Recently I have watched the movie The Women in Gold, which takes place in Los Angeles in the year 1998. This movie is a true story and follows the story of Maria Altmann who was a Jewish refugee in World War II. While being ripped from her home, Altmann's family panting were robbed from her house. Against all odds when Altmann was being transported with her husband to a concentration camp, they escaped and made their way to the United States. Fast forward fifty year and Altmann sister just died and it brought up old memories, specifically the painting that were stolen from her. With Austria new policy of art restitution, she employs the help of lawyer Randol Schoenberg to retain her stolen painting. After many hardship and legal battles the
There is a direct link to prostitution and industrial development. In boomtowns, seaports and industrialized cities, prostitution was apart of the everyday life. Historians have found a direct correlation between economic prosperity and the amount of prostitutes in an area. In Eau Claire, Wisconsin the ratio between prostitutes to workingmen was one to fourteen (Ripp-Shucha 36). Through this analysis, it has been shown that an area that was about to experience an economic boom, there would be more prostitutes residing. All western towns suffered from the occasional slump, but as long as there was an opportunity that in the future the town would once again prosper, there was a reason for saloon girls and prostitutes to stay According to Alexy
Europeans “gold diggers” had a big interest in African resources and were willing to get them at any cost. They had even made plans about dividing the country. The Berlin Conference was the meeting where each of the European countries would be receiving their part of Africa. Europeans were so greedy in land that wasn’t theirs, they started to colonize Africa and their people. According to Source 5, the cartoon depicts the rocks as a symbol of how the Europeans wanted the resources of Africa so badly that it shows how the rocks symbolizing the resources were moved away from Africa towards the European regions. The rocks in the picture are a clear image of how Europeans were “gold diggers” and took away what was rightfully Africa's. Europeans
The artwork was stolen by the Nazis shortly after Maria escaped the war. These paintings are known in Austria as the “Woman in Gold”. Maria enlisted. This starts the journey of Maria getting her family painting back from Austria. Sadly, anti-Semitism is evident in this situation.
Abel, Gillian, et al. Taking the crime out of sex work: New Zealand sex workers fight for decriminalisation. Policy Press, 2010. Part two: Implementation and impact of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003): the first five years: Review of the PRA
Canadian prostitution, the practice of exchanging money for sexual services” (Shaver, 2011) originally started in the 1800’s, and has never been an illegal act Canada. However, the dangers of the job, and safety risks these women are exposed to have always been prevalent on Canadian streets. The most common form of prostitution when the trade was established was off street prostitution. This can be defined as, “Prostitution that is issued out of escort agencies, massage parlours, private residences, brothels, bars, clubs, trick pads and bathhouses” (“Fact Sheet,” n.d.). [Correct Citation?]This industry thrived for decades with little no to police presence as the newly created transcontinental railways transported large masses of single men to the west coast. However, in 1890, new legal constrains, which were now enforced, made operating brothers a challenge and forced street prostitution to become more common, “street prostitution is a form of prostitution in which a sex worker solicits customers from a public place, most commonly a street, while waiting at street corners or walking alongside a street, but also other public places such as parks, benches, etc. The street prostitute is often dressed in a provocative manner.” (Shaver, 2011). When the number of women working the streets increased, the safety level decreased. In order to expand one’s knowledge on the dangers of female street prostitution, one must fully comprehend the differences between the two forms of
There is an ongoing art-ownership debate over paintings and other art stolen from European Jews during the Holocaust of World War II (1939-45). As Jews were sent to concentration camps, Nazi German soldiers looted valuable art from their homes. During the ensuing decades, some of that art landed in major museums on display, prompting Holocaust survivors and the families of Holocaust victims to ask that those works be returned to them.
