...Queer Essay On Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone A queer reading of Harry Potter and the Philosophers stone can bring up many questions of what is classed as normal. It also can show how a subculture within that society is regarded as abnormal. It can suggest that the everyday world in this novel is queer compared to the wizard world which is seen as the norm. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick’s Epistemology of the closet suggests that queer reading should not be from the readers own sexuality in mind, but an openness to the queer context, connections and potentials already available within the text. Bennett and Royle suggest that “some of the strangeness or uncanniness, some of the power and fascination of literary texts, that is to say has to do with the singular space which they offer for thinking differently about gender and sexuality” As Harry potter is a young adults novel that is stable for a queer reading as it traditional is a none sexual fantasy novel. Harry Potter is seen as a world parallel to our own where it has differences in people and their cultures. However no where in the novel does it mention anything about homosexuality, gender role bending, or same sex relationships. Every relationship that forms is with a character from the opposite sex and the family is mostly typical nuclear form of the mother staying at home while the father goes to work. There is no mention of a gay, lesbian or transgender character mentioned in the story. If the novel is...
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...stereotypes used in the Harry Potter Deathly Hollows include, the good girl, the sexual object, the mother figure and the stern woman of power. In Harry Potter the Deathly Hollows females are as equals as males. Both boys and girls in the wizarding world have the same opportunity to learn and become powerful witches and wizards. They can enter the same jobs after graduation and magic is not limited to males or females, but all those who have the power and choose to learn how to use it. While males and females are approached in different ways, both have their strengths and weaknesses and may approach situations in different ways. The mothers, Harry Potter’s mother dies young, the sacrifice she made protects him from the evil Lord Voldemort. Even though his mother is no linger alive, Harry can find her protection and strength with in himself. Mrs. Weasley also becomes a mother to Harry and treats him as one of her own. She wishes to protect him form any harm. She tries to delay their departure from the burrow to keep him safe. As many mother’s Mrs. Weasley wants to keep her children safe and watch them grow to strong adults. The woman of Harry Potter are shown as strong and able to take initiative to handle tough situations. They are shown as someone who should be protected and allow the men to fight dangerous battles, they are also shown as sexual objects to lust after, or a force to join and rise against adversity with. Throughout Harry Potter women are the protectors...
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...Introduction Emma Watson is a British actress and model who has inspired many young women to act and be themselves. She has won many awards and has starred in many major movies, including the ‘Harry Potter’ films, ‘The Bling Ring’, and ‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower.’ She also starred as Belle in the 2017 version of ‘Beauty and the Beast.’ She is a great woman with many interesting facts and awards that you’re about to learn. Early life Emma Charlotte Duerre Watson was born on April 15, 1990 in Paris, France. Her parents are Jacqueline Luesby and Chris Watson and are both lawyers. She has four siblings, Nina, Lucy, Alex, and Toby Watson. When Emma was just five years old, her parents divorced and she moved to Oxford with her mother, where...
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...nature of gender inequality.Feminist theory focuses on analyzing gender inequality. At the start of the movie, Hermione removes all trace of her existence from their minds and from their home, in order to protect them from the dark forces that are now hunting her.The brave and brainy heroine whose smarts so often get fellow wizards Harry and Ron out of trouble. From the beginning the Ministry is taken over by the death eaters and Voldemort’s Army. Hermione, being the knowledgable witch she is, knew she had to be prepared for this type of takeover. As predicted, the takeover happens and Hermione saves Ron and Harry and leads them to the middle of London to conceive a plan. While in a small coffee shop, Hermione realizes there are two death eaters inside waiting to kill them. Without hesitating, Hermione disarms one and hurts the other. While this isn’t her first instance of fighting a death eater, Hermione’s keen sense allows her to defeat them and essentially decolonize the power structure. In the movie, we see her do it, then watch her leave her home and walk bravely away to join Harry and Ron on their dangerous mission. With this small addition, and the image of Hermione walking alone down a deserted suburban street, the audience is reminded that Hermione isn’t just clever-she’s courageous,too. Women play a significant role in the climactic final battle.As for Mrs. Weasley, Ron and Ginny’s kindly housewife mother who reveals herself to be a fierce fighter.In Harry Potter and...
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...20 percent(IWPR). Watson was born on April 15, 1990. When she was nine years old, she became a household name when she was cast in the Harry Potter series. Emma only auditioned for the Hermione part because her friends did and thought it would "be a laugh." She has starred in all eight of the Harry Potter movies and has gone to do great roles in other movies. Even though Emma Watson became a world-famous actress, she did not let that get in the way of her education. Watson went to Brown University in 2009, while she was still playing her role as Hermione Granger. She took a year off to act in several movies, but she eventually received her bachelor's degree in English Literature. Emma Watson may be known to most people as Hermione Granger but she also should be known as...
