Amy Poehler

The key conflict in The Joy Luck Club is that between mother and daughter. The mothers were all born in China so they grew up with traditional Chinese beliefs. The daughters, however, were all born in America or moved to America a young age, so their lives outside of the home were American. The source of conflicts in the book is mostly that the mothers are more traditionally Chinese and the daughters are more Americanized. The root of these problems can be traced back to the concept of happiness…

The Joy Luck Club is not only the title of an amazing novel and now a movie; it is also the name of the weekly gathering that four Chinese women have participated in for many, many years. The movie The Joy Luck Club opens after the death of Suyuan Woo, the founding member of the Joy Luck Club. Suyuan passed away without fulfilling “an important thing on her mind” (Tan, 1989 p. 38): to be reunited with her twin daughters who she had left while escaping from the war in China. The other three…

How did Amy Lowell shape contemporary trends in american poetry? A quote of Amy Lowell shows both her determined personality and her sense of humor: "God made me a business woman, and I made myself a poet." During her career that spanned only twelve or so years, she wrote and published over 650 poems, but she is most often recognized for her work to open American readers up to contemporary trends in poetry. "Poet, propagandist, lecturer, translator, biographer, critic . . . her verve is almost…

In the film directed by Park Chul Soo entitled, 301, 302, the story revolves around two women who live in opposing apartments as the title suggests: Yunhee, a writer who deals with anorexia as a result of trauma from the sexual abuse incurred by her stepfather as well as the death of young child within their family meat locker. The other being a highly compulsive cook, Song Hee, who spends an inordinate amount of her time cooking, buying new ingredients and doing her best to surpass her past…

The document that is being reviewed is The Life of a Female Slave written by Harriet Jacobs. Harriet Jacobs was an African American slave that, after many harsh trials, was able to obtain her freedom, along with her children, by escape to a free state. Jacobs is responsible for her own writings, in the sense that she both wrote them and published them herself, which is remarkable because during this time it was uncommon for slaves to be able to read and write. Jacobs’ writings were later…

Amy Poehler, a known comedian-actress, was asked to give a speech to the graduating class of Harvard University on May 26, 2011. Her usual wit pulled her through a memorable segment in the ceremony where nobel-prize winners have spoken. The Commencement ceremony is the day before graduation where seniors get to spend their last time together as Harvard undergraduates. Harvard graduates that have been sitting in the heat with their parents listening to speech after speech about their future and…

more for women in comedy. One memorable moment Tina Fey talked about was her and Amy Poehler on Saturday Night Live. She was talking about how Amy Poehler was doing vulgar but she didn't remember exactly what she did. All she remembers is that Jimmy Fallon screamed “‘ Stop that! It's not cute! I don’t like that!’” (128). Tina was saying how Amy Poehler responded fierce saying she does not care. She said Amy Poehler was at Saturday Night Live to do what she loves best and do what she wanted to do…

Amy Poehler portrayed Joy in the movie Inside Out. She made Joy to hold up the performance even after 100 times of watching. She portrayed Joy like Woody which both of them talked a lot, but you can’t get sick of them. She drives energy on Joy too, which looks like someone who rally troops on a constant USO mission. Amy portrayed Joy using an upbeat and positive tone with high pitch to show aggressiveness to…

certainly found a place in the heart of children and adults alike. The movie was borne out of an original idea by Pete Docter and was co-directed by Docter and Ronaldo Del Carmen. An animated film with the characters voiced by prolific actors such as Amy Poehler, Phyllis Smith, Bill Hader, Lewis Black and Mindy Kahling, the movie taps into complex psyche of a child and tries to answer some profound questions about a child’s emotional well being. The movie ‘Inside Out’ revolves around the life…

In the chapter Peeing in Jars with Boys (page 124) she discovers the male tradition of peeing in jars and leaving them strewn around the writer’s offices at SNL. She uses this example as a way to marginalize the difference between women and men comedy writers and comics. At one point, she questions if this was a test by the urinators; if you see the jar and ignore it, you are accepted. She dispels this theory saying “…they didn’t really give a fuck whether you came in the room or not” (Fey, 125)…