The Stands

everyday situations. His career started the day he quit his job at a cell phone company in Los Angeles to launch a career in comedy despite his family’s pleads for him to find a more secure financial profession. At the age of 21, he began performing stand-up comedy and appeared in skits on Nickelodeon in 2000. After nearly five years, he aired his first half hour special on Comedy Central which got named for “Half Hour Special of the Year” in 2003. Then in 2006 he became a finalist on the NBC…

Stand on Abortion Abortion has become a headline topic over different sources of media. There is the pro-choice side where the belief is that the mother has the choice to abort her pregnancy. Then there is the other side, pro-life, meaning the belief is that if the mother is pregnant she cannot terminate the pregnancy. Lastly, there is an undecided person who has not picked a side. I am pro-choice, but I do have “standards” that I have towards my pro-choice belief. I believe that if there is a…

Never Too Weak To Stand For Yourself “CREAK”, the bus door opened and I waited as I watched all of the children struggling to get out. There is only one way I feel… I don’t want them to go. Every day I see them get off the “special needs” bus and get laughed at and see the fingers pointed straight at them, it’s ridiculous. You would have thought that tenth graders would have learned by now that bullying and harassment is childish, but apparently not. It’s amazing how much potential the…

Back in 2011, Verizon had various commercials to prove that their company was the best for a business. One of their more popular ones was the “Lemonade Stand.” It showed how a phone with power, speed, and efficiency could help a business grow rapidly. Although it is just an ad, it is still possible to do this with the right techniques. Similar to how a phone can promote business, so can the web. The internet is used by almost everyone in America; even other countries have a large percent of…

Stand Out! Hi, you just started reading and I’m going to tell you that this is not like every other bully story. Well ,it starts like every day: I put my colorful socks, my polka dot dress, and my mom yells my name, “Carline get down here!” I rush out the door to get to the bus stop. My friend Maya was waiting for me impatiently, but of course, Guess who is also there? Cassie, the sassiest of all the girls in my 6th grade classes. She…

In the film ‘Stand By Me’ there are a lot of lessons that people need to learn and understand. I am going to Describe and Explain one important lesson from the film. One important lesson that people should learn is that if someone is born into a disadvantaged family that has a bad reputation you shouldn't assume that they will turn out bad as well. Chris, Gordie and Teddy all teach us this lesson throughout this film and I think it is important for us young people to learn it as well, this…

Introduction Comedian Penn Jillette is convinced that the joke is dead. The executioner? Political correctness and a heightened sensitivity to offending people. Jillette thinks that most of the best jokes have a sense of mean-spiritedness, and since mean-spiritedness is out, comedians are mostly limited to mediocrity. He says that, “You used to feel safer telling jokes. Since all your best material is mean-spirited, you feel less safe. You’re worried some might think you really have that type…

Figure 1. Informal model of categories which is created by Popplet app Children’s Needs and Interest While Arya organizing her classroom, first she considers the children needs. According to Arya, a kindergarten classroom should be developmentally appropriate for the students. For example, she created a block space that children can improve their minor and gross motor skill and imagination, while playing block and Legos. In addition, in case of this space is not big enough for students to…

“It’s not about acting. It’s about giving the art of entertainment to humanity (IMDb).” I will be talking about Sean Berdy. He is a famous deaf American actor (Frost Snow). His deafness never stopped him from pursuing his dreams (IMDb). At the age of 23 he had accomplished his dream (Frost Snow). Sean was born on June 3, 1993, in Boca Raton, Florida (Frost Snow). Berdy was born deaf. Both his parents, Terrie and Scott Berdy, are deaf. As a child, Berdy and his brother, Tyler, would put on…

controversial towards African Americans. He has also been acknowledged by many modern comics. First, Richard Franklin Lennox Thomas Pryor (December 1, 1940 – December 10, 2005) was an American stand up comedian, social- critic and actor He is currently listed at Number 1 on comedy central’s list of all-time greatest stand-up comedians. born on December 1, 1940 in Peoria, Illinois, Pryor grew up in his grandmother's brothel, where his mother, Gertrude L. (Thomas), practiced prostitution.( His…