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Movie Review: “Brave”
“Brave” is a very different movie for Disney. In the past, Disney princesses have been damsels in distress awaiting their Prince Charming. In Brave, Merida, voiced by Kelly Macdonald, is a spunky, confident, and fearless princess far from the ordinary. She is a Scottish princess trying to break away from tradition by creating her own life, instead of the life etched in stone for her by her mother.
Making Journalism (Her)story: Lucy Atkins
Lucy Atkins is a well-respected and highly acclaimed author. And when it comes to journalism, she has almost all of the bases covered: book critic, advice columnist, and nonfiction author. If nothing else, she knows how to communicate and she does so effortlessly! Here at Teen Voices, we’re calling her the J.K. Rowling of health magazines! She has sold more than 40,000 copies of her books, and made books that people not only enjoy, but often deem as having “literally saved their lives.”
Teen Activists Take On “Seventeen”
Have you heard the name Julia Bluhm? If you follow national news, you’ve probably seen her name making headlines. That’s because recently, Bluhm and her best friend Izzy Labbe and, along with many other teen girls, have been speaking out against Photoshop. And not just any type of Photoshop use—the use of Photoshop in teen magazines. Specifically, these girls asked the editor of teen magazine sensation Seventeen to produce one page of unaltered photos per magazine.
Movie Review: “Mirror Mirror”
When first going to “Mirror Mirror,” I did not have many expectations. I just believed that it was going be a plain adaptation of “Snow White”–orphaned princess with an evil stepmother who envies Snow White’s beauty and power, so she hires a henchman to kill and dispose of the girl. I soon came to discover that “Mirror Mirror” was different.
Movie Review: “What To Expect When You’re Expecting”
“What To Expect When You’re Expecting” is a great comedy, and with this this all-star cast, it’s no wonder! The movie, directed by Kirk Jones, follows the stories of five different couples: Jules (Cameron Diaz) and Evan (Matthew Morrison), Holly (Jennifer Lopez) and Alex (Rodrigo Santoro), Rosie (Anna Kendrick) and Marco (Chace Crawford), and Skyler (Brooklyn Decker) and Ramsey (Dennis Quaid). All are expecting a baby—either through pregnancy or adoption.
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