The Heiress

Pasadena California on August 15th 1912 and was the eldest of three children. Julia’s father John McWilliams Jr. was a Princeton graduate, class of 1901 and her mother, Julia Carolyn (Weston) McWilliams, of Smith College class of 1900, a paper company heiress whose father Byron Curtis Weston, served as a lieutenant governor and was the founder of Weston Paper Co. Julia’s father had a successful career in the field of agricultural land management and real estate. The McWilliams family was well…

During the Renaissance, in William Shakespeare’s productions of his plays the women roles were portrayed by young men dressing in female attire since women were not allowed to act in theater. Women in early modern England even dressed in male attire for a various of reasons. There were those who opposed cross-dressing in the time period and it was seen as something monstrous and unnatural (Source). At the time, to determine one’s social class and gender was told through their outward appearance,…

This inability isn’t surprising. Matt had been born and bred in apathy and continued the tradition. He was from a highway town that stayed alive on fast food joints and motels for motorists passing through to get to places more interesting. These towns cling to life on the interstate and they bloom and wilt on the whim of the Federal Highway Commission. In the cars zooming by, his hometown invoked a Midwestern nostalgia of simpler times and better people but on any closer examination these…

Stoid Society: A Place Where Some Fall Prey, but Some Dominate. “[Huck] was the only really independent person--boy or man—in the community.” So proclaims Brooks, a critic of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. Huck empathizes for and helps others, even sometimes risking his own freedom and happiness to do so. For example, when Huck sees Mary Jane crying, he “felt awful bad to see it”. Therefore, he tells her about the King and Duke’s deception and trusts her with this secret. However, if Mary Jane…

William Butler Yeats was a very talented poet. In his lifetime he accomplished many great things. He was a 20th century Irish poet. He helped with the foundation with the Abbey Theatre, and later served as an Irish senator. He was well known for believing in occults, and including them in his works. Also, William Butler Yeats was a pervert. The study of the childhood of William Butler Yeats, his natural origin, his religious beliefs, and his Irish decent affected the style and setting of his…

Irving Block (1910 -1986) and Allen Adler (1916 - 1964) wrote the story for Forbidden Planet. “They came up with the idea for something called Fatal Planet as a potential project for one of the B-movie studios” (TCM). Once the idea was pitched to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), they instantly realized the film’s potential went beyond the B-movie variety, “to everybody’s surprise, the studio decided to make this their first science fiction film and budgeted the film at $1 million, later expanding it…

Mistakes are a natural part of everyone’s life. However serious that mistake is can be a major factor in the way one’s life turns out. They can be a measure of what a good and acceptable mistake is and what is considered evil. People often have different opinions on what is good and what is evil. Specifically, the Puritan community around the 1700s had very strict views on what they considered the “right” way to live. In the historical fiction novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne, he…

Jane Austen is known for being a writer of women, and romance, but she is a major influence of gender stereotypes after her time. In many of her works, Austen would flout at how femininity and masculinity were ruled by societal standards. Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey follows suit with this concept, by depicting her characters as what was expected of their gender to what was abhorred in upper-middle class and high society. The second to the youngest of eight children, Jane Austen was born on…

The seductress/dark lady considered by Ramirez Berg as the female Latin lover was originally played by the beautiful Dolores Del Rio (Pg.76). Her discovery came about after Film director Edwin Carewe saw her dancing and offered her a role in one of his films. Del Rio was seen as one of the most beautiful women of her era. Del Rio was born Durango, Mexico and came from a Spanish-Basque heritage. Hollywood already at an early age had established what they felt was a universal representation of all…

Becoming a successful author can be quite difficult, but forty-one-year-old Sara Shepard has done just that, and more. I am writing this report to introduce you to Sara Shepard, telling you about her life, and talk about some of her most successful literary works. I chose Sara Shepard because I have read all sixteen novels of her Pretty Little Liars series, along with her three companion novels. The Pretty Little Liars series was developed into a television program on what used to be ABC…