Blonde Essays

Witherspoon starred in box-office success Legally Blonde, a movie about a superficial sorority girl’s ascent to become valedictorian of Harvard Law School. Many regard this movie as a fun and light “feel-good” watch. While there is no disagreement that this movie is an easy watch, it holds much more meaning than appears on the surface. Elle is a kind, hard-working, and multi-faceted character, and serves as an inspiration to audiences. Further still, Legally Blonde, features metaphysical themes like fate,

Rosie Rodriguez Rodriguez 1 Mr. Vogt College Literature H 2 October 2015 Rhetoric in Elle Woods Speech from Harvard Graduation In the movie Legally Blonde, Elle woods who is played by Reese Witherspoon is a sorority girl who goes to Harvard to get her boyfriend back because he thought she wasn't capable of being a serious and smart person. She gives a speech at the end of the movie during her graduation and she speaks with ethos. She does this in three ways , she uses personal experience

English 102 February 12, 2023 Legally Blonde The early 2000s film industry banked off of exploiting stereotypes for comedy, however, the wildly successful film Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon as main character Elle Woods, did just the opposite. The character Elle Woods is a walking stereotype for the dumb blonde girl, yet throughout the movie she accomplishes things due to perseverance that many could only dream of. Instead of succumbing to the dumb blonde stereotype, she faces it and works

their race/gender/social class. The chosen movies by which to identify these themes were created over the previous twenty plus years are, Legally Blonde identifying gender and social class, Trading Places presenting social class and race, and Get Hard pushing the bar with race and social class stereotypes. Commonalities and Chosen Issues In Legally Blonde, a 2001 comedy directed by Robert Luketic, the main

Sometimes people find the place they are meant for in unusual ways. In the 2001 classic Legally Blonde, Elle Woods goes on a quest for love but ends up finding herself in the end. Although she is a blonde sorority girl from California, Elle Woods completes her hero's journey by crossing the threshold and following Warner Huntington III, the ex-boyfriend, to Harvard; she stands up to Vivian and they end up supporting each other; receiving her boon by knowing the steps of a perm to win her case and

movie "Legally Blonde," directed by Robert Luketic and scripted by Karen McCullah Lutz and Karen Smith from the novel by Amanda Brown. This iconic movie tells the story of the main character, Elle Woods, a sorority girl who fits right into the typical female blonde stereotype of wearing lots and lots of pink and loving everything fashion, and her journey to win back her ex-boyfriend by following him into law school. At first glance, this seems like a movie that focuses on the dumb blonde stereotype and

block, waving at those they pass. The new neighborhood was buzzing with excitement. A little blond girl with the ugliest haircut was jumping on her best friend’s trampoline. Their delightment growing with each bounce. It was a few weeks until the blonde girl would start kindergarten.

One frozen morning snow covered the small houses to the narrow streets in Chatman town. Chatman town is a very poor community, so therefore there is a population of 50 people. One of the 50 people lives in the small purple house that is on the only hill in the town. That hill towered over the other houses, like a great dane surrounded by yorkies. The purple house was a very erstwhile house, but on the inside has the looks of a little girl’s room. The walls were painted pink and all the furniture

specific topic; it can open our minds to new subjects and opinions. How each gender is represented in films is displayed differently throughout the films: A Streetcar Named Desire (Kazan, 1951), Inglourious Basterds (Tarantino, 2009), and Legally Blonde (Luketic, 2001). Women are sexualized and treated as a minority throughout these films, but the men are forced to be masculine and prove their worth. In A Streetcar Named Desire, the women of the time were just getting rights and a voice in

law” puts a perspective on how Americans have an opinion about lawyers. Through our culture’s portrayals of law through movies, media, TV, etc., we have this idea that lawyers happen to be either good or bad when in fact they are heroes. “Legally Blonde” and “Liar Liar” both display the heroic lawyer and provide us with how their demeanor affects the way Americans interpret beliefs of the law. From the past to present, it is difficult for Americans to consider lawyers as heroes when our culture exaggerates

