Amy Poehler

Disney Pixar creates movies that are the best known and anticipated worldwide. No studio is as careful with their product and as successful with their movie making as Pixar. Yet, Inside Out, far exceeded the common expectations. This movie is one of the greatest films ever produced by Pixar thanks to director, Pete Doctor and co-director, Ronnie Del Carmen who were able to make it happen. Inside Out is the story of 11 year old Riley, whose world turns upside-down when she and her parents move to…

“Feyminism:” A New Standard of Feminism for a Nonstandard World Move over, Madonna: feminism has a new poster girl, and her name is Tina Fey! In a time where feminism has been corrupted by the patriarchy into the work of “feminazis,” Fey’s Bossypants proves that feminism is still a rational struggle for equality. Throughout the text, Fey describes obstacles against femininity in her life; readers learn of her struggles grasping womanhood, the subtle sexism on the Chicago comedy circuit, and the…

“By the beginning of its second season, Saturday Night Live was the talk of television, a national sensation both hot and cool, and the first hit any network ever had at eleven-thirty on Saturday night” (Shales, Miller, 95). From young adults to the senile, Saturday Night Live has had people laughing for nearly forty-one years! This weekly show will go down in television history as one of the most iconic productions of the twentieth and twenty-first century. With every great show comes a great…

directorial work of Pete Docter and Ronnie del Carmen, the Disney Pixar film Inside Out (2015) expresses a comical tale of symbolic characters to represent a child’s inner emotion. The character Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) exhibits five main emotions: Joy (Amy Poehler), Sadness (Phyllis Smith), Fear (Bill Hader), Anger (Lewis Black), and Disgust (Mindy Kaling). The adventure begins when the emotional beings inside her mind meddle with her core memories. This action sends Riley into a roller coaster of…

Old Navy is the little brother store to The Gap. The Gap also place high esteem to their company Banana Republic. The Gap and Banana Republic sells the company’s high end clothing, while Old Navy sells cheaper merchandise. However, Old Navy sales outpace The Gap and Banana Republic combined sales. This paper will analyzing Old Navy 's promotion strategy. It will answer Old Navy’s use of online video to promote. This paper will identified their target group for their promotion. Mobile…

made my thankful I saved the journal was a tad bit from an older lady back from vacation who mentions the weather was so nice it felt like God was hanging out there that day. I still want to pull my hair out, probably my permanent state of mind... Amy Poehler 's book does such a good job capturing that. Writing isn 't romantic, it 's sometimes fun... mostly…

making it very comparable to Pixar's “WALL-E”. When I first read the synopsis, I was hesitant to say the least. Do I really want to know how a young girl named Riley (Kaitlyn Dias) deals with moving houses? Do I want to watch her emotions Joy (Amy Poehler) and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) struggle for control? Well, lucky for me that I fell into the hype and decided to watch it because it is spectacular. The film begins at Riley's birth for which Joy is created. Throughout her toddler years Sadness,…

is categorized as a documentary and political satire. It was first released on April 9, 2009 and final episode released on February 24, 2015. Parks and Recreation, also known as Parks and Rec is an American political comedy television starring Amy Poehler as Leslie Pawnee, Aziz Ansari as Tom Haverford, Rashia Jones as Ann Perkins and Paul Schneider as Mark Brendanawicz. The show is set up to use the same filming style of a documentary crew who films everyone. The episodes were inspired by local…

Brain Time Throughout history movies have always been used as a way to escape reality. Movies are created with out of the world story lines in order to catch the attention of the audience. Eventually, this phenomenon picked up and directors and producers were on a mission to become the best in the business. One in particular that has taken over the animated movie world is Pixar which is a section to Walt Disney. In 2015, directors Pete Docter, Ronnie del Carmen released a heartfelt movie named…

employees to not be fearful in sharing their ideas, as every idea will be welcomed with positivity. This meeting will have an optimistic tone to it, and will allow for employees to feel like they wont be judged for the idea they have thought of. As Amy Poehler said in her profile, “You have to listen and stay in the moment. You have to get comfortable with being uncomfortable". Our employees may be uncomfortable in sharing their ideas with others, but this is how the best ideas will come out.…