Women Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Compare and contrast courtesans in Renaissance Italy, Japan, and India

A courtesan originally means a courtier, a person who takes care of the powerful people in society. There are two traditions of courtesan, which include honest courtesan and the lower class of courtesan. The honest courtesan was portrayed as an intellectual and was often treated and romanticized almost like the women of the nobility. The art of courtisanerie is mainly associated with honest courtesan. They were well educated even than the upper classiest women, which made them hold careers such as artists and performers. They were chosen depending on the social and communication skills as well as their physical appearance. Therefore, ...

Marwan’s main argument is that the Star Academy presented as a controversial show among the Saudi Arabian community because it challenged the Saudi’s culture and religious foundation of the community’s social order by encouraging women’s agency and promoting the ideas of cultural hybridity while individuating authenticity. According to the article, the show assumed an open and liberal perspective that emphasized concepts such as democracy and equality. In some extent, these ideas clashed directly with the customs and norms promoted in the Saudi tradition. Accordingly, the author argues that the custodians of the Saudi culture viewed the ...

In your view, why did Lu Hsiu-lien and many others in her generation become advocates of "Taiwan independence"?

Taiwan independence is a politically-motivated movement who primary aim is to form an independent and sovereign Republic of Taiwan from the lands that are currently governed by the Republic of China (ROC) (modern-day Taiwan) and claimed to be owned by the People’s Republic of China (PRC, China). It aims at renaming the Republic of China to the Republic of Taiwan and obtaining the status and recognition of a sovereign state internationally.

This movement is divided between two major coalition organizations: Pan-Green Coalition and Pan-Blue Coalition. While Pan-Green is in favor of the objectives of the movement, Pan-Blue seeks to oppose ...

If I were to pick one out of the two Canadian love poems written by Michael Ondaatje, I would probably choose the poem ‘To A Sad Daughter’. The reason behind my decision is I think the mentioned poem shows a deeper form of love than the other choice. That is not to say that ‘The Cinnamon Peeler’ is lesser in value however. It is just that while ‘The Cinnamon Peeler’ speaks of a man’s love and devotion to his wife, ‘To A Sad Daughter’ is about unconditional love of a father to his daughter. In many culture, ...

Isaac sacrifice vs. Iphigenia

Most of us are familiar with the story of Abraham and Isaac from the bible. In contrast, many may not be acquainted with the Greek myth of Agamemnon. This is the brief recap of the two stories: in the old testament of the bible, God commands Abraham to sacrifice his only son that he got at an older age after God had promised him. It is a paradox story in that the same God who blessed Abraham and Sarah with the child is the same God that wants Abraham to sacrifice Isaac his child. Abraham obeys God but in the ...

Religion is part and parcel of society as it helps in defining what society really is and how it functions. There are many religions in the world today many of which have a huge following. When putting the social context of religion into perspective, it is clear that it cannot be separated from society and therefore it has to be incorporated therein almost every facet of life. On one hand, religion intersects to what society is and on the other, on the issues that affect the said society. Ronald Johnstone, in his book Religion in Society: A Sociology of Religion ...

In her article, “‘My veil does not go with my jeans’: veiling, fundamentalism, education and women’s agency in Northern Cameroon”, Jose van Santen (2010) outlines the impacts of Islamization of West Africa on gender by sharing her mentoring experiences with Maimouna, a girl who grew up being subjected to the Islamic fundamentalists in Cameroon. The story takes us on a journey through Maimouna’s childhood, where we meet her Islamic parents who, by all respects, are very lenient and let her follow her own path. Maimouna is drawn by the potential knowledge she can gain by going ...

Kindred is a novel written by Octavia Butler with an aim of narrating the agony of today’s black woman. It depicts a true picture of a society that subjects its people to bondage with limited resistance from victims. A major character, Dana, is forced to relocate from California to colonial South in order to provide protection to a man that would later become her ancestor. Her survival remains assured as long as she is able to keep this man alive. In this novel, she is instructed to travel to a Maryland plantation, the home of her ancestor Rufus Weylin. Every time his ancestor ...

- Discrimination
- Is discrimination still a major issue in the work place in this day and age?

