Biography of Aaliyah Talented. Beautiful. Modest. These three words described R&B singer-turned-actress Aaliyah perfectly. Born in Brooklyn, New York but raised in Detroit, Aaliyah got her first major exposure appearing on the syndicated television series "Star Search" (1983) where she awed the audience with her amazing voice and talent.
She later backs this portrayal up by hysterically saying, “And turn that over-light off! Turn that off! I won’t be looked at in that merciless glare!” The character of Blanche is being represented as something so delicate she cannot be seen in a bright light, lest she fall apart. In this way Williams is very cleverly and very effectively outlining Blanche’s fragile character and insecurities, she is being shown as unstable and very prone to falling apart completely, and indeed potentially being easily damaged, just as a moth can be injured beyond recovery if their frail wings are touched. On top of this, the fact the character is named Blanche has relevance too.
Her ignorance of the black and white relations was brought to light when he described the people’s actions of seeing her ride the bike. The author declared that the “Black kids zipping past her on Sting Ray bikes and skateboards, popping wheelies, throwing baseballs, and tossing fireworks…” (2). Even with people around, she never once stopped riding her bicycle. The author also happens to describe what James thinks about his own mother. Growing up, he always felt as if his mother was purposely embarrassing him and very strange compared to other mothers.
This musical tells the story of two girls who later become the notorious Wicked Witch of the West and the good Witch of the North. Elphaba, who is the misunderstood, smart girl, with emerald-green skin, who struggles to prove herself to her family and peers. She sees injustice and must stop it, she also angry because of her perception of herself. She can’t see her own beauty. Later on we see the horrendous outcome of her struggles.
English Literature Mr. A November 1, 2010 Explication The red blossom bends And drips it’s dew to the ground Like a tear it falls The English Canon by Adrienne Su holds a serious tone expressing anger and frustration. The title of the poem doesn’t express symbolism for what the poem is going to be about. The first sentence starts off expressing of the narrators anger growing for the fact that women speakers were left out. The poem shows the pain the narrator went through and the struggles the young woman had. It further expresses the limits that were paced on the women further growth of the pain.
The Wizard Of Oz “One learns that without struggle and hardship, without the perilous journey itself, one could never have been able to discover his or her true self, his/her true home”. In the “Wizard of Oz” Dorothy believes her quest in to get back to Kansas. She is yet to see the journey of self-discovery that lies ahead for her and the friends she meets along the way. Every encounter Dorothy has on her way down the yellow brick road helps to uncover a little piece of what her heart desires. Dorothy takes an adventure down the yellow brick road on her way to Emerald City to meet the great and powerful Oz.
From the visual techniques used there are many ideas communicated to the audience as we can feel a sense of loneliness, depression, and desperation. Even though she is in a dark world that is hopeless, the small picture of the red leaf indicates that she is clutching onto a small glimmer of hope. The writing with this picture lacks punctuation and has negative connotations to show that she is starting to give up hope. Later on into the book there is a page where the girl is seen standing on a stage with the colours of light and dark juxtaposing with each other, which creates a meaning that, she is surrounded by darkness. The vector lines in this image points to her face, making her the focal point and the composition of the objects are foreign, cluttered together and form negative connotations.
Miss Bingley Miss Bingley is a foolish and scheming character. She is shown in such a light that she is the complete opposite to that of Elizabeth Bennett; she is desperate for Darcy’s attention. "'Eliza Bennett,' said Miss Bingley, when the door was closed on her, 'is one of those young ladies who seek to recommend themselves to the other sex, by undervaluing their own...but, in my opinion, it is a paltry device, a very mean art.'" Miss Bingley immediately shows the reader her distaste to Elizabeth by trying to show Darcy what she believes is Elizabeth’s scheming character when in fact it is her that is the one trying to fool Darcy and the reader into thinking lowly of Elizabeth. Miss Bingley uses lots of pauses in her sentence possibly to show the reader that she may be pausing to see the effect her words may have on who she is speaking to.
October 21st, 2010 Mr. Perri Honors English Allegory Writing Assignment An allegory in a movie that I have seen is “The Wizard of Oz” by Whether Baum. There were different allegories that could be contemplated by only a couple actual make full sense.In the movie the basic allegory would have been that the people in Dorothy’s dream was a metaphor for people in Dorothy’s real life, but there is a deeper meaning to all the characters. This movie is a deeper allegory for the political, economic and social events of the 1890’s in America.It is an allegory because all of the characters in the movie represent political social classes.In the movie Dorothy represented the average american girl, she can also represent the workers union some say she can also represent an ordinary individual led astray and seeking the way back home. the Tin Man represented a factory worker, the scare crow was symbolic for the farmers, and the wizard of Oz was a metaphor for Theodore Roosevelt. The yellow brick road is a metaphor for the “gold standard” that they had developed back in the1890‘s.
Once again this brings the theme of entrapment that features in much of Plath’s poetry as she felt she was trapped within her own body. Not only does the speaker refer to the bees being “dangerous” in a literal sense because they have the ability to harm people but she is also suggesting that her subconscious mind is a menacing, dangerous thing that should it be unleashed she would be in jeopardy. I imagine mind as the box and the bees as her uncontrollable thoughts that must be oppressed for if they were released from containment they would bring damage. The speaker’s inner turmoil is revealed as she feels she “can’t keep away from it”, she is all consumed by her dangerous thoughts as they continue to uncontrollably buzz around her head much like the venomous bees in the box. The bizarre image of the speaker curiously peering into the bee box and seeing “dark, dark” pulls us into complete and utter darkness.