Bettie Page

When reading poetry or a novel, we tend to just read the words that are on the paper. This uses only one of our senses, our sight. Instead of using just this method to read and understand poetry, Billy Collins proposes other approaches. He wants readers to experience the poem, not just simply read it. Collins wants the reader to use more than one of their senses to understand the poem. Many times when reading, the reader tries to “torture” it to find the meaning, but Collins suggests readers…

Developmental Reading Memoir When it comes it reading, it is something that I often cherish and embrace. However, I have faced many obstacles to have the reading capability I have today. From humble beginnings, I was muted and was unable to speak my native language Creole or English. Which resulted in some delays in reading development. Once my family and I arrived to the United States it was difficult to adapt to our new setting due to knowing English or us not speaking. During my…

Why do I enjoy reading you? Well, there were many things that influenced my joy for reading. The main thing that mainly stands out to me is my mom working with me through my younger years. She was always pushing me to learn in fun ways. I could not have even came close to being the kind of reader I am today without her help. My mom's name is Lindee Andrews. She is a thirty-six year old woman with brown hair and brown eyes just like mine. She is about the same height as I am, but a little bit…

In his essay, Edmundo use various methods to convince that most readers read only for pleasure and entertainment, that only a few read to be influence. it was very interesting because it is true, most readers like myself only read to be entertain and feel good. People no longer want to be influence by those who came before us. That the media has a lot of influence on peoples reading and the media has use it influence in selling what is new and hot now, not what can education the readers.…

I think by using the handscroll you can go through the work slowly and take your time which gives your mind time to imagine and absorb the images as it is slowly unrolled, much more like reading a book. You scroll thru like you would turn the pages of a book and take as much time as needed. When you are looking at hanging scrolls you see the work in its entirety and have to take in everything at once. To me hanging scrolls are more for an artwork that is to be viewed in its entirety and with…

Sex was ubiquitous. Hollywood blondes Marilyn Monroe and Jayne Masfield were the sex icons. Growth of male magazines Playboy and Esquire offered ostentatious/pretentious sexuality epitomized/personified by Bettie Page-‘the pin-up queen of the universe and her explicit pictures led to anti-ponographic hearings of 1955 (Halliwell 42). Double image of women as a devoted housewife and glamorous diva was less a paradox than a duality in the 1950s. Media interest in the body shape/physique…