" He whose face gives no light shall never become a star." Three filmmakers spent seven years in inner city Chicago to construct a documentary based on the lives and dreams of two boys, Arthur Agee and William Gates. The social institutions of education, sports, economics, and family influenced the growth and development of these two young men. .
Education played a major role in influencing both Arthur and William. Arthur gets accepted to Saint Joseph's as a freshmen in High school. He will get a better education, and have a better chance at college at this school. In his first year, Arthur starts out at a fourth grade level. He does not advance much by the end of the first term, and he does not look to be very promising. Arthur ends up being thrown out of Saint Josephs, and has to return to the inner city school, Marshall High School. William is also accepted to Saint Joe's as a freshman, and he does extremely well his first year. William starts out at a fourth grade level just as Arthur had, but he advances. William went from the fourth grade level to eighth grade in just one school year, which was a significant change. He did so well that Patricia Wier, a wealthy white woman, decided to pay for all the rest of his school, and any other expenses. So, Arthur did not achieve the success he had hoped for in his education, but William did. .
The sport of basketball was the one main social institution that had a big influence on Arthur and William. Arthur had big dreams of playing in the NBA, and he followed those dreams to the last. Arthur went to Saint Joes" and he did not play as good as they had hoped, so they dropped him. Then he went on to Marshall high school, where he took them to State. This was a huge accomplishment for Arthur, and it go him into a junior college, despite his academic deficiency. Sports was the main thing that kept Arthur together and kept him focused, without it, he probably would have ended up selling or using drugs.
Hoop Dreams Hoop Dreams is a story about two young men who want to become basketball players in the NBA. ... The idea for the book came from the documentary movie, Hoop Dreams, which is a true story. ... As a result, Arthur could see his dreams of the NBA were slipping away. ... Arthur never did reach his dream of going to the NBA, at least yet. ... It gives them the reality of the dream. ...
Hoop Dreams is about two African-American kids that are growing up in the ghetto, and are good at basketball. At least that what it seems to be at first before the everyday issues came into play, family, money, and drugs. With the film crew with the two family's, especially Arthur's, you beg...
In The Minister's Black Veil , The members of Father Hooper's congregation were uneasy to see a Religions figure like Father Hooper the way he was. ... Hooper's face!" ... Hooper's intellects," observed her husband, the physican of the village. ... But then I realized what hour Father Hooper was talking about. ... By the end of the story, Goodman Brown is still not sure whether what he saw was a dream or whether he really witnessed the "witch meeting" in the forest but out of fear, he distances himself from Faith and starts to distrust her. ...
She talks of dreams, too. ... Hooper knows that man is born into sin, yet still will not live normally. ... Hooper becomes obsessed with hating the sinful world. ... Hooper's black veil ultimately causes people to shun and fear him. ... Hooper, he wants mankind to be flawless. ...
On one side, there is a hoop of gold, symbolizing a halo, the ultimate sign of heaven. ... Regrettably, it was just a dream. ... It was all a dream. ... I am a poster child for the American Dream. ... It must have all been a dream but when you can't sleep and you drift in and out of consciousness, realty, fiction, and dreams begin to mix as one and the only thing true is what you believe....
Hooper's veil. It takes this meaning from what it signifies about the human condition, the consequences is has on Hooper, and the characters who try to interpret it's meaning. The focus in the story is on the meaning of the veil, not on Hooper's motives for wearing it. Because Hooper donned the veil, his emotional life was then ended, and the areas of human experience in which he might have participated in, effectively extinguished. ... From Goodman Brown's dream vision or his spectral adventure in the forest, he has received a paralyzing sense that the brotherhood and unit...
For other people it is just an orange blob with black lines that bunches of people throw around and toss into a hoop. ... The ball is all the hopes and dreams that wish to achieve, putting the ball away in the hoop just shows if you work hard and know what you want you can get to your goals and dreams. ...
Hooper who placed a black veil over his face to gain power over his congregation. ... Hooper, Alymer, and Dr. ... Hooper intended to wear a black veil for one sermon, but after feeling the power that it imposed in him, he decided never to take it off. ... Hooper took pride in delivering the normal Sunday sermon, but the black veil brought on new powers over every member that left the minister even more gratified. ... This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine intervention, or a vision, which is easily translated into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allow...
Hooper who placed a black veil over his face to gain power over his congregation. ... Hooper, Alymer, and Dr. ... Hooper intended to wear a black veil for one sermon, but after feeling the power that it imposed in him, he decided never to take it off. ... Hooper took pride in delivering the normal Sunday sermon, but the black veil brought on new powers over every member that left the minister even more gratified. ... This experience is a sudden realization brought about by divine intervention, or a vision, which is easily translated into the dream allegory of Hawthorne's work and allow...
