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Frida Kahlo was a Mexican painter and a feminist of German, Indian and Spanish descent.   In the nutshell, her art consists of vibrant colors, of Mexican, European surrealism and realism elements and imagery. She mostly painted self-portraits perfectly expressing her misery through the canvas.  She had been suffering from persistent pain all her life. As a child she had polio (therefore, as an adult she was wearing long skirts to cover the disproportion between her right and left leg) and then, at age 18, she was injured in the bus accident. Her pelvis was pierced by a metal bar. She undergone around 30 surgeries. Long rehabilitation and recovery process caused her interest in arts.  Frida’s image is associated with flowered hairstyles; long, colorful traditional Tehuana skirts and a unibrow.   She had a complicated relationship with Diego Rivera, with whom she was married to and pregnant but unfortunately, she miscarried twice. They were like chalk and cheese; ...

  The term “bystander” means literally someone who stands by, an onlooker, someone who is watching something happening in the public place and is unrelated to the case.  The bystander effect is a psychological phenomenon that states that individuals are less likely to intervene in dangerous situations when they are in a crowd. The witnesses tend to passively stare or just pass by the victim.   There are many theories explaining this apathetic behavior in the bigger groups. For me, the most possible one is that they don’t want to interfere because of stress, they want others to react or they assume that if the crowd passes by the person, it isn’t an emergency.    When you need help, the best idea is to choose one bystander and directly ask for help. It is less likely to receive a refusal because the witness would feel more obligated to help you.