Katie Couric

named, Rodriguez was the only one that didn’t admit to the claims against him and vowed to fight against the MLB and the Major League Baseball Players Union (MLBPA). A couple of years earlier in 2007, Rodriguez appeared on a TV interview with Katie Couric and said that he never did and never will take any kind of HGH or steroids to better his career. When news broke that MLB had hard evidence that Rodriguez very much did take HGH, Rodriguez continued to deny and stick with his story. After…

Fed Up 2014 is a documentary directed by Stephanie Soechtig and produced by Katie Couric and Laurie David. Soechtig is also the producer and director of Under the Gun (2016) and Tapped (2009). Obesity, called the mother of all diseases, is increasing day-by-day in America, especially in children. The message of the documentary is that there is an outbreak of obesity in American society, and it is endangering children’s life very badly. The purpose of this documentary is to tell Americans about…

The video for Miss Representation starts off with a very powerful text by Alice Walker: “The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don’t have any.” The video then proceeds to list statistics about how the average American teenager spends their time online, reading magazines, and watching television. After reading these statistics the viewer is made aware of how much time these teenagers spend on Media; they are spending numerous hours on it. They are spending almost half…

There is a ‘can’ in Cancer. “Being a survivor doesn’t mean being strong or brave or cured — it’s about embracing your vulnerability and learning to ask for help. It’s about realizing that your time is valuable — what you do with it, how you spend it and with whom.” This are some words of Suleika Jaouad a woman who survived from cancer. Stand up to cancer is an annual fundraising campaign that brings people together to accelerate progress in cancer research. Stand Up To Cancer wants to help…

At a time when legal marijuana was only a dream in this country, Weezy F. Baby stood by Mary Jane and claimed it helped with his migraines when nothing else would. In his interview with Katie Couric, he stood by his statements and feelings of the good green stuff when he said, ""I will stand up for marijuana any day." Number Two: On How He Feels About People Who Need Role Models "If you need an example for how to live, then you just shouldn’t…

can still identify as a woman if you do not have these qualities, but society has constructed gender for people to believe that you are only valued if you have those certain qualities within your gender. In the documentary, Miss Representation, Katie Couric…

Rhetorical Analysis of Miss Representation Miss Representation, a documentary film produced by Jennifer Siebel Newsom, premiered in 2011 and quickly received the concern of audience because of the controversial issue that it raised. Through the popular culture, women are told how to be femininity since they are young. In other words, the traditional feminine norms have caused many restrictions on feminine self-expression and development. When Newsom was pregnant with her daughter, she was…

Alexander Hamilton, One of Americas founding fathers, author of “The Federalist Papers,” and the gentleman on the ten dollar bill, has a riveting Broadway musical biography on his life by the great Lin-Manuel Miranda. What makes this show absolutely unique is that it not just white men dressed up in powdered white wigs, it’s a contemporary piece with scores of music in pop, hip-hop, R&B and only uses Black and Latino actors. In theatre, the concept of colorblind casting has been used for a long…

Women can be strong and beautiful without having to be sexualized by the media. Should women show a little skin to promote a brand or themselves and their sport? Although this paper is about women and the things they go through to remain thin, I have to say that men have been sexualized as well. Sports players such as Derek Jeter, David Beckam, and Rafael Nadal have all been part of the pretty boys in sports image. With respect to Wimbleton female tennis players have been playing in small…

In the Miss Representation film, men and women are portrayed in different lights that affect them in different ways. The women shown in the video are portrayed in a negative light, and the men are portrayed to be superior over the woman. Other men may see this as positive, but to us women we see it as being very negative. Back in the day, women were to be seen as the normative housewife, as in they would basically take care of the house and all of the responsibilities that came along with it.…