In 1962, The Dreamettes, a hopeful girl group from Chicago, enter the famous Amateur Night talent competition at the Apollo Theater in Harlem, New York ("I'm Lookin' for Something", "Goin' Downtown", "Takin' the Long Way Home"). The group is composed of full-figured lead singer Effie White and best friends, Deena Jones and Lorrell Robinson. For the contest, the Dreamettes sing "Move (You're Steppin' on My Heart)", a song written by Effie's brother, C.C., who accompanies them to the talent show. Unfortunately, they lose the talent show, but backstage, the girls and C.C. meet Curtis Taylor, Jr., a used-car salesman who becomes the Dreamettes' manager.…
down. However, as Cady continues to spend more time with the Plastics, she begins to become one of…
Did you know that Mean Girls was inspired by a self-help book for parents? The marijuana the kids smoke in The Breakfast Club was actually oregano. Did you know Tina, the llama from Napoleon Dynamite actually belonged to director and co-writer Jared Hess’s mother? There is a wide variety of high school movies, each having their own story. The ten high school movies listed in this paper each made this list for their different content.…
Mean Girls is a 2004 film about the life of a popular high school girl. The teen comedy is considered by many high schoolers to be a legendary movie that depicts a dream high school that is ideal for many of today’s youth. The film centers around 4 junior girls called the plastics. They are pretty and preppy, popular and legendary in the school. They are worshipped like goddess by the students of the school because of their fame, riches, and popularity. However, the group of mean girls live up to their name. They are nasty, trashy and downright evil at times. Revenge is their middle name, and they will not hesitate to throw some of their best friends under the bus at a seconds notice, literally throw them under a bus. They gossip, spread terrible rumors and exclude their friends from cliques on purpose. However, this movie has had a big effect on the public, especially the youth and the younger generation. The ideal life of the plastics in high school has created a lust for popularity among teenagers and also has showed teenage girls that being ‘mean’ will get you friends, popularity and fame in the complicated world that is high school.…
In Virginia Woolf’s essay A Room of One’s Own, Woolf states that Carmichael has gained an advantage that many women lacked: the ability to separate herself from the issues of gender, and to be able to write freely, instead of trying to fit the mold provided . There are so many aspects of the world that are designed to hinder people, in some way or another; if not gender, race, physical and mental abilities. When one becomes consumed into the expectations of their category, it can cause paranoia towards their own actions. This in turn leads to lack of self-confidence issues amongst others. Instead of thinking of oneself as an individual human being, one may think they are a secluded, lonely being in their vacant category. The loneliness can…
Nick is a young man from the Midwest who is living in West Egg surrounded by wealth. He is different from the others possessing a quality that is very rare, the ability to “refrain from judgment” (Fitzgerald 1). The fact that he is a neutral character makes him a great narrator, he is able to clearly tell the story through his point of view, expressing…
Only a handful of authors have been as successful as Margaret Atwood. She was born November 18, 1939 in Ottawa, Canada. As a poet and novelist she 's won over 55 awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award, the Governor General 's Award and the Booker Prize five times (“Margaret Atwood”). Though she 's written over 40 novels and collections of poetry, her most notable works consist of The Handmaid 's Tale, Oryx and Crake, The Edible Woman, The Blind Assassin, and The Year of the Flood. She writes with lack of character 's emotion and impassively with much description but still involved in the stories. Atwood keeps recurring themes of female protagonists, oppression, and the nature in many of her works (“Sparknote”). Her literature style changes…
Rebecca and Rowena both bring two different worlds and aspects to the book. They also bring the feminine touches to the novel because they are the only female characters that are talked about in depth by Sir Walter Scott. Rebecca and Rowena also show the struggles and obstacles that women in 12th century Britain would have faced.…
Stranger Than Fiction is an outstandingly brilliant film. It is an alluring photoplay with engaging, prepossessing characters. You will find yourself speculating the outcome, without realizing it and being drawn into the conflicts, comic drama, and fantasy, so profoundly, that you feel as if you are right there in the film yourself. The film has such an aspiring storyline and a quick-witted script, that you become astounded at the brilliance of it all. It all starts off with a book author, Karen Eiffel, (Played by Emma Thompson) with a common case of writer's block, an IRS agent, Harold Crick, (Will Ferrell) with a repetitive, boring life, and a wristwatch which guides his everyday life.…
