...Caitlin Cataldi Professor Delores Zumwalt English 1302 June 22, 2013 Romance ideals Love is like an addiction to drugs. Some people crave it while others fear it. We want intimacy, but we also fear it because we are scared of commitment, being close to someone or even being alone. Within society, people seem to invest more time in finding love immediately than they do in grasping the real concept of love. In a typical college town, you would see many teenagers hanging out in groups rather than hanging out individually. Hanging out in groups allows for less attachment and just looking to have a good time with the people you know. It is less risky and has less potential to being hurt. Spending time one on one allows one to build actual feelings for one another, but “the date” could lead to something that one might regret including sexual encounters. It is more risky and has more potential to being hurt. We tend to think that the only way to be happy in life is to find a loved one and spend the rest of our lives with that significant other. Love is more varied and equally satisfying. Our view of love is inaccurate. When people are powerfully attracted to one another, they discuss having “chemistry” which only turns out to be a metaphor. When you are in love, there are a lot of chemicals reacting in your brain and body. In Love: The Chemical Reaction, Lauren Slater discusses “that certain powerful chemicals in our bodies, especially dopamine, serotonin and oxytocin, stimulate...
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...Hooking Up: The College Experience The situation is one played out in soap operas, many a movie, and every weekend on college campuses across the nation. Boy meets girl, boy and girl get drunk, and boy and girl wake up together the next morning. It’s the sensation that’s gripping the nation, hooking up. By the time of their graduation the average college student has had around seven of these encounters, twenty-eight percent of graduates have had more than ten while twenty-four percent of graduates never have participated in the culture (James, 2009). Hooking up has been viewed as degrading, liberating, dangerous, and as no different than prostitution. However, the opinion that seems to be most prevalent is that the hook up culture is fun and harmless. In order to fully understand the hook up culture we must examine how this culture is affecting its participant’s sexuality and their future relationships. In order to answer this question we need to first understand what the controversies surrounding the hook up culture are; why the hook up culture has become so prevalent in today’s society; how the hook up culture has possibly desensitized us to sexual assaults; finally and probably most important we need to understand what the impacts upon the future relationships and sexuality of those who engage in the hooking up culture are. The hook up culture that exists in today’s society, specifically in college, is a very hotly debated topic among college students, professors, the...
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...The Hook-up generation has changed the meaning of what we used to call dating in a more traditional way in America Culture. As we can recall in how the whole dating game started it begun by a simple old-fashion way for the guy taking the first step to approach the girl and ask her for a date. Moreover, and after a while of them dating this relationship had the potential to developed into a more serious relationship, and perhaps a marriage proposal from the guy to the girl as his future bride to form a family later on. In recent decades, all of this had been changed by what we know as the Hook-up Culture in America. Although, the Hook-up life style has many sexual pleasures the people enjoy but, it too has a serious risk factors to consider...
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...Adam Nyre Sociology 101 Assignment 1 Dating and Sex among College Students Dating and Sex should be seen as an intertwined idea in society, but in today’s world and in the college world specifically these two ideas have different meanings and are practiced at different times. In order to prove my point I will have to conduct an experiment in which I discover two variables, alcohol and co-ed dorms, and through these variables I hope to achieve a conclusion that sex and dating are two different concepts when it comes to college students. In the beginning of my experiment I would first select a group of individuals to study, who would be male and female college students ranging from the ages of freshman to sophomore. With this I would introduce my first variable, that seems to have a big effect on college students, and that would be the use of alcohol. When people become intoxicated there decision-making becomes impaired and they might wake up in the morning with regrets. Most people are warned about rape and need to be around people to look after them when they are drunk. This usually doesn’t happen with people who have a partner and are dating. In order to discover if this idea correlates with the topic I would conduct a survey of college students both male and female, freshman to seniors, and see what their experiences tell us. To conduct a survey, I would have people answer the questions of: Have you ever had sex with someone random while sober? Have you...
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...through the four developmental domains (cognitive, social, emotional and physical), with an emphasis on college student research. The cognitive domain deals with how one thinks,...
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...Sexual assault is something students often hear on college campuses. It is a quiet whisper among college age students. Girls talk about how they are not going to report it to the school because they do not want to have to deal with the process and what people will say about them. With eighty five schools currently under review by the federal government for how they have handled sexual assault cases in the past, it is something that has come more into light in the past year due to the federal government coming up with the list of schools. Sexual assault is something that is so often a topic that our nation is ashamed about and why is that the case? Guilford College is one of the eighty five schools that is under review by the federal government....