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...While “[h]istorically, nurses deferred to physicians,” (Hoeve, Jansen, Roodbol, 2013, p. 296), this is still seen as the case within most media, including Harry Potter. For example, during the sixth book of the series, a student suffers an injury, and instead of Madam Pomfrey treating the student, as is her job, another professor who was seen as more competent in regards to the injury, preformed the treatment, before the student was transferred to the books equivalent of a hospital. This instance shows that even though nurses might be recognized as medical professionals, the media still does not promote this fact. Nevertheless, there has been an obvious response to the misinformation on nursing in the media, with nurses collaborating, and speaking up to correct, and dismantle the negative stereotypes that they are subjected...
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...Bryntirion. Finally I’ll say how the industry should change and how it can be made more aware off in schools. First let’s start with how women were treated in films in the early 1900’s. Women were always given the role as the housewife’s, the weak victim who need a male hero to save them or the slag of the film. Everyone thinks the industry has made lots of progress since then. However the scary fact is, the only thing that has changed is the time period. From 2007 to 2012, The...
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...research was done using the one topic that segregates men from women that is their choices. When it comes to choosing novels it is assumed in most cases that women prefer thrillers and romantic genre while men prefer more mystery genre but through my research I have come to conclusions with the fact that the novel choices of men are less emotional when compared to women but there are a few cases of exceptions. The purpose of this research paper was to find out whether females still read more emotional centered novels than males using survey techniques. Key Terms: Emotions, Gender, Novels This research was conducted for the purpose of understanding human behaviors and gender stereotypes within those behaviors. Emotions are an important aspect for humans to make judgments and choices (Huebner, Dwyer, & Hauser, 2009) hence my research will be based on the choices we make and whether gender plays a role in it or not. Objectives Primary Objective: * To find out whether there are male students who choose emotional novels as compared to females in Manipal University, Dubai. Also, whether females do not choose to read emotional novels regardless of the general stereotype of their emotional behavior. Secondary Objective: * To find out what genres of novels the students of Manipal University prefer * To find out their favorite novelists * To find out which sex reads the most number of novels Literature Review A novel is a fictitious prose narrative of book...
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...Sociologists suggests, there exists difference between sex and gender. Sex is the biological classification and gender is the outcome of social construction of separate roles of males and females. “,,what we call ‘men and ‘women’ are bodies that have generally been trainedin either the interruption of desire (women) or its free flow (men)..” – Halberstein (Gaga Feminism 2012: 12) Masculinity and femininity, or other gender roles such as androgyny, are not inborn that is children are taught these traits. As soon as a child is identified as being a male or female then everybody start treating him or her as such. Children learn to move in gendered ways through the support of their environment. They are taught the gendered roles projected by someone who is female or male. As the child grows up, he develops his identity, to know how to interact with others and learn the role to play in the society. (Lorber, Judith. 2005.) There are many drivers involved in the socialization process, which transfers the traditional role to the children and henceforth leading to occupational segregation later on. One set of gender socialization occur between parents and offspring, parents are considered to be the primary agency in the process of socialization, they are inclined to interact with boys and girls in a discrete manner. One of the most influential driver of the socialization process is the mass media. In mainstream media, stereotyping is a standard way of characterizing people, leading...
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...Being a ‘Team’ Player: The Linguistic Alteration of Identity in Online Communities Dedicated to The Hunger Games In the first chapter of Gender and Language, Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet discuss how the connection between language and gender enables a “continual performance” of gendered interactions (33), which, in turn, enables “social reproduction” founded on the separate categories of male and female. They argue that language not only reflects gendered categories but “constructs and maintains these categories” (34). Being such strong categories, they claim it is “impossible” to escape gendered behavior and not influence others to give gendered responses (50). In a later chapter, Eckert and McConnell-Ginet discuss how “gender schemas and ideologies” are implied and interpreted (203). Using an example from a university setting, the authors illustrate their point that the assumption of gender may not result from “the particulars of our exchange but in familiar gender stereotypes” (204). If no specific clues or pronouns are given during the exchange of information, presuppositions relying on stereotypes often emerge. Not only do stereotypes and behavior fill the linguistic gaps, but the power in individual words alone is a cause for concern. Sally McConnell-Ginet explores this further in her article “Words in the World: How and Why Meanings Can Matter.” She argues that single words can carry multiple meanings in each use whether the speaker means them to or not...
