Even though Adonis faced challenges in life, he overcame them because he never gave up in order to be successful.
We should never be afraid to take challenges if we wanted to achieve our goal and to be successful in life. In the movie, Adonis didn’t want to use “Creed” this name because people will compare him with his father – Apollo Creed, and he was scared that he was not able to make it. Nonetheless, he wanted to built his own legacy by using the name Johnson without relying on the popularity of his father. He was so striving with the burden that not only others gave him, but also the pressure that he gave to himself. After Adonis won Leo in the fight, the news that he’s the descendant of Apollo Creed made him became famous. When Adonis went to support Bianca
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After they took photo, a guy kept on teasing Adonis as “baby Creed”. He was so pissed off because he still could not accept people to call him as Creed. However, Bianca told him “You are Apollo Creed’s son so use the name. It’s yours.” Bianca understood that people will have so much expect on him, but she wanted Adonis to feel proud by using that name.
What’s more, in order to be successful, we have to start by doing small things everyday till we succeed. Working as a professional, Adonis did not feel satisfied with his current life. When Rocky told Adonis “I can tell the way you talk, you been to school so I figure you got some brains. Why would you want to pick a fighter’s life when you don’t have to?”. Adonis clearly knew that fighting is his life, is what he wanted to do, and it meant something to him. He had to take another further step to achieve what he wanted, so he quitted his job, and concentrated on fighting. However, there’s no one wanted to train him because he’s the son of Apollo Creed. Instead of struggling in LA, he went to Philadelphia to find his father rival and friends – Rocky Balboa to help him. At
They say things in the young men’s ears like, “I want you to run across at the bell and give it to him right in the belly. If you don’t get him, I’m going to get you. I don’t like his looks” (229). The men are repeatedly called “nigger” instead of by their actual names. They are turned against their own kind. The nameless character makes it to the last of the battle royal. He keeps trying to bargain with his opponent to let him win and he’d pay him. But the man had it in his mind that he wasn’t fighting for the guest of the evening but for himself. This is so untrue. He wouldn’t have even been there had he not been forced to attend and perform. Nothing could represent black ignorance more than the train of thought of these two men. The nameless black citizen just wants to look good in front of the men that put him in the ring and his opponent really believes he’s in control of what’s going on.
Sasha explains it very clearly herself in the opening of the narrative why she needs her hopelessness. From the very beginning, the reader knows that something is off because Sasha tells the reader that Sasha is not her real name and that she thought that it would “change [her] luck if [she] changed [her] name.” (12) This is a monumentally telling sentence because Sasha is essentially saying that she needed to change who she was. She is inferring that she couldn’t stand not being Sasha because Sasha was the only one who might bring her luck, or in this instance, a better li...
It started at a young age when he lacked supervision and lead him to crime. From crime he found boxing, and in that he found profession. Within profession, he found power. However, with power, he left mistakes which cost him time in prison and the burning down of his racket world empire. Perhaps he knew that his fall from success could be easily found in the cards, it may be that he was just a businessman. For this boxer, gangster, mobster, murderer, crime lord, businessman, legend, whichever adjective is used once proudly proclaimed, “All good things must one day be burnt to the ground for the insurance money.” (Mickey Cohen Quotes) And burning to the ground did his authority, his Rome, and his world
Life doesn’t come without its difficulties and this is something John Cena knows very well. John Cena has always been a fighter, right from the
Amy Heckerling’s movie Clueless focuses on an upper middle class 16-year-old girl, Cher, who lives in a nice neighborhood with her father and stepbrother, Josh. Cher and her friend, Dionne, take in a new girl, Tai, to help her fit into their high school. All of the major characters in the movie are in adolescence, which ranges from 10-19 years of age. In adolescence, teenagers undergo cognitive and emotional development. According to Piaget’s cognitive developmental theory, adolescents are in formal operational period from 11-20 years of age. During this period, adolescents develop abstract thinking and rational decision making. They experience two aspects of adolescent egocentrism, imaginary audience
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One day he would be fun and get high Lecrae another day was church Lecrae, he struggled with an identity issue, he lived two different worlds. Until one day he met God and it changed his life forever but, God had to put him through these trials to show him just how strong he really was. It is only though adversity that one can truly change and mature.
Napoleon Dynamite is one of the best movies portraying loneliness and nerds. It is the story of Napoleon in high school and his lonely adventures. All the main characters feel separated, misunderstood, and have nobody to relate to. Napoleon has no friends and lives in his own fantasy land. He is avoided by everybody. His brother seems to be mislead, wanting to be a cage fighter but staying home all the time hopelessly trying to find love and attention on the internet. Their grandmother is never there for them, though she lives her own life right beside them. They live next to a huge field, reinforcing their isolation. Practically every home in the film is
Philadelphia, one of the toughest cities in America. So an inspirational series of movies of a boxer who comes from rags to riches seems to fight right into the city. Rocky balboa is a boxer from Philly, who trained and overcame impossible odds in every movie. Although he didn't win every match, he taught the viewers to not back down from anything. The movies started in 1976 with Rocky continued until 2006 with Rocky Balboa, which is the 6th movie of the series. Creed, which is a spin-off of the movie was released in 2005 and Creed 2 plans to be released the summer of 2017. All the movies have similar scripts, with Rocky training the entire movie to beat the “bad guy” or the antagonist of the movie.
Rocky deliberately avoided the old time ways … he called it superstition.”(Silko, 51) By showing us how Rocky deliberately avoids the ways of his people, the traditions of his own family, Silko highlights the push for Native Americans to essentially become white. Rocky represents an entire generation that is being told that they need to completely renounce their way of life in order to be accepted by modern society. Part of this acceptance was also promised through participating in World War Two, as shown through the army recruiter “Anyone can fight for America… even you boys. In a time of need anyone can fight for her.”(Silko, 64) Silko uses the recruiter as a voice for opinions in the US, enticing its alienated cultures with a kind of equality. As the audience, we clearly know it is a temporary change, and Silko highlights this by mentioning “In a time of need”, but Rocky, a person already trying to embrace change, sees this as a chance to become equal to the whites. He as well as many others are fooled by the whites into thinking that positive change is happening, ironically, this promise of a better life leads to his fate. In a jungle nowhere near home, participating in a war, having nothing to do with his people, Rocky dies as a white man. By ending Rocky’s life in this way, Silko allows
In the short story, “Battle Royal,” by Ralph Ellison (1952) the author uses the symbol of the boxing arena to illustrate how the nameless young, African American, character proceeded with his promised speech even after the discrimination, humiliation, and injustice he suffered. For example, the nameless character mentions the different images and voices he witnesses through the boxing arena. When the character says, “I felt a desire to spit upon her as my eyes brushed slowly over her body” while he hears the loud taunting shouts of the Caucasian men displays for the reader what the nameless character experienced in order to present his speech. The nameless character’s horrendous blindfolded boxing match transforms into
Thesis: Despite his accomplishments and the glory associated with his life, Aeneas only achieves the status of hero through divine intervention, and this god-given position causes him just as much grief as it does splendor.
...old age or barriers, he will always strive to fulfill his goals. The experiences of Odysseus and Ulysses are tributes to the power of the human spirit; one can achieve much if they are determined.
I watched the film Avatar directed by James Cameron. The main actors in the movie are Sam Worthington, Zoe Saldana and Sigourney Weaver. Set on the planet Pandora, Avatar is a sci-fi story of a mercenary-backed corporation’s attempt to steal and mine the land where humanoid aliens known as the Na’vi live.
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