Essays on Angelina Jolie

Angelina Jolie is a household name in the film industry. The American actress has featured in high rating and fast selling movies and she has grown to be a significant role model and an inspirational figure. Acting aside, Angelina is one of the most notable actresses who consistently engage in humanitarian work. She has been involved in a vast number of philanthropic and humanitarian activities across the world. As such, this paper explores one of her projects – Jolie-Pitt Foundation – before analyzing it in relation to her personal values, image and leadership integrity. The Jolie - Pitt Foundation was an ...

Many people believe entertainment to be a harmless thing. It is a form of pleasure used to pass the time. But what happens when it becomes a weaponized machine, used to warp an entire country’s culture and sense of values? For America, this is what has happened. Entertainment has changed their culture into a consumer driven, narcissistic wasteland, that has propagated more negativity than positivity in its wake. Entertainment has changed the culture and values of Americans whether they are willing to admit it or not. Advertisements are a good example of this, as they often use celebrities ...

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Netnography is a research methodology that has been used since the late 1990s in order to study consumer marketing and behavior. “Netnography is a ‘new qualitative research methodology that adapts ethnographic research techniques to study the culture and communities that are emerging through computer-mediated communications’” (Sandlin, 2007, p. 289). Netnography is used to examine the behavior of consumers in relation to marketing. In the late 1990s, marketing research began to adapt and expand marketing ethnographic methods when it came to online formats, especially through how Kozinets defined ‘netnography’ (p. 289). Netnography is the process of taking publicly available information ...

Introduction

Pick up a book or a newspaper, switch on a TV, visit your social media pages or just drive around in your city and what do you see? Celebrities! They are all over the place - on TV, Radio, billboards, posters, ads and so on. Since time immemorial, celebrity culture has existed and flourished in the world. Probably the type of celebrity, their relevance to prevalent culture and the ways of interacting with people and fans, may have changed over time. Let’s be honest. People just love celebrities! People want to know who they are, what they do, ...

In this essay, I will make a critical discussion about Aristotle’s analysis of virtues and vices regarding correct attitude towards material good, services and money. I will begin by presenting Aristotle’s virtue about generosity, a virtue that talks about how people should spend their money, and I will continue by researching how this issue reflects into contemporary virtue of generosity. I will argue that Aristotle’s ethics are the starting point regarding a good life for a human being, the middle point between deficiency and excess, both being vices. Furthermore, I contend that, even if Aristotle’s virtues were right, we ...

The Case of Angelina Jolie

It may sound like a mere rumor but it is a verifiable fact that the celebrated Hollywood movie star, Angelina Jolie has been a victim of bipolar personality disorder. Born on the fourth day of June 1975, the actress, who is a favorite in the entertainment industry, was named Angelina Jolie Voights (Tracy, 2008). Voights, her father was an actor and had met Angelina’s mother in the movie industry as she was into the acting business as well. Angelina’s parents separated in the year 1976 following Voight’s infidelity tendencies. The breakup has been pointed out as being the key factor ...