According to the internet resource WiseGeek (2013), the word “Discrimination” is defined as treating a person in a less favourable manner based on specific characteristics of a person. Under the laws of the United States of America, the term “discrimination” is defined as “the act of denying rights, benefits, justice, equitable treatment, or access to facilities available to all others, to an individual or group of people because of their race, age, gender, handicap or other defining characteristic” (lawdictionary.com, 2013). While ...

ABSTRACT

The abstract does not provide a brief description of the problem under study but rather gives the objective of the study which is to summarize longitudinal research regarding physical health and health behaviors on women’s subsequent alcohol use. The research does not conduct experiments with participants but rather uses databases from Medline/PsycINFO to yield its results. The database yielded 29 relevant articles that were used in this study. In the abstract, the researcher should have included more details about the methods that were used to select the 29 out of over 5000 articles that were reviewed.

The findings of ...

Discussion 1 - Analyzing Point of View

A point of view is considered as the narration of a given story from a given perspective of the first, second, and third person. The importance of point of view is determining from what perspective a reader will hear a given story. Through the point of view, the narrator gets to revel given information to the readers. A writer can control how the reader understands the story by describing well his or her point of view (Clugston, 2010, p.74). Unlike a short film, which has picture, a short story calls for imagination through different perspectives or viewpoints that are provided by the writer. It is ...

My initial hypothesis

Young adolescent people approach mathematical problems differently considering their gender. The methods that that the females use to approach mathematical problems are different from the approaches taken by their male counterparts. Traditionally, male students have been said to have a natural ability in mathematics and females have been attributed to less confidence and less learning styles. The thoughts of male students being much better than their female counterparts in mathematics seem real and ones that I can support because males tend to major in mathematical fields than females. Males have proven over time to be more successful in mathematics than ...

Literature

Introduction
Since the beginning of the world, the female gender has faced suppression from the male section of the society. This has reflected in the literature, as well. Many authors, writers and poets, have used hard language to point out the wrong done against the women. The tailored language due to the dictatorial system by the mail dominance has been used in the literature works to give a message for the
Literature, on the other hand, has been the part of the world since its inception. Right from the beginning of the world, literary works have been proving ...

Most girls worry about their appearance even the most beautiful. There is always that thing that a girl will hate on their bodies and that is why they will always revisit the mirror. It is one thing to worry about those things hat girls add on to their bodies. Things such as polish on their finger nails as well as mascara on their eye lashes and even lipstick on their lips. It is another thing all together, to worry about their size, shape, complexion, hair and other body features. This is the story we get in the short story The ...

The webinar highlights some of the health issues that affect women. It is about the challenges that women undergo in their search for affordable medical healthcare, the preventive sides as well as the maternity care and mental health. This tend to deal with the various issues affecting women such as the access to medical services, how to take the preventive measures to ensure healthy living especially among women. Maternity care is another area of concern among women that addressed by the Act.
This presentation has got a number of shortcomings such as the way the presenters conduct themselves. It ...

Introduction

Robert Herrick (1591-1674) and Ben Jonson (1572-1637) are famous English poets, playwrights and authors. Herrick and Jonson grew up and wrote poems and plays in the same era and were both comparable to the great William Shakespeare. After his apprenticeship with his uncle ended abruptly, Herrick, aged 26 then, became a disciple of Ben Jonson who mentored him in literature. The two wrote five poems together. Herrick’s poetry was about religion, love and he was famed for writing on pastoral themes on the life in the English countryside. Ben Johnson on the other hand was best famed for satirical ...

Women's Health under the Affordable care Act

Health Policy
Affordable Care Insurance to women is one of the recent reforms in insurance and health sector in America. The issue of affordable health care insurance to women is a complex and challenging task for the American government and its policy makers. As a result of risks involved in women's health and life uncertainties, it is prudent for women to be covered under affordable care insurance. This is because women health reforms will provide health care coverage for children and women of childbearing age as well as changes in health care delivery. This requires introduction and expansion of health ...

