Gossip

Liz Holt, Barry Fife and Shirley Hastings are three characters from Strictly Ballroom, who are artificial and believe their actions, either good or bad, are for the greater glory of dancing. It could be said that Liz Holt is ambitious, prefers to stick to the rules and will do anything it takes to win. After Scott and Liz loose at the Warathas State Championships, she tells Scott that she does not give a shit about his new steps. She wants Pam Shorts, Ken Railing’s dancing partner to break both…

The television program I would like to see an adaptation of is New Girl, which airs on Fox. New Girl is an America situation comedy series that first aired in September of 2011, where Zooey Deschanel starts as Jess Day. Jess is an offbeat and adorable girl in her late 20s who, after a bad breakup, moves in with three single guys. She is dorky and awkward; and she is comfortable in her own skin. More prone to friendships with women, she's not used to hanging with the boys. Of the three male…

Gossip Girl’s audience consists primarily of young adult men and women, a demographic particularly at risk for campus sexual assaults. As rape on college campuses continues at an alarming rate, Gossip Girl’s depiction of teenage sexual assault is even more troublesome. Fortunately, Chuck Bass is a fictional character; however, in 2015, a strangely similar figure appeared in real life. In 2015, on Stanford University’s campus, Brock Turner raped an unconscious female student. Thankfully, unlike…

Gossip in Much Ado about Nothing and in the Real World “They say the lady is fair. ‘Tis a truth, I can bear them witness. And virtuous—’tis so, I cannot reprove it. And wise, but for loving me. By my troth, it is no addition to her wit—nor no great argument of her folly, for I will be horribly in love with her.” Act 3 scene 2.Throughout the play everyone is either gossiping or overhearing someone else gossip. Gossip occurs frequently in the play. Most of the gossiping that occurs in the play is…

culture can be categorized as the product of music, fashion, film, celebrity gossip, and television that a majority of society’s population is consumed in. Consequently, mass media has played a major role in ensuring society to be up to date with the latest trends and celebrity gossip. For example, one media site includes Page Six, a major news source for all things popular. Furthermore, popular culture and celebrity gossip will be explored through the use of sociology’s three major schools of…

6) Gossip Girl is a 6 season series that focuses on the life of, Dan Humphries, a teenager who lives in Brooklyn, New York. The series portrays Brooklyn as the lower end of society where the poor are said to live. A couple blocks away is the Upper East Side…

In the short story, “A Rose for Emily”, by William Faulkner, gossip functions as the main way that most people in the town learn anything about Emily. Throughout Emily’s life the townspeople were never able to know her personally and this caused the townspeople to make assumptions and gossip about her life. A few good examples include when Emily purchased the silver men’s toilet and when she bought arsenic. When Emily was seen in public buying arsenic, many people quickly assumed that she was…

he/she were. This may be because of the characters’ traits or because of the opportunities the characters have. For me, if there were any fictional character I would love to be, it would be Blair Waldorf. Blair is a girl from the television show, “Gossip Girl,” who starts off as a teenager and ends the show in her early 20s, all the while maintaining her status in New York’s Upper East Side. Blair Waldorf has medium length brown hair throughout the course of the show. She stands at about 5’2”,…

In the begging of Gossip Girl Chuck Bass is portrayed as a very wealthy gets everything he wants, wild, reckless, "bad boy" of the Upper East Side who does not conform to social norms. He starts drinking problem from a very young age, hires prostitutes, schemes, continuously breaks laws, and even finds himself in jail a couple of times. We eventually learn about Chucks father Bart Bass that no matter what Chuck does, no matter how hard he works, he will never be good enough for his father. I…

unconventional and rebellious it can be. While a fitted dress is one person’s cup of tea, an oversized tee shirt may be someone else’s. Georgia Wahl,15, is the epitome of Manhattan sophistication and class. Her fashion inspiration, comes from the hit TV show, Gossip Girl, that follows the life of young socialites living in the Upper East Side. Wahl adores the main characters’, Blair Waldorf’s style. The combination of elegance and class, is one Wahl strives for. The best store for this look she…