Nancy Werlin

nickname “Nancy”. During Nancy’s infancy, her father Kenneth left the marriage, leading to Edith to send her daughter to be raised by her aunt and uncle, Virginia and C. Audley Galbraith, in Bethesda, Maryland. While there, Nancy attended Sidwell Friends School. Her aunt would also travel with her to New York to visit her mother, when her mother was there for lengthy theater runs (1). When Nancy was eight, her mother Edith married a prominent Chicago neurosurgeon, Loyal Davis. After this,…

If anyone has lived in the United States they have most likely heard the name Frank Sinatra. Mr Sinatra is a man of many talents, singer, actor, fashionista. He has made over 1400 recordings in 50 years. Frank Sinatra redefined singing as it is now, personal expression. Frank Sinatra is an Icon of American culture of the 20th century Frank Sinatra wanted to go to a place where no other artist has before. Frank Sinatra had his first big break singing with a local group: Hoboken Four. Sinatra…

Margot Robbie does a fantastic job as the former figure skater Tonya Harding in a comedic biopic directed by Craig Gillespie who, despite the spirited tones engendered to dissect this polemic story, didn’t surpass his 2007 comedy “Lars and the Real Girl”. If the cited Australian actress got our eye through a fine performance, the Ohio-born Allison Janney, who plays her mother, LaVona, is absolutely insuperable. Curiously, Janney aspired to become a champion skater at a younger age, but an…

I. Gender Roles The comic Stumptown by Greg Rucka and Matthew Southworth and the audio podcast Nick Carter: Master Detective starring Lon Clack portray the different roles of gender in detective fiction. Nick Carter was on the radio from 1943 to 1955, and represents more traditional roles of gender. Although the character Nick Carter was chronicled in books and a movie, the most well- known installment of his story was the radio show. Over the many episodes, the radio show followed detective…

“normal” features in the media, the divide between disability and normality is often discussed. Preconceived notions are then established, claiming that disability is undesirable and a lack. However, Channel 4’s trailer “We’re the Superhumans” and Nancy Mairs’ Waist-High in the World: A Life Among the Nondisabled challenges those beliefs. In the Paralympics trailer, each individual’s talents and capabilities are the main focus, not their disability. In comparison, Mairs’ creative non-fiction…

Sexual Racism in the American Societies The short story Naked by Joyce Carol Oates talks about anonymous female figure that lived a big shock because of the violence event she went through, that she was attacked by group of children which includes boys and girls, the eldest child was 12 years old. The writer describes those children in the story that they were, “small pack of black children…” this quote from the story would give the reader a hint to think if this story is about racism in…

came into place. This is when Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health 1990 came into limelight and became a hot topic for the next decade or so because their is no law backing up this case. “The war started when twenty- five year Nancy Beth Cruzan lost control of her car on an icy Missouri Road in January of 1983”( Cruzan v. Director of Missouri Health Department 1990, Pg 2). The accident left her into a ‘permanent vegetative state’. She wasn't able to speak or respond. The…

In a tragedy, the tragic hero is the protagonist that the author uses to give his/ her point of view on the inappropriate tendencies of humans. The tragic hero ultimately causes his own suffering because of basic human characteristics, but through the hero’s defeat, humanity is validated and is proved to have a better outlook. Three main theories of the tragic hero are the Aristotelian model, the Shakespearean model, and the modern tragic hero. Each model has five defining characteristics,…

became successful musicians themselves. “Two of Sinatra’s children by his first wife, Nancy Barbato. Had successful show business careers. Nancy Sinatra was a singer and actress. Frank Sinatra, Jr., was a singer and served as his father’s music director late in Sinatra’s career” (Wells 4). Frank Sinatra also recorded music with his children. He recorded a duet titled “Something Stupid” with his daughter, Nancy, and the song hit No. 1 in only four…

Nancy Drew, commonly known as the original “Girl Sleuth”, is the lead detective of the Nancy Drew Mystery Stories. A young girl of 16 or 18 years of age (her age varies between stories), she was created by publisher Edward Stratemeyer, famously known for his The Hardy Boys detective series, and written by a variety of ghostwriters under the penname Carolyn Keene (Nancy Drew 2015). Nancy Drew is a female, amateur detective who stumbles upon mysteries in the fictional town of River Heights where…