Fat Joe

Family Communication: Paper One Korbyn Limber University of Oklahoma Have you ever seen My Big Fat Greek Wedding or most recently, My Big Fat Greek Wedding 2? Well, I have a double dose! Having come from both Lebanese and Greek backgrounds makes my family big, loud, loving, Orthodox (religion that is), and most of all, irreplaceable! My heritage which is founded on my family values and strong faith seem to lend itself to family communication. Family rules, family rituals, and family stories…

My Big Fat Greek wedding is a movie that celebrate Greek culture. The movie starts with Toula Portokalos (Nia Vardalos) , a 30 year old Greek girl who is looked at as somewhat of a failure by her family because she has not done what she is supposed to do, Marry a Greek man, Have Greek Children, and cook for everybody until the day she dies, according to her tradition. This thirty years old woman lives with her parents in Chicago and works in the family restaurant, `Dancing Zorbas. Every…

racist script noted. Most often the racial stereotypes portrayed are what is shown, and most often in a comedic sense. For good reason, the race those stereotypes are aimed toward do not find this in jest, but very offensive. For example, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, was a movie based solely on the way Greeks are supposed to live, and act. All of which was very stereotypical behaviors, a very loud…

behavior. Films can either progressively improve our societal view of typical archetypes, or they can reinforce negative stereotypes that are already so abundant in the media today. The two films I chose to write about were Pretty Woman and My Big Fat Greek Wedding. Both films has positives and negatives influences throughout, but can be referenced as popular films which carry a strong social message. The Film Pretty Woman, was directed by Garry Marshall and written by J.F. Lawton. The film…

1. What is the name of the movie? To the Bone is a somewhat recent Netflix drama, written and directed by Marti Noxon, tells a tale about a 20 year-old girl named Ellen who is battling a chronic case of anorexia. Ellen has been in and out of hospital treatments and in-patient facilities, but still struggles with her obsession of staying thin. This is all of course before Ellen is admitted into a world-renowned doctor’s group home, where Ellen is joined by six other individuals battling…

No family is perfect…We argue, we fight. We even stop talking to each other at times. But in the end family is family…The love will always be there.” This quote by an unknown author relates to the movie “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” and to my family in many ways. Although my Family has very different beliefs than the family in the movie. One big difference in the parenting roles between my family and the Portokalos family is that I come from a divorced house hold which is very different from a…

of money, but it is breathtaking having less and still share with others. A lot of people are being misrepresented by society based on their culture, language or race. One of the movies where people are misrepresented, especially Greeks, is My Big Fat Greek Weeding. This is the story of a Greek girl named Taula who is the member of a…

Six-Bits” by Zora Neale Hurston it contains various where multiple themes occur with basically all the characters in the story. The story revolves around a young African-American couple living the early 20th century. The couple consists of Missie May and Joe who deeply love each other, but encounter challenges when I bigshot African-American named Otis D. Slemmons comes into town. The story contains various themes such as trust, forgiveness, gratefulness, marriage, greed, and appearance versus…

matter.” (Alger) Joe didn't even think about getting hurt or killed, he knew what the right thing to do was and wasn't selfish about it. Like the myth mulan, mulan puts herself at risk, just to prevent her father from getting hurt. This myth also has a hero which is courageous. Since it was no easy matter to get the garment unhooked he could of gave up, but he didn't, that's one brave decision. To clarify Joe is courageous.…

Joe-Lewis, not a name heard often, in fact, if people know boxing they believe he is named after the famous boxer Joe Lewis. However, he is named after our father, Lewis because his nickname was Joe-Lewis as a kid, hence Joe-Lewis’s name. Joe-Lewis Brown O’Donnell, named after both our father and great grandfather. The best part of his middle is it matches his eye and hair color. Standing five foot, six inches tall and slender, his baby fat gone, along with his chubby cheeks, now replaced with…