George Lopez Research Paper

Luis was growing up into the life of gang banging, gaining a reputation in San Gabriel by being scouted into bigger gangs in the area. Increasing his involvement in the gang by stealing form stores, to eventually being part of premeditated arson and murders. Luis was well on his way to a life in prison or worse, death. By growing up during a time of racial discrimination, options were limited to becoming a factory worker or gangster. Luis met

As a child, he never felt like he belonged anywhere. He was abandoned by his mother and father as a child. His father left when he was only a few months old. His mother left him when he was ten-years-old. She remarried and decided not to take him with her. He moved in with his grandparents. His grandmother's name was Benne Gutierrez. She

Through the narrative “The Scholarship Boy” I find few turning points that I notice a shift in the demeanor of Richard Rodriguez as well as how I perceive the story. First of all, it is made apparent to me that people acknowledge him for his successes by making remarks such as, “Your parents must be proud” or “How did you manage it? According to the opening paragraphs Rodriguez is seen as a model student. Although this may be true, the first turning point I find suggests otherwise as Rodriguez conveys, “For although I was a very good student, I was also a very bad student…Always successful, always unconfident. Exhilarated by my process. Sad.” This quote changed my perspective of Rodriguez because of the negative emotion he expresses toward his family. By the same token, I recall my sister being an outstanding achiever throughout school, yet, she was similarly depressed as well as annoyed towards me and the rest of our family. This flashback assisted me in relating to Rodriguez’s emotions towards his successes. In the same fashion, I am supplied a grasp of his shift in tone and direction in the narrative.

With all the negative thoughts and feelings about his family, Rodriguez never took the time to repair his relationship with him and his family, because books were very important to him than his family. As Rodriguez begin to separate from his family and culture, his Spanish accent also begin to disappear, which he felt very excited. In the beginning of his article he talked about the first day, he enters the class and could “barely able to speak English” (239). Rodriguez felt that he did not fit in with the rest

Rodriguez begins to become more involved in his classroom by his new grip on the English language. He shares fewer and fewer words with his mother and father. His tone now transforms into guilt. As Rodriguez's public language becomes more fluent, he forgets how to speak Spanish. "I would have been happier about my public success had I not recalled, sometimes, what it had been like earlier, when my family conveyed its intimacy through a set of conveniently private sound.? He begins to break out of the cocoon as a slow or disadvantaged child and blooms into a regular kid in his white society that only uses English. He feels a great sense of betrayal of his Mexican past. His connection that held him so close to his family is destabilized.

This separation from his family caused a longing in his life. But this longing was superseded by what he suspected his teachers could give him. Rodriguez develops a double personality of sorts. The person he is at home, the polite child who lovingly does what his parents ask of him. And then the academic persona he

As Will got older, he became famous for his trick roping skills. After performing in multiple wild west shows he quit. Then he went to Vaudeville. After that, he went to Broadway(Editors, 2014). Usually his acts included exquisite displays of roping and beautiful riding tricks(Sez, n.d.). Hurtful at first ,his early jokes popped up ,when he couldn't get the rope to spin. As his jokes got better ,people started coming to just hear jokes. Soon after ,friends started encouraging the comedic comments(“Will Rogers Memorial Museum & Birthplace Ranch,” 2005). Will also became known as an actor. His first movie premiered in 1916 with a role in the “Wall Street Girl”. After this ,he also performed on other movie sets. Will Rogers’

had to raise his two brothers because their father wasn’t able to care for them after he became an alcoholic because of the passing of his wife.

Kevin Hart was born on July 6, 1979 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for being a comedian doing stand-up comedy and for being an actor. He was raised by his mother, Nancy, and is the youngest of two boys. His father, Henry Hart, battled with cocaine addiction and was in and out of jail, so he was rarely around during Kevin Hart’s childhood. However, since Kevin’s childhood, his father has cleaned himself up and the two of them have reconnected. Kevin Hart took to comedy as a way to relieve himself from all of his pain that he endured during his childhood. He used humor as a coping mechanism to make everyone laugh about the situations that he has been through. “The jokes,” he has said on his stand-up, “come from a real experience” (biography.com editors). As a kid, he was really into stand-up comedy and comedians. Hart named Chris Tucker and J.B. Smoove as the most influential comedians to him. Soon after he graduated from high school, he had begun to work as a stand-up comedian. He traveled to New York City, Brockton, Massachusetts and Los Angeles. He started off doing stand-up comedy in small clubs with his stage name as ‘Lil’ Kev the Bastard’. He won several amateur stand-up performances, which encouraged him to perform in clubs around the country. ABC gave Hart his own sitcom called The Big House, which was cancelled after only six episodes. Hart did not sit with that loss, instead he rebounded quickly. He starred in various movies such as Soul Plane, The

Sammy Goldstein was a tremendous actor. He acted in multiple movies and musicals. “Murder, She Wrote,” an appearance in “Ghostbusters,” “The Trials of Rosie O’Neill,” and “Columbo.” These are just some of the few that he acted in. He made a good living off of the movies,

When reading this autobiography it reminded me of my adolescent years; I remember feeling like I knew all there was to being a grown up, I also felt like my parents didn’t know much because they didn’t go to college. I strongly feel like they could have always done more than they were doing. Upon reading this, I felt as though I was reading Richard Rodriguez’s journal and he was a very unhappy kid living in the ghetto. He was also embarrassed of his own life and he seemed unhappy in his own skin... “(Ways of reading pg.339) A primary reason for my success in the classroom was that I couldn’t forget that success was changing me and separating me from the life I enjoyed before becoming a student”.

Soon Seinfeld's easy-to-relate to humor gave way to regular appearances on "The Tonight Show" and "Late Night with David Letterman." Other more gimmicky comedians failed the test of time, but Seinfeld's steadfast style made his popularity bloom. Despite national exposure, Seinfeld still stayed close to his roots, continuing to play at small venues as well as on television. With jokes like: "They say Tide cleans bloodstains. I say if you've got a T-shirt with bloodstains, then maybe laundry isn't your biggest problem" ("Jerry Seinfeld" 3/7) it's not hard to see why Seinfeld caught on.

Luis was born in Chihuahua Mexico but moved to the States due to the country's corruption. He was not born in a safe area. Luis’s Dad was an educated man and a Principal but unfortunately was

In the article “Will the Real Chris Rock Please Stand Up Sam Lansky quotes Chris Rock who said “Normally have a separate stash of jokes just for stand ups. I didn't separate them this time. I put them into play!”In reference to the film that he was working on at the time which was Top 5(Lansky 1).Also, Lansky quotes Chris Rock When he said “Am I going to be able to express myself properly in this medium.” Because Rock was worried that having to work with other people would not let him be able to let the creativity and that he displayed and his stand-up shine.Rock the end up including the comedy that he would use in a stand up which led the film to become more realistic creating a greater emotional attachment to his character, Andre Allen

His timing was especially lucky in the way that he was born into a generation who lived through world war II and afterward were seeking some relief from the hard times. Towards the end of his lifetime he was living in the era of entertainment when the radio and the tv became exceedingly popular and everyone was going out in search of entertainment (BBC, 2014). This was an era where entertainers thrived such as Houdini, who was considered one of the greatest entertainers of all time, thrived (Hooper,