The Adventures of Priscilla‚ Queen of the Desert is a 1994 Australian comedy-drama film. The plot is based on the journey of three drag queens who travel across the Australian Outback from Sydney to Alice Springs in a lavender coloured tour bus they have named “Priscilla”. On their journey they encounter various groups of men who each represent Australia in different ways some of which include being racist‚ sexist‚ bigoted and even violent. While on the long journey through the remote lands
Premium English-language films Debut albums Fiction
Abstract Gender‚ race‚ and competitiveness in youth sports have been controversial beginning on the very first day of sports broadening its boundaries (Granderson‚ 2012). From Brent Barry to Kristy Yamaguchi to Tiger Woods‚ one of the youngest golf champions ever‚ sports has always been "one way.” Different people of different backgrounds‚ ethnic groups‚ and social classes‚ and ages have shown that he or she can do anything if they have the will to accomplish the task (Granderson‚ 2012). Tiger
Premium Popular culture Gender Gender inequality
he History of Baseball Americans began playing baseball on informal teams‚ using local rules‚ in the early 1800s. By the 1860s‚ the sport‚ unrivaled in popularity‚ was being described as America’s "national pastime." Alexander Joy Cartwright of New York invented the modern baseball field in 1845. Alexander Cartwright and the members of his New York Knickerbocker Base Ball Club devised the first rules and regulations for the modern game of baseball.... [tags: Baseball Sports History] 1295 words
Premium Baseball Sport
LIKE A ROLLING STONE: A MORAL ANALYSIS Bob Dylan’s classic‚ Like a Rolling Stone‚ offers powerful images and musical brilliance. But underlying it is a surprisingly moral message. What is this song about? The singer is obviously addressing someone he once knew. Is it a man or a woman? By the third line‚ we know it is a woman: “People call and say/beware down you’re bound to fall.” We have a hint at this point in time that we may be talking about the sin of pride‚ since as we recall‚ “pride goeth
Premium Seven deadly sins
MERCUTIO Well dude‚ it sounds like Queen Mab visited you last night. BENVOLIO Queen who? MERCUTIO The great Queen Mab. She assists fairies when they give birth and is no bigger than the marble stone on a councilman’s ring. Her wagon is drawn by atoms‚ and she rides over men’s noses as they sleep. She uses spiders’ legs as the spokes of her wagon‚ and the harnesses are made of the tiniest spiderwebs. The cover of her wagon is made of grasshoppers’ wings and the collars on the atoms are made from
Premium Fairy tale Family Cinderella
1879. Admitting an irresistible attraction to operatic form in spite of his inability to master it‚ the maestro used the folk origins of Pushkin’s verse novel to present a series of interlinked scenes rather than a fully realized grand opera. The Queen of Spades followed in 1890‚ and was again a success (though others in between were not). More formally rigorous than Onegin yet not entirely traditional‚ it offered a mixture of traditional themes and motifs with moments of surprise and even self parody
Premium Music Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
John Smith’s 1616 Letter to Queen Anne of Great Britain: Most admired Queen‚ The love I bear my God‚ my King and country‚ hath so oft emboldened me in the worst of extreme dangers‚ that now honesty doth constrain me to presume thus far beyond myself‚ to present your Majesty this short discourse: if ingratitude be a deadly poison to all honest virtues‚ I must be guilty of that crime if I should omit any means to be thankful. So it is‚ that some ten years ago being in Virginia‚ and taken prisoner
Premium Pocahontas John Smith Power
March 3‚ 2013 Queen Elizabeth I She led as a woman‚ in what was very much a man’s world; she did so with courage‚ grace‚ and intelligence. Queen Elizabeth I‚ an amazing female monarch in Europe‚ solved the religious turmoil in England‚ defeated the Spanish Armada‚ and strongly supported the Renaissance. Elizabeth’s father‚ Henry VIII‚ had changed the entire country’s religion in order to divorce his wife‚ Catherine of Aragon‚ and marry Anne Boleyn‚ Elizabeth’s mother. He divorced his first wife
Premium Elizabeth I of England Mary I of England Henry VIII of England
In the years from 1789 to 1799‚ many agree that they French revolution was a reign of terror. During this time‚ the monarchy in France had undergone major change and finally overthrown by the unhappy French citizens. There were many reasons for this action of overthrowing the government‚ some of which being high taxes‚ which only the third estate had to pay‚ the lack of participation that king Louis and Marie Antoinette had shown whilst in power towards ruling the country. King Louis XVI was not
Premium Louis XVI of France French Revolution Marie Antoinette
Coleman Hawkins’ Reign During the Harlem Renaissance A very big part of the 1920’s was the Harlem Renaissance also known as the "New Negro Movement." It brought out the art‚ music‚ and literature side of most African American people. This took place in New York and during the 1920’s and ended around the early 1940’s. Coleman Hawkins was an African American figure during the Harlem Renaissance that sparked jazz music. A modern figure that resembles Coleman Hawkins is BB King‚ who continues to promote
Premium Blues Jazz African American culture