The Real Hustle

site. However, as we saw with working at home, the shiny newness of being your own boss will definitely wear off. After the honeymoon phase comes the actual work. The real hustle. The part where days run together and the to do list seems never ending. Days when inspiration is just as low as incoming client numbers. The hustle is hard, but when worked right -- it is rewarding. Without being properly prepared, this phase is where many business fail. This phase exposes weakness, tests willpower

American Hustle is a movie that attempted to portray the Abscam Sting of 1978. This name was given to an FBI operation that involved seven members of Congress. The FBI lured public officials into accepting bribes and was given the name “Abscam” because it refers to Abdul Enterprises. The FBI agents were undercover as Arab business men and convicted all seven congress members of accepting bribes. Hollywood does not accurately depict the way Sydney Prosser was portrayed and involved in the operation

The disregard and disrespect for reality is an essential characteristic of postmodern culture. Films like The Thomas Crown Affair, Bullets Over Broadway, Ex Machina and American Hustle all deal with the postmodern sensibility of possessing disdain towards the truth. Viewers are capable of seeing how the preference for spectacle over substance, nostalgia for the past and inability to trust are embodied and resolved in all four films’ central conflicts and themes. The Thomas Crown Affair exemplifies

I was working as a maid. I fell on hard times and jobs weren’t as fruitful. Needing some quick cash I decided to hustle some money cleaning houses with a local company. Lucky for me it was in a very wealthy area so that meant bigger houses and bigger tips. I was making a killing; I even had a side hustle cleaning some houses on the side. Things picked up when I met my real side hustle, Mr. Torres. Mr. Torres or daddy, was a very nice looking man for his age. Standing 5’8, silky black hair, light

animals are personified to mimic humans, these themes relate and can be applicable to human nature in terms of racial profiling and discrimination against other races. Although the idea of predatory and prey suggests the idea of white supremacy in the real world, there are parallels of discrimination amongst other animals like with other people of different backgrounds. Judy Hopps is faced with discrimination and condescended by her peers without knowing her true potential, similar to other groups such

case: Jimmy Smith, a jazz organist in the late 1900’s, released an album called Off The Top on Elektra/Asylum in 1982. The last song on the album, titled “Jimmy Smith Rap”, or JSR, was a spoken-recording. Among the lyrics, it said, “Jazz is the only real music that’s gonna last. All that other bullshit is here today and gone tomorrow. But jazz was, is and always will be.” Prior to this song being released on the album, the label “did not list a composer for JSR, nor was the composition copyright registered

New York City in the 1970’s was a time of glitter, groovy music, and disco. I am Tim Arnold and I attended LaGuardia High School school in the borough of Manhattan. We live in a small apartment as a middle class white family with my mother, my older sister, and myself. My father ended up dying in 1971 during the Vietnam War. After that my mother was never the same. She took to dance to get her mind off of the loss. In my opinion she has actually become really good at dance and I think she is starting

The Farmland film is a documentary that is narrated by farmers itself describing the love and passion they had into the farmer’s life. Many of them come to be second generation of farmers that their main focus is to continue the legacy, time, and effort put in to their farms, by fighting the odds, and tight moments. They produce food, (vegetables, cattle, hogs, chickens, and cattle feed) that is a procedure of not always is has a positive outcome. They depend a lot into the state of the soil, machinery

the first part called “Making it,” it contained the aspects of internships, jobs, self-employment and freelancing, and side hustles. The author, Amanda Reaume, introduces the first part of the book questioning ask the readers what will they do next after they realize they spent thousands on a “great education.” She inserts on the different ways of “making it” into the real world. The first chapter discusses the difference between paid and unpaid internships. Paid internships, of course, are getting

the movies intent and message is not always clear right up front. This particular reason is why I chose to evaluate the movie American Hustle. I really enjoy watching this movie because of the overall story, the characters, and the actors that were cast in this production. The movie, American Hustle, is a comedy-drama that is loosely based on the real life FBI sting, called ABSCAM, that took place in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. The movie centers around two con artist named Irving