Yoko Ono

no problem going after average people for tax evasion. Annie Lebovitz This famous photographer’s work has appeared in Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, The New Yorker and other national publications. It was her Rolling Stone photo of John Lennon and Yoko Ono in 1980 that brought her out of the shadows and into the forefront of modern photography. The income landslide that followed lead to poor spending habits and extravagant living. In 2009, Lebovitz was over 2.1 million dollars in arrears for the…

The peace movement in the 60s and 70s revolutionised the way the population of America and England regarded politics as well as themselves as a society. From the formation of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament (CND), spurred on by J. B Priestley, to Bob Dylan’s politically motivated songs, peace movements were formed to oppose political conservatism. Originally protesting solely on the nuclear arms race, the movement expanded to oppose America’s involvement in Vietnam in support of peace.…

Imagine. (Biography.com 1) Nobody expected the unthinkable event that would happen ten years later. Nobody deserves to lose their life, especially if they are peaceful. Having opposed the Vietnam war, he protested it on his honeymoon. Him and his wife, Yoko Ono, stayed in bed all day in their hotel to show their opposition toward war. The press sat with them taking pictures and interviewing the couple. This event convinced many fans to…

Ono created a live video link to the sky and transmitted it to a TV in an otherwise empty room. The sky had particular significance for her as she believed that, “The sky is free to everyone” and her concept could also be linked back to her Buddhist…

this event David Chapman was sitting outside on a park bench. Chapman had a list of individuals he could kill; John Lennon was not initially a target, however he was killed because of opportunity (Telegraph 5). Lennon was walking with his wife Yoko Ono when he was stopped by Chapman, who presented himself as a tourist within the city. After Lennon turned around to address the inquiry from Chapman, a gunshot went off (Stebner 3). The assassination of John Lennon was unjust because he was an…

Frustrations in Society “This society is driven by neurotic speed and force accelerated by greed and frustration of not being able to live up to the image of men and women we created for ourselves; the image has nothing to do with the reality of people.” - Yoko Ono. In the novel Of Mice and Men, the frustrations of societies are found all over. This novel takes place during the Great Depression. The characters face a lot of problems in their society such as racism, sexism, and depression. I…

These four men “literally” changed the world we live in today. Their music is still being played till this day. If a band can still do that, they have done something right. The Beatles are made out of four men. John Lennon (Oct 9 1940 – Dec 9 1980) Paul McCartney (Jun 18 1942), George Harrison (Feb 23 1943 – Nov 29 2001), and Richard Starkey (Jul 7 1940) all hailed from the great city of Liverpool. The band originally started as The Quarrymen. They were a local founded by John and his friends.…

split up, John still continued to make influential music and say inspirational quotes such as “You don’t need anybody to tell you who you are. You are what you are!” (John Lennon Quotes). Later in his life he even lead a peace sitting with his wife, Yoko Ono. John was murdered the night of December 8th, 1980, in the lobby of his hotel. A man,…

In 1974, in a studio in Naples, Italy, a woman stands still as a man aims a loaded gun at her head. Hundreds of people stand watching the scene, but only one decides to push the gun away. The woman, performance artist Marina Abramović, asserts later when the event is over: “If you leave it up to the audience, they can kill you.” The ordeal was of course part of her performance piece Rhythm 0, which is a notable example of how the audience has a tendency to react alarmingly when presented with…

ranscendentalism is a collection of eclectic ideas about literature, philosophy, religion, social reform and the general state of American culture. It was an American literary and political group wherein their views acted as a protest against the accepted status of intellectualism and spirituality at that period..The tenets of Transcendentalism would be non-conformity, self-reliance, individualism, nature and simplified life. Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau were two of the most…