PART 1: PICTORIAL PRESENTATION OF A GOOD DESIGN

Effective designs should reflect competence and devotion to delivering the best in the market. Below is a list of various designs, which are brilliant. One distinct design attribute depicted is the black and golden yellow color combinations. These designs can also be produced in different other colors as appropriate to meet the needs of the market. They can also be tailored as per special specifications.

The pictures above represent a bad design for fashion. Notably, the designs are not consistent in the manner they have been made. They do not depict competent skill and therefore they are not a good example of a ...

Idea # 1: Narrative addressing barriers to colorectal screening

This narrative has been used to intervene in the process of promoting the colorectal screening of cancer disease. Recruitment of participants, whose age ranges between 49 to 60 years has been done to investigate the claims made by renowned researchers, that there is an overestimate of barriers towards cancer screening but the results are not universally satisfactory . I propose that there be a categorical and random allocation of one-half of the recruits to encode the message, the results will be conclude that barriers to screening be predicted to have a minimal barrier in the near future.

Idea # 2: Examining HPV Threat-to-Efficacy Ratios in the Extended Parallel Process Model

The research model postulates that ...

Introduction

Grave of Fireflies, or ‘Hotaru no haka’ in Japanese, is a powerful and compelling animated film which was released in 1988 (Ebert). This 88 minutes long film was directed by Isao Takahata with the animation being done by Studio Ghibli, which has created a name for itself for producing quality and acclaimed animations. The movie’s story line is modeled on a novel bearing the same title, written in 1967 by Akiyuki Nosaka. Apparently, the author had undergone an experience comparable to that of Seita, the protagonist in both the film and the autobiography.
Grave of Fireflies has a growing audience of ...

In the book Emile, Rousseau borrowed a lot of thinkers that came before him. He had the arguments of John Locke on teaching and education. Still, he quite remarkably combined the arguments of the preceding philosophers to form a coherent and comprehensive teaching system. Using the medium of the novel, Rousseau was able to dramatize such that they reached a wide audience. Rousseau saw the system of education as married to nature that had characteristics of harmony, and concern for the learner as well as the learning process itself. The premise of this argument was the preservation of the original perfection of ...

In the world of journalism, one may think that words are all that matter. However, images are just as or even more important, as demonstrated by the saying “A picture is worth a thousand words.” This saying remains a cliché because images can convey a sentiment that all people can understand regardless of translation or intellect. Particularly powerful are images of people such as the one photographed by Iranian Newsha Tavakolian. The image depicts the subject’s desire for female equality and liberation in the Muslim world through a tense body language, worried expression, and overall bleakness, including the writing.
Upon first ...

Freezing eggs at a young age is a growing trend in the Western world. The procedure is costly, but women feel it gives them control over their fertility. According to Sarah Richards, women should feel empowered because of this ease (Knight, 2013). Women who are unsure about having families early in life should opt for this method of egg freezing. It is understandable that the costs of this procedure may not be affordable by many; therefore, a woman’s parents should bear some portion of this cost. They must view this as an investment to secure their daughters future. According to sources, ...

Introduction

This is a probability analysis paper that is based on the results of a telephone survey that was conducted to determine the strengths and weaknesses of Springdale, Downtown and West malls located in Springdale. There were 150 respondents and 30 variables in the survey. The paper concentrates on 8 variables.Q1
- There were 107 respondents who stated that they spend at least $ 15 dollars during a trip to Springdale Mall. Therefore, the probability that a randomly selected respondent spends at least $ 15 to shop at Springdale Mall is 107/150 which translates to 0.71. Probability is computed by dividing the number of favorable ...

The writer of the article (Aviva Dove-Viebahn) tries to give a review of a television series known as Mad Men. The series setting is in the last century, the 1960’s. I actually think that the title of the article should be “Feminism in a Man’s World”. This is because there was zero level of gender sensitivity at the time. Women were not held with esteem at all. We can argue that we have come a long way since then, because Americans are now more gender sensitive.
Aviva’s remarks, in “Feminism in a Mad World”, makes clear the stereotyped activities women ...

