...time. As we look at Knapp’s model we quickly come to find out that, The Break-Up, was a film primarily based in the “coming apart” stage. Throughout this paper I will focus on the stages of circumscribing, stagnating, and avoiding and how they ultimately led to the downfall of Brooke and Gary’s relationship. As we look at Knapp’s development model, what exactly does circumscribing mean? In the circumscribing stage, communication between members decreases in quantity and quality. Rather discussing a disagreement (which requires energy on both sides of the relationship), members opt for withdrawal. Circumscribing involves the shrinking interest and commitment. (Looking Out Looking In) We see a little bit of this when Brooke, as played by Jennifer Aniston, asks Gary to help her with the dishes. We can actually say that the entire family dinner at the couple’s condo was of little interest to Gary. All he was really seemed passionate about was his love for sports center and videogames. So can we say that the lack of interest and communication on Gary’s...
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...in the moment, but all the little signs and big signs for that matter, all the gut feelings you chose to ignore, is kicking your ass right now. You can thank Barbie, Fairy Tales, T.V, Fashion, Beauty Products, Magazines, E-Harmony...I could go on but I think you get my point. I want to make it clear that I do not consider myself a feminist, but there is no denying women are not doing themselves any favors. I expect arguments against what I just said. It could be argued that women are more in touch with each other since social media blew up, but I'll be honest, I don't think that message to " Love Yourself" is truly sinking in. It's fluff. If I post an inspirational quote on my Facebook, Twitter, Instagram etc...my job isn't done for the day. I'm not saying it's bad to post positive messages, but do we, as women, really know what it takes to love ourselves before jumping into yet another disappointment? Stop looking for a man (or woman) to make you whole. When you're starving for love, attention, acceptance, security and respect...you'll eat anything and that is not necessarily a good thing. It's time to stop scrounging for scraps. You are capable of many things if you get over the notion that "True Love" is the answer. I can speak from personal experience. You don't want to hit bottom on this matter. I can say now that hind sight is 20/20 and what I went through made me the woman I am today, but I can also tell you, when you are right in the middle of that mess, all you feel...
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...I currently work at a hair salon as a receptionist, i really enjoy what i do there on a regular basis. That is how i came about thinking of job shadowing a hair stylist for my project. Knowing that you cannot do your project on something you are already doing and you cannot be getting paid for your hours, i thought of a woman who has been in my life for a while and has been a positive role model. She works at a hair salon and is an independent hair dresser, while everyone else at the salon she work as an employee to the company she is her own employee and rents the space she uses. If i was to decide to be a hairdresser i would want to be independent like her. So for my project i decided to see what she did on an day-to-day basis. I talked...
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...Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Tenetta Griffin English 225 Melissa Rigney January 14, 2014 Bruce Almighty, A Lesson in Integrity Jim Carrey is a talented comedian and I have enjoyed every film that I’ve seen him in. I selected Bruce Almighty for an in-depth film analysis because of how the talented actors helped put a unique spin on the whole god/human relationship for the modern day moviegoer. This movie is not designed to be an in-depth expose on the god/human relationship but a platform to gently remind the audience the of how important our decisions affect where we are in life and gives us a moment to pause and think about what kind of future do we really desire. In my opinion, the film Bruce Almighty utilizes Jim Carrey's comedic talents to address the heavy topic of the god/human relationship and the moral issue that the director wants the share with the audience is that our free will should be exercised a modicum of human integrity to effectively resolve our own personal issues/dilemmas. My first step in analyzing Bruce Almighty involves taking a closer look at plot development and how this movie took the universal truth concerning how mankind in general tends to get frustrated with God when things just don’t go their way while taking it down a unconventional comedic path to help lighten up the seriousness of the topic. The director of Bruce Almighty’s tells the story from a mixed point of view which means we sometimes learn what is going on at the same...
