Legally Blonde

recall countless movies focused on the legal field. Hollywood has a tendency to exaggerate situations and only cast the most beautiful specimen. However, films do have a tendency to bring to light the issues of the average American. Films such as Legally Blonde, Erin Brockocich, and The Verdict feature women in the legal field. The women in the films struggle with the same issues women face in the actual workforce. Women in law often face discrimination and objectification in the workplace.…

Humor at the Expense of Blonde White Women Throughout the history of mankind, human beings have expressed humor in the form of laughter; a sense of humor as we perceive it today is a relatively recent construct of modern day social scientists and psychologists (Holland, 1982).However, our sense of humor, as well as our conception of the same is not static but changes with the changing consciousness of the society. As societies become more complex, our understanding of the concept of or sense…

particular type of person or thing. In our society, a lot of people put labels with a thought about people or certain things. For example, blondes are not intelligent and superficial. The stereotype that blondes are not intelligent has been around for a very long time. There are even movies that have been written about this topic. For example, the movie Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon. In the movie, Reese Witherspoon plays a young girl named Ell Woods who is the president of her…

Should There be Censorship in the American High Schools When It Comes to Theatre? Pippin, Legally Blonde, and Rent are all great shows that get a lot of controversy when it comes to high school age children performing them. Censorship, in high school, is becoming a major problem and it’s happening not only in the classroom, but also breaches the stage. When it comes to selecting the right type of musical or play, one can never be to careful. Audiences can get into a riot over a show with…

rescue her from this evil curse. Fiona, a princess who is to marry into a hierarchical family, declines Farquaads marriage because she loves Shrek. This gave Fiona’s character an image of independence and strength. While in Legally Blonde, a character that plays the “dumb blonde,” so they interpret that she is in the beginning of the film. At the end of the film she comes to her senses that she is not so dumb as people think she is when she gets into Harvard. Both of these two films show how…

Acknowledging the contradictions between Legally Blonde’s fixation with an attractive appearance and feminism, according to Dole (2007, p. 63), feminist commentators do not agree that Elle would be a suitable role model. O’Leary states that the film, ‘becomes a subversive tool for motivating young…

defendant, Blondey Blonde Co. to highlight Amy’s hair, which causing Amy injured on scalp. Therefore, I believe that the negligence is existed and because of several elements of negligence. In duty, which states that the obligation people owe each other not to cause any unreasonable harm or risk of harm, Blondey Blonde Co. didn’t fulfill the obligation and duty that not to cause any unreasonable harm or risk of harm. By applying the reasonable person standard, Blondey Blonde Co. didn’t owe the…

nasty blonde, the other blonde [Karen Smith], is the mindless blonde who obeys her every command [and never questions a thing]” (Stone 49). The two roles although similar have different aspects. Throughout the movie both girls were seen to have the best of everything from makeup to clothes, they were also the populars and Barbies of the school (hence the name “Plastics”). The second Barbie stereotype brought on by the media is the “dumb to Semi-Dumb blonde.” In the 2001 movie Legally Blonde “a…

Ledbetter Fair Pay Act. A woman who also changed cultural beliefs by fighting for her place in Harvard Law School was Elle Woods, the main character in Legally Blonde, a film about what it means to be a woman on top of addressing very serious issues that occur in regards to power dynamics between men and women. Elle Woods is a stereotypical blonde girl; she loves pink and studies fashion. At the beginning of the film, she is ecstatic, believing that she is going to get engaged to her 10-year-old…

The day of the Spring Musical auditions, I was trembling in fear as I was shoved playfully into the audition room by my friends. I walked in and was immediately blinded by the stage lights in front of the place were everything was going to go down. I sang the section of the song "Human" with as much confidence as I could to three tired, but anticipating judges. I walked out feeling with a mix of emotions. Fear, that I wasn't going to get in. Sadness, because I thought I messed up the whole thing…