Biography

Biography of Mel Gibson up until the Passion

If you are wondering who the director of “The Passion of the Christ” is, then you would want to read this biography. Mel Gibson was born was born in Peeksill, NY, to Irish Catholic parents. One of eleven children, Gibson didn’t get to Australia until 1968. The first career he set his eyes on was Journalism. He started acting by the time he reached college age, and studied at the National Institute of Dramatic Art in Sydney, Australia, even though he had stage fright. Luckily, he overcame the stage fight very quickly and filmed “Summer City”. It didn’t take long before he found work playing supporting roles for the South Australia Theatre Company after his graduation.

Through the '90s, Gibson's popularity and reputation continued to grow, thanks to such films as Ransom (1996) and Conspiracy Theory (1997). In 1998, Gibson further increased this popularity with the success of two films, Lethal Weapon 4 and Payback. More success followed in 2000 due to the his lead role as an animated rooster in Nick Park and Peter Lord's hugely acclaimed Chicken Run, and to his work as the titular hero of Roland Emmerich's blockbuster period epic The Patriot (2000). After taking up arms in the battlefield of a more modern era in the Vietman drama We Were Soldiers in 2002, Gibson would step in front of the cameras once more for Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan's dramatic sci-fi thriller Signs (also 2002). Gibson would return to more familiar territory in Randall Wallace's We Were Soldiers -- a 2002 war drama which found Gibson in the role of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry -- the same regiment so fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. In 2003, Gibson starred alongside Robert Downey Jr. and Robin Wright-Penn in a remake of The Singing Detective.
The year 2004 saw Gibson return to the director's chair for The Passion of The Christ. Funded by 25 million of Gibson's own dollars, the religious drama generated controversy amid cries of anti-Semitism. Despite the debates surrounding the film and the fact that all of the dialogue was spoken in Latin and Aramaic it nearly recouped its budget in the first day of release.


That summer, he was pulled over for drunk driving at which time he made extremely derogatory comments about Jewish people to the arresting officer. When word of Gibson's drunken, bigoted tirade made it to the press, the speculation of the actor's anti-Semitic leanings that had circulated because of the choices he'd made in his depiction of the crucifixion in Passion of the Christ seemed confirmed. Gibson's father being an admitted holocaust denier hadn't helped matters and now it seemed that no PR campaign could help. Gibson publicly apologized, expressed extreme regret for his comments, and checked himself into rehab.

Harlem Renaissance Poems

1.} These rivers are in Africa. He might have chposen these specific rivers because they are big and beautiful or they might be old. The river symbolizes the linkage of all human life from the earliest time to the present. He continues naming rivers that represent the history of Western culture.

2.} When Langton Hughes says i am the darker brother, he means the black race. This poem serves as a critic on the life of a black man, who is unfairly not regarded as the American that he actually is. It foreshadows the uprising black movement toward freedom and equality within the country and discusses the shame whites will experience after realizing the disgusting nature of their treatment toward blacks.

3.} refer to number 6 but still the same in the sense that he uses more stronger word, and it will appeal more to the black race.
















5.} In “Note on Commercial Theatre” Hughes reflects the views of W.E. B. DuBois who wrote that Negroes don’t want whites to write about them. Hughes felt that whites often distorted the picture of blacks and wrote about them only for personal financial gains. The same issue are still going on till today.

6.} Identity





Claude Mckay's Africa, If we must die

1.} Maybe in the peom,Harlots mean slaves. Maybe because slaves and harlots can be compared because harlots are people who use their bodies as slaves.

2.}The usage of the phrase is appropriate, for history verifies that dogs were used to attack, subdue, frighten, and murder blacks. When Mckay says hogs, he is referring to slaves who are killed for defying their masters, When he says dogs he refers to the white people that treat them harshly. He uses the phrase "if we must die" a couple of times, indicating that he doesn't want to be killed horribly. For that reason, furious action must be taken and that action is to strike back.

3.} Mckay's Language differs form other poets language because he uses harsher or more stronger words to prove his poin in each of his point. He uses this diction to get his point to all the black people out there at that time so that they won't die a wasteful death.The poem in general is a protest to all blacks, declaring this, Don't settle with the mistreatments and nefarious acts by whites and fight back. He uses his voice just like other blacks to encourage boldness and that's what he did.

Beverly hills chicago

They walk around like they run the whole school. they are trashy, filthy, have no sense of style, but yet think that they are unique in their ways, fights, violence, and revenge is what they believe in.but yet they are still so highly commended.

Their eyes Were Watching God Analysis Quote/Essay!!!!!! The Pear Tree!!!!!!!!!!!

