Anna May Wong

Los Angeles born Chinese actress Anna May Wong. News reports about her Hollywood movies were decreased, instead, according to an American gossip columnist visiting Europe during Wong’s tenure, she was “acclaimed by nobility” in several European newspapers (Petersen, 2014). Severely limited by the noxious roles she was offered in Hollywood, which misrepresented Asian women, Wong left United States to Europe (Vechten, 2003). She then spent two years in Germany, England and France where helped her gain global attention and led her toward worldwide stardom. This special period in Wong’s life, was also a sensitive period for Chinese immigrants, for all the colored actors and actresses in Hollywood, who…

that you’re reliable for your child 's identity and difference. However stressful naming a child may be, my parents were ready and willing to take on this challenge with an open mind. They started their search for the perfect name with the traditional book full of words that could be seen as names. They searched and searched but couldn 't come to a consensus. My dad wanted to give me the name of Zelda, it had no significance whatsoever, but he just thought it would be funny. “Your mom wanted…

pros and cons to optional solutions to solving the issue stated above. Such as MTV’s stand up program, the Be Nice program, and school interventions. Both the stand up and be nice program both contain social skill assumptions that aren’t really tested. Through her research she provided research that reflects that interventions allows for the best chance of change and improving aspects of the Bronfedbrenner’s Social-Ecological Model. Overall I enjoyed this presentation very much. She was clear,…

There are an estimated 2 million children with parents in the Armed Forces, ranging from ages newborn to eighteen, with 1.3 million children being of school-age (The National Child Traumatic Stress Network, 2016). According to a retrospective cohort study, within these 2 million kids, behavioral disorders increase by 19% and stress disorders increase by 18% when a military parent is deployed. To perform this study, the records of children of active-duty personnel, during the fiscal years 2006…

the importance of her body to the empire. In Anna Lombard, the dynamic of problematic sexuality and desire are enacted in the relationship between Anna and Gerald, and Victoria Cross questions the stringent British views towards gender roles by embedding the female character of Anna with the sexual appetite that is approved of in a male. In Burma, Gerald is told that he must “settle down, take a wife, and live regularly” rather than fretting over a girl abroad (Cross 36). Here the word “regular”…

Identity is a common technical term used in contemporary sociological social psychology. The term “personal identity” was virtually unknown in sociology before the 1940s. (ERIKSON 5). Identity was a very big concern in the life of Erik Erikson throughout his childhood and even into his adulthood. Erikson was born in Frankfurt, Germany to a Danish mother, Karla Abrahamsen and Dr. Theodore Homburger, whom Erikson was lead to believe was his biological father. As it turned out, Dr. Homburger was a…

Even though the phrase “point of view” is just three measly words, it is one of the most important choices an author needs to make while deciding how they are going to write their story. Will they write in first person and use “I”, and “we”, or write in 3rd person and address people by their names or use pronouns like “he” or “they”? Although many people decide to write in third person point of view, both the stories The Georges and the Jewels by Jane Smiley, and Black Beauty: The Autobiography…

impacted the dance community and successfully revived several large ballets. Over the course of his career, Marius Petipa presented a total of four revivals of Le Corsaire. Each time, he added several new pas de deux duets, variations, and incidental dances. His first revival was staged specifically for his wife who was the Prima Ballerina Maria Surovshchikova-Petipa, with the male dancer Christian Johansson as the character of Conrad. This production premiered on the 5th February 1863, and…

However, one novel in particular that sparked world literature fame was Anna Karenina (1877). Anna Karenina was and still is a masterpiece because it incorporates all the elements of humanity such as lustful passions, pride, conflict, marriage, and death. An in depth analysis of Anna Karenina is that it was a heavily controversial novel. Convoluted plot lines, character development, relationships, and social commentary, gave meaning to this novel. The concept of writing this novel came to…

I first met my Grandma Vita at my birth; she came to welcome me into this world. I may not remember that, but I remember all the times I had visited her in the hospital. She was always in pain from the treatment she had to receive. She tried not to show it, but you could see the pain in her eyes. Later on, doctors revealed she had not been on the proper treatment and they were giving her too much pain medication that was slowly killing her. These are the harsh facts of life. This is what…