...Gabrielle Doucette-Poirier Amanda Tripp American Classics December 12th 2014 Machismo The societal construct of gender is a volatile subject that has been constantly redefined through social movements for equality and rights. The image of masculinity and its definitive fragility have become more rampant in North America through advertisements and mass media. “The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber” by Ernest Hemingway offers a critical analysis of the use of violence as a testament of one’s manhood and explores a common-ground that will always delineate man: woman. Along with the short story, these ideas will be further developed through “What's Love Got to Do with It? An Evolutionary Analysis of ‘The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber,’” and “Hemingway's ‘Francis Macomber’ in Pirandellian and Freudian Perspectives.” A lack of violence in Francis Macomber paints him as the weaker man in this short story. The bold, gruff exterior of Wilson is parallel to what America used to define as manly. These two characters find that their manliness, or lack thereof, can always be overlooked when they rejoice over a woman’s misfortune. The aforementioned ideas insist that the obsession with idealized gender-roles is unrealistic in the American ethos as it is never satisfactory and often a threat to others as they are insecure in their own positions. The character of Francis Macomber is the new American man: he is handsome, married to a beautiful woman, proficient in court games...
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...Con Ciencia La libertad de expresión garantiza que puedas sostener las ideas que quieras, pero no garantiza que dichas ideas sean buenas, que sean válidas o correctas. Pero lo que mucha gente parece no entender es que la libertad de expresión es de TODOS, sin excepción. Del mismo modo que una persona tiene libertad de afirmar y expresar sus ideas (por muy absurdas que sean), otra persona tiene exactamente la misma libertad de expresar que esas ideas son erróneas. Parece difícil para algunas personas diferenciar el límite que separa las personas y las ideas (especialmente cuando las ideas son religiones). Algunas personas han adoptado e interiorizado unas ideas con tal profundidad que no son capaces de distinguirlas de su ego. No son capaces de reconocer que sólo son ideas, y consideran que son parte de su identidad. Por tanto cuando se cuestionan sus ideas, se lo toman como un ataque y una falta de respeto personal. En el momento que una persona exige respeto por sus ideas, está (irónicamente) faltando al respeto y a la libertad de expresión. Esa persona está pidiendo que sus ideas tengan una consideración especial y que los demás deben censurar sus ideas para que esa persona no se sienta ofendida. El problema no es de los demás, el problema lo tiene esa persona, por no saber reconocer las ideas, no saber reconocer el respeto, y no saber reconocer la libertad de expresión. Las ideas no tienen derechos, los derechos pertenecen a las personas. Todas las ideas pueden...
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...1. ¿Crees que todavía se mantienen tendencias discriminatorias sobre la promoción profesional, el acceso a los puestos de decisión y representación, y la segregación en torno a determinados ámbitos de ocupación de las mujeres? Creo que todavía existen este tipo de casos de segregación horizontal. Actualmente los puestos de responsabilidad dentro de las empresas aun prevalecen en la cabeza los hombres. las mujeres al llegar a los estudios son mejores que los hombres académicamente, se observa en las notas y como son ellas las que terminan sus estudios en menor tiempo respecto los hombres. Después el hombre lo tiene más fácil que la mujer a la hora de enfrentarse al mundo laboral, ya sea por machismo o por miedo las mujeres lo tienen mas complicado en comparación con los hombres. A la hora de contratar a un hombre o a una mujer el factor más influyente es el embarazo, ya que o las echan cuando terminan el contrato o le ponen restricciones a la hora de ofrecerles el puesto laboral. En algunos trabajos esto da más de si, las mujeres acceden como jefas de departamento dentro de las universidades o puestos altos ejecutivos, pero en menor peso. 2. Desde los primeros pasos hasta nuestros días han pasado miles de años, con continuos cambios en el papel de la mujer en los engranajes sociales existentes en cada momento. Enumera algunos de estos cambios en los diferentes ámbitos. Desde el inicio de la Humanidad, el papel de la mujer ha resultado determinante para el éxito de nuestra especie...
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...Fight Club In “Fight Club” by Chuck Palahniuk we follow The Narrator in his problem-riddled everyday life, and his attempt to escape it by fabricating an alternate identity. The essay focuses on themes such as masculinity vs. emasculation, violence and the connection inbetween. Secondly, the essay includes references to the theoretical text “The Crisis of Manliness”. In the text “Fight Club” we follow the unnamed narrator or The Narrator in his daily life at Microsoft. Suffering from relationship problems, self-esteems problems and an insufferable boss, The Narrator has a hard time suffering from insomnia because of this. To handle his problems, he starts a fight club with his alter ego, also known as Tyler Durden. The text uses first person narration, as we see through The Narrators eyes, but also the thought of Tyler Durden, as they are the same person, even though he is written as an independent character in chapter 6. The Narrator and Tyler Durden start fight club as a way to regain their masculinity. This violence begins in the parking lot behind a bar, where Tyler tells the Narrator to hit him. The Narrator is reluctant at first, but gives in. In return he receives a punch to the chest by Tyler. This is the beginning of The Narrators self-realization. The Narrator agrees with Tyler that self-destruction is the way to self-improvement. The Narrator mentions the fight club as not being a solution to his problem, but rather a way to escape from the problems, as mentioned...
