Parents in Films and Parents at Home
According to the article Parents Under Pressure in Films (Rebecca Keegan, Los Angeles Times, Jan. 2012), “parenting – specifically parental guilt and anxiety – is the subtext of a surprisingly large...
View ArticleStar Wars
This past weekend I was able to relive a part of my childhood. My brother and I were able to get tickets to go watch the re-release of Star Wars Episode I. I must say that I was extremely excited to...
View ArticleMulan
My childhood was largely centered around Disney movies. My parents loved (the majority) of these films because they felt Disney often had a moral or teaching hidden within the story line. I loved them...
View ArticleA Christmas Story
Growing up in a very typical American family, I was very used to the idea of tradition throughout my childhood. Of course, we had many different traditions that we practiced each year, but the ones I...
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Grease Lightnin’
As a child, Grease was one of my most watched movie, mostly because it was one my grandma’s favorites, so I’d see it every time I went over to her house. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures...
View ArticleThe Oscars
The Academy Awards were last night and the results were nothing short of exciting. For the first time since 1929 a silent film won best picture. The Artist took the film world by a storm this year,...
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Lou Vs. the Lorax
Lou Dobbs Attacks Dr. Suess For ‘Indoctrinating’ Children In this recent installment of the popular Fox News segment “The Unmentionables”, pundit Lou Dobbs attempts to convince viewers that...
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All Girls Are Princesses
A Little Princess movie cover (1995) One of my all time favorite movies is A Little Princess. It is based on the 1905 book by Frances Hodgson Burnett. The story line follows a young girl named Sara...
View ArticleTV Taught Me How to Party
Reiner Hanewinkel of the Institute for Therapy and Health Research in Kiel, Germany, recently published the results of a study determining the connection of alcohol use in TV and Movies and binge...
View ArticleHoop Dreams
Hoop Dreams follows the lives of two inner-city Chicago high school basketball stars trying to make it into the big leagues. Along the way, they boys are dragged through many different obstacles, but...
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