Judy Davis

My connections examined the portrayal of alienation in mainstream society. I chose to use texts from a modern time period to help create more concrete conclusions about mainstream society. My texts were Education for Leisure by Carol Ann Duffy, Sad Joke on a Marae by Apirana Taylor, District 9 directed by Neill Blomkamp and Barton Fink directed by Joel Coen. I expected all of my texts to be able to reflect one another as they were all from a similar time period. In particular, I expected District 9 and Sad Joke on a Marae to draw similar points as they are both texts that illustrate alienation towards indigenous people, with Sad Joke on a Marae being about Maori, and District 9 being about the treatment of blacks in South Africa (but doing this by using a proxy, which in this film are aliens (‘Prawns’). I also thought that Education for Leisure and Barton Fink would create similar conclusions as they are both texts that explore alienation of a single person from mainstream society due to that own persons delusions and thoughts. Across all texts the reason for alienation was due to some kind of difference to the norm. In Sad Joke on a Marae, Tu has been alienated from his culture and heritage because he has stopped following his culture completely and has become different. In Tu’s case, and in the case of many other Maori, this difference was caused by European Cultural Imperialism, but it is still differences from his culture and heritage that has caused the alienation (1).…

Louis, Minnelli was granted creative freedom to explore more unique and artistic films. One such film was The Pirate starring Gene Kelly and Minnelli’s wife, Judy Garland. While The Pirate endured tumultuous filming, negative critical reviews and underwhelming box office, it still stands as one of Minnelli’s most intriguing pieces of work. While he had been less outright with his feminist perspective in Meet Me in St. Louis, he enjoyed his newly allotted creative freedom to explore the idea in…

I am a sophomore who has learned a lot of useful knowledge and loves my life in UC Davis. Yet, I am writing to point out problems with the quarter system. Similarl to many aggies, in my first college year, I had a hard time adapting to the university life because of the quarter system. To succeed in university, every UC student must spend a lot of time adapting this depressive and painful system. However, after acclimating this schedule, students still need to bear massive stress and many…

does. To be able to create a fully functional, successful design we must limit who can actually design the place. This is where the idea of social competency comes in; people who use this and know what students need should be the ones to decide what the place needs. Now, there might be a problem with this because not all students are architects or designers, so they can’t actually build anything per se, but they can express their suggestions to the designers and make them know what is really…

“UC Davis Career and Internship Fair” This fall I started my journey with UC Davis. Davis is a really exciting, new and challenging chapter in my life. I moved from San Mateo, where I lived with my fiancée, to an apartment in Davis where I live on my own. Starting new school, and being surrounded by many new faces is not easy. I am not a person who can easily meet and connect with new people. UC Davis offers a lot of events for its students, some of them are very exciting like the…

but he was charged with theft of more than 2,500 dollars and he had two or more previous convictions. He committed theft of jewelry that was worth more than 2,500 dollars and the defendant had previously been convicted of a felony. For the television observation I watched 2 episodes from Judge Judy and 2 episodes from The People’s Court. I watched them online on YouTube on November 11th from 7pm to 8pm. https://youtu.be/daHmMquPABI https://youtu.be/MqDB5BDu9rg The first 2 cases are from Judge…

Analytical Essay “First-time author Judy Blume, a New Jersey housewife with two small children, would have laughed if you told her in 1969 that her books would transform an industry, influence more girls than Laura Ingalls Wilder, and sell 80 million copies” (Winer). Judy Blume (born Judith Sussman) was born on February 12, 1938, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. She was the second child of Esther and Rudolph Sussman. Blume attended an all-girls' High School but unfortunately, she contracted…

previous to this, women were marginalized and rarely recognized as capable of achievements beyond childbirth and housework. As Virginia Woolf explained, anonymous “was often a woman.” Although, some anonymity may be relaxing, the thought of total anonymity is undesirable by any human being. The first flickers of feminism started in 1848, in Seneca Falls, New York at a two-day conference on woman’s rights. Of the almost 200 women and 40 men that attended the convention, 68 women and 32 men…

Judy Garland, on Drugs, Drink, Suicide Attempts and Her Loathing of Hollywood Many know her as Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. But there was much more trouble behind Judy Garland than just a pair of ruby slippers. At the young and innocent age of 17 she starred in her 7th film, “The Wizard of Oz”. The same year she had her hand and shoe prints forever embedded in the Hollywood Walk of Fame. The reality of her envied life was not so pretty however. The pressures were harsh and so was the work…

Drafts of Nancy drew Case background When Nancy was driving, she saw a little girl. She was in the middle of the road and the truck kept on honking her. When the girl went to the side of the road she fell off a shallow cliff and Nancy went together. The little girl’s great aunt told Nancy to bring her in. The great aunt thanked Nancy for getting Judy backup. She said that Judy’s parents had died in a boat explosion and they left very less money for her. A cousin of the aunt's father, Josiah…