Marilyn Monroe

collection of other maids tell their stories of working for white women to Eugenia “Skeeter” Phelan, an up and coming journalist searching for something new and unexplored. Among all of these strong personalities is Celia Rae Foote. Celia is a Marilyn-Monroe lookalike born and raised in Sugar Ditch, a rural Mississippi town, and one of the most impoverished places in the United States of America until the early 1990s. According to Minny, Sugar ditch is “..as low as you can go in Mississippi,…

Jack Benny was the first person use recurring theme music on both his radio shows and television shows which I thought was really cool. Before that, people often played random popular songs each time. Jack had many guests on his television show. Marilyn Monroe and Humphrey Bogart both appeared on television for the first time on Jack’s show. Other guests stars included Walt Disney and Rod Serling. Jack Benny also appeared in films. Once again, he proved himself to be a very talented film actor.…

American icon, Marilyn Monroe, once said, “Well behaved women rarely make history.” This was especially true when the roles of women were beginning to stray from the norm with the initiation of the Jazz Age in the twenties. In 1920, women were given the right to vote, they began to work, and Flappers smoked, drank, and danced. In The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald utilizes the characters of Daisy Buchanan, Jordan Baker, and Myrtle Wilson to exhibit characteristic traits of women in the 1920s.…

First of all, society say if you are pretty you have a better chance of achieving rather than others. Women are being judge and stereotype with titles like the phrase “because you are a woman.” That phrase is the reason or the start of judgmental towards inequality. The phrase defines because you are a female you are incapable of achieving what a male can do. For example, the performance of high- achieving women math students on challenging math tests can be impaired by a social-psychological…

Hollywood was known as the entertainment capital of the world. Hollywood was a place where people all over the world came to make their dreams come true. Hollywood in the 1930’s was surprisingly hit very hard. It was surprising because that’s not what it looked like from the outside. Hollywood in the 1930’s introduced women to film, made the depression less depressing all while extending itself to a higher length. People in the Great Depression struggled to make ends meet everyday.…

Mira Thekdi Mrs. Ball American Literature 22 September 2015 [Insert Title] Arthur Miller’s ignominious reputation presented many conflicts in both his career and personal life. He lost money, got denied film productions, and more. In The Crucible, having a proper reputation was notably important in Salem because of the witchcraft trials, where the false accusations made in court can quickly ruin a person's life. Ergo, many of the characters in Salem are troubled about the perception of their…

The Hollywood culture is made of looks, a great name, and who holds the most captivation (Blakemore, 2015). The patient, Joan Crawford, reinvented herself completely and has stopped at nothing to reach the top of stardom. The glitz and glamour to her is necessary, and without it Joan feels unfit to be in the public eye. Sources illustrate Joan as receiving eye and dental work, over dramatizing her make-up, and sexually exploiting herself to become famous (Blakemore, 2015). Joan also has…

haughty condemnations by Miller, but rather reflections of the maltreatment he endured during the Second Red Scare. After his failed marriage to Marilyn Monroe, Miller was brought before the HUAC to face Senate hearings on his communist ties. John Elsom notes that Miller “could have escaped [the persecution of HUAC], but he did not want to subject Monroe to unwelcome publicity. He thus shouldered his burden… and turned defeat into a moral victory” (Elsom 102). Rather than shy away from publicly…

The Crucible is more than a retelling of historical events, not only does it highlight the key events of how Mccarthyism came to be, but it is not difficult to see the common themes that are displayed throughout this play. In my opinion, I believe Arthur Miller wrote this play as his way of protesting devastating political events that were happening in relation to the communist outbreak at the time. I believed he found interest in people who disagreed with the witch hunts, but would never stand…

Few people would argue the value of creating a story of a life lived. In fact, it’s why I consider it a wholly noble idea that I create my own life’s story. From it, I hope my descendants will likely learn something valuable and endearing, tragic or disgusting and distasteful from the life I’ve experienced, but nonetheless might know me. Not in as much as my inability to convey the message, but more so just the total lack of interest by many in hearing what I have to say is what I consider a…