...Alessandro de Souza Ferreira Prof. Alverson English 201 March 7, 2014 Contemporary Greek Choruses A Greek chorus is a group of twelve to fifteen people who remark on the dramatic action in a play. In Medea, written by Euripides in 431BC, the chorus is formed by a group of Corinthian women who lament the bad things that are occurring throughout the play. On the other hand, in the movie Legally Blonde directed by Robert Luketic in 2001, a group of girls that are part of a sorority called Delta Nu form the chorus, which supports the protagonist in her decisions by keeping her positive through all the film. Both of these choruses have similarities and differences that help in the understanding of the works. Euripides presents the reader with a woman seeking revenge since her husband, Jason, who is in pursuit of another woman, Glauce, has abandoned her. At the beginning of the play, the chorus tries to lift Medea’s mood by saying, “If your husband is won to a new love / The thing is common; why let it anger you? / Zeus will plead your cause./ Check this passionate grief over your husband / Which wastes you away.” (Wilkie and Hurt). This is the only moment in the play in which the chorus attempts to influence Medea’s mood positively by telling her that her situation is not unusual and that she should not feel devastated by what is happening; that she should forget Jason and move on. However, the protagonist does not pay attention to what the Corinthian women suggest to...
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...The movie I decided to watch for this assignment is Legally Blonde starring Reese Witherspoon as a bubbly, intelligent and outgoing sorority girl, Elle. The movie starts off with Elle not having any thoughts about attending law school but desperate to win her ex-boyfriend Warner back, Elle takes the admission test, applies to Harvard, and is accepted. At first the movie revolves around trying to get Warner back and having to deal with the stress her classmates who disapprove of her because of her innocent and naïve behaviour. As the movie slowly starts to pick up, Elle is starting to get her head in the books and wins an internship with Professor Callahan, and then she realizes she has to defend Brooke Taylor-Windham, a famous fitness instructor accused of murdering her much older billionaire husband, Hayworth Windham. This movie is related to Criminal Justice because it involves a murder case, getting testimonies and defending a client. Firstly Brooke Taylor-Windham a fitness instructor is accused of her husband`s murder in the backyard. Elle had known her from before because she had taken a few of her classes so they immediately became friends after meeting. Elle believes Brooke is innocent, but Brooke's stepdaughter, Chutney, and the household cabana boy say she is guilty, and that they saw Brooke standing over Windham's dead body, covered in his blood. Brooke refused to provide Professor Callahan with an alibi but when Elle visits Brooke in prison, she admits she had a liposuction...
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...Legally Blonde: The Musical Legally Blonde is an American musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of Legally Blonde. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner. She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others, and successfully defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham in a murder trial. Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed. The original musical stars were Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods, Christian Borle as Emmett Forrest and Richard H. Blake as Warner. I also tried to include all the musical numbers in the sequence that they occurred and they will be in parenthesis. This was my second musical that I have attended, what was really cool was when I attended this one they had the musical production on DVD copy. After the musical was over, I of course purchased the DVD copy. I was fortunate enough to travel to the Palace Theater, in the ninth grade to witness what I still believe to be the best Broadway production yet! I was hesitate at the beginning do to all the critics and their stereotypical views that this production, was going to be a modern chick flick sitcom. It was girly and pink, but I believe that the female to male ratio was around 14:10. Jerry Mitchell did an amazing job directing and choreographing this musical, the only thing that it lacked was...
