own version. A few years later Mattel released Ken which is Barbie’s boyfriend‚ Midge her best friend‚ and her little sister Skipper. There was a lot of polemic because of the barbie doll. Some women liked Barbie because of the different jobs she had others said the doll encouraged kids to be materialistic. The price of the barbie doll was three dollars when it first came out now a Barbie can cost from ten dollars up to thirty five dollars. Nowadays an original barbie from the year 1959 is worth thousands
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Film Assessment: 1 “A good costume must be material enough to signify and transparent enough not to turn its signs into parasites.” (Barthes Roland‚ 1972 pg 5) That is exactly what is portrayed in Marilyn Monroe’s white halter dress in “The Seven Year Itch” (1955) directed by Billy Wilder. The movie revolves around Richard Sherman (Tom Ewell)‚ an employee at an advertising company who resolves to eat healthy food‚ and quit smoking and drinking while his wife and son are away. During this time
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and sent 9 year old Norma Jeane to live at the Los Angeles Orphans Home where she then moved back and forth to different homes and ended up landing back with Grace McKee and her husband in 1937. In 1942‚ at age 16‚ Grace McKee and her husband relocated to Virginia and Norma Jeane married her neighbour‚ James Dougherty.
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When Marilyn Monroe stood over a subway gate in The Seven Year Itch‚ her white pleated dress billowing above her waist‚ and squealed‚ "Isn’t it delicious?‚" she created a legendary image. Yet she was far more than a face and a voluptuous body‚ although those were her major assets to a flesh-conscious industry. As the public viewed Monroe as a porcelain vase‚ which is extravagant on the outside yet hollow in the inside‚ most label Monroe as a ‘sex symbol’ and ‘screen siren’. The star only did three
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Marilyn Monroe was recognized as the “Blonde Bombshell.”(4) She was well known throughout the world in the 1940’s and 1950’s. Marilyn’s childhood was rough but she rose above it by becoming an actress and model. Norma Jean Mortenson‚ more famously known as Marilyn Monroe was born on June 1st‚ 1926 at 9:00a.m in Los Angeles‚ California. (1‚ 4) She was born into foster care therefore she never knew her mother or her father. (2) Marilyn’s mom was Gladys Monroe Baker Mortenson. (6) When Marilyn was
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They immediately hit it off‚ and after a very short period of dating tied the knot in January of 1954. Marilyn moved with Joe to New York. Their relationship took a turn for the worse when Joe visited Marilyn on the set of Seven Year Itch. Joe was very upset about Marilyn’s famed halter dress scene over the subway grate. This together with the fact that Joe was a very private person and Marilyn sought attention contributed to many fights. The marriage sadly lasted only nine
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First Seven Years” and “Catch the Moon”. The First Seven Years is written by Bernard Malamud. Catch the Moon is written by Judith Ortiz Cofer. The First Seven Years is about a father who just wants his daughter to find love‚ and the daughter and helper are secretly in love. Catch the moon is about a troubled boy that learns to change and falls in love with a girl. Both stories have a pretty similar theme‚ they are both about finding love. The first story I’m going to describe is “The First Seven Years”
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still did what she wanted to and when she wanted to do it. She didn’t care what people thought about her‚ she was still going to be herself. Norma had a tragic childhood. At the age of seven her mother was hospitalized for schizophrenic‚ a medical disorder‚ she was then put into an orphanage. Between the age seven and sixteen‚ she had 12 different foster parents. Norma had two siblings Berniece and. She never really knew them
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Brittney Henley Pd. 2A Chapter 12: Age of Religious Wars Key Topics; -War between Calvinists and Catholics in France. -The Spanish occupation of the Netherlands. -Struggle for supremacy between England and Spain. -The devastation of Central Europe during the Thirty Years’ War. |Vocabulary |Notes | | |
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Marilyn. (Marilyn Monroe Biography) Gladys put Marilyn into foster care for several years‚ eventually taking her home with her. Gladys ended up having a mental breakdown‚ witnessed by the very young Marilyn‚ that put Gladys into a state hospital for some time. (Marilyn Monroe Biography) This made Marilyn a ward of the state and Gladys’s friend Grace Goddard‚ became her guardian‚ until she married in 1935 and nine year old Marilyn was once again put into foster care. Marilyn suffered
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