When You’re Down and Out. An analysis of Bessie Smith’s Blues version of “Nobody knows when you’re down and out”, recorded in 1929 revealed the painful reality of fame and wealth. Unbeknownst to her, this recording would contribute immensely to the blues era, making it one of her most notable recordings. Bessie Smith was born April 15, 1894 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She is considered to be one of the best blues singers who ever lived, she helped transform blues music from a regional African
topic of this analysis. This painting is a prime resource for analysis of the color pallet and technique of the era and the profound and provocative resulting effects of this artwork. This painting is an exquisite example of the divisionism or pointillism painting technique which was a divergence from the previous painting styles. Seurat's use of color theory is a major component of this unique masterpiece and an area for further discussion. However, first, a brief history, He was born on 2 December
Intro: September 17, 1925 - that was the day of the horrific traffic accident that changed her life. A handrail pierced her body "the way a sword pierces a bull."1 She suffered chronic pain and 30 operations to repair her fractured pelvis and collarbone, broken ribs, leg, and spinal column. However, during her recovery process at the hospital, a brilliant painter was born. Frida Kahlo began painting when her mother brought her a portable easel and paints in order to help pass the time and get her
humbleness, generosity and mostly innocence that’s rarely seen these days. She is one of those rare gems that can bowl you over with her meekness. Walt Disney’s movie Snow White and the Snow White story has one thing in common that the evil monstrous step mother who seems to starts all the situations learns an awful but important lesson. . Snow white’s main theme was the negativity that leads to competition. It’s a story where the angel women born with all favors of life gets affected by the evil stepmother
Introduction On August 29th, 2005, Hurricane Katrina struck the Gulf Coast of the United States. The storm formed over the Bahamas as a tropical depression on August 23rd. The following day the tropical depression was named Katrina. On August 25th, Hurricane Katrina hits the Florida coast as a Category 1, with winds at 80 mph. The National Hurricane Center officially updates the track of Katrina from Florida to the Mississippi and Alabama coast. At this time, Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco declares
A Streetcar Named Desire Character Analysis: Stanley Tennessee Williams’s classic 1947 play, A Streetcar Named Desire, explores a variety of important themes. Williams enhances the themes found within the play through the various characters’ actions and interactions. Stanley Kowalski is a strong example of a character who not only progresses the plot of the play, but also helps to explore some of the play’s larger themes. Williams uses Stanley and his specific traits to cultivate some of the play’s
Humorous yet serious, the movie The Skeleton Twins starring Kristen Wiig and Bill Hader as main characters, shows the struggles of two siblings who, born on the same day, but experiencing different problems, chose the same day to die: Milo (Bill Hader), by slicing his wrists, and Maggie (Kristen Wiig), by taking a hand full of pills. Luckily Milo got help in a timely manner and his admittance to the hospital prevented his sister from taking the pills. Having been estranged for 10 years, the twins
paraphrases he intends the veil to be a symbol of mankind’s general sinfulness, not any specific wrongdoing. their own, and don’t want to acknowledge it. Hooper’s black veil also represents bravery, and it symbolizes Americans. As Americans we were born to sin, it's in our blood. Another special meaning of being American is to come together in times of struggle and also in times of celebration. Events such as the moon landing, and the JFK assassination, and 911. Brung us Americans down in the
the winter making the pond a fishless wetland. Since the wetland pond has a maximum depth of 1.1 meters benthic predators exist through the whole water column. Figure 1. Bousson Environmental Research Reserve near Meadville, Pennsylvania. The blue arrow indicates the wetland pond that the species were taken from (Goeller,
Culture is describes as a system of mutual knowledge by an extensive community of people that share the same values, beliefs and behaviors, and is transmitted from one generation to the next. A cultural analysis will be conducted explaining the similarities and differences between the Cuban culture and the Polish culture. Thus, Cuba is an interracial civilization with a population of mainly Spanish and African descent; on the contrary, Poland is a heterogeneous population of European origin. There