Brassiere

There were a remarkable amount of advertisements for brassieres and other undergarment pieces during the 1960s as women became fascinated with their brand new freedom (Ad Age, 2003). Although the ‘60s marked a positive change in the independence of women, it was also the beginning of an intense period of diet-orientated advertising targeting women. Returning to Perma-Lift Undergarment advertisement (Figure 1), there is still an emphasis being put on the ‘perfect’ body and the importance of a…

more caring, thoughtful, and considerate. Lulu was a waitress at Lone Star Café around the corner from the shoe shop where Rudy worked and she is also a musician with a cello. She was tall and slim with long arms and legs and she doesn’t have large brassiere even though she hardly needs bra, she is also the kind fashion magazine show a boyish charm with big brown eyes, wide mouth, and long blonde hair. She looked like someone who have a gold tooth but she doesn’t have it. According to the story…

Everybody have fears in many circumstances but sometime it’s bad to hold fears to yourself instead of letting go the fears off the shoulder. The short story of Lopsided Love suggests that go where the mood take you and facing fears leads to fighting your own battles to feel worthy. The literary element of this story such as tone, characters, setting, and symbol is the key to the story because you will have a better understanding on how the story works. The short story “Lopsided Love” was…

leaving out time for herself and possibly being virtually exhausted all the time. With being the one to have to support them all at once until Tom got a job at the warehouse, Amanda would have to take any kind of job for money, which included being a brassiere model. This would have to require Amanda to give up her pride, which takes a lot of strength and shows how humble she can be. But also with having to take whatever occupation she could, she would have to have to have quite the social…

transition forth adulthood is conveyed by the description of the tight red dress’s ability to accentuate her breasts, thus maturing her image. Munro writes, “The red velvet dress…[was] very tight in the midriff. I saw how my breasts, in their new brassiere, jutted out surprisingly, with mature authority.” The narrator’s new dress represents a sense of sexuality; a sophisticated and mature theme. She arouses this theme when she talks about mature topics with her friend. Munro writes,…

The study looked at the difference between the adversarial and inquisitorial systems in the member states and their impact on the experiences and satisfaction of rape victims. The study noted that participants of adversarial systems experienced feelings of humiliation and detachment, and were more stressed testifying in court than those of inquisitorial systems. The difference in experiences was largely attributed to defense counsel tactics which undermined the victim, the hostile nature in…

In order to fit into the latest and hottest trends, women “turned to flattening brassieres [...] that encased the body from chest to waist” (Brumberg 452). In other words, in an attempt to flatten their bodies to gain the “flapper” look, women would essentially bind their chest down and flatten their stomachs with these specific, restricting…

Jeffrey Eugenides’ childhood greatly influenced his perspective of the urban decay created by the failure of the automotive industry in Detroit. His contemporary novel, The Marriage Plot, mirrors the unprecedented, rapid transition from prosperity to failure. Nevertheless, he presents his childhood in a positive manner due to his positive temperament, but this only causes him to further question the role of destructive upbringings, as seen in his novel, The Virgin Suicides. By exploring the…

” The Catcher in the Rye” by J.D Salinger is a notable classic among english literature. This tale of a mentally unstable young man by the name of Holden Caulfield going through a journey to find his purpose. Something that many people with his condition tend to search for. We are told this tale though his own eyes, his side of the story and only his side only, it is a year later in what we can assume to be a psychiatric hospital. With all of this in mind, it can be questionable whether or not…

Raymond Carver is a popular American short story writer. Carver’s short stories consisted in a collection that all connect in one way or another. For example, in the collection, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please? , all of the short stories are a continuation of the previous short story. Raymond Carver writes each story in a way that they all relate with a twist. He makes his readers think and figure out the hidden clues in each story. Carver’s main subject in majority of his work focused on…