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David Alfaro Siqueiros painting is of a chinese woman stripped,tied up and shot in the head. This painting was the monumentalized martyr, her massive, sculptural body fills the closely cropped composition. Siqueiros was born in Chihuahua City in 1896. Between 1908 and 1911 he studied at the Franco-English College in Mexico City, an institution run by the Marist Fathers. Siqueiros had an early Catholic education.
By  fifteen Siqueiros was already involved in artistic studies and political activism. In 1911 he was the leader of a student strike at the San Carlos Academy. The strike lasted six months and ended in complete victory for the students. I chose this painting because it caught my eye. The way the woman is positioned shows that there was some kind of violence involved. It was interesting to me because there are a lot of crazy unknown things going on in this world and things that went on. I felt like this painting opened up my eyes cause i started to think outside the box. I started to think about all those innocent women who were killed and tortured. Siqueiro chose subjects that dealt with polemical issues of his time. His Artistic career was repeatedly interrupted by his fervent political activity and imprisonments. He caught in the revolutionary army during the Mexican revolution in 1910-20, then organized a mineworkers unions. After that in the late 1930s he joined the republicans to fight against forces in Spanish civil war then finally as an ardent Stalinist, he helped orchestrate an unsuccessful attempt to assassinate leon Trotsky in 1940.

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Blanche and stanley can both be categorized as drunks in this play. They both use alcohol as way to escape  their "problems". In the play balm he seems to be a stuck up older woman who's disappointed in how her younger sister is living. She puts on a front in the beginning of the play acting she's this pure innocent sober woman. But after a while stanly finds things out about her. And turns out that shes the total opposite of what she said she was. She drinks a lot when she's nervous or stressed out or about to get caught in a lie
     Stanly is another drunk who drinks all the time. He has a bad temper randomly throws tantrums. He smashes things around and gets physical with his wife Stella. She Excepts  him and doesn't see anything wrong with this but her sister Blanche is very bother by this and it gives her more reason to look down at Stella. Stanley is upset that blanch is even there and this is mostly why he has these tantrums and drinks a lot more. stanly and blanche seem to comfort themselves with alcohol and they use that to cover up in stead of talking about the situation. When blanche starts to talk about something important or is almost getting caught in a lie she gets nervous and asks for a drink to get out of her little chaotic problem. Stanly drinks all the time but when he's stress and upset , after a tantrum, he drinks.
   Both of these characters use drinking as a comforter and they realize how the problems escalate instead of resolving. Sanely had ends up putting his foot down and gets rid of Blanche. Even though it hurts his wife a lot they all know that it's the best thing they can do for everyone.