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other women would simply roll their eyes, huff in annoyance, or giggle like immature schoolchildren, caught off guard and flattered by his attentions. Not this one, and it didn't help matters that, as she spoke of it, Duane's gaze drifted down the polka dot dress, and imagined it slowly being lifted up Karmen's body to reveal what was underneath. Momentarily, after…

Tennessee Williams, the play writer of a Streetcar Named Desire based a lot of his content on his own personal experiences and how he was feeling at the time during his life. Williams wrote the play, as a child he was very introverted towards the end of his teenage years, when he discovered writing it was a form of expression to him. Which is why A Streetcar Named Desire for him was simply “everything I had to say”. This play covers massive social issues like domestic and verbal abuse, rape,…

illegal in 1940s but in 2003 it was legalised in America. Williams himself was homosexual and he imposes the idea of being gay as wrong in the play but makes Blanche feel deeply regretful after his death. He associates his death with a “Varsouviana” polka tune the musical symbol always plays when she mentions Allen. Moreover, this event makes her reluctant and so instead of getting help she turns to sexual promiscuity to fulfil the loneliness. This could suggest the attitudes towards…

Frank Sinatra, also known as Francis Albert Sinatra, was born in Hoboken, New Jersey on December 12, 1915. He was born to Natalia and Anthony Sinatra at a whopping thirteen pounds. Both of his parents were Italian immigrants. When Frank was just eight years old he began singing to make tips at his local city nightclub and soon became a professional vocalist when he was in his teenage years. Sinatra dropped out of high school shortly before graduation. Sinatra has been considered one of the best…

Borodin was speaking of the famous Russian composer, Modest Mussorgsky. Mussorgsky is most known for works such as, "Night on Bald Mountain," "Boris Godunov" and "Pictures at an Exhibition." He first began composing in his teens but it took awhile for him to devote his life to music and music alone. The story of “Modest Mussorgsky is one filled with a few twists and turns, but it would prove to be one that would produce music that is still played even today. Early life: Mussorgsky was born…

There’s a monster in my closet! What is fear? This abstract word is, by definition, “the unpleasant feeling of distress aroused by impending danger, pain, evil, etc” (The American heritage). The stimulus of fight or flight accompanies this; it causes our pupils to dilate to help us see, engulfs us with adrenaline to ready us for action and at the same time, paralyzes the muscles of the body rendering it vulnerable. But why...? how can such a feeling compel man to act so defenseless to the point…

Women in World War II A woman wearing a red and white polka dotted bandana flexes her bicep with a determined look on her face. Her visage demonstrates the words printed above: “We Can Do It!” Rosie represents the most successful recruitment tool in American history and the most iconic image of working women during World War II. During World War II, the United States government printed up a propaganda poster that is famously known as “Rosie The Riveter.” World War II was the most significant…

The Romantic period is in the 1820s to the 1900s, the music written in that period are artistic and literary. Some famous composers are Tchaikovsky, Chopin and Schumann. ‘Vltava’is a piece composed by Bedrich Smetana in the Romantic Period for symphony orchestra. This piece has 6 movements and it describes the flow of water that runs through Czechoslovakia and Prague from day to night. It contains a lot of emotions and it is one of the most famous nationalism work. Fig. 1: It shows all the…

hands concealed from the photographer. The child tucks one hand snugly in her apron pocket. She folds the other hand under, just above her left hip. The girl's shirt displays tattered ruffles that lay upon one shoulder and the print shows dull, faded polka dots. Likewise, her apron has no hem. The expression she wears says she possesses no extra time for this cameraman. Although she is in the first ten years of her life, the little worker holds her body as if she matured into the exhaustion of…

As I went to bid farewell to my parents they asked me, “What is your plan?” To which I responded, “I don’t have a plan, I am just going to work things out.” They tried to persuade me that I shouldn’t leave, but I was adamant that I needed to start a new chapter in my life. “Why do you want to go backwards?” was a question they both asked me, and one I couldn’t answer. I had already made up my mind. By choice I left behind a life of comfort with only a backpack and a suitcase. It was…