme Court Justice.

After the shooting incident that happened at the historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, the school then started the campaign.

Julianne Moore attended the J.E.B. Stuart High School from 1975 to 1977. Moore and former classmate (film, television, and theater producer) Bruce Cohen heard about the incident and they made a formal written request of renaming the school. Their petition accumulated about 28,723 supporters.

Moore and Bruce Cohen wrote, "When our school was founded in 1959, it was named after Stuart, a Confederate General, to protest the 1954 Brown vs. the Board of Education ruling that ended the segregation of public schools," they also wrote, "Today, this school is attended by a diverse group of students who should not have to attend a school that bears the name of a man who fought to keep African Americans

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