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Ellis Valdescona April 20, 2019 AAS 113B Professor Turnmeyer

America; I Too

“America; I Too” ( 2017 ) film directed by: Anike Tourse is a tear jerking, inspirational film about how people here in United States are immigrants from different countries like: Tijuana, Korea and Somalia, Africa. According to ​CHIRLA.org ​and was stated in the end of the film, “that 11 million undocumented people live, work, go to school, raise families and contributed to the United States”. It also shows how the immigration california enforcement, also known as “ICE” officers accused a hispanic young teenager, named Manuel Sanchez for vadalizing on the walls, and weed possesion. Manuel got arrested and got put in jail for the false accusations, but in reality he was just writing his name on his artwork that he did for the Los Angeles arts place and did not had any possesion of weed, as he stated in his statement the officer had. Manuel got also accused to be in a gang data base background and had an “outstanding removaler “ back in Harlington, Texas in 2008, which he was mistaken for another unknown person, he stated that he was 9 years old back then and is threatened to get deported back to Tijuana. Another part is where ​Jin-Kyong, a​ korean lady and hispanics workers got caught by the ICE. The officers separated the workers who are illegal and legal immigrants with documentation papers for proof. The non-english korean lady that Jin-Kyong helped has a grandchild who is diagnosed with autism and was pleading the officers to let her go home, so she could take care of her. ICE officer Franks, had the heart to help the non-english korean, but she provided an ankle bracelet on her because the program had to monitor the newcomer in order for her to go home to her grandchild.

“​It is burning my skin, it is too hot!​“ quoted the non-english korean lady.

One of the main characters, Ahmed, an african-american pizza delivery man who got also arrested and was going to get deported back to Somalia, Africa grew up with an abusive father. He shared his childhood story that he would get beaten by his father up to a point where he would end up in the hospital. Then, the courts took him away from his mother, whom passed away years after with attorney Sarah Garcia, who help’s him in applying for a AU-Visa form in order for him to hopefully be free. In the end, Manuel Sanchez was set free from jail and formed a coalition of humane immigrant rights (CHIRLA) group. Manuel and the CHIRLA group is singing to Ahmed “ happy birthday “ and is fightning for his freedom.

Anike Tourse is a Los Angeles based writer, producer and director, who is well known for her best narrative story “America; I Too “, which won​ The Roxbury International film festivalearly this year (2017). She also played the role as attorney Sarah Gacia in the movie, as well. Anike graduated from Bates College (BC), later on recieved her master degree of fine arts from Ohio State University (OSU). She has written other various film like: “One life to live”, the sitcom series “Girlfriends”, playwright for stage play, “No Milk Today” and has written the screenplay “Valentina”. The director also made an animated short film for a project called, “Frances the fish”.

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E! Entertainment News

Ellis Valdescona

April 17, 2019

AAS 113B

Professor Turnmeyer

E! was originally an initialism of Entertainment Television is an American pay television channel that is owned by the NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment Group division of NBCUniversal, all owned by Comcast.E! was originally launched on July 31, 1987, as “Movietime”. It was a service that aired movie trailers, entertainment news, event and awards coverage, and interviews as an early example of a national barker channel. The channel was founded by Larry Namer and Alan Mruvka. Early Movietime hosts included Greg Kinnear, Paula Abdul, Katie Wagner, Julie Moran, Suzanne Kay (daughter of Diahann Carroll), Mark DeCarlo, Sam Rubin and Richard Blade.

Producer Al Masini came up with the idea for “Entertainment Tonight” in 1980, but was not sure that it would be a success. Masini’s purpose was not to only create a daily news program in the style of traditional television newscast, he wanted to add a but of glamour and glitz of the celebrity world/culture that seemed to attract society. Another purpose was to draw the audience’s attention for television affiliations that are struggling and for independent radio stations around the United States.

