...Savannah Wade Evaluation Essay February 16, 2014 Pretty Little Liars There are a lot of different television shows running on the air now a days. The one I have been absolutely hooked to is Pretty Little Liars, on ABC Family. This show is a confusing drama, suspense, and thriller type of show. A thriller/suspense show would most likely be a type of show that is keeping you at the edge of your seat the entire time. A dramatic television show would have a ton of plot twists and turns, as everyone finally gets the hang of the show. Pretty Little Liars was released in June 8, 2010 just in time for summer. The director of the television series is Oliver Goldstick. The television show is based upon the book series written by Sara Shepard. Pretty Little Liars is an amazing show because it not only messes with your head, but it makes you try and figure out the mystery in the show, Equally important, The series is up to 4 seasons and the drama and suspense just keeps on rolling and changing throughout each season. There are 4 best friends who have been lying about the truth of what happened during a certain time in summer where all these strange events have occurred. The 4 best friends are getting questioned all the time is because there best friend who is the leader of the pack was actually murdered that summer. After there friend Alison DiLaurentis went missing,, they all lost touch. Finally a year later they came back together when Alison’s body was found. They have been...
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...Where is my happy ending? By Jewel D’souza I have got to be the worst fairy tale princess ever! And it’s so not fair. Every other girl has a better life, a better name For instance: Ariel, Snow White, Rapunzel, Cinderella, and Aurora. They have their lives all easy. Their fairy God-mothers were looking out for them on the day they were born; but mine was playing Marco –polo with the tooth fairy in the home of happily ever after for senior citizens. My mother is Queen Grimhilde or better known as the evil queen by everyone else. And so as her daughter I get named…Bruenhilda, oh yeah, Bruenhilda from the kingdom of Swamp foot Falls Everyone thinks I am like my mother but I’m not. I am a normal 19 year old girl with dreams and hopes. And no, I don’t plan to kill anyone in fact me and Rose Red, the daughter of snow white are best friends. I am a young girl not someone behind beauty and power like my mom. I always ask myself where’s my Prince Charming. Is there something about me that's alarming? People run away from me. I am any another girl, who waits for their prince charming I just want to feel special. I want to feel like they care. I want them to bravely face any challenge for me. Snow White lives in the forest with dwarves, Cinderella talks to field mice and birds, Ariel hangs out with a crab and a flounder but I, bruenhilda from Swamp foot Falls, sit on a lily pad avoiding explosive swamp gas and giant singing mosquitoes that call themselves the blood sucking rock stars...
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...Now a days we hear of many events that are taking place all over the world that involve stealing, abusing children and drunk driving. All of these events are categorized as criminal deviance. One of the events that I consider to be occurring a lot, especially on popular television shows is stalking underaged kids and abusing them. Pretty Little Liars is a popular television show that many teenagers watch. It's about a group of 5 girl best friends that always hid secrets from one another until on of them was killed and many secrets began to be revealed. After Allison's death the group of girls starting receiving messages form s person referred to as "A". These messages were sometimes threats and other times just gossip about someone whom they cared about. "The people of a community spend most of their lives in close contact with one another, sharing a common sphere of existence which makes them feel that they belong to a special "kind" and live in a special "place" (Heiner 8). In Pretty Little Liars the girls manage to keep "A" a secret for more than a year, I feel that this can be considered deviance because these girl did not say anything about what was going on, and their families did not realize that people were breaking into their houses. The group of girls were literally being harassed, "A" would sneak into their house, threatened to kill them and even harm their families. If I were in their situation the first thing I would do would be contacting the authorities...
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...book report. I had not had a book report assigned to me in several years, since middle school, and not a single person in my class was looking forward to it. However, we got to pick the book we wanted to read, giving us some creative freedom. It was then a trek for me to choose a novel within the page requirements that was not too childish. While I enjoy things within the mystery genre, I do not particularly enjoy reading unless it is a page turner and it is something I am drawn to. My second thought was a book within the realm of the Pretty Little Liars series, continuing where I left off in my sophomore year, but I figured it might not be mature enough, and I wanted something different. When researching, I same across another book by Sara Shepard, who wrote the Pretty Little Liars novels, called The Perfectionists. After reading the synopsis, I chose to read it, and from start to finish, it was a great book. As I am a fan of Pretty Little Liars, particularly the series but also the novels, it was almost impossible I would not enjoy a similar work from the same writer. Because I had the opportunity to write about the novel I greatly enjoyed, writing over 10 pages about it came with ease, and I did not dread it as much as the next person in my class may have. In conclusion, Graff’s article was easy for nearly any student (or anyone who has been a student at some point) to relate to, and I very much connected with what he had to say. I saw myself in his shoes when I was younger...
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...theory suggests that the truth will almost always come out, due to the belief that there are always signs that the sender gives off, which allow the receiver to know that he or she is being lied to. The theory ends with the ‘truth bias’, the belief that people who know and like each other will be less likely to have any doubts on whether they are being told the truth or not, because of the “trust” that has been built. I think this theory is accurate for the most part, and I say “most part” because I know that there are some deceivers out there who have mastered the craft of lying and don’t get caught. In my opinion I thought that there were three main components. The first is the ‘manipulative language’, which is the language and look of liars. I agree with this part of the theory, because when I lie to someone’s face I make sure to...
