Polka

An act orchestrated by an artist, performance art bases itself on time. Performance art usually contains four main elements: time, space, the body, and the interaction between the audience and artist. Its major purpose is to challenge the conventions of the traditional visual art such as painting and sculpture. When these forms cannot serve or answer an artists ' needs, artists turn to performance to help them explore new ideas and find new audiences. The body and performance art challenges the…

American Teenaged girls find themselves imprisoned by the trap called thinness. There are numerous ways to attain an ideal of thin beauty, yet eating disorders are the easiest and fastest form of achieving this. Since the 1960s, many models and celebrities have been a representation of the perfect body. Their perfect measurements are being directly displayed by the mass media. Eating disorders have become a silent problem influenced by technology, the fashion industry, social media, and the…

1. Streetcars normally would be seen as merely a symbol of destiny or fate which is impossible to prevent due to the constant running on the rails to the final destination. However, Williams views the streetcar, “Desire”, as something more than just an undefined force because what led Blanche to her overall destruction is her sexual desire and passion. "Cemeteries", however, is connected to “Desire” because it reinforces the reminder that a life driven by desire only ends in one fatal way. A)…

Poetry is often called literature that provides windows to the soul. This is because many poets instill their own experiences into their works. Yusef Komunyakaa is one of those poets. Through his poems, he reveals the darkness, pain, and atrocities of war he experienced when he served in Vietnam, as well as his experiences growing up in the deep south when the KKK was in power and through the start of the Civil Rights Movement. Growing up in a time of turmoil, and as a African American man in a…

Frank Sinatra was an actor, producer, and singer in the 20th century. He was born on December 12, 1915 in Hoboken, New Jersey, to Italian immigrants. He had to be delivered with the aid of forceps, which caused severe scarring to his left cheek, neck, and ear, and perforated his ear drum, damage that remained for life. Due to his injuries at birth, his baptism at St. Francis Church in Hoboken was delayed until April 2, 1916. A childhood operation on his mastoid bone left major scarring on his…

powerful and mentions that racism is always around to affect somebody in one way or another. When the narrator meets Clifton discovers him selling Sambo Dolls, the scene upsets him. “It happened so fast that in a second only I and an old lady in a blue polka-dot dress were left. She looked at me then back to the walk, smiling. I saw one of the dolls. She was still smiling and I raised my foot to crush it, hearing her cry, “Oh no!” (Ellison, 434). When not having the doll stepped on or demolished…

Tennessee Williamses use of Blanche in his play A Streetcar Named Desire as a symbolic image which represents many different motifs and themes throughout the play, this is achieved by the overall development of her complex character. The importance of Blanches role in the play is shown by one of the plays original names, ´The Moth´ which is a direct reference to blanche – in scene one she is said to have the ´manner… that suggests a moth´. It is argued by many critics, such as Biljana Oklopčić,…

The show depicts a quirky, young woman named Betty who is often regarded as unattractive by others. Betty lands a job as an assistant at a fashion magazine called “Mode”. Though her physical appearance is often mocked and humiliated, Betty gains her colleague’s respect and eventually finds her way into the fashion industry through her hard work and positive attitude. Meanwhile, other women who work in Mode tend to be careful about the impressions others have on their physical appearance, thus…

Payada is given the name Milonga. The name Milonga is an Angolian term that means argument. These Milongas not only become a battle with words but also with dance between the African and European immigrants. European danced with their styles such as polka while the Africans with theirs such as Candombe. It was through this mixture and influence of cultures where the tango first got its origins. Tango bands first started off playing this music only with violins, guitars, fluids and piano and…

The speckled hen raises the issue of data communication and transfer. When looking at a hen with a multitude of polka dot spots, it is impossible to count the actual number of spots, yet the spots exist. There is a definite number of spots, there is no way that the hen is creating or has an infinite number of spots. The issue is that even though there is a finite…