Providing only one 14-minute performance, the Drill’s activities were always secret and steeped in controversy. The biggest question was always, what could possibly motivate someone to take on such a challenge? Enter the secret world of the 14 Nights, and experience the heartaches and hell of being a “roach” that seeks the glory and honor of knights from days gone by. Because of an eldest son tradition, second born John O’Bryan grew up feeling like a second-class citizen in his own family. The troubled southern boy matured into a wild and angry young man, and was convinced by others that The Citadel was the only college suited to handle his less than acceptable attitude.
That is except for Richie who had become a professional tennis player very young. Royal invited Richie out to have fun and learn of his family but the invitation wasn’t ever extended to the other children. On the other hand after the separation, Etheline decided to devote her life to her children and their education. Everything was planned, organized, and perfected. Margot wrote a play at a very young age, Chas was a businessman and had his own business with a breed of dalmatian rats, and Richie was becoming a professional tennis player.
With all the profits he made dealing and selling cocaine in south central L.A., His operation was hardly done with out help. His Nicaraguan associates Normin Meneses and Oscar Blandon were right there along side Ricky unleashing a crack wave, which urban America still hasn’t recovered from. Known simply as “Freeway” Rick, he started as a poor illiterate high school dropout from south central Los Angeles. Ricky was a talented tennis player and had hopes of one day playing on the college level. When Ricky’s coach realized he couldn’t read or write his college scholarships went out the window.
They had thought of every way that could stop him from his bad behavior, but nothing worked. His dad believed that violence worked the best. Every time when Sonny got into trouble, his dad beat him, and Sonny would make him a temporary promise to be a good boy. But his dad lost trust in him when Sonny never kept his promises. His dad ignored when he didn’t go home or when he was sent to the Children’s Center; he said it was good riddance.
He was abandoned by his father at the age of two and by his mother by the time he was ten. He was then raised by his factory worker “abuelos”, grandmother, Benita Gutierrez, and, Refugio Gutierrez, his step grandfather a construction worker. He was showed very little attention or affection as a child and his difficult childhood would become the center of his comedy. George Lopez never knew his father, never had a birthday party and has never seen a baby picture of him. He was bullied as a child due to the fact he had a large head and was the darkest kid in his class.
He went to Central High School and played basketball, football, baseball and was captain of the track team. Because he was so focused on sports he didn’t really care about school. When he transferred to Germantown High School he failed the tenth grade. Instead of repeating he dropped out and got a job but couldn’t see himself doing that for the rest of his life. So he joined the Navy and that’s when he realized the need for an education was a must in society.
I grew up with family, a few friends, but most importantly music. I’ve always had a pretty large family, my momma has six sisters and one brother, but it’s always been broken apart. My dad ran off, but my step-dad has always been there. Because I felt my dad never wanted me, I constantly tried impressing my stepdad, which, among other things, resulted in me playing TPR football for four years. Because I always tried impressing people, I never felt as if I fit in anywhere.
“This is my personal favorite characteristic of him, and most likely the smartest decision he ever made in his life.” States my Aunt Jenny about the mobster deals that Da’dooch turns down. Da’dooch was always looked down as the non- experienced and feeble- minded brother in the eyes of his father. His father always wanted his sons to be great business men or baseball stars. My great Uncle Pete (Da’dooch’s brother) was a third round pick for the New York Yankees, there he played for five years. Da’dooch never became the extraordinary business man or baseball star that his father intended him to be.
He is a convicted felon. He has no chance of getting in the Hall of Fame the first year, and likely won't for many years to come. Some will vote for him using the logic that he was already a Hall of Famer before he started using performance-enhancing drugs. He already had three MVPs, 400 homers, 400 steals and seven Gold Gloves. But that logic is challenged by some people, such as Boston Globe columnist Dan Shaughnessy, who contends that in golf if you shoot 31 on the front nine and you cheat on the back nine, you are disqualified for the round."
His teachers would say he would go nowhere in life, his parents would fight continuously and he found it very difficult to make friends. Tim Burton dropped out of school when he was 15 years old. Despite all of Tim’s childhood problems, Tim has managed to incorporate them and his life values into his films, which is how he has had such a long term success as a movie director. One of Burton’s most successful films is the movie Edward Scissor hands. The movie is about a man named Edward who has scissors for hands and tries to fit into the ‘perfect society’.