The Fox Family

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world” (Marilyn Monroe Brainy). This quote stated by Marilyn Monroe directly describes her life. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California. Her mother gave birth to her in the charity ward of the hospital and Norma never knew her father (Marilyn Monroe International). Norma had a tough childhood, going from one foster home to another because of her mother’s mental instability. At age 16, she married James…

He came from a renowned family in Scotland, eminent for work in the legal field. Dundas too had joined the field, but was quite apathetic towards it and therefore commenced his parliamentary career. A proud Scotsman, he replaced the Disarming Act to allow Scottish Highlanders to…

A long while ago a young housewife became an international icon in a matter of days. That lady’s name was Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn could do whatever her heart desired. She went from a housewife of a soldier, to a model in a few weeks. Why was Marilyn so famous? How did her picture on the air vent become so popular, and lastly, why is she still popular today? Marilyn Monroe was an icon of her era. How did Marilyn become popular? There are many reasons why, and many other opinions, but this is…

Media Literacy is defined as the ability to analyze and understand what we see in the news everyday. Media literacy is super important in today’s society. It is clear in examples like the case of Michael Brown that media perspectives warps everything we see today. One example that stands out to me was the activity we did in Contemporary Social Themes examining different perspectives in articles about the Murder of Michael Brown in Ferguson. Most of them seemed to take the side of Michael Brown.…

by grounding troops after President Obama has vowed to not get into another ground war in Iraq. Both Fox news and CNN news have made it clear to specify and show who the “good guys” and the “bad guys” are. To CNN Ray Rice is the bad guy in the story once the video of him hitting his now wife Janay Rice in an elevator in Atlantic City. To CNN the NFL and Janay are the good guys in the story. To Fox news, the main story they focused on was Obamas foreign policy and how he vowed to not get…

were gripes about coverage, with party aides dismissing the MSNBC host Steve Kornacki as a “hipster pit bull.” And there was disdain for the frequent flattery by television journalists. When Fox News sought permission to sponsor a Democratic primary debate — “Please know that you are always welcome at Fox,” an executive wrote — the chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee, Representative Debbie Wasserman Schultz, seemed unimpressed. “Boy,” Ms. Wasserman Schultz wrote to an aide hours…

Many people live in a world that leads them to struggle with social problems regarding their physical appearances and family relationships. However, this can easily result in a limiting mindset and disappearance of individuality as others struggle to fit into society’s “correct answers.” Instead of questioning society’s views, people are submissive and fail to rise up for changes. The film Little Miss Sunshine is an effective contemporary interpretation of an archetypal journey based on…

She was far ahead of her time and by 1953 she was making 20th Century Fox more money than any other star (Monroe 1). Even 53 years after her death, she is still a movie and modeling icon. She only walked this Earth for 36 years, but her impact on Western Popular Culture will be infinite. At her funeral in 1962, her good friend…

1) “A decision to develop a series for prime time simultaneously a choice about a commercial commodity, an aesthetic endeavor, and a social institution. As a result, those making programming decisions will be variously evaluated according to perceptions of their business judgment, their aesthetic tastes, and the values they impart” (Bielby and Bielby 1994:1290). “in a mass-culture industry with a high level of market concentration such as network television, brokers are more directly…

things you have that money cannot buy”. (Anonymous) In “A Raisin in the Sun” the death of a family member allows the family to strike it rich with his insurance policy, yet what the family thought was better for them did not turn out as expected. Life with an excess of money became harder for them to function rather than the lifestyle they had lived with less wealth. Although the money bought the Younger family a new house, the opportunity to come close to purchasing a dream liquor store, and…