Abortion is defined as the act of clinically or surgically terminating pregnancy. A clinical abortion involves the use of medication to get rid of a pregnancy while a surgical abortion is carried out in the operating room whereby surgical equipments are used. There are many concerns on whether abortion should be permitted. Some people equate abortion to murder while others are neutral. This has resulted in two schools of thought; pro-choice and pro-life. Pro-choice are those who believe the woman should make a choice. On the contrary, pro-life are who believe abortion to murder. Therefore, it should not be legalized. Consequently, abortion ...

Sonia Sotomayor

Sonia Sotomayor became the first Hispanic Supreme Court Justice in August 2009, and the third female justice in the history of the Supreme Court (Greene, 14). This is a remarkable feat by any standards, and as she recounts in her book, My Beloved World, the journey to the Supreme Court was not easy. The book recounts her childhood, growing up in the projects in Bronx, through school, and through her career up until her appointment to the Supreme Court. Though one would expect a book by a person of her stature to contain jurisprudential and philosophical views, the book does not contain ...

Artist tried to express not only what they feel, but also what they see every day. For this visual analysis, I have chosen the fifth image. This image is, in my opinion, the calmest among the others. Besides, it has a rather interesting composition. The painting is a rectangle. There are two central figures in the image and a background. The palette is pastel. In the essay, I will conduct more thorough analysis of the piece of art. Moreover, I will try to understand when the painting was created and the reasons for its creation. It is one of the most significant ...

On love, Emma makes it her point of ensuring that everyone else has a suitable suitor for them, other than herself. She is even frustrated in the instance of Harriet and Mr. Elton that she remarks; there are people, who the more you do for them the less they’ll do for themselves (Jane Austen, pg114). Her point of having a man involved in a girl’s life is for the financial benefit of it and nothing else. She reckons that when a girl has money, she does not need a man, rather a little excitement in her life. Her idea of lover is not ...

The three periods of feminism development

In general, the history of feminism can be described as the narrative of the ideologies and movements which are aimed at establishing, defining and defending equal economic social and political rights for women. Feminists all over the world have always differed in goals, intentions and causes depending on culture, country and time. Irrespective of these differences, most western historians of feminist’s interests have always considered all movements and acts that push for women’s rights as feminists movements. History of the modern western feminist is divided into three periods of times. These periods vary slightly in their aims ...

Literary Criticism

15th of December
Beautiful Minds
Literal analysis is crucial elements that help in critical analysis of the works of literature. In the context of the play ‘Goodnight Desdemona, good morning Juliet' is an indication of a play that can be applied with the help of the theories. A vindication of the right of women according to Mary is evident in the play. Critically, we seek to understand the cries of women in the play and their seeking to find out the root causes of their problems and the best way to curb them. Her thought indicates that women ...

Anthropology is the study of the present and past of humans. It builds and draws knowledge from biological and social sciences along with physical sciences and humanities. The biggest concern of the anthropologists is applying the knowledge of anthropology to solve human problems. We shall look at how anthropology affects the society as a whole and the influences it has on people. It views the social patterns of human beings. It does so by comparing the past social patterns with the present ones. In so doing one, anthropology can bring solutions to the problems that affect human beings. It also ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

In a vastly growing world, where diversity is quickly becoming a commodity rather than a segregator, it is important for businesses to maintain the practice of inclusion. Many companies that once saw diversity or hiring minorities, as a death sentence are now realizing that a diverse work group is essential to success in arenas such as globalization, public relationships, and communication. Other essential aspects to a diverse company are also beginning to include the acceptance of family life for both men, and women. Having children and raising a family was once solely on the women, and if she wanted to raise a family, she would be forced ...

Abortion Under this neutral, it would seem, short word, there is hiding the real human tragedy, crime, and simply put, murder. Yes, it is a murder indeed, an attempt on the life of a small, completely innocent person. Whatever attempts to justify this act: financial situation, the circumstances, etc., they still do not remove responsibility for infanticide. After all, every person, since he/she is conceived, has the right to be born, to develop and to live.
Doctors often suspend from a crime under the guise of cold terms, calling the baby just an embryo. In fact, in this way they are ...