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...The word feminism is defined as the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes. The word feminism has a negative connotation in today's society, but many activists are working to fight this stigma. In order to persuade the nation towards gender equality, Emma Watson delivered her “Gender Equality is Your Issue too” speech to the country to promote her launch of the HeforShe campaign. The first way Watson achieves her purposes is by using pathos to appeal to the nations emotions. Watson discusses growing up and being a victim of gender inequality; “When at 14 I started being sexualized by certain elements of the press” (Watson). She does this to appeal to the public's emotions. Doing this, she is persuading the audience...
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...foregoing, there is an ongoing debate about gender-based marketing and in particular with gender-based marketing being focused on young children. . One of the events that triggered this debate was when LEGO came out with a product line for girls called Friends. The TV ad shows wonderful town of Heartlake where “Stephanie” and her friends get to enjoy “all the things girls love”: interior decorating, getting pedicures and baking cupcakes. The sets feature taller and shapelier feminine figurines that lock into pink, purple and pastel green settings, such as a dream house, a splash pool and a beauty shop. LEGO has created this product based on four years of behavioral research. This research purportedly led them to the conclusion that girls like everything pink, romantic and cute [5]. The product has generated outrage. The company was accused by many parents of feeding kids the gender stereotypes and locking them in to blue and pink roles in very young age. Marketing to children is even more of a grey area than marketing to women. When it comes to child psychology the foundation of any debate is the question as to whether their tastes are a product of either nature or nurture. The recent research leads to conclusion that a lot of nature is actually nurtured [6]. Such things as taste, social norms, roles and behavior form as a result of our experiences and observations. It’s not a secret that to this day, even in western society, gender roles are clearly defined and imposed through...
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...Harry Potter- The first Harry Potter book came out in 1997 and the series became very popular among children and adults alike. The series taught lessons about racial and gender equality to children. Spongebob- The first season of Spongebob came out in 1999. The show became popular with children and episodes are still being made to this day. Kurt Cobain’s Suicide- Kurt Cobain, the lead singer of Nirvana successfully committed suicide after multiple previous attempts. He was well known and very famous. LA Riot beatings- The LA riots were the result of four officers who used excessive force on Rodney King, an African American man, not being tried for the crime. The riots highlighted racial divisions. Facebook- Facebook was launched in 2004 and became a very popular social media website. It is still popular today. Hurricane Katrina-...
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...FILM MEDIA CONSUMPTION HABITS AMONG YOUNG POPULATION IN URBAN AREA Abstract This article seeks to demonstrate how the factors like internet, globalization and growth in technology changed the youth mindset towards consumption of Films & TV, the big question behind this issue is that how far these changes in media helping Film & TV industry, it actually depends lot of attributes. The research is the fine way to analyze this issue, research with the youngsters who are accounted to large no in the total viewership. By doing the research we can identify which important factor drives them to make decisions in media consumptions such as behavior, flavor, environment, technology, and modernization economic growth. By comparing the result with current scenario we can find out some interesting conclusions, which will help us to understand the media business well. 1 INDEX S.No 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 Particulars Introduction Indian Entertainment & Media Industry Literature review Methodology Research Instrument Data Analysis Conclusions Limitations Page No. 03 04 07 09 10 15 49 50 2 Introduction We all watch TV, read newspapers and magazines, and we also go to see films. These are different types of communication with our fellow human beings. Beyond the physical requirements of food and shelter, man has now another fundamental need that is the need to communicate. The urge for communication is an important one and in our contemporary civilization, it has become necessity for...
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...chapters you have used and NOT the editors(s) of the book. 1. Harvard method of citation in the text: (author year) When you are drawing from, paraphrasing or summarising another writer’s work, but NOT quoting directly from them, you must provide a reference as follows: 1.a. Single author of book or chapter: In a book by Said (1978) Orientalism was investigated as.... Orientalism was investigated (Said 1978) as.... When an author has published more than one cited document in the same year these are distinguished by adding lower case letters after the year within the brackets, which should also be used in the bibliography (see 4.i. below): Blunt (1994a) has discussed the impact of travel, gender and imperialism. He has also examined the impact of globalization on travel (Blunt 1994b). 1.b. Two or three authors: In the book by Driver and Rose (1992), ..... 1.c. More than three authors: Benner et al (1996) conclude that .... If more than one citation is referred to within a sentence, list them all in the following form, by date and then alphabetically: There are indications that passive smoking is potentially threatening to the health............ (Francome and Marks 1996; Bunton 1995; Lupton 1995) 2. Harvard method of quoting in the text: (author year, page) When you are quoting directly from another writer’s work you must provide a reference as follows. 2.a. Short quotations...
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