Motherfucker

your father took the door off its hinges and dragged you down the stairs into your sunken living room with the white carpet and leather couches. You kicked and screamed until he had to pick you up and carry you over his shoulder. You called him a motherfucker and threatened to take back the Mercedes you'd purchased for him last Christmas.…

“Drown” During different stages in their lives humans tend to go through a multitude of struggles that they sometimes are able to find a resolution at the end of them. In “Drown” by Junot Diaz, the narrator is dealing with his struggle of finding his identity .The narrator shows his inner struggle of finding his identity through expressing his experience about his detachment from this mother, his issues with his father and jealousy between him and his friend. This struggle is one that is common…

No One Says Quentin Tarantino's Dialogue Like Samuel L. Jackson Tiananmen Square. That's the only place people don't ask Samuel L. Jackson what they call a Quarter-Pounder with Cheese. Everywhere he goes Jackson finds fans quoting his quotes back at him, most notably from Quentin Tarantino's Pulp Fiction. Every year, a new group of teenagers come of age and discover Pulp Fiction. In an interview with Jimmy Fallon, Jackson said "I've got fifteen-year-olds rolling up on me, 'Say what again!'"…

‘Global’ can either be defined as being worldwide, international, or something that relates to, or encompasses, the entirety of something- for the purposes of this essay, I will be using the latter definition, with the ‘global’ referring to the whole of America and its culture. The texts I will be referring to are Junot Diaz’s This Is How You Lose Her and Lorrie Moore’s The Gate at the Stairs. In This Is How You Lose Her, the relationship between America (the ‘global’) and its cultural influence…

How rap music has influence African-American culture America is known for lot things, the land of freedom, land of milk and honey, and freedom to express one thoughts, etc. America has one of the largest music style industries in the world. Music style like country, gospel, pop, rap, etc. one of those styles that influence the America society is rap music. When people were ask to define rap music? The seem to say its a style of popular music. Rap is a form of rhyming with sound expressing ones…

On December 12, 2015, Officer Spencer Mitchell responded to the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in reference to a stabbing that occurred at 7107 Knollwood Road. Upon arrival, Officer Mitchell made contact with the victim, Leroy Hamilton (B/M 12-11-1963) while he was being treated by medical personnel in trauma room # 19. Mr. Hamilton stated that he was at his residence with several of his friends drinking alcohol when he was involved in a verbal and physical altercation with a black…

The play “Short Eyes” brings forth many themes and social dynamics. We are able to visualize a society within a society and how each character brings their own individuality to the community. We see the diverse culture within this prison setting; however, we are also able to see the discrimination that takes place within it as well. The main character, Davis Clark, is one of the people who are called “Short Eyes”, prison slang for pedophile, and we apprehend in what ways he is out casted for his…

Caitlin McGregor English 1010-005 20 November 2015 Professor Lupo The Unorthodox, Violent Film of 1994 The Miramax film, Pulp Fiction (1994) is considered a crime drama directed and produced by Quentin Tarantino, this label does not even begin to describe this outstanding, unorthodox film. From the beginning and in the end of Pulp Fiction it does a fundamental job with the same scene which includes: Samuel L. Jackson, John Travolta, and guns. In this scene, the viewer gets a little bit of…

“it’s over. They got him. They ain’t going to let him go till they get ready. And they ain’t ready yet. And ain’t nothing we can do about it… “Get him out. That’s what we have to do. We both know he ain’t got no business in there. Them lying motherfuckers, they know it, too.” He stands. He is trembling. The kitchen is silent. “Look. I know what you’re saying. You’re saying they got us by the balls. Okay. But that’s our flesh and blood, baby: our…

Coming straight out of Compton, the famous rapper known as Ice Cube depicted how many African Americans, as himself, faced many hardships growing up in the 80’s and 90’s in the film, “Boyz N The Hood.” Believing that only his father can teach him how to be a man, the main character, Cuba Gooden starring as Tre Styles, is sent to go live with his father in South Central Los Angelos after an altercation at school.Here is reunited with his childhood friends;Ice Cube staring as Doughboy and…