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...Gabriel Garcia Marquez can be seen as one of the 20th century’s greatest storytellers exploring the notions of machismo and honour within a Latin-American context in Chronicle of a Death Foretold published in 1981. Chronicle of a Death Foretold follows the series of events up to and after the death of Santiago Nasar and explores the town peoples’ culpability several decades on. Through the chronicle of events Marquez explores the Latin American cultural paradigm coupled with the naivety of Santiago Nasar as a foreigner in the paradigm and how it ultimately leads to his death. By developing the notion of the ignorant foreigner, Marquez is able to recreate and explore the brutal honour code of the Hispanic paradigm. The characterisation of Nasar...
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...We saw a few examples of machismo in action in this video. Explain how the Mexican Cowboys and Wrestlers display machismo in the video? Give a few examples for each. hough popularly considered American, the traditional cowboy began with the Spanish tradition, which evolved further in what today is Mexico and the Southwestern United States into the vaquero of northern Mexico and the charro of the Jalisco and Michoacán regions The Mexican view of death is something different to our view in the United States – it’s very celebratory of the life and legacy of the people who have passed on. What is the Day of the Dead? What are some things people do to celebrate it – Give 5 examples. he Days of the Dead are celebrated in many Latin American countries but nowhere to the extent they are in Mexico. The traditions surrounding...
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...birthday party, where he got jealous since Sofía had been dancing with someone else. Ruiz shot Sofía after they got into an argument, and then shot María after she tried to get away. Former presidential candidate Salvador Nasrallah said that these murders were not a crime of passion but rather machismo. These murders...
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...Not So Wondrous: The effects of a brutal dictatorial regime illustrated by Junot Diaz The brutality of the Trujillo Regime lasted for thirty years. Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina was named the ruler of the Dominican Republic in 1930, and continued his tyranny until his assassination in 1961. El Jefe, as he was often referred to, (meaning “the boss”) was originally an army general, and took power as a dictator following the rule and overthrow of Horacio Vasquez. Under Trujillo’s rule, the intense violence in the country became overwhelming. Though he officially stepped down as president almost ten years before his assassination, he continued his command as an unelected military dictator (“History of the Dominican Republic”). Trujillo, in true dictator form, preformed horrible acts of violence. In the 1930’s, he developed a term of racial discrimination against dark-skinned Haitians called “Antihaitianismo,” and in 1937, he was responsible for the slaughter of thousands of Haitian cane-workers. He also abused his position by taking unfair advantage over Dominican citizens. “El Jefe” had the right to any woman of his choice, regardless of their age or marital status. These women were taken without consent, abused, and raped. In order to keep his people under control, Trujillo had a way of taking care of anyone who opposed these horrible acts. Torture and murder of all who opposed was very common, and always kept quiet. One of the only truly publicized cases...
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...En el siguiente análisis podemos apreciar la comparación entre el fragmento de una obra y un afiche. El primero es un fragmento de la obra teatral La Casa de Bernarda Alba, que fue escrita en 1936 por el poeta y dramaturgo español Federico Garcia Lorca, quien perteneció a la generación del 27 y fue una gran influencia en la literatura española del siglo XX. Esta obra cuenta la historia de Bernarda Alba que luego de enviudar por segunda vez a los 60 años decide vivir los siguientes ocho años en el más riguroso luto. La obra se sitúa en la España de principios del siglo XX, caracterizada por una sociedad tradicional muy violenta en la que el papel de la mujer es secundario. Otros rasgos destacados son el fanatismo religioso y el miedo a descubrir la intimidad. Con Bernarda viven sus cinco hijas (Angustias, Magdalena, Amelia, Martirio y Adela), su madre y sus dos criadas. No hay personajes masculinos que tengan diálogo en esta obra. El autor de la obra se caracteriza por sus inspiraciones del área artística, por su forma de trabajar, ya que era muy riguroso y siempre buscaba la perfección y finalmente por sus profundos conocimientos de la poesia tradicional y clásica española. La vida de Lorca fue afectada por su viaje a Nueva York, del que regresó en 1931, todas las obras escritas después del viaje presentan la siguientes características: protagonistas mayoritariamente femeninos a las que se les impide desarrollar sentimientos como el amor o la maternidad, esenciales en aquella...
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...The U.S./Mexico border is clearly distinctive with the desert of Mexico and the run-down city of Juárez overlooking the modern City of El Paso, Texas in the United States. This shows many living in Mexico how close they are to opportunity but also how difficult it is to get it by crossing the border. The theme of gender identities and the U.S./Mexico border is also made clear in The Devil’s Highway by Luis Alberto Urrea. We follow the story of the Yuma-14 crossing the Mexico/U.S. border into Arizona through extremely dangerous conditions. Gender identities are seen by the coyotes because they try to show off their machismo with their tattoos, big payments for each walker they get across the border, and higher up status compared to other village people. The story of the Yuma-14 suffer days in the desert heat causing them drastic physical problems such as becoming delusional and becoming dehydrated which for many leads to death. To cross the border for opportunity many will the...
