Robert Monroe

Arthur Miller is one of the popular authors of the 20th century (“Arthur Miller”); having sold over 250 million books, his contribution to literature is extensive. He has a lot of novels, plays, and fiction stories written. He became a well-known writer after writing the play Death of a Salesman. An interesting thing about his career and the play is that he wrote Death of a Salesman in just one day and won three awards from it (“Arthur Miller Facts”). In the play, Death of a Salesman, Arthur…

up damaged by foster homes, neglect, and abuse as a result of her mother's mental instability. Despite her troubled childhood, she managed to become a successful model and screen actress later in her life. Norma would change her name to Marilyn Monroe, and become one of the most famous stars of the 20th century. Her rise was rapid, but so was her downfall. She became increasingly unstable. Marilyn was under the influence of so many pills that she became notoriously unreliable and difficult…

up on his way even though it is probably too late and the hardware store is closed. Over the duration of the play, Willy is constantly looking for ways to seemingly prove his worth or prove him not to be a “poor pitiable fool” as best explained by Robert A. Martin in his critical essay of the play titled, “The Nature of Tragedy in Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman”. Willy feels like a lost and destroyed man with the loss of his job and his inadequate ability to provide for his wife and…

In search of the American dream, one may unknowingly have their lives corrode away little by little. In Death of a Salesman, Willy Loman is out in search the American dream, seeking to become wealthy in order to love and support his family. However, a crucial flaw suspends him from success, causing him to almost perfectly fit into Aristotle’s ideology of a tragic hero. Yet Arthur Miller does not create Willy as one among kings, rather Miller forges an everyday man, with the same potential for…

Behind the Curtain Throughout the play Death of a Salesman, Linda was always passive because she was ignorant to everything that led to the death of her husband. Throughout the play, written by Arthur Miller, Linda ignores the warning signs that would have prevented the death of Willy Loman. The play, Death of a Salesman, takes place in the late 1940s, in New York City. Most people were financially sound, but the Loman family was not. This added stress to the already crumpling relationship…

The Death of a Salesman is a play by Arthur Miller following the life of a man named Willy, who is seemingly living the American dream. Later in the play it is revealed that he is only moderately successful with his wife, and that he is having an affair. Willy also has many struggles with his children. At the end of the play, Willy kills himself due to his failures in life. This ending marks the play as a tragedy, despite the fact that the main character was not successful or well liked. The…

Cameron Michelle Diaz was born in San Diego, but, expressing an adventurous and determined personality from the earliest years of life, she left her home at 16 to act as a model in several international agencies. Working, he spent only five years in Japan, Mexico, Morocco, Australia and France. It was precisely in one of these trips that he met the director Carlo de La Torre, who opened the doors of the then model for cinema. At age 21, he auditioned for the film "The Mask," which starred actor…

James Monroe The fifth person to serve a term as the president of the USA was James Monroe. On April 28,1758 James was born in a town called Westmoreland County which is in Virginia. He was married to Elizabeth Monroe from 1786-1830. Together they had three children. Their first-born was Eliza Monroe. They had two more children after that, James Monroe and Maria Monroe. James died shortly after he was born so the Monroe’s raised two daughters. He attended school at the College of William and…

The United States long before its independence operated under a slave ran economy. The slaves were imported from Africa and brought to the southern part of the country to work as animals in crops for food and profit. The establishment of such society institutionalized the subservient economic practices as seen by the Three-Fifths Compromise. Similarly, Native Americans also suffered institutionalized racism because of the expansion of the United States. The nation aspired to build railroads , in…

he became the majority floor leader. After the Treaty of Ghent, he was responsible for the establishing of the National Bank. He also wrote a bill to establish a nationwide network of roads and canals, which was vetoed by James Madison. Under James Monroe, he acted as the Secretary of War and in 1824 ran campaigned for the presidency as a nationalist and advocate of states’ rights. However, due to partisan attacks by other contenders, he dropped from the race and ran for the vice-presidency…