Monroe Doctrine

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…

) sounding endings to each stanza and the (constant rhyme scheme?) in the poem highlights the cycle and materialism of fame. The 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…

“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…

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 home…

Marilyn Monroe The late Norma Jean Mortenson Baker, more commonly known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1, 1926 in Los Angeles, California. She overcame a lonesome childhood without a family and became one of the world’s most famous sex idols. She lived a very adventurous lifestyle, which resulted in her mysterious death at the young age of thirty-six. According to the article of notable biographies Monroe’s childhood relationship with her mother was loveless. In 1933, Monroe’s mother was…

A long while ago a young housewife became an international icon in a matter of days. That lady’s name was Marilyn Monroe. Marilyn could do whatever her heart desired. She went from a housewife of a soldier, to a model in a few weeks. Why was Marilyn so famous? How did her picture on the air vent become so popular, and lastly, why is she still popular today? Marilyn Monroe was an icon of her era. How did Marilyn become popular? There are many reasons why, and many other opinions, but this is…

Body standard are formed by societies based by the most popular celebrity like Marilyn Monroe in the 1950’s and Kim Kardashian in today’s society. Of course everyone has body image issues because of this impossible standard created by society. Of course these standards change year after year and even celebrities are body shamed. For example…