In the novel, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Zora Neale Hurston exemplifies the troubles of love and a person’s self awakening through the protagonist Janie. Janie has three relationships in her life, all of which teach her something about herself. This expedition through life ultimately determines the tragic fate and self-discovery that awaits her. Although others try to alter Janie’s path in existence, Hurston uses the pear tree imagery to show Janie’s own commencement, journey, and discovery in life.
Janie’s life commences when she is lying under the blossoming pear tree at her grandmother’s house. When Janie views the tree passively wait for the aggressive male bee to penetrate its flowers, she concludes that this is the role that should be taken when it comes to love. Janie comes to the realization of what true love should look like. The woman should wait for the man to come, but the love embrace should be reciprocal. The pear tree shows this to Janie, “the thousand sister calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree…” (Hurston 11) Janie realizes that she wants a male identity to complement her identity, creating a perfect union in mutual embrace. At this point in time, Janie sees her ideal relationship in the distance, and wants nothing else but to obtain it. On the other hand, Nanny feels that relationships are meant to give shelter and offer security, and are not meant to be about this so called, “true love”. Only wanting the best for Janie, she tries to hold Janie back from achieving Janie’s own sense of self discovery by setting her up with someone who could fulfill Nanny’s ideals. With this first obstacle in place, Janie needed to find a way around her awful relationship with Logan Killicks.
Janie’s journey throughout her life is full of difficulty and it only begins with Logan Killicks. Janie obviously wants something more out of her relationship with Logan, “The vision of Logan Killicks was desecrating the pear tree…” (Hurston 14) Janie is yearning to capture the moment she saw with the pear tree for herself. She is searching for more fulfillment than she has; one that offers both physical passion and emotional connection. Janie feels no connection whatsoever with Logan, “Ah’d ruther be shot wid tacks than tuh turn over in de bed and stir up de air whilst he is in dere. He don’t even never mention nothin’ pretty.” (Hurston 24) Without this connection, Janie hopes that her marriage will create the love she is looking for, “Did marriage end the cosmic loneliness of the unmated? Did marriage compel love like the sun the day?” (Hurston 21) Janie soon learns though, that the title of a marriage does not evoke feelings between people. The only way she will grasp these feelings is with true love. Nanny and Logan both try to keep the relationship alive, but Janie learns to listen to her heart. She states, “Ah wants things sweet wid mah marriage lak when you sit under a pear tree and think. Ah…” (Hurston 24) The pear tree is obviously still in Janie’s mind, and she wants to complete this idealistic relationship by finding the man who will complement her completely. When Janie finally leaves Logan for Jody, she feels as though she has finally found her true love, “From now on until death she was going to have flower dust and springtime sprinkled over everything. A bee for her bloom.” Jody treats her like a lady, unlike Logan, and she finally feels appreciated and loved. Even though Janie has these emotions initially, by the end of their marriage, Janie feels as though Jody never lets her speak her mind, or express her opinions.
Janie’s discovery takes her the entirety of the novel to determine. Janie believes that she has found her “soul mate” when she finds Tea Cake. Their relationship is reciprocal such as the pear tree and the bee, and it finally makes Janie happy. Tea Cake is the only man she has met who wanted to play checkers with her as an equal and she respects this. Her previous two relationships made her feel as though anyone could take her place as Logan or Jody’s wife. Tea Cake on the other hand makes her feel special. “She couldn’t make him look just like any other man to her. He looked like the love thoughts of women. He could be a bee to a blossom-a pear tree blossom in the spring. He seemed to be crushing scent out of the world with his footsteps. Crushing aromatic herbs were every step he took.” (Hurston 106) Janie returns back to the pear tree imagery because she again feels as though she has found true love. Janie has journeyed enough in her life to realize that Tea Cake is the man that will finally make her happy, and completely fill her ideals of the pear tree. Even when Janie feels another girl is flirting with Tea Cake he states, “Whut would Ah do wid dat lil chunk of a woman wid you around? She ain’t good for nothin’…You’se something tuh make uh man forgit tuh git old and forgit tuh die.” (Hurston 138) When Tea Cake dies, his legacy still remains with Janie, “He could never be dead until she herself had finished feeling and thinking.” (Hurston 193) Janie has to put up with the ridicule she receives when she returns to Eatonville, but her self discovery keeps her strong. She has come to the realization that she truly has achieved the unity with nature that she sought so long ago under the pear tree. When she, “pulled in her horizon…” (Hurston 193), it shows the harmony she has finally settled with herself and with nature.
Overall, Hurston uses Janie to show the difficult expedition one has to travel on to find agreement within themselves. Even though others may try to stand in the way, Janie achieves her self awakening through her commencement, journey, and discovery as seen through the pear tree imagery. Everyone should model Janie’s actualization and try to achieve it as so.

Essay on Argumentation

sorry its late Ms. Brown my computer at home doesn't really have internet and our printer didnt work but.. this is it even though i didnt understand what the questions was. You should see improvements though regarding the one we did in class.


