Sam shepard

Injustice Any Where is a Threat to Justice Everywhere In the words of Martin Luther King Jr. “Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere” (para 1). Injustice has been around for centuries and has affected many people from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. during the height of the Civil Rights movement in 1963 where he was arrested for protesting without a permit and put into jail. Henry David Thoreau who refused to pay taxes in protest of the Mexican American war and slavery spent a night in jail

truth behind the horrific death of one of the worst documented anti-gay hate crimes in American history. Prior to his death, Matthew Shepard, was attending the University of Wyoming, he had a great interest in political affairs, and was known to be an outstanding member of the community. On the night of October 6, 1998, upon leaving a bar in Laramie, Wyoming, Matthew Shepard was robbed, tortured, continuously beaten and terrorized by Russel Henderson and Aaron McKinney. According to the transcripts from

Matthew Shepard: Martyr, Barfly, or Faggot? The Laramie Project is a story that has a variety of characters with many differing viewpoints on a multitude of issues throughout the entire book. Issues such as the death penalty, LGBTQ rights, what type of a person Matthew Shepard was, and a massive amount of others are present throughout the entire book. The character Matthew Shepard, a gay, black student at the University of Wyoming was murdered by two white, heterosexual males, Aaron McKinney and

Moises Kaufman and the Tectonic Theatre Company travelled to Laramie, Wyoming to ‘Conduct over 400 interviews with about 100 Laramie residents’ (Chalkdust Theatre Inc. Riverside Theatre Parramatta, 2010) following the tragic murder of Mathew Shephard, a gay student at the University of Wyoming in 1998, to then create the verbatim, docudrama play, The Laramie Project. The production follows the real residents of Laramie following this tragic event by portraying a large range of views and opinions

The murder of Matthew Shepard in Laramie, Wyoming, was a shocking event that was on the headlines of news stories across the country because of the homophobic intentions. By using verbatim theatre, The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman and members of the Tectonic Theatre Project attempts to portray the true story and opinions of Matthew Shepard’s death and the citizens of Laramie, Wyoming. The University Theatre production of The Laramie Project was directed by Drew Sutherland and also included many

Cleveland, Ohio, Sam and Marilyn Sheppard were entertaining guests at their house.1-4 Sam had spent most of his day in surgery at the osteopathic medicine hospital his family owned.1 When Sam got off work he headed to the Ahern’s house, their neighbors, and picked up Marilyn and Chip, Sam’s son.1 The Adhern’s, including their children, followed Sam back to his home were they made dinner and then watched TV in the living room.1,2 After participating in the chit chat of the evening, Sam became tried and

is a series of interviews (reenacted exactly as they happened) to give the audience facts and true statements so that they can form there own opinion. The play takes place in Laramie Wyoming, after the “hate crime” that left 21 year old Matthew Shepard fighting for his life that ended soon after all because the fact that he was gay. Hate is a feeling and hate crime is acting on that hatred, but what exactly is a “hate crime”? What makes it so different from any other crime? Isn't all crime hate

Shepard Fairey, the artist behind the Barack Obama presidential election “Hope” poster, chose a photograph as an aid to achieving an ideal pose, that was taken by an Associated Press, AP, photographer, Mannie Garcia. This led to a controversy as Fairey used an image he did not own for his personal artwork. This leads to the question of whether illustrators and artists should be allowed to use photographs under the copyright “Fair Use” clause without having to ask permission or pay royalties to the

Did you know that more transgender people are killed due to hate crimes ever year than all the other major targets combined including blacks, Jews, Hispanics, lesbians, and gay men? Or did you know that gay teens are 8.4 times more likely to report having attempted suicide and 5.9 times more likely to report high levels of depression compared with peers from families that reported no or low levels of family rejection? What does that tell us about our society? Personally I believe that we in society

The Limits of Identification Identities are prescriptive representations of every society’s members themselves and of their relationship to each other. The “limits of identification”, thus divide social prescription of identity into two categories, prescriptive accounts of members themselves which is their personal identities, and behavioral prescriptions for the proper enactment of these identities which is society’s norms or behavioral norms that require individual’s to be identified and act in