Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Is Kakutani’s point right or is it wrong? Jon Stewart, a moderate comedian, delivers cable news The Daily Show with witty dialogue to charm people. His job is amusing the audience rather than informing them. Not to mention, today’s Comedy Central program The Daily Show with Jon Stewart carries a broader perspective of how the audience should understand society. With this in mind, many divergent audiences enjoy watching The Daily Show more than any other cable news in television. Stewart…

When business brings her to Yonkers, New York she finds the ideal match. Dolly goes through an eventful couple of days trying to make Mr. Horace Vandergelder fall in love with her. Along the way, she meets many people such as Cornelius Hackl, Barnaby Tucker, Irene Molloy, and Minnie Fay and creates chaos and much more. The story goes through her crazy way of thinking and creative ideas that eventually end in her marriage. It’s a romantic comedy of musical theater. The story is set in the late…

always provided entertainment and escape for participants and spectators alike, much of its cultural importance lies in its frequent use as a metaphor not only for American democracy (see the above quote from F.T. Miller), but individual fulfillment. In his essay explaining the cultural context in which American sports literature was created, Wiley Lee Umphlett describes how in the early 20th century, when a large number of American schools first incorporated physical education and athletic…

Carson McCullers and The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers, the author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was born on the 19th of February in 1917. Initially she had the dream of becoming a concert pianist. Due to her teacher and good friend, Mrs. Mary Tucker, moving away she eventually decided against it. This is what lead to her writing career (Tyrkus and Bronski). Her novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, was her first to be published in 1940. The novel is set in the 1930’s and…

the viewer by portraying himself as a common man facing a struggle, usually the oppression of a freedom that Bruce’s character embodies. Granted average viewers have never faced a mob boss, the premise of an ordinary minority man challenging the tyrannical power of foreigners made for a popular action plot. Lee would then use his martial arts skills, wits, and training in weapons, most popularly the nunchakus, to completely devastate the opposition. His role in these movies inspired others to…

Pendleton, there is not one conceited bone in his body. He is a loving man who truly enjoys giving back to his community. He accomplishing goals he has strived for since he was a little boy. He is an actor who is worthy of being adored by his fans and people who are not his fans after realizing what all he has done in his community. Cedric Pendleton was born on December 5th, 1973, in Florence, Alabama. Both of his mother and father happened to be school teachers. His father also happened to be…

meaning fair and nondiscriminatory, but not in this case. When appearing in court, the defendant, plaintiff, and jury are required to recite a specific oath while their right hand is raised. In To Kill a Mockingbird, we have Atticus Finch delivering his famous closing testimony to a group of jurors, whom he wants them to reconsider…

much mystery and ambiguity as the tales he wrote. His was a life fraught with tragedy, peculiarity, and above all, love lost. It was these very sentiments that created some of the most beautiful yet haunting American literature ever written. He is credited with the creation of several different genres that are more popular today than ever. Yet, his life is still one of mystery. We have learned a great deal about the life of Edgar Allan Poe since his untimely death; however, some questions may…

you’ve ever wished for,” as Tucker Max said. This is played out nowhere so well as in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby. Gatsby’s poor and humble beginnings led to his internal belief that the only way he would ever be worthy of respect would be to change his status within society. When he fell in love and then lost his first love, this belief became even more internalized as he believed the only way he would ever be worthy of this love would be to completely alter his identity and become…

On September 22, 2009 the American broadcasting company introduced us to the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker family when it premiered Modern Family for the first time. Filmed as a mockumentary style, the characters regularly talk into the camera. Patriarch Jay Pritchett (Ed O 'Neill) oversees the unusual family of misfit. Jay’s family includes his younger wife Gloria, daughter Claire and her husband Phil, sons Mitchell, Joe and step son Manny (Rico Rodriguez). Together these three families give us an…