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    Jane Fonda Biography

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    Jane Fonda (born Jayne Seymour Fonda;[1] December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She is a two-time Academy Award winner. In 2014, she was the recipient of the American Film Institute AFI Life Achievement Award. Fonda made her Broadway debut in the 1960 play There Was a Little Girl, for which she received the first of two Tony Award nominations, and made her screen debut later the same year in Tall Story. She rose to fame in 1960s

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    Welcome back to our list of 15 things you didn't know about Jane Fonda. You can find part one here. She is an actress, writer and activist who comes from a family full of actors, which includes her father Henry Fonda and brother Peter Fonda. Jane is also a cancer survivor, she underwent a lumpectomy in November of 2010. Number Five: She Purchased A Movie To Act With Her Father Jane had a hard time connecting with her father. They were estranged for many years. She decided to purchase a script called

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    and present is too hard to ignore when dealing with acts of racism. With just a first glance there is no way to tell that the audience is looking directly at the fervent passion that filled the icons of Martin Luther King Jr., Richard Nixon and Jane Fonda but thankfully the description on the side tells the viewer whose hands are depicted (1). The year is 1957 and the very first civil rights legislation is successfully passed by congress: the voting rights bill (1). Triumph. I sat and witnessed my

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    1. To what degree did the feminist movement bring about a shift in American society and culture? How does the film 9 to 5 comment on this shift? Compare and contrast 9 to 5, both in its production and content, to at least two other class films featuring women in the professional workplace. The feminist movement during the 1970s brought about a shift in American society and culture to a degree that allowed for several changes to occur. The film Nine to Five comments on this shift through its writing

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    David Coalson decided to enlist in the Marines only a month after his eighteenth birthday. “I wanted to be able to choose what I was going to do, rather than be told”, there was no end of the school year celebration this year. Coalson was going to something much worse, bootcamp. Bootcamp seemed to be forever but ended up flying by and before he knew it, he was shipped to Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. There was problems going down in Cuba however nothing to what he was about to face. All these events, graduating

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    Chris Crocker

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    One of cinema's most unexpected, artistically fertile iterations in the 21st century is the viral video, a Warholian flash of lightning: brief, often concept-less, zigzagging across the globe on bright computer/phone screens, and then, just as quickly, vanishing from relevance. This new medium's Meliesian pioneer is a mercurial figure whose fifteen minutes of fame has miraculously protracted into a decade's-worth of cultish, vaudevillian mini-movies; their deranged comedy, hot-topic commentary, and

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    The film is based on the lives and experiences of three women who work at a large corporate office known as Consolidated Industries. The three women are Judy Bernly (Jane Fonda), Violet Newstead (Lily Tomlin), and Doralee Rhodes (Dolly Parton). The head of the corporate offices is Franklin Hart Jr. (Dabney Coleman), and he is a chauvinistic tyrant who works everybody hard especially the women. He believes that women are inferior to men and says so to Violet when she gets passed over again for

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    Forget the Jane Fonda workouts and the Richard Simmons DVDs - if you want to get in shape just turn on the Barry White and do what comes naturally. It turns out that healthy sex has benefits that go well beyond simply burning calories, and can improve your physical, mental, and emotional well-being. Although many of these benefits are seemingly obvious, few people have taken the time to think about them. As Joy Davidson, PhD, a New York psychologist and sex therapist, said in an interview with WebMD

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    The Power of Eve Ensler's The Vagina Monologues When Obie award-winning author and playwright, Eve Ensler, began collecting testimonials from women across the country regarding their experiences with sexuality, she had no idea what would eventually occur as a result of her innovative ideas. Ensler gathered 200 monologues from women, and wove them into a play that represents the strength and vitality of female sexuality. The Vagina Monologues were first performed in the basement of New York

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    Chapter 12 Questions

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    Chapter 12 Making a job offer 1. Recommend whether Jane should receive a best-shot, competitive, or low-ball offer, and why. I would recommend that the best-shot offer is given to Jane. This is the best chance we would have to securing Jane for the position. She already advised that she was up for a promotion at her current job and offering her less than the best may make her decide to stay and wait for the promotion. The 45 minutes mile move might change her children’s school district which

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