71st Academy Awards

Two very talented comedians in their own right but have you ever wondered how did they become the stars that they are and how different were their paths in getting there? Who are their targeted audience and why? The obvious similarities between Mo’Nique and Fey is that they are both women and both are comedians but the similarities stop there. Mo’Nique was brought up in a two parent household however her family struggled with addictions and abuse. Fey also was brought up in a two parent household

let’s face it, discrimination isn’t over, and it never will be. Women have been belittled in almost every industry in comparison to males. The numbers are there, and there is no argument against it, women have made and do make less. Quite frankly, it’s ridiculous that in this day and age that we have advanced to, we still see women as less superior and deserving of less pay. the average wage for women is seventy-seven cents to the dollar that a man makes for the exact same job. To add salt to the

Review of American Beauty The 1999 Academy Award winning movie American Beauty has many major plots and shows the reality of American life. This movie uses symbolism to get ideas across in many different situations and it shows the actuality of life, it is not always what it looks like on the outside. Lester and Carolyn Burnham seem like they have a perfect marriage and a perfect family life while in turn they are having a lot of marriage problems. Lester is going through a midlife crisis;

With the cartoons he made, awards he won, and the creation of the theme parks, Disney changed the minds of several to live younger and with a smile. The Disney name is constantly remembered as the cartoon Mickey Mouse. Walt Disney created and brought more than just one cartoon to life though. According to http://www.britannica.com/ his first cartoon was

Police v. Guns on the Streets My research paper is that people should focus on the streets that are mainly weapons, kids carrying toy guns replica from a real gun will be mistakenly the targets getting killed by police officer 's. People have not realized that guns are the major causes of death. Against fellow police officers. it has showed that since the shooting of Oscar Grant and Michael Brownl increase the killings of police officers shot by a real or a toy replica gun. Police are basically putting

Music is an identifying characteristic of film and television; everyone who has been exposed to popular culture knows the theme for Star Wars and The Simpsons, even if they have never seen the movie or show. Disney movies are no exception, and this is largely due to the genius creative mind of Alan Menken. Menken is best known for composing the scores for some of the most beloved Disney classics, including Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast, The Little Mermaid, Hercules, Pocahontas, and Tangled. He also

The novel “Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet,” is a unique story. In the story, we learn about Henry on two fronts of his life, the younger, twelve year old Henry during 1942, as well as forty year old Henry in 1986. The story is about a love that surpasses time and distance. We follow Henry and his life as young Chinese-American boy attending a mainly white school on a scholarship. As a young boy, Henry feels out of place since he barely speaks with his own parents, due to the fact that his

and thanks you for giving us such an awesome film to review in our class. To begin with, the movie’s screenplay fantastically dramatized the movie itself. In fact, the film’s screenplay managed to obtain a nomination for the Writers Guild of America Award in the “Best Adapted Screenplay” category. One reason why it kept me entertained consists in every line of dialogue incorporating a staggering amount of character into it, that it feels as if they recorded them in the exact moment the characters exclaimed

writer, famous for her novels and short-stories and is considered to be the grande dame of Hindi Literature. She won some of the most prestigious awards including the ‘Sahitya Akademi Award’ in 1980 for her novel ‘Zindaginama’, the Shiromani Award in 1981, the Hindi Academy Award in 1982, the Sahitya Akademi Fellowship in 1996 and the first Katha Chudamani Award in 1999 . She was offered the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2010, which she declined, stating that, "As a writer, I have to keep

The Oscars is an award show that showcase the best people in front and behind the camera. Unfortunately there was barely any diversity in the nominations this year since most nominators were white, even though there was many diverse films that were considered Oscar worthy. With that being said,people protested that there needs to be more diversity in these categories and some actors agreeing by using the hashtag #OscarsSoWhite in social media. To make things worse, the Academy Awards members are majority