Scarlett O'Hara

Kara Walker -- an African American artist -- creates a space for race, gender, sexuality, violence, and identity through her art. Walker, according to bio.com, was born in Stockton California, during the fall of 1969. Where does a seasoned artist like Walker draw her inspiration? Many have speculated that her inspirations came from her father, who was also a painter, and influenced Walker to become a painter herself at the age of the three. But, In a report by the Wall Street Journal’s 2014…

Our world today has become arrogant, sensitive, and critical. Books are being banned in result of the sensitivity of our nation, including the novel Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell. The novel takes place in the south during the Civil War era and follows a young woman’s romantic life and her survival through the war. She pursues the love of her life while in doing so must fight for her survival in the war plagued south. Despite the immense amounts of history in the novel, some believe the…

Gone with the wind ranking number 1 highest grossing movie world-wide, starring Scarlett O'Hara, filming her tragic survival through the war and surrounding the plot with her complicated love affair. Avatar, ranking number 2 in the world, even though it is science fiction and its’ plot is battling for free movement in Pandora which turns…

Where’re Y’all From?: A Brief History of the Southern United States Dialect Southern American English, more commonly known as the Southern drawl or the Southern accent, is one of the most immediately recognizable of the United States’ many dialects. The dialect can bring many different connotations to mind depending on the preconceptions of the hearer. Those with positive ideas of the South may conjure up images of hard-working, hospitable, family oriented people, whereas others may prejudge…

have something they could call their own and that thought drew them. Gone With the Wind, a widely praised art of literature and film, was written by Margaret Mitchell in 1936. This novel talks through the time surrounding the Civil War, detailing Scarlett O’Hara’s life in northern Georgia. Her father an immigrant and self-made man settled here after scoring a patch of land through a game of poker. Named after the seat of the throne of Ireland, the Tara plantation was Gerald O’Hara’s pride and…

I chose to write about Django Unchanged. I’ve seen the movie before, and knew it was not one of those films that depicted the Old South in a glorified way. It is a raw, and disturbing movie. It truly does a good job and showing people what slavery was really like. It was interesting to me to watch this film again, after what I had learned throughout this course. The first thing I noticed was that Django and Dr. King Schultz were the others in the film. This film was set two years before the…