An aspiring actress, young, beautiful, ready to enter the world of fame with open eyes and open hands; Elizabeth Short’s case has remained one of Hollywood’s most notorious unsolved cases in the US history. However, this case has been passed down from detectives all over searching for any clues or answers to help put the case to rest. Born in small town Hyde Park, Massachusetts on July 29, 1924, Elizabeth lived with her mother and father Cleo and Phoebe Short. At age five, Elizabeth’s father, Cleo, disappeared leaving his truck to be found by a bridge leaving everyone convinced he had committed suicide. (Scott Paden). Cleo actually moved to Vallejo, California, he then sent a message to the family apologizing for abandoning them. (Scott Paden). Once Elizabeth was aware that her father was, not in fact, dead they began to write each other back and forth. He offered several times to have her flown out to California with him. Elizabeth decided in order to pursue her dreams of becoming a famous actress she needed to move. At age 19 Beth packed her things and travelled out to where she could make something out of herself. (Scott Paden). …show more content…
Short’s constant partying, little housekeeping, and frequent dating were not something her father was very fond of. Consequentially, forcing her out onto the streets Beth was left to fend for herself. She soon became known as a beautiful freeloader. (Troy Taylor). Soon after she found a job as a cashier at Camp Cooke, it didn’t take long for the young servicemen to notice her, as she won the title of “Camp Cutie of Camp Coote.” Most men didn’t realize that Elizabeth was a vulnerable, hopelessly romantic girl desperate to marry a handsome
The Jonbenet Ramsey case has remained unsolved for twenty years now, and I realize, it might not ever be solved, but I do have a theory. My theory involves three different things, the build up, the murder and the cover-up. In the end, I do not think that there was an intruder that broke in the house, the evidence just doesn’t add up to that. I feel as if somebody in the family killed her, and the Ramseys covered it up. If you go even deeper, John Ramsey could have compensated John Mark Karr to take the blame, and to get some of all of the post-murder weight off of his chest. In order to find who killed J.B.R., we have to look into the Ramseys’ lives first. We know that the Ramseys had money, a lot of it. And the odd amount of money in the ransom note just doesn’t make any
A neighbor, Mrs. Hazel Griffin, shows mercy and helps June Jordan move into her parents’ house even as Jordan’s mother lay ill. But while this neighbor helped a needy woman, Jordan’s father stood by and disapprovingly watched. He felt threatened by Mrs. Griffin because she was a single mother with a successful business who had not completed her education. Jordan’s father thought that women should adhere to strict gender roles and not be
Scout, the protagonist, is a young girl coming of age in a society trying to shove her into a dress and the role of a gilded daughter. For example, when Scout recalls a conversation with her Aunt Alexandra, a figurehead for society and one of the major female figures in her life, she begins to shine her own light on how to brighten her father’s life in a way that is true to herself. On page 108, Scout comes to terms with the fact that she is defying stereotypes, “I could not possibly be a lady if I wore breeches; when I said I could do nothing in a dress, she said I wasn’t supposed to be doing things that required pants. Aunt Alexandra’s vision of my deportment involved playing with small stoves, tea sets, and wearing the Add-A-Pearl necklace she gave me when I was born; furthermore, I should be a ray of sunshine in my father’s lonely life. I suggested that one could be a ray of sunshine in pants just as well, but Aunty said that one had to behave like a sunbeam, that I was born good but had grown progressively worse every year. She hurt my feelings and set my teeth permanently on edge,
When she was in her teens she got her life back with a family that
Women were expected to stay at home and take care of the house. When Bethia’s mother dies she is expected to take of her siblings and put her educational aspirations on hold. Caleb may be a Native but even he is allowed to pursue a higher education simply due to the fact that he is male. Their friendship is also never allowed to become anything more than a friendship. Bethia’s father arranges her marriage for her, she does not actual end up going through with it but during this time arranged marriages were extremely common. Friendships between girls and boys was not acceptable let alone marriages between colonist and
As Cliff walks into the Kit Kat club he enters the world of promiscuous uninhibited dancers, and people of the like. Men approach him to dance, and women entice him with their charms. He obviously wasn’t all that accustomed to this kind of happening, but he didn’t shy away from it. The first night he lived this almost unreal experience, he met a woman. Sally was a one of a kind woman of her time, being on her own, making her own living, whether that living be on stage or with a man who suits her interest for a while.
