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Hip Hop - Protrayal and BetrayalDo you remember singing along with I'm a little tea pot as a child? Did the song define you? Did you really believe you were a little teapot? No, you didn't. It was just a silly song with a catchy melody. This goes for hip hop music as well. Most of us don't take the explicit sexism in Hip Hop personally because we know it doesn't define us. Jennifer McLune on the other hand disagrees with this nonchalant attitude completely. In "Celie's Revenge: Hip-Hop's Betrayal of Black Women," published in Said it magazine, Jennifer McLune responds to an article written by Kevin Powell which addresses the sexism in Hip-Hop. McLune feels that Powell's argument insufficiently addresses the topic of sexism in Hip Hop. Moreover, MeLune insists that Powell only offers pathetic excuses for the inexcusable treatment of black women by the Hip-Hop culture. Specifically, McLune points out that "His argument completely ignores the fact that women, too, are raised in this environment of po |
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Media, Religion and ISISWithin the last ten years, the overlap between media and religion has had a major impact on the perspective and opinions that people possess. Because media has become such a vital party of everyday life for many cultures, the influence that its message holds can be highly influential. Media has no boundaries, and as a result, everyone can be heard. This includes the millions of other individuals from a different culture that may or may not share similar perspectives. Recently, within the Muslim culture, social media has played a major role in the exploitation of a highly toxic terrorist group known as ISIS. ISIS's use of social media, such as Twitter, has given them the ability to verbally attack millions of other people and cultures. That being said, what role are we playing in spreading the word of ISIS, and how has this one terrorist group affected the reputation of the entire Muslim state? Media gives us the opportunity to hear someone else's opinion halfway across the world where |
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The Dangers of ObesityAccording to Thomas A. Wadden Ph.D., "Obesity contributes to over 300,000 deaths per year, principally through its association with cardiovascular disease, type 2 diabetes, and several cancers." In Wadden's testimony, it is also stated that obesity is the second leading cause of preventable death, right behind smoking cigarettes. Although living unhealthy is easier, cheaper and more laid back, if not addressed, obesity is on track to surpass cigarettes in the leading cause of preventable deaths. Americans of the 21st century are very busy. Between their full time jobs, attending school or college and any other extracurricular activities, they are always looking for short cuts and quick-fix methods. Research indicates that the amount of fast food in your diet has a large impact on your overall health. There is a strong link of how often Americans consume fast food and obesity. Since fast food is so easy and convenient, many Americans consume these fried, fattening and salty foods on a daily basis rather than committing time and effort into preparing healthy meals. Not only are these foods terrible for yo |
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Gay Marriage and AdoptionGay marriage is the commit of a same sex couple to be together in matrimony. Gay couples adopting is the process/opportunity to have a child together. Gay marriage and gay couples adopting is a great idea. Not only can they provide but also help with the foster care crisis. They can provide the love, care and nurture as a heterosexual couple could. Gay marriage is just as fair as any other couples getting married. Everyone deserves to be with who they love. As said by George Clooney, "At some point in our lifetime, gay marriage won't be an issue, and everyone who stood against this civil right will look as outdated as George Wallace standing on the steps keeping James Hood from entering the University of Alabama because he was black." Marriage is a right of every American, it is a civil right. So why should the government or society control who you marry. Everyone wants to be happy with who they love. I know that some of the reason behind gay marriage not being in the const |
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In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic by Alison BechdelAdolescence period is considered a time of experimentation, transformation, and revelation for some people because they are going through cultural, physical, and psychological changes. For instance, In Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic, author Alison Bechdel shows some youth experiences like her faltering relationship with her father, the breakdown of her parents' marriage, and her own explorations of sexuality with one of the most intelligent and insightful autobiographical comics. Bechdel explores a different way of an autobiography by focusing on the examination of gender characters entailed by her and her father's homosexuality. In addition, this book expounds different visual strategies such as transition craft, emotions thru lines, and combination of image-text, which are not only helping to emphasize specific moments of Bechdel's life, but also as benefiting some readers to understand and feel connected to the writer. Bechdel uses the transition craft visual strategy, which provid |
