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I have to write a 4 page paper on Frida Kahlo’s personal growth.
any quotes or sources or previous essays or anything is much appreciated.

don’t worry i will fully and correctly site everything.

thank you.

I hope these sources are helpful to you…

http://www.pbs.org/weta/fridakahlo/

http://www.aaa.si.edu/exhibits/pastexhibits/kahlo/hispanic2001.htm

Mexican painter. She began to paint while recovering in bed from a bus accident in 1925 that left her seriously disabled. Although she made a partial recovery, she was never able to bear a child, and she underwent some 32 operations before her death in 1954. Her life’s work of c. 200 paintings, mostly self-portraits, deals directly with her battle to survive. They are a kind of exorcism by which she projected her anguish on to another Frida, in order to separate herself from pain and at the same time confirm her hold on reality. Her international reputation dates from the 1970s; her work has a particular following among Latin Americans living in the USA.

The above is a brief excerpt from a database called Grove Art Online (you may have access to this source via your local library Web site).

I would also recommend looking for access to JStor (a database for journal articles) at your local library Web site.

http://lists.webjunction.org/libweb/

In addition to the continual pain of her body’s failing, her marriage to Rivera was punctuated with many infidelities–including his affair with her younger sister Cristina–many breakups, one divorce, and countless reconciliations. Often reproduced, for example, is her self-portrait The Wounded Deer (1946). Like Saint Sebastian, the deer with Kahlo’s face and the horns of a cuckold keeps going in spite of the many arrows sticking in its sides. There is much blood. A theme which inspired a number of her paintings was her inability to bear children and the agony of miscarriage and loss. The instruments of a hospital stay, in these and in other works depicting medical treatment, become, like the instruments of the passion, symbolic of the tragedy of human suffering as well as the futility of its attempted cure.

As in the traditional art of Mexico and its customs, blood and death are acknowledged, met with, become companions in Kahlo’s art. Injury and death are shown without sentiment and with a constant irony. Her use of the Mexican ex voto style, in which little messages appear in painted garlands, is ironic in that it makes use of the Catholic faith which inspires the images but holds out none of the naive hope which gave them birth.

Her deliberately chosen, seemingly primitive style was a part of this Mexican identity, though it is anything but primitive at base. It provided a distancing from the pain in the paintings, which increased the psychological impact as well as emphasizing her devotion to the Mexicanidad, which to her was deeply significant.

"Frida Kahlo." Contemporary Women Artists. St. James Press, 1999.
Reproduced in Biography Resource Center (another subscription database to which your library may provide access)

Google Tech Talks
September 23, 2008

ABSTRACT

Under ordinary circumstances, healthy sleep is by far the most powerful determination of high-level performance and productivity. Three major characteristics must be present to define healthy sleep. They are (1) a sufficient amount and continuity to avoid sleep indebtedness, (2) absence or near absence of pathological sleep-related events and (3) reasonable synchronizing of desired time in bed with circadian predisposition. The nature of each of these three characteristics will be elaborated as well as their relation to performance.

Speaker: Dr. William Dement
William C. Dement, M.D., Ph.D., is the world’s leading authority on sleep, sleep disorders, and the dangers of sleep deprivation. He is Chief of the newly created Division of Sleep at Stanford University School of Medicine, which is also the home of the world’s first sleep disorders center founded by Dr. Dement.

Born and raised in the state of Washington, Dr. Dement remained in his home state for his undergraduate years at the University of Washington. He then pursued his graduate studies at the University of Chicago, receiving his M.D. in 1955 and Ph.D. in Neurophysiology in 1957. For more than half a century, Dr. Dement has conducted basic sleep research, investigated sleep disorders and treatments, and has launched a myriad of public education programs. From 1953 to 1957, he conducted the first studies leading to the characterization of rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, the basic REM/NREM sleep cycle, and all night sleep patterns.

In 1975, Dr. Dement founded the American Academy of Sleep Medicine serving as its President for twelve years. Dr. Dement was also a founder of the American Board of Sleep Medicine. From 1990-1993, he served as Chairman of the U.S. Congress’s National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research. In 2001, he received the largest National Institute of Health research grant in sleep medicine history to establish the effectiveness and benefits of continuous positive air pressure (CPAP) treatment for large populations of patients with obstructive sleep apnea.

As the author or co-author of over 500 scientific publications, Dr. Dement’s research, findings, and advice can be found amongst several texts including his own, The Sleepwatchers, and most recently, The Promise of Sleep. He is also co-editor of the definitive textbook, Principles and Practice of Sleep Medicine, now in it’s 4th edition.

Dr. Dement’s strong desire to educate students about sleep and the dangers of sleep deprivation led to the creation of his very popular course, “Sleep & Dreams,” at Stanford University, which he has been presenting regularly for over 35 years. He will continue his efforts to educate the public and increase sleep awareness as long as he lives.

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Personal growth depends on getting outside your comfort zone. You need to experience new things to grow and be all you can be. Brian Walsh is the author of, “Unleashing Your Brilliance.”

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I have to write an essay on personal growth and i was wonder ing what the best definition would be PLEASE HELP

In simplest terms I would say: it’s where you are as a person.

When you were very young you might like to play tic-tac-toe, and now you don’t. Why?
Because your perception has changed.

Now apply this to anything you do and this determines where you are in personal growth.

When you have a family you find you really like playing tic-tac-toe w/ you son or daughter. Why? You already know how to play? Because your sharing your time showing them something fun (to them) makes you happy as a parent. You’re connecting to them and not so much as who wins.

Later in life you see your children playing the game w/ their children and see their connection to each other and just having a good time w/ each other. You see where they are.

This is why I say; it’s where you are as a person. Some people stop changing and learning as people. Some people grow every day, no matter the age.

This is how I view it, good luck on the essay and I hope this helps.