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...Everything that I Know About Women in Film Most of the movies that I watch would probably be considered chick flicks by many viewers. Chick flicks usually have a romantic or emotion-based theme, and are favored mostly by female viewers. The women are portrayed as weak and fragile, and need to be saved from someone or something. Males are the main characters and the females usually fall in love with them. I consider them to be movies that are romantic, but also have strong female characters. At first glance, the women seem to be dependent on men. Sometimes a man is behind the reasoning for them being or becoming such strong characters; nonetheless, all possess inner strength. These characters do not need a man to survive and have the skills and drive to make it alone. Steel Magnolias, is one of my favorite movies because of the many strong female characters. This movie does not fit the women versus women theme, women versus men theme, or women versus society theme. The theme would definitely be women standing together through both good and bad times. Ouiser Boudreaux (Shirley McLaine) is a grouchy widow who is always being teased by Clairee Belcher (Olympia Dukakis). The women interact mostly in the home-based beauty salon owned by Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton). Truvy’s good friend, M’Lynn Eatenton (Sally Fields), and her daughter, Shelby (Julia Roberts), are frequent patrons. The movie centers on Shelby, who is a diabetic, gets married and wants to have a child. Her mother is...
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...Conflict and Power Paper Legally Blonde Legally Blonde is a movie which shows little variety in characters as all of the main characters presented are highly stereotypical and all are white males and females, who all are upper-middle class. This movie shows how sexism is rooted into society and it does absolutely nothing to challenge that with its characters. The men are all shown to have some form of a position of power whether in the work life or in their personal lives and relationships and use this power to get what they want. Women in this movie are seen to be there simply for the pleasure of the men, and placed in two categories which are mainly based on their appearance or the way they act. This movie is the story of Elle Woods, a very cute and friendly student who is also the most popular girl in her Los Angeles sorority. Elle has just finished her studies in Fashion and is getting prepared to marry her boyfriend, Warner, who will soon be going to Harvard Law School in Boston. Unfortunately, Warner, who is actually a somewhat superficial jerk, decides to break up with Elle, because he wants to find a more serious looking girlfriend who will help his career in politics after he gets out of law school. Although Legally Blonde does have many outstanding points in which the main character overcomes stereotypes and challenges she faces, there are many faults to the movie. Under any feminist movie list, it can be guaranteed the popular movie, Legally Blonde, will make an appearance...
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...Role of Conflict and power Paper Kimberly Ferrusquilla BSHS/385 9/22/2015 Jeffrey Engbrecht Role of Conflict and power Paper In this paper I will write about the movie “Legally Blonde”. This movie is about a sorority queen that was dumped by her boyfriend, she decided to follow him by enrolling into law school where his ex is currently enroll. She later realizes that she is a better lawyer than she ever imagined. In this paper I will identify the characters in the movie and provide an overview of their relation to each other. I will include my personal thoughts on what the movie is saying about communication in general. I will also analyze the role of communication between the main characters and their relationships with each other. I will describe power and conflict issues. I will also write about the purpose of self-disclosure. Lastly, I will discuss whether any self-disclosure issues exist between the parties. The main characters in this movie are Elle, Paulette, Professor Callahan, Vivian, and warner. Elle is the main character of the movie who serves as the female lead challenging the norm of how society views women. Society may view women as loving, girly, and pink. Elle fills all of the stereotypes of a college girl age. Paulette is Elle’s friend. They both benefit from its relationship; Paulette learns to be assertive and Elle realizes their potential. Professor Callahan, hired her as an intern only to make sexual advanced on her just to make her believe that...
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...A part of me feels as if I should be writing about a character in a novel who overcame intense struggles and was inspiring in every way possible. It might be the more appealing essay, but that isn't me. I would rather write about a character I genuinely connect to than fabricate a connection to one. Therefore,“Bend and Snap!” This iconic phrase is what Elle Woods vocalized when she played the lead character in Legally Blonde. Instantly from the the opening scenes you could see who Elle was. From the way she kept up with her flawless caramel blonde hair to always making sure her manicure was perfect. Elle and I share certain qualities and she obtains characteristics I want as I grow older. She is girly, upbeat, loved by others, and bold. Every move she makes she does without hesitation....
