Billy Elliot Essay

Norma Jeane Mortensen, also known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. In the beginning Marilyn had a rough start at life. She didn’t know her father, and her mother Glady Pearl Bakers developed psychiatric problems and was placed in an institution. Monroe spent a lot of her time in foster care and in an orphanage. In 1937, Doc and Grace Goddard took care of Monroe for only a few years. At seven years old Marilyn was placed back in a foster home where she had…

BUD NOT BUDDY JOURNAL #5 I think that Bud often makes impulsive decisions, making him jump to conclusions. There are quite a few examples of this, different parts of the book. For example, Bud assumed that there was a vampire bat in the shed and created a mess and got hurt. In another part of the book, he though Lefty Lewis was a vampire because of the blood case in his car and judged him. Last of all, he assumed that Herman E. Calloway was his father using arbitrary evidence that did not…

reading this book, I believed that Billy Pilgrim was a pseudonym for Kurt Vonnegut, and that this story was told so well because he wrote about his own experiences in life and as a prisoner of war. I learned later on that this was not the case; that Billy Pilgrim had been based off of a man that Kurt Vonnegut was a prisoner of war with in World War II. This book was a commentary by Kurt Vonnegut on the effects of war and, specifically, the Dresden bombing. Billy Pilgrim survives this bombing,…

“Flesh impact, her face was her fortune as much as her voluptuous figure. The luminosity of her face!” (billy wilder). Her image was sometimes considered as sexual greed and postwar male expectations. Her sexuality and VULNERABILITY originally gave her an image. “Half child, but not the part that shows.” “dangerous” sexuality in her acting. “Dumb blonde” transcended…

Have you ever heard of the song “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel? “We Didn’t Start the Fire” by Billy Joel is a song released in 1989 that touched upon topics from 1949 to 1989. This song was a very well-known song by Billy Joel. He also wrote this song to express his long lost love for History. Billy Joel wanted to be a high school history teacher before he started his singing career. Six history topics from this song have been picked to inform you about a little bit of history. Those…

The Sirens VS. Poison Ivy: Bet Your Guess If you don’t commit crimes, kill, or back stab people (I mean not figuratively and figuratively) are you a villain? A villain is a a cruelly malicious person who is involved in or devoted to wickedness or crime. Although some people imagine that the Sirens, who are from the Odyssey, really use trickery, murder, and power, they are really villainous, yet, one can also argue that they are only doing this for fun or to survive. Where’s the villain trait in…

Have you ever watched a movie and wondered where the villain came from? Truthfully the answer is probably no, however it is still a somewhat interesting topic. Is there one specific place that villains should come from? Should it vary? I personally think it should vary but in order to make the best villains they should be from one of three countries. The three countries that create the best villains are North Korea, Germany, and Russia. Odds are you’ve seen multiple movies where the antagonist…

On August 5, 1962 movie actress Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home in Los Angeles. She was was found lying nude on her bed, face down, with a telephone in one hand. The cause of Marilyn Monroe death is an overdose on a drug called barbiturate poisoning, and a psychiatric team did the investigation termed its probable suicide. The investigators say that she drunk then of depression, She have been none for doing pills and drinking alot. She was born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1, 1926 in…

Slaughter house-five is a book about the life of a man named Billy Pilgrim. After his childhood, Billy goes to school to study to become an optometrist so that he could work for his fathers business. He ends up becoming drafted into the military and is sent to Germany. He returns and suffers 3 traumatic events. First of all he suffers from nervous collapse, then he gets into a plane crash and is the only one to survive, and finally while he is recovering from his crash his wife passes away.…

Marilyn Monroe was an American actress and model., Marilyn was famous for playing a “dumb blonde” characters in T.V shows and movies. Maryland died in 1962 and half a century later she is still a loved and inspirational icon. On the 15th of September 1954, a photographer named Sam Shae shot a worldwide known famous photo on Marilyn Monroe when her skirt flew up it was known as the “flying skit” photo. Sam idea was to use a picture from the movie theatre scene as a logo to promote an oncoming…