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The panel that I attended included presentations on Calamity Jane, the introduction of advisory labels on music, and Barbie as an icon. I found the presentation titled Barbie: Sex Toy to Controversial All-American Icon, which focused on Barbie in the 1960s and her influence on the American girl, the best. Of all three topics, the girl who presented this one clearly ...
[Link]Melissa's Blog » Paper Update
The research for my topic has continued to progress slowly. Both the question and hypothesis remain the same as of now, though I am sure they will continue to change slightly as I further my research. For the past few weeks I have focused on finding more primary documents from the French Court that highlighted Marie Antoinette. I have found a ...
[Link]Melissa's Blog » Continuing Research on the Misunderstood Marie Antoinette
Though my topic has not changed, my question and hypothesis have been altered slightly due to further research and consultation with Professor Harris. My question now asks whether Marie Antoinette actually behaved in such a frivolous, uncaring manner or if her image was distorted by historians who used the biased view started by the French court and continued by the revolutionaries ...
[Link]The Domicylon » History 325 Proposal: The Zipper
I intend to investigate the history of the zipper for my American History and Technology class project. My project will be divided into several parts, discussing the zipper’s antecedents, its invention, its possible alternatives, and its adoption and interaction with American culture.
Why the zipper? “The zipper,” according to Robert Friedel, author of Zipper: An Exploration in Novelty, “is the perfect ...
[Link]The Domicylon » The Zipper
I plan to do my American Technology and Culture project on the one, the only… zipper! Exciting, no?
Image:
Seattle Fabrics, Inc., “Zippers,” JPG file, http://www.seattlefabrics.com/zippers.ht… (accessed February 2, 2009).
Melissa's Blog » Marie Antoinette: The Portrait of a Lonely Woman
The research that I have thus far been able to do has consisted solely of looking around the internet as I have not yet managed to find the time to get to the library. I have searched the library database and found twenty or so secondary sources that I will be looking at in the near future. Currently, I have been ...
[Link]Melissa's Blog » Marie Antoinette: A Woman Misunderstood
For my paper topic, I would like to further investigate a certain aspect of Marie Antoinette’s life. I felt that Marie Antoinette, though a French queen, was still strongly connected to her Austrian ties. Therefore, I focused my topic to Marie Antoinette’s role in improving the influence Austria had in France. I narrowed this even further to look in particular at ...
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The Domicylon » Gentleman’s Agreement Part 3: Bibliography and Pledge
Bibliography:
Bronski, Michael. “Remembering Gregory Peck, and a Not So Gentlemanly Agreement.” Forward, June 20, 2003. http://www.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu:… (accessed November 8, 2008).
“By the Flank.” Time.com, January 15, 1945. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/articl… (accessed November 8, 2008).
Crowther, Bosley. “Anti-Semitism Assaulted Boldly on the Screen.” New York Times, November 16, 1947. http://www.proquest.com.ezproxy.umw.edu:… (accessed November 8, 2008).
Crowther, Bosley. “‘ Gentleman’s Agreement,’ Study of Anti-Semitism, ...
[Link]The Domicylon » Gentleman’s Agreement Part 2: Analysis
Gentleman’s Agreement was one of the first films to deal directly with anti-Semitism. It primarily examines a more covert, subtle kind of bigotry that sometimes exists in people without them even realizing it. The movie depicts and discusses the social discrimination against Jews on several levels, including exclusion from employment and housing, as well as the verbal abuse most ...
[Link]The Domicylon » Gentleman’s Agreement Part 1: Context
Anti-Semitism has existed in America since it’s very founding. The prejudice towards Jews based on religious differences, economic jealousy, social competition, and political conflict found in Europe came with Europeans to their colonies in North America [1]. In the mid-19th century there was an influx of immigrants, including Jews, coming to America. Around this time, German Jews created relatively successful ...
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The Domicylon » Jo Mielziner, Designer
“The theatre artist has been called a jack-of-all-trades. Perhaps a better name would be hijacker-of-all-trades, for no man’s lifetime is long enough to learn all about ‘drama’ if he also has to learn about design and the history of art, if he has to master the intricacies of color and light, if he is to understand form in sculpture and line ...
[Link]The Domicylon » Susan Hilferty, Costume Designer
The following biography was written for Susan Hilferty’s personal website.
Susan Hilferty has designed over 300 productions from Broadway to the Bay area- and internationally including Japan, London, Australia, Germany and South Africa. Recent designs include Wicked (2004 Tony, Outer Critics Circle, and Drama Desk awards and Olivier nomination), Spring Awakening (Tony nomination) August Wilson’s Radio Golf and Jitney, Lestat ...
[Link]Kathy Jones » Vestigial Structures
An interesting part of human evolution is the vestigial structures and organs that we still have. For hundreds of years people have been wondering what functions and uses certain organs have in the body. These structures are evidence and traces of human evolution and the theory of natural selection. That is, they prove that at one time there was a ...
[Link]The Domicylon » Glory
As a secondary source Glory certainly has some issues, especially with smaller details, and even some not so small details (shouldn’t the recruits of the 54th Regiment have been mostly free blacks?), but overall the movie depicts a fair representation of the Northern opinions towards blacks, as well as blacks’ opinions of themselves. I think the movie does a better job ...
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