Julia Domna

“Perikles and Caracalla: Depicting Personality and Power in Art” In the age of ancient civilizations of the Greeks and Romans, image was everything. Art, especially those on display in the public sphere, was ubiquitously exploited as propaganda by emperors, politicians and individuals of power to underscore their own political agendas, propagating specific, ideal public images within and beyond their ruling realms. In examining the public portraitures of Perikles and Caracalla, clear parallels

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself This paper deals with Walt Whitman's "Song of Myself" in relation to Julia Kristeva's theories of abjection--my paper does not point to abjection in the text, but rather the significance of the abscence of abjection. This abscence, looming and revolting, arises from Whitman's attemt to refigure a conception of sublimity which delimits the material which can trigger the sublime moment. Whitman's democracy of the sublime is inclusive of those figures on the American

Tutwiler house roughly 5,000 more students. These freshman options barely fit the ever growing number of new students coming to Alabama. The University of Alabama board of trustees recently approved a $124 million dollar project to tear down and rebuild Julia Tutwiler Dorms. The dorm currently houses 1,000 freshman girls. The Tutwiler Dorms are due to be torn down at the end of the 2017 Spring Semester. The new building is scheduled to be finished in 2020. The new building will include a parking deck and

The Truth of Thanksgiving While children are growing up in America, they are told several tales of America’s establishment and history. However, these stories are generally not told as they actually happened. An instance of this is the story of the Pilgrims and the first Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is explained as this elaborate ceremony where the Pilgrims and Indians gathered in harmony at this large harvest in celebration of their coming together. According to the primary document of William

Nora Ephron was born in New York, New York on May 19, 1941 into a family of writers. She lived in Beverly Hills and was the eldest of four daughters. She was gifted with sharp wit and incredible writing abilities, so naturally Ephron went into the writing business. Nora’s career first blossomed when her essays Wallflower at the orgy and Crazy Salad were published in 1970 and 1975. Ephron’s first novel Heartburn was published in 1983 and later turned into a movie starring Meryl Streep and Jack

These are the Chora stage, the Abjection stage and the Narcissistic stage. The Chora stage covers the first six months of an infant’s life. It is a pre-linguistic stage where the infant is dominated by a chaotic mixture of acuities, feelings and needs. It is also a stage when the infant is oblivious about the need to distinguish itself from its mother or the world around and is fully dependent on its mother for the gratification of its desires. This stage is followed by the stage of Abjection which

middle of nowhere our backyard was in the forest, we haven't explored it yet. I lived with my mom,my Dad,my sister Julia,and my brother James. Julia and I were 12 and James was 6. Lucky for us me and Julia weren't separated from James yet I mean it was in the middle of the summer. One warm sunny morning my mom woke me up. She said to me Bethany take care of James and Julia and don't go outside and your father have to leave. I think she thought I heard her but I was too busy sleeping then

Steven Soderbergh’s “Erin Brockovich” is an autobiography of Brockovich and her involvement in the largest monetary direct-case action lawsuit within the United States. Despite a lack of formal education and law experience, Brockovich proves to be the key element to winning a plaintiff case against multi-billion-dollar industry, Pacific Gas and Energy Company (PG&E). Often, law is recognized as a tool that ultimately provides justice; however, it also holds the power to silence others. In this

Erin Brockovich was written by Susannah Grant and directed by Steven Soderbergh. The movie was originally released on March 17, 2000. It stars Julia Roberts as the main character, Erin Brockovich. The movie won one oscar and many other awards. It tells the story of how a single woman can make history (“Erin Brockovich” np). Erin Brockovich is a single mother of 3 who is struggling for work after a car accident left her unemployed. She turns to a law firm in hopes of suing the individual who had

“Erin Brockovich and the importance of Rights Claiming” The film Erin Brockovich is a film that involves the American Legal System, however, it is very different from the films that normally come to mind when we think of a film involving the law. This film employed many of the usual aspects of law based movies, such as: lawyers, defendants, victims, a large sum of money, etc. This being said, however, the main character of the film, Erin Brockovich, plays an uncommon role. She starts off at the