Joan Crawford

At times, many of us are unaware of when stereotypes become our perspective. A lot of the times we do things without a thought. We can stereotype people without even noticing that we are doing it. Stereotypes can be presented to us in a statement or a movie, and we may not even notice it is being presented to us. We tend to take ideas as they are, without really using our critical thinking skills. A big part of this country is movies. When movies first came out, everyone wanted to go to the…

There are two types of Pancreatic Cancer. One type is called exocrine pancreatic cancer. With this one there is a thing called adenocarcinomas. This means the cancer usually begins in the ducts of the pancreas. Adenocarcinomas has a ninety-five perfect of being the leading cause of the cancer. Ampullary cancer is another type of exocrine cancer. This cancer is where the bile duct and pancreatic duct come together and empty into the small intestine. Ampullary cancer is not technically a…

Gender Roles and Power in Myra Breckinridge by Gore Vidal The Sexual Revolution of the Sixties was a breath of fresh air for marginalized people. It did for the genders what people like Achebe, Mandela and Luther King Jr. had been trying to do for racial discrimination for years; reversed and broke down the familiar binaries and introduced the ‘in-betweens’ into the midst. Vidal, who had by now established himself as a force to be reckoned with in both literary circles and the film industry,…

choice”, which can be seen when Mildred decides to separate from her first husband Bert. All of these themes are incorporated and mixed in with the film noir elements including lighting iconography, the noir protagonist, and the femme fatale. Joan Crawford, who plays Mildred…

In the book, The Way We Never Were: American Families and the Nostalgia Trap by Stephanie Coontz, the author deconstructs various types of stereotypes and myths embodied by television shows that romanticize family life and gender roles. Coontz (1992) states that these idealizations promote the “traditional family” myth which she describes as “an ahistorical amalgam of structures, values, and behaviors that never coexisted in time and place” (p.9). The notions derived from this myth are a…

By definition of middle schoolers, to be beautiful means that someone is physically attractive and enticing, but it also means that a person is content with who they are. For the past one hundred years, beauty trends and icons have changed drastically through each decade. Whether it was Hollywood’s Golden Age or the Roaring 20s, something new was thought of as beautiful at the height of each and every decade. In some decades it was desirable to have an hourglass figure, while in other decades it…

After World War II, the Cold War began to heat up as the world’s two biggest powers vied for control of third world countries. On the left, the Soviet Union employed communist principles, while the United States fought for democracy. Following Truman’s Executive Order 9835, the purging of communist principles seeped into industry in the United States. On October 20, 1947, the notorious Red Scare began to infiltrate the biggest propaganda source: Hollywood. As a congressional committee known as…