Most love stories end with a man and woman happily in love with each other. This is not the case in F. Scott Fitzgerald’s short story, “Last Kiss”. Throughout the story, Jim longs for his childhood sweetheart and Pamela seeks out someone who will make her a star actress in Hollywood. Jim holds fast to his position of power and does not give in to Pamela’s beauty and charm until later in the story. Strong will and determination of females pose as a threat to masculinity because females can entice, persuade and manipulate males. Fitzgerald’s story demonstrates the inability of femininity to surpass the power of masculinity. This is shown through reinforcement of femininity, masculinity and belief in social norms.
F Scott Fitgerald’s novel, The Great Gatsby, is centred upon 1920’s America. In the text, characters such as Myrtle Wilson, Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan are all carefully constructed to reveal various attitudes held by America in the early 20th century. Overall, the construction of female characters in The Great Gatsby showcases an accurate representation of women in the time period the text was composed in.
Many women who were part of the middle classes were often not sent to school and so didn’t usually learn a skill that they could use to make a living. Consequently, as they were women and so were often not left much, if any, inheritance when their parents died, women found that they must. marry in order to have money and to keep their place in society. Charlotte takes advantage of her situation to marry purely for money. and not for love, this is what many women do and what society.
Elizabeth was born in Bristol, England in 1821 to Hannah and Samuel Blackwell. Her family moved to America when she was 11 years old, both for financial reasons and because her father wanted to abolish slavery. Sadly, soon after, her father passed away in 1838. However, this made her stronger as a woman. As an adult she campaigned for women’s rights and supported the anti-slavery movement. Afterward, she wrote a book called, Pioneer Work In Opening The Medical Profession To Women, She stated
The short story talks about Delia Jones, a hardworking and modest woman who’s married to an abusive man named Skye and who constantly insults her. Delia is thorough and takes her pride in her work and washes clothes be a symbol of her pureness and her moral habits. “Skye,
“She was his forever, too- imperfect as she was. Take it or leave it, she thought. She was who she was” (Sparks 326). I choose this excerpt from the novel to portray a very beautiful moral of the story: that self-acceptance is challenging to come to terms with and should be celebrated when seen, especially in women. The Lucky One follows U.S. Marine Logan Thibault on his journey cross-country to thank a woman whose photograph appears to have saved him in several life-or-death situations in Iraq. Elizabeth is a divorced mother from North Carolina with a young son, and as they start to get close, Logan keeps the circumstances of his arrival a secret from everyone, including Elizabeth and her family. In the coming paragraphs I will be predicting
...she describes the pompous women. The author uses the women's conversations to emphasize the reasons Scout remains a tomboy and refuses the traits of Maycomb females.
Elizabeth F. Loftus was born Elizabeth Fishman on October 16th, 1944. She grew up in Bel Air, California with her parents Sidney and Rebecca Fishman, and had a high interest in fictionalized crime books (Zagorski, 2005). When Elizabeth was 14, her mother Rebecca drowned in a swimming pool. To cope with her loss, she kept a diary that contained her thoughts. Interesting enough, she would write her thoughts onto a separate piece of paper that she would attach in her diary, and remove it if her future boyfriend was to ask to read her diary (Loftus, 2017). In 1962, Elizabeth started her undergraduate studies at the University of California in Los Angeles as a major in mathematics (Born, 1997). During her undergrad year, she took an
The reason for this book appealing to such a broad audience lies in all the characters’ personalities. Mrs. March is a strong, independent woman who never falters, therefore she relates to all independent women; but she is also a mother who plants strong values in her girls and is the rock foundation of the family, with that she relates to all mothers. Margaret’s desire for luxury is a desire that we all can relate to and her properness is a trait most girls can relate to. Jo’s mischievous demeanor and talent for writing is something that if one cannot relate, admire to have. Beth is the insecure, sweet, homebody in all of us. Amy represents the beauty and talent, and sometimes moral code, which all women have. Laurie represents all the men that wish to be loved any uncommon-but-beautiful woman.