What do books like The Great Gatsby, The Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies, The Color Purple, Lolita, and Slaughterhouse Five have in common? Many may say they are all influential and powerful pieces of literature that have been studied and analyzed across the world. This may be
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The beautiful etches and carvings of scarification are now seen as something that is primal, unnatural, and not socially acceptable. I don’t believe that scarification should be illegal anywhere. It is so much more than what most people view it as. This art form came from within the Western African
Do we have a responsibility to correct the past or is it irresponsible to think we should? This is the question that I’ve pondered since seeing “Roman Holiday” for the first time earlier this year. During the pandemic, my family developed a new favorite pastime of exploring all the old
Everything about the way movies are made has completely changed since the old Studio Model at the beginning of Hollywood. The heritage and legacy they left is still booming to this day. Los Angeles is still the premier spot for movies, actors, actresses, and all types of movie driven industry.
Anime in the Japanese culture is seen as any form of animation, but to the rest of the world, the word anime is related and connected back to Japan. The history of anime goes back to the early 1900s, with Japan’s most likely first animated film made by Shimokawa Oten,
We now live in an age where information is key to the structures in our lives. For many of the older generational cohorts, this shift in information gathering and delivery may seem like a whirlwind of technological and communication growth. For those in the newer generational cohorts starting from Generation
For decades, the country of Myanmar (Burma) has been engaged in periods of civil war and political unrest. The socialist coup that took over in 1962 plunged the country into a period of government oversight and political censorship that is still in play today. While this time of rule in
Eminem could easily be considered one of the most controversial musical artists since the beginning of music. His songs are full of profanities, sociopathic rants, murder, rape, and a lot of hate laden fantasies. When his first music was released, nothing like it had ever been made before and on
While art can be utilized in an infinite amount of ways, it is of highest importance when it causes disruption in societal norms. As you can imagine, the 60-by-40-inch art piece by Andres Serrano called Immersion (Piss Christ) infuriated the right-wing legislators during the time of the “culture wars.” The
Birth and postpartum photography is NOT beautiful. It’s graphic, messy, terrifying, even nauseating. But it is so profoundly necessary. Photography projects and exhibitions such as the Empowered Birth Project and the Life After Birth Project are compiled by mothers and display childbirth in a realistic and vulnerable form. Their goal