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Less eligibility is one of the concept you can see throughout the movie. The mother is getting welfare services because Precious is living in the home. In addition, she get services for Precious's daughter. Her daughter lives with the grandmother, who brings her over when the social worker comes for a visit, so the mother would get more services. The mother loses her benefits when Precious is kicked out of school. The mother tells Precious to go to welfare and get money instead of going to…

The movie Precious is a movie about a sixteen year old girl and what she has gone through in while living with her mother. The main characters name is Claireece Precious Jones, she goes by the name Precious, and is an overweight African American girl. At school she keeps to herself and does not talk, at home she is abused physically, mentally, sexually, and verbally by her mother Mary and her father. She has now had one child by her father, who rapes her when he wants, and is currently pregnant…

eighteen #1 singles and counting, Mariah Carey. In the 1990’s, her label portrayed her as a hot, natural woman with perfect legs. Gillette Venus, a recognized authority on women's legs, today named Mariah Carey the first “Celebrity Legs of a Goddess.” Her legs are insured for one billion dollars because of the renowned title. As the years progressed her single, “Touch My Body,” released in 2008, became number one on the charts. The music video to the song objectified Carey as an attractive women…

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…

The film, Precious, directed by Lee Daniels in 2009 displays the life story of an obese, illiterate and domestically abused 16 year old, Clarice “Precious” Jones. This is based on the book, Push by Sapphire. The film is set in 1980s Harlem where Precious and her mother survive through the receiving of welfare checks due to her mother’s prolonging unemployment. Anyone can make the assumption that Precious suffers from depression because of her mother’s constant unloving nature, and her father’s…

Scelestus City is exactly how I remember it. From the ground, it looks like a completely war-destroyed city with no survivors and no hope for life. I know better. I know what really hides in those broken buildings and overgrown streets. Murderers and cutthroats. I can almost imagine the sound of fighting and death in the distance and the smell of crime on the wind. It’s a place of utter chaos and it’s exactly where my friends are. It’s strange being back and looking down on the city as it…

I personally never grew up with anybody being a mentor to me but as I grew older and met different people, I think I can count someone as my mentor. I met a older girl name Mariah Morris and she's twenty-two years old. I met her through my ex girlfriend which is her cousin, But Mariah was like a friend to me when I first met her, our birthdays are two days apart and we share the same sign so i knew we were going to be real close already. She's real skinny and wears glasses, she's has two…

In her novel Push, Sapphire uses multiple literary techniques to demonstrate how Precious creates a self-identity and a form of independence. As Precious learns to read, write, and create perceptions of her life and the world, she realizes that she is an individual that is unique and beautiful. Through Precious’s character, Sapphire reveals the emergence of a persons self-identity and newly discovered independence through a story of traumatic experiences. From the beginning of the novel,…

In a month known for horror and costumes, you can count on Boo! A Madea Halloween to get you laughing this October. The movie stays true to the Madea movie series, providing humor through over the top character interactions, most stemming from Madea herself. This time, however, two famous Youtubers have joined the cast, making the movie even more enjoyable. The movie starts off by introducing Jonathan, the president of a fraternity that’ll be hosting a Halloween party at night, played by…

Push by Sapphire is a book detailing the events of Claireece Precious Jones, known as Precious throughout the book. Her mother, Mary L Johnston, and father, Carl Kenwood Jones, abuse Precious physically, emotionally and sexually. The textbook our class is reading offered valuable definitions and further knowledge about the signs of abuse and the theories behind why people do what they do. Precious was a strong, independent child and woman who endured what no human should ever have to endure.…