To Wong Foo

“To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything! Julie Newmar”: Finding a Little Catwoman by Intertwining the Male and Female Gender Turning on the television of 1960’s the words “POW” and “SPLATT” were broadcast in color as adults, teenagers, and children tuned in to see Batman try to conquer his beloved adversary: Catwoman. Catwoman was shown as a determined, self-reliant, but morally ambiguous woman. Television was broadcasting one of the first female characters with both feminine and masculine qualities

punishment action. Wong Chin Foo was a citizen and left to visit China for a family reunion when the United States ultimately revoked his passport and forced him to live the rest of his life in China. The document states, “I am the only individual in New York that has no country.kicked out of China, disowned by the United States.Has the Federal government.the right to make a law.to strip me of my citizenship?” Since the 1888 Scott Act had canceled return certificates, Wong Chin Foo was not permitted

Final Exam: PROC 5890 1. You recently retired from government contracting work and established a consulting company (fully consistent with government ethics laws and rules, of course) with the primary focus of advising potential government contractors and subcontractors. Mr. Johnny Jones, of The Johnny Jones Flooring and Construction Company has approached you with a question. Jones and his company are potential subcontractors (they, obviously, specialize in flooring) on a federal construction

For a film that took nearly eight years to complete, I expected better. Gallowwalkers issue for me is that it commits the greatest of movie crimes, it's boring and it really has to no reason to be. Gallowwalkers is a scant ninety minutes long and with the premise of a gun man having to re-kill his victims it could have been a lot better. But in addition to the flaw of being boring, Gallowwalkers has a whole litany of other issues and has plot holes big enough you could pitch a tent in them. Gallowwalkers

Drag performances have a long world history and have seen much contemporary popularity through pop culture avenues such as the television program RuPaul’s Drag Race and movies such as To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar and The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert. On the other hand, gender scholars have spent many years debating the origins of modern drag. While some say that modern drag emerged in the late 1900s, others claim that modern drag actually emerged following the Stonewall

With riots and protests to his previous veto of the bill, President Chester Arthur signed “An Act to Execute Certain Treaty Stipulations Relating to the Chinese” into law.” Nicknamed the Chinese Exclusion Act, it was one of the first Federal laws that discriminated against immigrants by their ethnicity. It remained law for over sixty years before Congress repealed it in 1943 to help improve Chinese morale against Japan. While originally intending to stay law for only ten years, it was renewed many

society has tried to find ways to portray the queer community through film and most times have been scrutinized for its inaccuracies. The portrayals have varied from flamboyant, to outcast, to victims, to social deviants, however in the film "To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything". This film gives the notion of liberating queers by openly expressing who they are, dressing how they want, assisting heterosexuals in their relationships, when it comes to couples getting and staying together, giving good

1. Introduction A work of Doyle and Chen (2009) stated that stock returns are significantly and consistently lower or higher on some trading days than others. This effect, namely day of the week effect, could enable market participants to benefit from such trading strategies as scheduling the purchase or sale of stocks on the days with historically low or high returns respectively (French, 1980; Kling, 2005; Basher and Sadorsky, 2006). This effect is considered as one of the most remarkable seasonal

Since the first half of the 19th century, Asian Americans have been involved in the media industry when the original “Siamese Twins” Chang and Eng Bunker became naturalized citizens of America. Roles in television and other media were scarce for Asian Americans, only available roles were very stereotypical. Early Asian American actors such as Bruce Lee and Sessue Hayakawa could only land stereotypical supporting roles in prime time television. While minority actors have progress through the years

Translating Transgender: A layman's guide to the least-known minority Who hasn't been told to "just be yourself and people will like you?" It seems like such a simple notion. But what if being yourself could lead to harassment, rejection, isolation, unemployment, homelessness, physical violence, or even death? Not so simple anymore, is it? Sadly, this situation is one that confronts transgendered people worldwide on a daily basis. Laurie Johnson*, a tall, robust Fall River resident who underwent