and it became a hit.
Lynn moved to Nashville, Tennessee to continue her career and signed with a new record company called Decca Records. After this her next big hit came called “Success” and success
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she had in the coming years with many great songs being recorded in the sixties. Lynn soon became best friends with Pasty Cline, another female country singer who helped Lynn navigate the music world. Cline would tragically die in a plane crash leaving Lynn heartbroken and lost with no one there to help her. Lynn songs were influenced by the world around her singing about the struggles of motherhood and wives in her songs “Blue Kentucky Girl” and “Wine, Women, and Song”. Lynn felt what every woman at the time was feeling and that was the suffocation of being stuck in a role and not being able to break out and accomplish what you want, but soon that would change. Lynn also wrote about the Vietnam War with her song “Dear Uncle Sam” she was not afraid to tackle issues of the period. In 1967 Lynn be the first to win Female Vocalist of the Year.
The song “Coal Miner’s Daughter” was the No. 1 hit in 1970 and was about Lynn’s experience growing up in a coal-mining town. Lynn managed to create controversy when she wrote about women’s sexuality with a song about the pill. That same
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year she published her first autobiography “Coal Miner’s Daughter” which later influenced the film. Her career started to fade in the 1980’s and Lynn was fading with it when she hospitalized for exhaustion. When she learned of her son’s death that year she completely took herself out of the music spotlight. Lynn was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1988 and only worked with a few artists after that to care for her sick husband who later died in 1996. Lynn is still alive today appearing on shows now and again and still continues to amaze people with her strong spirit. Lynn grew up in a time period where women’s place was in the kitchen and went on to live in a time where women’s rights were changing it is incredible to see how the world around her influenced her music. At the time she was growing and beginning her career the culture was James 14 changing around her with the baby boomers and the Civil Rights movement. The Cold War was beginning and it was all forming the explosion that would happen in the 60’s when the Vietnam War would set it off. Everyone during this period was facing some kind of opposition, whether it was the fight for equality, in another country, or the home life. People did not understand why so many of their loved ones were being sent to a country they could care less about or why America did treat one another with respect and it blew up the nation. Documenting theses times were musicians and filmmakers, which would inspire young people to challenge authority and question the government. At the beginning of Lynn’s career the country was starting to go into turmoil and by the end the country had become a new version of a nation. It is interesting to see how history changed around her, but she did not change or waver in her beliefs as an artist. The film managed to capture this true aspect of Lynn although they did add moments of her desperation. The country was split in two halves during the period of the late 60s, early 70s which film briefly touched on. A theme the film focused on was how the family was important to in surviving in a world where families were being torn apart. Lynn grew up with a caring family and wanted that for her own children even when she became broken down she reached out to her family and they cared for her. This was shown beautifully in the film and one of the most important things to take away from the movie. The film focuses on a female country singer rising to fame in a period where people thought women should be at home. Largely, the American public accepted it because it was not judgmental or shy away from controversial subject, but showed how one woman achieved her dreams. This is what the American public needed at the time a movie about a real life American James 15 citizen arising out of poor life and making herself an American legend. In a time when a woman needed to have a role model Loretta Lynn was paving the way for other artist and let other women know it was fine pursue their dreams as well as proving you could have a career and be a mother. People were taken by surprise at how beautiful this film came together with no clichés and how a cast could be put together with such flawless performances. The scene, which has great influence in how Loretta sees her career going, is the scene called “The Grand Ole Opry”.
