Marilyn Chin’s “How I Got That Name” is a poem that serves as a criticism on how Asian-Americans in their efforts to fit into western society have lost part of their cultural identity. Lines 36 through 57 compose the second stanza of this poem. The second stanza of this poem has an overriding tone of outrage. Chin begins the second stanza with the use of an ironical device “Oh‚ how trustworthy our daughters‚ / how thrifty our sons!” (lines 36-37). Chin then proceeds by telling us how Asian-Americans
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Formerly Known as Norma Jeane What began as a brunette beauty by the name of Norma Jeane Baker born in LA‚ California‚ soon transformed into the blondest‚ biggest sex symbol Hollywood has yet to cross paths with. Marilyn Monroe belonged to the public from the moment she stepped onto the screen and the voluptuous‚ 50’s goddess knew it. In combination with Monroe’s fascinating personal life and alluring pout and sensuality‚ the bombshell left an ever-staying impact on Hollywood‚ still yet
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Pop art is an art style that had its origins in England in the 1950s and made its way to the United States during the 1960s featuring images of the popular culture such as comic strips‚ magazine ads‚ celebrities‚ and supermarket products. This movement was marked by a fascination with popular culture reflecting the affluence in post-war society. In celebrating everyday objects such as soup cans‚ washing powder‚ comic strips and soda pop bottles‚ the movement turned the commonplace into icons. Some
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Monet in 1891. The second being “Marilyn Monroe” painted by Andy Warhol in 1967. When Monet painted “Grainstack‚” he was experimenting with perceptual color. The idea of the Impressionist movement was to objectively record nature as it was seen by the painter‚ focusing on the effects of color and light. He painted “Grainstack” the way he saw it; not the actual color that we know it was‚ but the colors that the sunset made it appear. When Warhol painted “Marilyn Monroe” he used non-representational
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will compare and contrast the feeling of isolation faced by the characters in Marilyn Chin’s Moon and Murakami Haruki’s Super-frog Saves Tokyo. The way they adopted to regain connection to the society and to reduce the feeling of loneliness and isolation would also be examined. A comparison would also be made between isolation caused by inter-ethnic factors and intra-ethnic factors. Moon was the first story of Marilyn Chin’s book‚ Revenge of the Mooncake Vixen. It was a Chinese American revenge
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Andy Warhol Best-known for his silk-screened photographs of Marilyn Monroe‚ Jacqueline Kennedy‚ Elizabeth Taylor and Elvis Presley‚ Andy Warhol accustomed artists and critics worldwide to use the art of borrowed imagery. Replicating previous artwork from decades before him‚ Andy Warhol became the founding father of appropriation‚ that has now become a symbol of postmodernism‚ and an artistic approach for an era in which concepts of innovation and authorship are thoroughly questioned. This theory
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the norms of society. A relatable example that was used to show the norms of society and how hard people try to fit them‚ is the body shapes of women. Each culture and time has their different standards for how people should look and act. In 1947 Marilyn Monroe was a beauty icon but if she was compared to someone thought to be beautiful today her figure would seem too full. Many girls have self-esteem issues today because they cannot perfectly
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The theme of ‘problematic love‚’ which can be defined as love that faces obstacles or does not conform to conventions expected by the society in which it is set is a major theme explored in all three texts: Despite differences in genre‚ form and historical context‚ for example the impact of marriage on a relationship and the challenges to that institution. The idea is‚ for example‚ portrayed in Othello through the relationship of the ‘noble Moor’ and ‘fair’ Desdemona‚ exacerbated by the personified
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was the actors and actresses. Through out the 50s there were hundreds of actors and actresses. To name a few Vivien Leigh‚ Audrey Hepburn‚ Marlon Brando ‚Grace Kelly‚ Bette Davis‚ Katharine Hepburn‚ Burt Lancaster‚ Bing Crosby‚ Dorothy Dandridge‚ Judy Garland‚ Elizabeth Taylor‚ and Doris Day. Each of these performers have received Oscars nods for their played roles. Audrey Hepburn was born on May 4‚ 1929 in Belgium. Hepburn was a cosmopolitan from birth as her father was an English banker and her
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Flack uses Trompe L’oeil to create the realism of the painting‚ but has made it clear that she is less interested in confusing truth with illusion than in capturing the integral truth of seeing‚ meaning that she doesn’t want to confuse the truth behind her paintings with the illusion of realism but would like to create the reality to which her audience can fully understand the context and social commentary behind her paintings. Another technique that Audrey uses is the dimensions
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