When school was out, and my mother being a single parent had to work days she would drop me off to stay at my grandma’s house. I would spend many of my free days having adventures in her flourishing gardens. Time well spent, trapping insects, collecting plants for “potions”, and acting as her trusty weed pulling assistant. I didn’t mind getting dirty and I loved the sunshine. She showed me how to properly transfer a potted petunia to the ground, making sure to dig deep enough to give the roots enough space to stretch and grow. The blackberry bush was off-limits to me and my sisters, for those were her specialty. I would try to sneak the lighter unripe berries relishing the tart flavor. If she caught me in the act she would remind me to be…
For the overwhelming majority of human history, women have been viewed as subservient beings whose foremost functions were child rearing and homemaking. Until recently, it was widely accepted that a woman’s place was in the home; financial responsibility for the family fell exclusively on the man’s shoulders. Recently, the distinct line distinguishing gender roles has become blurred and it is not uncommon for the woman to be the provider and her husband the homemaker. In the era immediately preceding the modern feminist movement, many individuals advocated women’s rights and encouraged women to be fiscally and personally independent. One such advocate was the Victorian writer Virginia Woolf. During the era in which she…
Moreover she started a family newspaper, the Hyde Park Gate News, to document her family’s humorous anecdotes. However she had been traumatized at the age of six when her half-brothers George and Gerald Duckworth sexually abuse her. Besides this dark spot was only made deeper and more eternal when her mother suddenly died at the age of 49. In addition the hormones of early adolescence and the indisputable reality of this huge loss revolve Woolf into a nervous breakdown, only made worse when two years later, her half-sister Stella also…
Before I read Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, I did a little research on Edward Albee the playwright. I realized that the assigned play would not be the first I have read by Albee but the second. A few years ago I read A Delicate Balance. Once I finished Virginia Woolf I was able to compare the two plays, which helped me develop an idea about Albee’s writing and his style. Edward Albee’s plays are usually unapologetic examination of modern society, usually to an extreme, like Edward Albee said himself "That 's what happens in plays, yes? The shit hits the fan”, which tends to be true in most of his plays. Albee had an impact on theatre in the 1960’s when many people were still in the mindset of the of the 1950’s, Albee was doing the opposite in American Theatre, as Albee said his plays are “an examination of the American Scene, an attack on the substitution of artificial for real values in our society, a condemnation of complacency, cruelty, and emasculation and vacuity, a stand against the fiction that everything in this slipping land of ours is peachy-keen"(Dircks). Many of his plays dissect the social convention of marriage and other conventions that are believed make the individual feel complete and apart of the American dream. His impact on American Theatre has been significant which has led him to be compared to famous American Playwrights Arthur Miller and Tennessee Williams.…
Women’s rights were a big thing back in the late nineteenth century to early twentieth century. Virginia Woolf and Alice Walker are two women with two views that somewhat agree about this situation, with the goal of finding a way to use the limited resources that they have for the good of others. They particularly use women of their time-frame as the major examples in their essays. But it all comes down to this. Walker in her essay “In Search of Our Mothers’ Gardens” agrees with Woolf that women’s abilities and resources of materials was scarce, but Walker in a way challenges Woolf’s writing of “In Search of a Room of One’s Own” that women in her day where able to use them more efficiently than in Woolf’s day with her mother’s garden. Through this comparison and consideration, we’ll look at the views of both Woolf and Walker and whether Walker is agree with Woolf or challenging what Woolf is trying to say.…
Virginia Woolf’s “The mark on the wall’’ is about a mark which the narrator sees on the wall as she sits smoking cigarettes after tea and what goes on in her mind as she tries to discover what the mark actually is.…