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...Name is Betty Johnson and I am 30 years old. I am writing to you because I am very concerned with the future of the citizens in this country. Throughout my life poverty has been Americas "Darkest Secret". I never Really hear news Reports on the growing percentage of Americans living in poverty, or the ways the government is trying to fix this issue. I grew up in Detroit, Michigan where more than a third of residents live below the poverty line (Sasha Abramsky, "America's Shameful Poverty Stats"). Throughout my childhood I have watched many friends' families struggle financially. Sometimes my friends would go without eating for a couple of days simply because they could not afford it. I would offer them food but they would kindly decline because they were so embarrassed because of their situation. They would wear clothes that wouldn't fit them because they couldn't afford to buy new clothes. They would miss school to watch their little siblings because their mom was a single parent and had to work all day everyday just so she could feed them. They didn't even apply to college because they knew they had to immediately pick up a crapy job so they could help their mom pay the bills. The list goes on. All of this is happening under your supervision and it doesn't seem like much is affectively fixing this issue. America's lowest percentage of citizens living below the poverty line was 11.1 percent in 1973. It reached 15.2 percent in 1983 then dropped again to 11.3 percent in 2000...
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...Sexual Revolution. There is no clear-cut dating pattern that we see now, but dating (especially for college-aged adults) is centered on “"Hooking Up",” a vague term that can encompass anything from kissing to having sex. Hooking up with another individual can be one time, or it can be consistent with the same person. On a majority of college campuses, we see couples “"Hooking Up"” with each other consistently, but do not allow themselves to become involved in a romantic relationship. According to random-sampling research done by Norval Glenn and Elizabeth Marquardt, “Only 50 percent of college women seniors reported having been asked on six or more dates by men since coming to college, and a third of women surveyed said they had been asked on two dates or fewer. Young women and men more often ‘hang out’ rather than go on planned dates... They report that because they can hang out or ‘Hook up’ with a guy over a period of time and still not know if they are a couple, women often initiate ‘the talk’ in which they ask, ‘Are we committed or not?’ When she asks, he...
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...Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s “The Yellow Wall-Paper” prompted him to collect essays for this book. He goes on to explain that “given the ubiquity of the text within various academic settings, I was also struck by the absence of attention to the text within pedagogical contexts. Despite the large (and steadily growing) body of criticism to the story, very little of it explicitly addresses its importance as a tool to facilitate learning or various ways in which to make use of the text in the classroom” (3). As a collection, Weinstock’s The Pedagogical Wallpaper contains informed, detailed, and diverse analysis that attempts to shore up the absence of “pedagogical possibilities” concerning Gilman’s transgressive short story (9). Among the contributors are a MOO space specialist, a Gilman scholar, a queer theorist, an existentialist, a formalist, and several reader/student-response theorists. Because each essayist presents a distinct critical perspective on Gilman’s text, each essay is likewise concerned with “how the narrative teaches and how to teach the narrative” (5). Thus, it seems to me that Weinstock’s The Pedagogical Wallpaper resonates with Pedagogy’s conviction that teaching is central to our work as scholars and educators, no matter what our particular perspective. Indeed, Weinstock’s commitment to diverse and instructive pedagogical prompts is persuasive and liberating, affording ample avenues for new...
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...slang comes along that draws a bright red line between young and old. In 2012, that slang term is YOLO. If you are over 25, YOLO likely means nothing to you. If you are under 25, you may be so familiar with YOLO that you’re already completely sick of it. A tip to the oldsters: YOLO is an acronym for “You Only Live Once.” It shot to fame earlier this year thanks to the rapper Drake, whose song “The Motto” has the hook, “You only live once, that’s the motto...YOLO, and we ’bout it every day, every day, every day.” After a video for the song was released in February, the buzzword spread quickly among the high school and college-age set by word of mouth, not just in person but through the turbocharged vehicle of social media. How quickly? Consider the lists of slang compiled every semester by students of Connie Eble, a professor of English at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. YOLO was entirely absent from the submissions by Eble’s fall 2011 classes. By the spring semester, YOLO had become the most frequently mentioned slang term among the students, just edging out “totes” for “totally” and “cray” (or “cray-cray”) for “crazy.” What accounts for the meteoric rise of YOLO, and how has it gone virtually unnoticed by nonmillennials? Its appeal to the youthful is self-evident. YOLO as a shorthand mantra defines youth, on a certain level. What is teenagehood if not the adventurous, often foolhardy, desire to test the limits of acceptable behavior—because hey, why...