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Art, Hockney and PicassoMany people tend to think that the quality and value of art is related to its level of realness – how perfectly illustrated in relation to the human observer. However, it was not long before artists, like Cezanne, Picasso and Braque, and later on Hockney, began to explore a more natural approach to human perception. As mobile creatures living in a fourth dimensional world, these artists argued that although the work of Rembrandt is indeed visually compelling, there is an element missing in these forms of art: time and space through the human experience. Cubism, an art form that developed in the early twentieth century, is an attempt to encompass the narrative of visual human perception. Hockney will later make attempts to reimagine Cubism through photomontages that he call "joiners" which will again, attempt to draw upon the unique experience of mobile perceivers. In order to understand the development of cubism one must first consider the background in which it deri |
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Leo Tolstoy Defines ArtIn the attempts to define art you will find many theories and insights varying from one interpreter to another. From Plato to Picasso, realism to cubism – there lies no distinct line of defining words of art. However, one theory, by Leo Tolstoy, suggest it is not in our perception of art which defines a value in a piece, rather its ability to transmit emotion into viewers. Delving further in Tolstoy's book, What is Art, he explains that "art cannot be defined as an activity which produces beauty. Beauty cannot be defined objectively, and therefore cannot be used as a criterion to define what is, or is not, art. The aim of art is not merely to produce beauty, or to provide pleasure, enjoyment, or entertainment. Art is a means of communication, and is an important means of expression of any experience, or of any aspect of the human condition," (Scott). In short, Tolstoy believes that because "beauty" is subjective, the value of art is determined by its ability |
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The Englishes in Mother TongueIn "Mother Tongue," Amy Tan talks about the different "Englishes" she speaks to communicate with different people. Language, culture, and education shapes us into who we are. The more you study the more you learn. It gives us a different perspective to life. In my experience, I can relate to Amy Tan we speak various types of English. At home, at work, and even with friends. The list can go on. For some of us we may be bilingual and that can also be a different way you communicate with others. Although I may be able to speak both English and Spanish, I cannot write in Spanish very well. I have translated for my parents plenty of times. Tan mentions in her essay how she was ashamed of her mother's English. (136). Growing up I remember speaking to my parents in English a lot more than Spanish. I would say it in English then repeat it in Spanish. I believe that was one of the ways my parents started learning the English language. It may be considered "broken english& |
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Waiting for Godot and The Hitchhikers Guide to the GalaxyUpon first reading of both The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy and Waiting for Godot, it is easy to conclude that Adams' writing was written better and meant more than Becketts' nonsense of nothing two act play simply because Hitchhiker's was easier to comprehend. But after digging deeper into the text, you will come to love and appreciate Beckett's work. In comparison to Waiting for Godot, Adams broke few norms in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The book offers nothing refreshing to what is currently in media today. Most current day books and movies provide a humourous, out of the normal storyline with a greater meaning behind the silliness of it all. This is exactly what you will find in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Waiting for Godot provides a surprisingly pleasing sense of vagueness within the entire play. So much is left to your interpretation, you can mold the symbolism throughout the play to make it mean what you choose to think it does. For example when Vladmir says, "We will be saved" (Beckett 60) in regards to Godot, you can shape this to shine Godot in the light of God. The play in itsel |
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Men and Women - The Past 50 YearsIn this essay I am going to be exploring the different views of how the roles of men and women have changed in the past 50 years and whether it has been significant, my reason for this is to discuss how far sociologist would agree or disagree with these different views. Young and Willmott (1973) believe that the symmetrical family has become the typical family form in Britain; they believe that gender segregation still exist but symmetrical families are developing much more joint conjugal roles and that there has been a large amount of equality between men and women. Young and Willmott also suggest that symmetrical families are opposite but sill similar stating that the husband and wife might still complete different task but there is still a fair division of roles and contribution around the house. Another aspect of the Symmetrical family is that the role of the 'breadwinner' is more shared that laid upon the male, as there are more families with both spouses in paid-employment than in th |
