Lillian Gish

brought into this world by a woman named Mary Robinson Gish and a man named James Leigh de Guiche, but I would know them as mom and dad . I would follow by the name Lillian Diana Gish. When I was an infant, my father was in the grocery business then became a candy salesman. (Lillian Gish Facts) When I was four-years-old, my mother announced to my father and I that she was pregnant with a second child, a child that would be named Dorothy Elizabeth Gish. That birth earned me the title of the elder daughter

Perhaps no other director has generated such a broad range of critical reaction as D.W. Griffith. For students of the motion picture, Griffith's is the most familiar name in film history. Generally acknowledged as America's most influential director (and certainly one of the most prolific), he is also perceived as being among the most limited. Praise for his mastery of film technique is matched by repeated indictments of his moral, artistic, and intellectual inadequacies. At one extreme, Kevin Brownlow

Workplace Tension In his 1916 silent-film Intolerance, D.W. Griffith pioneered editing techniques that helped establish montage as a core component of film language. Griffith set out to unite four disparate storylines under the common theme of love’s eternal battle with intolerance. While Griffith believed this film achieved its goal, some of his contemporaries argued that Intolerance was a “magnificent failure” (Eisenstein, 241). Indeed, Eisenstein proposed that the unification Griffith sought

Daniel Guillory Angela Catalano FTA 4540/5540 - History of Cinema 10/12/17 Mary Pickford Research Paper Mary Pitchford or “America’s sweetheart” was an iconic silent film actress and overall great entertainer in just about all categories film related. Mary was born on April 8, 1892, in Toronto, Canada and after only five years on the planet she would begin performing for an audience. Ten years later she would already find herself performing on Broadway in New York along side some of the most talented

has the potential to be broken down into multiple schools of thought, but when it is done professionally by a literary critic the criticism is generally specialized into a certain school of philosophy. One particular work by the author/playwright Lillian Hellman is “The Little Foxes”. “The Little Foxes” can be characterized by the biographical school of criticism. The biographical school of criticism is one where the criticism pertains to the fact that the author’s work reflects his/her life and the

The Legacy of Lillian Wald Introduction In today’s society, many prominent people have dedicated their lives to serving mankind. A woman who dedicated countless hours to the nursing and social work field to help the less fortunate is Lillian Wald. Lillian Wald is a humanitarian who sacrificed her life and career to help under-privilege families in a Jewish community located in Rochester, New York (Henry Street Settlement, 2014). The legacy of Lillian Wald continues to serve thousands today, which

get paid at all. Eventually, there were people who stepped in to give children more freedom when it came to labor laws. Samuel Gompers founded the American Confederation of Labor in 1866, which fought for worker’s rights. In 1912, a woman named Lillian D. Wald established Children’s Bureau to help children working children. Aside from this, she also created the Women’s Trade Union League in back in 1903, helping women in the workforce. Another woman helped too. In 1917, Grace Abbott joined the

In the play "The Children's Hour," Lillian Hellman, tells the story of Karen and Martha, who run an all-girls boarding school. One day one of the students, Mary Tilford, runs away and lies about it and once she is caught, she tries all that she can to get away from the school. So, Mary goes to the headmistress, her grandmother, Mrs. Tilford, and tells her that Karen and Martha are having a lesbian affair. This lie spirals out of control and is beginning to destroy the women's lives and relationships

Every play written uses dramatic elements. The main dramatic elements are plot, character, theme, and language. Lillian Hellman, who wrote the Little Foxes, incorporates these elements beautifully in her play. The play is set during the spring of 1900 and takes place in the Deep South part of the United States of America. Just as every other play, the Little Foxes has included the dramatic elements in her play, particularly the plot, character, and language that all incorporate an underlying theme

In this analysis, the focus attempts to show GEICO Insurance promotional strategy in communicating its products and services to the market and identifies the effective ways in growing the brand-awareness. In 1936, a married couple named Leo and Lillian Goodwin established GEICO; which stands for Government Employees Insurance Company in Texas. The initial target markets were government