Ellen Ripley

It was Disney’s Seventieth Anniversary on July 17 in Knox Pennsylvania and I decided to have a few friends over to celebrate this occasion. When everyone arrived we sat down to enjoy a spectacular meal made by some of my friends. When we sat down and were eating I told them that I had a story to tell then. They all leaned in as I began to tell them my tragic but amazing story. It all began on a warm summer day on July 17th in China. There was a large gathering in the fresh waters of South China Sea

Ellen DeGeneres From George Washington to Walt Disney, American icons represent something to almost all of America. Ellen DeGeneres took her title as an icon when she became a worldwide inspiration. She started her career as a stand-up comedian before leading in her own sitcom, where she made waves by coming out as gay, and is known now for her popular talk show. Apart from teaching the world to “Just keep swimming,” in her role as Dory in Pixar’s Finding Nemo, Ellen is an American icon because

Ellen DeGeneres once said that “Life is like one big Mardi Gras. But instead of showing your boobs, show people your brain, and if they like what they see, you’ll have more beads than you know what to do with and you’ll be drunk, most of the time” (DeGeneres). In the 2009 commencement speech to University of Tulane’s “Katrina Class”, she utilizes devices such as hyperbole, allusions, and rhetorical questions to make the speech effective in achieving her purpose of inspiring her audience of graduating

In my life I need a lot of courage to do the things I do every day, It takes a lot of courage to just come to school every Monday and take that test I know I am not ready for yet. Although I may need a lot of courage every day, one example really pops in my mind when I think of courage in my life. My dad, My brother and myself were all traveling to Utah for a snowboarding trip, and up there in Utah, it is a lot different than it is in Vermont or upstate New York which is where I normally go. I have

There are many characters that display different levels of Grit throughout the course of the movie. However between the father-son relationship, Marlin wins the Grit prize because he proves that it is possible to overcome a traumatic experience and although it was extremely difficult he got to the point where he was able to become vulnerable again. He was real and expressed understandable apprehension in situations that he had no control over. He truly deserves the credit because unlike most of the

If someone were to casually mention the name, Dory, it is possible that one would immediately think of the iconic, little Royal Blue Tang Fish from the film franchise, Finding Nemo (Stanton, 2013). More recently and long overdue, Finding Dory was added (Stanton, 2016). As a key element to the plot of the first film, it would be hard not to remember her. Ironically, remembering is something that the character struggles with throughout the movie, admitting as much to Marlin, another main character

The Westing Game starts out with the delivery of six letters signed by Barney Northrup, to six different households on the Fourth of July. The letters offer a once in a lifetime chance to rent an apartment at the new and luxurious Sunset Towers, located on the shores of Lake Michigan. However, in the movie, Sunset Towers was located in the city. In the book, Sunset Towers was built mostly of glass and stood five stories high. Noticed in both the book and movie, Sunset Towers oddly faces east

Jade Gifford Nelson Comp I 2 October 2015 Covergirl In 1961, Covergirl cosmetics launched nationally with their Clean Liquid Makeup, but in the late 90’s, Covergirl Cosmetics launched the campaign which sloganed the words “Easy, Breezy, and Beautiful.” This campaign takes the star of today and shows that if the product is good enough for a superstar to wear, than she can too. Aside from the “Beautiful” section of the campaign, the “Easy, and Breezy” sections of the campaign are just as important

Throughout our readings this semester, the three best topics that I have read were chapter 18, “pretending to be post racial: the spectacularization or race in reality TV’s Survivor,” chapter 22, “educating the Simpsons: Teaching queer representation in contemporary visual media,” and chapter 50, “video games and machine dreams of domination.” These specific readings helped me learn more about various forms of diversity, including race and sexuality. These chapters presented the material well, allowing

We all know the popular family movie “Finding Nemo” a kid’s movie that tells a journey of Marlin, a father clown fish, who crosses the vast ocean to find his son Nemo. During Marlin’s journey he comes across many new and scary things, but like any good children’s movie Marlin does eventually find his son Nemo and they go back home and live happily ever after. This all sounds good right? Wrong! Looking at this movie from a psychologist point of view, or in my case a psychology students’ point of view