Eric van der Woodsen

successful person to look up to influences her decisions in life. She wants to take on her mother’s role as a fashion designer and become the head of the company. She is extremely studious because she desires to attend Yale. Serena’s goal is to attend Brown but does not realize that her high status and popularity will not always get her what she wants. Unlike Blair, she slacks off in school and prefers to party. She has to be reminded many times from her mom to go to college and do something valuable for a living. Serena is apathetic about her future plans because she relies on her parent’s money. Always with a different boyfriend, she is in pursuit of finding someone she can imagine the rest of her life with. Blair Waldorf and Serena van der Woodsen are both influential characters in Gossip Girl. Their personalities, sense of style, and goals in life make for a riveting plot. Having both grown up with wealthy parents, they have numerous similarities. Their differences cause many disruptions in their friendship but not matter what happens between them, they come running back to one another. Blair herself says, “We’re sisters. You’re my family. What is you, is me. There’s nothing that you could ever say to make me let…

On the first day of class we each picked our favorite television character and the most prominent social identity of those characters on the board were caucasian male or female. For someone like me who social identifies as an upper class caucasian female I had figured that this would be a relatively easy assignment to choose three television characters that I identify with, but it was actually more difficult than I had thought. I had thought that since most media stars are what I also identify…

Showtime’s Weeds is a television series that premiered in 2005. It tells the story about a suburban mother, named Nancy Botwin, of two boys, Silas and Shane, whose husband dies and, in order to maintain her standard of living, sells marijuana. The entire show is filled with ups and downs, plot twists, and a wide variety of sociological concepts. The four main sociological concepts present in the show are sex and gender, deviance, race and ethnicity, and socialization and social interaction.…

this series. The wide age gap between viewers comes as an advantage to the series because it proves that it connected a variety of viewers. As many of you may or may not know, Gossip Girl is about a hidden blogger that follows the lives of Upper East Side Manhattan residents. The blog queen exposes gossip that could potentially ruin someone’s career, friendship, relationship, marriage, and so on. Throughout each episode, Gossip Girl exposes various secrets one by one. The cast is mostly young…

Dirk Bouts was a Northern Renaissance and Early Netherlandish painter. He was greatly influenced by Jan van Eyck and Rogier van der Weyden. He was known for his devotional panels and portraits and most of his paintings had to do with Biblical concepts. He lived during a time in history when the middle ages ended and the renaissance began. His painting, Moses before the burning bush, with Moses removing his shoes, is a beautiful rendering of the scene when Moses first beholds the presence of God,…

Treichel, P, Weaver, G, McMurry, J 2011). The boiling point 1-hexanol, 2-hexanone, 1-pentanol and 3-methyl-1-butanol are represented in the chart above as they are approximately; 157ºC, 127.6ºC , between 137 to 139ºC and 131.1ºC respectively. The difference in the general trends of the molecules affects on the boiling point; the molecular surface area of the compound influence by the strength of the intermolecular forces also the length of carbon-carbon chain. Branching decreases, the boiling…

evaporates.2 So a company transporting alcohol would want to transport an alcohol with low vapor pressure. Vapor pressure of an alcohol is affected by many things, including boiling point. Vapor pressure and boiling point are directly related, so if the boiling point is increased, the vapor pressure is increased. Also molar mass affects vapor pressure. Molar mass and vapor pressure have an indirect relationship, so the lower the molar mass, the higher the vapor pressure. However, as the molar…

Part 2: Beauty in Painting: Not far from literature, painting, in its turn, is full of representations of beauty and some of its revelations. Notably, criterion beauty and its enigmatic purpose change from movement to another in terms of style and themes. Namely, Renaissance painting is a reaction against the earlier Medieval Art which focused only on religious dogma. It sheds light on the importance of beauty, individualism, and the teaching of humanism . Even the leading figures of the trend…

Conclusion: After observing the evidence that we received from this experiment it is clear that the results thoroughly support my hypothesis. Within my hypothesis I had stated that the melting order from first to last was, as follows, paraffin, glucose, sucrose, and finally, salt. The results that we gathered supported this exact hypothesis. The first substance to melt was indeed paraffin and the second was glucose, and then sucrose and finally salt. The results are supported by the basic…

is a disturbance in the motor planning or programming of movements that result in phonetically and prosodically disordered speech. Within in this paper, there are four treatment plans discussed and they are as follows; repeated practice with rate and rhythm treatment which focuses on repetition of words and phrases while adding hand tapping during speech, script training which focuses on different sentences and phrases that the client practices, speech-music therapy which consists of a…