How has the city of New York influenced your writing on Tough Love and the characters? I would say New York has influenced my writing as far as straight forward and aggressive people. I would also say I am from LA, originally from South Central LA, and they have a very forward and aggressive way about them so I found a combination of the two. That’s what these characters are, they are totally real. I’, pretty much like that as well. I don’t like to hold back. I like to say straight up how I feel. The characters are very intricate and detailed. Are they based on anyone? Are they based off of you and any past relationships you’ve had? It’s actually a combination. It’s a combination of people in my life, close friends, and family members as well as TV shows and movies. I draw inspiration from everything even my own situation. The characters in the Tough Love web series are named after different characters from popular black movies. The characters don’t relate but I took the names from there. It is fictional but it’s really not, it’s based off of true events. Through your previous dating experiences throughout the years up until now which character were you at certain moments? Were you all these women? …show more content…
I’m really not the person for small talk, so I love talking about real issues, real things that are going on, and I get really passionate. I wanted to show these friends not just sitting around talking about fluff and nonsense. I want to show them actually digging deep into real issues, real things that are going on, and a lot of times you see a lot of people, especially in the black community, will be on completely different sides of the sector as far as their ideas. You’ll see what I didn’t do in this series, when we talked about the Bill Cosby issue, I didn’t just focus on if ‘he did it’ and I didn’t just say oh ‘he didn’t do it’, I tried to keep it really
essence of New York and all its nuances in the form of terse observations. Whether
The characters are relatable. Carmen is the most thoughtful of the four friends, and recognizes the importance of friendship more than others do. Carmen is half Puerto Rican and half White, she lives with her single Latina mom. Throughout the book she has to deal with feeling replaced when she finds out that her dad is engaged to a white woman who already has two teenagers. Bridget is an athlete, she spends her summer at a soccer camp in Mexico. She is impulsive and reckless, but her high spirits help her make friends quickly. Lena is the shy one. She travels to Greece to spend the summer with her grandparents. She is quiet and happiest when she can just be alone. She's not much into boys, because through experience she's learned that they usually only like her for her looks. Finally there's Tibby, the rebel. The only one of the 4 girls stuck at home, she views it as plain and boring.
Many people say they want to avoid drama, and this is due to the fact that drama emits certain dark emotions, like sadness and fear. These emotions are prevalent in everyone’s reality. In reality, the issue of race is drama filled and serious, and this is how these issue should be portrayed on TV shows. People need to realize that racial conflict is not a joking matter, because it causes pain for many people in society. One drama TV show that accurately portrays the struggle of race is Luke Cage. The setting of this TV show is dark, mainly due to what the show wants to accomplish. The show is trying to put its audience in the situation of a struggling black male, and this informs the audience of the severity of his issues. This show inspires people to speak out against race, because on the powerful words the show displays. For example, the shows use of the word ni**er brings up a certain nuance not between white people and black people, but within the black community. The use of this word is exactly the power drama shows have over comedy shows, because drama shows can portray these nuances, while comedy show portray a general
From the beginning it becomes obvious that many of the characters represent familiar archetypes. Gabbie is a budding young virgin, beautiful, innocent, and vulner...
...writers of all races and every ethnicity could be shown this video to learn about stereotypes to avoid in their screenplays. Television and movie producers could benefit from hearing other producers such as Hal Kanter and David Wolper talk about their experiences with African-American representation in their shows.
Ellis, Edward Robb., and Jeanyee Wong. The Epic of New York City. New York, NY: Carroll & Graf, 2005. Print.
In conclusion, this show focuses on many aspects, particularly gender roles and sexism. Although this show could have more diverse characters, it focuses on male and female stereotypes very well. I appreciate that there are several strong female characters who aren’t afraid to stand up for themselves and perform typically masculine
Josh Tillman, a.k.a. Father John Misty, is a man who sees himself as a kind of modern day prophet for skepticism and cynicism. One would be hard-pressed to find a more unique, modern musician. He carries himself with a kind of raw, mountain-man type crudity, which is then manifested in his violently honest and intelligent lyrics. Specifically in reference to his latest album, ‘I Love You, Honeybear,’ one finds an honest, self-aware, yet pervasively cynical Tillman. The anti-hero in a love album which is decidedly an anti-love album.