This scene is small and fast, but without it Lynn would never feel like she could pursue her musical ability or the confidence to continue on with it. The scene starts with Lynn waking up and seeing The Grand Ole Opry where she will perform later in the night. She tells Mooney that they will not let her in and Mooney replies saying of they will because he bought donuts. It shifts to the evening and Lynn is about to perform when she tells Mooney she cannot go onstage because she feels she has no right to be there singing with artist who have paid their dues to be
there. Mooney tells her she every right and leaves to go hear her on the radio in a bar. Mooney does this because he wants to people to turn the radio up and listen to his wife. The announcer calls Lynn’s name and the stage manger pushes her onstage where she sings “Honky Tonk Girl” and receives incredible praise for it. They ask her to come back next week and she is ecstatic. This is the scene where Lynn gets her confidence and believes in herself. Without this scene the story misses a beat where Lynn is comfortable onstage and starts thinking that she could have a career. She leaves feeling happy and content, knowing that she can be something more then just a stay at home mom, but a singer. After this the film picks up speed and dives into her music career. James 16 The first thing that catches people eyes in this scene is the production design because we start of in an empty street with just Lynn and Mooney and then suddenly are shifted into the concert at night. This is significant because it shows how Lynn is different and not used to a glamorous life; the scene evens tarts with Lynn sleeping in her car. It goes from her point of view on how she sees herself and switches to a place where her old life starts to fade away and a new Lynn takes its place. Inside the Grand Ole pry singers are dressed with dazzling colors and their hair is nicely pinned up. Contrasting that is Lynn with her plain outfit and her scared attitude. Mooney is dressed as if he is attempting fit into the atmosphere of the place and the people. One element of film that is executed well in this scene is editing because not only are we in the Grand Ole pry, but we are also with Mooney in a bar listening to Loretta sing. The parallel editing is done well here because it shows us the emotion of both characters and what they are feeling at this time. When we enter the world of the singers we get a close up of Lynn’s face and we feel how nervous she is and then it keeps cutting to the singers in the building and how confident they look and back to Lynn. This emphasizes her fear about getting up on stage and singing. When she tries to tell Mooney she is to scared to perform he tells he does not have time for some who will not ry and leave to go to the bar leaving Lynn overcome her stage fright. As Lynn is called up on stage we see the internal struggle of not wanting to go, but she overcomes it
After listening to “Gold Rush Brides” by Natalie Merchant and reading its lyrics, I have come to a conclusion that this song is about the suffering of women who weren’t white during the Gold Rush era. She sings, “Who were the homestead wives? Who were the gold rush brides? Does anybody know? Do their works survive, their yellow fever lives in the pages they wrote?” This shows how women’s effort and work (excluding white women) during that time wasn’t as recognized as it should be. She also sings. “Dakota on the wall is a white-robed woman, broad yet maidenly. Such power in her hand as she hails the wagon man's family. I see Indians that crawl through this mural that recalls our history. Women at that time were insufficient in California. Men
Perspective allows people to see another person’s point of view. In the essay “The Cabdriver’s Daughter” by Waheeda Samady, she addresses her perception versus society’s opinion of her father. In her eyes, her father is a person capable of displaying kindness and expressing his profound knowledge while for some Americans, he is their preconceived notion of what a terrorist might look like. She challenges people to look past his scars and the color of skin, and “look at what the bombs did not destroy” (19). To her, he is the man that has lived through the Soviet-Afghan War, persevered through poverty, and denied these experiences the power of changing him into a cantankerous person. Samady feels prideful of her father’s grit through his past experiences yet feels sorrowful thinking about the life he could have lived if the war had never happened.
This film features Jodie Foster as Nell, a young woman who lives the first thirty years of her life in a remote cabin in the isolated beauty of North Carolina's Smoky Mountains. Once she is discovered by the outer world, she is forced to conform to a civilized young woman. Her linguistics skills are very undeveloped; she is very underdeveloped emotionally, socially, morally, and intellectually. However, she has very well developed physical and motor skills because she has been forced to take care of herself. Nell's underdevelopment begins in her prenatal period and sprouts out into a series of problems there. The isolated environment which she lives in and lack of intellectual stimulation is a significant factor in her underdevelopment as well.
Her lasting career was not given to her easily, therefore, creating an inspiring story full of hardships and success. Ever since she was a little girl, her dream was to become a successful and famous dancer. In New York City, when she was trying to fulfill her dream, she was unable to find a job in the theatre department. Instead of being discouraged, she decided to make something good come from it. She choreographed her own routines, created her own costumes, and organized solo recitals for audiences to enjoy. This event led her to the biggest adventure in her life that would later impact the world. She was invited to return back to London to pursue her education in the performing arts, so that she could further improve her talents that would make up her entire career.
With the gradual advancements of society in the 1800’s came new conflicts to face. England, the leading country of technology at the time, seemed to be in good economic standing as it profited from such products the industrial revolution brought. This meant the need for workers increased which produced jobs but often resulted in the mistreatment of its laborers. Unfortunately the victims targeted were kids that were deprived of a happy childhood. A testimony by a sub-commissioner of mines in 1842 titled Women Miners in the English Coal Pits and The Sadler Report (1832), an interview of various kids, shows the deplorable conditions these kids were forced to face.
