Julia Roberts
	One of the most widely known actresses, Julia Fiona Roberts, was born on
October 28, 1967. This now 5’9", brown eyed, chatain clair haired girl was born in Smyrna, Georgia. She attended Campbell High School, also in Smyrna, Georgia,where she graduated in 1985. Julia’s favorite of only a few past-times is knitting, which she sometimes does while waiting on set. Her favorite quote is, "What changes with fame, I think, are perceptions of an individual, more than the individual." - Boston Herald, May 28, 1999.
	Coming from a talented family, Julia Roberts was bound for stardom. Her
mother, Betty Motes, a church secretary, and her father, Walter Roberts, a vacuum cleaner salesman, had performed and taught workshops on acting and screenwriting. Separation struck these two when they divorced in 1971. Five years later, Julia’s father died. Julia has three siblings: a brother Eric, and two sisters Lisa and half-sister Nancy. Eric and Lisa were both actors. She also has several puppies and a German Shepherd-Husky mix named Diego.
	By watching Julia on screen you may be deceived, whereas she is not quite the glamorous, dressy gal you think. Julia’s quite the opposite, she is a fast talking farm girl who often dresses grunge-like. Also, she is not a very competitive but never misses a chance to put on her dancing shoes.
	Julia’s homes vary across the United States from an apartment in the East to a hous...
Men do not have the benefits of equality either, they are also limited by societal expectations and having to fulfill the requirements of what it means to “be a man”. Gender roles shape the fabric of our society. In the documentary Tough Guise, Katz chronicles the socialization of boys from the moment they are born and as they grow up. Tough guise explains how the entertainment industry feeds messages about masculinity which exclude basic human qualities such as compassion, and vulnerability. These are portrayed as feminine with a negative connotation implied (Earp, Katz, Young and Rabinovitz 2013). In American modern culture children of both sexes are consuming large amounts of media on a daily basis. The documentary MissRepresentation explores the media’s role in the shaping of our society; specifically the media’s treatment of women. When it comes to girls and women, marketers have made substantial profits from objectifying women and setting an unattainable standard of what it means to be beautiful. Hyper-feminized women are all over the covers of magazines, hypersexualized in advertisements, and in movies. Women have to walk a very thin tightrope and the expectations for a good woman are contradicting (Newsom, Scully, Dreyfous, Redlich, Congdon, and Holland
Louise Nevelson was a sculptor in the 20th century. Although born in Russia, she would practice virtually her entire professional career in the United States. She was a leading artist of her time and was a pioneer for women in art. Her work earned her a reputation as a leader in assemblage and environmental sculpture.
She had two older brothers, Bill and Bob. Bill was 7 years older and Bob
Helen Levitt was born and raised in Brooklyn NY. After dropping out of high school she began working for a commercial photographer, where she learnt the technical aspects of what was to become her profession. Around 1937 at the age of about 24, she purchased a second hand Leica camera and – intrigued by children’s chalk drawings she would see around her neighbourhood – started to take photos of her own.
many years ago. The world is giving off a message through the media that it is not
On July 4, 1546, a notation made in King Henry VIII's Privy Council “the executors of John Smyth, late the Queen's receiver. . . allege that books remain in your custody to discharge these debts; we require you to show them.”1 It appeared that the king was going to dispose of his latest queen, Katherine Parr, as he had done to nearly every other wife he had until this time. It was through her education, kind nature and clever move of appealing to the king's pride that she was able to save her neck from the chopping block. Katherine was able to survive this episode and outlived King Henry VIII to be remembered in history as the wife who got away.
Joan Crawford, whose real name is Lucille Fay LeSeur, was born in San Antonio, Texas, in 1905. She got her stage name from the executives of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM), after working with them in their movies. Before all the fame, her life before that wasn’t so great. She was treated badly while she was in school and at home. The only happy thing about her childhood was dancing for the kids in her neighborhood. Her stepfather introduced her into the life of dancing. He got her to love dancing and soon she was hooked, doing her own little shows. That pushed her to become better and reach for her goals. Her career didn’t jump off to a great start. She started off dancing for traveling men. Crawford then slowly moved up the scale by becoming a chorus-girl in New York City. To stay a chorus-girl, she worked in clubs so she could pay for it. Her first attempt at being an actress didn’t work. When she finally got a chance to become a Hollywood actress, it did not get her anywhere either. She was rejected so many times that she sta...
Child’s birth name was Julia Carolyn Williams on August 15, 1912 in Pasadena, California. She was the eldest of three children; Dorothy Dean and a brother John III. She attended three boarding schools growing up. Child enjoyed playing sports including tennis, basketball, and golf. She attended Smith College and graduated in 1934 with a major in English. Julia moved to New York and had several different jobs that included her major, which included working for an advertising company and also in publications.
Who is this mysterious play write? For nearly 500 years, historians have been baffled as to how Shakespeare could have authored so many plays, if it truly was Shakespeare. Various historians have come up with numerous theories as to who wrote the plays. Yet the outcome has been the same, there is no solid evidence to neither confirm nor deny that Shakespeare truly did author the plays because most of the evidence is contradictory.
Wood, Julia T. Gendered Lives: Communication, Gender, and Culture. Belmont, CA: Wadsworth Pub., 1994. Print.
In 1948 Julia and her husband Paul make the move to Paris. The first meal she had in France she described as “the most exciting meal of her life” and that’s what started it all. “I was 32 when I started cooking; up until then I was just eating.” -Julia Child- Julia Child enrolled in the Parisian cooking school Le Cordon Bleu. She was put into the “housewife” class because she was considered to
Ruth Benedict’s anthropological book, Patterns of Culture explores the dualism of culture and personality. Benedict studies different cultures such as the Zuni tribe and the Dobu Indians. Each culture she finds is so different and distinctive in relation to the norm of our society. Each difference is what makes it unique. Benedict compares the likenesses of culture and individuality, “A culture, like an individual, is a more or less consistent pattern of thought or action” (46), but note, they are not the same by use of the word, “like.” Benedict is saying that figuratively, cultures are like personalities. Culture and individuality are intertwined and dependent upon each other for survival.
Table of Contents Page 1. A BRIEF CONVERSATION WITH OCTAVIA E. BUTLER Page 2 - 4. Biography Page 5 - 9. Synopsis Page 9 - 14. Analysis of Criticism Page 14 – 15.
I am a woman. Without the feminist understanding that my education has afforded me, mainstream media portrayals of woman in relation to man would burn holes through the fabric of my mind and dismantle my ambitions. Ignoring the infraction that media portrayals impose on naïve minds gives the impression that it is acceptable to be inappropriately cultivated in gender equality. Television media continues to pose a grave threat; but worse is the deceitful attempt to find something attributable to women, the attempt to lure them with admiration, only to smack them with the patronizing undertone of being incomparable to men.
If a child is born after the second-born, they do not feel the dethroned by the third-born. They have never had any real power. By now the novelty of being a parent has worn off. Parents are more relaxed. The second-born must now live up to the standards that the first-born set. They often feel in competition with the first-born or just give up. A study done on “major league baseball players found that those who were younger brothers were 10 times more likely than older brothers to attempt the high-risk action of stealing bases during the game. They also had higher batting averages than those who were older brothers.” (Schultz, Duane P., Schultz,Sydney E,,