Monica Seles

Be it through television, radio, or toys, we are a product of our childhood. The things we experience as children daily have an enormous, impressionable impact on our lives. For me, childhood wasn’t a typical cookie-cutter situation. For me, the character that stuck with me the most during my childhood wasn’t a toy or television character; it was a tennis player by the name of Maria Sharapova. To understand my––for lack of a better word––obsession, let’s set the scene. It’s been approximately a year since my mother and I moved to the United States. It’s the first week of school and I still have no idea what I’m doing. With my flawed English and lunchbox in hand, I make my way back home from the bus stop after a tough day of first grade math. I walk into my parents’ apartment to the biggest shock of my young childhood––my dad, sitting on the couch, watching television. The television, may I clarify, had essentially become mine. Day after day, my diminutive, worriless self would camp out in front of the television watching endless reruns of the Loony Tunes. Due to my stepfather’s insistence on watching tennis, I was forced to sit down and watch the 2006 US Open instead. At first, my sentiment was one of general annoyance––I wanted to eat my cereal and watch Bugs Bunny. However, as I stayed and watched––admittedly to protest the patriarchy––I became engrossed. As the tournament progressed and Sharapova advanced, my interest grew in proportion to the amount of ranking points she…

guys or the girls in the group are dating each other, but that quickly changes with the emerging love story of Ross and Rachel and eventually Monica and Chandler. The theme song is telling of what the entire show is about, “no one told you life would be this way. Your job’s a joke, your broke...you’re always stuck in second gear. It hasn’t been your day, your month, or even your year...but…

Monica Lewinsky is someone that I have only heard about. I didn’t even know who she was, or what she did, but I saw a lot of “memes” mocking her on the internet. I was born in 1999, so I wasn’t even alive at the time of her scandal with Bill Clinton. And my parents didn 't see a need to tell me about her scandal, as it was not going to affect me in any way. There was no reason for me to know. I wasn’t particularly interested in her story either. However, watching her TED talk clarified a lot of…

“twenty-something’s” living in New York City ran on the National Broadcasting Company’s (NBC) prime-time schedule for 236 episodes over 10 seasons from 1994 to 2004 (Bright, Kauffman, & Crane, 2012). Viewers learned about the relationships among Monica Geller, Rachel Green, Phoebe Buffay, Joey Tribbiani, Chandler Bing, and Ross Geller, as they discussed their triumphs and disappointments over countless cups of coffee. In this paper I will be analyzing all six main characters and then two…

“So no one told you life was gonna be this way. Your jobs a joke, you’re broke, your love life’s DOA (lil rambents).” “I’ll Be There For You” was the catchy song that would play from enlarged, home televisions on Thursday nights as millions of Americans would join together and spend the next thirty minutes laughing along with the characters from Friends. Friends was a huge hit in 1990s. It piloted it 1994 and ran for ten seasons. The end of this beloved series was like the end of an era, yet it…

much confidence that it would intimidate you if you saw it. Her young acne covered face may lead you to thinking she is just some other girl in college that is trying to get by, not in this case, she has goals to accomplish. She was seeking to pursue a career in graphic designing because “It was a fun pathway in high school and something that I loved to do during class, I looked forward to having that class everyday’’ she said with enthusiasm. Her intentions after graduating high school were…

influential and relatable because whether it be live or on a television show, people still struggle out of college, even a few years down the road, and the students are also very likely to go through things such as job searches and ups and downs throughout a friendship. The episode of Friends that will be described and dissected in this particular paper is season seven, episode eight titled “The One Where Chandler Doesn’t Like Dogs”. In this episode, Phoebe has a new dog named clunkers that she…

Parachutists. Klien still lives in New York where he continues writing. Edward Klien wanted to write a book that proved Hillary Clinton’s inadequacy to become President of the United States. I believe that Hillary Clinton should not be the next president, but unfortunately Klien did not use solid facts, he only wanted to prove his point making the rest of his book fallible. One of the statements made in Klein’s book was a quote from Monica Lewinsky while she was on trial concerning her affair…

All eyes were gleaming upon me, watching my sins placed before my bosom, the scarlet letter. My heart was pumping out of my chest, palms beginning to sweat as I walked up the creaky, vintage stairs on the way to my punishment. Public shaming. There are many long lasting effects as shown in Source A, The Scarlet Letter, Source B, Monica Lewinsky’s TED Talk, and Source C, an article entitled “Is the Internet a Mob Without Consequence?” In The Scarlet Letter, Governor Bellingham requires Hester…

the event of what happened between Bill Clinton and herself is deeply regrettable. The cause of humiliation to herself could also be called as constant harassment. She was branded, name-called, and was defined as a sexual object by the media. She argues that she’s a woman and she’s a real human being that made a mistake like any other people would. She wants to help the people who have been shamed on the internet and not let them go through the same shameful process she has been. At her age of…