Shareeka Epps Essays

The story of Half Nelson follows a man named Dan Dunne, a crack-cocaine addicted, junior high school history teacher trying to make a difference in his students’ lives. Dunne works with inner-city students and coaches the girls’ basketball team in Brooklyn, New York. The film offers no knowledge of why Dunne is doing drugs, so viewers are only witnessing a portion of the ongoing struggle that is his life. It is mentioned and referenced multiple times throughout the film that Dunne is only using in

Drey, played by Shareeka Epps, is a student of Dan Dunne’s history class and a player on the Girls’ basketball team. She is also dealing with a drug related problem of her own. Later in the movie, she was involved and influenced with selling drugs to people in the neighborhood by her friend Frank. This is a social conflict in today’s world that people can get young ones to the dirty work and they are the ones risking their own lives with crime while both the young person and the supplier are both

In the movie First Time Felon Omar Epps played the character of Greg Yance. In this movie Epps character Yance a black male in his mid 20’s who is a drug dealer and a gang member Chicago. One day while in the neighborhood of Chicago Yance is picked up by the local police department. He is eventually arrested because of the number of drugs in his possessions at the time of arrest. He has two options 5 years in the state jail or four months in a military style boot camp. This relates to corrections