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    Intimacy as a Commodity: Irmgard Keun’s Doris and Prostitution as a Symbol of Modernity In Irmgard Keun’s 1932 novel The Artificial Silk Girl, Doris, an independent-minded and flirtatious young woman, chronicles her search for stardom and resulting chaos as she attempts to get by in the tumultuous sociopolitical scene of 1930’s Berlin. Encouraged by her naive dream of reaching stardom, an ideal that she feels will protect her from the ridicule, judgment and manipulation that she has learned to expect

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    Jimmy Diresta was born April 3, 1967 in New York City. Jimmy is a designer, artist, and video producer. Enrolled in school of visual arts in 1986 and graduated in 1990. He then formed a toy company with his brother and later went to teach at the school he graduated from. During his career, Diresta was on a tv show on Fox television that was called “Trash to Cash”. After that he decided to join Youtube business. Jimmy co-hosted 3 tv shows during his career. Most of Jimmy’s work included his brother

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    following qualities: popularity (or mass appeal designed for a big audience), transience which is a shorter term for shelf life, expendability (being easily forgotten or replaced with something new), youth appeal, and glamour. Two famous Pop Artists are Roy Lichtenstein and Jasper Johns. Two of their most famous paintings that was designed by them and how those paintings embody that help contribute to the Pop Art movement. Those paintings are Lichtenstein’s 1964 work “Oh, Jeff… I Love You, Too… But…” and

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    Andy Warhol is known as one of the biggest pop art icons as well as one of the most inspiring and influential artists who changed the way art was produced by the next generation. Warhol was not only the most well known Pop artist but was also somewhat of a catalyst of the movement. Warhol started his career working as a commercial illustrator in New York before he began to make art that would be shown in galleries. Warhol established his reputation as a Pop artist in the early 1960’s. His Marilyn

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    Roy Lichtenstein is an American artist, painter, sculptor, and printmaker. He was born on October 27, 1923 in New York, New York and died on September 29, 1997 at the age of 73. Lichtenstein graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in New York City and went on to graduate with his Bachelor’s Degree in Fine Arts in 1946 at Ohio State University. Three years later he received his Master’s Degree in Fine Arts as well from Ohio State University. From there he taught at Ohio State University until

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    Born on October 27th, 1923, Roy Lichtenstein was a magnificent pop artist. He was the first born child of his parents Milton and Beatrice Werner Lichtenstein. His father, Milton, was a real estate broker, while his mother, Beatrice, was a homemaker. She was also played the piano and she revealed Roy and his sister to different aspects of New York culture. Roy went to a private school and graduated the year of 1940. He had later attended Ohio State University. Peter Max, born on October 19th, 1937

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    Roy Lichtenstein (October 27, 1923 – September 29, 1997) was one of the most innovative artists towards the end of the 20th century. He helped originate modern day Pop Art, and his first pieces of work were all based off of comic strips, advertisements, etc. that mimicked the indecency that newspaper reproductions had for printing. These artworks altered the history of modern art and created a new, American feel and view to the way art was seen as. Lichtenstein’s success was through all of his time

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    Arundhati Roy’s The God of Small Things

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    sister and even his wife. Ammu’s inter-religious marriage is abused but Chacko’s relation with low caste woman is accepted in the name of Man’s needs. In this novel, marriage is a trap for all and no marriage is successful. In the novel, Arundhati Roy has depicted the worst social and economic conditions of women. Ammu is divorced and lives with her parents and brother, Chacko, who treat her as well as her children in a terrible manner. She is divorced and a divorced woman has no respectable place

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    Estha and Rahel were two of the ones that broke it too. “Only that once again they broke the Love Laws.” “That lay down who should be loved. And how. And how much.” Another theme in the book is based on Communism in Ayemenem. The author Arundhati Roy seems to suggest that even, Communist’s is not faultless as it seems in the assumption that workers, “have nothing to lose but their chains.” But the fact remains that the job they have is a privilege, something that is not available to many people

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    The God Of Small Things

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    Throughout the God of Small Things, the author develops a romantic relationship between Velutha and Ammu. The author was able to build on this relationship given that the two characters hardly interact with each other due to their caste and race. Within this relationship, it is shown that Velutha is the God of Small Things. Velutha is believed to be the God of Small Things as he is the pivotal character of Ammu’s dream and her love interest. Velutha is suggested to be the God of Small Things according

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