Mary Tyler Moore

Tyler Perry Productions: An Awkward Perspective of American Life There is something about the quality of Tyler Perry comedies and movies that just resonate the root theatre characteristics. Roots Theatre is a prolific and dynamic theatrical movement in the Caribbean. Root theatre or grass root theatre a form of bawdy comedy filled with sexual innuendo. Perry’s comedies are an impressive exposition of the grass root working class expression of Black American life. Perry’s work is saturated by…

Self-Actualization: For Colored Girls “I found God in myself and I loved her, I loved her fiercely.” (Shange) For Colored Girls is based from a play with poems written by author Ntozake Shange called, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow isn’t Enuf, describing the life of eight women in New York who face tremendous crisis and heartbreaks. Each woman in this film represents a character/color and a poem from this play. From abuse, secret affairs and abortion, to deceit…

In the series Six Feet Under, the underlying color scheme is muted and cold. The strategic use of color in the series coincides with the underlying theme of death throughout the show. The first instance of the dark color scheme is shown during the show’s theme song, in the theme song there are many items that appear in gray, brown, and white colors. The flowers in the opening song of the show start off with bright green and pink colors, which quickly turn to dark brown dull colors as the flowers…

In the film Ethnic Notions, African-Americans were poorly portrayed in many different forms of negative stereotypes from the past. These stereotypes were that of a mammy, coon, Uncle Tom, sambo, pickaninnys, and the brute. Even though these racist caricatures were popular in the past unfortunately some forms of them still exist today. The mammy was portrayed as black older woman who was fat, obedient,eager, and loyal. Furthermore, she was not the most attractive lady “never evoked sexual…

King Richard II’s Underserved Loyalty by the Commoners Wat Tyler’s Rebellion was written after 1381 by an anonymous author to persuade the readers that King Richard II did not deserve the loyalty and devotion put forth by the commons. The author provides the reader with a chronicle of the peasant’s revolt in which he presents the commons’ reasons for revolting and how the King reacts to each interaction with the commons. The peasants are portrayed as justified in their actions, while the King…

In The Accidental Tourist, Anne Tyler describes the life of a man named Macon, and different occurrences that completely transform him. From the start of the novel, the reader learns about Macon’s dark past and the subsequent negative and positive repercussions that resound throughout his life. Tyler then displays how these changes have impacted his life in an unpredictable yet entirely positive way. For instance, only a few years before the book begins, Macon’s son had been killed while he was…

everything has become more and more advance. People cannot wait until the next new hot item in the market. People crave this advance technology, but what they do not realize is that technology might be cruel, depending how people use it. I came across Tyler Cowen’s article, “Work and Wages in iWorld”, which explains the technology revolution in the world happening today and the disturbing consequences it might bring in the future. In Cowen’s writing and in my personal experiences,…

watch them together. I use to be so in live with writing because I was in this club at school where we actually got to meet directors, actors and play writers. So we would write plays and have them preformed in front of the whole school. So when I saw Tyler Perry’s work I knew from then one I wanted to do it because it looked so fun and exciting. He was just so inspiring to me that I looked up to him since day one. A few years ago when he came to Atlanta with his play Madea Gets A Job, my mom…

from her house. The fun is interrupted when Bryan calls on Madea to come watch the teenagers while he goes out of town. Madea brings Joe, Hattie, and Bam along to help crash the party. The main characters that are in the play are Madea (Tyler Perry), Bryan (Tyler Perry), Tiffany (Diamond White), Bam (Cassi Davis), Hattie (Patrice Lovely), and Aday (Liza Koshy). The setting of the play is in a neighborhood where Madea comes to set some teenagers straight on Halloween night that are planning to…

Have you ever been in the White House. Have you ever seen the president in real life. Do you know where he even lives. Well you guessed it the White House. The White House is where the president of the United States live ever known president lived there except president washington according to DC Ducks. But don't you want to know how the White House was built and how it was designed. James Hoban (the designer of the White House born in 1758 in County Kilkenny the republic of Ireland and died…