Throughout the course of my time in high school, there were times when I did not give a class or an assignment my best effort, or others when I would absorb information only to regurgitate it when test time came around. I was always able to determine when I sold myself short because of a nagging feeling of guilt that would sweep over me once I had made the decision to not go all out. This feeling of guilt was my conscience attempting to warn me about my future endeavors, where I would be required

There are many stereotypes based on hair color blonde, red, and brunette. According to (dictionary.com), A stereotype is to characterize or categorize. Let's start with blondes, blondes are established as the unintelligent or the ones who like to have fun all the time of the hair stereotypes. Blondes stereotypically have a shortfall of intelligence, their picky, outgoing, crazy, and like to party. It also says that woman with blonde hair gets better tables at restaurants, flirtatious, gentle, gullible

old. This character came about bringing out the confident side that Sybil possessed. 5. Ruthie is a young child whom is not well-developed in Sybil’s mind. This character came about creating the childhood that Sybil’s mother took from her. 6. The Blonde has no name but has

If you do not fit this specific mold of being insanely smart, needy, or even masculine people assume you do not have what it takes to be a lawyer in the future. The movie Legally Blonde is about a girl named Elle Woods who decides to go to Harvard Law school to try to win back her ex-boyfriend. She is the typical blonde sorority girl and no one thinks she will succeed. Throughout the movie she faces many challenges

In spite of the fact that reading a Shakespeare play may not speak to most students, there are actually numerous advantages of reading Romeo and Juliet. Teaching Romeo and Juliet in schools will most certainly be helpful to students. The key advantages associated with the study of Romeo and Juliet consist of; students getting to learn about the way people spoke during Shakespeare’s time, the theme of the play being the ones that students can relate to, and the useful life lessons that can be learned

The movie Legally blonde features Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) a kind hearted, blonde girly-girl who somehow manages to keep up a 4.0, while also being the president of her sorority; Elle is adored by her sorority sisters, so when she believed her boyfriend Warner (Matthew Davis) was going to propose that night her sisters jumped at the chance to help her prepare for the date. Unfortunately, the work they put in to make Elle look beautiful on her special night was for not because instead of proposing

The author focuses on the black and feminine experience of the black women in the white society. Her feminine identity as well as her radical identity has molded her vision of the city. More important was Brook’s objective treatment of issues such as identity Crisis and racism. In the collection of A Street in Bronzeville, the characters range from the death-in-life figure of a woman in Obituary for a living lady. The unnamed woman in the poem, a person Brooks knew well. As a child she was decently

mainstream neophyte named Du Blonde and you'd be amazed. Definitely a person who's worth your time, Du Blonde's flexibility is what sets her apart from the rest, letting you in on her universe full of magic and skills. Aside from being a musician, Du Blonde is also a well-known visual artist. The effective mix and categorizing of her artsy side are so on-point that she did not confuse herself whenever she's out to perform. Hailed from the small town of Tyne in England, Du Blonde, named Beth Jeans Houghton

movie Legally Blonde fits under the category of stereotypes exceptionally well, since it shows many stereotypes of women in the society. For instance, there is one scene in the movie, where Warner, the handsome boy is playing football with his friends, and Elle, the dumb blonde sits on the sidelines to study and distract the guys playing as she wears nothing but a sparkly bikini top under a furry shawl on her upper half. This example evidently portrays the serotype of being a blonde dumb. Throughout

Daisy Trejo CMTM 160-3 December 3, 2015 Gender Stereotypes in “Legally Blonde” “Legally blonde” is a comedy drama, based on the book written by Amanda Brown, about a tall, blonde, blue-eyed sorority girl, Elle Woods played by Reese Whiterspoon. Elle is a college senior excited to take the next step in life, marriage. Excitedly expecting her college boyfriend to ask her to marry him, but he breaks up with her instead, saying that he has to be with someone more "serious" if he plans on a career in