My Hero
Pavel Schroeder 6th hour My Hero My hero is Earvin "Magic" Johnson, a hard working man on and off court. He has a great basketball player, playing for 13 year with the Lakers. He was also a dedicated and generous businessman. But to top it all off, he had HIV, but in a good and positive way like Lance Armstrong had cancer. On the court, Johnson was a symbol of physical domination, unselfish with his ability to steal and pass. Johnson is considered one of the most successful players in the history of the game. In 905 NBA games, he scored 17,707 points, 6,559 rebounds and 10,141 assists, translating to career averages of 19.5 points, 7.2 rebounds and 11.2 assists per game. Also Johnson shares the single-game playoff record for assists. He was also the tallest point guard in the NBA and led 5 teams to companionships. He was a 12 time All-Star, and won a gold in the Olympic Games in 1992, in Barcelona. In 2002 he introduced Larry Bird. Larry later was put in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. The Lakers reached the Finals for the third year in a row, where Johnson's Lakers and Bird's Celtics met for the first time in the post-season. For his feats, Johnson was voted as one of the 50 Greatest Players of All Time by the NBA in 1996. This all changed when he was hit with bad news. In, 1992 Johnson told the world that he was retiring on doctor's orders. After
Marilyn Monroe
Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe was a glamorous woman who created a mad obsession within the world from her short-lived life. Marilyn Monroe is the only one whose vivid image remains instantly recognisable to millions of men and women young and old throughout the world. Each new generation of movie goers and film commentators seems to discover her afresh, virtually re-inventing her image to suit the fashion of the time and there have been many imitators of Monroe 'style' both during her lifetime and since. Marilyn Monroe influenced fashion over the late 50's, the figure hugging material that was to create the small waist and emphasise larger hips to show the woman's curvy figure, the figure that Marilyn Monroe is extremely famous for. Marilyn Monroe was always centre of media attention this had a very strong connection with the style at the time as she needed to always look the very best to keep her reputation and image going. Looking at different artist's I came across William De kooning and his unique way of portraying Marilyn Monroe, He fragmented human figures, continuously piecing them together and disassembling them again, he was influenced by cubism but not accepting cubism's clear, fixed, and stable composition. Just as he dismembered the human figure he destabilised cubist design, decomposing it into carelessly shifting and interpenetrating compacted but open
Emily Dickinson.
Originally I began researching Emily Dickinson not knowing what sort of angle I planned to use in doing a research paper. Then I had an idea to create a piece of art and found that I wasn't the first to have this idea. This idea of linking someone else's interpretation of what they wrote about and then expanding on it with the artist's own seems to directly relate to the reasons for doing a research paper in my opinion. Research papers are useful because they cause you to learn on your own and find information that you may apply in a useful way. I believe that Emily Dickinson wrote in order to help herself deal with the world that she lived in which was made difficult by a nervous condition, which kept her from a normal life. With reference to Emily Dickinson the artist, one cannot speak of misfortunes at all. "A sequence of internal conflicts to which they gave rise, and the final psychotic breakdown all conspired in a unique way to make way to make of Emily Dickinson a great and prophetic poet. Emily Dickinson psychic imbalance and eventual collapse allied themselves on the side of her genius. Not at all one dimension only, but in several, Emily Dickinson's psychopathology was friendly to her creativity" (Magill 485). This lack of an ability to share her words led to a reclusive nature and perhaps a loneliness that comes through in her writing. She demonstrates the
Salvador Dal.
The Early Years (1904 - 1929) When Salvador Dalí was born in 1904 in Figueras, Spain, he was actually the third Salvador Dalí. His father was named Salvador, and he had an older brother, who had died 9 months before Dalí's own birth. Because of the incredibly coincidental dates between the death of the first child and the birth of the second, Salvador Dalí's parents chose to look at the second son as a reincarnation of the first, and as such, treated him accordingly. OUR Salvador Dalí was actually told that he was the reincarnation of his dead brother, and Dalí himself admits that the ghostly memory of this lost sibling was to haunt him for the rest of his life. He was taken to the grave of the older brother, and given free reign over the Dalí household. One of the young boy Dalí's favorite pastimes was parading about in a blue sailor suit or preferably, an emperor's costume. The royal treatment accorded to him by his parents was the result of their fears surrounding the death of their first son. The golden treatment and always present shadow of his elder brother caused in him a distinct shift in personality. It is this treatment as a young child that relates directly to Dalí's formation of a very unique and conspicuous personality. He says in several of his writings that the dualistic stresses imposed upon him, that of living both as himself, and his dead