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Annie Leibovitz’s contribution to the 2016 version of the Pirelli Calendar shows that there is more to women than just their waist size and a pretty face. In the more than 50 years the Pirelli has produced it’s calendar, each iteration has featured some of the world 's most beautiful , scarcely clad models posing in sometimes explicit ways. When Leibovitz was chosen to be the photographer for the 2016 issue, she had a different plan in mind. Instead of choosing twelve models and actresses, she…

Don’t be deceived into blaming a pistol, when the blame should be on the one who pulled the trigger. Money is no more evil than a loaded firearm that can be used in virtue or nefariously. However, it is not intrinsically so. Thus, money can create a benevolent man; in which a crony capitalist will use it solely to enrich themselves through the exertion of others. Nonetheless, if money is used appropriately; it can provide one with cardinal needs; and, just as guns defend people and fire is used…

The Broken Auditory Mask In his novel Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens constructs the character of William Dorrit, father of Amy Dorrit and a debtor from the Marshalsea prison, who inherits a large sum of wealth. He is presented as a paranoid, insecure, and broken man when reminded of the Marshalsea prison. From his introduction in “The Father of the Marshalsea” where he witnesses Amy’s birth and receives testimonials from the collegians to his eventual demise after his hallucinogenic speech in…

Intellect can invoke a series of ideas that affect people in a positive or negative manner. The essays “The Library Card” by Richard Wright and “Learning to Read and Write” by Frederick Douglass, both emphasize the importance and epitomize the significance in being educated. In both cases, knowledge destabilizes them and causes them to develop a hatred for themselves and others. In addition, they both realize that the knowledge they have acquired does not make freedom any less evasive. On a…

The British novel , The Woman in White, created in the 19th century is one of Wilike•Collins’ masterpieces. In the development process of early British detective novel history, with regard to the advantages and disadvantages of creation techniques about this novel to study rhetoric, although it is slightly inferior to the other contemporary writers’ works in the social influence, popularity, sales and writing techniques, it will have a certain guidance and reference significance for us to…

In the 1890’s the roles of women were changing. Women were entering the work force more and some were demanding equality. As all stories and novels are influenced by the time period they are written, Stoker’s Dracula follows the same pattern by addressing the changing social norms pertaining to women. In his novel, Stoker has only a few female characters, but in these characters, one can see the good and dark side of the new woman of the nineteenth century. In Mina Harker, Stoker reveals an…

ABSTRACT This research aims to know the kinds of politeness, address forms, and to analyze the importance of politeness. It was done in Tanah Lot by observing and interviewing methods. There are two positive strategies of politeness used which is proposed by Watts (2003) and the address forms used initial greetings which is proposed by Holmes (2008) by saying their title honorific to make them satisfied. Key words: Politeness, Address Forms, Initial Greetings. I. INTRODUCTION Politeness…

After mentioning to Hans and Johnny of Tawney's Restaurant that I previously worked at the Menzies and Chelsea Restaurants in Sydney, I started that night, after just a week in Cairns. Suffering from the lavish expenditure of those bosses, the restaurant hired organist Les Dixon on weekends to pick up sales. Les played and drank, and just after 10, boyfriend Johnny Bond arrived, dragging along everyone from the Marlin Bar. This largely gay clientele drank the bar dry, yet the takings never…

Humanimal by Bhanu Kapil, in which the speaker’s experience in India focuses on the citizens of India, and their obsession with her ethnicity. At one moment in the collection, the speaker is persistently asked by a police escort, “Are you Indian?... Madam, are you France? Are you American? I think you are born in a different country” (Kapil 18). The question of ethnicity is reiterated several times because people find it important to classify people with their ethnicity. This focus on ethnicity…

For as long as I can remember, hair has been a significant part of my life. The many women in my family have always strived to “look good” and the way ones hairstyle was seemed to define if they actually in fact looked good or not. When I was a child, my entire day was solely determined by the state of my hair and as I have grown up, I’ve always believed that “if my hair looks good, then I feel good” this mentality has followed me to this point in my life. About seven years ago, I decided to “Go…