Marilyn Monroe

Advertising painted the perfect picture album of society in the early nineteen hundreds. Advertisements told a story of what was going on during that particular time period. Women were portrayed as being competent and successful in both the nineteen twenties and fifties. “Evaluation of advertisements from nineteen twenty to nineteen fifty nine encourages that despite the conservative role of women in the twenties, the role of women in the fifties seemed much more feminine.” There were beautiful…

other hand he had his own problems as well. In 1956 he divorced his first wife Mary Slattery whom he had 2 kids with. In that case he recovered from Mary fairly quick because not even a month later he married Hollywood sex symbol Marilyn Monroe. Through their marriage, Marilyn struggled with a personal problems that she didn’t understand and a drug addiction. In the meantime Arthur didn’t write much during their marriage except for “The Misfits” which many critics say was not his best work. They…

expectations of gender identity of the 1950’s. The film draws much of its humor through the entertaining juxtaposition of the male and female genders. The large and masculine frames of the two adult men in dresses are matched and compared with the iconic Marilyn Monroe, whose character is interestingly and fittingly named “Sugar.” Being arguably the largest sex symbol in the 1950’s, Monroe’s presence alone indicated the underlying sexual and gender-based commentary. However,…

Rayna Smith Art 1 4th period Mrs. Hall Compare and Contrast of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein Rayna Smith 4th block Pop Art Pop art came around in the 1950’s. It is an art movement that uses imagery to advertise. In the United States, artist use pop art to show response on what they feel towards a subject. In contrast, Britain used pop art more academically. Pop art used irony a great bit to show how popular the emphasizing of culture was. Andy Warhol was born August 6th…

Heath Ledger died at the age of 28 in the year of 2008 because of the combination of six prescription drugs. (Drug abuse, 2017) Drugs such as Cocaine and heroin were frequently used by Heath. According to Peta Hellard, Heath Ledger died from an acute intoxication from the combined of oxycodone, hydrocodone, diazepam, temazepam, alprazolam, and doxylamine. These drugs are a combination of painkillers, anti-anxiety drugs, and sleeping drugs. This particular blend of drugs can cause the brain to…

Born in Pittsburgh in August 6, 1928. Andy Warhol discovered many things, for one pop art. But before he knew he was good at it, he was diagnosed with sydenham’s chorea. Often he would stay home and lay in bed as he would do that he listened to the radio and collect pictures of movies stars. As he progressed with his mother encouragement he started to be obsessed with pop culture and celebrities. As his father died at the age of fourteen, he left money for his children for higher education.…

Every piece of writing has a slant or bias based on the writer’s opinion. No matter how hard the author may try, the authors own feelings about the situation can be seen by more carefully examining the text. When writing a story authors can add events that may be untrue in order to express their feelings. Arthur Miller incorporated his personal life in The Crucible to idealize that even flawed people deserve forgiveness and to be understood. The crucible tells of John Proctor having an affair…

Mirror, Mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of them all! When we think about standards of beauty we think about celebrities and beauty queens. But what does it take to be beautiful like them? In the article U.S. Trends in Feminine Beauty and Overadaptation author Allan Mazur states that “Men place more importance on the physical attractiveness of women.” Because of this the average women today is affected by media to conform their physical beauty to portray the standards of beauty in…

Marilyn Chin’s Asian American Struggle Toward Self-Definition in “How I Got That Name” Understood by John Cery According to John Cery, Marilyn Chin’s poems are all interconnected in regards to their themes of “authenticity, heritage, and self-erasure,” (25). Cery claims that, “[A] finely honed voice, struggling toward self-definition,” has emerged from Chin’s poems (25). He proves this through his depictions of her “self-mockery and satire,” (36) as well as her “pattern of multiplicity,…

been popularly used when designer Levi Strauss figured out a way to make denim affordable in 1936. Since then, denim has been through an interesting revolution. All kinds of people, including cowboys in 1950’s, Robert Plant from Led Zeppelin, and Marilyn Monroe, a famous and iconic in “The Misfits” wore denim. (Sweet, M., May/June 2013) Today, denim is fabric manufactured for high-fashion designers and affordable department stores as well. According to “How Everyday Things Are Made” (2008),…