The complexity and depth in the fan fiction is that the homoerotic relation and desire between the women are more obvious and clearly revealed. “They know each other intimately, in the ways friends and lovers know each other, [...]” (UbiquitousMixie). Comparing this to Cunningham, who has described the
Ninety percent of Americans marry by the time that they are fifty; however, forty to fifty percent of marriages end in divorce ("Marriage and Divorce"). Love and marriage are said to go hand in hand, so why does true love not persist? True, whole-hearted, and long-lasting love is as difficult to find as a black cat in a coal cellar. Loveless marriages are more common than ever, and the divorce rate reflects this. The forms of love seen between these many marriages is often fleeting. Raymond Carver explores these many forms of love, how they create happiness, sadness, and anything in between, and how they contrast from true love, through his characters in "What We Talk About When We Talk About Love". Four couples are presented: Mel and Terri, Nick and Laura, Ed and Terri, and, most importantly, an unnamed elderly couple; each couple exhibits a variation on the word love.
New York City’s population is a little over 8.3 million people. 8.3 million people are spread out among five boroughs and each have their own set routine. Each one of those 8.3 million see New York in a different way becuase “You start building your private New York the first time you lay eyes on it” (“City Limits” 4). Some people are like Colson Whitehead who “was born here and thus ruined for anywhere else” (“City Limits” 3). Others may have “moved here a couple years ago for a job. Maybe [they] came here for school” (“City Limits” 3). Different reasons have brought these people together. They are grouped as New Yorkers, but many times, living in New York is their only bond. With on going changes and never ending commotion, it is hard to define New York and its inhabitants in simple terms.
Colson Whitehead ponders the essence of New York in his collection of essays titled, The Colossus of New York. Throughout the entire collection of essaysWhitehead inquires about what New York stands for based on the journey’s of its inhabitants and visitors. By establishing a sense of authenticity and creating an intimate relationship between him and the reader, Whitehead effectively provides his readers with a genuine account of New York. This genuineness found in Whitehad’s writing has not been met without criticism. Wyatt Mason’s critique of Whitehead’s essays reiterates throughout the review that Whitehead’s account go New York isn’t unique to New York and that the essayist isn’t particularly attentive to detail. While I agree with the
The disciplines are simply a means to that end.” During my time here, I have focused most of my course work on the following: rhetoric, identity, and social change. How do these elements all effect each other and how do we use communication strategies and theories to make an impact on the world? In my previous course called Communication and Inclusion, Professor Sarah Jackson had written an article for the CAMD website called, “Looking ahead: Social movements in 2015.” Here, she talks about the most recent deaths at the time of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri and Eric Garner in NYC. These killings had brought up issues of race and inequality in America and essentially started the first major wave of the Black Lives Matter Movement. In her class specifically she taught about “how social and political identities are constructed in the public sphere, with a particular focus on how race and gender are constructed in national debates”
To conclude, New York City is one of the most densely inhabited metropolitan collection of cultural diversity in the world in which structures our temperament. New York City applies an imperative influence upon trade, economics, mass communication, skill, style, and education. Frequently it is known that New York City is a crucial core for global politics and has been depicted as the ethnic headquarters of the globe. New York City has been known as a melting pot of culture and as this prolong throughout towards the current day, the city has become ornate with distinct cultures. You can easily experience many aspects of different cultures by going to the different ethnic neighborhoods that exist throughout the city.
When you associate anything with New York City it is usually the extraordinary buildings that pierce the sky or the congested sidewalks with people desperate to shop in the famous stores in which celebrities dwell. Even with my short visit there I found myself lost within the Big Apple. The voices of the never-ending attractions call out and envelop you in their awe. The streets are filled with an atmosphere that is like a young child on a shopping spree in a candy store. Although your feet swelter from the continuous walking, you find yourself pressing on with the yearning to discover the 'New York Experience'.