Brad Paisley

Violence can affect people mentally or physically and one doesn’t have to be involved to notice the lifestyle change that violence can affect. The physical effect from violence is obvious on how it can change a life, however, the mental effect is not noticeable to everyone. The two literatures that can demonstrate how violence can affect people, in this case boys, mentally are Fist Stick Knife Gun and “Male Bodies and the White Terror”. An example of a mental effect would be trauma which is a…

Hallmark 's Cedar Cove will always hold a distinctive place in my heart for a variety of reasons, and I will admit that Teryl Rothery is one of them. I was introduced to this exquisite actress through that show, and I can still remember sitting there in my chair watching her portrayal of Grace. I so identified with her character, and once I began to research Teryl 's career, I was awestruck with her versatility and extensive range of her abilities that she has had the opportunity to demonstrate…

Fight Club is a 1999 film directed by David Fincher; starring Brad Pitt and Edward Norton. Based on the novel of the same name, Fight Club takes you into the mind and world of “The Narrator” (Edward Norton) – AKA Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt). As he struggles to take control of his life and of his reality. The film touches on multiple issues: Revenge, masculinity, and consumerism. It juggles all these issues while using a variety of editing, filming, and storying telling tricks and techniques. For…

The Media Monster It seems as if kids today are trying to find a new way of escaping their reality, and making their dreams into something that is not real. For example, tuning into their favorite celebrities social media page, or finding out what the new trends of today consist of, but the media also helps us to find out issues in our political system. Kids today are more awake to social and political issues and tend to rebel more against the current status quo that’s placed in our society…

1. Interview After having an interesting interview with Vanessa Hernandez, a Mexican student at Durham Tech in the library on October 20th, I understood more about the culture as well as food of Mexican people. First, when we were talking about Mexican culture, I realized that Mexican culture and Vietnamese culture have some common values. Vanessa was born in Michivacan, Mexico. When she talked about most of the population in her hometown were Christian, I was thinking about the movie “Conquest…

Everything that is said, worn, bought, eaten, and even drank by a celebrity, influences an enormous amount of individuals to follow exactly what is being done. The question is why? Why do everyday individuals feel the need to copy and mimic those who strive tremendously in the superstar category? The answer to that is simple, insecurity. Ordinary people, such as myself, encounter uncertainties and doubts about one self. We each undergo a tornado of what ifs; what if this looks weird on me,…

They’re tiny, they’re famous and they’re glamorous. They might be very young, but they’re already creating waves on the fashion circuit, drawing headlines for their style statements and getting heads turning whenever they make a public appearance. We introduce you to a few celebrity kids who are already style icons in their own right. Read on to find out how you could get your kids to look like these little stars: Suri Cruise Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes’ little girl might be just six years, but…

being forced to abandon everything he has when he meets Tyler Durden, played by Brad Pitt, his split personality who is the exact opposite of the main protagonist and the people he is surrounded by. The overall theme is mentioned by Brad Pitt on which is “It’s not until you lose everything that you are free to do anything.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher, 1999). The meaning is explained with another quote from Brad Pitt, “The things you own end up owning you.” (Linson, Chaffin, Bell & Fincher,…

Tyler, a high school senior, is viewed as an outcast and gets overlooked by every single student in his class. That is, until he gets busted spray painting his school and spends his summer doing work to pay for it, he then stands out like you wouldn’t believe. It begins to set off a string of events that have Tyler questioning his place in the world and with his family. He has always struggled with suicidal thoughts, never thinking he was strong enough for anything and was repeatedly…

The movie Seven is a 1995 mystery, psychological thriller film directed by David Fincher. The film tells a story of a young detective, who pairs with a lead detective regrading occurrences of murders. The detectives quickly comprehend; they have a serial kill on their hands. The perpetrator targets individuals, who he judges to represent the seven deadly sins. Shortly, the detectives identify a man, who has checked out numerous books on the deadly sins. Following a brief encounter with the…