Communications Students Attend Phillies Networking Event

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Communications students attended Phillies College Media Night Thursday night at the Citizens Bank Park to network with Phillies MLB execuives.

College students from Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania sat in for question and answer session with panelist who offered their insight in their area of expertise.

Photo: DTCC Communications Department

Communications students and faculty attend Phillies College Media Night to learn about networking with Phillies MLB executives. "Always be ready to network and meet new people," said Communications Department Chairman Rob Rector.

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On the way to the Phillies College Media Night, the vehicle en-route broke down, leaving them stranded for two hours. "The moment was panicky, but it was not a bad experience," said Educational Lab Specialist Chelsea Wootten.

Photo: DTCC Communications Department

While attending the Media Night, students learned about networking and creating connections in their field of interest. "It was amazing," said Communications Instructor Jessica Farley. "They repeated the same advice every instructor in the department says: networking is key,"

Hollywood's Lack of Diversity

This collage of photos are from films that have white actors playing a specific nationality

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In this modern age, the production of films with diverse culture is proving to excite the audience, however, the lack of actual diverse actors turn them off. For films such as Exodus: Gods and Kings, Prince of Persia: Sands of Time, and The Last Air-bender , many viewers were not only disappointed but also upset with the casting choices made by the directors.

Although the reasoning behind

why some directors cast the actors they do is understandable. In the article, The Lack of Diversity in the Film Industry, by Sung

Gyung Lee, she explains how in

Ghost in the Shell, which is based on a Japanese manga (comic book) starred Scarlett Johansson, who is not of Japanese heritage. "There are likely many motives for this decision, one being that it is still considered socially unacceptable and commercially unprofitable to hire Asian actors/actresses, or almost any minority, as roles in films."

A clip from the movie: Ghost in the Shell starring Scarlett Johansson

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Most minorities in films are presented in a stereotypical aspect. For example, roles for Africa-American individuals are usually to portray as slaves, gangsters, or segregation activist.

This short clip demonstrates some of the typical roles black men portray in most films

With Latino roles, male characters are seen as violent drug lords while Latinas are portrayed as seductresses. Most times Latino actors are seen as immigrants who are hiding from the government or cannot speak English. Finally you have Asians who are the smart tech nerds, perverts, or criminal masterminds.

This short clip demonstrates some of the roles portrayed by Latinos and how white individuals react to portraying certain roles.

Although most Hollywood films lack diversity, I believe that it will change to appease to the audience. The most recent Marvel film, Black Panther, is receiving major approval for most people just for having a mostly colored cast that does not fit the stereotype set up in films. It helps the audience to believe in the cultural atmosphere set up by the directors and screenwriters.

In the article, Hollywood's Lack of Diversity is Costing It Millions, by Edwin Rios and Brandon Patterson claim that," University of California-Los Angeles found that films with more diverse casts have higher global box office sales and a better return on investment than their less diverse counterparts." And this is definitely happening for Black Panther.

Poster for the Black Panther film Photo Credited: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1825683/?ref_=nv_sr_1

The world wants to see more diversity in films and it is time for Hollywood to catch up. Even using big time actors/actresses does not seem like a leading factor anymore to casting roles.

Author Lights a Fire with "Wild" Tale

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At 22, Cheryl Strayed thought she had lost everything. In the wake of her mother’s death, her family scattered and her own marriage was soon destroyed. Four years later, with nothing more to lose, she made the most impulsive decision of her life.

With no experience or training, driven only by blind will, she would hike more than a thousand miles of the Pacific Crest Trail from the Mojave Desert through California and Oregon to Washington State—and she would do it alone.

Told with suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild powerfully captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her.

Cheryl Strayed is the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling memoir WILD, the New York Times bestsellers TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS and BRAVE ENOUGH, and the novel TORCH. Her books have been translated into forty languages around the world.

photo by Cheryl Strayed

WILD was chosen by Oprah Winfrey as her first selection for Oprah's Book Club 2.0. The Oscar-nominated movie adaptation of WILD stars Reese Witherspoon as Cheryl and Laura Dern as Cheryl's mother, Bobbi. The film was directed by Jean-Marc Vallée, with a screenplay by Nick Hornby.

Strayed's essays have been published in The Best American Essays, the New York Times, the Washington Post Magazine, Vogue, Salon, The Sun, Tin House, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere. Strayed is the co-host, along with Steve Almond, of WBUR's hit podcast Dear Sugar Radio, which originated with her popular Dear Sugar advice column on The Rumpus.

Strayed holds an MFA in fiction writing from Syracuse University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Minnesota. She lives in Portland, Oregon.

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"Cheryl Strayed needed to be alone in the vast American outdoors, but she also needed to tell us about it. The film adaptation of her book — itself already a classic of wilderness writing and modern feminism — provides another reason to be grateful that she did." A.O. Scott, New York Times

This is a featurette featuring clips from the movie with Reese Witherspoon as well as interviews with movie producers and Cheryl Strayed