Ballerina

I loved painting tulips. My parents have kept some of these paintings and I enjoy looking at them after all these years. When I was eight I decided I wanted to begin ballet lessons. I do not know if it is because I had read so many stories about ballerinas and wanted to become one when I was older or if it was because many of my friends were taking lessons. I just remember being so happy when my Mom told…

The film cuts directly to shots that actively incorporate signifiers of chaos implied in the opening of the novel with a canted low angle of an open, black jeep riding down an empty city plaza, filled with at least a dozen young adults, some of whom are dressed in harlequin costumes and make up shouting joyfully. The characters spill out of the jeep and run down stairways, passing the oblivious pedestrians, breaking the silence of, presumably, the morning commute. The silence is re-established…

Juliet wakes up from bed she begins to do the spin stretch forwards exercise which was quite unique. Another example, is when she is excited to see Romeo she leaps of a table with her legs stretch really straight and her feet are pointed like a ballerina. When she leaps she lands in a perfect position on Romeo. Her posture was very straight unlike the character of Romeo who posture was very laid…

A Self-Styled Society The short stories “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut and “The Lottery” by Roald Dahl, feature dystopian and utopian societies. A dystopian community is characterized as an illusion of an ideal society maintained through extreme control of society. Utopia is delineated as a place conserved by customs. In the dystopian novel, “Harrison Bergeron,” the government makes the citizens equal by attaching restraints to them which decreases their IQ level, strength, and…

Present Day Gender Inequality Imagine that you are working towards getting a job, competing with the opposing gender- both of you have the same amount of experience; the opposing gender got the job just because their gender role fits the job description better. From gender differences in payment, to just general gender standards, gender inequality is still a problem today. It’s not always the most noticeable, yet it still affects our society in a cynical fashion. Speaking about fashion, that…

Rembert about her future, Rembert assured her that she could have a great career in ballet. Rembert also told Hepburn that her height (five feet, seven inches) coupled with her poor nutrition during the war might prevent her from becoming a prima ballerina. As a result of this conversation, Hepburn decided to pursue acting rather than…

implies that the humanity and excitement are being suppressed underground, waiting to be unleashed. This implication is especially clear when he follows the description with a statement that the city is filled with "young actors, young aspiring poets, ballerinas, painters, reporters, singers" (White 38). He sees these artists and humanity aficionados as the future because they hold new ideas and different culture that can lead New York away from what seems like a giant sweatshop to something…

On October 25th, 1881, Pablo Picasso was born in Magala, Spain. The world of art was forever changed that day. From paintings to poetry, you name it; Picasso has probably dabbled in it. In his early life, Picasso was raised Catholic, but would convert to atheism as an adult. His father was an artist and trained Picasso in oil painting and figure drawing. When Picasso was fourteen, his seven-year-old sister, Conchita, passed away from diphtheria, an upper respiratory tract illness. After that,…

generation. We are influenced by the people around us. Celebrities are a perfect example. Some major fashion icons in the 1950’s were Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly. They wore knee-length dresses, tennis shoes, ballerina shoes, poodle skirts, “Hollywood” hair waves, and anything with printed designs on them. When you see style icons like them, other women would follow their path and wear the same things because they believe those clothing pieces were in.…

groups as a whole”. An example of this was when Walker was young and taking ballet class and there was a certain move that she could not perform. Her white teacher informed her, as well as telling the rest of the class, that there were no black ballerinas because their bodies were not made for it (Walker, 2001, p. 67; “Publishers Weekly Review,” 2015). Another example of how Walker was stereotyped against was when she was living with her dad and was away at Jewish camp named Camp Fire Lake.…