...Media has changed people’s perception about different kinds of ideologies. One of the most powerful visual media that shapes our society is advertisement. It is almost inevitable to ignore advertisements and attempt to remain unaffected, butadvertisements both reflect and shape society norms. Compare to when society was more restricted by conservative regulations, such as Hayes Law, increasing numbers of advertisements in western culture allow queer people to represent in ways that are inclusive and respectful. Many companies have chosen to target on homosexual people who comprised a large potential market. Companies provide positive queer images in exchange for queer people’s good will and support. An example is Expedia’s Find Your Understanding, an ad released on Oct 2nd, has gained more than 2.2 million views. It is a moving tale told by Artie Goldstein, a retired business owner who described his emotion and reaction while traveling to his daughter’s, Vickie’s marriage with another woman. “That startled me. I told her, this is not the dream I have for my daughter,” said Artie when his daughter first asked his permission for marrying another woman. His arrival at his daughter’s wedding and witnessing how happy his daughter is were the turning points. “ You come to terms with it and say this is the nature order of things in your life, and it is supposed to be this way,” he said. His apprehension turned into true acceptance. I decided to pick this video as my analysis...
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...Do you have any recollection or memory of your own self before you were born? Do you remember shifting through a menu similar to that of McDonald’s and selecting the color of your hair? What about the color of your skin, or maybe your height? Of course you don’t. However, if you were given the opportunity to completely change the person you’ve worked hard to mold into what you currently call you, would you take it? Again, you most likely wouldn’t. Your physical body, your thoughts, imagination, personality--all make up the whole you. You didn’t choose to be you, you just are. Sadly, throughout the course of history, we, as a collective society, have scrutinized those who were considered “different” simply because we were scared. No matter what the textbooks or historians say, discrimination is the direct result of fear and ignorance. It is a superficial, false hate. How would one define this false hate? Well, if we were to go with the literal definition, according to Webster’s dictionary, hate is the feeling or animosity toward someone[1]. Another widely accepted description of hatred is that it’s very similar to love, often blinding, and making people prone to believe things that are definitely not true. Oftentimes, many of us fall victim to this, and feelings of animosity and prejudice begin to stir in our minds; sometimes these feelings are reflected in our actions. What’s more, the sad part is that same prejudice and feelings of hatred have no backbone—they can’t be supported...
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...Reportedly, over half of all marriages end in divorce. There are many arguments opposing and supporting the legalization and legal acknowledgement of marriage between two people of the same sex. My question is; should anybody oppose this situation using the argument that the traditionally heterosexual idea of marriage is ‘critical’ for the well-being of society? Specifically keeping in mind the moral condition of our society today? Homosexuality is not a new trend mysteriously sweeping the nation; it has, in fact, been a part of our country’s society since its founding. However, only in recent times has homosexuality been widely recognized as anything other than a psychological disorder. People are beginning to see it as a trait (whether it is cause by genetics or environment) that a person has the right to embrace. There are many legitimate arguments proposing that homosexual couples have a right to enter into legally recognized marriages. I find some of these arguments particularly compelling and in this paper I will use the utilitarian perspective to illustrate why same-sex marriage is indeed permissible both morally and legally. It is written in the United States Constitution that each individual has the right to the pursuit of happiness, and the United States Supreme Court has stated that...
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...The play, The Laramie Project by Moises Kaufman, uses long, uninterrupted monologues to show a character's full views about the murder of Matthew Shepard, and homosexuality in general. Juxtaposition is often used within a monologue to show the discrepancies that some people in the town feel about the Matthew Shepard incident. An example would be, “Moment: One of Ours.” In the previous moment, Harry Woods, and Matt Galloway give emotional interviews about all the support people had shown for Matt at the homecoming parade. However, this is all juxtaposed by Sherry Johnson’s monologue in the next moment, where she goes on to say, “A lot of it is my feeling that the media is portraying Matthew Shepard as a saint, and making kim a martyr. And I don’t think he was.” She then misinterprets facts about Matthew to justify her feelings about him. “It’s scary. You know about his character and spreading AIDS and a few other things, you know, being the kind of person that he was. He was, he was just...
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...to church on Saturday. I thought that was strange considering my own family only went to church on Sunday. As I grew older I realized that my friend belongs to the Seven Day Adventist Church and my family attended a Primitive Baptist Church. I realized that our church services were vastly different, but the message of the savoir in Christ was essentially the same. This experience opened my eyes up to the fact that people could look the same but have entirely different faiths. In recent years there has been a tacit conflict between the African American Church and the lesbian, gay, transgender community. This conflict has taught me that my own race, African Americans generally do not like the thought that is associated with homosexuality. My cultural history has taught me that homosexuality is an abomination and all homosexuals are condemned to the pits of hell. If you have the homosexual conversation...
