Beverly Hills

Modern Day Tom Walker Growing up in the streets of Beverly Hills, California was a young man named Tom who always aspired to be rich like the rest of his friends and family. Tom was a married man with no children because he did not want to waste money he could spend on himself on children that he did not really even care to have.. Tom and his wife Amy, who were both known for being very greedy individuals, the couple even sometimes stole each other 's personal belongings and money from each…

The circumstances that form the setting for an event, otherwise referred to as the context is an undoubtedly fundamental factor in the development of any creative piece. This ideology is supported by an analysis on the Georgian era novel Emma and the 20th century film Clueless. Both texts manage to incorporate the themes of class and vanity, both of which maintain extreme prominence. An in-depth exploration of these themes provide a sophisticated comprehension of the social, political and…

Hollywood has a way of stereotyping individuals in a vision they believe is true. Latinos have been in Hollywood films for a very long time, yet they are typically cast in supporting roles in every film they have ever acted in. For example, in Beverly Hills Chihuahua, the main leads are white actresses while the supporting male lead is a Latino, playing a Gardner. Latinos are never given a main role; the roles they do have are always negatively viewed. They are only in movies for a short amount…

The Generous Sinners: A Comparison Between Elton John and the Franklin “Every age is a Canterbury pilgrimage; we all pass on, each sustaining one or other of these characters” (Blake), said William Blake, celebrated 18th century English poet. In reference to the father of English literature, Geoffrey Chaucer’s most celebrated writing, The Canterbury Tales. Chaucer develops a mental model about all of the characters in the literature and describes each character in detail. Three centuries later,…

The Lincoln Lawyer is a 404-page crime fiction novel written by Michael Connelly, © 2005. Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller is presented with his latest client, Beverly Hills playboy Louis Roulet. Roulet is accused of rape and assault on a female prostitute but this does not trouble Haller in the slightest; on the contrary, he revels in it because it means he is being offered a franchise case, or a case offering an enormous payout. Naturally, Haller takes the offer but what is unique about…

Christine Abanto ENG4U Mrs Philips March 8, 2018 Wanted: Meaningful Diverse Characters Society is the girl who works at Starbucks who’s too lazy to spell the ethnic names correctly, but dated a Black guy in freshman year for 3 months because she wanted a “Get out of racism card”. Society is that girl in your class who won’t shut up about the political science course she took over the summer, for free. She has an exclusive clique that goes to the newest fusion restaurants for Instagram purposes…

Carrie Fisher was a talented actress, wonderful mother, and inspiration for all. A woman who overcame her problems and showed the world she could do anything she put her mind to, Carrie Fisher had amazing potential. Even though she struggled with drug abuse along with mental disorders, she was an amazing actress and role model because she made women feel powerful and she was an advocate for mental health. Carrie Frances Fisher was born October 21, 1956. She was delivered in Burbank, California…

A beautiful sixteen-year-old girl, bright eyed and lively; everyone says “she so fun to be around” or “she always smiling”. These comments soon transitioned into “I had no idea” or “I should have realized before”. I was one who said “I should have known”. This beautiful bright eyed loving and fun girl is one of my best friends, Olivia. Coming from an all-girls high school in Saint Louis, every girl enjoyed to boast about her love of food and eating, even though we all secretly worried about…

Life changes fast. Life changes in the instant. You sit down to dinner and life as you know it ends. The question of self-pity. Those were the first words I wrote after it happened. The computer dating on the Microsoft Word file ("Notes on change.doc") reads "May 20, 2004, 11:11 p.m.," but that would have been a case of my opening the file and reflexively pressing save when I closed it. I had made no changes to that file in May. I had made no changes to that file since I wrote the words, in…

kids talked about her, as they typically did, not knowing that she could understand every single word spilling out of their mouths. “Look at her nose—look at her eyes! Why are they that small? So weird.” Being one of the only Chinese girls in her Beverly Hills neighborhood was somewhat similar to a museum exhibition, 8-year-old Shoko thought. She stuffed her blonde-haired, blue-eyed Barbie into her backpack and kept walking. In the same moment across the country, 15-year-old Monique stared at…