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...Famous Speech I have heard so many speeches in my life, all different kinds. But today I will be analyzing a speech that was in the movie Legally Blond two. This is a comic movie but it comes with a great speech. The protagonist of the movie is Elle Woods. She is a law graduate student. Elle Woods heads to Washington D.C. to join the staff of a congresswoman in order to pass a bill to ban animal testing. And she needs 15 votes in order for this bill to pass. But in order for her to join, she had to give a speech. This speech is called “speak up”. It is intended for both the audience and self. I will be applying Aristotle’s ethos, pathos, and logos of the speaker. To begin with and example of the logo is when, Elle Woods was going to give a speech that she had already rehearsed and she had printed it out in a folder. But as she is about to speak, she puts the folder aside and starts off with an example. She starts by giving her experienced of when she finally got the chance to get an appointment to this famous salon. She said that they use the wrongs chemicals on her and it was not what she expected. The audience was lost because they had no idea what she was talking about. Then she continues by saying that it was not the salons fault. That it was her fault for not saying anything. That is where the audience started to realize that she had a point and that she was transmitting something. To continue, at first she was a little nervous especially when she was up there in the...
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...Mirza Yilmaz Student ID: 13011164 Mirza Yilmaz Student ID: 13011164 Global Business Environment Module Code: EC4003 Assessment two: Legally Blonde Global Business Environment Module Code: EC4003 Assessment two: Legally Blonde Legally Blonde This assignment will be covering two segments of law, firstly the UK Court Structure will be looked at and secondly Professional Negligence. This assignment will also focus on how these aspects are applied to Legally Blonde. Law is part of our general lives and everywhere you go there is some sort of law behind everything. Law is made up of lots of different rules it is possible to describe law as the body of official rules and regulations, generally found in constitutions and legislation, which are to govern a society and to control the behaviour of its members, so Law is a formal mechanism of social control. (Keenan et al, p3) In the movie Legally Blonde, the foundation of the case was a murder case which is a serious offence that falls under the category of the Criminal Law. Criminal Law is outlined as “A body of rules and statutes that defines conduct prohibited by the government because it threatens and harms public safety and welfare and that establishes punishment to be imposed for the commission of such acts.” Taken from (Gerald N. Hill and Kathleen T. Hill. (1981-2005 ). Criminal Law http://legal-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com) The UK court structure is ‘concerned...
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...An example of something that shows us a lot of examples of 3rd wave feminism and is often compared to Glaspell’s Trifles is the film Legally Blonde (2001). The film is about a woman named Elle Woods who’s only goal in life is to marry her boyfriend Warner. But then he breaks up with her just when she thinks he is going to propose because he will look bad marrying a blonde. So then she sets out to win him back by becoming a lawyer and going to Harvard Law School. Nobody thought she could do it because she was seen as a dumb blonde and no one took her seriously. But in the end she ended up solving a major case that surprised everyone because of her knowledge of hair care. This movie is similar to Trifles because Mrs. Peters and Mrs. Hale solved...
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...Diane Baquedano COMM 465 Take Home Assignment: Social Media 3/20/16 Social Media Take Home Assignment Part 1: Writing for Social Media My first story is from E! News. The link is http://www.eonline.com/news/750748/iggy-azalea-poses-topless-talks-feuds-with-other-artists-they-don-t-have-as-much-success-as-me The compelling news hook I selected is “Iggy Azalea Tears down Her Clothing and Gets Deep with Her Infamous Feuds” * Facebook Post- “Check out Iggy Azalea’s (hyperlinked to her FB page) topless pose for Remix magazine and read what she has to say about her feuds with other artists” (link) * 2 Twitter Posts- “Iggy Azalea poses topless for Remix magazine and talks about her infamous feuds.” Read all about it (link) #ENews! “Iggy Azalea goes topless for Remix magazine and gets deep with her interview about feuds: “They Don’t Have as Much Success as Me”” (link) #ENews! * Instagram Post- “Iggy Azalea poses topless and talks about her infamous feuds with other artists! Click the link in our bio to read more about her interview and to see more pictures from Iggy’s photo shoot with Remix magazine. #ENews!” (Iggy Azalea’s topless picture from her photo shoot) My second story is from TMZ. The link is http://www.tmz.com/?adid=TMZ_Web_Nav_News The compelling news hook I selected is “Mariah Carey Has Been Strongly Warned not to Perform her Birthday Concert in Brussels” * Facebook Post- “After the tragedy in Brussels this morning, Mariah Carey (hyperlinked...
