Gilmore Girls Essays

  • Gilmore Girls Character Analysis

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    Gilmore Girls: A Year in The Life takes place over the course of one year and is episodes are divided into the four seasons (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Fall). Amy Sherman-Palladino and husband Dan Palladino take us directly back into the fast-paced world of Stars Hollow four months after Richard’s death, which was written into the script after the tragic passing of actor, Edward Herrmann, and the storyline of the three generations of the Gilmore girls (Emily, Lorelai, and Rory) is how they each

  • Gilmore Girls: An Artifact Analysis of Cognitive Dissonance

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    distinctive types of communication. The theory of Cognitive Dissonance provides insight into the classic conundrum of knowing or believing one thing and doing another. An artifact analysis of this theory, using the ABC Family television series Gilmore Girls, will supply a clearer understanding of the complicated phenomena. Cognitive Dissonance Described American social psychologist and original developer of the theory of Cognitive Dissonance Leon Festinger breaks down his theory into two main parts

  • Gilmore Girls vs. Freud

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    The creator of Gilmore Girls, Amy Sherman-Palladino, thought mother-daughter relationships would make a compelling television series. She had always been fascinated by the “everyone knows each other’s business” characteristic of small towns. When she decided to combine the two, Gilmore Girls was born. On the surface, it is a simple show about a self-absorbed single mom trying to raise a daughter while coping with her own overbearing mother. By more closely analyzing each character’s witty banter

  • Mother-Daughter Relationships In Carrie And Gilmore Girls

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    Adolescence is the point in a person’s life that plays a vital role in the formation of the man or woman they are to become. Not every journey or experience is the same, but every girl and boy has to go through it to officially be ushered into the adult world. For a young lady, the most important thing in her journey to womanhood is her mother. The mother plays the role in guiding her daughter through her adolescent experiences in a healthy way. She is able to use her experiences to teach her daughter

  • Primate Behavior In Gilmore Girls

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    The show I chose to watch in order to observe similarities among primate behavior was Gilmore Girls. Even though the title of this shows implies that girls will be the main character of the show, there are equal amounts of men roles if not more. What I found interesting though, was that the women tend to stick together in packs and the men tend to tackle like more on their own. It could be due to a mother, daughter bond that is going on, but I am going to infer that women are more dependent on community

  • Sigmund Freud's Psychoanalysis and the Characters in Amy Sherman-Palladino's Gilmore Girls

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    the creator of Gilmore Girls, essentially wrote the show about nothing. After not having a job for years, Sherman had writer’s block. On television, everything she saw seemed the same, identical characters and paralleling plots, she desired to create something different. Once, she had visited the small town of Washington, Connecticut and loved the “everyone knows everything” idea. So she thought, “Why not make a show about it?” After tweaks by the production company, Gilmore Girls was born. Although

  • Gilmore Girls

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    stream series from tablets, pc’s and also cell phones now, which has completely changed the interaction standard, let alone what it is people take from the experience. People may not intentionally try to take something from watching 11 episodes of Gilmore Girls in one sitting, but it just comes to show how times

  • Ry The Smart Kid Analysis

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    Rory, The “Smart” One: Look Where She is Now Fans of the original TV series Gilmore Girls know and (most of us) love Rory Gilmore. She represents a certain American Dream for young girls who strive for what could be considered an ideal feminist path. Rory was born to a single, teenage mother and the pair, through hard work, dedication, and a few family favors manages to send her to a top-rate, private preparatory school. Chilton Academy, although not the foundation of her success, would certainly

  • Miramax Films To Hit Web

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    may actually end up on the networks fall schedule. The three series first is called Finally Home, which stars Melissa Gilbert who plays a mother who lost her twin daughters and now councils children who lost siblings or relatives. The second is Gilmore Girls, which is a mother/daughter drama set in a small town in Connecticut. The last one is called DIG, which goes behind the scenes of a Los Angeles School Department.

  • Gilmore Girls: A Short Story

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    After I can't even remember how many Gilmore Girls episodes. We finally decide to call it a night. I flip off the tv and slowly make my way up to my bedroom. I kept yawning, the idea of driving all the way home tomorrow didn't sound like fun. I crawl under my covers and quickly fall sound asleep. Tink. Tink. Tink. I stir in my bed, did Scarlet not fully turn the facet off? Tink. Tink. The little noise slowly gets louder. I then realize it isn't coming from my bathroom. It's coming from my window

