Sean Wilentz

The Blind Side Identify the title, text type, composer and year of publication * ‘The Blind Side’ is a film composed by John Lee Hancock (2009) Identify the context in which your ORT has been set and they key ideas related to the concept of belonging which are represented. * The blind Side was created based on the 2006 book ‘The Blind Side: Evolution of a game”. The film was set in Memphis, in various environments such as A Christian School, the Tuohy’s household and other areas. This

Rap was born in the 1970s as a need of African Americans, who were living in impoverished and crime-infested neighborhoods, to express the issues that they were facing. It was “a genuine reflection of the hopes, concerns, and aspirations of urban Black youth in the last quarter of the 20th century” (Powell 245). However, rap did not stay limited to African Americans. Its popularity expanded rapidly among the minorities because the problems which they were facing were the same. These problems were

I am number 69, the last of my kind. We were the space lords and there were 70 of us on earth. We came because the Virus Fang destroyed our planet. We came here in individual transport- no two-space lords came together. The way that I made it here is by a Legof. A Legof is the name of our spaceships back on my planet that can travel in any atmosphere and disguise itself as anything. The Legof is as living as I am. Most of us traveled that way, but there were a few of us who knew how to teleport.

Quincey “ScHoolboy Q” Hanley was born on October 26, 1986, in Lucius D. Clay Kaserne, an American military complex in Wiesbaden, Germany, to a couple who split up before his birth. His father remained in the Army, but Q and his mother moved to Houston, Texas. Because of the strained relationship between his mother and father, Q was given a random last name possessed by neither parent. Shortly after moving back to the United States, he and his mother relocated to her former home in South Central

Over the summer I started watching “Shameless”. I immediately fell in love with the shows drama and dysfunctional family. After months of begging, I’ve finally convinced my roommate to start watching. While I’ve seen every episode, I’m watching again and realizing how important the show is. If you haven’t watched “Shameless”, I highly recommend doing so, because the show is not only entertaining, but it’s a wake-up call and a reality check on things happening in your own life. I’ll start you off

Once having left the Brewin’s place, I was back on the road pushing June’s car to its limit as I made my way over to the shed. I wasn’t completely sure of what my game plan would be once I got there, but I knew whatever it would be, my chances of pulling it off would be slim. I pulled onto the dirt road which led to the facility and then killed my headlamps for the rest of the brief journey. I didn’t really think I had the advantage of surprise given that Lyle probably had scouts watching the

Rap and hip-hop first started to come together in the 1970 's, but didn 't really materialize and become popular until the 1990 's. With a huge surge in popularity and growth in the 1990 's, it seemed that rap and hip-hop had started a cultural phenomenon that still has noticeable effects easily seen today in music and also in pop culture. A cultural phenomenon is an idea, trend, or movement that shapes and defines that time period. During the 1990 's, rap and hip-hop spread like wild fire across

“The Blind Side” Rhetorical Analysis of a film Taking the bad in with the good, although you may be the perfect classification in order to be targeted in todays society. How you’re classified is based on things such as a persons race, intellect, social class, and appearance. A 2009 film, The Blind Side, written and directed by John Lee Hancock stars, Sandra Bullock and Tim McGraw, is based on a true story. This movie tells a story that truly depicts simple acts of kindness that has the capability

Lucas Jaxon Emmerling. From the day I was born I had a forever friend, a best friend. What I didn’t know about my inseparable pal, was that he would be ripped out of my life at the age of 5. I never knew the true feeling of loneliness until he left my life. Why did he have to go? Why couldn’t he read one more bedtime story? Couldn’t I have gotten one last “teddy” squeeze? As I lay in my twin sized white bunk bed, covered in light mauve sheets with a puffy blanket and stuffed animals, I hear the deafening

little formal education. He grew up in the Memphis’s projects and his mother was a drug addict while his father was never in his life. Due to Oher’s family circumstances, he was in and out of foster homes. One day, Leigh Anne Tuohy and her husband Sean Tuohy decided to adopt Oher. The Tuohy’s provided Oher with a home, a tutor to improve his grades, and invested in his football career. Oher signed on with the University of Mississippi and later got drafted as an offensive lineman for the Baltimore