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Types of Asian ParentingWhen thinking about Asian children, the child does not come to mind, but rather their parents do. Asian parent-child relationships are usually stereotyped to be authoritarian rather than egalitarian. Whereas, in the West parent-child relationships are said to be more egalitarian, therefore insinuating that Western children have more freedom and an implied state of happiness over Asian children. Many of these stereotypes are due to Hollywood and how they portray other cultures, leaving someone to believe that their culture is the better of the others. Due to the stereotype of Asian children being smarter than, well, everyone, Western parents are pushing their children to compete against the Asian children; to be better than anyone else. Wes |
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Influence of the Cuban RevolutionThe Cuban Revolution was an extremely influential event in Latin America, if not the world itself. While the product of a European ideology, it exemplified the hopes of millions as a cure for the detrimental poverty that was present in Latin America as well as the desire for change that lay dormant in the younger generations. The lives of modern day people are still influenced by the Cuban Revolution, even in America, mostly demonstrated by a lingering distaste for Communism as well as economic embargoes with Cuba. The Cuban Revolution, in its time, forced Latin American governments to reevaluate themselves as well as their people's needs, while many fought against the rise of Communism there were a few, such as Salvador Allende, who embraced it and introduced new reforms to their countries. Castro's revolution was seen as alluring not only because it succeeded but it was fairly simple to execute. In theory, the Cuban rebels hid in the mountains, dared the government to come after the |
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Religion of the AboriginesAborigines are Australia's indigenous people which make up about two percent of Australia's total population. Aborigines are believed to have evolved as modern man in Africa about 190,000 years ago, moved into the Middle East by 120,000 years ago, then into Asia, and on to Australia at least 60,000 years ago. This believed information is based on archaeological finds and genetic studies of mutations of mitochondrial DNA in populations of different parts of the world. Aboriginal Australians are said to be the oldest surviving culture to this day. After modern man moved into Europe and the Americas cultures started to develop while Australians remained isolated on their island still practicing older techniques. Aboriginals comprise five to six hundred different distinct groups but they all have a few things in common, strong spiritual belief and a culture of storytelling and art. Australia has no official religion (Blashfield 2008:101). In the twentieth century, when the nation was est |
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The Power of Evil in MacbethEvil is an immortal destruction that can harm those that fall victim to it. In Shakespeare's Macbeth, the main characters, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth becomes in evils master plan. Evil causes people to participate in unnatural acts of demolition. Macbeth surrenders to evil because of his fatal flaw and greed which causes him to interrupt the chain of being. The point when Macbeth starts to lie, deceive, and kill at his own will, he loses his sanity. Lady Macbeth fall victim to Macbeth's tragic flaw, and begins to desire for power herself. Further in to the story, it's evident that their guilt will pursue them for the rest of their lives. The fortuitous happenstance of Macbeth and Lady Macbeth emphasize that being a servant of evil is to validate our own need for structure and discipline amongst mankind. By exemplifying evil, Macbeth and Lady Macbeth execute irregular action |
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The Great Gatsby and the American DreamThe novel The Great Gatsby written in 1925 by F. Scott Fitzgerald is considered the quintessential book about the American Dream. The story is told from the point of view of a first person narrator, Nick Carraway. At the beginning of the book Nick introduces the reader to Gatsby and hates everything about him. As the novel progresses Gatsby goes from being a very hidden character then as the story goes on he begins to crumble when he loses Daisy, the girl of his dreams. Fitzgerald builds up the hopes for Gatsby achieving his American Dream but then the reader slowly watches his dream fade away because he cannot move from the past. The American Dream is a failure because Gatsby lives in the past when everyone around him as moved forward. Jay Gatsby was born James Gatz, was from a poor background and from a young age longed to achieve better for himself. Gatsby created a new life for himself with the hope of achieving the American Dream. His parents did not make a lot of money from far |
