Julie & Julia Essays

  • Julie And Julia

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    Julie & Julia should not be considered a feminist text. Katha Pollit’s review of Julie & Julia as a feminist text is inaccurate, as the film is laced with patriarchal views and underlying sexism. Julie & Julia also fails to be inclusive of a range of women and the problems they face, and so Julie & Julia should not be called a feminist film. The textbook definition of intersectional feminism states that “Women experience oppression in varying configurations and in varying degrees of intensity.”

  • Rebellion: Noble or Immature?

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    Quentin Miller and Julie. Connections: Literature for Composition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 215-224. Ovid. "Metamorphoses." Nash, Quentin Miller and Julie. Connections: Literature for Composition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 393-395. Thomas, Dylan. "Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night." Nash, Quentin Miller and Julie. Connections: Literature for Composition. New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. 303. Updike, John. "A&P." Nash, Quentin Miller and Julie. Connections:

  • Obedience or Rebellion?

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    Shirley. “The Lottery.” Connections: Literature for Composition. Ed. Miller, Quentin and Nash, Julie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. (225-32) Ovid. “Metamorphoses.” Connections: Literature for Composition. Ed. Miller, Quentin and Nash, Julie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. (393-95) Updike, John. “A & P.” Connections: Literature for Composition. Ed. Miller, Quentin and Nash, Julie. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 2008. (243-49)

  • Meryl Streep

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    the public eye through her talent in plays, Streep landed a role in an early television series in 1977 called, The Deadliest Season and in 1978, she won an emmy for Holocaust after garnering attention from a previous role in a movie, titled Julia. After Julia, however, th... ... middle of paper ... ...on. Columbia Pictures, 2009. Film. "Streep, Meryl (1949-)." Gale Student Resources in Context. UXL Biographies, 2003. Web. 7 Feb. 2011. retrieve.do?contentSet=GSRC&resultListType=RESULT_LIST&qrySerId=Locale%28en%2C%2C%29%3AFQE%3D%28ke%2C

  • Internet Shorthand

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    u? GUY1: co’, btw did u hear about joe GUY2: no GUY1: imho, hes crazy :) he told julia that he wanted 2 8==D her @ the mall GUY2: roflmao! :) ur right, hes crazy GUY1: 4 real GUY2: hey, I g2g, ttyl GUY1: l8r Any guess on to what is going on? Well, I’ll go ahead and give you the basic rundown on what the conversation said: Guy1 was commenting on how is friend Joe asked a girl (Julia) if they could have consensual sex together in the local mall. Guy2 found this exchange very

  • Habits That Hinder Thinking

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    John and Julie, your two best friends, have just read an article about the death penalty. It explains the reasons why death by lethal injection is a legitimate punishment for certain crimes. As Julie reads the article, she strongly agrees with what the author has to say. “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth,” she imagines. Without examining the ideas that are involved, she’s satisfied with everything the article says because, “It’s only fair.” John, on the other hand, is deeply offended

  • The Influences of Sor Juana and Julia de Burgos

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    The Influences of Sor Juana and Julia de Burgos Most every human being has encountered a time in their life when he or she has felt suppressed. However, not every person has stood up against the people and forces that have kept them oppressed. It takes a truly extraordinary person to stand up for their self and to take a stand for the greater good of others. According to Clare Booth Luce: “courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount.” The Mexican writer, Sor Juana Ines de

  • How the Characters in 1984 Rebel Against Oppression

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    including free speech, freedom of press or even freedom of thought. Even the details like the history of the known world are changed by a corrupt and ever growing political party, which is managed and run by un-emotional and odious officials. From Julia, who rebels by purely simple, sexual acts, to Winston, who dreams to overthrow the party; all the characters have their own personal way of dealing with the oppression. One example of rebelling against the party is that of Julia’s sexual escapades

  • Educating Rita

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    which is set in the early 1980s, deals with the clashes between education and culture. It is about a middle-aged university lecturer called Frank. He is currently in a relationship with Julia. This relationship is not going too well as Frank is an alcoholic and would much rather go to the pub than go home to Julia. There is also Rita a 26-year-old woman who didn’t have a good education when she left school due to her parents’ working class background. She is now keen and eager to learn even

  • The Civil War of Rome

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    which at the time were Caesar, Pompey, and Crassus. This was never truly working all that great, but held itself together by the marriage of Caesar's daughter Julia, to Pompey, and the friendship Caesar and Crassus shared. But, all this came to an end when Crassus was killed in a battle against a Parthian army. Then, not too long afterwards, Julia was murdered by someone who had broken into her home. This, destroyed the bond between Caesar and Pompey, and made them drift apart. Caesar seeing all this

