Essays on Dons

Exploring Boundaries: Fashion, Adornment and the Body

Introduction For many centuries, humans have communicated to each other in the language of dress. Even before an individual talk to another individual on the street, at a party or in a meeting, the person has already declared their age, gender, and class through their attire. Additionally, the person would have possibly announced important information or misinformation, such as origin, occupation, tastes, opinions, current moods, and sexual desires. Individuals may lack the ability to express what they have observed into words, but they have registered information unconsciously about each other. Consequently, by the end of the conversation or meeting, they ...

This is a question that films like Raging Bull and The Godfather Part 1 attempt to answer. These films feature "bad" boys who resort to socially unapproved and criminal behavior and still seem to get away with it. In a world where societies make the rules, perhaps their appeal lies in their ability to bend and break those rules. Nevertheless, there are reasons why they seem so untouchable—reasons that have to do with their immediate context, their thinking and their values. This paper will attempt to analyze those reasons. The film Raging Bull (1980) is arguably a film about lust, ...

My Father Robert Armstrong was a Highwayman because he got raised, lived, slept, worked, and died on the highway. He was twin to Burt Reynold. Robert was a tall, dark, and handsome man with a dark Cherokee skin tone (Arderhold, 2002). A tough and strong man, one would never want to mess with him. Aside from his work as a tow truck operator, he was also a fisherman, hunter, bowler and played tennis. My father began working as a tow truck operator barely as a teenager at Armstrong towing, which got owned by his parents (Hutchinson, 2005). Robert was a self educated man who never took a class for ...