  • Gilmore Girls Mother Daughter Relationship

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    characters could be happy and loved made me more accepting of the changes in my own family’s dynamics. Shows like Gilmore Girls and Parenthood helped expand my definition of what a family could be. In this paper, I’m going to compare and contrast the mother-daughter relationships between Gilmore Girls’ Lorelai and Rory Gilmore and Parenthood’s Sarah Braverman and Amber Holt. Gilmore Girls was a series about Lorelai, a 32-year-old single mother, and her 16-year-old daughter Rory (although, technically

  • Gender Bias In Parenthood, Riverdale, And Gilmore Girls

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    Today’s media and social television affects and influences gender bias among society and teachers in many different ways. Looking into a couple of television shows; Parenthood, Riverdale, and Gilmore Girls the audience can start to understand the way television shapes gender bias. By exploring the different television shows, one will receive a better understanding of how gender bias is portrayed by today's medias. Parenthood is a drama and comedy tv show that ran from 2010-2015. This show delves

  • Native Dye Plants of the United States

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    of bringing non-adapted species of Europe to North America we need to learn what native adapted species can fulfill our needs and wants (Gilmore 1977). For example, we spend thousands of dollars feeding, sheltering, and caring for European cattle when we have native bovines, bison which are naturally adapted to the climate and environment. Melvin Randolph Gilmore sums this idea up well in the following quote: "The country can not be wholly made over and adjusted to a people of foreign habits and

  • Gender & Jim Crow: Book Review

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    In Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s book Gender & Jim Crow, Gilmore illustrates the relations between African Americans and white in North Caroline from 1896 to 1920, as well as relations between the men and women of the time. She looks at the influences each group had on the Progressive Era, both politically and socially. Gilmore’s arguments concern African American male political participation, middle-class New South men, and African American female political influences. The book follows a narrative

  • Billy Budd Essay: Themes of Good and Evil

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    and Evil in Billy Budd Many themes relating to the conflict between Good and Evil can be found in Herman Melville's novella Billy Budd.  Perhaps one of the most widely recognized themes in Billy Budd is the corruption of innocence by society (Gilmore 18). Society in Billy Budd is represented by an eighteenth century English man-of-war, the H.M.S. Bellipotent.  Billy, who represents innocence, is a young seaman of twenty-one who is endowed with physical strength, beauty, and good nature (Voss

  • The Long Road To Manhood

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    The Long Road To Manhood While most people might think that becoming a man is much easier than becoming a woman, this is not true of all cultures around the world. According to Gilmore, becoming a man is problematic (1990). Accordingly, in some cultures, such as the Sambia of New Guinea and the Samburu tribe in Africa, becoming a man constitutes a tremendous amount of rituals. In other cultures, such as the Mundurucu tribe of Brazil, becoming a man, while a lot more complicated than becoming

  • The Themes of How Sharp Snaffles got his Capital and Wife

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    The Themes of “How Sharp Snaffles got his Capital and Wife” Romance, ‘The Big Lie’, humor, and Moral, “How Sharp Snaffles got his Capital and Wife” contains all of these in a wonderfully written story by William Gilmore Simms. Sit back and enjoy a “potation”(423) from a “corpulent barrel of Western uisquebaugh ”(422) while I argue my truths or is that ‘Lie’. This romantic story is about the trails and tribulations Sam Snaffles endured to capture the affections of Mary Ann Hopson. Sam describes

  • The Theme of Capital Punishment in Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song

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    view are present. Since the main topic of the book is the murders that Gary Gilmore committed and the controversy of his sentence, it was difficult to choose the exact thesis. I believe I came pretty close with the one that I have chosen. I believe that Norman Mailer's thesis in The Executioner's Song (1979) is: The controversy over capital punishment. One reason I believe that this is the thesis is because Gary Gilmore says, "Nicole my inclination is to let them execute me." (473) By Gary telling

  • Aberdeen's Influence on Kurt Cobain

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    The town is about four miles wide and three miles long. On the northern and eastern sides of town are steep hills where the richer families live in Victorian-style houses. At the foot of the hills is the poorer part of Aberdeen where Kurt grew up. (Gilmore 44) Seattle is known to get a lot of rain. Aberdeen gets more: they get up to seven feet a year. The rain casts a "constant, dreary pall over the town" (Azerrad 11). Route 12 into Aberdeen is "bordered by an endless succession of trailer parks"

  • American's Overuse of Cell Phones

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    From alarm clocks to step counters, price checkers to language teachers, smart phones these days have it all. Add instant connectivity to people across the globe, and it’s no wonder young adults are using their phones almost eight hours a day (qtd. in Spend Your Hour). Ironically, excessive cell phone use has neither increased productivity nor created stronger relationships—quite the contrary, actually. University of Maryland researchers are studying whether cell phones cause selfishness