  • Critique of Story Haircut

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    that small town, although some people find his jokes funny as long as they are not on them. There are many examples of those on whom Jim always makes annoying jokes such as Milt who "has got an Adams apple that looks more like a mushmelon" Julie Gregg and especially Paul Dickson who fell out of a tree when he was about ten years old : "Lit on his head and it done something to him and he ain’t never been right. No harm in him, but just silly." Paul is the most important one among them

  • Merry Christmas

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    trauma. Dave called me as I was driving home from my boyfriend, Mike’s house and said that he needed to talk to me about Julie, my best friend and his girlfriend. Because we were also good friends, I, of course, agreed. He was driving home from a basketball camp and said he would call again when he was on his way over. I thought nothing of it because I knew that he and Julie had recently taken a break from each other in order to possibly save their relationship, just like Mike and I had done almost

  • Virginia Woolf - Moving Beyond a Convoluted Memory of Her Parents

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    Virginia Woolf - Moving Beyond a Convoluted Memory of Her Parents Why would I start with Julia Duckworth Stephen to get to Virginia Woolf? One answer is Virginia’s often quoted statement that "we think back through our mothers if we are women" (Woolf, A Room of One’s Own). Feminism is rooted not just in a response to patriarchy but also in the history of females and their treatment of each other. Part of feminism is a reevaluation of the value of motherhood. But what does Virginia’s mother

  • I Know What You Did Last Summer

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    names are Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray, and the killer (we will find out his name at the end of the book). Last summer all four of them (Julie, Helen, Barry, Ray) went to a party, on the fourth of July, and hit a boy with their car on the way home from the party. They had been drinking and had used some drugs so if they had stayed at the accident, they would be put in jail. They called the police and then leaved the seen. A year latter, still no one knew it was then who hit the boy; Julie got an interesting

  • My Mom Committed Suicide

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    if I am some door prize she has just won. The dialogue is more or less the same. "Y'all, I would like you meet my granddaughter Julie." Under my breath I correct her, "My name isn't Julie," while still keeping that fake smile on my face that I mastered years ago. She politely restates her introduction: "This is my granddaughter Jobi, Julie's daughter, my middle child. Julie passed away a few years ago." It is at this moment that all noise drowns out and the only words I hear are those spoken through

  • The Relaxation Factor of Spas

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    different types of people visit spas. A writer for About.com, Julie Register, explains the different types of people who visit spas. She says, “people like a traveler that has jet lag, a mother who would like to break away from her children for awhile, or even a person who is experiencing acne, visit spas” (Register). While looking for the origin of the word “spa,” I found on the internet that there are many possible origins. Julie Register from About.com says a possible origin is from the Latin

  • Dying to Babysit

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    it was all right if I came too.  They wanted us to come over about six that evening. When we got over there Mrs. Smith introduced her two year old daughter named Julie to us.  Mr. and Mrs. Smith didn't leave right away because they wanted Julie to get to know us better.  Mrs. Smith told Susan and I that Julie could stay up until 8:00 P.M.. She also told us she had been having problems with her telephone.  There must have been something wrong with the connection because when

  • Rodgers and Hammerstein

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    the musical Carousel opened at the Majestic Theatre in New York. It was based on the play entitled Liliom by Ferenc Molnar. This was a story about a young man named Billy Bigelow and his young wife Julie Jordan. Billy is a carnival barker, but soon looses his job. This upsets him because he knows that Julie is about to have a child, so he attempts to get more money by means of robbery. He then is forced to kill himself to escape arrest. Billy then goes to Heaven. Some time later, Billy is allowed to

  • Conflict in the Short Story Weekend

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    If it were told through the eyes of George, the reader would then believe Lenore to be actually a “simple” woman. However because it is told through Lenore we understand how she is truly feeling about this situation; “Lenore feels that she is like Julie: Julie’s face doesn’t betray emotion, even when she is interested, even when she deeply cares.” (Beattie 37) This lets the reader know that Lenore does care what is going on with George and Sarah and all of the other girls he brings home. That even

  • Miss Julie and Its Preface: The Foundation of a Critical Conflict

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    From its first publication and performance, August Strindberg's play "Miss Julie" has been the source of critical controversy and debate. Written in the span of little more than one month in the summer of 1888, the play was banned or censored throughout Europe in the late Nineteenth Century. Because it dealt with situations and attitudes deemed morally or socially offensive (the daughter of an aristocrat seduces her father's valet, and he, in turn, coerces her to commit suicide) the initial negative