You Got It

A romantic comedy by definition “deals with love in a light, humorous way,” and Nora Ephron’s film, You’ve Got Mail does just that (www.dictionary.com). Rather than explore the dark side of internet chat rooms, Ephron presents a romanticized view of an online relationship by capitalizing on fascination with new technology, the anonymity of the Internet, and the proven chemistry of the movie’s stars, Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan. The movie’s take on romance and social media reflects 1998, the year it…

"Soma, you father got caught--" "Again?" I groaned. It was the fourth time this year Ma brought me the news. For some reason, my father, Akaash Choudri, managed to get caught drinking blood. I always had to go and meddle with the mind of the person who caught Pa red-handed. Red-fanged, more accurately. Pa entered the living room with a guilty expression and took a seat next to me. "Except this time it was more than one person. There 's already suspicion about the unknown deaths and your…

For men, when we think of gender performance, we think of the concept of toxic masculinity or men who are hyper aggressive, non-emotional, hypersexual, and violent. In Jamie Lake’s I Got You, only one character possesses all these traits and its Steve, the gay basher. Although in the beginning Benjamin portrayed some of these characteristics, he changed and grew throughout the story. Jake, on the other hand was not your definition of a stereotypical man. In society, everything a woman does is…

Bloop! You Got a Message! Ding! You got a message. That “Ding!” one hears can be a bit annoying, but that is heard around the world and is very common. Texting, social media, cell phones, and new technological advancement just keep our lives ever more fascinating. In today’s society this been integrated in our everyday lives. Our access to technology has changed our ways of communication. The Rise of Technology With the increase of technology it gives rise to many innovations. One of the most…

Your groove: perhaps how music makes you feel, how it stimulates your body with the beat of a drum or the riff of a guitar. My groove: on the same level as your groove, only it goes just a bit further than just the feel. A machinist’s groove: the point at which a tool does work. We all see groove differently, figuratively and technically. We’ll be focusing on grooves that match up, your’s and mine, and how we’ll see that groove is more than just feelings. We’ll be exploring groove’s historically…

Getting Carded, You Just Got Checked The essay “Getting Card” by David Migoya talks about a big problems that student experience while their in college, the use of credit cards. This problem is not affecting the companies of the credit card holder, who know exactly what their doing. The companies are just making money regardless, because of how many people they have in the system.. The problem is where the aggressive card holder attack the student to get them to have a credit card. Mainly…

plays a very important role. Without a mentor, I wouldn’t know rather i’m doing something right, or doing something wrong. Your mentor should be someone you can count on, or someone who has helped you a lot throughout your life. Someone who is positive, and someone who is helpful. You should be able to work with and accept the advice your mentor give you. I’ve learned throughout the years so many things from the advice of Mrs. Williams. Mrs. Williams taught me how to better myself and step up…

In the above conversation, the question ‘when you exactly got the chicken-gunya’ was usually supposed to probe at the time of patient’s assessment by the therapist; however, in this situation, it had been asked to the patient at the time of treatment session. So, the intention of that may be to encourage the patient to share the narrative. In addition to that the act of ‘nodding head like listening’ was also considered as the way of encouraging the patient to share his past medical history.…

Despite his father’s gambling habit, Brown considered his father “hardworking” and to quote him “I think I got a lot of my drive from him”. (Brown & Tucker, pg. 7) Eventually his dad left, leaving his aunt to raise him around prostitution, gambling and bootlegging. (Brown & Tucker, chapter…

"Got Milk?" Everybody has seen these advertisements and everybody took a gander at their own particular milk mustaches in the mirror when they were young. that mustache emerges and grasps consideration in "Got Milk" advertisements, whose maker try to target particular gathering of people with every promotion they make. The promotion with Taylor Swift, a popular country artist, is more designed for the average teenage girls, and Chris Bosh, a notable basketball player, is utilized as a part of…