Sarah Vowell

The film Away From Her, is a screenplay adaptation from the short story Bear came over the Mountain by Alice Munro. The story focuses around the relationship of Fiona and Grant, an Ontario couple married over 40 years. The couple is forced to face that fact that Fionas forgetfulness is actually Alzheimers disease. After Fiona wanders away and is found after being lost, she realizes that she can no longer live at home. Fiona has too much self-pride for herself, and too much pity for Grant, to subject

I – Sarah Baartman and the Politics of Looking “The expropriation and appropriation of Sarah Baartman by the colonial and capitalist gaze has lasted long enough. It is not a good idea to create new images of her, because each new image repeats and continues the past exploitation and humiliation of her body.” In the article The arena of imaginings: Sarah Bartmann and the ethics of representation, Rosemarie Buikema looks into the controversy around Willie Bester’s statue of Sarah Baartman

Saturday Night Live On August 29th, 2008 Senator John McCain announced his decision of electing Sarah Palin as his Vice Presidential Candidate. This declaration provoked controversy amongst many of the United States citizens and while the majority of the people supported McCain, there were still a select few of both the republican and democratic parties that were bewildered by his decision. They view Sarah Palin as ignorant and someone who could not play any significant part in running the United States

celebrities with friends” (Cox 5). Another example of how celebrities are changing is Tina Fey and the 2008 Presidential Election. Tina Fey impersonated Sarah Palin on Saturday Night Live (SNL) during the 2008 Presidential Election and had a small effect on the election, according to “The Fey Effect: Young Adults, Political Humor, and Perceptions of Sarah Palin in the 2008 Presidential Election Campaign.” The authors suggest that the performance is “associated with changes in attitudes toward her selection

bunny and etc. is such a wonderful feeling to endure. Some people however, have this disgusting urge in them as to hurt such innocent animals. I have watched many commercials related to such crimes, but there was one that mainly stuck out with me with Sarah McLachlan. The video asks people to stop cat and dog abuse by making us views feel sympathy, through a mellow tone, vivid images, and effectively using arrangement and statistics. I could never push myself to hurt such selfless animals. They don’t

The Ohio University Theater Division’s production of In the Next Room, or the Vibrator Play explored the use of vibration therapy in the early 20th century as a way to cure hysteria. The playwright Sarah Ruhl beautifully uses the intertwining lives lives of a doctor his patients and his wife to examine female sexuality, male incompetence, science, marriage, and love. Most of the plot has to do with female and male patients being treated for hysteria and what outcome the vibrator has on the lives

something very ordinary but just surprising. Media feeding frenzies can sometimes be warranted, and other times they just seem to happen because there’s nothing else for them to latch onto at the time. Billygate, Jimmy Carter’s “killer rabbit” and Sarah Palin being announced as John McCain’s running mate in 2008 are just a few examples of media feeding frenzies. In “Feeding Frenzy” by Larry Sabato he is critical of the characteristics of the media in situations where they openly ridicule and attack

Political Cartoons Another type of political comedy that is often undervalued today is political cartoons. Prior to the television becoming a mainstream medium, political cartoons constituted the majority of political comedy. This power stemmed from the fact that political cartoons were often presented in print media, such as newspapers and magazines. As print media has fallen out of demand, however, political cartoons ceded their position to late-night comedy shows. This is not to suggest that

It was one of those days. A bad anxiety day. After taking a break from school, and not having any classes to attend or exams to take, these didn’t come very frequently anymore. I liked history but just the thought of having to be on campus, or alone in that room, away from everything I considered home, scared me. The panic attacks had scarred me, traumatized me, and changed me into someone I couldn’t recognize anymore. I had always been a shy person that would overthink everything but it wasn’t

Sarah Ruhl’s Eurydice presents a modern interpretation and extension of the classic Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice while employing an untraditional and unique structure. There are in turn several interconnected structural choices that are purposely done and have significant implications on the play’s meaning. For instance, Ruhl meticulously and shrewdly contrasts significant climactic moments with trivial arguments and discussions. This is done in order to enhance the contrast between the mythic