Erin Brockovich

countless movies focused on the legal field. Hollywood has a tendency to exaggerate situations and only cast the most beautiful specimen. However, films do have a tendency to bring to light the issues of the average American. Films such as Legally Blonde, Erin Brockocich, and The Verdict feature women in the legal field. The women in the films struggle with the same issues women face in the actual workforce. Women in law often face discrimination and objectification in the workplace. Issues…

recall countless movies focused on the legal field. Hollywood has a tendency to exaggerate situations and only cast the most beautiful specimen. However, films do have a tendency to bring to light the issues of a layperson. Films such as Legally Blonde, Erin Brockocich, and The Verdict feature women in the legal field. The women in the films struggle with the same issues women face in the actual workforce. Women in law must face discrimination and objectification in the workplace, must work in a…

In the films Erin Brockovich and My Week with Marilyn the audience becomes acquainted with the main female characters of Erin and Marilyn. In both of these films Erin and Marilyn are developed quite effectively with camera angles, lighting and sound, and how these aspects change to suit the main character and their effects on other people in the films. The audience gets a strong sense of Erin Brockovich’s character in the opening scene when Erin is in a job interview, where the screen changes…

USA Today Bestselling author, Pamela DuMond, pitched the real life ERIN BROCKOVICH story to ‘Hollywood’, where it became the smash hit movie. Now she brings readers PART-TIME PRINCESS, a sexy, LOL Romantic Comedy, the first book in the hilarious LADIES-in-WAITING Series! Two Princes are in love with Lucy. Too bad she's an imposter... Lucy's a down-on-her luck cocktail waitress desperate to find a job to take care of her beloved uncle who is unable to work. Lady Lizzie hires Lucy to…

Hysteria is without a doubt the main mental issue attributing to females, precisely portrayed in the second thousand years BC, and until it was viewed as an only female disease. More than 4000 years of history, this sickness was considered from two points of view: logical and demonological. Currently, Merriam Webster’s Dictionary defines mass hysteria as “a psychoneurosis marked by emotional excitability and disturbances of the psychogenic, sensory, vasomotor, and visceral functions.” Meaning, a…

Since 1991 when The Smurfette Principle was written a lot of things have changed; mostly for the better. Movies, shows, politics, and the workforce have become a lot more female centered. However, there is always room for improvement in any area; I feel we are leaps and bounds ahead of how things used to be. Today I will thoroughly explain how things have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged…

BAD BLOOD tells the horrific real life story of the Tuskegee syphilis experiments. The story does a good job of eliciting feelings of great indignation that was done to the innocent victims. The script explores and poses the moral question about how far the medical community goes for the sake of research. It also examines how callous the medical community can be towards patients, seeing them as a statistic rather than a real human being. The era, culture, and setting are authentic. The dialect…