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Revealing the Two Fridas: Frida Kahlo

Painted in 1939 at the time of her divorce with famous muralist Diego Rivera, The Two Fridas is said to be one of the products of the mixed emotions evoked by Mexican nonconformist artist Frida Kahlo during her 47 years of painful living. Frida Kahlo lived in a society which allowed her to aspire to be a listening wife and ideal mother. She used her weak points, her realizations in life, to gather more strength, stand up from every fall and produce one of the most valuable, feminist paintings I have ever seen. After the Mexican Revolution, Mexico stood up for its highly patriarchal system of society, wherein women were viewed inferior to man. They were forced to take the role of subservience, other than the acceptance of being role models to their sons. Respect was less of a concern to deal with since mothers were only able to earn it from their sons, indicating that there narrow possibility of achieving respect when it comes to single women. Other than that, Catholic domi...

Fall of the States?

News all over the world commonly point out the irresistible rise of threats to the international security of the mainland States and its allies. However, the question is that would they be united enough to counter such a terror attack or would they rattle and one-by-one disintegrate due to the name each state carries with her assuming her being part of the whole in the past? In my opinion, I guess not. Each state, now in battle with world terrorism while trying to succumb its role as an active member, will not break away from the region the fact that, just like in building the foundation of a skyscraper, taking out one column would make the whole thing unstable and prone to disaster unless carefully planned by a sophisticated engineer. A state's decision would more likely be inclined to guaranteeing itself and the whole of the States the security she has to maintain being an obligation that could never be disregarded even from the start of its membership, unless she disowns it an...