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Leonardo DiCaprio speaking Shakespearean dialogue, love or lust, and illegal drugs, become a strange product when put together, but are the base of Luhrmann’s film adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. The adaptation Romeo + Juliet is a film adaptation of Shakespeare’s original, but set in a modern day Miami like city. The characters use guns instead of swords, but still speak in Shakespearean English. This film’s modernization of everything except the dialogue caused it to be misunderstood. However,…

The movie Finding Nemo starts out with Marlin and his wife, who are both clownfish, talking about their future in the Great Barrier Reef which they have made their new home and their eggs. Soon a barracuda attacks their home and Marlin is left unconscious. When he is finally awaken, he realizes that his wife and their eggs are gone except one. When the little clownfish is born he names him Nemo. Nemo is born with his right fin smaller than his left because there was damage to his egg when the…

Jill Bolte Taylor’s bestseller, My Stroke of Insight, is a polished literary work that can be easily read by a large audience. You don’t need to have the knowledge of a brain scientist to follow along; in fact, the second and third chapter has a summarized introduction to simple science of our bodies and our brain including hemispheric asymmetries. Readers are able to flow through Taylor’s exploration of new sensations from heavy reliance on her right hemisphere. This amalgamation of all little…

Ellen Foster Themes Kaye Gibbons’ novel, Ellen Foster, was published in 1987. This was the first novel she had written. Ellen Foster chronicles the rough life of a young girl named Ellen. She is faced with the troubles of growing up as an only child with a sick mother, and an abusive, alcoholic father. Throughout the novel, Kaye Gibbons captures her reader’s attention by focusing on tragedy after tragedy in Ellen’s life. The main themes that she elaborates on are race, friendship, loyalty,…

Nemo is the hero in the movie “Finding Nemo” because he starts of in an ordinary world. He accomplishes his goal to get out of the fish tank in returns and his life forever changed. In the beginning Nemo starts of in an anemone with his dad Marlin in an ordinarary world. He goes to school. Plays with his friends, and rids on a stingray, but his dad is too overprotective. Nemo feels that his dad is being very overprotective, so he goes to the call to adventure and touches an anchor of a boat.…

In 1982, Ellen DeGeneres, was named showtime’s funniest person and is still making us laugh today. Ellen DeGeneres, in full Ellen Lee DeGeneres, born January 26, 1958, Metairie, Louisiana, U.S., American comedian and television host known for her quirky observational humour. In 2012 DeGeneres received the Kennedy Center’s Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. After putting together a comedy routine for a group of friends, DeGeneres was asked to perform in local coffeehouses in the late 1970s. In…

On April 30, 1997, actress Ellen DeGeneres made a TV milestone when she decided to come out as gay on her sitcom show “Ellen”. Although there have been other characters on famous TV shows that were gay, she was the first main character on a TV show to particularly focus on being gay. According to an article in the New York Times, “…the situation comedy attracted the biggest rating of any regularly scheduled show on the network this season, attracting an estimated 42 million viewers,” (New York…

difficulty connecting with others and be unable to trust others (Quick). The novels Ellen Foster by Kaye Gibbons and Me & Emma by Elizabeth Flock both follow the stories of girls who have parents who do not show them genuine love and affection. The former is about Ellen who experiences abuse from her father and moves between unsafe homes until she takes it upon herself find a new mother. The…

In the movie, Finding Dory, underwater algae and plants appear in nearly every scene. From kelp to seagrasses, these algae and plants serve an important cinematic role as mysterious curtains and beautifully flowing details, but in the real world, these algae and plants serve just an even more significant function. Early in the movie, baby Dory searches the kelp forest by the Marine Life Institute, and later she returns to find her parents in the same kelp forest. Kelp forests are some of the…

Ed Sullivan and His Variety Show Ed Sullivan got to meet famous people all the time, he met the Jackson 5, Walt Disney, and Fidel Castro. He met them on his variety show where they performed or he interviewed them. If you wanted to be seen in front of thousands of people, you wanted to be on “The Ed Sullivan Show” because they had every type of talent on the show. “The Ed Sullivan Show” was popular ever since the first show. Ed Sullivan is best known for entertaining people through his variety…