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    inform my audience about the life of Tyler Perry. THESIS STATEMENT: Tyler Perry is one of America’s famous actors. He is an actor, producer, director and writer. I will be informing you about his childhood, growth as an actor and his accomplishments. INTRODUCTION: I. What comes to mind when you hear the name Tyler Perry? II. I would assume at least one person in this room have watched a movie that he produced. III. He also plays the role of Madea. IV. Tyler Perry is known as the first African American

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    Tyler Perry was born Emmit Perry Jr. to parents Willie Maxine Campbell and Emmit Perry Sr. on September 14th in New Orleans.He lived a depressing life due to the fact that his father was verbally abusing his mom and there wasn't anything he could do to stop it besides legally change his name to Tyler as a way to separate himself from his dad. One day while watching the Oprah Winfrey show she addressed those specific problems and suggested the victims to buy a journal. Tyler did so and in this journal

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    Julian Brown Intro to theatre Professor Bishop 30 September 2015 Tyler Perry For decades people found theatre one of the most enjoyable form of entertainment all across the world. With every play comes a cost. A value which somebody's story is told. Obviously it can be comic drama or despairing,. Each second of these plays are genuinely delightful and exceptional. Where the performing artists show a totally distinctive side of characters to the group of onlookers where they demonstrate to them

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    September 2015 Reinforcement of Social Construction: Religion While Hollywood’s prominent objective is to create a mockery through the portrayal of the “Black church”, Tyler Perry reinforces the religious views through his works by producing and broadcasting African American church culture in an authentic manner. Prior to Perry building a multimillion dollar empire within the entertainment industry, he was once an outcast to the Hollywood mainstream and dealt with personal experiences that only

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    Movie Analysis: Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys Power differentials within a marital relationship is shown to prove that with conflict the spouses’ stress hormones are impacted (Loving). The conflict set that shows a great example of this in the movie, Tyler Perry’s The Family That Preys, is the conflict between Andrea and Chris. Chris is the weaker spouse in the relationship while Andrea is the more powerful. During the movie it is seen that Andrea and Chris have multiple conflicts and that

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    Introduction Tyler Perry was born Emmitt Jr. on September 13, 1969 the third of four siblings, to father Emmitt Perry Sr. a carpenter and mother Willie Maxine Perry (née Campbell). Throughout his childhood, he endured abuse at the hands of his father. Later, during an interview Perry was quoted saying, “My father’s answer to everything was I’ll beat it out of you” (Gale 2006). He additionally disclosed being molested by a friend of his mother at the age of ten. Following years of abuse, Perry attempted

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    Sally Mann also known as Sally Munger was born on May 1, 1951 in Lexington Virginia. She was an American Photographer whose powerful images of childhood, sexuality, and death were often judge controversial. Mann was introduce to photography by her father, Robert Munger, he was a physician who photographed her nude as a little girl. As a teenager in 1969 she took up photography in Vermont at the Putney school and then spent two years at Bennington College. She studied with photographer Norman Sieff

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    Girl Trouble Sociology

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    Girl Trouble is a film by PBS that followed three young girls for four years through their struggles and experience with crime and the criminal justice system. The three girls include Shangra (age 16), Stephanie (age 16), and Sheila (age 17). The girls had many similarities in their stories, but they were also all different in ways. The girls all had drug or alcohol problems, violence issues, and experienced or were in abusive relationships. During the four years, it seemed like none of the girls

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    Taela Mann Comparison

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    Throughout her life, Mrs. Mann grew up in the church as she the youngest one singing in the adult choir instantly knew her passion (Jones). When she moves forward as a gospel singer at the same time she was acting in Tyler Perry’s plays and movies. After a while, during the Tyler Perry’s plays when Tamela became an actor that when she first met her husband David Mann. They both have four children are Joy, David Jr, Faith, and Tamer (Jones). Even though Tamela Mann made it throughout her years when

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    Tyler Perry: The Pursuit of Happiness and Freedom Lisa Jones Kaplan University Abstract The pursuit of happiness and freedom is a given right of any American citizen, but there are some that stand out and continue to make the best life for themselves and those in need. By statistics, Tyler Perry’s life seemed bleak and one that would fall a victim to his environment. He grew up a poor kid in New Orleans, the middle child out of four (“Tyler Perry Biography,” 2008). He was born Emmitt Perry

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