Helen Levitt Research Paper

On February 2, 1992 Maggie Lauterer, a local television news celebrity quit her job and signed up to run for the United States Congress as a democrat. Maggie was asked to run by the Democratic leaders of her district. They thought that her celebrity appeal was their ticket to congress. Maggie was from the 11th congressional district in North Carolina. She was the very first women to run for Congress from her district. Maggie was a moderate on issues like crime, abortion, and the economy. Her district though, had a very conservative attitude. Although, Maggie was a Christian she supported abortion and because of that she lost many voters. Maggie believed in running a clean campaign. She was running against Charles Taylor, who was a seasoned

Kingseed, Wyatt. "A Burned Letter, Conflicting Stories and an Absent Son Helped to Send Mary Surratt to the Gallows." America's Civil War 16.6 (2004): 12-14. Web.

On July 21, Alissa Turner is set to become the first African-American woman to graduate from Rochester Fire Academy. While she was still studying at Joseph C. Wilson, Turner decided to join the New York Army National Guard.

Every girl growing up always use to play dress up in clothes as a childhood past time for fun. Cindy Sherman used that passed time as a way to create art with photography and is known for her talent of this act and taking self-portraits of it. Her ideas come stereotypes of women throughout past and present society. These self-portraits are known to “confront and explore the representations of women in society.” (Jankauskas).

Mary Surratt was a person, who at the time of Abraham Lincoln’s death owned a boarding house, and had close ties with John Wilkes Booth. After Booth had been captured for the assassination of President Lincoln, Mary was sent to the gallows. To this day there is still a debate about whether she should have been hanged for her crimes. I feel it was unnecessary for her to die that way.

Bettina Lawton is a democratic attorney running for the position of the Fairfax County Clerk of Court. With a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center, Lawton has a colorful background contributing with many different associations and groups.

At first you could say This girl is fearless and she had a tough childhood, she was probably the elite of the elite in rhythm and blues. Etta James got interested in music while in church, which took her into a long career in music, where she soon became one of the best R&B artist in the business, she later was inducted in the Rock Hall of Fame.

On July 4, 1954, Marilyn Sheppard was murdered in her home on the shore of Lake Erie. Sam Sheppard, the husband, denied any involvement in the murder but was presumed the killer.

Councilwoman Helen Gym, born in Seattle, Washington circa 1968 and later moved to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and graduated UPenn in 1993. Gym led a campaign in 2000 called “Stadium Out of Chinatown Coalition”, this campaign was to stop the gentrification that was happening in chinatown fearing that the stadium being built around the area would take away the culture. Gym later ran for council member regarding housing reform and education thus replacing Jim Kenney. Gym has been working on education reform since 2006, and around 2006 she co-founded, Parents United for Public Education, The Philadelphia Public School Notebook, and a charter school in chinatown, no easy feat for a new outsider in the philly system. The following year she was awarded

Before starting this project, I knew very little about photography, photographers, or exactly how much impact photographical images have had on our society. I have never taken a photography class, or researched too in depth about specific pictures or photographers. This project has allowed me to delve deeper into the world of photography in order to understand just how much influence pictures can have over society’s beliefs, emotions, and understandings’. I have have chosen two highly influential photographers, Diane Arbus and Dorothea Lange, who I have found to both resonate with me and perfectly capture human emotions in way that moves others.

While there is no question that Gloria Steinem was and still is a beautiful woman, some assume her beauty was the reason behind her success as the media would choose her to report about. She was often chosen out of the other women she was traveling and speaking with as she was the most “feminine” looking out of them (Heilbrun, 1995, p.187). She was often called the “pin-up girl of the intelligentsia” and received attention regarding anything she was doing, however the downside to this was that there was “a large gap between what Steinem was doing and what the media represented her as doing”. To the outside world it is assumed that her looks helped her to get her message across, but in her own mind it made it harder for her as she felt it got in the way of people from hearing what she was really trying to say. The media would often be more interested in how she looked than what her message was.

The characters Sherman portrays, lighting, clothing and expressions are cliché of what is present in cinema, so much that viewers of her work have told Sherman that they ‘remember the movie’ that the image is derived from, yet Sherman having no film in mind at all.[iv] Thus showing that her word has a pastiche of past cinematic genres, and how women are portrayed in cinema and photography and how Sherman has manipulated the ‘male gaze’ around her images so they become ironic and cliché.

Jesus is being questioned by one of the experts of the law. He asks Jesus “Who is my neighbor?” (Luke 10:29) Jesus then answers the man’s question by telling a story, or a parable. There was a man that was travelling from Jerusalem to Jericho (Luke 10:30-37). Then, he was attacked and beat up by robbers and they left him to lie on the road, almost to the point of death. Then there were a couple of men, a Jewish Priest and a Levite, who walked by and did not help him because they had “better” things to do and they didn’t like the way he looked. But finally, came a Samaritan man who treated the injured man’s wounds and brought him to an inn where he paid for the expense of the man’s stay.

What does it mean to challenge portraiture in an age of modernity, and how can typically-labelled Renaissance-style portraiture be challenged within the contemporary world? Janet Werner, an artist/painter from Montreal, QC. has done just that. Known for her exhibitions “Another Perfect Day”, “Too Much Happiness” and “Who's Sorry Now”, Werner forces us to question what the term “portraiture” truly means through a feminist art style, and how a typically generic form of artwork, in our modern world of “selfies” and mass photography, can be transformed into a powerful message of self-reflection and self-worth. We expect portraiture's to merely be a shell of someone's self, but we expect that in the physical sense, and less so in the mental and

“If I had not been discriminated against or had not suffered persecution, I would have never received the Nobel Prize.” These are the words of the 1986 Nobel Prize winner Rita Levi- Montalcini. Rita and her twin sister Paola were born in Turin, Italy on April 22, 1909. She is the youngest of engineer Adamo Levi and painter Adele Montalcini’s four children. The oldest and the only boy Gino was a famous Italian architect, and a professor. He sadly passed away of a heart attack. The second oldest Anna still lives in Turin with her children and grandchildren.