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...description by which they were sold. In order for this condition to apply, the following criteria must be satisfied; * the sale must be by description * the seller must be a seller who deals in goods of that description The criteria are satisfied because the description was for "blonde hair dye" and a hairdresser deals in goods of that description. As the blonde hair dye did not dye Lulu's hair blonde, it breached the condition of merchantable quality. (c) Fitness for purpose the relevant criteria for this condition are; * the buyer must communicate to the seller the purpose for which the goods are required (unless the goods have only one purpose) * there must be reliance on the seller's skill or judgement * the goods must be of a kind that are in the course of the seller's business to sell The criteria for fitness for purpose are satisfied. Blonde hair dye which turns hair green when used in accordance with the instructions is not fit for the purpose. Accordingly, Lulu could rely on the breach of the implied conditions of fitness for purpose and merchantable quality...
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...Friday nights were always uneventful for Sands. While her friends were spending quality time with their respective lovers, she was stuck at home. But she never complained. It actually was good for her, to take a break from her loud mates and the generally noisy world. The break meant climbing on her roof, watching the stars. It became a habit over the years. Her father used to climb to the roof whenever he and her mother were upset at each other, of after a fight. She wondered why he went there, so she asked him. “Because the stars won’t be mad at me,” he said in a playful manner and she laughed, taking it as a joke. But, as she grew up and her father left their family, she realized he was dead serious. And he was right. The stars were peaceful, and beautiful. Such powerful, but mild forces. She loved watching them, even if she wasn’t sad, or mad. Maybe it was what kept her going. That evening, she decided she would climb on the roof earlier, to read until the sunset. But, of course, the beautiful scenery wouldn’t let her read much. The sun setting behind the little houses of the suburbs was majestic, wonderful. But it was too fiery for her, too big of a star. At least it was warm, she thought. It was still light outside when she opened a pack of crackers, her dinner for the day. Her mother worked night shift, her brother was with some friends in the city and her sister was sleeping over at her friend, so no need to cook. Crackers were better than some warmed left-overs anyways...
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...with and what she claims made her the star that she was. Her combination of beauty, sexiness, intelligence and vulnerability is what made her legendary, who continues to inspire many till this day, however that is not all that she was. Marilyn was famous for acting, modeling, singing, etc. She certainly had the whole package. However the entire world was mesmerized by her because of her sexuality and charm. She posed nude for a calendar shot and appeared on the first issue of playboy. The promotion of those photos made Monroe a very popular star. Her fame enlarged when she won a golden globe for her performance in the movie “Some like it hot”. And what launched her as a sex symbol was her appearance in big roles like” gentlemen prefer blondes” and “how to marry a millionaire”. Her dumb character was used for comedic purposes in films; however she was not dumb at all. In fact people recall her being a perspicacious and shrewd business woman who took her craft very seriously. Unlike other contemporary celebrities she was not afraid to take risks. She was smart enough to strike a balance between satisfying her appetite without disappointing the public especially her fans. Trying to preserve an impeccable stain free reputation can be quite the challenge especially with factors that interfere with the process of verifying the soundness of this reputation. Marilyn was notorious for being a major sex...
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...Being a Blonde The social construction about being a blonde has been heard around the world since as early as the 19th century and is still around today. Blonde hair has been and is considered attractive in various European cultures in history and is still seen to be the more appealing hair color. In today’s world, you can find this construction in movies and TV shows like Legally Blonde and Bob’s Burgers, and it’s even portrayed in the music industry with songs like Bridget Mendler’s “I’m a Blonde,”. This stereotype effects blonde’s everyday life’s, whether it’s how they act, or how other people act towards them. In this essay, I am going to research the history of blondes, look at how it constructs a blonde’s identity, and challenge the construction of what it means to be a “blonde” or “dumb blonde”....
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