The Influences On Tyler Perry's Life

From start to finish the film "to save a life" presents the viewer with a multitude morality concepts that are depicted by the main character Jake Taylor. The setting of the movie “To save a life” takes place in a highschool and follows Jake Taylor a popular basketball player with questionable morals. Jake Taylor is the childhood friend of Roger Dawson and begins to distance himself from Roger due to feeling embarrassed by Rodger. The major rift between their friendship occurs when Jake encounters a potential lady Amy Briggs friend who invites him to a party. Shortly thereafter their relationship intensifies and they become boyfriend and girlfriend. Roger is left with the impression that he has been abandoned by the world. Roger then goes to

As a child Perry grew up with a limited education. When he is young and after his parent’s divorce Perry is living with his dad and is going to school. He finishes grade three but after that he never returns. Perry’s father moves from state to state throughout his childhood and prevents Perry from returning to school. Perry’s father wants Perry to stay with him instead of going to school so he can do work and take care of him. As Perry grows older however he understands that his father kept him out of school and Perry becomes extremely angry with him. Smith stated, “That bastard never gave me a chance. He wouldn’t let me go to school…. he didn’t want me to learn anything, only how to tote and carry for him. Dumb. Ignorant. That’s the way he wanted me to be. So that I could never escape him” (Capote 185). However, Perry is an intelligent and talented man with great potential. He has natural music ability, he likes to read and improve his vocabulary, and he also knows how to draw. In spite of this he never received encouragement from his father or anyone else: “Oh, the man I could have been! ... But the time came I begged to go to school. I happen to have a brilliant

Everyone knows a guy by the name of Tupac Shakur, but how do people know Mr. Shakur? Maybe it is by the hardcore gangster and obscene rap lyrics directed towards people, more so aimed towards his east coast rivals. As years went on, more and more people viewed a handful of Tupac’s music as a true work of art, containing strong messages along with stories from his troubled childhood and young adulthood. Later on in both Tupac’s life and career, he began to realize the demise of the African American culture as a whole. During his last stint in prison, not only did he realized all of this wrongdoing throughout this life, but also the negative influence rap and hip hop had over the young African American community. What happened during his incarnation,

named after his father. His mother name was Willie Maxine Perry. He is one of 4 siblings. He grew up in an abusive home. His father was very abusive to him and he even got sexually molested as a child by his friend parent, a nurse and his parent’s friend. He describes his father “as a man whose answer to everything was to beat it out of you”. His mother was his only comfort and would take him to church. The way Tyler Perry wanted to separate himself from his father he even changed his name to Tyler at the age of 16 because of his abusive relationship with him. Tyler grew up in a poor neighborhood. He did not finish high school but he earned his GED

Tyler is hard working to the extreme and has never taken the easy way out of anything. My brother is a masonry meaning he lays bricks and fixes houses and building. He even builds houses’s. Tyler does the first and the second shift because he never passes opportunities up. He has left the house by 6:30 a.m. everyday and doesn’t return home till around 8:00p.m. doing a full day’s work. That’s over a 14 hour shift, and he’s only 19. These are some of the many reasons Tyler my brother is my Michigan Hero.

Everyone has that one family member who is very blunt and does not care if their opinion hurts someone else's feelings. Madea is that grandmother who says what is on her mind and does not care about being politically correct. Tyler Perry is the creator and man under all the makeup and costume. Madea is a well known character in Hollywood and entertainment. Perry produces, acts and directs all his films so he can fully get his vision out on screen. His films have a feel of family hardships, carefully combining comedy and drama. Many people say Tyler Perry is a role model and shows society that even from the bottom it is possible to take something positive from it. Some people say he just shows “coonery and buffoonery”. Whatever people think

Selena Quintanilla-Perez you may or may not heard about her. If you have you know she was known as the queen of Tejano music or known by the media the Tejano Madonna. Even though her life was cut short she continues to live in the hearts of Latino and American community. Selena is a pop icon that has influence me and others because she broke a lot of barriers and had a major impact on the Latino community.