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...Padilla 1 Alejandro Padilla Español 125 Octubre 10, 2013 Mi Herencia Cultura Hola mi nombre es Alejandro Padilla, mi herencia cultura que yo me defino con es mexicano americano. Ay varias razones que me identifico con estas dos culturas. Para empezar estaba nacido en Los Estado Unidos de América en la ciudad de Fresno en el año 1992. Mi primer idioma era español porque mis dos parientes son de México y son nacidos en Guanajuato. Este ejemplo es unas de las más importante razones que me identifico con la étnica mexicana. Estoy consciente que algunas personas no se quieren identificar con étnica mexicana por que no estaban nacidos en México pero cuando era niño menor mis padres me ensañaron de la cultura mexicana a llevando me a las fiestas, escuchando la música, comiendo y preparando la comida, y también vistiendo me con lo ropa identificada con la cultura mexicana. Una grande razón que yo me identifico también americano es que estoy nacido aquí, la mayoría de la música, televisión, y actividades están establecidas en los Estados Unidos. Por ejemplo mis dos favoritos deportes futbol americano y el baloncesto están preferidos. Un grande parte de mi infancia era a atender y participar en las fiestas mexicanas. Las fiestas incluyeron Las Posadas y Quincenarias. Cuando tenía 9 años era mi primera vez participando en las Posadas y participe hasta que tenía 12 años. Eran muy divertidas, siempre había varia comida, piñatas para abrir, y juegos. Mi familia siempre estaba en atendencia...
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...Based on the information collected during the study a high number of individuals blamed or criticized their partner (Rueda & Williams, 2016). For example, Mexican American adolescent couples tend to have communication issues because of their lack of understanding among each other. The results demonstrated that these couples tend to blame and criticize each other. Their lack of tolerance, comprehension, and support result in relationship failure. Another high score result was adaptive machismo. For Mexican American, machismo means men are superior compared to women. Men are always right and many times women are seen inferior. In addition, there were high percentages in numbers of couples whom do not take responsibility for their actions or words. Couples usually do not take accountability in relationships. Therefore, relationships do not succeed and many relationships break apart due to the lack of understanding, accountability, and...
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...it were a broadcasting of their machismo. Ramon is asserting his masculinity. The reader sees how Ramon’s masculinity affects his wife when Yunior says, “[she] seemed anxious, in her usual dispassionate way. Her hands adjusted the buckle of her belt over and over again” (Diaz, “Fiesta 1980” 24). The mother is apprehensive unlike Ramon’s extremely firm personality. The mother is restless, which is seen as she repeatedly...
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...This includes recognizing how values, beliefs, philosophies, experience, and social structures change from one society to another. (Rogers, 2016) Hector prides himself in being the main provider for the family. He will not allow his wife to accept any outside help or to work, he would rather pick up an extra job than accept help. The social worker should have an understanding of the Mexican culture before attempting to make a plan for Hector, this understanding will lead to less resistance from Hector. In Mexican culture Machismo is the male gender construction, this means the father protects and provides for the family. Machismo is also associated with domination over the wife. Women are expected to be submissive to male authority and to be devoted to the home, husband, and children (Hancock, 2005). Husbands can struggle with periods of unemployment and the fact that their role as protector and provider is slipping away. This often leads to tension in the marriage. This gender role of Mexican males explains why Hector refuses outside...
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...money and women sacrificed themselves for their husbands and families. Additionally, men were free to leave for work and pleasure because they were the ones that supported the family and put food on the table; they earned it. Men were expected to be the dominant member of the household and the women were to be self-sacrificing and loyal. Boys were to follow in their father’s footsteps and girls were taught to clean, cook, and be good wives. Marriages were fashioned by the gender specific standards of machismo and marianismo. Machismo is a word that that Merriam-Webster dictionary defines as "a strong sense of masculine pride; an exaggerated masculinity." Marianismo emphasizes femininity; women are to be humble and nurturing (Stevens 4), it is rooted in Catholicism and is referred to as a “cult of the Virgin Mary.” In Bless Me, Ultima, Antonio’s parents, Gabriel and Maria are much like the typical Mexican American married couple of their time, they demonstrate patterns of machismo and marianismo, however, Maria plays the role but she also speaks her mind, is the ruler of her house, and appears to have a stronger bond with her youngest son, Antonio than he has with his father. It is noted by one critic that “although Anaya presents Antonio's mother as conventional in her priorities and interests, readers will note, nonetheless, that Maria's constancy has a steadying influence on her impressionable son” (Fuse) thus proving that even though she is a woman in a male dominated society...
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