Mental health is defined as an individual's concern over their emotional, psychological, and behavioral well-being. Furthermore, it is determined through the capability of managing stress and having the ability to function properly through different scenarios. It is important to observe one's mental health and seek aid when problems begin to arise. However, when there is a clear lack of attention...
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There are many kinds of beauty standards in this era. For example, in Korea and Indonesia, only someone who has white and glass skin and also a thin body can be called “She is beautiful”. Nowadays, women are obsessed with long legs, big boobs, flat stomachs, straight hair, flawless skin, etc. Body shaming is an awful thing to do, no...
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The benefits that Hidden Figures presents in terms of portraying gender is that at the end of the film they accepted that women can do the same some a male can. By watching this film people will learn that racial bias and typical stereotypes still are happening in our society today. This film was a great way of showing gender...
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My biography and critical reflection indicated a personal experience of discrimination, exclusion, and marginalization as a queer person of color in a gay dating mobile application called Grindr. Particularly, I was faced with the issue of toxic gay masculinity and subordination at the intersection of gender, race, ethnicity, and sexuality. This experience of ‘othering’ reflects the dominant gendered stereotypes and...
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“L’Homme est tellement fait pout la société qu’il en fait son objet favori et sa principale satisfaction » wrote Nicolas de La Mare in his Traité de la Police 1705. The police commissary who served under the reign of Louis XIV explains in this quote, taken from his works on policing strategy, that Man is a social animal and is...
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The story begins with a man, Nick Carraway, who used to serve in the military and moved from Minnesota to West Egg in New York. His mysterious, wealthy neighbor, Jay Gatsby threw massive parties at his house every night. There were seven major characters. Jay Gatsby, a human example of everything Nick hated about New York and was obsessed with...
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Introduction Individuals travel to great lengths and risk their lives to escape unfair or unjust conditions to seek work or an even better life. This can oftentimes lead to structural violence. In this paper, I argue that the Vietnamese migrants traveling from Vietnam to Europe are being faced with structural violence on their journey as well as when arriving at...
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Sexism is defined as discrimination towards someone else based on their sex and gender. In other words, it is the differential treatment between males and females. However, a new gender has become available to use in ten out of the fifty states in the U.S., and that gender is “X”, which means that an individual does not want to be...
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A current event in a newspaper article illustrates a form of racism against an African American athlete. Chuks Aneke, a player of the Milton Keynes Dons professional soccer team, was allegedly the subject of a racist social media post. The post was made after the Dons were beaten in a game by the Tranmere Rovers. A fan from the Rovers...
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In the novella Of Mice and Men, Steinbeck focuses on key social problems in the 1930s depression through the migrant workers The writer uses the characterization of Curley's wife and Crooks to represent the sexism between men and women as well as racism between white people and colored people. Steinbeck uses Crooks to embody racism in the 1930s. A whole...
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Social constructivism is defined as a social group constructing things for one another, collaboratively creating a small culture of shared artifacts with shared meanings (Moodle, 2015). The theoretical base we use to understand knowledge is called social constructivism, or the ‘sociology of knowledge’. It characterizes knowledge as the sets of beliefs or mental models people use to interpret actions and...
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Introduction K-pop is a genre of music that originated in South Korea. While its earliest form dates back to the 90s, with Seo Taiji and the Boys, this industry doubled its growth rate in the mid-2000s in the Korean and international markets as well. During these years the concept of idols grew with the genre itself and became a representative...
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In the title, Sherry Simon (1996) refers to linguistic aspects of gender as opposed to biological or social gender. Linguistic gender breaks down into semantic and grammatical gender: semantic gender corresponds to a referent's biological sex; grammatical gender is assigned even to inanimate nouns. English follows a natural gender system, where the assigned gender corresponds to the perceived sex of...
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My selection for this discussion is The Handmaid’s Tale. This show was recommended as a must-see and I was not disappointed. This series is about a totalitarian society named Gilead. In a world where fertility rates have collapsed as a result of sexually transmitted diseases and environmental pollution, the totalitarian, theonomic government of Gilead establishes rule in the former United...
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Critically assess the claim that religious controversy is always caused by broader changes within society. Religious norms, rituals, and restrictions have always influenced and enveloped intimate human interactions. Religions' emphasis on the issues of gender and sexuality has expanded, if anything, about other areas of society and its impact in the modern era. I have to agree with the title...
