A Little Faster

My Life Soundtrack The first song I would have to choose is “ I’ve Been Watching You,” by Rodney Atkins. My favorite quote from this song would have to be, “He Said, I’ve been watching you dad, ain’t that cool. I’m your buck-a-roo, I wanna be just like you.” This quote has always gotten to me, especially from when I was very young. I have always wanted to be hardworking like my father, because I have always been proud of my father and I want him to be proud of me. The reason I have been proud…

and the entertainment industry when there are people like Katha Pollitt that care so strongly about just a single essay like The Smurfette Principle, but it’s not quite as bad as she makes it out to be. She starts the essay by giving her child The Little Mermaid, and even though Ariel looks just like the other princess, she is active, brave and also the heroine of the story. This is not a common happening in movies because she states that only 9 out of the 10 movies you pick up, the main…

meaningful and enjoyable. The creativity shown in just a simple coastal landscape photograph and a little animated cartoon proving hard work pays off is extremely important to me. After analyzing these media, I realize I am a girl that won’t give up on her dreams. I am girl that loves art and love the oceans never will stop loving it. I come to the conclusion that I have to be grateful for the little things and breathe in each moment of life. Nothing comes easy, but, I have to tell myself even…

An experience to me is something that is unforgettable, that one thing that means a little extra to you and something that will have a lasting effect on you. I travel in reverse to the little girl standing in the mirror and daydreaming of one day becoming not only an amazing basketball player, but a great person in general as well. I watched and mimicked Allen Iverson on the tv to the best of my abilities as my brother did, then I grew. It all started for me at a young age and I began using my…

How would you react to someone who doubts you because of your background? What would you say? What would you do? In the short story “The Stolen Party,” by Liliana Heker, a young girl’s mother had refused to let her go to a party, as it was meant for the rich. Due to the fact that her mother was the maid of the party’s host, she thought her daughter would be someone that is brushed aside. However, she convinces her mother to let her go, and she has quite a fun time there, playing games and having…

Romeo and Juliet, written by William Shakespeare, is a play that revolves around two characters who fall in love at first sight, but they have caught themselves in the midst of a family feud. They struggle to fix their lives together, which leads to a tragedy. Fate is a term which describes the reasoning of them being "star-cross'd lovers", as Shakespeare states, and that an event is destined to happen. Romeo and Juliet thoroughly express these predetermined courses of events. All throughout the…

world!” she thought the Pearl maybe a devil. The child had is also showed to enjoy her mother’s suffering, “she amused herself with gathering handfuls of wild-flowers, and flinging them, one by one, at her mother’s bosom; dancing up and down, like a little elf, whenever she hit the scarlet letter,” this would cause Hester “to cover her bosom with her clasped…

Throughout history, there have been a manifold of variations on the mythical Siren. Traditionally told through Greek Mythology, they are mermaid-like creatures who sing beautiful songs that lure nearby sailors to their death by shipwreck. Two variations on this classic character are found in Homer’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s “Siren Song”. In both of these pieces of literature, we find very different tone usage, contrasting points of view, and various techniques of conveying the Siren's to…

The Terrible Ocean and Monstrous Female Representation In The Odyssey, Homer utilizes the female Scylla and Charybdis to represent the dangers of the sea and the dangers of female agency through drawing parallels between the ocean and femininity. In the text, the ocean is portrayed as something monstrous and uncontrollable. This is shown through the various creatures they encounter on their journey, specifically Scylla and Charybdis. Scylla and Charybdis are depicted as female monsters that are…

Spirited Away is an animated Japanese film (anime), by Hayao Miyazaki, he “has made many famous films including; Laputa: The Castle in The Sky (1986) and Princess Mononoke (1997) and his excellent work has earned him the title of ‘Walt Disney of Japan’” (Dugdale). Even though the film maker decided to retire in 1997, he decided to create Spirited Away after noticing that young girls don’t have much to look out to in the media other that romance, he wanted to create a film “in which they could be…