Laura

“Bonsai!” Go ahead, rush to the comment section with your hate-filled rants, it won’t bother me one bit, because this is my list and not yours. Now, for those who have decided to take the time tohear me out, this folks, is the single greatest form artistic representation of 2017. While Twin Peaks: The Return is a prescribed continuation of the TV series that ended over 25 years ago, The Return does not conform to any previous modes of television, including its prior two seasons. With that being…

Thematic - Polanski’s depiction of Gender Roles and Voyeurism Polanski demonstrates and explores themes of voyeurism and gender roles in his films. Even one of his first student short films Uśmiech zębiczny (translated as ‘Teeth Smile’) (1957) explores these themes. In this short film, the man’s intense facial expressions and eagerness to stand on his toes to look through suggest that sexual desires is a warzone between men and women, and is something that has to be fought for. In this short…

In Linda Williams’s article “Film Bodies: Gender, Genre, and Excess”, she focuses on three film genres that have a certain power to excite, yet lack of aesthetic elements. Three film genres she discusses are pornography, horror, and melodramas. The reason she concentrates on these genres is because she believes that these films provoke primitive emotions (pleasure, fear, pain), which manipulate the body at a sensational level. In these films, there is the absence of proper aesthetic distance…

Laura Bush accomplished many things when she served as the First Lady of the United States of America when her husband, George Bush, served for two presidential terms. Laura Bush focused a lot on women and children. Bush was a big supporter of literature and campaigns such as "The Heart Truth and Red Dress Project". As a former educator, Laura Bush did not forget about the young American children of the nation when she was First Lady. But not only did Laura Bush help those in American, she also…

Introduction paragraph. From how Howie and Laura could escape the main plot to giving out shocking secrets about themselves, the book “The Goats”, has a lot of opinions of the book. This is from both negative and positive sides of the book, because of this the Goats had a lot of information that could be debated on. In this case, the main thing that we will be debating on is how “Was Laura and Howie’s excursion a learning experience that was justifiable by the circumstances they were in, or was…

Traits of a Great Persuasive Piece The author, Laura Spinney, uses a variety of persuasive skills and techniques in the article, “How Facebook, fake news and friends are warping your memory”. She uses Ethos, Pathos, Logos, and a variety of arguments to get her point across. Laura Spinney’s use of these skills is fairly effective at convincing the reader that fake news and misinformation lead to altered memories that affect how people view the past and the future. Spinney uses a wide variety of…

character of Laura Wingfield does not have a lot of self confidence due to a small physical disability. One of her legs is shorter than the other and she’s forced to wear a brace and she feels judged and different from other people causing her to be extremely shy. She gets advice towards the end of the play that she needs to believe in herself more which really helped emphasize the theme of being confident in yourself and not comparing your life to other people’s. In the play Laura says, “Yes,…

objective is to find information on Laura Ingalls Wilder. Laura was born in Pepin, Wisconsin on February 7, 1867 to Charles and Caroline Ingalls. Laura had three siblings. Mary, Caroline and Grace. Research Results Laura married A.J. (Almanzo James) Wilder in 1885. They got married in DA. On December 5, 1886, Rose Wilder was born. Almanzo and Laura lived in Mansfield Ward 1 Wright, Missouri. They resided on Commercial Street. On August 1, 1889, Laura gave birth to a son. He…

needed to survive? In the book The Goats two children named Howie and Laura faced difficulties and trouble after being left. Laura and Howie excursion was a learning experience that was justifiable by the circumstances they were in because they needed safety and shelter and survival. One important reason that Laura and Howie excursion was a learning experience that was justifiable by the circumstances they were in is that Laura and Howie were abandoned on an island. Howie got left on the…

Laura Mulvey on Feminism in Cinema and Theater Laura Mulvey is best known for her essays written in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” published in 1973. In this book she argues that the controlling gaze in cinema and theater is always male. Mulvey’s concept of the “male gaze” is only mentioned twice in “Visual Pleasures and narrative cinema” but it has become the main point in feminist film debate. “The Spectacle is Vulnerable:Miss World 1970” offered a good starting point for the…