Reese Witherspoon

throughout the film PleasantVille. The film overlays a jarring number of examples of social constructs through very blatantly rudimentary means. Status was a distinctive theme in the film Pleasantville. David (Tobey Maguire) and his sister Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) have very distinct social statuses at the beginning of the movie. David is known to be very awkward and the nerd while Jennifer is known to be very promiscuous and popular. Although, throughout the film, David progresses…

written in the 1950’s set in the 1930’s) to express ideas of change and ways to deal with it. Pleasantville was a film made in 1998 and directed by American director, Gary Ross. It consists of brother and sister David (Tobey Magurie) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) becoming stuck in a 1950’s sitcom by a strange TV Repairman’s (Don Knotts) magical remote. Through the use…

The three components shared by most of the weapons of automatic influence described in the book are: the mechanical process in activating weapons, the exploitability of this power by those who know how to trigger them and the way the weapons of automatic influence lend their force to others (Cialdini 2007). Animal behaviorist M.W. Fox discusses how mothering turkeys are all triggered by one thing: the “cheep- One of the most recognizable weapons of influence in our everyday lives is the rule of…

Reese Witherspoon and Joaquin Phoenix did an amazing job with this role. The movie had its merits and its faults as every movie does. The biggest merit being the music and the faults being the uncomfortable situations. Even though there were times in the movie…

In times of troubles, humanity gets tested by their compassion and unity. Last August, parts of the United States as well as the Caribbean have been destroyed by three different hurricanes. The most powerful people like businessmen and the biggest celebrities unite not just to help those who were affected but also encouraged everyone to help out in any way they possibly can. This time, another hurricane just hit Puerto Rico, and some of the biggest celebrities did it again. Interesting Fact…

Ree Drummond Ree Drummond is a chef that is more famously known as “Pioneer Woman” and more famously known for her southern cooking. She goes by that nickname because she lives on a ranch in Oklahoma, raising cattle and children using a lot of ingredients that they find or make on the ranch. Her children include 2 daughters named Alex and Paige, she also has 2 sons named Tod and Bryce. She is married to a cowboy named Ladd, who is the main reason why she is living on the ranch. Ree also has…

“Legally Blonde" is a movie, in which Elle Woods (Reese), is a young Law student, who gets an acceptance into Harvard Law School. She 's automatically judged off appearance. The campus Law school believes that Law isn 't for her, because of her personality and gender. She 's trying to step up to a higher…

Today's society will categorize women as a concept. As many of us know, many movies, TV shows, literature, along with others are designed to make women seem as this magical yet vulnerable creature that is supposed to fulfill a male’s wishes or somehow make them alive in some way or another. We grow up with the idea of being the supportive actress in someone else's story, and ironically a man grows up expecting us to be there for them and make their life magically better while they're the main…

The movie Legally Blonde is seen as a “girl power” movement because of a naive sorority girl, Elle Woods, who makes her way to law school, wins a big murder case and gets her man. No one believes in her, in fact, her boyfriend dumped her to be with someone with more brains, but she proves him wrong. She is able to prove everyone wrong while still maintaining her femininity. What the film shows on the surface is very different from what it depicts when you take a closer look. One may think that…

Usually, it’s the unplanned events that turn out to be an amazing time, and my unexpected holiday definitely was one. It was not a planned surprise nor was it present but a simple coincidence that happened. My Grannie who is alone has always dreamed of traveling to Austria but the fear of going alone had put her off the idea. I on the other hand had never considered Austria as an appealing place mainly due to the fact I had a lack of knowledge on the country, who knew that it was going to turn…