Angelina Jolie Essays

  • Importance Of Jolie And Angelina Jolie

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    responsible for their property, Angelina Jolie and Justin Bieber. According to Wikipedia, Angelina Jolie is an “active American actress, film director, screenwriter, and author. She has received an Academy Award, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and three Golden Globe Awards, and was named Hollywood's highest-paid actress.” Also, according to Look to the stars, a website dealing with celebrities’ charities, due to her pecuniary wealth and ample compassion, “Jolie has been on field missions around

  • Angelina Jolie Hero

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    Goodwill Ambassador, actress and devoted mother, Angelina Jolie stands out as a modern day hero. On June 4, 1975, Angelina Jolie Voight was born to an established Hollywood actor John Voight and the part-Iroquois, part-French actress and model Marcheline Bertrand. Angelina wasn’t even 1 year old before her parents split up and her mother moved back to the East Coast taking Angelina and her brother James with her. Despite her parent divorce, Angelina Jolie’s childhood was a happy one filled with snakes

  • The Humanitarian Work of Angelina Jolie

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    movement first started by Jackie Coogan in the 1920s (Babkenian, 2011), celebrity humanitarianism is becoming increasingly more popular with names such as Bono, Oprah Winfrey, and Angelina Jolie serving as modern day examples of celebrities who are involved with humanitarian works. Of these “humanitarian celebrity’s,” Angelina Jolie, who is heavily involved in humanitarian work around the globe, has a great amount of criticism and praise for her work. Along side Brad Pitt, she has seen increasing popularity

  • The Life of Angelina Jolie

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    “We come to love not by finding the perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly,” said Angelina Jolie (“Angelina Jolie Quotes” 2). An imperfect person is made when one believes another is good the way they are, regardless of their flaws. Angelina Jolie is the definition of understanding the imperfect, as she realizes she is not perfect. Angelina Jolie is a phenomenal actress that is not only known for her substantial role in Hollywood. She is also known for her intriguing

  • Angelina Jolie Research Paper

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    Angelina Jolie has been known to comfort and aid with refugees across the world. In the year of 2001, Angelina Jolie became an official goodwill ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioners for Refugees. She has comforted, visited, and been with refugees in more than 20 countries. She has traveled to Sierra Leone, Afghanistan, and Iraq to meet up the needs of these people. Angelina Jolie has risen awareness for the thousands upon thousands displaced people who had to flee Darfur from murder

  • The Similarities between Angelina Jolie and Beowulf

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    others and do their best to create a change in the world. Beowulf, an extraordinary warrior in the Anglo Saxon period, is an epic hero because of his pride, strength and courage. He fought many battles in order to protect the Danes from chaos. Angelina Jolie, like Beowulf, is a hero because she defeats every impediment to help and fight against inequality. Heroes do not wait still in one place. Heroes step beyond frontiers to provide hope and help to those who have none. Heroes even make the sacrifice

  • Angelina Jolie Research Paper

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    Angelina Jolie Autobiography On a sunny day in Los Angeles, California on June 4 , 1975 an actress named Angelina Jolie was born. Angelina was born to an actor named Jon Voight who was well known for his role in “Coming Home” and an actress Marcheline Betrand. Angelina was the youngest of her siblings , she had an older brother named James Haven. When Angelina was two her parents split and she moved to Palisades, New York with her mother and brother. While growing up money was tight ,but her

  • Angelina Jolie Pitt Fact Sheet

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    "Angelina Jolie Pitt Fact Sheet." The UN Refugee Agency. United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. Web. 29 Oct. 2015. . In this article published by the UNHCR, it describes Angelina Jolie as an incredible humanitarian. Jolie has been the recipient of many awards including the Citizen of the World Award, the Global Humanitarian Award and the Freedom Award. Her humanitarian efforts sparked while she in Cambodia filming an action movie in 2000. By 2001 Jolie was named a UNHCR Goodwill ambassador

  • The World Class Woman: The Life of Angelina Jolie

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    Angelina Jolie was born June 4, 1975 in Los Angeles, California to actor Jon Voight, and actress Bertrand. She has one older brother James Haven. Angelina graduated from high school at age 16. She then attended New York University. Angelina started acting at a young age. She became popular by taking on the title role Lara Croft. Off-screen Angelina has become involved in international charity projects. Especially those involving refugees. She often appears in many Most Beautiful Women lists, and

  • What Would Freud, Diamond and Frankl Say about Angelina Jolie

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    In the works by Freud, Diamond and Frankl they discuss how a person should live. In the life of Angelina Jolie, they would all have different opinions on if she is living her life correctly or not. In her life she has countless ups and downs. She is an award winning actress, film director, screenwriter, and author. She worked in humanitarian causes for example; Special Envoy, Goodwill, and as The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. She has been condemned for different reasons too. Most

