Robert Robinson‚ a thirty year old social worker at a home for troubled youth‚ has lived a difficult life and overcome many obstacles to get where he is. Raised in a lower income community in Miramar‚ FL.‚ the concept of college was a faraway dream. In high school his main focus was to play football. He said “2 years of hard work and my grades were good enough to play‚ finally.” Robert’s goals were to complete high school‚ go to a 4year college‚ and go onto D1 football then the NFL. Robert experienced
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The Blind Side The blind side is a semi-biographical drama written by Michael Lewis‚ it is an inspirational real life story about a black 17 year old boy Michael born in the ghetto of Memphis in America. At the age of three‚ he was sent to various foster homes because he dint know who is father was and his mother was an alcoholic and a sex worker who did not have sufficient money to take care of her sixteen children. Michael ran away from his foster home because his foster mother wanted him out
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The Diary of Captain Odysseus Entry 1 The smell of fresh entrails is so strong I must cover my mouth with a dirty rag as I write this. I am staring at my comrade‚ Lieutenant Dan‚ and observing his condition: a bone protruded out of his leg which moved with his rattling breath – it is a cruel fate to be confined to‚ to be a good soldier and merely wanting to return to the country he loved. His moaning seems synchronised with the rocking lifeboat‚ and his muscles‚ visible to the naked eye‚ writhed
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East Coast vs. West Coast Throughout the nineties there was an movement in hip hop‚ the infamous East coast rap vs West coast between rap musicians. It was a separational movement that caused both sides to end the lives of two most influential rappers in the music industry‚ Notorious B.I.G and Tupac Shakur. Both rappers with similar backgrounds have changed the music scene completely with one sudden movement. Known mainly for their rivalry against one another and compared because of the backgrounds
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The Blind Side: Making All the Right Calls When asked to think of an inspirational drama in recent years‚ one movie comes to mind projecting lives of people that follow their dreams from a under privileged lifestyle to a well known role model. An inspiring movie has to give the audience that unique sense where they themselves have a different outlook on life. That outlook hits them right in the heart where some people leave the movie theaters with tears of joy in their eyes. In John Hancock’s “The
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Pain & Pleasure Sells in the 1990s As times change and our country continues to adapt to its evolution‚ music coincides with America’s altering state. Musicians of the 1990s apply aspects of their own lives into their lyrics to sell themselves. Whether positive messages or negative‚ fans envy the lives that musicians in the 1990s sing about. The decade began with an attraction towards street-life‚ pain and agony in music with bands like the Nirvana and Metallica. Even in other genres like rap
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Rap Now a days there are many different types of music. There’s hip-hop‚ r&b‚ metal‚ rock or religious music. My favorite is Hip-hop because of its culture and because according to Wikipedia “rap origins from it Hip-Hop.” Wikipedia also states that “Rap is a music genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping‚ a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted. It had been developed as part of hip hop culture‚ a subculture defined by four key elements: MCing/rapping
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Authenticity defines what is ‘real’ and what is not. Having ones own genuine‚ homegrown swagger and to then continue to maintain that strut as ones career (or life in general) carries on. The most prominent aspect to being authentic is having the courage to design entirely new‚ different and altered concepts and bring them into the mainstream‚ or at the very least attempt to do so. Turn the page to 19990’s hip-hop. The Rock N’ Roll era was over and it was time for a new genre to takeover. The
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Plot Summary. .......It is an autumn evening along the Irish coast in County Mayo. Shawn Keough stops at Michael James Flaherty’s country pub to visit Flaherty’s daughter‚ Margaret‚ called Pegeen Mike by her family and friends. Keough‚ a fat young fellow devoid of wit or talent‚ means to marry pretty Pegeen‚ a spirited colleen of twenty who is minding the tavern in her father’s absence. But she entertains no fancy for Shawn. When he pesters her about the “good bargain” she would have in becoming
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Setting Costume Location Lighting/colour Film techniques How do the above elements show the differences between Michael’s and Tuohy’s world? Introduction Mise en Scene mean all the elements of a shot which helps to convey a message to the viewer. The elements are setting‚ costume‚ location‚ lighting/colour and film techniques. Michael Oher’s World Tuohy Family’s World Memphis‚ Tennessee 17 year old Foster care/ward of the state Mother has drug addiction problems and cannot
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