Titled: Meal Ticket Genre: American Drama Television Series Tagline: Everyone deserves a meal ticket; however everyone has to eat. Log Line: Meal Ticket follows Bret Hall, a young man who, while working in a busy Washington DC restaurant to finance his return to college, comes to the realization that life’s obstacles force many people to put off their dreams, work to survive, and wait on a meal ticket. Setting: Washington D.C., during America’s new era of "change“. Premise: Meal Ticket shows the necessity of human dependency on the limited resources and opportunities that the world has to offer. Meal Ticket shows how some people wait on a meal ticket; while others go and get their meal ticket by any means necessary. People must consider daily living expenses, bills, habits, and even luxuries over a dream. As a result, they tend to stray away from their dreams and work only to survive and are left waiting for a person or thing to depend on for financial support; or in this case, a meal ticket. Bret Hall’s meal ticket is to return to Howard University and be the first to graduate in his family. While Bret misses the deadline for financial aid, Bret's mother wants him to return his hometown of Philadelphia to finish school. However, Bret does not want to abandon the new life that he has started in Washington DC. Instead, Bret decides to get a job as a waiter at an upscale restaurant where he comes across many people who are waiting for a meal ticket. Meanwhile, Bret has to save his money and save his relationship with his "well-off" girlfriend Christina who can also be viewed as Bret‘s potential meal ticket. But this isn't so easy for Bret since he is young, unfocused, a party animal and a ladie... ... middle of paper ... ...n has his eyes on the young men at Howard, especially Bret and the “homies”. He and Bret are pretty cordial as neighbor’s. He continues to linger in Bret’s presence by enticing him with quick and lucrative amounts of cash. Keys see Bret as an asset to help his empire grow if he can get an insider on the college demographic. He wants to use Bret’s influence to get his product to the students at Howard. Keys is intrigued by the college life but knows good and well that his only interest is making them his number one clientele. He’s completely against higher education but always wants to reap the benefits of the parties that Bret and the boys throw. There are many more characters scripted but each character routinely encounters life’s obstacles not knowing what their meal ticket may be. In fact some of the character's may never receive their meal ticket
A Case For Tragic Optimism by Victor Frankl states “ With the increase of the imperative urge of hunger all individual differences will blur, and in their stead will appear the uniform expression of the one instilled urge.”The one urge this piece discusses is the urge to exist. The basis of human nature is to avoid mortality. All of the experiences of life will blur and all that remains is the urge to exist.
and sometimes giving up everything is the way to survive. There is going to be hardships in life
human condition, such as the need to possess, fear of the unknowing and stagnation. However,
... life suffering, due to lack of responsibility, lack of knowledge, submission to another entity or just lack of wanting to have a better life. People that go through these situations are people who have not finished studying so they have fewer opportunities in life. All of the examples formerly given are examples of how people sometimes choose to live. They are getting accustomed to life as they might know it.
of the things that has been part of their lives since birth and they are too dependent upon it.
It has been said, "Man cannot live by bread alone". We have basic biological such as the need to eat, rest, and water, oxygen and even sex. Our bodies react negatively if; these basic biological needs are deprived from us. We dehydrate if go without water for a long period of time. People have died from hunger-lack of food. And, everyone needs oxygen in order to function properly or it can negatively affect the brain and other bodily organs. Most of us today probably couldn't imagine going one day without food. Unfortunately, many people have to work twice as hard in order to have a place to live or to eat for a day.
Some humans believes that life is pointless because they think no one cares about them. In the story The Devil and Tom Walker by Edgar Allan Poe, Tom made a pact with the devil that he could be rich in return for his soul. Tom declined his offer went home
problems to solve. Maybe this belief I have is too far out of reach to be true.
Thinking back on his previous encounters, he's yet to find a duplicate power among the masses. All of them, whether through the utilization of exceptional craftsmanship or devious mental manipulation, proved to be unique in their capabilities and would be useful allies. Of course, he knew things weren't always so simple. A friend of today could become the enemy of tomorrow, therefore,
such a hunger for power and wealth he doesn't want to share it. This is why he has his own
The deprivation of these things that we learn to appreciate is a misfortune, because we have learned to live with these privileges. It is unfathomable for a human being to grasp the concept of a finite life, in the truest meaning of understanding. We do not think of our lives right now as a set out plan or a finite sequence of events. We do not live day to day thinking of what we should do according to how much time we have left. Our lives are essentially an open-ended sequence of good and bad circumstances and possibilities. Death is the abrupt interruption of this sequence that we cannot help but be in the mindset will never end. This is how death is a deprivation, and ultimately, a bad thing for a
the threat he made and also out of loyalty as the prince has a lot of
to dominate over and control his kingdom/state, it was obviously not meant for lesser mortals. It
because they feel a sense of hopelessness. All of these problems and factors come into play when