Velvet Essays

Warhol’s Pieces is known as Andy Warhol’s Velvet Underground featuring Nico. This graphic design was created because he helped produce the album and it was in need of an album cover. The Velvet Underground & Nico is an album by American rock band the Velvet Underground and vocal singer Nico. It was originally released in March 1967 by Verve Records. It was recorded in 1966 during Andy Warhol's Exploding Plastic Inevitable multimedia event tour, The Velvet Underground & Nico had gained attention for

“The psychopaths are always around. In calm times we study them, but in times of upheaval, they rule over us” (Kretschmer 94). This quote by German psychiatrist Ernst Kretschmer identifies the mental illness of psychopathy as capable of both academic and social interest. The concept of psychopathy has been evolving since the 19th century, with authors like Robert Smith attributing the mental illness to religious failings and a lack of cognitive distinction between right and wrong (13). However

INTRODUCTION The Ajuran Sultanate or Ajuran Empire was known as a Somali Muslim empire that ruled over the large parts of the Northeast Africa consists of Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia and dominated the regional trade during the 5th to the 15th century during the era of Medieval Ages. Ajuran Sultanate was very well-known during 13th century until the late 17th century because of their strong centralized administration and has an aggressive military towards invaders. This empire also left

Vision and Motivation Velvet Revolution demonstrationBy the second half of the 1980s, the political atmosphere in the Soviet Union and its satellite states was more relaxed than it had been in previous decades, due to Mikhail Gorbachev's introduction of two new governmental policies: Glasnost, a government effort to make the country's governance transparent and open to debate, and Perestroika, the restructuring of the Soviet political and economic system. Many historians cite the introduction of

classified and ruthlessly prioritised. They do not suffer from FOMO or feel the need to over-engage. The Velvet Ropers reject the Gen Y proposition which seems to be ‘I Share, Therefore I Am’. Hyper-aware of over-share-ability, the Gen Z-ers are at virtually the other end of the ‘social Sharing spectrum’, and will even unfollow brands pages that add to the clutter of online noise. And the Velvet Ropers do this because of another key personality trait: they are always looking for curated, filtered

Ironies in history are commonplace, and it was certainly prevalent in The Velvet Revolution of 1989. The Velvet Revolution (sametová revoluce) or The Gentle Revolution (nežná revolúcia) as it was known amongst the Slovak counterparts within the movement, was a long-term civil resistance, which culminated into a series of mass protests during a 6-week period in 1989 in what was then The Czechoslovak Socialist Republic. This series of movements succeeded in uprooting the single-party system and seceding

The objective of this essay is to examine the female character Nancy Astley in the Television Series ‘Tipping the Velvet’ in relation to theories of modernity, feminism and the expanding city. Originally a book by Sarah Waters and then adapted into a television series for the BBC Tipping the Velvet is set in Victorian England during the 1890s. Nancy Astley is a young girl from Whitstable who works in the family oyster parlour. During an attendance at the local variety show, Nancy falls in love with

In the movie Fight Club, we are led to believe that the story itself contains various meanings and impacts for its viewers to grasp. In the beginning, one possible meaning that can be inferred is based on the effects of consumerism in society that dictate one’s worth, self-image, and identity. The narrator's desire for materialistic possessions founded on his belief that “the more one has, the more enriched their life would be” drastically impacted how he viewed himself. His view of having the most

The Velvet Underground & Nico is widely considered to be one of the most influential albums of all time. But how did an album that famously sold only 30,000 copies(Mckenna) become so widely heralded? How did that same album make it into the Library of Congress’ archives(LOC)? And how did it make it into Rolling Stone’s top 500 albums of all time(Rolling Stone)? The story begins with a band called the primitives, a band that was never really supposed to exist. The Primitives were the fictitious band

Blue Velvet may seem to be a film about love or good and evil yet it is more complex because of the relationship between characters. The presence of contrast between characters and colors is the key elements in the film, Blue Velvet. Blue Velvet is a mystery-suspense film directed by David Lynch. The film begins with a discovery of a severed human ear found in a field. The accidental case leads a young man, Jeffrey, on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer, Dorothy