As we all know, money is the ruth of all evil, even Lapham agrees with this. It can lead to positive returns, and it can also lead to extremely negative results. America as a whole relies heavily on mone.

Money in our society has become a sense of power and authority. Although money isn't a bad thing it effects the way people act and causes them to not care about the things that they should many times.Microeconomics is a powerful factor in the way that companies handle their business. Money runs these companies from the ground up and often is more important than the people that work there. The importance of money in a person's life can vary greatly by individual, culture, and social status. Although most of us will agree that money should never be the most important thing in life, we must recognize that in our currency-based culture in does hold a significant degree of importance and even necessity. Money is required for food, shelter, and clothing, even in its simplest form.
Power is money and money is power. There are many more examples of this now than anytime in the past.
One of the most obvious examples is politics. Ross Perot was an unkown multimillionaire and his money is the only reason that he made it into the presidential election. If a man who earned a standard salary wanted to run for president, he would have almost no chance at all unless he was backed by people with money.
Every four years when the U.S. Presidential election is held, hundreds of millions of dollars are spent. The more money a candidate has, the farther he can get. Although the richest competitor doesn’t always win, the president is usually a very wealthy man. Wealth paves the road to a good education. If the presidential candidate is rich, he either inherited it or was educated enough to make it.



a commodity accepted by general consent as a medium of economic exchange. It is the medium in which prices and values are expressed; as currency, it circulates anonymously from person to person and country to country, thus facilitating trade, and it is the principal measure of wealth.

The subject of money has fascinated people from the time of Aristotle to the present day. The piece of paper labeled 1 dollar, 10 euros, 100 yuan, or 1,000 yen is little different, as paper, from a piece of the same size torn from a newspaper or magazine, yet it will enable its bearer to command some measure of food, drink, clothing, and the remaining goods of life while the other is fit only to light the fire. Whence the difference? The easy answer, and the right one, is that modern money is a social contrivance. People accept money as such because they know that others will. This common knowledge makes the pieces of paper valuable because everyone thinks they are, and everyone thinks they are because in his or her experience money has always been accepted in exchange for valuable goods, assets, or services. At bottom money is, then, a social convention, but a convention of uncommon strength that people will abide by even under extreme provocation. The strength of the convention is, of course, what enables governments to profit by inflating (increasing the quantity of) the currency. But it is not indestructible. When great increases occur in the quantity of these pieces of paper—as they have during and after wars—money may be seen to be, after all, no more than pieces of paper. If the social arrangement that sustains money as a medium of exchange breaks down, people will then seek substitutes—like the cigarettes and cognac that for a time served as the medium of exchange in Germany after World War II. New money may substitute for old under less extreme...


Money is the primary vehicle of social abstraction, lending objectivity to our ideas, actions and status
As an engine of class inequality, it has often been held to disrupt community
misogyny of this patriarchal and capitalistic society whereby men use their "power", in this case money
The only “power” that they really have is whatever money they have
In the extreme it may induce us to neglect weightier matters or even engage in unethical or illegal conduct
Money has no value apart from the purposes to which it is applied. The functional essence of money is power over the development, management, consumption, and disposition of personal and community resources. If that power is exercised in a manner that enhances spiritual growth, its value as an agent for contributing to an authentic state of happiness and personal fulfillment is readily apparent.
When our income is insufficient to meet our perceived needs and wants, we may be tempted to resort to consumer debt to make up the shortfall. And it is so easy, isn't it? We are bombarded by offers of preapproved credit cards, so-called "payday loans," and financing arrangements with "zero down, no payments until next year." Rarely is it advisable to fund consumption through borrowing. Debt must be repaid with interest. It thus limits the borrower's ability to fund consumption in the future, and the high rates of interest associated with consumer debt significantly increase current consumption costs. In the words of President J. Reuben Clark, Jr.: Once in debt, interest is your companion every minute of the day and night; you cannot shun it or slip away from it; you cannot dismiss it; it yields neither to entreaties, demands, or orders; and whenever you get in its way or cross its course or fail to meet its demands, it crushes you.
As a symbolic medium of communication, money informs our subjectivity and gives concrete expression to our desires, releasing and fixing our imagination in many ways. It is a store of individual and collective memory, the stuff linking persons to their communities. It may be that money’s chief function was once to persuade people to let go of what they already had; but separating us from it has become the chief object of the engines of persuasion mobilized by capitalist economy. And the ideas we have of money were themselves disseminated by “worldly philosophers” who devoted a significant part of their effort to persuading people to accept them. It is hard to separate money’s unconscious influence on us through folk discourse from its characteristics as a social force sui generis.
What then is money? It is a universal measure of value, but its specific form is not yet as universal as the method that humanity has devised to measure time all round the world. It is purchasing power, a means of buying and selling in markets. It counts wealth and status. It is a store of memory linking individuals to their various communities, a kind of memory bank and thus a source of identity. As a symbolic medium, it conveys information through a system of signs that relies more on numbers than words. A lot more circulates with money than the goods and services it buys.
have for the most part taken at face value an idealist premise that money has a mind of its own, since it seems to me that most members of capitalist societies are caught in it. The very rich do not have to accept this premise, but they are happy for the rest of us to believe in the story of our own captivity. I want us all eventually to have what the rich have, the creative ability to manipulate money. Hence I have tried here to discover something of what they know about money and what stops the masses from catching on. This has also meant excavating my own socialization as a dupe of the existing money system who has spent his life trying to escape from it. It is easier to embrace a rationalist or materialist alternative than to give credit to this murky stuff, learnt at my mother’s knee in the age of austerity. Spengler helped me to begin to understand some of my own irrational attitudes towards money. Why do I find it so hard to fill in tax returns or travel claim forms? Because being fixated on money as magnitude is a way of killing off the drive to grasp its infinite potential.
There are other catastrophes in addition to war that precipitate huge stacks of money being deposited into the coffers of the international bankers. They are the real benefactors of any catastrophe in whatever country you might name. They are the recipients of all the interest on government loans. They print the bank notes, and loan the money, often to both fighting factions, who fight the wars and then collect the interest from each side, the triumphant and the vanquished.

