Geisha

Chapter One What Is Pearl Harbor? Jeanne watches Papa, Bill, and Woody leave on a boat. Before the boat gets very far it stops and all the ships turn back around to the harbor. Word gets out that Japan bombed Pearl Harbor. Papa attempts to disassociate himself and the family from Japan by burning the Japanese flag and documents from Japan. Papa is arrested and integrated for being a spy. Allegations are made against Papa claiming that he supplied oil to a Japanese submarine. Chapter Two…

supposed to maintain a healthy diet no caffeine, smoking or drinking because she is “a worthy vessel” (Attwood, 1986). The handmaids are being used as instruments, tools, for serving the needs of others. “We are for breeding purposes we aren’t concubine, geisha girls, we are two legged wombs, that’s all”…

The events in Viet Thanh Nguyen’s novel, The Sympathizer, occur in the 1970’s after the Vietnam War and portray the lives of many affected by the war. Although men receive most of the attention from the Author women still play an important role in depicting the lives of Vietnamese after the war. Women show a different side of the post-Vietnam war plots enhancing it greatly. The plot of the novel is told through the eyes of the narrator who is a communist spy. The story is a flashback and is a…

‘Ephemeral… fugitive… contingent’: these words written by Charles Baudelaire in 1863 express the very nature of metropolitan life in the late nineteenth century. Urban renewal across Europe had given way to a new, fast-paced way of life, and nowhere was this more evident than in Paris: the then cultural centre of the western world. Crowds of people would converge upon Haussmann’s wide boulevards, swiftly navigating through the city to see and be seen by their fellow Parisians. Painting en plein…

The Cairo Genizah or “Sacred Trash” is the collection of 300,000 manuscript of Jewish literary collected from the storeroom of Ben Eza Synagogue in old Cairo, Egypt. Genizah in Hebrew means hide away or keeping aside, like Janaza (means burial) in Arabic is derived from Persian word ganj denotes a treasure. These manuscripts dated from 870 CE to 19th century, contain approximately 1000 years of information about the Jewish communities of Cairo (Schechter). Genizah contains the largest…

Prologue The night I unfortunately was removed from my family was the worst thing that could ever happen to me. It all happened so quickly; therefore, I couldn’t do anything to stop it! Thrashing and screaming, but I went down a fighter. The diversity of masks and distorted faces that watched me thrash the way through, whispering and bickering as I had been thrown into the middle of the crowd. The rain poured down as I sat there, shakily; my breath was heavy and unsteady, sounding really…

COMPOSER COMPARISON HANS ZIMMER’S PROFILE

Zimmer was 1st introduced to film music in London during collaboration with Stanley Myers for the film “My Beautiful Laundrette”. He then started working on his own solo projects which became a success, mastering the use of combining old and new musical technologies. He got his 1st break in 1988 when he was asked to score Rain Man for Barry Levinson. This was his 1st film to win an Oscar for Best Picture of the Year and earned him his 1st nomination…

Ancient Egyptians were the first of women to wear makeup. The basic motive back then was the same as it is today and just like modern day supermodels, the well to do women of ancient Egypt wanted to look their best all of the time. Ancient Egyptians used copper and lead ore to create the world's first cosmetics to the scientifically advanced products of today that can do everything from hide pores, smooth complexions, and turn the pale green of your eyes a vivid shade of emerald, makeup has…