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The rise of Kim Campbell as Canada's first female Prime Minister is considered by many to be that of a phenomenon. Webster's Dictionary describes a phenomenon as being something of significant or rare, either fact or event. This can be shown by the rise of Kim Campbell from a local Vancouver School Board Trustee, to becoming Prime Minister of Canada. Of course, this success was dependent on her ability and ambition to succeed in what is still considered in contemporary terms as being a male dominated

Monologue in Prison Meeting Room Young woman is sitting on a plastic chair behind a table. Its one of those ‘I hate to say I told you so’ situations. I know, you warned me about him. You warned me about him till you were blue in the face. But, you know, in some ways that made it all the more exciting, gave him some mystery. You were the one who introduced him to me, the night we went to The Fleece

A Close Reading for the Movie Trailer of: Vertigo The main characters that are featured in Vertigo, are James Steward, also known as John Ferguson, and Kim Novak, who plays the role of Madeleine and Judy. In the movie preview, there are strange incidents that occur to the characters which makes it easy to conclude the film is quite unsettling. On the contrary, the sequence of events, lead to the purpose of the ad for the movie Vertigo, and it works quite well together. The trailer depicts an

You will never be the ideal image of beauty. What defines beauty is forever changing. The 20th century’s boom in electronics and entertainment helped form an egotistical era. Social media platforms such as facebook, twitter, instagram, and youtube produced new fads and trends that manipulate society into following. These platforms have targeted people’s insecurities to make them believe that they need to be fixed so they can feel accepted by society. Self improvement is never a bad thing but, nowadays

Comparison and Contrast Recently while watching two old film classics, Vertigo and Notorious, I found myself thinking of other movies directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Most of his movies have many things in common, while remaining completely independent of each other. These two films have different plots, actors, and most obvious one is filmed in color the other black and white. Which leads me to believe that Alfred Hitchcock really knew what he was about; as a result his films all a have a distinctive

The Social Learning Theory is a theory created by Bandura that often references children and young adults. Social Learning is observational learning, the basic idea behind it is that we can’t learn all we need to know on our own from experiences and personal observations alone. Some of the we learned is learned from indirect sources, this includes mass media. While mass media isn’t the only source of social learning it is one that has an extremely large effect on us all. According to McQuail (2010)

major personality differences between Baldwin and Basinger. Alec is an extrovert, whereas Kim is an introvert. The Myers-Briggs personalities for Baldwin and Basinger show major differences as well. Kim Basinger is an INTP - logician and Baldwin is an ESTP - Entrepreneur. Both personality types have a tendency for insensitiveness and a lack of agreeableness, both of which can put strain on a relationship. Kim and Alec both come across as very neurotic and both of them have been reported to call the

Rainman, 1988, directed by Barry Levinson is a drama, that revolves around Charlie Babbitt (Tom Cruise) and his autistic brother Raymond (Dustin Hoffman). Charlie is unaware of his brothers existence until the death of their father, when he goes to collect his inheritance from his father’s lawyer he learns that Raymond was left all three million dollars of his father’s money. Unsatisfied with only receiving a car and rose bush from his father, Charlie takes Raymond with him to Los Angeles, as ransom

The Rain Man stars Dustin Hoffman and Tom Cruise. The movie was made in 1988. The movie is about an autistic man named Raymon, who is a idiot savant played by Dustin Hoffman and his fast, talking self absorbed, egocentric brother Charlie Babbitt, who is played by Tom Cruise. A egocentric person is a person with the simple recognition that every living thing views the world from a unique, self-oriented perspective(LIFE: Inherently Egocentric written by James Craig Green http://pw2.netcom.com/ zeno7/ego

Instagram has a platform to perceive their lives to be the perfect life to live. Instagram has millions of women who have hundreds to thousands of followers, and these women are considered to be living the ideal life. Women such as Khloe Kardashian, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner, Cardi B, and so much more. These women’s Instagram pages consist of them living the high life and flaunting their “perfect” Bodies. Most of the pictures posted on their Instagram page masks the reality of their lives. Instagram