kgvs.kfb.shbbzs Scheduled to premiere March 7‚ The Contender features 16 boxers vying for $1 million. Mark Burnett‚ an accomplished producer in reality television with such hits as Survivor and The Apprentice‚ is the executive producer. Actor Sylvester Stallone and former boxing champ Sugar Ray Leonard will serve as hosts and boxing mentors. Turpin‚ who had a record of 13-1‚ including nine knockouts‚ worked at a restaurant cleaning seafood. According to NBC’s Contender Web site‚ he would work his
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Reaganite Cinema – Hollywood Propaganda or Clever Social Critique? In the difficult times of Cold War‚ Hollywood produced a number of action films‚ all of which shared similar narrative patterns – American hero arises and defeats the evil empire of Soviet Union (whether literally or figuratively). The films like Rocky IV‚ Rambo III and Red Dawn are considered the striking examples. As Stephen Prince notes in his book: “...all of the others (Reaganite cinema films) pursue as well the great
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The shrill screech of the alarm clock fills the air in my room. I slam the alarm and the sound makes way for my first thought: “This is not how a relaxing Sunday starts.” I emerge from the house on to the back veranda; which is basking in the sun. It bakes my weary bones as I awaken. Despite the sun‚ there is a cool breeze that is just shy of cold. I step on the grass and the icy dew creeps between my toes sending chills up to my legs. The breeze is trying desperately to dislodge the leaves that
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Cited: Ebert‚ Roger. A Study of the Films of Sylvester Stallone. New York: Simon and Schuster‚ 1987. Print. Estes‚ John. “Movies that Inspire Athletes.” Body Builder 24.5 (2001): 21-27. Academic Search Complete. Web. 5 Oct. 2005. Wilson‚ Robert. “Rocky.” Encyclopedia of Film. Ed. Patricia Smith. Vol. 3
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Ernest Barnes: The Spirit of Movement Ernest “Ernie” Eugene Barnes Jr. was considered to be one of the leading artists in the world. He is popularly known for his portrait titled “Sugar Shack” which was featured in the 1970s sitcom‚ Good Times. His artistic expressions create uniqueness and imaginative experiences in African American culture. His interest in painting was sparked while browsing through art books when he accompanied his mother to work. He began painting while he attended North
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Sylvester Enzio Stallone was born on July 6th‚ 1946‚ in Hells Kitchen‚ a poor neighborhood in New York City. During his birth‚ doctors used forceps to pull his head out. The trauma left his lower left side of his face paralyzed‚ which gave him the slurred speech‚ drooping lower lip and crooked left eye. His childhood was not spent with his family‚ but with an elderly woman in a New York City boardinghouse. At the age of 5‚ he returned to live with his parents. When Sly was 11‚ his parents divorced
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work‚ and perseverance‚ he is able to make his dream a reality. His dream is modest for it was to not become the best‚ but be able to amount to the best. He is able to go the distance and amount to something creating a journey all can relate to. Stallone creates a character that inspires and enables the dreams of others. He exhibits values that I want to emulate. His character is one that set an example for me. Everytime I watch a Rocky movie‚ he inspires me to be a better man. He is my inspiration
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Enviornment Shapes Character A person’s environment isn’t just the concrete things aroung them. Someone’s environment is the physical and mental conditions that surround them. The envoirnment that someone is exposed to shape and defines his/her character. Alfred Brooks‚ in The Contender by Robert Lipsyte is greatly shaped and defined by his environment . From the neighborhood he lives in to the friendships he has and breaks‚ it all effects how he is. Alfred lives in a bad part of New York
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Sylvester has a reputation of being deviant. He is sneaky and deceptive as a character. Sylvester’s behaviors are “normal” as he is a cat and their prey can be birds. The relativist perspective is about how social groups create the rules and they as a group decided what isn’t part of the rules. So when an individual steps outside what the group sees as their normal the behavior is considered deviant (Adler & Adler‚ 2016). Society has made Sylvester out to be deviant because cultural norms see that
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alternative medical therapy/health reform movement. “Living right” was the key to this alternative medical therapy‚ as it was said that the body would take care of itself naturally without interference. This health reform system was created by Sylvester Graham (1794-1851). Concerned for his own health‚ Graham began studying human physiology and nutrition‚ giving lectures along the eastern states. He published the leading text on health reform‚ “Lectures on the Science of Human Life‚” and was very
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