Legally Blonde

white community gives Jim “more help than they ever give any other colored man” (67). They offer him money and food and “instead of things gittin’ bad, they got better” (68). Black women seem to not be important enough to warrant the morally and legally correct response to a father raping a daughter. Similarly, at the Golden Day, the black prostitutes are seen as so submissive that they “usually [get] away with things a man never could” (93). The narrator refers to these women being able to…

Soviet Montage was a bold new theory of editing invented by Sergei Eisenstein. This new theory of montage allowed Eisenstein to make the audience think whatever he wanted them to think by arranging striking juxtapositions of individuals shots to suggest an idea that goes further than using a single shot to portray a message. It is an idea that ‘derives from the collision between two [or more] shots that are independent of one another’. (Taylor, Powell, pg 163) These montage sequences create…

For example, in the movie Legally Blonde, the main character wants to become a successful lawyer, but no one believes in her because she is a sorority girl and girls are not smart enough to become lawyers. In this case, she goes against the ethical warrant that most men believed and…

Ranking in at just around 2,400 students and only 31 houses. The south seems to be doing something right. Through a young woman's life, she has been surrounded by movies and television shows that show the perks of sorority life. When we watch "Legally Blonde," we are taught that during college, we might…

“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players” (Shakespeare). Shakespeare’s interesting interpretation of the world as a stage still remains true today. Many people come and go from life and some have major roles while others have minor roles. Although Shakespeare’s phrase is simply a metaphor, in the Sight and Sound Theatres in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, their world is a stage. Sight and Sound Theaters aim to produce theatrical representations of Biblical scriptures with the…

High school marks a new chapter in one’s life. The next four years will be filled with new friends and amazing memories. However, during high school one must make the biggest decision of their life thus far; choosing a career. For some this decision may come easily. They have known since they were five they wanted to be a doctor. However, others are struggling to make this decision. They may still be uncertain on what they want to do with the rest of their lives. The purpose of this research…

Joining a sorority has been one of my dreams ever since I was a little girl. Growing up with an older sister who was in a sorority at Western Illinois University, I was taught everything I needed to know. Upon coming to University of Nebraska-Lincoln, I formally rushed and joined Phi Mu in fall 2013. We are a group of friendly, responsible, smart and diverse young woman. The definition of sorority, found on dictionary.com, states that a sorority is: “a society or a club of women or girls,…

We all worry about how we look. We are all health conscious. We try to take care of ourselves the best way we know how; we exercise and eat right, we have a vigorous nightly skin-care routine, and we know to leave cigarettes and alcohol alone. However, there is one very common health concern we often overlook. Imagine this situation; a mid-30 something woman wakes up, she stumbles to the kitchen. She proceeds to grab a glass of water and opens up the clear pink 7-day pill holder. She takes out a…

Answer: Before taking Humanities 210, I would have described my philosophies as determinism and idealism. “Determinism is the philosophical proposition that every event, decision, and action, is casually determined by an unbroken chain of prior occurrences” (Mastin para. 1). I was very focused on the idea that individual ideas were predetermined and that they were meant to be. With idealism, I truly did believe that my thoughts were formed due to my reality. My conscious choice of these…

“I care not much for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” Abraham Lincoln Located at the end of County Line Road, near Alfalfa, Oregon, the large sign at the entrance served as a notice that I was entering the Oregon Badlands Wilderness. Exploring the wilderness areas in Central Oregon and absorbing the seclusion they offer is invigorating. Beyond the dirt parking lot at the trailhead a gravel road continued into the federally protected wilderness area. Designated…