The My Hero Project

The Impact of Phil Spector in Music Industry. In 1951, a young boy moved from the thriving musical city of New York to Los Angeles after his father died. Having a perfect musical training background gave him an opportunity to become a member of the Teddy Bears. This young boy wrote "To Know Him is To Love Him" when he was a teenager. His song reached the No.1 hit song on the Billboard chart in 1958 (O'Hare 48). His name is Phil Spector, a talented producer, songwriter, and musician. In later…

Untold personalities exposed through character expression and/or outfit. Character design is an important thing that take artists a lot of time to finalise, they gain inspiration from the world around them and extract attracting things and add them to the character they want to make; whether it be a protagonist and antagonist, the artist will always show their personality through how they draw them. The artists that I will be studying and analysing are Futoshi Nishiya, Rodrigo Araya, and Disney.…

Essay 1 In Leading for a Lifetime, Bennis distinguished between two “eras” that he called Geezers and Geeks. The Geezer era lasted from 1945-1955 they are now mostly seventy years or older. The main event that impacted the Geezers perspective was World War two. WWII involved most of the world and created a huge social change within America. While most American men were away fighting in the war, everyone within the United States were doing “their part” to help with the war; women began working…

The past few weeks have covered the Vietnam War through many different angles, all of which were attempted to be covered up by the American government. These topics were meant to remain a secret. With events like the attempted cover up of the My Lia massacre in mind, the question that is to be debated is the morality of secret actions in the terms of protecting the American public. The American policy towards secrecy should be to declassify any document that is not relevant in any ongoing act…

interfere with land that Senator Paine and his sometimes unethical colleagues wanted to use for a dam project that would bring them personal gain. Ultimately, Senator Smith stands strong for what he believes in by filibustering on the Senate floor until he passes out. Hereafter, Senator Paine confesses his wrongdoings and reveals that he was the bad guy all along, which ultimately deems Senator Smith the hero of the…

his brother and his brother’s newspaper, he decides to leave Boston. “…I found myself in New York, near 300 miles from home, a boy of but 17, without the least recommendation to, or knowledge of, any person in the place, and with very little money in my pocket…”(7). Franklin takes a risk in going to New York without telling his parents. Franklin shows courage in going because he leaves all security that he has at home for new opportunities in New York. Similarly, Gilgamesh takes a risk in…

Mary P. Wood’s assessment of how European films need to be understood and analysed is indicative of not only contemporary European film scholarship trends but also the sheer importance of the role as financier/exhibitor that E.U. media programmes have played in recent decades. Supporting European filmmaking is a crucial undertaking for these E.U. organisations, serving to preserve and to produce a sense of European culture to varying degrees, while also stimulating its economy, much like…

‘Dear Evan Hansen’ Tackling suicide and moral conflict Simply put ‘Dear Evan Hansen’ is about a lonely teenager who gets caught up in a lie. The Broadway musical tackles topics like suicide and social anxiety. It is all combined with the hyper-activeness of social media. The emotionally intense story will leave the audience sobbing into their hands by the end of the performance. The creators, Steven Levenson, Justin Paul and Benj Pasek believe that the show stands as a beacon of hope for anyone…

Since Pynchon’s Gravity’s Rainbow was first published in 1973, the rainbow in the world of literature has not yet come; there is still much debate about how to assess this novel. While some people keep their faith in the text alone, and hence treat a novel as an independent existence, especially a novel as comprehensive as Gravity’s Rainbow, sometimes it is helpful to consider a literary work in the context of the writer’s other works. The evolutionary pattern of a writer’s career may shed light…

Last fall, I was immensely intrigued and entertained by the original holiday film October Kiss that premiered on the Hallmark network. I will admit that I knew very little about the lead actress, Ashley Williams, but I never forgot her. Imagine my surprise when I found myself reading a poignant blog post a short while ago that was written by that very same actress. And not only did I discover that she was the star of the upcoming Hallmark film Love On a Limb, but in that same evening, I made a…