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...exact. I have no preconceptions. While "Sylvia" might sound a little bit like silver, we're pretty sure from this first-person declaration that Plath isn't the speaker in this poem. Instead, we have to think back to the title: what is silver and exact? Well, a mirror! We know mirrors don't talk – but that just makes us more curious about what this mirror is going to say. We know from looking at them that mirrors are silver and give an exact reflection of what is in front of them. The second part of the line is not so simple. This mirror is telling us it has no preconceptions. The mirror doesn't change what it shows you based on it's understanding of who you are, or whether you're having a bad day or a good day – it just shows what it sees. So, while this mirror may be personified in the poem, it doesn't, like most people, let what it has seen before affect what it does in the present. Line 2 Whatever I see, I swallow immediately. Now the personification becomes a little weirder. We can imagine a person who is exact, who has no preconceptions, but a person who swallows everything he sees – now that's a stretch. To figure out this line, it helps to think of what mirrors do to everything they see – they reflect it. Swallowing everything, then, is a metaphor for reflecting everything. The substitution of "swallowing" for "reflecting" makes this mirror seem human. It appears hungry to us, and a little unforgiving and scary. We certainly don't want to be swallowed by...
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...Argumentative Essay Should we always tell the truth? Do you always tell the truth or lies? You are not likely to reply immediately because this question is very extreme. While we live, we cannot always tell the truth, and we also cannot always tell lies. May be, it will depend on the situation that you encountered. There are innumerable reasons why most people tell lies to others. Usually, we tell lies to hide own fault or show off ourselves. There are a little bit different lies, of course, these are white lies. White lies are also lies, but these can be understood by people because it does not have ill will. Except white lies, we should try to tell the truth. It is difficult, but it is important for us to be truthful with other people because by being honest, we can keep the relationship between people with faith, we show what is morally right, and we do not become a liar. Firstly, we can keep the relationship between people with faith by telling the truth. It means that there is trust between people to keep the relationship each other. Because of telling lies, however, they can loss mutual trust, so they cannot believe each other anymore. For example, when I was 14 years old, I made a friend who was very funny and active in middle school. We were best friend each other at that time. My thought and her thought were same, but the more I knew her deeply, the more I was disappointed. She usually told lies to me every day, so I was losing some trust about her gradually...
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...The Vampire Diaries, South Park, Family Guy, American Dad, Arrow, Breaking Bad, Awkward, and Pretty Little Liars are all examples of television shows that depict underage drinking. Superbad, Neighbors, Scream, and Scary Movie are a few examples of movies that show a predominate amount of drinking of alcohol by teenagers. These movies and programs show attractive, young, popular kids drinking alcohol. Is this the example that modern kids try to follow? Scenes in movies and on television depicting drinking can greatly influence the drinking habits of teenagers (Preston, 2015). Many works of research were conceived, focusing on the connection between drinking scenes in movies and on television, and teenage drinking (Preston, 2015). Researchers...
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...Topic: Are sitcoms and TV shows a bad influence for teenagers? Box Full of Perfection Ah, TV shows –– they are just so damn corrupted. I mean look at us, all we do is compare ourselves to the characters of the sitcoms that we watch on TV and most of the time we worship their so call “fabulous” life. And how is the important again? Exactly, it’s not. Staring at a "stupid box" with moving pictures that shows “perfect looking” people, is not how teenagers suppose to waste their time. Oh, god we are so corrupted. Just the other day, one of my friends was complaining, over the fact that she is not pretty or skinny like Hanna (a character) from the sitcom Pretty Little Liars. “Apparently”, Hanna has beautiful shiny blond hair, has smooth glowing skin, also, she is very very slim ––– Seriously. Sounds like a Barbie doll to me. Not to mention, it’s called “Photoshop”, where any ordinary person can be turned into a beautiful swan from an ugly duckling. TV channels like MTV and CW, they have all changing drastically over the years. Most of my friends waste their time watching shows like Teen Wolf, Jersey Shore, Sweet 16, ANTM, Degressi and various types of shows. Funny thing is that, all these shows have one thing in common, and that is “physical perfection”–––– Seriously. How’s that even entertaining? I thought entertaining was about laughing at hilarious shows and crying when a sad sitcom comes on. How is staring at plastic faced actors even funny. Yeah sure, they...
