Billy Dee Williams

Marilyn Monroe was famous for many things. She was a very strong independent hard working women. She didn’t let anyone let her down or make her decisions for her. Well her dream shortly ended without any warnings, Marilyn Monroe died of a drug overdose on August 5, 1962. She’s still known world wide to this day. Marilyn Monroe is a influential advocate of making things more socially acceptable through her actions including singing,acting and modeling. Marilyn Monroe impacted social movement,…

Behind the scenes of Marilyn Monroe, the “Blonde Bombshell” Marilyn Monroe's career as an actress spanned 16 years. She made 29 films, 24 of which were in the first 4 years of her fame. Marilyn is not only a symbol of beauty to many but she is also a role model to many young women for how strong and determined she stayed through the darkest and saddest imes. Monroe has accomplished many things through her short life including several marriages, lead roles in many movies, and her modelling career…

two major perspectives, Biographical and Structuralist which reveal the devastations of war. Kurt Vonnegut is undoubtedly displaying his life experiences through Billy Pilgrim and his encounters,as he enlisted in the army and exhibits the horrors of war. Kurt channels his experiences through a third person perspective which Billy is essentially a physical manifestation of his memories “The war parts, anyway, are pretty much true”(1). ‘“ Vonnegut had been captured on December 19, caught…

In the passage from Slaughterhouse Five analyzed in this essay, the main character Billy Pilgrim, a time traveler and World War II soldier, travels a few hours further in time to watch a World War II movie backwards. This passage was chosen due to the way Vonnegut uses a backwards movie to exemplify the…

Vonnegut introduces Billy Pilgrim as someone who was affected by the bombing of Dresden, and someone who is taken by Tralfamadorians (an alien species) to talk to him about their theories of time. There are many ways to react to a catastrophe, but the author emphasizes the significance of confronting it, and Billy Pilgrim does just that. This American classic anti-war novel is relevant to today because it puts a focus on the different reactions to tragic events that both Billy Pilgrim and real…

William Franklin "Billy" Graham Jr. is an American Christian evangelist. I chose Billy Graham because my family looks up to him religiously, and my church has went to one of his sermons before. I unfortunately didn’t get to go because I was too young. My churches youth group would always watched videos of him preaching, and I felt as if it was the only person I could write about with interest. Billy was born November 7th, 1918 in Charlotte, North Carolina His parents were William and Morrow…

conclusion that I think you 'll very much enjoy. Your use of figurative language has captured my heart in a way that no one else could. I adore Billy 's incredible personality, I strongly dislike the German soldiers that imprisoned all of your characters and the people who wanted to murder Billy. I feel empathetic for Billy 's first wife, Valencia since Billy met Montana and dies in a plane crash. However, Mr. Vonnegut, you have truly and utterly wrecked me. Your graphics hit me harder than The…

and by the time her next lesson came around she was not going to lose her pride again. Instead of going to her drawing lesson, Sam chose to go to a music store, Static. In the store she sat next to a middle-aged man in an army uniform, listening to Billy Joel’s Uptown Girl. They both exited out of Static and noticed that the president’s motorcade was coming. The flashing lights weren’t a big surprise; the fact that the president exited the limo was a surprise. Mr. Uptown Girl was retrieving…

production design, acting, editing, and cinematography. Billy Elliot, directed by Stephen Daldry, is a great example of a film that expertly employs such audiovisual techniques. At face value, one can instantly get the mood from a scene in Billy Elliot, however it is through careful examination and dissection that one can obtain a deeper appreciation for the hard work and consideration that went into each shot. This paper will analyze the scene from Billy Elliot where,…

he said to the guide, much deflated, 'what was so stupid about that? ' 'We know how the Universe ends, ' said the guide, 'and Earth has nothing to do with it, except that it gets wiped out, too. ' 'How-how does the Universe end? ' said Billy. 'We blow it up, experimenting with new fuels for our flying saucers. A Tralfamadorian test pilot presses a starter button, and the whole Universe disappears. ' So it goes. (Vonnegut, 116-117) Even in the case of this quote, the whole…