most popular stories, “Big Blonde,” won the O. Henry Award in 1929. In addition to her writing, Dorothy Parker was a noted member of the New York literary scene in 1920s. She formed a group called the Algonquin Round Table with writer Robert Benchley and playwright Robert Sherwood. This artistic crowd also included such members as The New Yorker founder Harold Ross, comedian Harpo Marx, and playwright Edna Ferber among others. The group took its name from its hangout—the Algonquin Hotel, but also known
“False Hearts” written by Laura Lam is a sci-fi thriller novel which takes place in a near-future San Francisco, which focuses on two twins that were once conjoined named Taema and Tila. Their ethnicity is part Samoan, in addition, their sexual preference is bisexual. Taema and Tila use to once live in The Hearth, run by a cult leader named “Mana-ma.” People from The Hearth have very limited knowledge of modern technology as well as being kept away from modern society. The twins shared a heart for
collaborative multimedia performance’s. He created and performed this piece while he was still teaching at Black Mountain College. "The Event" included art such as poetry readings, music, dance, photographic slide projections, film, and the four panels of Robert Rauschenberg's White Paintings. Reading more about John cage has help me get a better understanding that art comes in many forms and sounds. John Cage was the most influential composer of chance music. This is where he would choose the pitches, rhythms
Professor Marston and the Wonder Women tells a bold and provocative story about psychologist and college professor William Moulton Marston (Luke Evans), and the behind-the-scenes realities which led to his conceiving of, and authoring an initial run of comic books, introducing his creation of Wonder Woman to readers of all ages in the 1940s. Prior to that, years before, Marston claimed to be the inventor, along with wife Elizabeth (Rebecca Hall), of the first-ever legitimate polygraph, or lie detector
a 27-year-old Robert Rauschenberg found himself outside the house of Willem de Kooning with a bottle of Jack Daniels in hand, knocking on the door he held a lingering hope that his wrapping on the wood would not be answered. This essay will discuss the social contextualisation of Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953). We are shown an almost blank piece of paper, subsequently framed in a simple gilded frame with a caption reading "Erased de Kooning Drawing, Robert Rauschenberg,
life, and the overbearing traditional sense of love from her father, she was certain that she would never find true love or even marry. However, the more she began to write the more attention she received, particularly from one individual writer, Robert Browning. Later the two
prophecy the ending. In Of Mice and Men novel by John Steinbeck reveal foreshadowing by the events of to a Mouse, Pet it like it was a mouse, a little piece of land and right in the back of the head. One example of foreshadowing is To Mouse a poem by Robert Burns inspired John Steinbeck to write a book called Of Mice and Men. The foreshadowing is who read the poem can predict the ending of Of Mice and Men. The poem describes a mouse struggling with life and dreaming of home. In To Mouse, the mouse lost
When we were little, especially with older siblings, something like drinking at a party seemed so sinister. I told myself that would never be me, and I really believed it. When you grow up, even just a few years, you learn more about how the world works and some things become more clear. You learn how businesses run and how the government works. Criminals and terrorists cover the television screen on the nightly news. Your friends from middle school grow up and some go to college and some fall addicted
A single oven fire from a bakery shop would change the city of London for years to come. This fire grew very quickly and destroyed a lot of the city of London in record time. This incident happening helped to set a firm design on new fire codes and helped to build the British fire service. This simple accident caused one of England’s largest fires and resulted in important changes in fire fighting techniques (“The Great Fire Of London”). The great fire of London started on September 2 ,1666 and
kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.” Although this is true, and there are as many types of love as people who experience them, there are key elements needed in creating the “true love” each of us strives to possess. Psychologist Robert J. Sternberg explains these vital components in his Triangular Theory of Love. According to his theory, love is comprised of intimacy, commitment, and passion. Different types of love are the result of the various combinations of these elements. His