Academic dress

chance. Coming, here has changed the person I am. I was able to educate myself, I was able to think for myself, I was able to dress the way I wanted, and that has brought me to believe that I would not be where I am today if I stayed in Iraq. I am forever grateful, that I am able to speak English, that I have been able to empower myself by educating myself, being able to dress the way I am. This is my new…

In the book titled Lieutenant Nun by Catalina de Erauso, foreword by Marjorie Garber, she has compiled her memoir of her life after she ran away, dressed as a man, and bounded around from job to job, town to town, as she saw fit for the next twenty-six years. Her adventures across Spain and to the new world filled her life with many experiences. From working for her uncle, to becoming a keeper of records and sales, working with and even killing her own brother, as well as multiple arrests,…

Cultural Inventory Race When a person looks at me the first thing that they notice is the color of my skin. Yes! It is apparent that I am a female, but how can one truly be sure that I was a born of this gender? However, when one looks at the color of my skin, it leaves no doubt that I am African American. Since the predominant culture in the United States incorporates communicating in English, practices Protestant Christian religion, and having European heritage, traits and attribute I do…

but to represent their frivolity with disseminating rumors around the group and country club. Meanwhile, Ernie ends up wearing a classic tux with a white apron and Cookie wears a gold, 1920s Russian-style dress of which she is picked on for wearing. The associations with the apron and the older dress signify them as the second-class citizens of this group, serving the rest of the couples dinner, drinks, and being mistaken as the…

Annette had casually dismissed the guard from his duty of watching over Leonard in his cell. She stated, “My parents are having dinner in the dining hall, so that way isn 't possible, but there is at the end of the corridor a back way, it leads through the sewers, and we will get out at Denna 's Diner.” Leonard looked at her and responded, “I don 't see a princess dressed the way you are dressed going very far in the sewers, don 't you think your gown will get in the way and ruined?” Annette…

"Okay my love, I will see you tonight," he said. He pulled me close once more, and sealed our parting with another kiss. I then watched him venture outside of the penthouse. After Sebastian departure, I felt at that moment, I was Julie Andrews from the "Sound of Music". I felt sinfully happy, as my emotions had me collapsing back onto the sofa, going through fits of laughter. When I recovered, I called the girls up. I want to dish about Sebastian, and those beautiful words he uttered to me last…

When you ask ones own personal definition of beauty, one might say “Pleasing to the human eye.” Society’s definition of beauty is most commonly perceived through appearance. Our society constantly changes the requirements or extends the definition and the meaning of the word ‘beauty’. American beauty fades away every few decades and turns into something new and iconic. Women in the 20’s turned the original “no skin showing’ beauty to a promiscuous new style. Likewise, women in the 70’s turned…

Once upon a time, there lived a thing called subculture; these were music and fashion orientated groups that contravened the mainstream culture. Whilst the Mods zipped around on their Lambrettas and Vespas, the leather coated rockers drove about on their self-modified motorbikes. These two rival groups engendered a major conflict in 1960s Britain, meanwhile the nonconforming, flower-wearing hippies across the pond demanded that the troops were withdrawn from the Vietnam War. There were skinheads…

Good evening and thank you so much for coming out tonight. We will begin in just a moment with opening statements but before we do I would like to introduce each of our presenters this evening. Dr. A. K. Moravec is a name that you all know. He is a scientist, author and he teaches here at M.I.T. He has written many books seeking to inform and motivate people to what exactly trans-humanism is. His challenger may be less well known to you. Michael Bowman is an evangelical pastor from Deerfield,…

After the second world war, women’s clothing took a different direction from the slim figured clothing of the 20s and 30s, and the dull colors of the 40s. Ready-to-wear garments became available, and standardized sizing was created. Women could access high-end clothing off the rack. Now that materials didn’t have to be rationed for the war, clothing became more detailed and brightly colored. Christian Dior’s “New Look” pioneered the cinched waist and round hip hourglass figure that accentuated…