...Tyler Perry is a force to be reckoned with. Perry is very popular and influential in black America. This forty-seven-year-old has built his life from the ground up. From New Orleans to Atlanta Perry did everything he could to get from a dark place to a place full of light and shinning stars. As he grew in the world of entertainment he went from musicals with 30 people in attendance to movies and shows that play on mainstream networks. Born Emmitt Perry jr., on September 13th 1969, Perry was born to Willie Maxine Perry and Emmitt Perry sr. and raised in New Orleans. Tyler also has 3 siblings, Emmbre Perry, Melva Porter, and Yulanda Wilking. Tyler went to high school with rapper mystical and dropped out before graduating but attained his General...
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...Rank 1 2 3 Movie Title 91 Quarantine Transporter 90 3 Seven 46 Pounds Tyler Perry's 78 The Family That Preys 76 First Sunday 99 Untraceable Nick and Norah's 92 Infinite Playlist Lakeview 73 Terrace Tyler Perry's 68 Meet the Browns 59 65 36 54 87 The House Bunny Prom Night (2008) 21 Saw V Definitely, Maybe Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins The Strangers Death Race Made of Honor Pineapple Express Opening Gross Total Gross Theaters 14,211,321 31,691,811 12,063,452 14,851,136 31,715,062 69,951,824 Weeks 2,463 2,626 2,758 5 5 5 17,381,218 37,105,289 2,070 6 4 5 6 17,714,821 11,354,069 37,931,869 28,687,835 2,213 2,368 6 6 11,311,751 31,487,293 2,421 6 7 8 15,004,672 39,263,506 2,574 6 20,082,809 41,975,388 2,016 7 9 10 11 12 13 14 14,533,702 20,804,941 24,105,943 30,053,954 9,764,270 48,237,389 43,869,350 81,159,365 56,746,769 32,241,649 2,763 2,821 2,952 3,084 2,220 7 7 7 7 8 67 15 16 17 18 19 55 79 61 34 16,207,730 42,436,517 2,387 8 20,997,985 12,621,090 14,756,850 23,245,025 52,597,610 36,316,032 46,012,734 87,341,380 2,477 2,586 2,816 3,072 8 8 8 8 20 28 Step Brothers 30,940,732 100,468,793 3,182 8 21 22 23 24 The Mummy: Tomb of the 25 Dragon Emperor 66 Rambo 95 83 56 Leatherhead s Semi-Pro The Forbidden Kingdom Vantage Point The Eye The Love Guru Hellboy II: The Golden Army 40,457,770 102,491,776 3,778 8 18,203,876 12,682,595...
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...A BLACK WOMAN’S JOURNEY: FOR COLORED GIRLS Created in 1975, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf, focuses on the struggles of black women not only from that era, but issues still pertaining to black women 35 years later. Shange’s powerful choreopoem is comprised of seven women trying to "sing a black girl's song…. Sing a song of life, she's been dead so long"(Shange 18), creating a voice for every woman. None of these women possess a name, only a color, to show that they represent all women of color. Shange includes themes of love, abandonment, sexuality, abortion, and domestic violence to emphasize what women in her community were and still are subjugated to. Through dance, poetry, and music these women slowly but surely find their true identity. Ntozake uses her work as a tool to empower all “colored girls” by creating these seven strong women that form a bond when they are able to find their identity as black women, and essentially in their journey make it to the end of their rainbows without committing suicide. When looking into Shange’s life there’s no question that situations, which she had observed day-to-day or experienced herself, were imposed on her writings. Born as Paulette Williams she was raised in a middle class family, which was not a childhood common for blacks. Her family moved to St. Louis and she attended a non-segregated school where she had to endure blatant racism at the mere age of eight years old. She rebelled...
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...Ramiro Martinez-Quintanilla Professor Radzikowski US History 2A 08/05/2016 American Blackface Minstrelsy of the 1800’s The Minstrel Show offers us an abnormal, intriguing and dreadful marvel. Minstrel shows rose up out of preindustrial European conventions of concealing and festival. Be that as it may, in the US they started in the 1830s, with average white working men taking on the appearance of plantation slaves. These men mocked black music and dance, joining brutal parody of black Americans with bona fide affection for African American social structures. By the Common War the minstrel show had gotten to be world popular and respectable. Late in his life Mark Twain affectionately recalled the "outdated nigger appear" with its vivid comic blacks and its stirring tunes and moves.(Lott 68) By the 1840s, the minstrel show had ended up one of the focal occasions in the way of life of the Democratic political party. Of course every beginning has its end, but by 1890 minstrelsy had shaped a little part of American excitement. Blackface minstrelsy was the first particularly US showy structure. In the 1830s and 1840s, it was at the ascent's center of a US music industry, and for a very long while it gave the lens through which the white US saw the clack people of the US. From one perspective, it had solid views; on the other, it managed white Americans a particular and wide attention to what a few whites considered huge parts of dark American society to be. Minstrel shows where...