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... PSYCHOLOGY and CHRISTIANITY 2 Abstract This entire book explains how the two books of God can be consolidated to provide the needs of the whole man. The author stated that all truth is God’s and everything that he made was good. Psychology is the study of human behavior and theology is the study of religion; both perspectives are disciplines that are learned. Integration will allow a better understanding of human behavior which neither perspective can do along. Since the Christian faith could not support man along, the mentally challenged suffered. Critics stated that the Christian faith did not keep Bible law concerning love and acceptance of homosexuality; the faith didn’t have the science or intellect to cure sickness, distorted perceptions and mental defects. Sin brought the fall of man and brokenness; yet, science through testings, assumptions, methods, experiments and discoveries were needed to fully care for humans; a holistic approach was needed to cure man. The Church was challenged to provide supreme knowledge to care for souls which lead to many new worldviews which were made up of disciplines that governed people’s lives. These worldviews have Enemies and Allies which were obstacles to integration. The Church accepted psychological perspectives to help the mentally ill; they vacillated in their belief and had attitudes towards the scriptures; this is why the work to restore man could...
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...Rochelle Peeler 26 April 2011 Living with Homosexuals The Research Edition Homosexuality and parenting are not mutually exclusive. There are thousands of same-sex couples raising children together throughout the world. These families are essentially caught in a social tug of war between accepted social norms and personal well-being. Not all people know that homosexual parents are just like any other heterosexual parents. Those who oppose this kind of life style have a tendency to create negative images of homosexual families and calling the parenting skills of same sex couples into question. Opposition to the gay community and non-traditional families often arises from stereotypes about homosexuals related to the labeling of an individual based upon masculine or feminine characteristics. Extreme masculinity or femininity tends to make others uneasy and apprehensive about the motivation for the behavior. There are some who are afraid that gay men and lesbian women are contagious and essentially the “carriers of the scourge” (Johnson and O’Connor, “For Lesbian Parents,”). A person who is homosexual does not intentionally impose their sexuality on others. Homosexuals do not hide from the society that sometimes shuns them, in fact, same sex couples try to give back to the community more then they deserve. Margot Lee Rawsthrone from the University of Sydney, Australia explains to the reader in great detail that some of the people in the gay and lesbian community are doing their...
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...questioned two Christian denominations, one who accepts the LGBT movement, and one who objects it. I was hoping to get a broad perspective of acceptance and the conformity by our society, from two avenues of Christianity who accept and deny homosexuality, as a sin. Originally, I finished high school in a small community town in southern New Mexico, and the majority ethnic groups were Europeans and Hispanics....
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...reality is. The role of media in democracy is to represent every perspective and to provide well-researched and accurate information to create an educated and involved society. Media’s representations impact our society’s perception and shared reality. The way media represents a certain topic creates a public perception. Because of media framing, they can show us certain sides of an issue or shine a light on one perspective while effectively dimming the light on another. Because of this, we create perceptions based off of information that may not be whole. With these perceptions, we begin to construct a social reality. Once this reality is created, it is difficult to change it even if we find contradicting information. Because of these reasons, the way media represents information is crucial. The issue that will be discussed in this paper is that of gay marriage, stereotypes of homosexuals, and the scientific side of homosexuality. The way media has represented this topic over the past 30 years has varied immensely. We’ve come a long way over the past couple decades and homosexuality is now widely discussed in all forms of media including news, television, advertisements, movies, books, magazines and politics. It is important to close the gaps between the perception, the reality, and the representation of the way media portrays homosexuality. Identifying differences between the representations of homosexuality decades ago compared with now will provide necessary information...
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...Therefore, in the study, the authors want to know the change about younger generation’s opinion toward same-sex marriage. The authors want to know whether the younger generation is more acceptable about same-sex marriage. The authors focus only college students in the study. Thus, to find out the attitude of younger generation, the authors have designed a series of study. The authors expected to interview 15 college students with 30 designed open-ended questions about same-sex marriage. The question can be divided into three parts which are “How would people react if others are gay”, “How would people react if he/she is gay” and “What people's opinion about same-sex marriage”. The authors then classified the answers of the interview, analyzing the answer and drawing a conclusion about what the authors had found in the end. Keywords: Same-sex marriage; Open-minded; Younger generation 1. Introduction Nowadays, attitudes toward homosexuality have shown marked liberalization, and attitudes toward same-sex marriage have also...
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...Pink Triangle Experiences I was a person who maintain a neutral position on homosexuality because I want to respect their sexual preferences, and want to understand people who do not like homosexuality at same time. I thought homosexuality was their choices so people who against the homosexuality could show their feelings. However, wearing pink triangle for two weeks change my thoughts and perspectives on homosexuality. In this paper, I will address how I felt and how my thoughts changed last two weeks. When professor distributed pink triangles during class, I was not sure whether I pick up or not because my community is not open to homosexuals, and I was worried about how people would view me. Also, I felt lots of pressures before I picked up pink triangle pin because all of my classmates chose to get a pink triangle. The reason I chose to get a pink triangle was because I want to test myself about homosexuality and how I view them deep in my heart. While I wear a pink triangle during last two weeks, I faced lots of difficult situations with people who are against the homosexuality. The most difficult situation was parent’s complaint after parents’ meeting. On April 28th, I had parents meeting with my students’ parents, I discussed my students’ problems and developments with their parents. During the meeting, lots of parents noticed about pink triangle on my chest, and they asked me about the meaning of the triangle. I told them...
