Ruth davis konigsberg biography of michael jackson
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Michael Jackson was one of music’s most successful and influential artists. The singer, who CNN reports died earlier today in Los Angeles at the age of 50 (reps did not immediately comment), recorded a series of pop classics as part of the Jackson 5 and then became a massive solo star. His 1982 album Thriller has been certified platinum 28 times in the U.S. and is the best-selling original collection ever released.
Jackson was born in Gary, Ind., on Aug. 29, 1958, and by the age of 6 the prodigiously talented singer and dancer was performing alongside his brothers. The Jackson 5 signed to Motown in 1968 and released a string of huge hits including “ABC” and “I Want You Back.” Jackson entered the charts as a solo artist in 1972 with the song “Ben,” and in 1978 he appeared in the big screen musical The Wiz alongside Diana Ross. The following year, his album Off The Wall established Jackson as a solo superstar. Yet, even the success of that release would be dwarfed by Thriller, which included a raft of global smashes, including “Billie Jean,” “Beat It,” and “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’.”
Jackson followed up Thriller with 1987’s Bad, which itself eventually sold in the region of 30 million copies worldwide. But the star’s public profile was badly damaged in the
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Race and interpretation Politics imitation Loss: Revisiting the Donation of Emmett Till
- Ashley Atkins (Western Michigan University)
Abstract
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"You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.”
Watching Peter Jackson's The Hobbit trilogy, TIME magazine's Ruth Davis Konigsberg wanted to know "Why Are There No Women In Tolkien's World?" She's not alone in her inquiry; for decades people have been taking about the "anti-feminist" streak in his works. The arguments usually come down to there being a lack of women, to his habit of putting women on pedestals, and to the "fact" that there are no female role-models in his Middle-earth. All sorts of explanations are offered for this, ranging from his devout Catholicism to the death of his mother when he was twelve. None of them are satisfactory, however, for one important reason: the fault lies in an assumption made the audience, not in the author's work.
I had a great-grandmother who walked into Alfred Hitchcock's The Birds once thinking it was going to be a documentary about our feathered friends. Needless to say, she had a rude surprise coming to her. If you pick up The Lord of the Rings, and expect it to be a modern novel, or mistakenly assume Tolkien was a "novelist," you are in for the same kind of shock. Tolkien was exactly the opposite of a novelist. &nb