Anna May Wong

The magazine industry is one of the most viable and adaptable markets that provides to consumers, businesses, and professionals. In today’s society they are a guide into the fashion world. Magazines aim to showcase fashion in variety of ways. These magazines target specific age groups, gender, and even social classes by specifically designing the content of the magazines. Especially in an era where printed magazines is declining due to technological advances in the way readers can view…

In the 1980's we had cocaine. It was pure, cheap and plentiful. Now, due to Ronald Reagans infamous "war on drugs" campaign (among many other things), cocaine as we once knew, is long gone. However, addiction is a subtle beast. It's resilient in all its ways and finds new methods to persevere. In the modern age, we have our addictions, although it is not so much to cocaine. Instead, it's technology. Just look around anywhere in the world and you'll come across someone with their phone glued to…

I found the ending of Black Beauty, by Anna Sewell, to be a satisfying ending. It seemed to wrap things up nicely. After Beauty is injured and nearly overworked to death, he ends up in a beautiful home surrounded by people who care for him for the rest of his life. Although it is rather bittersweet, as the last line reminds us of everything Beauty has lost: “often, before I am quite awake, I fancy I am still in the orchard at Birtwick, standing with my old friends under the apple trees” (49.22).…

The Conformist was produced and screened in the 1970s. This movie presented a theme of rape amongst the female characters. Each of the women starring in the film, Guilia, Anna, Clerci and Clerci’s mother were raped or put in a forceful and compromising sexual situation. Guilia, played by actress Stefania Sandrelli, was naïve and feminine. She was good for “...bed and kitchen,” (The Conformist). She was sexually free, but…

uses mirrors as a motif for reflection. At first she admires her new coat, then swiftly turns away from the mirror. In this scene, Rossellini directs Marina to look away from herself, as he conveys her inability to come to terms with her actions. She may have been the one thing standing between Manfredi and the Nazis, and ultimately, his death. Meanwhile, in the first scene, Marina readily looks at her mirror. Rossellini portrays Marina as being fully content with herself, setting her up in an…

get better, much like any other sport. Ballet is a beautiful and elegant style that takes lots of skill and focus. Ballet takes hard work and full dedication and is a major commitment. To be good at ballet you will have to make sacrifices that you may not like. Ballet is a tough sport, there are both positives and negatives and there are lots of sacrifices.Many can’t cope with all the things they have to sacrifice and give up to be a successful ballerina but those that do sacrifice these…

For a postwar Italian society, reconciliation with their wartime atrocities required the reconstruction of collective memory. Popular media, such as films and songs, were essential in accomplishing this seemingly gargantuan task. At the heart of Roberto Rossellini’s Rome Open City, for example, is the active reconstruction of memory. As a work of fiction, Rome Open City honors the resistance against the Nazi occupation of Rome. Yet, as a work which provides insight into the emotional landscape…

mind. Leo Tolstoy taught to make a difference. For a man of the upper class, Tolstoy made a notable effort to take action in reducing other's suffering. In 1973, there was a crop failure in Russia. Tolstoy decided to stop writing his novel Anna Karenina for a year to organize aid for the starving. (Krznaric, Roman) He remarked to a relative, "I cannot tear myself…

I believe that they may have used heavy panning to make the song sound as though a large orchestra and choir are performing it. Some examples of where they have used panning are: - Harmonies in the opening section are panned on both sides. - On the vocals (0:36)…

The Mothers and Memory In 1977 just after the Argentine “Dirty War” began terrorizing the nation, a courageous and determined group of mothers took to the streets to protest the disappearances of their sons and daughters. These women, known as the Madres de Plaza de Mayo, became a powerful source of resistance to the Process of National Reorganization commissioned by the military junta which controlled Argentina between 1976 and 1983. In these seven years, it is estimated that roughly 30,000…