Womanizer

“Nowhere is masculinity more put-on-display than in the masquerade of pop” (Hawkins, 2009, pg. 93). The sexualities and love lives of celebrities are a common topic of interest and discussion among both the journalists who write about them and the fans that read about them. Artists like David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Mick Jagger, and Annie Lennox queered their image, which generated a lot of questions about gender and sexuality as early as the 1970s. In the United Kingdom, these displays of…

Unfortunately, there is a time in life, when the human species is forced to undergo a metamorphosis of maturity and responsibility that can change a person for the rest of time. The transition from childhood into adulthood, is a tough pill for some to swallow, and men like Holden Caulfield almost lose themselves in the process. Mr. Caulfield makes mistake after mistake, due to the fact that he is trying so hard to delay the inevitable. In The Catcher in the Rye, the only published novel by the…

anticipation of the next one. Steinbeck writes, “Now a kind of gladness began to penetrate into the row and to spread out from there” (157). The happiness first comes to Doc and Darling, who were greatly affected by the previous depression. Doc, a natural womanizer, was “supernaturally successful with a series of lady visitors. He didn’t half try” (Steinbeck 157). This shows that Doc is open to visitors once again and that his home is fully repaired. Consecutive nights filled with different…

Belicia or Beli, is the mother of Oscar and Lola. She grows up in Bani with La Inca. At thirteen, Bani gets a scholarship to El Redentor-- one of the best schools in the area. At El Redentor, she falls in love with a Jack Pujols who is described as “The school’s handsomest(read: whitest) boy, a haughty slender melnibone of pure European stock”(p.89). The narrator ackloweges that Jack’s single thing that makes him the handsomest boy at El Redentor is that he is white. Coinciding with Audre…

Nora Ephron’s novel, “Heartburn” is a memoir like story about one woman’s’ experience in processing lost love, life, and food. Nora uses flashbacks throughout her novel to describe her lost loves and to give understanding of her feelings of and experience with betrayal due to her husband Mark’s affair, Charlie, her ex-husband’s affair with her best friend and her good friend Arthur Seigal’s affairs. She says often that she wants her readers to understand her relationships and perspectives, why…

Shortly after the bombings of Pearl Harbor in 1942, Jack was drafted to the Army. According to Richard Sisk, he served for two years and never saw combat. His military career ended after he was court-martialed in 1944 for not sitting in the back of a segregated bus. He faced a dishonorable discharge, but he won the case. The Army decided they had enough of his retaliation so they let him him go with an honorable discharge (“Army Struggle”). This retaliation sparked interest for Jackie in the…

Elvis Presley revolutionized Rock & Roll, and his influence still echoes to this day. Elvis was rock & rolls first real star. He had a significant impact on American culture, and his hip swinging threw America into a trance in the 1950’s. Elvis although idolized, gave his listeners symbolic release to expression. His influence on African American music was not only symbolic but surprising. His love life and role in movies is constantly overlooked, yet it played a significant role in the rise and…

How far was Rasputin responsible for the collapse of the Tsarist regime? The Tsarist regime collapsed in March 1917 when Nicholas II abdicated. By the time of the abdication the Tsarist regime had already been damaged by a number of factors that could be held responsible for the overall downfall of Tsar Nicholas II. One of these factors is the influence that Rasputin, a monk who convinced the Tsarina that he could cure her son of his haemophilia. Rasputin’s influence over the royal family made…

The History of literature about war is a paradox in itself. Although war forms the subject of countless novels, poems, films, it is often conceived as indescribable. Even as many writers try to reach the ideal point, they represent that nothing can do justice to the pain and suffering that the war brings. The terror and the violence that it brings. The period before the World War I was romanticised. All the men were encouraged to go out on the war. Even those who were not old enough to take part…

Emecheta’s novel “The Joys of Motherhood” is seen to confront sexual politics through the different lenses of women’s issues and cultural norms. Under the cite of motherhood, sexual politics, being a sexually cored and power-structured relationship, proposes that difference ultimately creates hierarchy. This is seen through the ideas of relation, freedom, domination and use/abuse conveyed in and throughout sexual politics as well as in Emecheta’s novel. Relation under sexual poltics, considering…