The Bowler Hat : Visual Culture

Hats are a wonderful thing that can show individuality and how different everyone is because this one person is just your average person who respects that classics and wears a normal ballcap.or someone a little more spontaneous who wears an unusual hat or even someone who likes joking around may wear a light bulb hat and by showing bits of yourself through hats you could make new friends and receive compliments on your hat and that could boost your self esteem and you will feel better about yourself and we could learn to see foreign hats and traditions as common and slowly grow to accept them and eventually call them friends and learn to love and make peace all through the power of hats and I think that is amazing

In J.D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye, Holden, the main character, buys a red hunting hat in New York City the morning he left his team’s fencing equipment on the subway. Holden “…swung the old peak way around to the back- very corny” (Salinger 18). Holden is embarrassed to wear his hat in public places, but not when he is in private. Holden bought the hat to be unique and to show his individuality. Walking back to the hotel, Holden put his red hunting hat on. He didn’t care “…how [he] looked. [He] even put the earlaps down” (Salinger 88). Holden’s hat becomes an important symbol because it shows how Holden wants to see himself. He can be as tough and as unique as he wants when he is wearing his hat. While Phoebe is riding the

Prior to 1500, there was very little contact between peoples who lived in different areas of the world. Some lands were distant and isolated from each other that they were not even aware of each other’s existence. During the Middle Ages, Europe had operated under the feudal system: peasants worked the land for nobles in exchange for protection. As the Middle Ages drew to a close, one of the most drastic changes that the world experienced was the growing interactions between people of different cultures and the spread of people and goods around the globe. Timothy Brook’s book Vermeer’s Hat, analyzes the objects found in the paintings of a seventeenth century painter from a small Dutch town to explore the extent to which things moved across geographical and cultural borders. Of the people who were making their way across the globe at this time, many did so freely as explorers, traders, and settlers. There was significant portion, however, who were forced to migrate and serve as laborers to ensure cash crops grown in the New World reached European markets. Marcus Rediker’s Slave Ship describes in graphic detail how the Trans-Atlantic slave trade operated. Whereas Brook examines the bigger picture of how capitalism spread goods across the globe and brought different peoples together materially, Rediker analyzes the details: how the inherent hierarchy of the system affected the individuals. Thus, Rediker’s argument that capitalism is a dividing force is much more compelling than

She states “This hat-a brown felt hat-became so central to his character that it is the first thing he put on in the morning as he stepped out of bed and the last thing he took off before he stepped back into bed.” It shows how even England’s style of clothes has influenced people so much that no matter what the climate it is, England’s people will still where the same clothes as everyone else. Someone as important to Kincaid as her father believes that wearing a brown felt hat to look similar to the Englishmen is essential to his lifestyle; in which this will soon influence the rest of his generation who are soon to come. The example of her father shows her bitterness to England for brainwashing her father and the rest of the colonial people to dressing like Englishmen and making Englishmen be their role

A “bob” hat advertisement similar to this one would be a familiar sight to many women during the 1920s. During this time period, the bob hat or cloche became a classic. The cloche was bell shaped at the top and had decorative additions such as feathers, geometric shapes, and flowers, which would showcase a woman’s demeanor. As said on vintagedancer.com, there were other accessories that women wore on their heads such as wrapped turbans, short crown straw hats, and an array of different headbands. These hair accessories became popular during the 1920s because of the way it worked with new hairstyles such as the bob. A cloche’s structure would frame the face of the women who wore them. In many cases women would not leave a store without ensuring

Cartoons have been use for many years and its modern usage refers to a typically non-realistic or semi-realistic drawing or painting intended for satire, caricature, or mock different things. John Backderf, known as Derf, is a famous and recognized cartoonist “who works out of an unheated, attic studio in his Cleveland home, grew up in a rural, small town in Ohio and went to high school with serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer” (“Bio”). He drew a cartoon in 1995 in which he presents an implicit theory about how and why things evolve to be “cool”. This paper will elaborate on explaining what Derf’s theory actually is, an interpretation of the meaning presented in the cartoon, and a fad or style that follows Derf’s theory.

When I analyzed my self-representation I noticed many different things, from the rhetorical message that it gave to people, to the physical aspects that would be interpreted by first time viewers. If someone looks at my visual representation they would interpret that I am a very serious or conceited guy because I am just giving a smirk look. In my visual representation there is ethos and pathos appeals that helps send a message to first time viewers.

Throughout history, stereotypes prove fundamental to recurring societal conflicts. As feminism and the Black Lives Matter movement, among others, arise to create generational connections, prejudice, in turn, demonstrates longevity through clichés that create conflict rather than peace. In the same manner, literature allows conflict to flourish through the use of archetypes. In Aldous Huxley’s dystopian novel, Brave New World, the archetype of initiation brings a character into a new realm, whereas the archetype of a fall pulls a character back down to reality. However, both situational archetypes work to fully expose the scope of conflict in the novel. Therefore, archetypal references exacerbate the conditions created by the government in the

We welcome you to join us in taking part in reading the Common Book, and participating in our schedule of events this semester in order to contemplate the influences of America's culture on many of her southern brothers and sisters, and the rich heritage that they lie weave into the American

Over a period of time, the hat became worn and faded out. They even had a nickname for it; it was called the stovepipe. It

The world has changed, but still remains the unforgotten resemblance of racism when racism occurred and was more supported than today, but still continues but does not happen as bad or as much than before.TKAM talks mainly about situations and my two themes that i will be talking about is courage and the sinful beliefs of killing a mockingbird connect as you read and follow along in the book.

One theme that has come up in multiple readings this semester is the theme of symbols or myths as a representation for something that is not exactly true. Roland Barthes best describes what a myth is in his book, Mythologies. The use of such myths and representations that was the most educational and influential was Guy Debord’s, The Society of the Spectacle where Debord describes how society is made up a false life that is deeply intertwined with the real world to an extant that you can not distinguish the two. In both of these cases, a common theme arrises from the analysis of representations. This mutual theme is that representations tend to hold dominion over people and lead to the idealization of appearances. This modern idea is

The heroes from the early age of comics are grand, god-like, and morally good, without much anxiety to keep them from achieving their tasks. However, this characterization evolved over the years, showing that such characters have many layers to them. The characterization of heroes, as given in Watchmen, has evolved to fit that of the problems of the age, and here, we see that there are more problems than just political or economic; the society itself is faulted, but perhaps due to the different experiences one has gone through, traumatic or trying. Watchmen provides an account of different heroes that use the mask, such as Laurie Juspeczyk, The Comedian, Rorschach, and Ozymandias, and delves into them to demonstrate the lack of agency, the addiction, the

In the modern world there is no more universal debate than Climate change. Recently, the

The United States is considered as one of the most developed nations in the world. The United States is often linked with words such as equality, freedom, opportunity, democracy, and so on. These words used to describe the United States are all great American virtues. One practice that can also be linked to the United States, that is usually not mentioned and is a terrible reality, is state sanctioned murder or capital punishment.