She was a very smart student earning high grades. Plath start to love writing immediately after she started taking school seriously. Plath won a scholarship to Smith College making her move away from Wellesley to Northampton, Massachusetts. Plath was known to be the “golden girl,” intelligent, smart, witty and even attractive. She was extremely focused with her writings that within the first six months she submitted her poems to Harper’s magazine, was made co-editor of the Smith Review, and had her application for student guest editorships at Mademoiselle approved.
In this essay, I will write about Kat Von D, by discussing her work, and most importantly, try to explain why body modifications – more specifically, Tattoos - should be considered Art, and why so many people chose to have it. Katherine Von Drachenberg, also known as Kat Von D, is a world-renowned tattoo artist, specialized in black and white portraits. She owns a tattoo shop; has her own television show; created and launched her make-up line for “Sephora”; published two books; and in 2010 she opened the “Wonderland Gallery”. Kat has always been interested in art from a very young age. It started through her paternal grandmother, who shaped her artistic edges by teaching to play the piano and exposing her to some of the greatest composers in the world.
Biography of the Poet Maya Angelou Dr. Maya is a celebrated poet, memoirist, novelist, educator, dramatist, producer, actress, historian, filmmaker, and civil rights activist. Because she’s one of the most influential woman globally, people name her as the Global Renascence Woman. She was born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also absorbed the unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture. As a teenager she developed a love for art, which made her win a scholarship to study dance and drama At Francisco’s Labor School.
As Isadora grew up her passion for music, poetry, dance and theater grew as well. Her mother once told her that she has to listen with her soul in order to understand a song completely. Many people now say that this is what inspired her to begin modern dance. When Isadora discovered the art of music she decided to start dancing. She loved dancing so much that she began teaching dance classes to the local children.
Although Welty was southern, her father came from Ohio while her mother was from West Virginia. Eudora’s childhood in Jackson was filled in a household filled with readers and she lived in a town which wasn’t completely industrialized yet (Evans 212.) Eudora inherited from her dad her “love for all instruments that instruct and fascinate.” From her mother Eudora inherited her passion for reading and language. Eudora also had two brothers named Walter Andrews, and Edward Jefferson Welty with whom she shared a love of devotion, humor, and camaraderie (author’s site.) Eudora love for school was
Louisa’s first book “flower Fables” was written for the daughter of Emerson, a family friend. Her fathers optimistic mind, and her friends influenced her ideas and views of world. Louisa gave back to society with her books. She wrote books for young readers, like the very popular “Little Women”. Not only did she write for younger readers, but also for women.
Exploring Human Hurt and Loss in Carol Ann Duffy's Poems Carol Ann Duffy has written a wide range of popular books and poems. War Photographer, Valentine, Stealing, Mrs Tilscher’s Class, and Before You Were Mine, each appear to portray a particular aspect of her life, be it past or present. There is no doubt that pain and loss are part of these aspects, as she includes these emotions in all of her pieces. Each poem is easy to understand, however extremely powerful in its meaning. Carol Ann Duffy mentioned concerning her own work “I like to use simple words but in a complicated way”.
Alice Walker Alice is known for novelist, poet, short story writer, literary critic, children’s fiction writer, editor, and educator. A prominent figure of contemporary African American literature and an avid civil right activist and feminist, Alice Walker is a versatile and prolific writer who won the Pulitzer Prize and the American Book Award for her best-selling, best-known novel, “The Color Purple”. Like many of her fictional characters, Alice Walker was the daughter of black sharecroppers from the rural South; she was the eighth child of a sharecropping farmer and his hard-working wife. The poems in Walker’s first book, “Once”, written in 1968, reflected her burgeoning commitment to the civil rights movement and the acute depression she had suffered during her college years. Writing poetry, she later remarked, was a way to celebrate each day with the knowledge that she had not committed suicide.
Born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, Dr. Angelou was raised in St. Louis and Stamps, Arkansas. In Stamps, Dr. Angelou experienced the brutality of racial discrimination, but she also had an unshakable faith and values of traditional African-American family, community, and culture (Biography.com). The loss of her Close friend Martin Luther King Jr. on her 40 th. Birthday was devastating, and life changing and it affected the way she wrote which is reflected in the poem “Phenomenal Woman” is an inspirational piece of poetry that provides her readers the ability to sense her self-confidence and self -awareness. Angelou's poems celebrate black people, men and women; at the same time, they bear witness to the trials of black people in this country.
The two accomplishments that I am proud of are graduating from high school and dancing my way up to the top. Through these accomplishments I have matured from a girl to a young lady. An achievement that I am proud of is when I was fifteen years old and I was given the chance to perform a solo on stage, during my dance show. I started dancing when I was about six years old and I always dreamed of being on stage and dancing in front of millions of people. When I first started I was very shy.