Swan Dive

The United States of America is a big, powerful and wealthy country in the world. The diversity of class, individuality, religion, and race are a few of the embellishments within the "melting pot" of our society. The blend of these numerous diversities is the crucial ingredient to our modern nation. America has been formed upon them, its inhabitants- the "average American"- have a single means in common; a single concept; a single goal; the American Dream. The Dream consists of a seemingly simple

Broadway, it has been performed in the UK, Los Angeles, Europe, Australia, South Korea, Japan, Israel and Singapore. The story is based on the Russian romantic ballet Swan Lake, from which it takes the music by Tchajkovsky and the broad outline of the plot Bourne’s rendering is best known for having the traditionally female parts of the swans danced by men. “ My personal first reaction when I saw this ballet was “If this is original about the love between prince and princess and sorcerer who wants the

Male dominance in Hollywood cinema was still very clear in films, but at the same time, many films with women in the lead roles started to emerge most noticeably in the 20th century. These roles were of real lead characters who represented real women. With contemporary films like Twilight, Hunger Games, Gone Girl, Maleficent and Divergent, it’s evident that female protagonist films are successful in today’s era. Box Office Mojo compared the box office gross from top 25 films from 2006 to 2015, showed

The movie was exactly what it professed to be. In just the opening credits, four people got blown up and one got beheaded. The girl in front of me put her hands over her eyes and turned her face into her date's chest. He patted her shoulder, and winced occasionally, too. Mike didn't look like he was watching. His face was stiff as he glared toward the fringe of curtain above the screen. I settled in to endure the two hours, watching the colors and the movement on the screen rather than seeing

You better get up out the way Tomorrow we'll rise so let's fight today You know I don't give a fuck what you think and say 'Cause we gon' rock this whole place anyway (Undead!) You better get up out the way Tomorrow we'll rise so let's fight today You know I don't give a fuck what you think and say 'Cause we gon' rock this whole place anyway [Johnny 3 Tears:] Look up and see that motherfucking writing on the wall When you see J3T thirty deep, he's down to brawl Fuck all haters I see 'cause I hate

feel isolated from their surroundings and the people around them. The Cullen’s in the movie are automatically isolated from the rest of the town because they are the newest citizens and live outside of the town isolated from everyone else. When Bella Swan invited Edward Cullen to come to the beach with her group of friends he declined feeling like he would not be wanted there. One of the characters, Angela, had this to say while they were at the beach, “It was nice that Bella invited Edward, nobody

Kristen Stewart or mostly known as “Bella” from the movie series Twilight is a movie actress who has had many controversy on the way she portrays herself throughout media and the eye of the public. In the September cover of Nylon, Stewart stated that she feels no need of identifying or labeling her sexuality. She has chosen, “to remain vague about her sexual orientation because she doesn’t feel she has the “perspective” to do otherwise.” Her appearance as the “awkward” vampire girl, which many of

by Stephenie Meyer was the first part of a four book series that begun in 2005. The story begins with a girl and a vampire falling in love, and was the first series in a while to bring vampires back into the lime light. The girl, Elisabeth "Bella" Swan and the vampire Edward Cullen, have a complicated love that although they are destined to be together, everything is working against them to do otherwise. Throughout the work of literature, although it is a modern day love story, Twilight displays

“The Vampire Diaries Volume 1: The Awakening” is a book written by L.J. Smith and it conveys a girls love story, where she is stuck in a love triangle. The girl is named Elena Gilbert. She wants to love, however, she cannot decide whom to love. The story first begins when an attractive young man enters Elena’s same school, Fell’s Church. He is attracts many young women, however, he doesn’t care for them. His name was Stefan Salvatore. Elena was one of the many girls, who tried to capture Stefan’s

months, she decided to get a permanent reminder of her inspiration: the Twilight series of books and movies. Ward spent 22 hours and $3000 to tattoo her favorite characters on her back.” When I was sixteen I wanted to get a tattoo as well, but not extremely big, I wanted a tattoo that said either “Twilight” or a short quote from one of the books. At that time my parents didn’t let me pierce my nose let alone get a tattoo. In the same article, it claims, “The release of the third "Twilight" film has