Some Like It Hot is a very comical farce where two men cross dress and join an all girl band to avoid being caught by gangsters. Little did these two men know‚ they would highlight the feminine attributes of their personalities opening an entire new outlook upon themselves. After witnessing a brutal gangster murder‚ Joe and Jerry played by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon‚ flee for their lives and temporarily change their names. This was one of the first times Jerry showed femininity as he chose the
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Bessie Smith was a rough‚ crude‚ violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 Bessie joined a traveling show as a dancer and singer. The show featured Pa and Ma Rainey‚ and Smith developed a friendship with Ma. Ma Rainey was Bessie’s mentor and she stayed with her show until 1915. Bessie then joined the T.O.B.A. vaudeville circuit and gradually built up her own following in the south and along the
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Q. Explain how T.S Eliot’s poems “Rhapsody on a Windy Night” and “Preludes” express modernist concerns Modernist concerns are expressed through T.S Eliot’s poems ‘Rhapsody on a Windy Night’ and ‘Preludes’. Eliot uses his fragmented childhood experiences and his thoughts on the squalor modern life to express the issues of meaningless life‚ isolation‚ the alienation and loneliness that the humans feel and lastly the damaged psyche of humanity. The issues of meaningless life is expressed through complex
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artwork throughout the city. Pericles loved Athens‚ and Athens loved him back because during his rule‚ was rightly considered the Golden Age. It was during Pericles’ rule that Athens became the monetary‚ rational‚ and artistic center of Hellenism. What makes Pericles special is his ability to persuade by speaking‚ it was very simple for him to change the outlooks of others by just talking to them‚ and that might as well be a super power. He was a very gracious ruler who put his all into Athens and
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Tommy Smith‚ fell short of the stereotypical "violence is key‚" category when he used his podium to raise attention to the hard times black people endured with simply one small gesture. On June 6‚ 1944‚ and Clarksville Texas‚ to the parents Richard and Dora Smith‚ Thomas C. "Tommie" Smith was born. Being one of 12 children‚ Tommy survived about times as a young boy but ameliorated to become a phenomenal athlete. In the mix‚ his family moved to California where Smith was voted MVP (most valuable
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life.. | 2. What evidence is there to suggest that Pope Francis I is trying to live a more simple lifestyle (when compared to previous Popes)?Catching the bus‚ living in an apartment and cooking his own food were some examples of living a simple lifestyle. | 3. As the new Pope‚ what message do you think Pope Francis is sending to his Roman Catholic followers around the world through his actions? He’s sending a message to other cardinals‚ bishops and priests that this is what we need to do
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“For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf” ------------------------------------------------- Synopsis Structurally‚ For Colored Girls is a series of 20 poems‚ collectively called a "choreopoem." Shange’s poetry expresses the many struggles and obstacles that African-American women face throughout their lives. It is performed by a cast of seven women characters‚ each of whom is known only by a color: "Lady in Yellow‚" "Lady in Purple‚" etc. The poems deal with love
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The first part of the poem "Seduction" is a story about a young girl who is seduced by a boy after the party‚ and consequently becomes pregnant. The second section describes how the girl then regrets her decision. In general the poet does intends her reader to feel sympathy for the girl. She does this by using many different poetic techniques. But while the majority of the poem instills a sense of compassion for the girl it can also be read critically of her. For example‚ as the poet writes that
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Patricia Churchland is a well-known philosopher who has denounced the notion of Descartes’ method on doubt and Cartesian dualism. She believed that we are just physical objects and that there is nothing amazing about the mind or the soul. Churchland is a elimistist‚ meaning she eliminates the mind/ soul from the equation of the body. One of her main points is that society cannot hold the science of philosophy at a different stance than the natural sciences. Philosophy needs to have data and empirical
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2. What does Patricia Deegan mean by the ‘Conspiracy of Hope’? What does she suggest is fundamental to the relationship between people who have been psychiatrically labeled and those who has not? Patricia Deegan defines The Conspiracy of Hope as an individual’s or a collective groups’ fight against the sense of despairs that is brought on by mental illness. Ms Deegan further explains that this conspiracy of hope‚ is a practise that see the person beyond the illness and that it is a thought that
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