‘Gold Diggers of 1933’ is an example of the ‘backstage’ musical where the principle characters are themselves preparing to put on a musical. From the title it is possible to deduce what the film is about, reflecting the struggle for Americans at the time. Set during the Great Depression Gold Diggers of 1933 expresses the differences in social classes as well as the representation of women at the time. The women in this film essentially live up to male expectations and yet it becomes increasingly clear that although the men hold the money in order to secure their sense of masculinity, it is the women however who are seen to manipulate the men, whether that be by getting the men to buy them material things such as the hats bought for the two
Sex workers inhabited the public space of Paris throughout the 19th century, their trade widely accepted as disreputable but necessary. When the French poet Charles Baudelaire was asked what art is, his immediate answer was “prostitution.” This proves that throughout history, artists have used prostitutes as models and muses for their artwork. Prostitution and painting go hand in hand. Among the first painters to use female models were Titian and Giorgione, producing Venetian reclining nudes, which appeared as advertisements for the most successful courtesans of Europe. These paintings hung in homes, showing real women as nothing more than an image to be looked at and judged by men. The interest in representing prostitution in art not
In terms of sociology, Prostitution is a way for an individual to maximize their monetary intake or in other words “benefits” by selling the thing that they have readily, their bodies. In other words, it is the act or practice of participating in promiscuous sexual activity especially for money. Prostitution has been in existence for ages, going back to the Byzantine, Roman, Greek, and Egyptian Empires. Ironically, the ancient religions of those eras dealt with the needs of the group and consequently developed protocols for dealing with sexual relations that have propagated throughout time to the modern era. As a result, prostitution is not about to disappear anytime soon, despite relatively recent local laws. Also throughout centuries,
Prostitution, sometimes referred to as “the world’s oldest profession” (Henslin, pg. 54), is defined by James M. Henslin as “the renting of one’s body for sexual purposes” (pg. 54). This arrangement, though illegal and socially deviant in most parts of the world, exists universally in many different forms (pg. 54). As a matter of fact, types of prostitutes range greatly in variety from call girls – who are said to be “the elite of prostitutes” (pg. 58), to streetwalkers – “who have the lowest status among prostitutes” (pg. 58), to sugar babies -young, physically attractive women who provide “rich, older men” (Kitchener, par.4) “…with attention (and sex) in exchange for the finer things in life” (par. 4).
Prostitution, also known as commercial sex or solicitation, is the business of preforming sexual activities in exchange for monetary compensation. Prostitution can be seen in many different outlets, from brothels and streetwalkers, to top of the line escort or call-girl services. Prostitution laws make it a crime to suggest, consent, or participate in a sexual act for the benefit of receiving payment (FindLaw, 2016). Prostitution is one of the first known female occupations and appears as early 2400 B.C.
Prostitution has been going on for many centuries. Many studies have gone on, researching and trying to understand on why women get involved with prostitution and the main effects it has on then. Some report the main causes of early prostitution was due to poverty and deviance. Many see it as a career, a way to make a living and survive and provide for their families. “Studies show that many women engage themselves in such activities as prostitution by their own choice, forced into it, or because of their own mental health state.”(Chudakov 305)
Almost all interviewed women revealed that their husbands, who are gold diggers, have abandoned them. They have to raise their children without financial support, while at the same time are exploited by their husbands. With exceptions, they live in extreme poverty and were emotionally, physically or sexually
Throughout history, art has caused wars and forged alliances. In modern times, cultural treasures are being sorted into place after much misplacement. Restitution/repatriation, the act of returning cultural treasures to their rightful owners or nation of origin, often ensues difficult legal decisions, but remains a moral necessity. This act of returning cultural treasures, grows more common due to the media’s interest or publicized legal battles. The movie “The Woman in Gold,” involving Gustav Klimt’s painting of Adele Bloch-Bauer, is an example of the influence it has on media.
Before I entered this class, my imagination about what sociology is wasn’t of what it came to be after this class ended. First of all, before coming to this class, I didn’t know that prostitution was a social problem. I understand that being a prostitute is a sin, however I don’t think that a person should be punished by a society for being a prostitute. In other words, I thought that if a person is making money on his or her own body, it wouldn’t be a societal problem. Coming in this class, I have the knowledge that gay, lesbians or any other sexual orientation that isn’t heterosexuality was something that only exists in one’s mind and that if a person want to change their sexual orientation, he or she could. Therefore, in this class, after learning about sexual orientation, I accepted that people are born different and as society we should all accept that. Sexual orientation somehow I feel should require more large-scale intervention. In a lot places, LGBT people are discriminated. If God only created female and a male and that they only should be attracted to each other, let him only judge those whose feelings are different from what the bible states.