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...Hooking up Name Institution Affiliation Premarital sex is a prevalent issue dominant mainly in those aged between their late teens and their mid-twenties. In the contemporary society, it not only dominates relationships but it has also presented itself in the form of casual sex between people who are not in a relationship with one another also known as hooking up. Despite hook ups being very evident among college students, they are not limited to students per se. Different cultures and people view the participants in hookups from diverse moral perspectives, in this essay, we shall evaluate the role hookups and its effects on the esteems and reputations of both men and women, the contrast between sex in hookups and intimacy in relationships, the sexual double standard related to sexuality and the effect of hooking up on culture. Sexuality and sex being sensitive issues have their roles in the building or diminishing of the self-esteem of the partakers. According to Bearak & England (2014), men are more into casual sex while women are more interested in relationships. They argue that this could be due to the fact that women who readily give in are considered as too sexual lowering their self-esteem while men who profess their desire for casual sex are taken as normal since it is taken that the desire for sex in men is hard wired. According to statistics from the studies they carried out, 16% and 48% of women and men respectively would like to have more chances to hookup...
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...bully right in the face. Cyber bullying is when someone is tormented, threatened, harassed, humiliated, or just a target by a mobile phone or internet, most of the time, both. Cyber bullying can include anything from the list provided above, by text message, instant message, email, blogs, social websites, etc. As more and more children gain access to these, the more people are being harmed. This topic is usually forgotten about once children reach 18, out of high school, which makes the severity of the topic increase. Cyber bullying does not go away with age, race, ethnicity, eye color, hair color, wealth, etc, it just takes on a different name with more consequences that could affect someone for the rest of their life. While growing up, movies make a huge influence on what we think is right and wrong. Movies like “Mean Girls” show a stereotype of what high school is like and what bullying can do. But the results of the movie mean girls does not necessarily show all of what bullying can do to one person. Mean Girls show us what walking through the halls of what popularity and acceptance looks like from peers. In this movie, they use Burn...
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...ABSTRACT Online gaming has emerged as a popular and successful source of entertainment and play for people of all ages, especially for the students. It refers to the games that are played over some forms of computer network, typically on the internet. These games are played online, in which you can connect with multiple players. It is normally platform independent, relying on the web browser and appropriate plug-in It is one of the best inventions that are made ever by human beings. It has the ability to link players together. It has been one of the most popular activities in entertaining for younger people. Because of this, almost everybody is into it. Its fantastic characteristic makes a lot of students become hook on it. It provides entertainment and at the same time, online socialization with different kind of people. But sometimes, it causes negative effects. It has two kinds of impacts: the good and bad. It depends on the player itself. Studies show that online gaming is a major source of addiction, especially to college students. Because of its ability to link multiplayers together, most students become more addicted to it. They keep on playing and playing because it gives them thrill until it becomes a part of their lifestyle. This research study shows how online gaming can be an addiction and its possible effects on the students. A. BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY Education is an important element of investment in human capital and economic growth. Secondary education...
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...is for concealed hand gun license owners to carry openly. Members of Moms Demand Action are troubled with the new law. Moms Demand Action was created after the Sandy Hook’s shooting, where Adam Lanza had taken the lives of 20 students, ages of 6 to 7, and six adults. Shortly after, Shannon Watts created a Facebook page and reached out to people, specifically mothers who were dissatisfied with gun violence in America and the inaction of lawmakers Alexandra Chasse, a Moms Demand Action volunteer and an English as a Second Language professor at Rice University, talked about the organization and the protest at the Houston Zoo for its removal of the gun signage posted on the property on Sept. 19. “Even among industrialized nations where gun ownership is permitted, we [U.S.] happen to be an outlier. And that can be traced back the...
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...the age of six. If the child is too young to start kindergarten the year he turns five, kindergarten may technically be required since he will be turning six that school year. The word kindergarten is of German origin and means “children’s garden.” The concept was the brainchild of Friedrich Froebel, a self-educated philosophical teacher, who sought to develop a place of guided play for children to “bloom.” The first kindergarten established in England was in 1852, and the United States followed by establishing its first in 1856. Though education was required of all children in Massachusetts by that time and many other states were following suit, not all schools provided, nor required, kindergarten. Similarly, not all schools required a student to stay in school beyond a certain grade, as compulsory education initially applied only to elementary aged children. Many children were also permitted to miss portions of the school year, especially farmers’ children who were needed at home for harvesting crops and preparing for the winter. The Education Act of 1918, or the Fisher Act, was an act of British Parliament that implemented changes in progressive education and helped form many aspects of the K-12 education system used today. The Fisher Act raised...
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