Johnny Depp, OJ Simpson, Chris Brown. What do these high-profile celebrities have in common? Being arrested for domestic violence. Even though we are overwhelmed with news stories about DV cases famous people were involved in, the public is still unaware that domestic violence is an epidemic and it’s deeply rooted in our culture. Slide 2: The Great Gatsby is a book that features several instances in which women involved in intimate relationships are abused. Tom Buchanan is an aggressive…
Do Professional Athletes Deserve the Big Bucks? Have you ever heard of the green-eyed monster? William Shakespeare’s Iago was probably the first to use that term in all of human history in the play Othello, when he said, “Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock The meat it feeds on.” …
Coca Cola (2015) did an experiment/ advertisement called, Remove labels this Ramadan, where six people sat in a pitch black room and engaged in conversation. They each went around the table and described something unique about themselves. One man said he is in a heavy metal band, the group then described what they envisioned him to look like, describing him to have long hair and possible piercings. Another man said he enjoyed reading and studying, particularly cognitive psychology and also…
movies, scrapbooking, and hanging out with my family. My favorite book is The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. My favorite is movie either Grease or 13 Going on 30. My favorite actress is Cameron Diaz and my favorite actor is either Will Smith or Johnny Depp. I have a deep love for potatoes. I could eat any form of potato, especially french fries, every single day. The only radio station we got consistently in the small town I am from was a country station, so I also love country music. My…
A young aspiring soccer player watches his dreams fade due to an injury that keeps him out of the game. The start of Sam Claflin’s life sounds like a script of a blockbuster hit movie. However while this man has been in plenty of movies over the recent years he comes from quite humble beginnings. Neither of his parents were in the industry, his mother a school room assistant and his father an accountant and finance manager of a charity radio station (Bio), both of his parents couldn’t have been…
and underestimate the talents of all cultures. Several forms of whitewashing are present in the media. First of all, there is the version when a white actor portrays a character that is supposed to be another race. In the movie The Lone Ranger, Johnny Depp played a Native American character. This variation of whitewashing means any of the characters portrayed as white people no longer have the ethnic variety that the story was written for. The story is now about the struggle of white characters…
of individuals who have nothing in similar at the first glance but as we dig deeper, realization dawns regarding how strikingly similar they both are. To draw an analogy, think of a pirate and a politician. When you think of pirate, immediately a Johnny…
When it comes to comparing people it is a very difficult thing to do. This is because everybody is different, but somehow people always see flaws in others’ personality and way of living. This causes them to judge people as inferior. One of the greatest misconceptions is that extroverts are superior to introverts, giving people the misunderstanding that it is better to be social, outgoing, confident, and inclined to lead; this causes introverts, who do not possess these attributes to be…
A single black female critique The play a single black female is written by Lisa B. Thompson, a theatrical professional who is based out of Austin, Texas. She is also known for her plays, A Single Black Female, One Sista’s Hair, The Mamalogues, and Underground. Thompson is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin. The purpose of A Single Black Female, is to make the world aware of the daily struggles a single black woman in America goes through. A few of those struggles include, not…
CHARACTERS: SUMMARY/PLOT: Maybe because of the involvement of the people to religion and technology that’s why “The Saint Young Men Movie” was made. The Saint Young Men movie was all about life of Buddha and Jesus living together as roomies during a “vacation” from their sacred duty as religious icons. Jesus is a sweet-natured shopaholic with a TV blog, who occasionally performs minor miracles when he’s stressed out or feeling particularly holy. Buddha is a calm, serious manga fan who…