A WWE fan values getting and seeing what they are expected to see, and the over-the-top dramatics and spectacular, pre-planned fighting that serves as a form of entertainment. The habitus, or how an individual or group of similar individuals think based on a certain taste,…

I chose to reflect on the scene in the movie Miracle where the head coach of the USA hockey team Herb Brooks delivers one of the most legendary pre-game speeches of all time to his team before they play Russia. I’m extremely proud to like this…

I feel that Cannie from Good in Bed is an extremely likable character because she is different from how society today depicts woman in how they should look and act. When she finds out about the article that her ex-boyfriend wrote about him being once…

“‘You shall never live to do this,’ she said. ‘I will kill you first. Why have you tormented me so? Why could you not let me alone? What harm had I ever done you that you should make yourself my persecutor, and dog my steps, and watch…

Oliphant’s beef with sensation fiction is that the books in this genre are written by the authors just to incorporate ideas and notions that evoke sensation in the reader without paying close attention to the realism of their writing. Oliphant states how “it is only…

Upon reading David Cappella’s “Kicking It Up Beyond the Casual: Fresh Perspectives in Young Adult Literature,” one of the article’s main points that caught my interest was how he argues “we should not be surprised”[1] that YAL continues to grow in popularity. Cappella explains in his…

We started class on Tuesday right where we left off on Thursday, in small assigned groups discussing either Professor’s or Maddie’s thesis on how Hazel values literature in TFIOS, then finding quotes within the book to support either thesis. My group defended Maddie’s thesis, being…

After viewing both the book trailer and the movie trailer for The Fault in Our Stars, I noticed that they were similar and different in the marketing strategies that were used. Upon viewing both trailers for the first time, I noticed an immediate difference between them.…

Wilson spends the entirety of chapter 11 discussing and reviewing Celine Dion’s album Let’s Talk About Love, going through, in detail, almost every song that was on the album. That in itself distinguishes this chapter from the rest and appears as a review because in all the…