Blonde

To most, Anita Loos’ Gentlemen Prefer Blondes would not be considered a feminist text. The main characters, Lorelei and Dorothy, seem to be characterized as typical women in the 1920’s. Lorelei can almost be seen as a superficial character who will only marry a man for his money, and Dorothy, is the type of girl who would settle for any attractive man. However, feminism is defined as the belief of equality of the genders, that both men and women should have the same rights and equal…

Stereotypes are defined as “particular beliefs or assumptions about a human being based on their association with a group” (Spielman, 2014, p.225). Stereotypes can be seen throughout people of all ages and cultures, they occur naturally. Stereotypes occur when humans assign a induvial to objects of the world to help classify one into a group. Therefore, when we meet a new person we assume that they have all the traits and characteristics that are common in the social group they belong too…

The ride from Fallborn to Talon’s Hollow is a long one. Today it is made worse by the waves of pain crashing over me. What they did to me in that place was terrible, but a fine excuse for all the people that now lay dead. After I broke free I had to kill nine of them before anyone would talk. I should have asked them why, but I just want to forget the pain. They erased my memories so I knew they could erase the last year of my life. One of them finally told me that they had a facility in…

Legally Blonde, the musical, has proven that the amount of talent we have here at CHHS is great. The cast and crew dedicated hours to make this event happen, and it paid off. Director Mrs. Kerry Rupe, did a stunning job coordinating the show as well as Kevin Gasio as the musical director, Bob Erbst, as the set director, Mel Taylor as the producer and Kolbi-Rae Edrey and Kerry Rupe as choreographers. The star of the show, Mia Roberts, plays the lead character Elle Woods who admitted that playing…

portray stereotypical blonde bimbos, the protagonist in Legally Blonde, a comedic and inspiring movie published by Type A Film in 2001, defies the dumb blonde archetype by depicting a blonde hair female with both beauty and brain. Reese Witherspoon plays a ditzy sorority girl, Elle Woods, who is a bubbly, attractive, and Caucasian female with blonde hair. She is completely in love with her boyfriend, Warner Huntington III, who soon breaks up with Elle stating that she’s “too blonde”. In essence,…

2015 Final Paper The movie I chose to watch was Legally Blonde Elle Woods is an incredibly girly and popular sorority girl fashion major at a university in LA who gets dumped by her boyfriend Warner, so he can “stop dicking around” and date someone “smart” before he goes to law school at Harvard. In order to prove her seriousness and commitment to education, she applies to Harvard and gets in. Everyone believes her to be a misguided dumb blonde; even her parents think Law school is for the…

do blondes wear their hair up? To catch everything that goes over their head. A typical blonde joke is an example of a stereotype that all blondes are dumb. Webster defines a stereotype as “an often unfair and untrue belief that many people have about all people or things with a particular characteristic.” The stereotype of “dumb blonde” dates back to the 18th century from a French ballet dancer named Rosalie Duth. Today she would be compare as a blonde Kim Kardashian. For centuries, blondes…

Top Ten Misconceptions About Blondes In everyones everyday life weather we like it or not, we all judge each other and can't help it. You hear the saying "dont judge a book by its cover" and everyone tries not to, but like it or not everyone does it. It's like saying red heads have no soal or even blondes are dumb, and thats where my 10 misconceptions come in. Number ten: I've heard them all and trust me, I do get your jokes I just don't think they're funny. Blondes are not as spacy as they…

As the Dumb Blonde is often the first to go, she is also the first to make major mistakes that seem as if she has a sign glued to her perfectly toned, overly tan back screaming, “Kill me first, my eight inch stilettos pinch my toes too tightly for running circles in this foggy forest!” Aside from her immense heels, her clothing choices do not seem to improve much. In fact, the Dumb Blonde decided it was in her best interest to wear as little clothes…

Though truth is the only way to receive justice, wealth can manipulate the law to favor one’s side. This is demonstrated through the defense team in the O.J. Simpson murder case, the dual trial in Great Expectations, and the murder case in Legally Blonde. With this method of wealth buying the verdict, it leads to corruption, blinding justice from the truth. For it is corruption that allows for the guilty to find innocence in a trial. Corruption can…