Louise Brooks

What effects do connotation, bias, and rhetoric have on the author’s argument, and how does it affect the audience? In the editorial “‘Boobies,’ the courts and free speech” by the Times Editorial Board the author uses connotation, bias, and rhetoric to help sway the audience toward believing in their side of the argument. To start off, the author uses connotation a lot in his editorial. These are some examples of those words, “Constitutional rights, wrongly, disrespect, defiance, and…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth.” (NGA, web) (May, 1) Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-LeBrun, a Rococo era painter turned Neoclassical, was born in Paris on April 16, 1755. She lived to be eighty—seven as “one of the foremost portraitists in Europe at the end of the eighteenth century and during the first three decades of the nineteenth” (NGA, web) (May, 1). Spanning a long career with over 600 paintings, Vigée-LeBrun is “characterized” and marveled “…as the much sought-after portraitist of not only European royalty and nobility, but also of notable…

met Ann Rule. “He began a relationship with fellow university student ‘Stephanie Brooks’ (a pseudonym), whom he met while enrolled at UW in 1967” (Blanco). However, the relationship was ended in 1968 after Stephanie graduated. Stephanie’s reason for ending the relationship was that Ted was immature and had a lack of ambition. After the breakup, Ted returned to his birthplace, where he discovered the truth about Louise.…

was said that Samuel was very abusive to his wife and animals, even to Ted. Ted and everyone else was told that Samuel and Eleanor were his real parents and his mother, Louise Cowell, was his older sister. It was said that Ted held a lifelong bitterness to his mother for never telling him who his real dad was. After age 3, Louise and Ted moved in with Louise’s cousins. She met a man named Johnny Bundy and later married him. He adopted…

During college, Bundy fell in love with a tall, dark-haired woman named Stephanie Brooks. She possessed all the qualities that Ted was looking for: wealth, beauty, and class. Bundy’s killing spree began after Brooks, his college girlfriend, broke his heart. Ted Bundy’s early victims resembled similar features of Stephanie Brooks because their break up completely devastated Bundy. In 1974, after the fall apart with Brooks, Ted officially began his life of…

managed to rape and murder 28 young women throughout five states from 1974-1978. He seemed to have a certain preference when it came to picking out his victims; they all had dark hair that was parted in the middle, like former girlfriend, Stephanie Brooks. Bundy’s method of murder was beating and strangulation. The Crime Library (2015) includes certain tactics Bundy used to capture his victims. First, he would put his arm in a cast or a sling, acting as if he was hurt. Bundy would then ask his…

ed’s mother Louise was unmarried. She got pregnant with Ted from a sailor named Jack Worthington who had left after he learned of her condition.During Ted’s childhood he believed that his grandmother and grandfather were his parents and that his real mother Louise was his sister. His grandfather had a violent temper and Ted was exposed to this. His grandfather was also abusive to animals, physically violent, and had a collection of disturbing pornography that Ted was also exposed to. Ted…

story Deaf Like Me begins with a young married couple, Louise and Thomas Spradley, waking up in the middle of the night and panicking about the child they are expecting. Louise is five months pregnant with the couple 's second child. They already have a three and a half year old one named Bruce who became ill last summer. When taking him to the doctors, Louise finds out that Bruce has German measles, or rubella. The doctor notifies Louise that if she is pregnant there can be possible congenital…

happiness and beauty. The illusion was that, the more the consumer possessed, the closer they were to achieving this image. The economy of the 1920’s depended on consumer demand, one advertiser says, “without imagination, no wants. Without wants, no demand to have them supplied.” This means that if people didn’t have the capacity to desire products, then there would simply be no demand for them. Everything celebrities wore, ate, drank, used, and drove, were soon picked up by the public…