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Interrogative Torture is JustifiedA 2014 Washington Post-ABC News poll found that 59% of Americans said that they support the CIA's interrogation methods for uncovering valuable intelligence information (Goldman). This, of course, is after it was made widely public that the CIA had employed "torture" methodologies – such as forced sleep deprivation and waterboarding – in order to derive information that may safeguard the United States from further terrorist attacks. The CIA's publicized detention and interrogation program has since been ended in 2009 by President Obama, and a Senate Intelligence Committee investigation into the program's interrogation techniques had, surprisingly, concluded by stating that torture methods such as waterboarding, stress-position placing, and extreme human confinement were ineffective means of acquiring information. The same report found that nearly a dozen individuals detained and tortured as terrorists were in fact wrongly held (Priest & Smith). Such reports would |
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Video Games and Violent BehaviorsSchool shootings, bullying, and violence are commonplace today, but what is causing all this madness? Violent video games are the cause of this lawlessness. Violent video games teach that violence is an acceptable conflict-solving strategy and an appropriate way to achieve one's goals. Violent video games influence the youth more than elders, which may lead to future violence. When blood is present in video games, there is a measurable increase in stimulated aggression. When adolescents view violence in video games they are more likely to become violent themselves. Several lines of evidence suggest that there is a link between exposure to violent video games and aggressive behavior allowing adolescents to believe school shootings, violence, and bullying are okay. Gamers who play rated M (for mature) video games likely receive pleasure from causing pain in others. Just imagine a high school teenager picking on a younger adolescent and the bully is laughing and obviously not feeling any sympathy. This is the perfect example of what it looks like when a teenager is exposed to a lot |
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America and ImperialismThe United States has been involved heavily in the affairs of countries around them. Like many other European countries they have followed a path to imperialism. During the early 19th and late 20th century, they've expanded their territories through militarism and war. Those who oppose emphasized that the effects of imperialism were what their forefathers had tried to fight against and would make U.S. a nation like that of the Europeans, the empires they tried to make their government no to be like. American who wanted imperialism made clear that the spread of their ways and ideas would be the answer to how the civilization would grow. Theodore Roosevelt, after having read Alfred Mahan's book, was looking forward to the expansion to the navy. His buildup of the navy would somehow be a sign to |
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Bram Stoker and DraculaSince the beginning of time, people have been creating myths and legends to explain the unexplainable. Some myths, created many years ago, have been produced into novels for our entertainment. When writing such novels, many authors alter the original legend, and some even create their own. Bram Stoker creates the myth of "vampires" by writing the notorious Dracula. In the novel, Dracula's appearances, description, and interaction with others establish an eerie mood. Dracula's subtle appearances in Whitby create an eerie mood. In chapter 7, two newspaper clippings report on a boat that has washed up on the coast of Whitby. They announce, "The very instant the shore was touched, an immense dog sprang up on the deck from below and jumped from the bow to the sand." (Stocker 98) They also say the crew had deserted the ship and the captain "was simply fastened by his hands, tied one over the other, to a spoke of the wheel. Between his inner hand and the wood was a crucifix." (99) The dog and crucifix prove Dracula's presenc |
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One Day of Life by Manilo ArguetaThe novel "One Day of Life," by Manilo Argueta, is staged around the life of a native women named Lupe in her family in El Salvador. The book provides a prospective of the violence that fills the lives of these native. In the novel one thing that holds true is the people never loose hope for a better life free from turmoil. The novel aims to have the reader feel in some respect what the natives went through in the governments efforts to spread democracy. A hidden issue in the novel would be the absence of innocence amongst young children coupled with the task of taking on responsibility well beyond the tender age bracket. This was mainly common amongst the little girls of the village especially the granddaughter of Lupe, Adolfina. She is fourteen years of age but finds much maturity through horrifying events she partakes in. One example is when Adolfina is at a bank in San Salvador to negotiate prices on fertilizer. The bank was closed and she ends up being a part of police brutali |