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...Katelyn Sellers April 29, 2011 Movie Review The movie Enough was introduced in 2002 by director Michael Apted. It stared Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, and Dan Futterman. Slim was a waitress at a local diner. She met her husband in one of his many schemes he would pull with a friend of his. She ended up marrying him and they had a little girl. She began to realize after she has her daughter he would stay gone all the time, he was having and affair. She confronted him about it one night and he hit her. From then on out he would abuse her regularly. When she tried to leave he threatened to kill her. Finally one night she makes it, her and her daughter Gracie leave. She goes to a hotel and uses a friends credit card and he finds her from her using that credit card. She then goes to pay her father a visit to ask him for money. He thinks she just a grubber looking for a hand out until he is visited by two men and he realizes she wasn’t kidding. He sends her money and offers to help as much as he can. Realizing that she had had enough Slim starts training to be able to defend herself incase he finds her again. She then tracks down her husband Mitch and finds his new place. She hides out and waits on him. When he arrives home they begin to fight, she uses the anger she has from him hitting her and the love she has for her daughter to defeat him. She kicks him off a balcony where he falls to his death. With Mitch gone and out of the picture Slim and her daughter Gracie...
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...of the staff that are expected to braze up to the new techniques in the face of poor working condition. Some staff may eventually resign. 3.) The graduation from one outfit to six is an indication of growth and success in business. A feat that may have resulted from dedicated and hardworking staff with good performances as ascertain by Carter. While increasing the number of stores nothing was done to increase the staff wages and benefits. Some staff may get offended with such development and resign in the future. 4.) Employing Jennifer, a fresh graduate with little or no experience as a consultant and trouble shooter could smell doom in the future. Experience matters a lot; you cannot give what you don’t have. 5.) Finally, placing Jennifer above older staff with over a decade experience could engender strife and rebellion, none of these will speak well for the future of the establishment. 1-23 First thing first, if I were Jennifer, I would have love to be engaged as a junior staff to learn and acquire more knowledge in the act of the business and to study the staff and working environment before jumping to assume the exalted post of a trouble shooter and consultant. CHAPTER TWO 2:29 The fact that virtually all...
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...Unit 4: Development through the life stages P3- Explain the influences of two predictable and two unpredictable major life events on the development of an individual Marriage Marriage is a predictable life event because it something which an individual expects to happen. Jenifer Aniston got married to Brad Pitt. Marriage created a positive effect on Jenifer’s physical development because it is good for your health as she will have felt happier and healthier. It will have also made Jenifer less likely to suffer from mental health problems therefore, meaning she will have a longer life expectancy. This affected Jenifer’s emotional development positively because she had made an emotional attachment with her partner. It allowed her to develop trust in another person who she felt comfortable around. Also, both Jenifer and Brad were able to express how they felt and they would stand by one another ensuring they were happy. Marriage will have affected Jenifer’s intellectual development in a positive way because it creates a partnership which involves one another supporting each other throughout work and forming unity in all areas of life. Marriage is a support network. Marriage also allowed Jenifer to experiencing intimacy; this could have affected Jenifer socially in both a positive and negative way. It could have created a negative effect because she felt like she had a loss of independence and no longer had a choice in what she wanted to do due to feeling threatened for example;...
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...Music, Poetry, Passion… Biko Kennedy Youthlink Writer Album: Love? Artiste: Jennifer Lopez Label: Island Def Jam Music Group Genre: POP/ Dance Release Date: May 3, 2011 About the Album: For many fans of Jennifer Lopez, Love? has been a long time coming. This being the seventh studio album may be her most personal to date, encompassing inspiration from the birth of her twins and her own experiences with love. The highlighted theme throughout the album courses the examination, questioning and discovery of the diverse sides and avenues of love and relationships. It's been a long and twisty road for Love?, having started recording the album in 2009 with an original release date for the project set for January 2010 to coincide with Lopez’s latest film “The Back-up Plan”. However following the lack of success with lead single Louboutins, Lopez and Sony Music Entertainment decided to end their ten year partnership leaving the fate of Love? with Island Def Jam, which boasts an impressive roster of A-list songwriters and producers (such as RedOne and Lady Gaga), as well as guest performers. Here’s a track-by-track rundown: 1. On the Floor (Ft. Pitbull) This moderately-catchy track, aimed for the dance floor, became J.Lo’s first Top 10 hit in eight years. It’s one of the album’s strongest singles, having a bit of a capricious vibe, containing a sample of Los Kjarkas’ song Llorando Se Fue, which was made popular in the Kaoma single Lambada. Lyrically, it follows the typical ‘get...