The story gives some clues to understand why Diaz thinks about Yunior's motion sickness. Firstly, the father warns the mother not to feed him before the car travels. Thus, when Yunior is full driving, it is relatively higher possibility that he will vomit. Thus, his stomach is sensitive to the motion, and if his stomach is empty, he can stay without vomiting in the traveling car.
Also, in the car, Yunior tries to stay still. There might be two reasons behind this: 1) he does not want to attract his father's attention on him and 2) he wants ...

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1. In assessing and interrogating the success and /or failures of social protest many social scientists and historians introduce the “ human dimensions” of leadership as an explanatory variable (factor) , with regard to its impeding or catalyzing effects on policy and actions. In so doing they examine critically, the strengths and flaws of personal actions by these leaders in their quest for social change. With this context as a framework, please evaluate the leadership of Cesar Chavez, Martin Luther King Jnr, and FDR, with regards to how the “human dimensions” of their leadership impacted their efforts, positively or negatively, ...

The movie ‘Crash’ is an Oscar winning movie directed by Paul Haggis and released in year 2004. The movie received an overwhelming response and praise from the different types of viewers. Crash clearly depictsthe true image of life of people living in metropolitan city. The movie is a drama based on race and gender and their impact on lives of people living in Los Angeles. The movie presents some hard realities of our society that are rare to see in any movie. Race not only increase awareness of people on social issues such as race and gender but also encourage ...

In the current years, there are controversies that surround the American media regarding the hip-hop music that the artist produces. Starting from the East coast there are rivalries that shadows the murders of most rap artist such as Tupac, and B.I.G. most of the politicians have to blame the rappers for making most youths to be violent. Nevertheless, most people criticize that the rappers are not the cause of violence influence to the youths, but rather the hip-hop stars like Herc. Hip-hop music has raised more concern after people came keenly to listen to it. It is considered to ...

Literal analysis is crucial elements that help in critical analysis of the works of literature. In the context of the play ‘Goodnight Desdemona, good morning Juliet' is an n indication of a play that can be applied with the help of the theories. A vindication of the right of women according to Mary is evident in the play. Critically, we seek to understand the cries of women in the play and their representing to find out the root causes of their problems and the best way to curb them. Her thought indicates that women should have access to education to ...

Margaret Cezair-Thompson novel, "The True History of Paradise,” is a story about Jean Landing, a Jamaican woman who is determined to escape from her motherland of Jamaica. It is in 1981, and the country is sliding into anarchy after continuous political unrest. The author intelligently injects the storyline with the whole family background of Jean and Jamaica’s whole history. This Jamaican history stretches from the pre-Columbian days up-to-the time Jean gets on her flight. The unfolding political turmoil in her country of birth causes her to make a decision to flee immediately. Even before making her final preparations, she receives piercing ...

Writing about the discrimination of women, Gearhart (1979) mentions that the act of violence in the one that rules a person and is the very fact of existence for a human. She singles out our understanding of human entities and non-human ones claiming that “we have been human chauvinists too long, calling consciousness out own, cornering the market upon it, setting ourselves above everything human because of our “higher awareness”. She believes that distinguishing between human and non-human objects changes them, and, as a result, becomes an act of violence: “The act of violence is in the intention to change another”(Gearhart, ...

Both the documents: “The Laws of Manu” and “Ban Zhao’s Admonitions for Women” talked about the role, duties and status of women in different times and places. The Laws of Manu were edited in 1913. This paper thus draws comparison between the two texts and talks about how the different times; places and religions had a huge role to play in determining how women are treated. While the Hindu version, derived from scared Hindu books, clearly shows how subservient the status of women is in Ancient India and how the only purpose of her life is to ensure that ...

Jan Massys was a famous and very talented artiste in the 16th century who was known for his paintings on landscapes, historical themes and genre scenes. Born in 1509 to a prominent painter in Antwerp, Jan Massys grew into a famous artiste who fancied paintings depicting nudes with historical themes. Being a student of his father, Massys learnt and painted like his father until he was exiled due to their family’s religious beliefs which were not welcomed in Antwerp.
Paintings and painters and other artistes were highly celebrated in the renaissance periods where art was used for various reasons. It was ...