Coming Out, Sexual Ambiguity, and Rejection: A Queer Reading of the Velvet Underground’s “Lady Godiva’s Operation” In her 2002 essay on the increasingly normalized depictions of seemingly queer characters and symbols in popular media, Diane Raymond lays out the general characteristics of “queerness” as an abstract idea. She posits that the queer is non-binary, inclusive, and part of what could generally be called the political fringe (Raymond 2002). In another essay, this one written by Alexander

Wolff. These two composers, along with a couple others, created works known to be very influential in the world of music and also other composers and music groups. One of the first groups to really begin using experimental music was the group, The Velvet Underground, a rock music group who came together in the early 1960s and stayed somewhat active until the 2000s began. This group is known for influencing the rest of the rock and

Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and my understanding of Media & Culture through David Lynch's lenses. Introduction David Lynch was born in 1946, in a small American town which is quite similar to settings he reflected in his movies. He directed more than 40 short and long movies which got various reflections from his audience. In this short essay, I will focus on his later works, specifically Blue Velvet, Lost Highway and Mulholland Drive. The reason behind this selection is not popularity

Large, furry, even scary, are all words that could be used to describe the Red Velvet Ant, but is this “ant” really what it appears to be? The Red Velvet Ant could be considered common around this area, so we could all benefit by learning more about it. Ensuring to the credibility of this paper is that many of us have seen the cow killer whether we realize it or not. The Red Velvet Ant is a seldom seen creature, but once we have begun to look at it you will see what makes this captivating creature

A. Introduction: Art and Literature for the longest have been the torchbearer for change in society. Both are synonymous to each other as they have long been mediums of expression. From the late 17th and early 18th Century saw the advent and use of the word ‘Autobiography’ with varied meanings such as self-justification, self critical analysis and evolving to the stage of self-documentation or memoir. Autobiographies are in their truest meaning ‘memoirs of a person’s life’. Aesthetics is the language

Facts Robert J. Stevens operated a business, “Dogs of Velvet and Steel,” that advertised and sold dog-related videos and merchandises that portrayed animal cruelty. During the inquisition, law enforcement officials bought three videos from Stevens. In the first two videotapes, there were footages of pit bulls engaged in dogfighting, and the third videotape showed trained pit bulls attacking wild boar as part of the dog being trained to catch and kill wild pigs. Law enforcements searched Steven’s

Scene. While the scenes had much in common, each had distinct conditions that contributed to the rise of punk music in their respective areas. In early 1970’s New York, the underground rock movement exemplified by the bands The New York Dolls and The Velvet Underground was beginning to take root, creating a fertile environment for the development of early punk. By 1974, the legendary rock club CBGB became an epicenter for some of

Green: The Velvet Revolution as a whole was based off of Communism and therefore, if Czechoslovakia had never become communist, they would’ve always had freedom. In order for them to have avoided this they should have avoided the termination of a large loan, handled the strikes with more power, and gotten support from Great Britain and the United States. Following World War II, the Czechoslovakians were not apart of the Soviet Union and they had a large loan with the United States. Soon after the

similar to how as a culture we tend to judge those who live different lives than us or those go against the "norms" of our culture. This theme is also reflected within Nikky Finney’s poetry Head Off & Split, more specifically Ms. Finney’s poem, Red Velvet, which talks about the life of civil rights activist Rosa Parks. When Ms. Parks defied the bus driver, she was standing up for her belief that she should have equal rights as an African American. Although The Civil Rights Act was passed in 1964

looking forward to a bright future. Amy’s search for red velvet resembles her leaving the past behind. When Sethe and Amy meet on their journey they had both just escaped slavery. Sethe ran away from Sweet Home to begin a new life with her three children and soon to be baby. Amy escaped slavery and was starting her journey to Boston. Boston is the future for Amy as this is where she claims the bright red velvet is from. She mentions that the velvet she has seen before has been brown, representing her