Marilyn Monroe

Postmodernism/ Modernism Modernist artists can be viewed as a new way of thinking that started in the 1860’s and ended in the 1970’s that sought to view art thru fresh eyes. Modern art focused on actual items in nature but sought to abstract it. Post-Modernism is almost the anti-modernism. It went to go against anything modernism stood for. Asking more questions than it answered postmodern artists sought to simplify and recreate past styles and converge low and high art into one. In this essay…

Where the older wives and mother’s were once at the top, Abigail is able to temporarily disrupt the normal social balance. The trials “propel the girls from a position of powerlessness to the pinnacle of importance as "officials of the court" (Bovard OL) The young single girls were always inferior but now their word alone has the power to take a life. It is the older women who were once a step above them on the social ladder who are the majority of the condemned. .“It’s a strange work for a…

Who decides what makes a woman beautiful? The ideals of beauty have changed throughout history. For example, Renaissance painters idolized a fuller figured women, in the nineteen fifties the curvy Marilyn Monroe was the symbol of feminine beauty, there was the waifish women of the nineteen sixties and then there was Kate Moss in the heroin chic of the nineteen nineties. A lot of advertisements today are showing women what they are ideally supposed to look like. With all of these advertisements…

The Crucible, the famous and passionate play about the Salem Witch Trials during the 1690s, written by Arthur Miller is an allegory to to the McCarthy Trials of the 1950s. An allegory is a story with two levels of meaning - literal and symbolical. In an allegory, the characters, events and instances all relate to real people, events, and instances (“Definition of Allegory” R104). Characters like Abigail Williams, John Proctor and Judge Hathorne represent the historical figures: Senator Joseph…

The museum I visited was the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, Florida. There were three main exhibitions open, but the one I spent the most time in was the Bill Rutherfoord: Allegory of No Region. The exhibition was a culmination of eleven large scale pieces of art by Bill Rutherfoord that were done over an eight-year period. The main series, Allegory of No Region, contains paintings that take the viewer through a series of colorful allegories full of symbolism, form, and narrative. Rutherfoord,…

shoes, and even new hairstyles. The fashion game back then has dramatically changed compared to this year’s generation. We are influenced by the people around us. Celebrities are a perfect example. Some major fashion icons in the 1950’s were Marilyn Monroe, Elizabeth Taylor, Audrey Hepburn, and Grace Kelly. They wore knee-length dresses, tennis shoes, ballerina shoes, poodle skirts, “Hollywood” hair waves, and anything with printed designs on them. When you see style icons like them, other…

Celebrities are often teenagers’ first choice for role models. But why do adolescents idolise people that do inappropriate things? These things include changing their bodies to fit in, taking drugs and encouraging teens to buy unnecessary items through endorsements and social media. Those actions prove that celebrities are definitely a very negative influence on teenagers. In modern day society, plastic surgery is all the rage. Lots of people have gone under the knife, to the point where it is…

completely different because of how our bodies fluctuate and how they are made. It’s the same thing with Marilyn Monroe. She was 5’5 and absolutely adored by the people in her era. Models now average about 5’8, 3 inches taller than Monroe. Monroe’s weight fluctuated throughout her years of being a model, but her normal weight was about 118 pounds. Models now are between 90 and 120 pounds. Monroe is called an icon and “curvy” because she wasn’t as tall as models are today. She was the same size…

misconceptions about money. #1 MONEY IS ALL I NEED TO BE HAPPY Most people think that money is the only thing they need in order for them to be happy, well based on some famous people's experiences, it is actually too far from it. Just look at Marilyn Monroe, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse, and every other celebrity who have tons of money, and yet they all succumbed into drugs because they were obviously not happy with their respective lives. Happiness comes in all forms, you can be happy just…

considered classy and respectful and no one minded if you had more hips and curves, and arms and legs than the next person. We never had the problem of feeling uncomfortable or invisible when it came to walking into a store or down the street. Look at Marilyn Monroe, Raquel Welch, Meryl Streep, Joan Rivers, and so many…