Average Numbers Sorry its late.... My computer didn't work at first

I chose the Narrative Essay...

1.} 700 words

2.} 35 sentences

3.) Longest sentence contains 35 words

4.} Shortest sentence contains 4 words

5.} Average sentence length is 13

6.} Percentage of sentences with more than ten words over the average is 30%

7.} number of sentences with more than five words over the average is 32 sentences

8.} Percentage of sentences with more than five words 82%

9.} A. 40
B. 10
c

Of Our Spiritual Strivings

This is also a very inspirational writing. Just in the beginning statement he sets the tone of what motivated him to write such a passionate essay.He states "Between me and the other world there is ever an unasked questions: unasked by some through feelings of delicacy, by others through the difficulty of rightly framing it. All, nevertheless, flutter around it.. They approach me in a half-hesitant sort of way, eye me curiously or compassionately, and then instead of saying directly, How does it feel to be a problem? They say, I know an excellent colored man in my town; or I fought at Mechanicsville, or do not these Southern outrages make your blood boil?”. Here Du Bois openly expresses an experience that could easily be hostile and filled with contempt. Instead, Du Bois exposes a unique woven quality of introducing the conflict of races and how one endures such a humiliating experience. Further on in the essay Du Bois begins to take in the plight of negative or naive energy around him but decides to make something out…of nothing. He states:“I had thereafter no desire to tear down that veil, to creep though, I held all beyond it in common contempt and lived above it in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.” Du Bois expertly described the surge of contempt but the undying strength to move forward. To strive for excellence of being a man of color in a world that has labeled him the lowest of the low. The masterful way Du Bois vision of the world during this time is excellently done in the following phrase: to tear down that veil to creep through.” It it holds so much truth and honesty, and the essay is completely breathtaking to read as for it motivates your emotion to not only relate to the issues at hand, however, it urges you feel it.
What I find the conclusion "Of Our Spiritual Striving" was really in the middle of the essay, fore Du Bois brillantly shows determination of purpose and higher focus on the big picture of things. That part that confirms this to me is as follow:“in a region of blue sky and great wandering shadows.” I, myself, could not have come up with a more perfectly woven statement, in order to conclude the awareness that I am different from those around me. In hopes to discover the true source of knowing that when I am not of the same color -- that I am an unique spiritual beging. I acknowledge the inner self of my soul that it is the true captive of my identity. Du Bois expresses this feeling with another quote:
“One ever feels his twoness, an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts two unrecognized strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder. ”At times the journey can be rough and fuzzy to which way to proceed. It could be by anger. It could be by contempt and war. In order, to spiritually succeed one must go inner to heal the wounds that has been bestowed on them and chose wisely. Striving for a better experience is one thing on the course of higher learning but striving to love yourself and give love back…even to those that are filled with darkness is everlasting joy. Du Bois makes another influential statement in towards the end of his essay, he contemplates: “This, then, is the end of his striving; to be a co-worker in the kingdom of culture, to escape both death and isolation, to husband and use his best powers and his latent genius.” One day leads to many. It is what you choose to accomplish with the blessed days that matter. As I re-read Du Bois essay, I am completely filled with so many emotions. I admit to the feelings of frustration, regret, contempt but then enlightenment rises in my heart and I chose to read on. I read and discovered that Du Bois was a strong black man in the midst of a blazing fire. I can only image how the journey must have looked weary and fuzzy to find which way to precede. But he did made a choice, he continued on striving for excellence, And so shall I.