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...totally different :) But I like it and decided to use it on my blog ) The greatest wealth is health. Welcome to my health blog! All you need for healthy weight loss. :) If there's anything you need, don't hesitate to ask. COPYRIGHT The opinions expressed on health-heaven, are my own. Unless otherwise stated, I do not claim ownership of any of the images used on the blog. If you own rights to any of the images posted and do not wish to see them published on health-heaven, please contact us and we will remove them. Following PHOTOSET (Source: food-gifs, via letsbthin) ▲ food ▲ 07.25.12 ▲ 2599 NOTES ▲ Reblog PHOTO ▲ smoothie recipe ▲ 07.25.12 ▲ 133 NOTES ▲ Reblog ask “H K L !” -collinesjaune K: Favourite TV show. Pretty Little Liars, CSI, The Mentalist, Bones, Criminal Minds, Psych, Dexter, Monk, Sherlock Holmes, Castle, Revenge, The Big Bang Theory, Masterchef Australia & The Next Food Network Star H: Favourite book. I just answered that question, but hey I can have more than one favorite book :D 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami High Fidelity - Nick Hornby The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger The Beautiful and Damned - F Scott Fitzgerald A clockwork orange - Anthony Burgess The Virgin Suicides - Jefferey Eugenides Sherlock Holmes This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald Stories by Edgar Allan Poe To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee The Sense of an Ending - Julian...
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...Riederer uses humor to humanize the narrator. It is not uncommon for people to cope with horrible accidents by joking about it. In fact, just the third sentence in, the narrator gives the reader a hint of humor immediately after the bus ran her over, “It is easy to be calm because I cannot really have been run over by a bus” (Riederer 2). The reader then sympathizes with the narrator because of all the ways to get hurt, being run over by a bus is seen as pretty funny and a little pathetic. It’s understandable that the narrator would also think that her situation is unfortunate, but still funny. When the narrator is being treated in the ER, she’s still in an incredible amount of pain, “…a beady-eyed nurse says that she put morphine into the...
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...Pavlov believed that classical conditioning resulted from the Choose one answer. a. informativeness of the CS. b. law of effect. c. mere pairing of the CS and UCS. d. contingent relationship between the CS and UCS. A woman is an auctioneer. Based on the anchoring heuristic, when she puts an item up for bid she is likely to get a higher price if she Choose one answer. a. suggests a low initial bid. b. suggests a moderate initial bid. c. suggests a high initial bid. d. does not suggest an initial bid A major value of speech errors is that they Choose one answer. a. provide evidence that memory is typically a reconstructive process. b. suggest that attention is a highly selective process. c. show the importance of the law of effect in controlling behavior. d. provide insight into both the processes and representations that underlie fluent speech production. Using positron emission tomography to study episodic memory, Endel Tulving and his colleagues have shown that: a. episodic memory is identical to declarative memory. b. the hippocampus is responsible for the repression of episodic memories. c. encoding and retrieval processes may be located in different areas of the brain. d. male and female brains are anatomically distinct. A boy is sent to his room and not allowed to watch television with the rest of the family until he can do so...
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...us with our skin and our hair. I do feel like the ads in Cosmopolitan primarily use very thin and attractive women. None of the models in the ads look like “regular” people. I feel as if this gives women the perception that if they use the product being advertised they can look that “perfect” too. Advertisements in Cosmopolitan featured a variety of ethnicities but not a variety of ages. - L’OREAL used Jennifer Lopez in an ad for shampoo and conditioner - Maybelline used Herieth Paul in a makeup ad. (Herieth is one of their spokes models and is African American) - St. Ives used a pale redhead with freckles in their ad for their apricot scrub - A different Maybelline ad featured Adriana Lima - Biore featured Shay Mitchell off of Pretty Little Liars One ad that I found particularly interesting in Cosmo was for Ponds cream cleanser and makeup wipes. They used an oriental woman and half of her face was geisha makeup and the other half was “no makeup” and the words read “removes even the toughest makeup for soft and smooth skin. Overall, the ads in Cosmopolitan were upbeat, colorful, and aimed at empowering women. In InStyle the ads were still mainly targeting women, but they looked very different. The ads were less bright, the models were more fierce and less “happy” looking. Most of the ads in InStyle are for high end designers and brands, unlike the ads in Cosmopolitan that are for brands that the general public purchases. Some of the brands advertised in InStyle include: Chanel...
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...with children. Women had different duties depending on which class they were in, but overall women had little to no rights no matter what class they were in. Educating women on matters outside the home was a frightening idea, and...
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...Good or Bad Hypocrisy is to claim to have certain moral behaviors, but the person speaking of the behaviors does not enforce them on himself. In today’s society, many arrogant individuals feel that making themselves seem better than the rest of the crowd causes people to look up to them. In reality, the crowd actually believes that they are foolish. In the story, “A Good Man is Hard to Find” by Flannery O’Connor, the author addresses the consequences of poor judgment and how this leads to the death of the main character. The grandmother attempts to talk her son and his wife into going to Tennessee instead of Florida because a man called the misfit has escaped prison. After they stop at the tower and speak with the owner, Red Sam, the grandmother remembers an old plantation that she would like to see again, and she even exaggerates about the house so her son will stop by. After having an accident on the dirt road leading to the plantation, the grandmother realizes the house is actually in Tennessee. The spoiled old lady waves down a car for help, and the people in the vehicle turn out to be the misfit and his henchmen. She makes a mistake by announcing that she knows who they are. As a result, the misfit and his crew kill her and the rest of the family, leaving her last to die. Through the author’s use of tone, symbolism, and characterization, O’Connor proves that labeling someone as “good” is only true if he has morals and grace, not selfishness and blindness. The grandmother...
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