fall together.” (Monroe). This quote has more power than the screen space the words take up. This quote has strength, confidence, determination and all together perseverance that things will indeed get better. I chose Marilyn Monroe as my mentor for this personal profile because her life and career had a positive influence on my own. She influenced me to have confidence in myself and my aspirations, to chase my dreams no matter how extensive they seemed and
The Question of Authenticity In the mid-20th century, an American artist named Andy Warhol shook the art world like an earthquake. Warhol’s impacts in art and pop culture have led him to be recognized as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art and culture. Many of his groundbreaking influences are still seen today, nearly 30 years after his death. Warhol receives credit as being the first to popularize silkscreen printing; a process that utilizes the properties of a stencil, meaning
to the women in the media held as the standard of beauty because Farrah Fawcett and Marilyn Monroe did not reflect their beauty. This poem applies to the theme of pride because the author wants African American women to feel proud of the hair they were born with and not try to strive for having long straight hair like the white Americans. In this poem, Brooks applauds her sisters who do not worship Marilyn Monroe and try to replicate that style. She wants Black women to feel confident and proud with
York. Nicki Minaj often talks about memories of her early life. Her father was addicted to drugs and begun to be abusive. In Nicki Minaj MTV documentary, My Time Again, she talks about how her mother would not have any money and would rent their house out while they would live in the basement. It saddens Nicki how she would see a happy family living in her house. One day Nicki Minaj mother had a dream that their house was burning down, so her mother since Minaj and her siblings over a friend house
This rather risqué (for the times) outfit was the first that Barbie ever wore, and showed just how different the younger generation was from their parents. Though Ruth Handler’s design team at Mattel did not think the doll would sell, Ruth saw just how much times were changing and took a risk that just as the girls of the Sixties were becoming more daring, their dolls needed that push as well (Cornford). Instead of the patent