Perry’s childhood was an unfortunately tragic, formative time for him. When he was little, Perry’s mother was “entertaining” sailors, and when Perry’s father got home, he attacked his wife and the sailors scarring Perry for years to come and he later said that he was “scared because I thought my father was going to hurt me, also because he was beating my mother”(Capote274). Later, he was sent to an orphanage where he was abused by nuns who “Had a flashlight and hit [him] with it. Hit [him] and hit [him].” and “Whipped him for wetting his bed”(Capote93). Then, he was sent to another orphanage, this one even worse. One nurse made Perry’s life a living hell until she nearly killed him. She would “Fill a tub full of ice-cold water, put [him] in it, and hold [him] under ‘till [he] was blue” (Capote132). All of these things led to a biased look at what he thought and hoped his future could hold.

At one point, Perry even endeavored suicide in an exertion to escape his troublesome circumstance. At 16, he changed his first name to Tyler to pardon himself from his father. Perry dropped out of secondary school, yet he in the long run earned a general equivalency certificate, or GED, later. Attempting to discover his direction

Perry's rags-to-riches tale is astonishing and inspirational. His younger days were troubled, and he suffered from endless abuse from his father and others as he was growing up. The dejection and rejection caused Perry to do some soul-searching as an adult.

Perry did not have a father most of his life and his mother was an alcoholic. He was also never given a chance to an education. Two of Perry’s siblings committed suicide as young adults, but his sister turned out just fine and went on to live her live. One out of four are not good odds but it only takes one to prove that Perry’s childhood did not make him incapable of making his own decisions. Perry is not the first person to have a rough childhood. Many people have had terrible childhoods, but because of the smart choices they made kept them on the right path to a successful

Tyler Perry went through a lot of difficulties to reach the fame he has achieved today. He went from job to job looking for the right one. Before, Tyler Perry became one of the best actors he work as a carpenter, and in a office. Tyler Perry relieved his pain by writing in a journal. “In 1992 Perry moved to Atlanta and scraped together $12,000 in savings. He rented the 14th Street Playhouse and mounted his own production of the play, taking on the roles of producer, director, promoter, and star.” (¨Tyler Perry Recounts¨) Tyler Perry started a self funding production with got no attention and place Tyler Perry in deeper poverty. Tyler first production was called, “I Know I’ve Been Changed”, “The first production was a disaster. Only 30 people

Tyler Perry struggled with and abusive relationship with his father. This abusive relationship between his father him made Perry depressed. Tyler Perry actually changed his name to Tyler in efforts to distance himself from his father. Education wise, Tyler Perry ended up dropping out of high school later on getting and equivalency diploma. Tyler

Emmitt Perry Jr. was born September 13, 1969 to Emmitt and Willie Maxine Perry. Throughout his childhood, his father would physically abuse Emmitt and his 3 sisters. With that, Emmitt tried to commit suicide to escape the abuse. One time, his mother, Maxine decided to pack up her stuff and take the children to California to get away from the abuse but her husband then decided to report the car stolen and caused the family to be held in jail until he picked them up. Afterwards, he beat Maxine Perry all the way home. When Emmitt got to the age of 16, he decided to change his name to Tyler to separate himself from his father. He also decided to drop out of school and get a GED later on.

Miles Davis was one of the greatest and most important figures in jazz history. Miles Dewey Davis III was a musician, composer, arranger, producer and bandleader all in one. Davis was at the forefront of almost every major development in jazz after World War 2. He was one of the most influential and innovative musicians of the twentieth century along with Charlie Parker and Louis Armstrong. His versatility landed him at the forefront of bebop, cool jazz, modal, hard bop and fusion (Kirker, 2005:1). His sound went on to influence many other newer forms of music today such as pop, soul, R&B, funk and rap. As one of the last trumpet players, Davis employed a lyrical, melodic style that was known for its minimalism as well