Sexual Repression in Popular Culture

... . This is not even entirely about Stephenie Meyer's novels; it is about what vampires represent inside of a story, their actions interpreted in relation to sex, how Mormon values are used in the story to reveal hidden sexual repression within Mormon religion. In today's popular culture one of the only ways to reach many people is through media and I feel that even though Meyer did not overtly intend ... to include anything about her faith, certain values important to her (which are also the values of the LDS) were bound to slip in somewhere within the ... story. "Dracula," written by Br...

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... of slavery continued, and even more African slaves were imported. Effect of colonialism The colonization effected Haiti in several ways. By importing such a large number of slaves, the Haitian culture was shaped by the religious practices of voodoo that the slaves carried with them. These practices depicted ... slaves, and feelings of hatred flourished. The slaves developed a sense of inferiority, one that becomes embedded through years of reinforcement. Through the sexual relations of slave owners and slaves, a new class of mulattos arose. The institution of slavery divided the country ...

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... or forced to undergo sterilization. This was promoted by social workers of the time who helped push the movement to criminalize adolescent female sexual activity1. In North Carolina between 1929 and 1975, the state's Eugenics Board authorized over 8000 sterilizations2. The bulk of these were on poor and ... repression while birth control is seen as positive a thing. While records do indicate that the most of the women sterilized had requested the procedure, there is no way to tell how many of these had been coerced by family or social workers into making that decision. The impact of thi...

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... childhood (usually before the age of nine), and they may possess an inherited biological predisposition for dissociation (Boor, 1982). In our culture the most frequent precursor to DID (MPD) is extreme physical, emotional, and sexual abuse in childhood, but survivors of other kinds of trauma in childhood (such as natural disasters, invasive medical procedures, war, and torture) have also reacted by developing DID (MPD). ... a child, the account of this story...and projected it into the past in the form of a visual memory, which was a memory of a memory, but false (Hilgard, 1988)". What ...

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... of art to interpret external materialism into the language of the inner life, often through the use of symbols. The fourth is the Alternate Life of Art which explores violence, sexual relations, madness, and drugs by creating art that gives the viewer or reader a feeling of them. This is also known as surrealism. The fifth, distortion, is usually shown ... , decentred, ungrounded, self-reflexive, playful, derivative, eclectic, pluralistic art which blurs the boundaries between "high" and "popular" culture, as well as between art and every day experience." In summary, postmodernism is play...

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... where bluebloods mingled and made the connections that kept America's aristocracy running. A contemporary called him "one of the most popular men in our class." In 1937, while JFK was still in his sophomore year, Joseph Kennedy, Sr. was appointed Ambassador to Great Britain. This prestigious post opened new social avenues to ... more real with U.S. involvement in the Korean War (1950-53), in which Communist North Korea attempted to conquer U.S.-backed South Korea. But McCarthy himself overreached, and his career became a byword for repression, paranoia, and insidious gossip-mongering. W...

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... economic and technological progress, but on the other, it can be presented as the source of violence and repression and maybe a fundamental barrier to the unification of the world. (Smith 1992,256) When we look at political violence, we can figure out ... two meanings. One of them is the ideology of self belonging to a specific nation, in which sense a fellow-feeling to other nation people and in which you get an awareness of sharing a common culture and identity. You sing patriotic songs and seek the national benefits rather than your own values ... , their hacked bodies and displays of...

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... economic and technological progress, but on the other, it can be presented as the source of violence and repression and maybe a fundamental barrier to the unification of the world. (Smith 1992,256) When we look at political violence, we can figure out ... two meanings. One of them is the ideology of self belonging to a specific nation, in which sense a fellow-feeling to other nation people and in which you get an awareness of sharing a common culture and identity. You sing patriotic songs and seek the national benefits rather than your own values ... , their hacked bodies and displays of...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate