2007 Cannes Film Festival

“Tell me about them.” I asked, wanting to pry, but not wanting to push her. “So, how does a New York girl end up in Iowa?” I asked her nonchalantly. At first, Anna looked as if she were going to shut me down and stonewall about her past as she thought about what to say, but then she eased into it by trying to make light of her situation. “My story is just like everyone else’s, I guess,” she said jokingly. “A girl grows up in a loving home, but has big-city dreams, so she moves to Iowa…

As soon as my mom arrived we helped him to his feet and to the trailer. “I called Oak Ridge, they have a spot ready for him, we need to hurry.” We arrived at the equine hospital and eased him into the large metal building. The helplessness in his eyes had turned to fear. “He was laying down when we got to the barn this morning and he wasn’t acting normal,” She said as she struggled to keep Jazz calm. Knowing what it meant when horses laid down we knew something was definitely wrong. Hours…

In contemporary America, young adults are infatuated with the classic love story. Whether it is Twilight or The Notebook, romantic movies and novels have become increasingly more popular and continue to be successful in the young adult market in America. Wrigley’s “Give extra, get extra” campaign for Extra gum, whose brand strategy is about making meaningful connections, addresses this captivation with love stories among America’s youth in their most recent ad. The ad, which is titled “The Story…

In Schwab’s article about men copying with stressful life events, he shines light on the fact that we as male hide are feelings and emotions in order to live up to the standards of what society views as “masculine”. Schwab reports that males are at a higher risk to develop addiction to drugs alcohol and even have higher suicide rates. The two key points that Schwab discusses throughout his article in addressing the problem men face with copying with stress is “invisibility” and “visibility”. He…

“The Fault in Our Star,” directed by Josh Boone, is a typical story of the journey of two teens who are both fighting cancer. Josh Boone directs the spotlight on these two teens specifically as he pulls the viewers closer into their journey. This movie not only exposes the story of two teens with cancer but also includes real life symbols and great quotes throughout different scenes of these two teens specifically. This movie will pull viewers emotionally closer into a love story that defines…

Brands are notorious for creating commercials that catch the viewer’s attention, even if the product has nothing to do with what may be happening in the commercial. The commercial Extra Gum: The Story of Sarah & Juan, directed by Pete Riski does that. The company implements emotional appeal to pull the audience in and use teens that can relate to what is happening. The beginning of the commercial takes places at a high school. The song “Can 't Help Falling In Love” by Haley Reinhart, is…

In William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Award Speech, Faulkner reflected on how a young writer needs to learn the true concept of the universal truths. Faulkner believed that if a story does not include the use of these truths, it is essentially doomed (Faulkner 872). They have been around since the beginning of the existence of humans, and they will continue to endure until the end. Writers have created stories throughout history, and these evident universal truths have and will stay the same from…

The Love Story in “The Thing They Carried” Tim O’Brien’s “The Thing They Carried” is about the war and the things they carried during the war. Moreover, the memories they made and the experiences they shared while they were doing their mission are also included in this war story. Although it is emphasized about the war and the soldiers in this book, O’Brien also shows the different kind of love in this story. After all, he calls this story was the love story because the love between friends and…

The last couple of weeks had been very long and drawn out for my family and I. Although we were a very withstanding family and looked healthy, however many problems lay under the surface that made this an untrue statement. However, my brother, Tarryn, had been sick with severe stomach pain for quite some time now. The doctors at Scott County Clinic were baffled as they had no diagnosis for his symptoms. We were also baffled as a family, but we finally decided to seek doctors with a great…

Malika Haqq may have more problems than being picked up and charged with DUI and that is, she may be cut from “Keeping Up With the Kardashians.” Accordant to Radar Online, Oct. 12, 2015, Kris Jenner is getting backlash over Malika’s DUI and the fact that she crashed her car just escalated Kris’s thought to cancel her from appearing on the TV reality show. It wasn’t so much the fact that no one was injured in the accident, it had to with what news of Malika’s drinking would do to their show or…