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...Josh Stevenson S Reflection For one of my volunteer services, I decided to volunteer at Loras library for their game night. My job basically was to work the concessions there. So I had to make popcorn, pour soda, and to make sure the other snacks were replaced when needed. Although this job was quite easy, it is not something I would ever want to do. The job was very time consuming and I always found myself business, but working concessions is not a job that really thrills me. The low pay and the work not being that satisfying are two of the main reasons why I would be against this line of work. If I did end up working in sport management industry, then I definitely hope that it is not serving concessions. Although it is a fine way to live for some people, I do not consider myself one of those. My future aspiration for what I want to do is something on the business side of things. I think my dream job would be to work on the financial side of things for a sport team. I have always really liked numbers and also being able to work in the sport industry would be such an awesome experience. Although working concessions is something that I wouldn’t want to do in the future, I thought that it was good experience. I had a lot of customers and as a result, I had to be on my feet a lot and work hard. It was very time consuming and the job had me really speeding up my work since I had to make sure everything was available to all of the customers whenever they wanted the some...
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...Group 1 Alias Essay Sydney Bristow is a delightful woman who surrounds herself with peaceful people. Her community as a fiancée, grad student, friend, and bank worker involves her fiancé Daniel, her roommate Francie, her friend Will, and her fellow classmates and Professor. Being a part of this community shows loyalty and honesty. She has an excellent relationship with them all because they communicate often, they reveal secrets to one another, and they give advice when it is necessary. All of them live the life of an average person; they work and or go to school and volunteer in their community. For the most part they are happy people. Their world is rather sweet; they do not face many issues while being a part of this “Sunny Subculture”. Sydney’s life is wonderful from this perspective, she really do not have to worry about besides school. She has a loving fiancé who is ready to marry her and start a family with her very soon. This is the life many people would love to live without the CIA involvement issues. The environment is colorful from Sydney’s red wig, to the bright sunlight shining on her and Will while they run on the track. It is full of color everywhere they go. This is a bright environment with delightful people. Sydney is loyal to everyone around her and her job also. She is too loyal and honest in a way because her honesty leads to the death of Danny. Sydney was determined to keep Danny and her co-workers happy at the same time. She reveals her secret to Danny...
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...celebrity with the very diverse children but she is so much more than that. Since 2001 Jolie has been working alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to bring awareness to the unfortunate situations of refugees from around the world. She has traveled to and volunteered in many third world countries such as; Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Iraq and North Caucasus. In addition to this, she along with Brad Pitt founded the Jolie-Pitt foundation which is dedicated to eradicating extreme rural poverty, protecting natural resources and conserving wildlife. This foundation also donates to many other humanitarian groups, one being Doctors without Borders. In 2009 Angelina Jolie gave the opening speech for a World Refugee Day event being held at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington D.C. Throughout this speech Jolie concentrates not on the horrible conditions that refugees endure but on the spirit that they have from being in these situations. When speaking to millions of Americans she doesn’t rely on facts or statistics but instead she uses anecdotal evidence, visualization and pathos to get her point across. The purpose of this speech is not to persuade but to inform the people of America about the amazing people she has met while traveling to third world countries. Furthermore, she is trying to show people that you should not look at these people as if they are less than you but appreciate them for what they have to offer...
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...Español 3304 Composición 1 Hispanos cambiando la cara de los EU A través de las últimas tres décadas la población hispana en los Estados Unidos ha crecido debido a la inmigración creciente, con una mayoría extensa fluyendo de México, Cuba, Puerto Rico, El Salvador, y la República Dominicana. Los hispanos ahora constituyen de uno de los grupos étnicos más altos de los Estados Unidos. Con miles de medios de comunicación española, la aumentación de cifras de hispanos en las políticas, contribuciones notables que se extienden de deportes hasta en la economía, definitivamente se puede observar que la población hispánica está dejando una marca permanente en los Estados Unidos. Hoy, en cualquier ciudad se encuentra, uno puede encender una televisión y encontrar por lo menos un canal de habla hispana. Los canales para hispanoparlantes incluyen Univisión, Telemundo, Galavisión que son las redes más grandes de la televisión hispánica de los Estados Unidos hoy en día. Pero por allí no para, uno puede entrar a un mercado o a una tienda de comestibles hoy y junto a las publicaciones más importantes de la lengua inglesa encontrará periódicos y revistas tales como Herald del EL Nuevo, Latina, People En Español, o Vida Latina. Además, hay miles de emisoras de radio a través de los Estados Unidos que transmiten solamente en español o una mezcla de los dos idiomas. Las estaciones significativas incluyen el La 97.9 Mega en New York City, el La Kalle 98.3 en Miami...
