Michael Clarke Duncan

I was 17 when I had my first, and hopefully only, encounter with a member of an elite gang. They were powerful and even more so feared. Standing at about 67 inches tall, roughly 140 pounds, wearing only the most threatening pair of “Levi’s,” I have seen, he strolled over to me scowling, his eyebrows furrowed, and asked, “Do you know Joel, from Hell’s Angels?” I scanned him, looked the man straight in the eyes and said, “No,” while slowly turned to the girl next to me hoping she'd have an…

When deciding upon which play to go and provide a critique for I looked at the synopsis on the Ames Community Theater’s website. The Dirty Rotten Scoundrel’s synopsis caught my attention for being a musical comedy which is why I picked it. Once I decided upon the play I decided to do a little research because I did not know very much about it. According to Musical Theatre International, the play was written by David Yazbek and Jeffery Lane. They created this play based off the movie that was…

Who is better LeBron James or Stephen Curry? It is a question many NBA fans kept hearing from other NBA fans. Both NBA players have been successful in their own ways. Both have many fans who think one of these two basketball players is better. Although LeBron has won more MVPs than Curry, Steph maybe better than LeBron. Since Kobe has retired who is now the current best NBA basketball player? Stephen Curry is a better three-point shooter than LeBron but some fans think that clutch shooting is…

Commonly, children are an exact copy of their parents whether in their matching personality and the way they look and sometimes personality and looks both. With the biological set of parents it is not easy to match the children with just their looks. The believed is that a single human have 7 identical in the world. And you may take it strange that there are babies who look like world-famous celebrities with whom they have never met in their past. And not only children, there are animals who…

In the novel, The Count of Monte Cristo, by Alexandre Dumas, the main character Edmond Dantes, an innocent sailor, is imprisoned in the Chateau D’If. Set during the Napoleonic era in revolutionary France, Edmond Dantes is thrown in jail for being accused of being a bonapartist. After being in confinement for fourteen years, Dantes finally breaks free by disguising himself as a neighboring jaimate. Dantes’s first move after getting out of jail is getting back at those who wronged him. Edmond…

The text and the lecture offer two opposing views on the possible causes of the ‘quacker sound’ which were heard by sailors in Russian submarines. While the text lists theories for those strange sound, the professor counters those specific points and explains that the theories might be accurate but there are certain problems with each of them and all the theories doubtable. First, the reading argues that the Orcas whales produce sound to attract a male is like this strange sound. On the other…

From thriving music stage as New York, a young boy has moved to Los Angeles. Owning a perfect music training background that gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears band. And "To Know Him is To Love Him", a first song was written by that teenager, reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). He is Phil Spector, a talent producer, songwriter, and a musician. In years later, Spector had a huge influence to the record producers, artists, and musician.…

represented by various characters throughout the play. Iago’s jealousy is towards Michael Cassio. Michael Cassio was promoted even though Iago is older and has more experience than him. This makes Iago jealous and mad at Othello so he decides to make Othello think that Desdemona is having an affair with Michael Cassio. Othello’s jealousy is towards his wife because Iago made him think that Desdemona was having an affair with Michael Cassio. His jealousy was fuel by the fact that he felt in a…

sociology. The “Man in the Mirror” is a well-known song by Michael Jackson which was released in 1987 on the album “Bad”, a song that I am able to identify with that contains many parts of sociology. I chose the “Man in the Mirror” by Michael Jackson, because it is a song I believe can be connected to different themes and topics of sociology that we have discussed in class; it is well rounded that is appropriate for the subject content. Michael Jackson was born on August 29, 1958 in Gary,…

The pressure is on! When you're the smallest kid playing big man's game,The challenges never stop especially when your name is danny walker .Because when you lead your travel team to a national championship may seem like a dream but not to danny walker. The day after he gets out of school for summer ,most kids would want to hang out with friends and get cooled off for the but not danney he goes off the basketball camps. But i wondering how old danny is and when he says “ You know that growth…