Tucker Smith Essays

The Seeds of Hatred “Nothing in life is promised, except death,” (Kanye West). This was the fate of the star-crossed made from the hatred between the households of Montagues and Capulets. The play is Romeo and Juliet, written by Shakespeare, tells a story of two lovers killed by hatred. Their love is planted in the soil of their kinsmen. This soil is blackened with a plague that doesn’t hesitate to kill and death shall follow. Romeo and Juliet dig deeper into this soil, so no one can see their love

LASALLE College of the Arts presents a modern adapation of William Shakespeare’s double bill. The Taming of the Shrew was directed by Stefanos Rassios and Macbeth was directed by Adam Marple. The Taming of the Shrew featured Level 2 BA (Hons) Musical Theatre students and Macbeth featured Level 2 BA (Hons) Acting students, in collaboration with the students from Diploma in Technical and Production Management. The double bill begun with The Taming of the Shrew where Rassios directed the play with

Victoria Claflin Woodhull was born on September 23rd, 1838 in Homer, Ohio. She was a gifted and an extremely determined individual who received little to no education, in which she attended school on and off. Nevertheless, Victoria knew at a very early age that it was her destiny to accomplish great things; and that she did. She was truly a remarkable and a powerful human being during the nineteenth century in the United States. She was notably recognized for being the first woman in history to

The movie is set in 1954 and begins with Ray Kroc, who is a salesman or a hustler, making a pitch to an owner of a drive-in about a milkshake machine. He and his wife Ethel live in a big house in Arlington Heights, Illinois. Ray is very committed to his job, which requires him to be on the road quite a lot; however this has created tension between Ray and Ethel as Ethel wishes that Ray would be as interested in her as he is in his job. Ray’s job involves him making pitches about new merchandise that

satisfaction in colleges students. Perfectionism has proved to cause depression as were most people think of it as a saving grace and it leads to a happy life. Ann W. Smith proves this to us “We live in a culture that values perfection, and that leads us to believe that doing things perfectly leads to happiness and success” (Smith). This is true, she also states that “Perfectionists have a deep need to

Identity is such a simple word and yet has so much depth to it. Every being has an identity. The real question is how identity shapes each person. The concept of identity is multi-layered. One can have an identity that pertains to only themself, but one can also have a group identity. At the end of the day, a person’s identity is all that they truly have with them throughout their whole life. Preston identifies three frameworks for analyzing how an identity is formed and transformed. He describes

Police subculture has many elements that define the law enforcement culture and is a common denominator around the globe. "The sense of being different from civilians and the knowledge that a police officer can depend only upon other officers in a moment of need fosters a sense of security and occupational solidarity known as the police subculture", (Doerner, 2016, p. 171).The police subculture is police officers supporting others within their department or other agencies as every law enforcement

Focus Movie Poster Visual Analysis Focus is a comedy and crime film released in February of 2015. The film grossed 53.8 million dollars. A big part of the film’s marketing campaign was its movie poster. Movie posters have been a big part of advertising for films since their beginnings in the late 1800s and early 1900s. The main focus of movie posters are to draw the audience to watch the movie. Due to the rating of R, the main audience of the film Focus is anyone above the age of 17. A lot of thought

In a world full of competition, it takes more than someone with a goal and a dream, but rather someone who is dedicated and is willing to make sacrifices to make themselves among the most elite businessmen. With this being said I believe rapper, producer, actor, and entrepreneur Sean Combs, also known as P.Diddy is someone who fit this profile perfect. Sean Combs has accomplished numerous things. His successful clothing line Sean John to his own brand of liquor Ciroc, are just two of many of Combs

The beloved community is a community where all individuals are loved, supported and heard. Usually we like to talk about the aspects that brings a community together such as unity, but where there is community there also lies a form of bias. Within this bias certain individuals never get the chance to pose their ideas, have their voices heard, or shut down at the quickest possible moment because they wear their pants too low, weren’t fortunate to provide themselves with the same education, or simply

successful education is Will Smith. Will Smith has evidence to support his victorious lifestyle, “Traditional education is based on facts and figures and passing tests - not on a comprehension of the material and its application to your life.” His intended interpretation of said evidence is what truly authenticates his claim. Education starts at a very early age, even before kindergarten. For Will Smith, his early education was a wedge in the past. Being

The movie I AM LEGEND was released in the year 2007 had many well-known actors the most well-known was Will Smith. In the movie the world is in an apocalyptic setting where the human race is dying off because of a very dangerous disease that turns humans in zombies. At first the disease was a cure for cancer but for some horrible reason it mutated into a virus that was spreading all over the world. The government had to act very quickly and start separating the health people from the people that

piece of talent was Will Smith. Smith was a young teen when he recognized his very first talent. Rapping, was this talent of recognition. Overall, as Smith began to get older as young teen, he was fairly recognized for his rapping career, acting career, and becoming a producer of film. Nevertheless, at 12 years of age, Will Smith began rapping.

Setting goals and achieving them is not always easy. In the movie “The Pursuit of Happyness” Chris Gardner shares his story as he struggles to accomplish his goals. Throughout the story Chris goes through many ups and downs, but at the end of all of it he was still happy. In the movie, “The Pursuit of Happyness” the main character, Chris Gardner, achieves his goals by being willing to suffer at the moment in order to have a better future, making sure that his son is safe and has a good example,

The Cultural Conflict: An Analysis of Jhumpa Lahiri’s Interpreter of Maladies Manoj Kumar (Research Scholar, Department of English and Modern European Languages, University of Allahabad) Email- m4nojkk@gmail.com Abstract The present paper tries to analyze cultural and social theme that we face in the fiction of Jhumpa Lahiri, one of the most dazzling authors of diaspora. The topic of culture is always a matter of interest especially when it has to do with an alien setting. Lahiri’s characters

Carson Daly Mr. Tucker English III Lit September 13, 2016 Compare/Contrast Essay John Smith and William Bradford were both leaders of colonies in the new world. They both wrote about the experiences they had from different points of views. John Smith wrote his famous story The General History of Virginia takes place in the Virginia and Jamestown area. William Bradford wrote his famous story Of Plymouth Plantation takes place in Massachusetts and the Plymouth area. This essay will compare how the

My family has always been very united but one day my dad emigrated to America, I was 5 years old and missed him a lot because I thought he was missing out so many important events of my childhood and all the new things I was going through, but he would always tell me that one day I would come to America and I remember I would get very content about it but as I was growing up I was making new friends, meeting new people and “living life” that I forgot about the idea of coming to America. As years

Nancy Huston’s Losing North: Essays on Cultural Exiles, ascends plenty of thought regarding the experiences of individuals who voluntarily choose to leave their native country. One can connect with the author immediately with her writing style seeming as a conversation between herself and the reader. A deeper connection may be formed when one has personally experienced adopting another country just how Huston did. The aftermath of fully becoming part of another country may not be full of butterflies

Charlotte Bronte, who wrote Jane Eyre, was a great British female novelist in the Victorian age. She was born in a desolate village where people were rough, cold and cruel. Her mother passed away when she was a little girl and her father was a stern man who had very little communication with her like a stranger (“Charlotte Bronte” 158). When Bronte was eight years old, she had her first experience away from home at the Clergy Daughters' School for poor clergymen's daughters with her two sisters

Ha’s life has turned inside out and back again. Ha’s life has turned inside out because she had been forced out of her home in Saigon due to war. Her life has also turned back again because she is settling into Alabama and starting to be smart again. Along her journey she faces many challenges because of language and other people not being friendly and welcoming to her. The book Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhha Lai is about a girl named Ha that is a refugee from the city of Saigon in Vietnam