Katy Perry

Tamika Devonne Catchings was born July 21, 1979. As a young child she was being teased for the way she looked with big hearing aids. They picked on her in the classroom but they couldn't in sports. She outworked them and eventually she was better than them. When she was in the third grade she was tired of people picking on her so she threw her hearing aids. She overcame many obstacles in her life. She had several days where she wish she was normal. When she threw her hearing aids her…

Emmitt Perry (also known as Tyler Perry) has been one of the major producers, directors and actors who have dominated this form of media, and the box office ever since his first movie debuted in 2006 (Baldwin 2012). Tyler Perry movies have become so popular because they are suppose to be incorporating African American culture, thinking and mentality as well as a message within them. Usually this message is something along the lines of faith, power, love or forgiveness. The movies are also…

family murders, which gained celebrity after the 1965 publishing of Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” were the brutal slayings of Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and two of their children, Nancy and Kenyon, by 27-year-old Richard Hickock and 30-year-old Perry Smith (Garden City). The two killers, Hickock and Smith, knew each other from their time spent in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas. It was during their first stay in prison where Hickock heard of Herbert Clutter from a prison…

nothing but the truth which lead to his factual tone. This is demonstrated when he states, “The evening of Wednesday, December 30, was a memorable one in the household of Agent A. A. Dewey” (Capote, In Cold Blood 240). As well as when he begins to quote Perry Smiths testimony “Around midnight. Dick said it was seven miles away, he kept talking to himself saying this ought to be here and that ought to be there-according to the instructions he’d memorized” (Capote, In Cold Blood 266). These…

(1966)). Both Capote and Perry Smith had “some of the most insecure childhoods I know of and there are psychological records of it” (Nance). These insecure childhoods had an influence on how Perry Smith made decisions along with Capote. “Perry Smith’s life had been no bed of roses, but pitiful, an ugly and lonely progress”(Capote 245). Both of their parents were divorced and were abusive towards them. This connects with both of their past experiences. Truman Capote and Perry Smith also seemed…

black boy in New Orleans, just a face without a name, swimming in sea of poverty trying to survive,” quoted by one of the most successful filmmakers in the United States. Writer, Producer, Actor, Director. Born Emmitt Perry Jr. on September 13, 1969, in New Orleans, Louisiana. Tyler Perry has forged his own way in the entertainment industry, building an empire that consist of successful films, plays, and even best selling books. One of four children, had a difficult childhood, suffering years…

Boo! A Madea Halloween produced by Lionsgate and directed by and started Tyler Perry is very humorous. This is a hilarious horror comedy. The movie is about the main character Madea and her friends babysitting her teenage cousin (Tiffany) on Halloween. Madea’s teenage cousin decided to sneak out and go to a frat party on Halloween and plays Halloween pranks on Madea (played by Tyler Perry) and her friends. Some of the things that make Boo! A Madea Halloween a very humorous movie is the…

runaway murderers. The author, Truman Capote, uses montage (a form of writing that switches back and forth) to allow the readers to see into the lives of the killers and the petrified people of Holcomb, Kansas. On November 15, 1959, Richard Hickock and Perry Smith brutally murdered Herbert, Bonnie, Kenyon and Nancy Clutter in their farmhouse. Floyd Wells, a previous cell mate of Dick Hickock, told him previously of a safe that was hidden in Mr. Clutter’s home office. Dick and Perry’s motive was…

his attitude towards Perry Smith. Throughout the book Capote writes about the story behind the Clutter family murders from the eyes of the townspeople and the murderers, both Perry Smith and Richard Hickock, while doing so we can see the contrast of attitude that Capote has towards both Smith and Hickock. In this way, Capote uses strategies of characterization, and pathos to convey the words of Perry Smith. In the beginning of page 290 we start off with the thoughts of Perry, in which he…

gun-toting grandmother, name game from the African American contraction of “Mother Dear”, was played by Perry his self. After her first appearance she was recurring in a number of his later plays (Diary of a Mad Black Woman (2001), Madea’s Family Reunion (2002), Madea’s Class Reunion (2003), Madea Goes to Jail (2005), Madea’s Big Happy Family (2010) and A Madea Christmas (2001)) In 2001 it earned Perry a Helen Hayes Award nomination for Outstanding Lead Actor, Non-Resident Production and it was…