Ellen Gates Starr

Ellen Degeneres: America’s Funniest Person Thesis: Ellen Degeneres, voted America's Funniest Person, shows true activism in nearly everything she does. She stands up for the rights of people and is working to change the injustices all around. She uses her very popular talk show ‘The Ellen Degeneres show’ to get through to people, and just to simply entertain. I. “I Contributed, I’m on this planet doing some good and making people…

Ellen Foster was written by Kaye Gibbons, and the book is narrated by a young girl named Ellen Foster, telling the reader about the unique childhood she experienced, filled with an abusive father and many different homes and experiences that a ten year old child typically wouldn’t have. When interpreting the book Ellen Foster through a social power lense, you can see that the power of the society and the way Ellen grew up, and the experiences she had under the power of her elders, really pushed…

The life along the Great Barrier Reef is full of danger and Marlin, a single parent clown fish, has to protect his son, Nemo. As the time starts for school his dad nervously accompanies him and agonized over his every move. Nemo defies his father and swims to the reef's awesome “drop off” to investigate a boat. Suddenly he gets scooped up by a diver and Marlin helplessly watches the happening. Marlin frantically swims off in search of his son. As he passes a school of fish, he suddenly bumps…

hammerfists to the face at UFC 193 in Melbourne, Australia. The beating came via current women’s bantamweight champion Holly Holm, who not only stripped Rousey of her belt but everything she had come to believe she was. Rousey, who appeared on the Ellen DeGeneres Show on Tuesday, bore her soul in an emotional interview with the talk show host. "Honestly, my thought in the medical room, I was in the corner and I was like, 'What am I anymore if I'm not this?'" Rousey said as tears began to well…

Ellen DeGeneres is very inspirational, she is always happy and always strong, and she never lets anything or anyone bring her down. Ellen DeGeneres was born in Metairie, Louisiana on January 26, 1958. (Watson 1) She graduated high school from Atlanta High School in 1976. She started college at the University of New Orleans. (Watson 1) Ellen only went to college for one semester, as she dropped out she was deciding what she should do with her life. She had many jobs like a clerk, house painter,…

Ellen DeGeneres "Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming. Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming." Said Dory, Ellen DeGeneres' famous animated character, with positivity to inspire many. Ellen DeGeneres is a powerful figure who benefits society by sharing positive humor and news on her talk show, being herself, which gives people courage, and rewarding ordinary people for being kind to others. To start, Ellen DeGeneres is a popular comedian who has positively impacted society. Ellen Lee…

When a couple decides, it is time to move forward with their relationship and have a child, the times that follow cannot be so great. Raising a child can be extremely stressful for the parents. This action causes parents to be overprotective and sometimes it causes the parents to put strict boundaries on the child. They put the unreasonable boundaries on the child because of pervious life experiences, losing family members or friends or even just the simple fear of the child getting hurt or lost…

Recording innovations in the mid-1960s rerouted the expectations of musical composition. The Beatles were famous for constantly revolutionizing the music industry in unimaginable fashions. On August 5, 1966, Revolver was released in the United Kingdom (The Beatles Bible, 2015). The album’s experimentation and creativity reached a level that not even The Beatles could have anticipated. What musical ingenuities propelled Revolver to become one of the greatest albums of all time? The Beatles…

John and Paul were the first of The Beatles to have actually met each other. John originally started the band the Quarry Men in the March of 1957 with his best friend Pete Shotton. On July 6, 1957, the Quarry Men played on a makeshift stage behind the church just outside of Liverpool, England. It was at this small gig that band member Ivan Vaughan introduced the young, slightly chubby 15-year old Paul McCartney to the rest of the band (Lewisohn, Complete Beatles Chronicles 14). The members…

music.” To which Ringo Starr responded “If it weren 't for the Beatles, REM would still be taking the stairs.” The Beatles are one of the most iconic cultural legacies of the 20th Century and their influence shows itself in contemporary music and culture, which could not exist if the Beatles ' hadn 't pushed the boundaries of antiquated social norms through a combination of their mass popularity and incendiary music, lyrics, lifestyles, and ideals. Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr still tour…