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    parent’s footsteps. The nurse is Juliet’s caretaker and friend since her parents don’t let her go outside. After attending the Capulet’s party, she has fallen madly in love with Romeo and doesn’t want to marry Paris who is quite older than she is. Lucille Ball was a remarkable woman who

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    Lucille Ball has rightfully earned the nickname the ultimate trickster by her character’s depiction through the popular 50s comedian show, I Love Lucy. For six seasons, it was aired on CBS consistently receiving the #1 rank show for six years straight. The show and Lucille’s character was one of the most successful products television has broadcasted to the society. America was experiencing a postwar era in the 1950s, a devastation that occurred to the economy and the society after World War II ended

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    Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz were a married couple on the hit television show I Love Lucy that aired in the 1950’s. The couple met in 1940 on the set of a movie called Too Many Girls. Lucille Ball was a singer, model and a comedienne when she met Desi. She was also 5 years older than Desi but the dashing 23 year old Cuban bandleader caught her eye and they fell in love and married after only dating for 6 months. No one believed that their marriage would last. Their friends and associates placed bets

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    Those that push themselves and what to achieve more, will. Those that have a fixed mindset will have a hard time achieving what they want. You can look back through history and see whom had a fixed or growth mindset. One examples would be Lucille Ball. She was told when she attended the John Murray Anderson School for the Dramatic Arts she had “no future at all as a performer,” We all know that this was not the case. In fact, she is an icon that most people know, even though she's been gone

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    Rebellion for a Better Future Rebellion of an individual occurs when there is a difference of opinion. This conventional trait among society allows diverse ideas to be suggested and added upon for a better future and eventually an all around Utopia. Rebellious attitude is depicted throughout George Orwell’s novel 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s novel The Handmaid’s Tale in a subtle, yet powerful way. The faint, disobedient remarks made by their characters suggest their hope in the future generations

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    everything. Lucille Ball chose to be different from other women in the United States, she was an actress, a very notorious and successful one at that. Ball was slow and steady, but eventually became a success. As told in Top 101 Remarkable Women, edited by Jeanne Nagle, Lucille Ball was unsuccessful at first, but she eventually became more and more popular. To the point she and her husband formed Desilu Productions, launching comedies and specials, such as, I Love Lucy and The Lucille Ball-Desi Arnaz

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    Popular Culture’s Influence: How Lucille Ball Inspired Me Everyone develops into a different person, but there’s no doubt that we take inspiration from others. Being exposed to horror movies at a young age by one’s parents can make a child fearful, or give them an appreciation for movies and what makes them scary. Likewise, being introduced to comedy at a young age can mold a child’s taste in humor or appreciation for the genre. Popular culture has helped influenced many of us, and it has made us

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    On Monday, January 19, 1953, I Love Lucy made history. It was the night Americas favorite Hollywood couple Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz gave birth to their second child. But, it was also the night Americas favorite fictional couple, Lucy and Ricky Ricardo, were giving birth to their first on the CBS hit, I Love Lucy. The show, already living in its reign as the number one show on American television, managed to receive forty-four million views on the episode, “Lucy Goes to the Hospital,” making it

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    I Love Lucy was one of the most popular sitcoms of the 1950s. The show starred Lucille Ball as Lucy Ricardo and her real life husband Desi Arnaz as club singer Ricky Ricardo. The couple lived in a New York City apartment building across the hall from their friends Fred and Ethel Mertz. Lucy’s character is a portrayed as a trouble making newlywed who is always causing problems for her husband and herself. Although I Love Lucy was a groundbreaking for its time, it still kept true to many of the sex

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    Most popular of the ‘50s sitcoms was I Love Lucy, starring Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz. Starting in 1951, I Love Lucy is about a Cuban band leader, Ricky Ricardo, and his wife, Lucy, living in New York City. Lucy draws most of the laughs in the show, often because of her silly or pathetic actions. Even though these

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