Underdog

creating hit songs for musical artist like Jay-Z and Alicia Keys. After being made fun of for wanting to make music, Kanye soon dropped his first two albums College Dropout and Late Registration. With these two Album Releases Kanye was still the underdog of hip-hop and was still the joke of the industry. In 2006 Kanye and a highly respected rapper, 50 cent's , got in a feud over who was the better rapper.The deciding factor of the two rappers was to drop an album on the same days and decide by…

When one thinks about a hero, oftentimes what comes to mind is a large, brooding man with hulking muscles and a beautiful girl on his arm. However, Greek tragedian Sophocles imagined a different breed of hero that was later defined by Aristotle. Aristotle defines a tragic hero as a highborn person who, as a result of some tragic flaw or shortcoming in his personality, makes a mistake in judgement which brings about misery, a loss of moral dignity, great sorrow, and suffering. In Sophocles's…

Jennifer Lawrence is an actress, she is in many movies and films. She stars in many of our favorite movies like The Hunger Games and many more. She started her career at a very young age which you'll find more about later. While growing up and in between acting, Lawrence served as an assistant nurse at the children's summer day camp that her mother ran. She's a very sporty person. Growing up, she played basketball, field hockey and softball as a kid. At school, she was voted the "Most…

Case conceptualizations are an intricate part of becoming a counselor. They allow for students to work with a specific theory that may possibly stay with them through their entire career. Here is a case conceptualization from the rehabilitation case study; I have applied Gestalt therapy to help the client. II. Client Overview The client is a 38-year-old, divorced Mexican female, with two children; presenting with anxiety and depression symptoms. She has a successful, good paying career in…

In the classic film, Casablanca, the lives of refugees in WWII are on display for the audience, albeit a very romanticized version of it. Rick Blain is a cynical saloon owner who, in a twist of fate, obtains coveted exit visas. Visas that Ilsa Lund, desperately needs to help her resistance leader husband, Victor Laszlo, to escape to America. The only problem being that she is Ricks lost love, who seemingly abandoned him in Paris. Straight from the films beginning we are meant to choose the side…

Multicultural Psychology Chapters 7 & 8 Question Set 3 I am a 44 yr. old European American female who was happened to be raised by equal rights advocates. And although I admit being uninformed about privilege and the realities of racism, I do not feel that Helms’ contact is completely accurate for my 1st stage, or status. When my father says he “doesn’t see color” he means it as he feels it genuinely should be. I grew up knowing that he marched with his black and women friends for equal…

Games, she was taken to the capital where she was trained to survive. While in training she worked on her fighting, archery, and survival skills, which are all necessary to win the hunger games. Coming out of district twelve she was considered the underdog because that district is very poor. She uses that motivation to prove that she is the true hero in The Hunger Games. After she won The Hunger Games she was considered, “a heroic figure focused on her true self and the greater good. Katniss is…

children from being mistreated, even once. After the trial, Atticus explains to Jem the injustice of the world, and the trail, saying that “when a white man [cheats] a black man... that white man is trash” (295). Because Atticus sympathises with the underdog, rather than his own race, this quote proves Atticus’ sympathy. Atticus’ sympathy provides a point of view other than that of the childish narrator and the average biased…

If you had to disappear, could you? Coined as the catch phrase of CBS’s latest reality TV show Hunted. Instantly being captured by the first episode of blood pumping action as normal everyday people portray fugitives trying to outwit thirty-two of the top investigators in the world. Never being a huge fan of the reality show genre, but this show puts the real back in reality TV immediately gravitating my curiosity to the idea. Surreal reactions of non-actors kept my attention plastered to my…

The Underdog What’s your name? How are you? What is your profession? These are questions that one might ask or be asked by a friend or a stranger on a normal day. These are the questions that start conversations - surface-level questions for surface-level conversations. But do we ever take the time to ask the deeper questions, to dive into the soul of the conversator? Questions such as, what have you done to fulfill your purpose? Or, what have you done today to make the world a better place?…