The film reflects the class difference from beginning through the end, especially between Annie and Helen. Annie is a single woman in her late 30s without saving or boyfriend. She had a terrible failure in her bakery shop, which leads her to work as a sale clerk in a jewelry store. When Annie arrived Lillian’s engagement party,
For several years she went through a hard time with record labels, clashing with managers, and the Internal Revenue Service. She lived in many different countries until she finally settled down in
The period in American history between 1900 and 1920 was a very turbulent one. Civil unrest was brewing as a result of many pressures placed upon the working class. Although wealth was accumulating at an astonishing rate in America, most people at the lower economic levels were not benefiting from any of it. Worst of all for them, the federal government seemed to be on the side of the corporations. Their helpless situation and limited options is why the coal strike of 1902 is so important.
Linda Brent said, "Slavery is terrible for men, but is far more terrible for women." She makes a good and true point, for when her life and the life of other slave women is compared to men’s, mentally, slavery takes a much larger toll on the suffering of women. Women are responsible for their children, because the children follow the mother and mothers often fill guilty for bringing children into the cruel world of slavery. As Linda Brent expresses, "I often prayed for death; but now I didn’t want to die, unless my child could die too . . .(Benny) it’s clinging fondness was a mixture of love and pain . . . Sometimes I wished that he (Benny) might die in infancy . . .Death is better than slavery". In the book Linda has mixed feelings about her children because she so dearly loves them. She doesn’t want them to suffer in slavery as she has so she wishes they would die, but she loves them and she doesn’t want to lose them as many slave mothers had. How torn and incapable she must have felt as a slave mother. Linda also speaks of "The Slaves New Year’s Day", this was the time that slaves everywhere were sold and leased. Many mothers were torn from their husbands and their children. Linda speak...
Out of all these great poets I felt more connection with Mrs. Gwedolyn Brooks. Mrs. Brooks had overcome lots of obstacles in her time being growing up in the rough side of Chicago. She was the first African America poet to win the Pulitzer Prize. The poem’s she has says something to me because they speak of family and that’s something I huge on. Throughout her poems she talks about her mother, sisters that took different paths in life and loving older couples. Her writing style was for the common audience of all races and ages because that she quickly won and never lost. She also uses these powerful unforgettable black portraits to help you get a better understanding and visual. There not one poem that doesn’t speak to me in any ways from
The Industrial Revolution had a scarring effect to society. If the Industrial Revolution is thought of an ample of negative come to mind. Harsh things such as child labor and the horrendous working and living conditions. Countless kids and women were treated unfairly at work, they were given a lower pay for the amount of laborious work they did. However when the women arrived home they were still treated unfairly, expected to cook and clean. It’s not as if their home was a comfortable home either they typically lived in crowded tenements. These are just a few of the aspects of the harsh life the people lived. The negative effects the Industrial Revolution brought were child labor, working conditions and living conditions. Out of the three
Yes, I found Cathy Songs writing to be about relationships, and how they can guide our being on earth and in life.
Finally the coal mine war ended in 1933, many dead bodies were buried of innocent people, with many untold stories. The emotions Diane fisher used in her lyrical poetry can be relate to any of the culture, not only to the people of West Virginia. It’s a responsibility of the poet to give his readers entertainment, but at the same time the information about what they are talking. She did a great job in this. She not only told us the situation of miserable people, but also helped us to heard the untold stories.
That was because the Season had begun. For although the band played all the year round on Sundays, out of season it was never the same.” There she goes into make-believe where she believes she is in a musical. She believes this and realizes this is why she goes to the park every Sunday. “They were all on the stage. They weren't only the audience, not only looking on; they were acting. Even she had a part and came every Sunday. No doubt somebody would have noticed if she hadn't been there; she was part of the performance after all. How strange she'd never thought of it like that before! And yet it explained why she made such a point of starting from home at just the same time each week - so as not to be late for the performance”. She believes she is an actress, like a small child who dreams to be a princess or an actress. She had believed the company would get up at any moment and join her to sing the song, because for she was a star.” The tune lifted, lifted, the light shone; and it seemed to Miss Brill that in another moment all of them, all the whole company, would begin singing. The young ones, the laughing ones who were moving together, they would begin, and the men's voices, very resolute and brave, would join
“The Coal Miners Wife” by Ben Shahn is a really great painting. The artist did a great job when he made this painting. There were a lot of things about it caught my attention. First the content of this painting is very well thought of. It takes someone who has a grasp of art, to understand the message the artist is trying to get to us. The painting tells the tale of a woman. Who’s husband has had died working at the coal mines. It is easy to verify this by the two men outside who have bought her the man’s Jacket. I also feel like that the message the painting was trying to send, was that too many men are dying in the coal mines, they need to find a way to make it safer.