Hedy Lamarr Essay

During the time in high school Taymor was able to travel to Sri Lanka and India, where she got her first taste in traditional Asian theater. After high school, Taymor studied mime for a year at L’Ecole de Mime Jacques LeCoq in Paris. The trip to Paris also introduced her to theatrical potential of masks and puppetry. Then Taymor attended Oberlin College from September 1969 to June 1974. She graduated with a degree in folklore and mythology.

Loren Eiseley was a strong autobiographical nature writer who was also contemporary in some ways. He was born in 1907 and lived until 1977 in the plains of Nebraska. His mother was deaf and a unstable mother. As a child Loren spent his childhood writing stories and poetry, this was an interest of his at a early age resulting him to his future of being a nature writer. Loren Eiseley eventually became a professor in Pennsylvania teaching anthropology. In the mid 20th century he made a achievement of publishing his first book, not only was this his first book but it was a best-seller. It influenced many Americans on human nature and natural events. Eiseley spent much of his life alone, he talks about New York City in his writings and how their

‘Cry’ is a dance choreographed by a very talented and well-recognised choreographer named Alvin Ailey. This was created in 1971. Ailey has created many incredible works but I must say that ‘Cry’ was one of his most outstanding works of art. The dance’s intent is to portray the struggle & strength of the African American women who were in the slave trade; how women so enslaved & trapped can still manage to be so free.

“Dear John Wayne” by Louise Erdrich is about the stereotype of the Native American, being a savage race on film and how the Native Americans watching the film react to those stereotypes.

I’ve spent weeks upon weeks learning about the Revolutionary War, but I was not expecting to learn as many interesting facts as I did. For example, I knew about the legend of Betsy Ross sewing the first American flag I just didn’t realize how many women historical figures there were. The young lady that stood out to me the most was 16 year old Sybil Ludington. On April 26th, 1777 she rode 40 miles to alert her father’s militia company that Danbury, Connecticut was under attack and to have everyone meet at the Ludington house. Knowing that women and men weren’t treated equally back then, I think that was a very heroic thing for Sybil to do. She most likely saved many lives that could have been lost. Imagine how grateful the people in Danbury were for her heroic actions. I also found some of the methods the soldiers used incredibly interesting. One of these clever methods was used with lanterns. One or two lanterns were placed in the spire of Boston’s Old North Church to alert

Dorothy Day was born on November 8, 1897 to her mother, Grace, and father, John, in Brooklyn, New York. Because her father was a sports journalist, the family often moved, which made it hard for Day to make and keep friendships in school. She often kept to herself as a child even though she had two brothers and a

The purpose of this project is to thoroughly chronologically order Tommy Hodson’s life and football career starting from his birth leading up to his life today. People should care about this man because he was one of the best collegiate football players from the college of Louisiana State University. He is not a very well known athlete, but his statistics show that he is one of the best quarterbacks to come out of LSU. In the following paragraphs will explain about Tommy Hodson’s life beginning from his birth and finishing off with his life today.

Her first professional role with Educational Studios was in Baby Burlesques, a series of mock Hollywood hits in which toddlers played the roles of adults (Sonneborn). Instead of exposing her daughter to the publicity and press that comes with movie stardom, Temple’s mother allowed her to express her own opinions and protected her from the pressures of fame (Dubas 30-32). As Temple was quickly thrust into a career as a young actress, her family continued to support her.

Feminism can be defined as a social idea that men and women should both have equal rights. The topic of feminism has been debated for many years. Throughout the early 1900's, the Women's Rights Movement was one of the largest social movements in the United States. Eudora Welty was born in 1909, right around the time where women's rights were being debated the most. Welty grew up in Mississippi, a common setting in many of her short stories. She was a smart girl who enjoyed reading and writing. Welty was also an artistic soul who enjoyed painting, photography and drawing. Eudora Welty started her career as a writer early on in her life. After attending college to receive a degree in literature, she worked for various newspapers and radio

Andrew Wyeth was born July 12, 1917 in Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania. He was the youngest of five children. Andrew was a sickly child and so his mother and father made the decision to pull him out of school after he contracted whooping cough. He received schooling in all subjects including art education.

Sherra Patrice Owens, was born to Olion, Jr., and Martha Owens (nee, Hall), on February 11, 1973, in Memphis, TN. At the age of 4, she and her mother moved to New York, and settled in Brooklyn. There, she attended, from Gershwin JHS, Martin Luther King HS, and graduated from Nassau Community College, with an A.S. in Surgical Technology.

Section one: Miracles at the Jesus Oak is the third of Harline’s contextual biographies. The others include, A bishop’s Tale: Mathias Hovius among His Flock in seventeenth –Century Flanders and Conversions: Two Family Stories From the Reformation and Modern America. His books were adopted by the Yale Printing Press and are used widely in many Universities all across the country. Many Religious groups have taken Harline’s scholarly works and used them as educational tools and belief strengtheners in the Church. Harline is now a history professor at Brigham Young University. Harline received inspiration for his historical texts from extensive

Thelma Schoonmaker was born January 3rd, 1940 in Algeria. Where her father worked for and oil company and her mother ran a nursery. A few years later she and her family packed up and moved to Aruba. Her family then moved to New Jersey where she began her college Career. She had attended Cornell University for Political Science and learned Russian. After beginning her career she realized that this was not the path that she wanted to go down. After looking in the newspaper she found an ad for an editing job and decided she was going to NYU for a six-week program to study more about films and editing. Martin Scorsese introduced Thelma Schoonmaker to Michael Powell and after four years of dating, they decided to get married in 1984. In 1990 Michael

Audrey Hepburn’s rise to fame was very slow. After World War II ended, when Audrey was fifteen, she and her mother moved to London. There she studied on a ballet scholarship and worked part-time as a model. Soon, she started playing little parts in British movies and taking acting classes. While filming her first good role, “Monte Carlo Baby” the famous French author of Gigi, Collette, discovered her. Audrey went on to play Gigi in the Broadway play, on November 24, 1951, which had a successful run of six months.

Stella grew up along her parents and played the roles of both boys and girls. When studying her acting she didn’t have much time for school but she did attend a public school in New York. Her first debut was in London, England when she was 18 as Naiome in Elisa Ben Avia with her father’s company. She made her first debut in the English-language was on Broadway in 1922 as the butterfly in The World We Live In. In 1940’s she started teaching acting at the New School for Social Research in New City. She kept teaching at that studio until 1949 and decided to start her own studio known as the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting (before that it was the Stella Adler Theatre Studio). While teaching at her own school, she also taught at Yale University’s School of Drama for a year and a half. Adler mentored many accomplished personalities such as Marlon Brando, Judy Garland, Elizabeth Taylor, Dolores del Rìo, Robert De Niro, Elaine Stritch, Martin Sheen, Manu Tupou, Harvey Keitel, Melaine Griffith, Peter Bogdanovich, and Warren Beatty by teaching them the many principles of contemperary theatre like characterization and script. As her career and she started getting older she stopped performing in 1961. Also with her acting she also was an associate producer for MGM (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio. She also directed commercial theatre and she also wrote The Technique of