Jamie Chung

¨Food is not just eating energy. Its and experience¨ -Guy Fieri Guy Fieri was born on January 22, 1968 in Columbus, Ohio. He now lives with his wife and two kids in Santa Rosa, California. He is now 49 years old. His real name was actually Guy Ramsey Ferry however he changed it back to his actual family spelling. Guy opened up his first business at the age of 10. He attended American River College and University of Nevada, Las Vegas. After college, he worked at his first actual restaurant as a…

The main theme of “Gran Torino,” directed by and featuring Clint Eastwood, is that of racism and racial biases. Walt, played by Eastwood, is white man retired from the military; he holds to be the only remaining white man in a now primarily Asian neighborhood. From serving in the Vietnam War, Walt was social influences by his fellow soldiers to be racial bias towards the people they were fighting in the war; to Walt, this meant he was racial bias towards everyone of Asian descent. However, it’s…

BEYOND ALL LIMITS At first they didn’t seem like much. Just some wood scraps lying on the floor of a garage. They were leftovers from making picture frames. They might be good for fireplace kindling wood, but most people would be tossing them in a trash pile. Not so Elliot Handler. He had been making picture frames with his business partner Harold Matson in a garage workshop. And as the scraps began stacking up in their business, Handler and his wife, Ruth, found a use for them in the making of…

The movie Gran Torino, directed by Clint Eastwood is an action-packed drama that examines racism at its very core. Korean veteran, Walt Kowalski despises his neighbours, but after a strange turn of events, he begins to protect them. Thao Vang Lor, a shy Korean boy, gets bullied by a gang, and one night, Walt breaks up the ruckus which takes place in front of his house. Walt makes it his mission to protect the Korean family from the gang, but leads to a tragic ending. In the film, Gran Torino,…

In the movie Gran Torino, there were many lessons both taught and learned. Some lessons were taught using good methods and some lessons were taught using bad methods. Since there were many different ethnicities and cultures in this movie, the lessons were also learned differently. The teachers became the students and the students became the teachers. When living in a neighborhood with neighbors of different cultures and ethnicities, trying to communicate could be very difficult, so everyone have…

A frivolous lawsuit is a lawsuit that is filed by a party or attorney who is aware they are without merit, because of a lack of supporting legal argument or factual basis for the claims (Legal). Sometimes, this lawsuit is pointed at an entire organization because of an injury or problem caused by something they provide to consumers. Sometimes, they actually win. A number of economic resources that go into these lawsuits, being time and money, is outrageous (Post). There is a multitude of other…

Emergency workers are considered a special breed of humans; they are those who are willing to take extra sacrifices to potentially save the life of a total stranger. While commonly, the monetary reward for those who attempts such feats is miniscule, the act of selfless service is more than reward enough for those who are willing to answer the call. No matter how heroic one might feel the job of an emergency worker is, there is always someone who wants to rain on his or her parade. As quoted in…

Protests and uprisings are quite familiar in many democratized countries. It is the ability of the people of that country to express their disapproval and make their voices heard on certain topics. For example, in the state of Wisconsin there were protests for several days when the governor cut funding and removed unions under his Act 10 law. Even though this caused thousands of people flocking to the capital of Wisconsin it is nothing compared to the protests of South Korea in and around the…

Within the first five minutes of the episode “Pilot” actress Jamie Lee Curtis appears and the viewers can infer that the show is going to be hilarious and at the same time terrifying. According to Welsh, “From the 1914 movie serial, Perils of Pauline, to Jamie Lee Curtis’ initial rise to fame as the “Scream Queen”, the portrayal of women in abject terror has been a staple of cinematic suspense” (Welsh 1). Scream…

Studies, discusses the hard times that mothers have to go through. The article talks about a celebrity teen mom, Jamie Lynn Spears and what she had to go through as a famous figure who got pregnant. In this article the authors say, “As media cast a shameful spotlight on young women, females are commonly portrayed as responsible for poor choices and ‘wrong’ actions” (713). Not only did Jamie Lynn Spears get judged for being a teen mothers, she also got judged by media and she was portrayed in a…