David Lindsay-Abaire

Sofia Coppola, a renowned director, filmed five teenagers robbing celebrities’ homes to fulfill their fantasy of being a part of an elite society through the docudrama The Bling Ring. The teenagers break into celebrities’ homes like Paris Hilton, Lindsey Lohan, and many others before being caught by police officers. Coppola balances reality as well as the fantasy of elitism to present how consumed teenagers are to being a member of the elite society. She films the consumption which causes the…

Online trolls are at it again, and this time Amanda Bynes is the target of bullying from social media. https://pagesix.com/2017/10/01/amanda-bynes-looks-different-in-rare-outing/ Amanda Laura Bynes, 31, stepped out for errands over the weekend in Los Angeles. Photographers managed to capture pictures of Amanda at Kroger subsidiary, Ralphs grocery chain. According to New York's Page Six, the former "troubled" actress appeared healthy as she went about her shopping jaunt. The "All That" star,…

Analysis of the Movie “Mean Girls” using Compliance Gaining Strategies and Nonverbal/Verbal theories In the movie ”Mean Girls”, many different communication behaviors appear in the movie whether it may be verbally or nonverbally this film portrays many of the interpersonal communications behaviors. This film is a satirical and comical movie portraying a high school with the typical “mean girls” clique and the other cliques for example the jocks, the nerds, the prep and more created in high…

In the movie called, “The Mean Girls” there is a character named Cady Heron. Cady Heron just moved to the United States from Africa. She has been homeschool her whole life and she was starting a new high school. In high school, Ms. Heron has to deal with teenage life that run socially by a group of artificial girls called, “The Plastics.” As the story goes on, Cady Heron winds up becoming the plastic’s queen of sorts and is dethroned by the old queen, when all of the students find out what these…

will look at for the purpose of this paper will be the show Dexter—one of the more famous antiheroes in American television in the last ten years. Dexter was adapted by James Manos from the novel “Darkly Dreaming Dexter” which was written by Jeff Lindsay. Dexter aired for eight seasons on Showtime, lasting from 2006-2013. The story is about Dexter Morgan who works for the Miami Metro Police Department as a forensic blood splatter analysist—but this is only his day job. By night Dexter is a…

I have decided to write a response paper to Jamie Schultz’s: “Reading the Catsuit: Serena Williams and the Production of Blackness at the 2002 U.S. Open.” I really enjoyed reading her journal and all the opinions regarding Serena William’s infamous catsuit. Although there are some negative opinions regarding Williams’ choice of outfit and the way she presents herself, but she has challenged the normative white identity in women’s tennis. She has pushed the boundaries not only in tennis, but also…

Be it through television, radio, or toys, we are a product of our childhood. The things we experience as children daily have an enormous, impressionable impact on our lives. For me, childhood wasn’t a typical cookie-cutter situation. For me, the character that stuck with me the most during my childhood wasn’t a toy or television character; it was a tennis player by the name of Maria Sharapova. To understand my––for lack of a better word––obsession, let’s set the scene. It’s been approximately a…

Freedom Freedom is a word that can be defined in many ways to different minds, but in literary terms freedom means “the state of not being imprisoned or enslaved”. Two great poets by the name of Maya Angelou and Langston Hughes wrote two extraordinary poems called “I know why the caged bird sings” and “Democracy”. These two poems open your eye to the word freedom. I choose these two poems because, me personally being of Haitian decent I see how my people are treated and thought of. We think we…

Johnny Depp, OJ Simpson, Chris Brown. What do these high-profile celebrities have in common? Being arrested for domestic violence. Even though we are overwhelmed with news stories about DV cases famous people were involved in, the public is still unaware that domestic violence is an epidemic and it’s deeply rooted in our culture. Slide 2: The Great Gatsby is a book that features several instances in which women involved in intimate relationships are abused. Tom Buchanan is an aggressive…

Mean Girls is a film, which premiered in 2004 with starred major actress: Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, and Lindsay Lohan. The film begins with a sixteen-year-old girl named Cady Heron who just moved to Evanston, Illinois from a twelve year research trip in Africa with her parents. Cady begins her first day of public school, since she was homeschooled, and she meets a group of three girls who are very popular and they are known as the Plastics: Regina the Queen Bee of…