  • Analysis Of Group Media Assignment: Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt

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    Assignment- Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are one of the most well known celebrity couples in the World. Angelina, an Oscar-winning actress whose parents were both actors, has made over 100 million dollars in her career. Angelina’s fiancé Brad, an equally successful Golden Globe actor, is considered to be one of the world’s most attractive men. Angelina and Brad first met in late 2004 while filming the 2005 movie “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” in which they co-starred. Angelina has

  • Parenting Styles Of Angelina Jolie

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    “Once you get exposed to what’s really happening in the world, and other people’s realities, you just can’t ever not know,” states Angelina Jolie in her profile piece in the New York Times (Buckley 2017). Statements like these unveil the reality of an immense privilege. Jolie is unlike the average white woman in America; the interview with New York Times fundamentally shows how her skin color paired with her class and immense wealth allow her to excel through some of the hardest troughs of life.

  • Gone in 60 Seconds

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    "Hello ladies! I always was a sucker for a redhead". Angelina Jolie whispers as she slides into a bright red Ferrari and drives it away at record speed. Eleanor. What, you ask? You have to be living in a box if you don't know what Eleanor is. She's the unicorn. As for the rest of us, you know exactly what I'm talking about. Gone in 60 Seconds is an amazing, fast paced, sit on the edge of your seat movie. Is that my opinion? Yes it is, but there are millions of people who agree with me too

  • Rhetorical Analysis Of Angelina Jolie's Speech For Refugees

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    days before Angelina made her speech in 2009 the UNHCR (United nations high commissioner for refugees) reported 42 million refugees worldwide, now they report there being 65 million. At World Refugee day, Angelina Jolie makes a compelling speech about the severity of the situation for refugees around the globe. She uses moving anecdotes, vivid imagery and uses all three of the argumentative appeals to stir emotion in the audience that something must be done about refugees in need. Jolie makes three

  • A Latina In Academia Summary

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    In Lugo-Lugos article she quotes passages from AskMen.com. The quotes are comparing the actress’ Angelina Jolie and Penelope Cruz to one another. Her reasoning behind this decision is that she wants to show her audience how a mainstream website perceives these two women. Angelina is described first and foremost as a humanitarian. With her beauty being a secondary description of her. Angelina Jolie is a white woman which arguably has something to do with this stellar description. On the other hand

  • girl interrupted review

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    look like a youth home rather than a mental institution. but only the main (well known) stars, (Jolie and Ryder) were focal piont. I'll also note that about half the young girls in the movie, Ryder and Jolie included, simply don't look like girls in the 1960's. Maybe that's a difficult statement to explain, but it has to do with that certain look each time and generation seems to have; and Ryder and Jolie don't look like girls of the 1960's. Of course, one could easily say that their displacement is

  • Lara Croft: Tomb Raider Challenging Gender Dichotomy

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    the idealized woman figure, with a man’s touch. In the movies, Lara Croft: Tomb Raider and the sequel Tomb Raider: Cradle of Life, the main roll of Lara Croft is played by actress Angelina Jolie. She has the typical idealized look for such a role, small waist, large breasts, and overall “fit” demeanor. Angelina Jolie fits all the necessary criteria for the starring role, she is viewed by many people as a sex object, an image of their desire that they can fantasize about, but will never really be

  • Brad Pitt Research Paper

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    William Bradley Pitt William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is a very well known American actor and producer.“Success is a beast. And it actually puts the emphasis on the wrong thing. You get away with more instead of looking within.” (Brad Pitt).William Bradley "Brad" Pitt is a very well-known American actor and producer.As a public figure, Pitt has been cited as one of the most influential and powerful people in the American entertainment industry, as well as the world's most attractive man, by

  • Self-Reflection by Mirror

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    I am writing to you that I analyze Raina Kelley’s “Beauty is Defined, and Not By You” a short article which is one of the requirement article to determine we should or should not publish to the Shorthorn. In my opinion, we should publish the Raina Kelley’s article of the body because she had expressed the main point between the difference of beauty and appearance by using logo, pathos and ethos that consider to UTA community such as relationship, employment, health, and economic. It all relates to

  • Life For A Refugee In Syria

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    When accepting the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award Angelina Jolie says “...across the world, there is a woman, with the same abilities and the same desires, same work ethic and love for her family, who would most likely make better films and better speeches. Only she sits in a refugee camp and she has no voice. She worries about what her children will eat, how to keep them safe, and if they’ll ever be allowed to return home. I don’t know why this is my life and that’s hers.” Life for a refugee