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International Business and Multinational Enterprise1.0 Introduction With the process of globalization, a surging number of companies are diversifying and expanding trades and capital abroad. These companies, known as "Multinational Enterprise" which implicates the organization that do business in multiple countries rather than only in domestic economy. These transactions across different countries, however, are to be closely related to different cultures, which can be defined as "the sum total of the beliefs, rules, techniques, institutions,and artifacts that characterize human populations" (Ball and McCulloch, 1999) or "the collective programming of the mind." (Hofstede, 1980). In fact, there are two different approaches for interpreting culture: one refers to sociocultural level, which focuses on the people's values, rules and beliefs. The other is based on an institutional level, like organizational culture. This essay lays emphasis on the impacts of sociocultural factors and then elaborates that what |
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The Tell Tale Heart - Literary AnalysisThe Tale Tell Heart, written by Edgar Allen Poe is a very dark, but magnificent piece of writing. It is about an unnamed narrator who tells the story from first person. It is about the narrator basically admitting that he killed an old man. However, he claims he is not insane. He says he did not do it out of anger or to get something from the man, but because the man that he killed had a pale blue eye that threw him off. He did not like the mans pale blue eye, he was afraid of it. The narrator would go into the man with the pale eyes house every night and watched him sleep. He would wait until it was the right time and night to murder the man. On the night that he decides to kill, the old man with the eye wakes up and yells. The old man was very scared, and his heart was racing. The narrator could hear the heart beat of the old man. The old man just sat awake in his bed very scared. The narrator could hear the mans heartbeat so well that he thought that the neighbors might hear it, so he decided to kill him immediately after he thought that. He killed the man and cut him up into a bunch of pieces. Then he hides the body parts underneath the |
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An Argument Against the Use of Bottled Water You Don't Need It, No One Needs It Plastics are great things, they move the world forward and are found in every conceivable object out there. When they're in your computers they allow for instant access to all the world's knowledge. When they're in refrigerators, they keep food edible for lengths of time unimaginable in pre-industrial times. When they're in organisms, they inhibit vital functions and set the stage for massive, bottom up food web collapses. Nine out of ten plastic bottles bought in the US don't get recycled. If we're lucky, they'll end up in a landfill, and if we're not, which we're not, most of them will end up on the side of the road. When it rains, the plastic gets washed into the streams, then the rivers, and eventually the Ocean. Once there, they are blasted by radiation from the sun, and slowly photodegrade into tiny pieces. These microplastics have the unfortunate tendency to absorb organic toxins found in the water from our many other silly endeavors to m |
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Daisy Miller - Behavior Determining Social ClassIn the mid-1800s societal behavior, in Europe, was a key indicator of one's class. In the Henry James novel, Daisy Miller, the main character, Daisy Miller, is American and is at odds with European societal norms. James' novel is a "study" of the character Daisy Miller, as seen through the perspective of the character Winterbourne, an American European gentleman. Daisy's continued spontaneous behavior spurred by emotional choices sets her teetering on the edge of expulsion from European high society. During the course of Winterbourne's "study" of Daisy, we learn how Mrs. Costello, Winterbourne's aunt, a member of the European high society, views Daisy's behavior. She warns Winterbourne of Daisy's spontaneity and disregard for ritual behavior, by referring to it as "uncultivated" (James, 21). This comment, so early on in the story line, immediately distinguishes class boundaries through behavior, and excludes Daisy from high society marking her as &qu |
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Edna's Ultimate Awakening Chari Harris 4/8/2015 Paper #2 Edna's Ultimate Awakening "I would give up the unessentialI would give up my lifebut I wouldn't give myself" (Chopin 89). Edna Pontellier, the protagonist in Kate Chopin's novel The Awakening, undergoes several stages of awakening. Each awakening brings Edna a stronger sense of individual self, in a Victorian patriarchal society wherein women are obligated to marriage and child rearing. After her initial "rebirth" in the ocean, Edna's first stage in her awakening is to finally drop the outward facade of being a "mother-woman" and start to explore her new desires and creative interests (Chopin 13). Another pivotal stage in her awakening comes when she realizes that she cannot live dually awakened and oppressed by gender roles; she needs to choose one path and commit herself fully to it. Thus, she attempts to commit herself fully to her awakening sense of self. This attempt brings with it the realization that th |
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