Kirk Hammett

Hey, that's right it's me, the best in the business. No need to get star struck, I promise.(pause for laughter) I may be the best drummer, from the best band, with the best set, but I hope you can handle the radical emanating off this stage. (Shrug) Oh right, for those of you who don't know, my name's (point to self) Tommy Lee. The famous drummer of Motley Crüe, one of the best bands of this decade. You probably are just here for the autographs at the end, but you're going to sit through this and you're going to like it.(pause for laughter) By the end of this, you're either going to think I'm a really successful man, or an egotistical loser that just so happens to be talented. Well, my- er... our- talent is mostly in the music. We try to get the music to be really different, but we don't want to lose the Motley Crüe feel, with our crime, drugs, and women. Those are the best. We try to connect with you guys, too. We get that heart-on-sleeve feel to part of any album, but we gotta keep spirits up, ya know? Our solos, our ability to get the high notes (I will never understand how the heck Vince can get those notes.. I sure won't be hitting them any time soon), our catchy lyrics, and our grooving sensibility (sways hips and pauses for laughter). And since you all are here, you guys obviously agree. (Gestures to whole audience as speaking) Obviously you all agree in our trademark style, leather, big hair, and just to be honest, we get kinda girly. And the ladies…

History of the Company Kirk’s Catering & Carryout is my dad, Kirk Hamilton’s, restaurant, located in Statesville, North Carolina. He has always worked in the food industry, and has always been passionate about food, so when the restaurant he was working at laid off a lot of people and moved him to a new location, he decided that that was the perfect time to open his own restaurant like he has always wanted. Kirk’s Catering & Carryout officially opened in May of 2012, but the business plan…

Wise explains that she told him about the attempted divorce, and Spade interrupts, saying “‘I know all that’…‘You can skip it. Get to the part I don’t know’” (Hammett 110). In this declaration, Spade indicates that he lacks knowledge regarding Iva’s life and whereabouts. Spade goes to Wise with the intention of learning information; he doesn’t infer or intuit or analyze evidence like Dupin. Spade’s method of gaining knowledge is through asking questions. This method of gaining knowledge hinders…

Mr. Smith Block 1 15 September 2015 Sam Spade was Misused and Abused A victim is a person that is tricked or swindled. In the novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, deception plays a big role. Throughout the story Sam Spade is deceived and taken advantage of in the story by Bridgid O'Shaughnessy. She is a compulsive liar and lies about almost everything in order to get an advantage of receiving the falcon. She is not completely honest with her relationship between her and the book's…

When asked of what a man is supposed to be, most people would reply strong, tough, blunt, and essentially a badass. In literature, we would define these type of people as “hard boiled”, meaning that they are tough both on the outside and on the inside. In The Maltese Falcon, Sam Spade, a rugged San Francisco detective shows many resembling traits of a hard boiled detective, but also has the ability to show some compassion when necessary. Part of what defines a detective as, “hard boiled”, is…

“Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction” (Erich Fromm). In The Maltese Falcon and The Thin Man written by Dashiell Hammett, Hammett displays the high increase of criminal activity that takes place during the prohibition era in the United States. In Hammett’s novels, the characters’ monetary greed leads to negative consequences. As a result of their monetary greed, the characters face death, in-humanity, and…

leave this earth. In the Maltese falcon there are several examples of the stereotype of sexism against women. In the novel, there are two main women and they are all portrayed to be emotional and very flirtatious. For example, when one of the main characters Brigid, makes the statement to spade “Can I buy you with my body?” (Hammett 57) it shows the desperateness and in a way the lack of morals that she has in order to get what she wants. Alongside that example is another between Spade and…

The sub-genre of crime noir, hardboiled fiction, was invented by Edgar Allan Poe. His publication of The Murders in the Rue Morgue in 1841 marked the creation of the hardboiled genre of crime fiction, which further took off fifty years later with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes short stories and novels. The mystique surrounding these genre’s is what attracts audiences, a tradition that has continued in the production of films. The Maltese Falcon is one of the most popular examples of…

“Private Eye” or tough “Hard-boiled” private investigator detective fiction is the classification most dominated by American writers (Mansfield-Kelly 205). One of the founders and innovators of the private investigator is Dashiell Hammett. And is also “The most influential figure in the structuring of hard-boiled detective fiction,” (Mansfield-Kelly 229). He wrote the first tough-guy detective in “The Gutting of Couffignal”, named Continental OP and wrote The Maltese Falcon (Mansfield-Kelly…

A classic detective story from the 1920s, The Maltese Falcon continues to prevail today as a famous and true mystery novel. The characters within the book seem authentic, each with quirks and flaws nicking their corners, producing realistic people for the readers to enjoy. Written by Dashiell Hammett, this story contains an element of credibility to the way the detectives act, as the author himself worked as a detective during the 1910s. Nevertheless, given the era in which it was written,…