Housewives

Kelly Dodd is new to The Real Housewives of Orange County this season and the fans want to get to know her better. Kelly obviously has a very strange relationship with her husband, Michael Dodd. All About the Tea shared that on an upcoming episode Kelly will reveal a bit more about her relationship with Michael and how they make it work. Their relationship is a bit different than people are used to seeing. For a while, Kelly wasn't even with Michael. She reveals that she had filed for a legal…

The Help is a movie that was adopted from Kathryn Stockett’s novel by the same name. The film takes place during the 1960s in the seemingly bright and blooming town of Jackson, Mississippi, however as the story unfolds, it becomes clear that beneath this town lays a depressing world of prejudice, hate, and separation. The story of the film is being told from three different women’s perspectives: Skeeter Phelan, Aibileen Clark, and Minny Jackson. The film’s protagonist, Skeeter, is a young white…

Research has shown that 32% of immigrants has a professional or managerial job, 20% of immigrants has a manual or clerical job and the othe 48% are children, students, and housewives (8% children, 8% housewives, 27% students and 5% other). 32% have a managerial job, in this some immigrants can be owners of companies, which will create more job for UK residents. My fourth and final point is that the effect of immigration is that it has created…

An article in the The Huffington Post stated, “Housewives resented the favorable distribution of sugar to commercial bakeries. This made them more reliant on bought cakes and denied them the homely activity of baking”(huffingtonpost.org). A women’s role during the 1950‘s was typically staying at home,…

coloured maid and an educated white women in their journeys to reveal relations that the coloured maids build with their white employers, and to show the maltreatment that some coloured maids receive. The story mainly takes place in the homes of white housewives with coloured maids to explicitly…

‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ Season 7, News Update: An Emotional and Interesting Party Marks the Premiere Everyone is waiting for ‘Real Housewives of New Jersey’ to return and now it is just a matter of one month, when the seventh season premieres on July 10. According to reports, some of the familiar faces are coming back and some new will also join the cast. Among the familiar faces, Teresa Guidice’s arrival is most-awaited since she is returning after serving a prison term. She was…

In today’s modern society, television has become a platform that can largely influence the minds of millions of people. Some of the most popular tv shows on the air are reality shows, like The Real Housewives of Atlanta. But, most of these reality tv shows have one very unfortunate factor in common. Most of these reality tv shows show certain racial and ethnic groups in a negative light by expressing negative stereotypes for views. These stereotypes in reality tv are very harmful to the groups…

In Representations of Women in World Media, the discussion about the Disney Corporation caught my eye. Ever since I was little, I have always been obsessed with everything Disney, especially Disney princesses. However, as I got old enough to understand the implications behind how Disney movies have been designed, I have realized that even though Disney is a widely known franchise, they don’t exactly represent the right things to their audience. For example, before a couple of years ago, Disney…

use it. This shows the gender inequality issues that are present throughout history and especially the general roles present during the time of ENIAC (1950’s-1960’s). Cowan focuses on the housewives in America in the 20th century when he discusses the connection between women and technology. Middle-class housewives were…

“History shows that all protest movements rely on symbols - boycotts, strikes, sit-ins, flags, songs. Symbolic action on whatever scale - from the Montgomery Bus Boycott to wearing a simple wristband - is designed to disrupt our everyday complacency and force people to think”(Hugh Evans). In the 1960’s African Americans took a stand against unequal laws due to racism. This stand was known as The Civil Rights Movement. After the Civil War African Americans were free to live a gracious life equal…