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...In the contemporary dispute over homosexuality within the Church, how and in what balance can the Anglican three-legged stool of Scripture, tradition and reason be used as a starting point for the benefit of the whole Church and gay and lesbian people in particular? The issue of homosexuality is a vital one for all churches. The Anglican Church is one of those that contains proponents on both sides of the argument and one of the ways it has viewed revelation is to see it being arrived at through a three fold cord- Scripture, tradition and reason. The essay’s main concern will be with experience and the dialogue of the interpretive community. This is because in an area of strong disagreement dialogue and the interpreters themselves are the keys to how both Scripture and tradition should be used. Natural law seems to be philosophically dead and yet the naturalness of an act is still used by some as an argument against homosexuality. As for science, it has offered no firm conclusions about why some people are homosexual. Therefore this essay will not cover these areas. SCRIPTURE “Slavery seeks refuge in the Bible only in its last extremity…. Goaded to frenzy in its conflicts with conscience and common sense, … it courses up and down the Bible, ‘seeking rest and finding none.’ The law of love, glowing on every page, flashes through its anguish and despair.” (Theodore Dwight Weld, The Bible Against Slavery: or, An Inquiry into the Genius of the Mosaic System, and the Teaching...
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...Week 8 Assignment: Quiz Name: Tricia Piazza Multiple Choice – 2 Points Each 1. The elderly share the characteristics of minority groups in which of the following ways? a. voluntary membership b. out-group marriages c. unequal treatment in employment d. weak sense of group solidarity 2. The Supreme Court ruled in 2008 that employers have the burden to prove laying off older workers is not based on age but __________. a. “some reasonable factor” b. “on age discrimination” c. “bias for younger workers” d. none of these 3. Which of the following is true about worker protections based on age? a. Firing workers because they are old violates federal law. b. Firing an older worker to replace them with someone over the age of 40. c. Courts have upheld the right of businesses to lay off older workers for economic reasons. d. all of these 4. Poverty rates for the elderly have a. increased. b. remained constant. c. declined for all racial groups. d. declined for white women only. 5. The dramatic increase in the number of people aged 65 and older is a consequence of which of the following? a. declining mortality rates b. immigrant sponsorship of older relatives c. increases in the number of Americans with health insurance d. all of these 6. Ageism...
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...Jonathan Chow Justin Bonus Phuah Kah Hock Wang Wei Shen INTRODUCTION In this report we will discuss about sexuality in general such as homosexuality. We will look further into the LGBT community between Asian and Western countries. Homosexuality has been a characteristic of human culture since the course of the 19th century. After the modern gay rights movement that began in 1969, in America, more people around the world started to change their mindset of seeing gay rights as “a mental illness to cure” to having more people trying to understand LGBT through biology, psychology, history and cultural variations of sexual practices and identity. We chose this topic because, gay rights has always been a sensitive topic for Malaysians today, this is mainly due to the fact that the government retains the colonial era penal code criminalizing sodomy and shaped by Islam, the official religion in Malaysia. In addition to the secular law, Muslim citizens may also be charged in special Islamic courts, the Syariah Court. In this report we will discuss the religious perspective of Asian and Western countries about homosexuality. We will go through the meaning of homosexuality in detail and ethical perspectives between Asian countries and western countries. Revealing statistical numbers on homosexuality problems and suggestions on how to be ethical when dealing with sexuality. We will also list Asian and western countries around the world that have conformed and accepted gender...
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...Homosexuality From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about homosexuality in humans. For homosexuality in other animals, see Homosexual behavior in animals. Sexual orientation Male and female symbols overlaid Sexual orientations Asexual Bisexual Heterosexual Homosexual Non-binary categories Androphilia and gynephilia Non-heterosexual Pansexuality Polysexuality Queer Research Biological Human female sexuality Human male sexuality Demographics Environment Hetero/homosexual continuum Kinsey scale Klein Grid Neuroscientific Queer studies Sexology Timeline of sexual orientation and medicine Non-human animals Animal sexual behaviour Non-reproductive sexual behavior in animals Homosexual behavior in animals (list) Category Category v t e Part of a series on Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people LGBT flag Sexual orientation Homosexuality Demographics Biology Environment History LGBT history Timeline Social movements Culture LGBT community Coming out Pride Slang Symbols Gay village Rights Laws around the world Marriage Union Adoption LGBT parenting Military service Legal aspects of transgenderism Intersex human rights Social attitudes Heteronormativity LGBT stereotypes Queer Religion and homosexuality Religion and transgender Prejudice / Violence AIDS stigma Anti-intersex Biphobia Genderism Heterosexism Homophobia Lesbophobia Binarism Sexualism Suicide among LGBT youth Transphobia Violence against LGBT people LGBT trafficking ...
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