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...Biography for Amy Winehouse More at IMDbPro » ad feedback Date of Birth 14 September 1983, Southgate, London, England, UK Date of Death 23 July 2011, Camden, London, England, UK (alcohol poisoning) Birth Name Amy Jade Winehouse Nickname Wino Ames Height 5' 3" (1.60 m) Mini Biography Amy Winehouse was a five-time Grammy Award-winning English singer-songwriter known for such hits as 'Rehab' and 'You Know I'm No Good' among her other works. She was born Amy Jade Winehouse, on September 14, 1983, in Enfield, London, England to a Jewish family with Russian ancestry on her mother's side. Her father, Mitchell Winehouse, was a taxi driver; her mother, Janis Winehouse (nee Seaton), was a pharmacist. Her family shared her love of theater and music. Amy was brought up on jazz music; she played her brother's guitar and received her own guitar at age 13. Young Amy Winehouse was a rebellious girl. At age 14, she was expelled from Sylvia Young Theatre School in Marylebone, London. At that time she pierced her nose and tattooed her body. She briefly attended the BRIT School in Croydon, and began her professional career at 16, performing occasional club gigs and recording low cost demos. At age 19, she recorded her debut, Frank (2003), a jazz-tinged album that became a hit and earned her several award nominations. During the next several years, she survived a period of personal upheaval, a painful relationship, and has been struggling with substance abuse. Her 2006's album...
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...obr76817_ch01_002-044.indd Page 3 09/09/10 9:50 AM user-f501 CHAPTER 1 207/MHRL043/kno31619_disk1of1/0070131619/kno31619_pagefiles: Management Challenges Business Applications Module I Development Processes Information Technologies Foundation Concepts FOUNDATIONS OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS IN BUSINESS Ch apt er Highligh t s L ea r n i n g O bj ect i v e s Section I Foundation Concepts: Information Systems in Business 1. Understand the concept of a system and how it relates to information systems. 2. Explain why knowledge of information systems is important for business professionals, and identify five areas of information systems knowledge that they need. 3. Give examples to illustrate how the business applications of information systems can support a firm’s business processes, managerial decision making, and strategies for competitive advantage. 4. Provide examples of several major types of information systems from your experiences with business organizations in the real world. 5. Identify several challenges that a business manager might face in managing the successful and ethical development and use of information technology in a business. 6. Provide examples of the components of real world information systems. Illustrate that in an information system, people use hardware, software, data, and networks as resources to perform input, processing, output, storage, and control activities that transform data resources into information...
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...Public Relations Cases This collection of contemporary international public relations case studies is an invaluable resource for teachers, researchers and students working in public relations, corporate communications and public affairs, as well as offering practitioners an indepth understanding of the effective use of public relations in a range of organizational contexts. Including cases from the UK, Norway, Sweden, Spain, South Africa, Canada and the USA, with a focus on such global corporations as Shell, BBC America, Worldcom, PriceWaterhouseCoopers and Marks & Spencer, it offers important insights into the development of public relations and communications strategies. These include: • • • • • • • • Corporate identity change and management Global reputation management Crisis management in the oil, shipping and tourism industries Developing strategic alliances between voluntary and private sector organizations Public relations support for international branding and market entry The importance of internal communications during international mergers The integration of public relations and marketing communications Business-to-business communication The cases examined in this book demonstrate the breadth of contemporary public relations practice and the increasing importance of the public relations function in both public and private sector organizations worldwide. Danny Moss is Co-Director of the Centre for Corporate and Public Affairs at the Manchester Metropolitan University...
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...CPA QUESTIONS CHAPTER 3 1. For “qualifying widow(er)” filing status, which of the following requirements must be met? I. The surviving spouse does not remarry before the end of the current year II. The surviving spouse was eligible to file a joint tax return in the year of the spouse’s death III. The surviving spouse maintains the cost of the principal residence for six months. A. I, II, and III B. I and II, but not III C. I and III, but not II D. I only A. Incorrect. A taxpayer may file a tax return as a qualifying widow or widower for 2 tax years after the year in which a spouse dies provided the couple qualified to file a joint return for the year of death; that the taxpayer provided over 50% of the cost of maintaining the principal residence of a dependent child or stepchild; and that the taxpayer has not remarried as of the end of the current year. Maintaining the cost of the taxpayer’s principal residence for six months is not sufficient. B. Correct! A taxpayer may file a tax return as a qualifying widow or widower for 2 tax years after the year in which a spouse dies provided the couple qualified to file a joint return for the year of death; that the taxpayer provided over 50% of the cost of maintaining the principal residence of a dependent child or stepchild; and that the taxpayer has not remarried as of the end of the current year. Maintaining the cost of the taxpayer’s principal residence for six months...
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