Introduction

Discussion
Atwood’s Main message
As a visionary writer, Atwood has authored many books. What is common in Atwood’s books is that she attempts to put across one message over and over again. This is the message on the woman’s voice in the society. Atwood effectively passes this message in a unique manner by reconstructing her version out of ancient myth stories. Old pieces of literature were synonymous with stories of feminist exploitation. The society of the time was characterized with giving a woman no chance whatsoever. They had no say in most society matters even by a little ...

How important are company policies related to discrimination and harassment in the workplace? How could you use such policies in your communications plan?
The company discrimination and harassment policies are essential in ensuring equal employment opportunities prevail at the workplace for all (Shaw, 2000). The discrimination and harassment policies are integral in ensuring an ethical work environment is established. An environment where the rights and dignities of all personnel are taken into consideration (Zaremba, 2010). The policies can come handy in various ways in creating an effective communication plan. They can offer distinct definition or rather a clearly worded ...

Female income gap shrinkage

The income gap existing between men and women is likely to shrink in the event that the low-income families will send the daughters to colleges while men are denied the chance to study. Most of the well-paying jobs will now be infiltrated with women at the expense of men. The continued increase of women in the well-paying jobs will ensure the income gap reduces since the number of women who will be better placed to acquire lucrative positions than men will be high. As explained by economists, the high investment in human capital in favor of the women will ...

Fertility awareness methods of birth control are practices that help a woman know her body more intimately. Especially in terms of the days of the month there is a high chance of becoming pregnant (Martin, 2010). Several methods that get used include; calendar charting, that is where a woman makes a calculation of the mean number of days in her menstrual cycle to come up with an estimate of her fertile days. They do this by keeping detailed records of their cycles and using a formula to determine their fertile days. In vaginal fluid monitoring, a woman observes and records cervical secretions on a daily basis, ...

Following the American Psychological Association’s Guidelines

Osonye Tess Onwueme’s “Tell It to Women” acts as a time capsule, taking the reader back in time to postcolonial Africa and a time or erratic feminist behavior. The book’s primary purpose appears to show the separation between traditionalism and modernism, as different cultures interacted and blended. However, this is not entirely clear until the end, when a concise meaning for culture is given. Tess Onwueme believed culture was derived from the passion that ignited the very culture’s desire to stay together, it appears. The familiarity of their arts, traditions, customs, and manners were all a part of the culture. ...

Introduction The debate on the moral argument is unending, as Stich (2012), states that the disagreement arising from the debate on the topic is unending. This disagreement leads to some scholars stating that Moral claim is unreal and a basis of “wrong belief”. These however are not across every part of the debate considering the dynamism of morality. This writing explains the Meaning of moral claims; the objections of moral claims; the responses to the objections and the arising implications. Through these meanings, it is clear how the disagreement continues to factor in as more questions get asked.Meaning Moral claims ...

Introduction

Sports and gender is not quite phenomenal since it has lived on since time immemorial. Even so, gender inequality is something that has been sung for quite some time and some attempts have been made to try and level of the balance so that women can have the benefits that men seemingly enjoy. On many occasions, games that mainly feature men are the ones that have been invested ever since and only recently have they started to feature women in the respective games like football, rugby, athletics, and even handball. On many occasions, the global sports have tried to ...

Population- adult women, including the pregnant women

Intervention-avoiding chemicals during pregnancy
Comparison –miscarriages
Outcome- the patients will have fewer complications during pregnancy
PICO Question
In pregnant women, how effective is it for them to avoid working in chemical based conditions and environment?
Background
Most women fail to take precaution measures during pregnancy, where they work in every provided condition. Some women only think that they should stop working only when they are in the advanced stages of pregnancy. For example, in the provided case, Maria is working as a cleaning agent in a household cleaning company, which specializes in cleaning small residences ...

The word “Black” carries more meaning and weight than one would assume. In the world of usual culture and film, this is even more so as one considers the depiction of ‘black’ and the concepts associated with the term. In most visual representations of ‘black’ one notes that the way they are depicted proposes that certain stereotypes are assumed to be the norm in ‘black’ culture. According to Larry Neal, the term ‘black aesthetics’ calls for a change in the norm of the close minded culture where the blacks go as per the depiction of the wider society. He calls ...

