Matthew McConaughey

Getting to know my students’ names and their personalities demonstrates respect and dignity for students as persons with varied interests, needs, backgrounds, points of view, plans, goals, and aspirations. Being in a linear school, it is extremely hard to learn the names of approximately 180 students in such a short amount of time. Therefore, even before I was fully immersed, I was taking attendance trying to put a face to the name and making students more personable to me. In addition, I was…

Superheroes movie have had a major impact on the cinematic industry for the past few years, and things don’t appear to be changing any time soon. It’s a great time to be alive for Marvel fans. With dozens of film on the way in the coming years (maybe even another decade), there definitely won 't be any shortage of super heroes actions. With new films constantly being added to the list, here are a few that will have comic books fans feel like they’re in heaven. Ant-Man and the Wasp An Ant-Man…

In 1839 a slave ship called the Amistad sailed from Cuba to the United States carrying a group of illegally-acquired slaves from West Africa. Amistad is the title of a movie, directed by Steven Spielberg, that tells the story of these slaves and their impact of American society. The movie opens by singling in on a man by the name of Cinque, a tribe leader. He is captured and taken to slave fortress from where he is them transferred onto a slave ship. Cinque leads a mutiny to take over the ship…

The 2014 Oscar winning film Interstellar- directed by Christopher Nolan- shadows the protagonist Joseph Cooper (Matthew McConaughey) an ex-NASA pilot and engineer. The storyline begins in an apocalyptic America were the environment can no longer sustain human life. Out of chance Cooper and his daughter Murphy (Jessica Chastain) find the remains of NASA and discover just how little time humanity has. To save his children Cooper agrees to join the crew of the Endurance, tasked to locate a…

Plot of The incredibles: LeeMingYeung_140153445_StorytellingAnalysis Storytelling Analysis The story is set in a world with a lot “Supers”– humans with superpowers. The supers would use their superpower to save the citizens and fight with the crimes. In one of the operation, the biggest fan of Mr. Incredible, Buddy Pine, wants to aid Mr. Incredible and fighting crimes with him with the identity” Incredi-Boy”. Mr. Incredible rejects Buddy’s offer and throw him out of his car. Buddy has shown his…

Throughout the film, a cop played by Matthew McConaughey moonlights as a hit man and agrees to kill the detested mother of a desperate drug dealer in exchange for a tumble with the young man 's virginal sister. Written with black humor the film does not so much as shock but provide a numbing and unsettling…

Texas, commonly known as “The Lone Star State”, its official nickname, is the 2nd largest state with a population of about 28.2 million people on 268,597 square miles. Beyonce, Matthew McConaughey, and Janis Joplin (a singer from the 80s) were all Texans. If you like sports, you would be happy to know all of the Dude Perfect Crew were born in the Lone Star State. The Texas economy is the 2nd largest with a gross state product of $1.648 trillion. The beautiful Rio Grande is shared by Texas and…

In the The Last Samurai, Cruise’s character originally takes the job to train the Samurai because he is an alcoholic in need of money and only later on develops any sympathy for the Samurai. In A Time to Kill, McConaughey character is able to gain national exposure and money for defending a black man who committed assault after his daughter was raped. In The Blind Side, Bullock takes in a black homeless teenager and benefits from his athletic ability, helping him…

unhealthy amount of weight to fully transform into the feminine fierce Rayon. During production, co-stars never met Jared Leto, they would meet Rayon since Jared stayed in character throughout the creation of The Dallas Buyers Club. Co-star Matthew McConaughey said: “I met a performance artist. He is not someone bound by one certain craft — acting, singing, dance. He is thoughtful, committed, understands the context, shows up to do it, not discuss it. He performs.” Jared’s band, Thirty Seconds…

Martin Luther King Jr. was an American Baptist minister and activist who was a leader in the Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement of civil rights using nonviolent civil disobedience based on his Christian beliefs. King was the middle child of Michael King Sr. and Alberta Williams King. The King and Williams families were rooted in the smack middle of Georgia. Once Rosa Parks stood up for herself on the bus to not give up her seat, that sparked King to stand up…