Clark Gable

Whether it is between men and women or different races, we live in a world where inequality exists in every corner. The type of inequality I will be focusing on is not between the sexes or races, but between the rich and the poor. As Plutarch once said, “An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics.” Between the two essays, they provide many similarities and differences in opinion regarding the importance of economic inequality, the access of education…

People respond differently to situations, depending on their morals. In The Ox-Bow Incident by Walter Van Tilburg Clark, the town's people's morals are shown through their reactions to hearing about Kinkaid’s murder. A messenger tells the men about Kinkaid being shot and his cattle taken. They form a posse and kill the men they think are responsible. The sheriff tells them they killed the wrong people. Stricken by grief, two men responsible for hanging the other men kill themselves as well. The…

I have decided to sell the Hotel Edelweiss (N.A. n.d.1). It is located in Leavenworth Washington. The top ten qualities about this hotel are; it has just thirteen rooms, it is Leavenworth’s first Bavarian style building, it sits right across the street from a city park, some rooms are American style with a private bath, others are European style, and have a bath room down the hall, all rooms are air conditioned, rooms hold from 2 to 6 people, in the heart of downtown shopping, and dining…

In the 1930s the United States was suffering from the Great Depression. People were out of work and penniless, but Hollywood actors raised several American Spirits. Shirley Temple a child star, Clark Gable the first macho man, and Charlie Chaplin an English born actor who became an American movie icon were all actors who raised American spirit on the silver screen during the Great Depression. Shirley Temple was a child star who lifted American hearts. Shirley started her career at the young age…

The movie got a Best Picture nomination. The next year Capra worked with Clark Gable and Claudette Colbert on the comedy “It Happened One Night”. The movie received five Oscars – Best Director, Best Picture, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actor and Best Actress. Capra went on to win a second Oscar for Best Director for the movie…

Nathaniel Hawthorne was born to Nathaniel and Elizabeth Clark Hathorne(later the “W” was added) on July 4th, 1804 in Salem Massachusetts. He was born into a Puritan legacy because of his ancestor, William Hathorne, who emigrated from England to the United States. When Nathaniel Hawthorne was only about four years old, his father had passed away. So he grew up raised by his mother, along with his two sisters and lived with his rich uncle 's. When he was very young, he suffered from an injury in…

One of the significant values of genre in film is that genre, as Dr. Casper has noted, is used to “sugarcoat the pill” of challenges in human life, and the romantic comedy genre follows this value (Casper, 260). Comedy, as a whole, reveals the “fragmentation of man” in a digestible, enjoyable manner for audiences. Romantic comedies, specifically, reveal the fragmentation of each partner in a relationship and the fragmentation of the relationship. Throughout the history of film, romantic comedies…

today. Marilyn Monroe went from nothing to everything in thirty-six fleeting years. On June 1, 1926, Norma Jeane Mortenson was born in Los Angeles, California. She grew up not knowing her father, but she once thought him to be Clark Gable. There was no evidence Clark ever met or knew Monroe’s mother, Gladys who ended up in a mental institution due to psychiatric problems. As an adult, Monroe said that one of her latest memories was of her mother trying to smother her with a pillow while…

what to do with the one they love, even if its just a quiet evening at home watching a romantic movie. To help with the decision, here's a top 10 list of some of the most romantic movies ever made. 1. Gone With The Wind Starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, this 10 time Academy award winner continues to be hailed as one of the world's greatest love stories as 70 years later, viewers are still swept up into the tumultuous and tempestuous passion between Southern belle, Scarlet O'Hara, and the…

all-too-brief life, Marilyn Monroe overcame a difficult to become one of the world’s biggest and most enduring sex symbols (Biography 1-2). Later baptized as Norma Jeane Baker, she never knew her father, and once thought Clark Gable to be her father. However there is no evidence that Gable ever met or knew Monroe’s mother,…