Entertainment has become a concept that has undergone the trials of time and evolution to become a very influential part of everyone’s lives. In regions such as the South Pacific, the various forms of entertainment such as music, movies and art have a major impact on the daily lives of every individual and due to its extensive reach, everyone is seen to be well-versed with what entertainment has to provide. This essay shall exhort discussions based on the pros and cons of entertainment in terms of its contribution to its recipients, various represented ideas and its influential impacts on the society.

First and foremost, entertainment in its many forms has proven to provide its recipients with various recompenses. Not only that, but shows such as the Oprah Winfrey Show helps viewers by providing them with advice on certain issues regarding life. There are many other branches of such educational concepts in the entertainment tree that not only augments the knowledge of an individual, but it also creates awareness about the ambience they reside in. As in accord to Eric (Ponds, 2001) “People are also taught to appreciate arts and culture that is portrayed through various events such as drama, art conventions and religious events”. It also enables metamorphosis of a person in terms of the way he or she interacts with the society and with different cultural structures.

Additionally, entertainment has economical perks such as the wide area of job availability for the locals. In the Pacific Islands, it could be ranging from anything to a festival performer to an announcer on the radio or even an actor on TV serials. There is also the need for sports entertainment such as soccer and rugby thus players are hired to play the sport which in turn becomes a scenarios of a mutual benefit. The players get what they need, and the audience is fed with their dose of  entertainment.

E! is one of the few U.S. general-entertainment cable channels that broadcasts a daily news program; its flagship entertainment news program is E! News, which debuted on September 1, 1991. The weekday program (which also has an hour-long weekend edition) features stories and gossip about celebrities, and the film, music and television industries, and has been broadcast under various formats since its launch, even being aired live for a time during the mid-2000s. It was first hosted by Dagny Hultgreen. E! News was the only entertainment news show on the channel for much of its history until 2006, when the channel launched The Daily 10, hosted by Sal Masekela and Catt Sadler (Debbie Matenopoulos also co-hosted from the show's inception until 2008); the series was cancelled in September 2010 after E! announced that the weekday editions of E! News would be expanded to one hour starting on October 25, 2010. E! is known for its live red carpet pre-shows for the industry's three prominent award shows, the Primetime Emmy Awards, the Golden Globe Awards, and the Academy Awards, and were famous for their fashion critiques by Joan Rivers; Rivers also hosted post-awards specials under the title Fashion Police, which became a regular weekly series in September 2010. In April 2017, it was announced that E! had acquired the People's Choice Awards, which will move to the network from CBS in 2018 with a new November scheduling. The network promoted that the show would be given an "end-to-end" experience that will leverage its existing experience in awards show coverage.

E! is the only global, multi-platform brand for all things pop culture. The network is currently available to 91 million cable and satellite subscribers in the U.S. "E! News" airs nightly on the network and is the leading multi-platform publisher delivering breaking entertainment news and pop culture coverage 24/7 across all digital and social media. E! programming includes popular series "Keeping Up with the Kardashians," "Total Divas," "Botched," "Hollywood Medium with Tyler Henry," "WAGS," and "Fashion Police," as well as the network's scripted series "The Royals" and “The Arrangement.”  Additionally, E!'s "Live from the Red Carpet" signature events keep fans connected to their favorite stars on pop culture's biggest nights. E! is a network of NBCUniversal Cable Entertainment, a division of NBCUniversal, one of the world's leading media and entertainment companies in the development, production, and marketing of entertainment, news and information to a global audience.

On September 21, 2010, E! announced the cancellation of The Daily 10. At this time, it was announced that E! News would be expanded to a one-hour format. The expansion became effective beginning on October 25, 2010, making it one of two entertainment news programs to have weekday editions that air in an hour-long format, HLN's Showbiz Tonight being the other. The series also debuted a new news set and began broadcasting in 16:9 high definition, downconverted to 4:3 letterbox (with pillarboxing for 4:3 SD video) on the channel's primary SD feed. Some talent previously featured on The Daily 10, including Catt Sadler, Clinton Sparks and Robbie Laughlin, were integrated into E! News, along with the addition of a segment called The Daily 10 Take, along with the inclusion of some former Daily 10 segments.

