Anna Kournikova

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…

Rosellini’s Portrayal of Marina as Everywoman, Ingrid As A Wicked Temptress, In Rome, Open City Roberto Rossellini’s neorealist film, Rome Open City, is reflective of the turbulent climate in Italy during Nazi and Fascist occupation in World War II. His use of costuming, body language, and mirror shots give rise to a tongue-in-cheek reflection at all the difficult moral and economic sacrifices people had to make during the war. Rossellini not only makes Marina and Ingrid, but also his audience…

Ballet’s elegance and grace has inspired the world to join a dance class. With French terminology and history behind ballet, it has become one of the most popular styles of dance ever! The sacrifices are incredibly tough and the commitment is huge. You have to be very focused, determined and hardworking to be successful in this sport, you have to persevere and want to get better, much like any other sport. Ballet is a beautiful and elegant style that takes lots of skill and focus. Ballet takes…

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…

of “remaking the Other in the image of the Self, inevitably needed and produced culturally hybrid subjects among the colonizers as well as the colonized” (Krishnaswamy 39). There seems to be a merging of sexual, gendered, and national identities in Anna Lombard. Gerald remarks that natures craves “to return to the type which is neither extreme in all cases has mixed that inviolable instinct with men and women’s desire” (Cross 27). Although he is referring to men and women desiring a significant…

Through the personal experiences of the characters in The Joy Luck Club and Anna Karenina, the audience is deeply alerted to the role of women and the issue of gender inequality that were customary for the time and place that each of these films examined. Different societies have different perceptions, just as different groups within those same societies may also have varying viewpoints. However, both The Joy Luck Club and Anna Karenina echo the underlying sentiment that women are not on equal…

other hand, the downside is that the majority of photos feature unrealistic body size of woman with flawless glossy skin. As a result, the portraits of body image by Vogue have led them to massive criticism. The New York Times (2008) reported that Anna Wintour, the editor-in-chief of US Vogue received reader’s complaint that the magazine was in a rut and it is getting stale. The negative responses from the audience includes the presentation of unreal body image and the lack of diversity of…