Helen Gurley Brown

Although there are many famous Arkansans, Helen Marie Gurley Brown was one of the most influential and meaningful women of the 20th century. American writer, Helen Brown, lived a fulfilled life as a successful editor-in-chief, author, advice-giver, and loving wife. Even though Helen Brown has since then died, she has still maintained to influence and inspire feminists on into the 21st century. Helen Marie Gurley Brown was born in Green Forest, Arkansas, on February 18, 1922. Her parents were Ira and Cleo Gurley. She had one sibling, Mary Gurley. Soon after, her father, in 1923, finished law school and became a state legislator. Because of this, the family was forced to move to Little Rock, Arkansas, and settled in the Pulaski Heights neighborhood. In 1932, ten-year-old Helen was devastated with the loss of her father. He was killed in an elevator accident at the Arkansas State Capitol building while in the running for Arkansas secretary of state. During the years that Helen attended Pulaski Heights Junior High, she enjoyed spending her free time playing at the country club with her friends. In 1937, Helen and her family moved to Los Angeles, California. A few…

Cosmopolitan From tips about beauty products, clothes, and stories about dating, it is found in the magazine called Cosmopolitan. Cosmopolitan is magazine that not only has pictures and stories about entertainment but includes important tips on self-improvement especially for women. Cosmopolitan was first published as a family magazine in 1886 by Schlict & Field of New York in the United States and was called The Cosmopolitan. After a couple of years of being published The Cosmopolitan had…

how many magazines use Photoshop making models looks even more unobtainable. The article described the secrets of the industry when it comes to touching up photos for magazines, all the things they add and remove to make that perfect picture. Something like this is important for women to know so they understand it isn’t real and merely the fiction the magazines want to sell. Stories more focused on this kind of information would be far more beneficial then what I traditionally see with…

After helping Paris in his single combat with Menelaus, Aphrodite disguises herself as an old woman when approaching Helen. Homer’s contrast in word play when painting Aphrodites’ physical attributes portrays her to be creative in asserting power. The phrases “a withered hand” and “an old woman” and later on “beautiful neck,” “irresistible line of her breasts,” and “iridescent eyes” contradict each other (3, 412-413, 423-325). The beginning suggests that Aphrodite donned the disguise of an old…

city of Troy. This battle was ignited by the sudden abduction of Queen Helen of Sparta by Prince Paris of Troy. Helen and Paris were star-crossed lovers, in which, nobody could separate them. You could compare them to the tragic story of Romeo and Juliet, where the Montagues and Capulets fought, again, sparked by the love of two young lovers. Back in mythological times, Zeus, the father of the gods and god of the sky and thunder, held a celebration after the recent marriage of Peleus and…

Within Euripides Iphigenia at Aulis, and Seneca’s Medea, a variety of atrocious acts take place, sparing no violence and certainly no mercy. Although Seneca and Euripides hail from much different time periods, many parallels can be drawn between the atrocious acts depicted within their works. While the scenarios that lead up to the atrocious acts that take place within Medea and Iphigenia at Aulis differ, many similarities can be found between both antagonists. In addition to the similarities,…

One of the greatest battles in history, the Trojan War, started in the 12th century. There was a wedding for Pelus and Thetis, the Trojan prince Paris, son of King Priam of Troy, obtains a golden apple from the goddess Eris. It is up to Paris to decide which of the three goddesses is the most beautiful, which will be given the golden apple. Hera, wife and sister of Zeus, offers power. Athena, goddess of wisdom and warfare, offers success in battle. Aphrodite, goddess of love, offers the most…

beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even Pamela Witkowski Dr. Asma Sayed COMP 102 (AS05) 6 October 2014 Roles of Women in The Iliad and Gilgamesh Gilgamesh is the epic about a powerful King named Gilgamesh who searches for immortality after his best friend, Enkidu, is killed. At the beginning of the epic, the King is seen as selfish and can even be considered a cruel authoritarian leader; his people are not happy with him in power. The journey he forgoes is to look for…

The role of the gods is very simple; it is to control the mortals. A human’s life is determined the gods. Therefore, the mortals lose their free will. The epic depicts a world ruled by unpredictable gods. The gods provide no consistent moral code, they follow their own rules while the mortals follow the gods, which can sometimes led to tragedy. In the Iliad, we can the gods drive the plot with their interactions and by changing the fate of the characters. The human however do practice free will.…

Messengers are always conveying the messages, never making the originals. It is a humbling position. We know that Hermes is the messenger of the gods and that he is a man. However, in the Iliad, all the messages are conveyed by Iris, a woman. "Away, Iris! / Quick as you can to the grand sea lord Poseidon. / Go, give him my message, start to finish-- / and see that every word of it rings exactly so" (15.198-192). This quote shows the typical attitude towards women in the Iliad. Zeus is giving…