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    Peer Pressure In Easy A

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    Bert V. Royal and directed by Will Gluck. This theme is communicated through the characterization and dialogue of the main characters, especially Olive Penderghast. She is an enigma who presents a true representation and portrayal of the simple theme peer pressure. She depicts the lengths one who is desperate for peer attention and admiration will go to. Olive is a conservative, intelligent, ‘under the radar’ 17 year old student who describes herself as “average boob size” or just a regular…

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    Beginnings of a cycle of women in a situation, each one determined to make their life work. With each generation seeing those before fail but they continue to believe. • Emma, being the oldest, is seen to have had a less then perfect life that her daughter Olive has witnessed so she makes the decision that she wants to have it differently but in fact is turning her own life…

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    role in the movie’s main objective, I would have to say the grandfather was the true leader. Throughout the movie he was the one encouraging Olive whether that was practicing her routine, telling her she was beautiful, or ensuring she was having fun. He was the first to say, he’d go to California with Olive for the pageant. But he didn’t just check on Olive, he managed to keep the rests of the family’s morale up. When Richard got bad news about his book, the grandfather was the first to say…

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    Market and walking the High Line. All of that sprightliness is encapsulated perfectly into the Fig and Olive. It has those floor to ceiling windows, that let rays seep in, reinforced by industrial steal framing the beautiful warehouses. The loft-like space of the restaurant has many rugged aspects like the hanging warehouse pendant lights and the metallic components throughout, however Fig and Olive also has a calm Mediterranean feel to its decor. The industrial…

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    that convey this idea is at the end of the pageant where Olive performs her act (“the performance scene”). Dayton and Faris use a wide range of visual language features to convey this important idea in the performance scene. At the first shot of interest, Olive begins her dance. In these initial shots, Dayton and Faris reveal that Olive does not fit into the conventional idea of a beauty queen, a loser in the eyes of our capitalist society. Olive, however, is indoctrinated by the values Richard…

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    representing people instead of animals or goddess, those paintings on the pottery is mostly stories from Greece past and their tale for others to learn and to explore the beauty of being painted on pottery. Most of the potteries could be vase, cups, olive oil vase and many more potteries that were recovered and knew to be used at those eras. Through the Lowe Museum at UM, there are artifacts that are from Rome era and Greece era too, we were required to choose one artifact that was from…

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    Double Standard Analysis

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    that portrays every single one of these concepts is the movie Easy A, which takes place in Ojai, California. This movie tells the story of a young teenage girl named Olive, who ultimately gets pressured by her best friend into lying about her sexual activities and promiscuity. Told from Olives point of view in a documentary style, Olive explains how her world gets flipped upside down when being pressured by her best friend about her sexual activities over the weekend,…

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    Application of Virtue Ethics and Feminist Theory to Healthcare Sylvia and Jack’s decision to coerce Olive to donate a kidney to Nancy can be assessed using different ethical theories. Specifically, analysis of Jack and Sylvia’s decision using virtue ethics and feminist theory both indicate that Jack and Sylvia didn’t take the correct course of action, suggesting that there may be other ethical considerations that play a role in decision making. To determine whether Jack and Sylvia made the…

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    was being uprooted from where I grew up in Olive Branch, Mississippi and moving to Ocala, Florida. I was born in Morgantown, West Virginia and at the young age of five my family and I moved to Olive Branch, Mississippi because my father’s job relocated us. Growing up in Olive Branch was amazing and I couldn’t have grown up in a better area. It was a great city that wasn’t too big but yet not too small, it is a suburb of Memphis, Tennessee. As a child Olive Branch was a prosperous ever growing…

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    lives of four major characters, Roo, Barney, Olive and Pearl. Roo and Barney are Queensland cane cutters who spend five months of each year (the layoff) in the city. During this time they live with two bar maids, Olive and Nancy. The play is set in the seventeenth year of this arrangement. Nancy has married and been replaced by the sceptical Pearl. Roo has left the cane fields due to a dispute with a younger cutter and makes plans to settle in the city. Olive fights against the change, desperate…

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