The Republic of East L.A. is a collection of twelve short stories by Luis J. Rodriguez, which details stories of lower income, and gang-affiliated people living in poor neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The stories painted a realistic picture of Chicano culture in the Eastern part of L.A. Each story opens a window to an important aspect of Chicano life. In the story “Las Chicas Chuecas” the author relays through story the unique struggles of Latina women in this machismo environments. Setting is crucial to understanding the unique nature for women in these conditions. An analysis of this theme makes setting relevant for ...

Principles of Goffman’s Analysis: As Viewed in the Advertisements in Vogue October 2014

Introduction
Erving Goffman, in his Gender Advertisement, stresses the importance of taking commercial pictures seriously. The main intention of the advertisements is to lure viewers into buying the product depicted in the advertisement. The power of advertisements is so strong that it can immensely influence the viewers, both consciously and unconsciously. However, the problem is that an advertisement is not necessarily the true representations of reality. Not only commercial advertisers, but also governments and nonprofit organizations make use of advertisements in order to deliver their ideas or messages. The advertisements intentionally and unintentionally raise and exploit the “social situations”. ...

A movie that tickled my curiosity is the movie Wadjda. The plot of the movie is set in Saudi Arabia, a country culturally different from the USA. The fact that Saudi Arabia is one of the most closed countries in relation to women's rights was the crucial for arousing my interest to watch this movie. The movie Wadjda was released in 2012 and it immediately occupied the interest of the public opinion about the position of women in the Middle East. The main characters of the movie are Wadjda, a young girl, and her mother who is trapped between the culture ...

In the story Mechanics, the author, Luis J. Rodriguez uses an eloquent voice to show the neighborhood he had spent many years. Rodriguez uses most of his stories in the book to show the kind of life he lived as a father, resident, organizer and writer. The author uses the story Mechanic to show the neighborhood that gives more than its appearance allows. This essay discusses the value that women held in the protagonist’s life.
Mechanics presents a pessimistic/ optimistic outlook on love. The story involves a man, a protagonist, whose entire life concerns his children and wife. In his story, ...

Susan was a human resource manager at Concreos, a software company. She joined the company soon after she had finished college and had been working with them for over a decade. When she joined Concreos, it was a startup with 15 employees. In the decade she had been with them, the company had grown leaps and bounds and now employed 250 employees. When she joined the company, she was the only woman and since the number of employees was really low, it did not really matter to her. As the company grew and they needed to hire new people, her department grew bigger ...

Amy Tan’s “Two Kinds” is a passionate recollection of her experience growing up in America to immigrant parents whose cultural values and beliefs are at conflict with her own. Tan explores her rebellious childhood under an overwhelming mother who appears to have planned the entire future for her daughter without even taking her opinion into account. Like many immigrants to America, Tan’s mother believes America to be the home dreams where everyone can achieve anything they want. This is depicted in the first line of the essay; “my mother believed you could be anything you wanted in America” ( ...

In "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien and "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver, the short stories' respective characters deal with their masculinities, and its emotional consequences in a similar manner. There are also striking differences between their characters' portrayal of masculine behavior, as well as its consequences.
In "The Things They Carried", the protagonist, platoon leader Lieutenant Jimmy Cross, is beset by romantic reveries of his girl back home. He often daydreams about a girl from the States Martha (who was his college classmate), during his platoon's missions in Vietnam. As a direct result of his daydreaming, one of the platoon's ...

In her article The Oppositional Gaze

Bell Hooks introduces to her readers that a certain sort of look, the “oppositional gaze” has been responsible for many children being punished by their parents because this gaze was see as “confrontational, as gestures of resistance, challenges to authority” (Hooks, 115). Her paper “The Oppositional Gaze” is about many different gazes, the power each is perceived to have, and how a minority group, black female spectators, deals with this issue. Her overall point deals with the marginalization of black women not just in the society but also in the entertainment industry. The larger context in relation to the class is ...