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When telling someone else’s story – perhaps even one’s own – it is hard not to do so from a certain perspective or position. Two recent films whose subject is the poet Elizabeth Bishop provide examples of distinct storytelling approaches: the first, a documentary with a particular political slant; the second, a semi-fictionalized biopic that is a little fast and loose with facts and chronology. With some anticipation I and my wife went to see "Welcome to This House" (2015), Barbara Hammer’s film

Amy was raised in a family that women were assumed to assume the busy roles of wife, mother, and socialite. The thing was she didn’t like that and always hated the way people thought that women had to perform those roles and also always be the ones who had to find the perfect

In the movie The Insider, the story starts off with a producer from 60 minutes named Lowell Bergman and a chemist for a a prominent tobacco company. Bergman feels that he has a big story to bring to the public when Dr. Wigand refuses to talk to him about the company that he works for. Wigand's ethical issue in this film is that he has to make a decision to either choose to do a special interview on 60 minutes regarding the addictive additives in Brown and Williamson tobacco or to keep quiet about

8), the speaker implies that there is a hint of death imagery. Frost is describing this night being the night his father died. Frost’s life “began in San Francisco where he was born in 1874, but he found his place of safety in New England when his family moved to Lawrence, Massachusetts, in 1884 following his father’s death” (quoted from “Robert Frost”). With the setting being a dark winter’s night, the reader can see that these natural symbols are all pointing in the direction of death imagery. In

decision needed to be made is whether he should tell the public what he knows. He determines an optional action is to keep quiet. Wigand understand that by telling the public will benefit greatly. However, he also understands by telling he and his family will endure emotional stress over the threatening behavior of Brown & Williamson and inevitable lawsuits with them. Wigand would have broken the confidentiality agreement and in turn would lose benefits, which is not ideal for anyone, but Wigand’s

Equal Work The development of the Lowell Mills in the 1820s provided American women with their first opportunity to work outside the home with reasonable wages and relatively safe work. About ten years later however, working in the mills wasn’t the same. Working conditions became more vigorous, the mills were unsafe and the pay received didn’t match the amount of work done. The Lowell family’s textile mills were set up to attract the unmarried daughters of farm families, hoping that they would work a

factors such as family, work, education, and religion. These aspects of life were results of the experiences Harriet Jacobs faced as a Southern slave girl in contrast with Harriet Hanson Robinson’s presence in the industrial revolution as a mill girl in New England. Family is generally at the core of a person’s life, because they are the people who introduce you to the world and essentially show you how to think. In the case of the two Harriet’s, experiences with their families differed due to day

Amy Lowell defines the hopeful liberty of women in the 20th century through a central theme in the poem "Patterns". The woman's dreams of eluding from the boundaries that society has placed on her fritters away when she learns of her lover’s untimely death. She restricts herself from feeling to make it seem as if there is “not softness anywhere” about her. Due to being constricted by “whalebone and brocade,” the speaker feels like she is forced to live up to the rules that society enforces upon her

Themes from Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden An Evaluation of themes from Mirror, Courage, Explorer, and Douglas During the 1900’s, a series of new poets came into existence. These poets brought about new themes and perspectives that manipulated the minds of humans all across the world. The poets that are in our study are Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Gwendolyn Brooks, and Robert Hayden. These four poets wrote detailed, intricate poems that are packed full of a slew of

Before Wigand had come forward you had people that were whistleblowers for the tobacco industry you had someone who had stolen those secret files that ended up on Bergman doorstep. But Wigand was the Christopher Columbus of the tobacco, he was the biggest person in history to have and still to this present day that has stood up against the tobacco industry. Once Wigand had blown the whistle on B&W other employees didn't come forward or back Wigand up, he talks about in his interview with Vanity Fair