E! News does not produce episodes on major holidays, including Memorial Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas, with special pre-taped programs, the show's weekend edition or other E! programs airing instead, depending on where the holiday falls.

In December 2017, Catt Sadler, left her anchoring duties on E! News as well as the E! network due to unequal pay between herself and her co-anchor, Jason Kennedy.In a statement to PEOPLE, an E! spokesperson said on behalf of the network and Kennedy, “E! compensates employees fairly and appropriately based on their roles, regardless of gender.

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Song choice: “How To Love” By: Lil Wayne

A lot of women don't know how to love because there's deep reasons for them not knowing how to love. And what I mean by deep reasons is deep and dark reasons. A lot of people don't open up that can and I figured that I can open up that can of worms and see what happens. This song is about girl who has always questioned her self-worth because she had always been valued based on her outer beauty and her body. She has learned to measure her worth with her body and never experienced a man loving her for her inner beauty and who she is on the inside. Her whole outlook on life had been marred by this so she never trusted anyone and found herself accustomed to using her sex appeal to get the things she wanted out of life. She often feels insecure if men looked at her because how they viewed her appearance determined whether or not they would deal with her. She both loathed and capitalized on her looks. I've been through rape, and In my interpretation of this song is about someone that got raped a lot of times and is insecure about how she feels about guys, maybe she thinks that guys only want her for sex.

This song represents a story of who I am as a person because I grew up being dealt with the wrong hands all my life. Even though I grew up with both parents who were always there for me, along with my family, I was in an abusive relationship with my first boyfriend for 5 ½ - 6 years.  had a lot of "crooks" steal my heart and they were always the wrong men. My first boyfriend abused me when I was with him on and off for 5 ½ - 6 years, it lead to an abusive/toxic relationship that was hard for me to get out of and I think because of that I was taught the "wrong" way to love. I don't think I know "how to love". I don't even love myself. Just like the song says. "never had luck, couldn't never figure out. He raped and got me pregnant, he left and had a miscarriage. I was always in and out of bad relationships, because everytime I open my heart to someone, they would always break it and leave. One of them was the abuse I got from my then boyfriend, and it made me behave promiscuously with low self esteem, I kept questioning myself worth, and kept having the same patterns even after I finally had the courage to leave him and just dated men here and there, hoping to find the right one. But, it was just always the same pattern to the point where I couldn’t really love anymore, because I was so scared of getting my heart broken over and over again. That’s why I have a broken soul that could never be fixed.  Took me a long while to find happiness and love, but I finally got help and trying to put my life back together, It’s about trust issues,  based on her past. Took me awhile to find confident in myself and say in the mirror, “I am very pretty” and met lots of guys. I couldn’t let them in because I didn’t know how to! I met someone who really cares, respects, finds me beautiful and accepts for who I am, found someone who pushes me to do my best, always there no matter the distance and has the same similar stories that I had. So he's telling me he admires me as much as I admire the things I love in life!

This song is about choices. The woman in this song does not know how receive love or give love in all of her relationships, not just in the romantic ones. There is a pattern in the protagonists life. Just like her mother before her, she makes poor choices because she has to make a living. But not because it's her own fault, but because of the difficult circumstances she grew up in she cannot do anything else. So due to that, she uses her body to earn a living; that is admirable but she doesn't know how to treat herself well. Lil Wayne is saying to girls in similar situations to value who you are on the inside and outside. Don't just let men (or anyone) take advantage of you; be confident, comfortable in your skin, and make the choice to love yourself first. If you love yourself, you will see the rest of your relationships and life flower.

I was reminded of this song as it blared from a radio, while pumping gas, and reminded me of how I feel about myself. This song is about a girl, who may have, always being judged by her outer appearance, but who has found her soulmate. She has to take a "time out" and wrap her head around the fact that she's amazing. She deserves this man, who is her soulmate and inspiration, which will be guiding her to figuring out how to love. She's had love, when younger, and let it slip b/c she was too consumed in her beauty, but has since learned what it means to love, unconditionally for eternity.