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Should women and men compete against each other? For the longest time, women's and men's sporting abilities have been compared against one another, whether it be through thinking men are stronger and their bodies are built and made for the said sport, or that women are much more capable of competing in expressive sports to a high standard. These views...
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Why was there so much discrimination in the early 1930's? John Steinbeck’s highly renowned “Of Mice and Men” is an outstanding novel that paints a depressingly realistic portrait of America during the Great Depression in the 1930s. In the novel, Steinbeck attacks the many issues that plagued the country during that time. His purpose in writing “Of Mice and Men”...
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Menstruation; is a natural process that occurs in the female reproductive system and grants life, or another reason to shame women? In our patriarchal society, it is unfortunately often presented as the latter, thus creating the need for nonconforming portrayals of periods in media such as Bodyform’s “Blood” commercial. In “Blood”, Bodyform uses various clips of women performing different demanding...
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Dystopia- Sexism? Racism? Homophobia? These are present in all aspects of our lives, especially in Hollywood, it thrives on it. We do not all live in a perfect 'utopia' as we were told by the big-budget movies. In reality, over the years it has engulfed Hollywood through and through. Outrageous is what it is and needs to be abolished. My...
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Although the Heart of Darkness is encompassed with the essence of femininity, this novel does not do women justice. It is safe to say that Conrad's text can be found sexist for the portrayal of women, as demonstrated throughout, are non-complex characters and they simply exist for the male to gaze upon. From Marlow's perspective especially, women are treated as...
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Disney Princess movies are not as safe as we previously thought. We are unintentionally damaging our kids by subtly enforcing social stereotypes. This is done by using classic story tropes like the handsome knight saving the pretty, helpless princess. Along with that, it can make girls self-conscious about their bodies. This is due to all the pretty princesses all sharing...
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The images are evident examples of how advertising uses women as a tool for sexualization and objectification to sell products. Unfortunately, these images are sourced from an article that was published only four years ago, in 2015 (Chaudhary, 2015). This establishes that over the years the portrayal of women in advertising has evolved from typically stereotyping women to using them...
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Firstly, what is gender inequality? Gender inequality also known as sexism is prejudice or discrimination based on a person's sex or gender. Sexism can affect anyone, but it primarily affects women and girls. Sexism can be experienced anywhere and everywhere but why is it so normalized in the entertainment industry specifically? From men getting paid more than women starring in...
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History repeats itself. While many people tend to disagree with this saying, others, including myself, firmly agree with it. Looking back at past events, whether they were political, economic, cultural, or even religious, it can be seen that very similar situations are happening nowadays, if not identical. These events work in cycles, and in this essay, I will use an...
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Persepolis is a black-and-white graphic novel written by Marjane Satrapi during the late nineteen seventies, a period marked by the civil war between Iran and Iraq. This autobiographic novel takes place in Tehran where the Iranian government, interrupted by an Islamic revolution, inducted a tumult among the population. Indeed, this theocracy led to a form of oppression against women and...
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Does the compulsory wearing of helmets reduce the number of fatalities associated with motorcycling and pedal cycling accidents? Provide evidence in support of and against the following statements and state whether you agree with the statements and why. 'Wearing a motorcycle helmet increases the chances of having an accident.' 'Legislation requiring the wearing of motorcycle helmets is a breach of...
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Introduction Paragraph: Thesis: The University of Michigan’s “Fab Five” basketball team, defied racial stereotypes as they revolutionized basketball on and off the court with their new style, as they are still leaving their footprints today. Rest of paragraph: These five freshmen revolutionized the way basketball is played and their style on and off the court made them instant commodities. With...
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I. Introduction I.I. Communication & The Internet It has been almost 30 years since the internet was invented. People of this generation now have access to information and the ability to share information in a way that was never done before. Even though there are arguments against this, online communication adds to the volume of contact to the traditional offline...
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The First Amendment, in the minds of most Americans, brings up the high-held thought of free speech. The concept of free speech--a relatively new concept in modern history-- is seen to be a fundamental pillar in what is to be any free society. In recent years, in an effort to make the nation more tolerant and to have less prejudice...
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The Canadian government can use coercion to regulate their citizens’ freedom of speech. In Canada, the Criminal Code outlines laws that people must abide by and when crimes occur, coercion limits the criminals’ actions for the protection of society. The citizens are politically obligated to the government as it serves as a father figure to its people, who depend on...
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