Acting

Preteens often picture an adult life and world as something magical, almost fictional and have high hopes for this adult future. Growing up and growing out of this naive worldview is exactly what the main character experiences in the short story Acting Shakespeare. Through this growth the essay touches themes as the transition from child to adult and reality vs fiction. Tess is the fifteen-year-old main character, who tells the story from her point of view. She introduces us to her typical…

Levin says “acting torture as an acceptable measure for preventing future evils.” This tells us that he is attempting to convince his audience about the fact that torture isn’t there to survey as a punishment but as a means of not allowing the same crime to happen again…

2014, he was found hung by a belt with slits on his wrist. He was sixty-three years old. Weeks later after Robin Williams’ death, Billy Crystal gave a touching tribute to Robin Williams at the Emmy’s. Robin Williams impacted many people through his acting career. With the news of him taking his own life; this opened the eyes of many about the seriousness of mental health. A study done by Patrick W. Corrigan, Karina J. Powell, Konadu Fokuo, and Kristin A. Kosyluk (2014) focused on the impact of…

Americans think that black teenage girls with natural hair were accused of “acting white.” Do you know what the word “acting white” means? In Acting White, Stuart Buck, an education researcher, assumes that “Indeed, I would defend the ’acting white’ criticism as entirely normal…it is behavior that arises from deeply rooted and commonplace desires that made sense throughout our history.”(641) Buck mentions the word, “acting white,” which means a desegregation word naming someone who acts like…

I was in elementary school when I first discovered my love for acting. I always jumped at the opportunity to be in classroom plays and school performances, but I never took them too seriously. My teacher noticed that I was pretty good at performing, so she gave my mom information for a theater company. Shortly after, my mom enlisted me with the company and I immediately started weekly rehearsals. Four months later, our show was being put on display in front of dozens of families. Seeing the…

abundance of movies, receiving several awards, learning additional languages, and being named best dressed all in one lifetime? Audrey Hepburn was very well-known in the acting world, in addition, she was also a young philanthropist who loved helping and giving to people. Furthermore, she set the bar quite high with her sense of style. An acting career, many accomplishments, and an amazing family allowed Audrey Hepburn to be quite successful. Despite Audrey’s difficult early life, she had a…

As long as I can remember my family has been involved in some kind of arts. As a child, I spent several years attending an acting and theater academy, were we would practice performing a wide variety of plays, several times a week, we would then perform them at local venues after countless hours of rehearsal. As I continued to get older I moved away from acting and more towards dance, I took lessons for three to four years of tap, jazz, and ballet. I loved performing and soon became very good,…

Within the article "Acting Live: TV Performance, Intimacy, and Immediacy (1945-1955)" by Rhona Berenstein, she argues how commercialism enhanced by live tv was placed upon the public in subtle but impact ways. Television as a whole transformed what radio had begun, it brought the intimacy that radio held to a visual level. Television however unlike radio hide perhaps its true agenda which Berenstein argues. Advertising companies took advantage of the new and unknown reality that surrounded…

myself up in acting classes. Acting is my main hobby since I was very young. I always liked acting in a sketch, play, or even just a small scene for a project. I minored in theatre in my undergraduate years, and acting was the exit from all the hard works that I had to do for other classes. Of course, it did need its…

Am I Black? If you are black in America and someone has told you you’re acting white you are not the only one. Mostly it’s children who are biracial that hear this statement and it’s a struggle for black kids and adults trying to be themselves. TyCrystar from urbandictionary.com describes acting white as “a term used with black people to call this person a sell-out.” and I tend to agree with this explanation. Acting white is usually an offspring of people not being able to accept change, racial…