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...celebrity with the very diverse children but she is so much more than that. Since 2001 Jolie has been working alongside the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees to bring awareness to the unfortunate situations of refugees from around the world. She has traveled to and volunteered in many third world countries such as; Sierra Leone, Cambodia, Costa Rica, Iraq and North Caucasus. In addition to this, she along with Brad Pitt founded the Jolie-Pitt foundation which is dedicated to eradicating extreme rural poverty, protecting natural resources and conserving wildlife. This foundation also donates to many other humanitarian groups, one being Doctors without Borders. In 2009 Angelina Jolie gave the opening speech for a World Refugee Day event being held at the National Geographic Society headquarters in Washington D.C. Throughout this speech Jolie concentrates not on the horrible conditions that refugees endure but on the spirit that they have from being in these situations. When speaking to millions of Americans she doesn’t rely on facts or statistics but instead she uses anecdotal evidence, visualization and pathos to get her point across. The purpose of this speech is not to persuade but to inform the people of America about the amazing people she has met while traveling to third world countries. Furthermore, she is trying to show people that you should not look at these people as if they are less than you but appreciate them for what they have to offer you. Jolie starts...
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...Influence of Visual Media Paper By: Marco Contreras There is a strong link, or interrelationship, between culture and visual entertainment media. Visual entertainment media has been used to depict, and to some extent, influence society and culture. Everything we watch on television, film and even digital gaming has influenced us in one way or another. We can easily see an array of examples of these influences. For instance, Marilyn Monroe was considered a huge “sex symbol.” Visual media created this image of her as the “ideal woman,” thus many other women at the time began to imitate her and her style. Another example is the singer and actress Jennifer Lopez. At one point in time, being “anorexic skinny” was what every woman aspired to be. This changed thanks to the exposure of Jennifer Lopez through visual entertainment media. Her “curvy” body became the “ideal” much like Marilyn Monroe was during her time. As such, many women began to change their concept of what is “sexy” or the “ideal woman.” Unfortunately, not all visual entertainment media’s influence on society has been positive. There have been saddening examples, such as the appearance of the television show “Sixteen and Pregnant.” Instead of learning from the show, young teenage girls began to imitate this behavior. Next thing we know, there was a wave of teenage girls getting pregnant across the country. We see all these music video where sex, drugs, and alcohol are glamorized. Kids think that...
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...instances there are so many people involved having similar tastes. Some men prefer dating chubby women with fair complexion while others prefer skinny women with attractive vital stats. Similarly, some women prefer hairy men and find them strong and attractive while some think of such men as virile and repulsive. The concept of beauty has evolved from era to era. In the modern world men and women have different tastes for beauty while people living in early 60’s and 70’s had different tastes for beauty. In the earlier eras women had to be fat to be considered as beautiful as seen in many of the paintings of the Titian. The concept of beauty is again changing gradually with popular actors like Scarlett Johansson, Angelina Jolie, Salma Hayek and Jennifer Lopez revealing that a beautiful woman is indeed with curves. As a matter of fact, when we are younger and growing up we admire things that appear beautiful from the outside. We are tempted towards beautiful men and women without considering much about their real inner self. But as we grow and enter into adulthood we start admiring things that are beautiful from the inside. Outer beauty remains no longer the tempting aspect for us. In comparison, the outer beauty diminishes with growing age as wrinkles and blemishes start developing on the body whereas the inner soul remains genuine for the rest of the life no matter how we appear from the outside. The concept of beauty has always been...
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