MARK WATERS Date of Birth: June 30, 1964 The brother of writer/director Daniel Waters, Mark Waters was born in South Bend, Indiana. He worked as an actor and theater director in San Francisco after graduating from the University of Pennsylvania in 1986. After a number of years on stage, he decided to return to school and work towards his M.F.A. in directing. In 1994 he accomplished this from the American Film Institute, and three years later made his directorial debut with The House of Yes, starring Freddie Prinze Jr. and Parker Posey.
Historical Perspective Robyn Smith South University Professor Stemaly English II/Litreature ENG 1002 KQ June 7th 2010 In this paper we are going to look at the Harlem Renisnacne writer Langston Hughes. Langston Hughes was born in 1902 in Joplin Missouri, shortly after he was born his parents split up and his father moved to Mexico hoping that he could find the riches that he did not find in America. His mother moved around always trying to find a place to work and live. When Hughes was in high school he has his first work published in the school literary magazine. Hughes work was greatly influenced by the time period in which he lived.
The Kite Runner follows the lives of Amir and his father, along with their live-in servants Ali and his son Hassan. The movie starts with Amir as a published writer in America, who receives a telephone call from his motherland, his late father’s friend Rahim calls asking him to come back. Amir goes to hostile Afghanistan to help Rahim in his illness, but before we find out the true reason of his visit, Amir takes us 26 years back into his childhood in Afghanistan with his father and his only friend Hassan. Hassan, the servant’s son living in the adjunct house admires Amir, however, Amir looks at Hassan as his competition. Amir’s father, Baba admires Hassan for his courage to fight the other boys and stand up for himself, while Amir will never get into a fight.
Harrison Richards Music for a Darkened Theatre Danny Elfman Danny Elfman was born in Los Angeles, California on May 29, 1953. As a child, he enjoyed going to movies and learning music from film composer, Bernard Herrmann. When he turned 18, he moved to France and lived with his brother. In France, he joined a theater group and became acquainted with orchestra music and instruments. A few years later, Elfman composed his first score for a film being directed by his brother.
Nathan Cox HIS 122 Paul Tibbets Paul Warfield Tibbets Jr. was born on Febuary 23, 1915, in Quincy, IL. His father was a salesman in a family grocery business. His mother, the former Enola Gay Haggard, grew up on an Iowa farm and was named for a character in a novel her father was reading shortly before she was born. The family moved to Miami, and at age 12 Tibbets took a ride with a barnstorming pilot who dropped Baby Ruth candy bars on the Hialeah race track in a promotional stunt for the Curtiss Candy Company. He was thrilled by the flight, and though his father wanted him to become a doctor, his mother encouraged him to pursue that dream.
He is also a comedian. Jamie Foxx was born on December 13, 1967. His real name is Eric Marlon Bishop. His parent gave him up, and he was adopted by a nursery operator and a yard worker and grew up in the black quarter of Terrell, at the time a racially segregated community. He started comedy by accepting a dare from a girlfriend.
Keith West Mr. Music 113 March 4 2013 Ray Charles Blind Or Not, He Was Legendary Ray Charles was a renowned musician who commenced the kind of soul music through the 1950s. Frequently dubbed the "Father of Soul," Charles amalgamated blues, gospel and jazz to produce revolutionary hits like Unchain My Heart, Hit the Road Jack, and Georgia on My Mind. He died in 2004, leaving behind a timeless feeling on contemporary music. Ray Charles Robinson was born on September 23, 1930, in Albany, Georgia. His father was a automobile mechanic, and his mother was a sharecropper, they peregrinate to Florida while Ray was still an infant.
Eight minutes later the announcer told him he had been listening to Prélude à l'après-midi d'un faune by Claude Debussy. He referred to this as a "psychedelic moment ... a recognition of verbally inexpressible spiritual realities." When Burgess announced to his family that he wanted to be a composer, they objected as "there was no money in it." Music was not taught at his school, but at about age 14 he taught himself to play the piano. His dystopian novel A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962.
Jim Morrison Jim Morrison, the singer of the legendary band The Doors, is perhaps the most unappreciated and misunderstood artist of his time. In 1969, after his last concert in Miami, Florida the media turned their back on him labeling him as primitive and Florida’s state law system accused him of public exposure and misbehavior, but the real perspective about Jim Morrison is that he had one of those gifts that few people have of making you feel the most important person in the world. Jim Morrison had an enigmatic childhood, a romantic personality and a tremendous sense of the absurd. Jim’s childhood represent the guide to the Labyrinth. His father, George Morrison, was an admiral of the navy which position required him to move around the United States.
His psychological score for Images remains one of the most innovative works in soundtrack history. But his Americana - particularly The Reivers - is what caught the ear of director Steven Spielberg, then preparing for his first feature, The Sugarland Express. When Spielberg reunited with Williams on Jaws, they proven themselves as a blockbuster team, the composer gained his first Academy Award for Original Score, and Spielberg promptly recommended Williams to a friend, George