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This is the first 1,000 characters of 1331 words (5.32 pages) in the essay titled Janis Joplin Blues legend Janis Lyn Joplin was born on January 19th 1943, the eldest child of parents Seth and Dorothy Joplin. Janis was born and raised in the small Southern petroleum industry town of Port Arthur, Texas. Her father was a canning factory worker, her mother a registrar at a local business college. Her non-abberational upbringing coupled with the atmosphere of Port Arthur at the time; generally restrictive, intolerant, and unnurturing must ve made even Janis early childhood difficult. By all accounts, however, Janis seems to have been a normal and happy child, who fitted society s usual definition of pretty . It was in Janis adolescence that the hang-ups and hassles that were to affect the path of the rest of her life. In a sense, her rigid upbringing played a large part in making Janis who she was. This would never have been admitted at the time, but, predictably, the Port Arthur ethic created a fire inside Janis (the fire which later made her so famous) and kept it burning until her death.Janis troubles began, when, as a teenager, her good looks gradually began to disintegrate, her soft blonde hair turned into an unruly brown mane. She also developed severe acne, which would scar her mentally as well as physically. Hence, Janis became something of a loner, an ugly duckling - somebody who no longer fitted society s absurd notion of pretty. She soon began avoiding mirrors, and her anxiety about her looks was made worse by the constant taunts by peers, who re... |
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Keywords: hang ups, leadbelly, eldest child, have been admitted, omnipresent, port arthur texas, disintegrate, canning factory worker, soft blonde hair, upbringing, janis lyn joplin, absurd notion, happy child, severe acne, musical career, vocal style, january 19th, bessie smith