"Erin Brockovich"

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This paper discusses how approaching the study topic of identity management using the film "Erin Brockovich" as a working tool opens up a wide range of issue-related discussions. It looks at how the film, starring actress Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, is based on the story of the real Erin Brockovich, a single mother who struggles with responsibilities of raising her children, keeping a job, and balancing a young healthy woman's physical and emotional needs in having a relationship with a man who is not the father of her children. The paper attempts to discusses Erin's character in terms of identity management.

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"As the story unfolds, Brockovich has the good fortune to meet attorney Ed Masery, who, although he loses her open and shut vehicle injury case, has the goodness of heart to give her an opportunity to prove herself and he gives Erin a job. Erin, who is very intelligent, but is an uneducated intelligence, always on the defensive intellectuals, is a woman of detail mindedness. She notices a strange mixture of real estate and medical information while setting up a pro bono legal file, and it is the beginning of new kind of relationship between herself and Masery, and opportunity for Erin to reinvent herself into someone recognized for their abilities, even though she has not been educated."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Cote, James E., and Charles G. Levine. Identity Formation, Agency, and Culture: A Social Psychological Synthesis. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, 2002. Questia. 24 Nov. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=110529491>.
• Hoyle, Rick H., Michael H. Kernis, Mark R. Leary, and Mark W. Baldwin. Selfhood: Identity, Esteem, Regulation. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Questia. 24 Nov. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=6958998>.
• Pepinsky, Pauline Nichols. Worlds of Common Sense: Equality, Identity, and Two Modes of Impulse Management. Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1994. Questia. 24 Nov. 2007 <http://www.questia.com/PM.qst?a=o&d=71753579>.

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