The Jimmy

film, The Cinderella Man, Jimmy Braddock’s life is zipping along and nothing is going wrong. Then one day, his family starts to endure hardships such as: no heat in the house, no electricity, and minimal amounts of food. The time period in the movie is switching from the Roaring 20’s to The Great Depression. Braddock also suffers a broken right hand during a boxing match, which forces him to give up his career. Since he will not be making money for his family from boxing, Jimmy becomes a…

was emerging as one of the most popular genres for the younger generations in America, it became popular with the young white population in part by white artists singing black artist’s original rock n roll songs. This is shown in dream girls when Jimmy Early’s Cadillac song is used by a young white musician and it becomes a…

Death is something that, no matter what works any human does to prevent, will inevitably happen to everyone, but is death something that just happens without a care or is death a tragedy that causes much mourning a grief? Even though we all will perish, death is very tragic and causes much pain to people. Gwen Bristow uses death in her novel Celia Garth, and shows the pain and sorrow that comes with death by showing it through the reactions and events of the characters in the novel. Death can be…

Once again, “Jimmy” instigates another issue. He sneaks up on the new cop, pins him against the wall, then starts yelling at him. This scene is not quite as eerie as the first one where “Jimmy” is just talking, but the behavior that he possessed in this situation, is not how friends usually act towards each other. Bannerman also seemed as surprised as…

In the film, A League of Their Own, women in the time period are called upon and given the role to entertain the rest of America by playing the traditionally male sport or baseball. This film puts women in a powerful place for the 1940s. They are taking over men’s jobs: at home, in the work place and now in the entertainment industry. America finally has established the need for women in society now that they are out of men’s shadows. Although the need for women is greatly recognized in the film…

Energy Crisis in the 70’s Throughout the 1970’s, the United States of America had some trouble maintaining the amount of resources they previously had. The shortages of these resources stirred up arguments in America. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter spoke about all of these issues in the country. Conflicts in the United States of America included claims that the president didn’t actually care, parts of the energy crisis, and how the government was said to be ineffective during all of this. But,…

recording to catch all of the best shows, or you will be up into the wee hours of the night to see everything. Jimmy Kimmel’s plea Talking about the wee hours, last night on late night the talk show hosts discussed the massive event in Las Vegas. It would have been awkward not to acknowledge the event, especially since so many lives were lost tragically. However, Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Kimmel offered up dialogs that really made people think about…

the war and how it affects the soldiers. An interesting person on this book is Jimmy Cross. When he was in college he signed up to go to military training because it gave him credits and his friends were also signing up. Once he goes to war he becomes a lieutenant, but he is inexperienced and ill-equipped. He is proud to be known as a leader, but he is not comfortable being responsible for his men’s lives. Jimmy is also not emotionally fit to be a leader because he lets his love for Martha,…

You Are the Heroes of My Eyes Heroes have been conceptualized by American comics as someone has the supernatural power and wears some sophisticated costumes when they are saving the world. However, in reality, a hero can be a person who is able to do the little things for their beloved one in daily life. Doing a little thing is in the sense that we can show our love and kindness towards other in this cruel and cold world. Hence, Bob from ‘’After Twenty Years’’ and the father of ‘’Reunion’’ can…

child, a puppy for Christmas was the ultimate gift. As I grew up, so did JJ named after my dad’s initials. We were inseparable and we played constantly, along with my sister. When I was around 8 years old, we got another Golden Retriever, naming him Jimmy. He became my new playmate and I grew to love him as much as I loved JJ. Even though I loved them the same and they…