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I chose the Ted Talk, “My year of saying yes to everything”, by Shonda Rhimes. You may recognized the name Shonda Rhimes from many popular TV shows like Grey's Anatomy, Scandal and How to Get Away With Murder. All these shows are produced her own production company, Shondaland. She produces and/or screen writes over 70 hours of television per season. Rhimes was born on January 13, 1970 (age 47) and lives with three of her daughters, two of which were adopted. This Ted Talk was recorded in…

Padmini was a visual treat and a connosseur’s delight on the silver screen, a damsel who was admired and acclaimed not only for her classic beauty but also for her memorable histronics. She was hailed as the queen of south indian cinema in the 1950’s and 1960’s. Born in Travencore, Kerala, on 12th June 1932, she was the middle sister. Lalitha, Padmini and Ragini became popular dancers in different genres like Kathakali, Bharatnatyam and folk dance and came to be called the Travencore Sisters.…

The Mysterious Death of Marilyn Monroe Fifty-five years have passed and one of the most iconic and well known women in history, Marilyn Monroe, has a death that is one of the US’s biggest mysteries. Monroe is known for her acting and modeling in the US. She has caught the attention of every man, woman, and child all over the world. Marilyn is one of the biggest faces of her industry and is considered as one of the most iconic women of all time. However her glamorous life has many dark…

Marilyn Monroe: The Icon The bright lights of Hollywood attracted many star like moths, and perhaps the most influential and treasured of these stars are the young starlets of the twentieth century. Forever the icon and representative of these starlets is Marilyn Monroe. The subway grate drifted up Marilyn’s dress and she said the words, “ Isn’t it delicious?” shot Marilyn into stardom. Marilyn Monroe was and still is an iconic sex symbol known for “the shot seen around the world” (Stapinski 1)…

Levitt Sunset Boulevard The movie Sunset Boulevard directed by Billy Wilder was very well shot and edited. There was a lot of great shots in the movie, a couple of the great shots was at the New Year's Ball scene and Norma got mad and went up the stairs but it showed through the mirror where she was going it was a really neat shot. Then when they were driving to Paramount and max looked through the rearview mirror to tell Norma what was wrong with her make up. What was neat with that shot was…

speaker in the poem is the well-known film actress, Marlene Dietrich, who is commenting on the night she meant Marilyn Monroe. Hittinger adds this piece of information to set the scene and give the reader the background knowledge they would need to understand the conflict in the poem. Marlene Dietrich was a popular German film actress in Berlin and Hollywood during the 20s and 30s. When Marilyn and Marlene met in 1955, Marlene was already older and not the young beauty she was at the beginning…

“Give a girl the right shoes, and she can conquer the world” (Marilyn Monroe Brainy). This quote stated by Marilyn Monroe directly describes her life. Marilyn Monroe was born Norma Jeane Mortenson in Los Angeles, California. Her mother gave birth to her in the charity ward of the hospital and Norma never knew her father (Marilyn Monroe International). Norma had a tough childhood, going from one foster home to another because of her mother’s mental instability. At age 16, she married James…

Arthur Asher Miller (1915-2005), an acclaimed 20th century American play and screen writer, most famous for conflicting guilt and hope within characters in his plays. Miller, born on October 17, 1915, in Harlem, New York City into a family of immigrants from Polish and Jewish descents, Miller had spent most of his youth surrounded by literature. With his mother, which whom he was very close to, being an educator and a novel enthusiast. After graduating high school Miller began working to save up…

Every American seems to have a different view of the country they call home. One person may tell a foreigner the problems they see in their country and what needs to be done to improve, but more often than not, an American will tell you they live in the most wonderful country in the world, and while it has its issues, the positive aspects outweigh the negatives by far. In Arthur Miller’s play Death of a Salesman and Allen Ginsberg’s poem “America,” you see two very different approaches of two…

States Merchant Marines (Owings, 2013). She felt as if Jim was abandoning her because he had wanted to join the military. While Jim was at sea working, Norma Jeane got a job that led to greater opportunities for her. She had also changed her name to Marilyn Monroe in order to give herself a better shot at being successful (Owings, 2013). Jim was not very fond of his wife working and being successful because he wanted a housewife. Norma Jeane was not willing to give up her budding career to be…