Pursuit of Happiness

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I really enjoy this play. It portrays many different types of conflicts and how to learn from a mistake. Whether it's person vs. person or person vs. self, the characters still managed to overcome them. This play talks about a poor African-American family living on the South Side of Chicago. They escape poverty from a ten thousand dollars of life insurance check because of Mama's husband's death. They each have many dreams about the ten grand that they got. Walter, the oldest son, wants to invest the money in a liquor store. Beneatha, the younger sister, a college student, wants to use the money for medical school. Mama wants to buy a house for the family and finance Beneatha's medical school as for her plan. They all live in a tiny one-bedroom apartment and two families share a single bathroom. Since Walter is the oldest and Mama trusted him about putting the money in the back, she gave half and half for him and Beneatha. Instead, he spent all of it on investing a liquor store. Walter's plan backfired and the person he trusted with the money ran of with it, leaving him empty handed. His wife and sister was upset with him. Walter is a very selfish man. Even though he was trying to help his family, he disobeyed his mother and wasn't thinking about how it would affect Beneatha's future. Later on in the play, Walter finally "grew up" from being immature into a grown man. He became the man of the house and carried on the family.

Straight Outta Compton

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Straight Outta Compton is a movie that tells us the story about this rap group called the N.W.A., which stands for Niggas With Attitude. They started it out with little to no money until their album hit with Jerry Heller, their manager. Jerry was the one who signed the group up. In their black communities, there was lot of violence and racism. Many black would get checked and cuff by the police to see if they have any drugs on them. Racism did not stop their rap career and it went really well until Ice Cube found out that Jerry only did it for Easy-E, which the company N.W.A. was for Easy-E when it's suppose to be for all of them.  In the movie, Ice Cube stated, "Why are we eating burgers while E and Jerry be eating steak and lobster?" That was when he realize that Jerry was doing their rap career only for Easy-E, which he doesn't care about them except Easy-E. Their rap music took the big hit, which is "America's most dangerous group." They made millions of dollars, but because of money blinding the eyes of Easy-E, he forgot about his "brothers." Ice Cube decided to quit from their group and started on his own rap career. After that Dre quit and started his own too. Later on, Eazy-E was scammed by Jerry, which he fired him. E asked for Dre and Ice Cube to come back and recreate their music, N.W.A. They finally got back together, but turned out Easy-E couldn't continue because they found out that he had been diagnosed with HIV by the end of the movie. Easy-E died due to his suffer of Aids. After all, N.W.A. really did changed rap music back then until now. Their music still influence a lot of people now today.