...especially those in Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison. Ellison utilizes this power of music to expose the raw culture of the black community and how the Invisible Man associates with it. This exposure allows for the Invisible Man to embrace his individuality, therefore allowing him to develop his new, true identity. Ellison uses many different music genres, specifically African American Gospels or jazz, to connect the Invisible Man to his roots at home. There are multiple cases where the Invisible Man has the opportunity to listen to a song pertaining to something he connects with, arousing in him a sense of homesickness. This sense of melancholy occurs most often when he...
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...Comprehension 1. Staples characterize the women he encounters in paragraph 1 as a “victim” because of the way she acts. She appears to be worried and moves to cross the street, making it clear that she feels she is a victim and finds him intimidating, even though the author is completely harmless. 2. When Staples says he has the power to “alter public space” because of his appearance. He writes this from personal experience, has noticed the way people lock their car doors and cross to the opposite side of the street. He knows he can alter just by walking through. 3. Staples walk the streets at night because he has insomnia. 4. The "making of a young thug" are those where a young man is seduced by the violence, "by the perception of themselves as tough guys." Staples also states that men are supposed to be fighters, to be hostile and have the "fighter's edge" in everything they do. 5. Staples attempts to make himself less threatening by moving with care, giving people more space, and whistling relaxing tunes while he walks places. He pays attention to how closely he is to people, makes it apparent that he is not following them, and is generally very cautious. Purpose and Audience 1. The thesis is it was in the echo of that terrified woman's footfalls that I first began to know the unwieldy inheritance I'd come into- the ability to alter public space in ugly ways. 2. He uses personal examples throughout the essay, and throws in a few direct quotes from essays he's read...
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...Superhuman powers By Shaykh Zulfiqar Ahmad Allah has made mankind an exceptional/unique creation. He has blessed humans with such features that he has indeed surpassed the rest of the creation. Allah blessed people with the noor of intellect. If your look around you, you will see how man has made effort upon his intellect. As a result of which he has produced many marvels/phenomenon. He made effort upon metal such that it became valuable. He made effort upon sand such that it became valuable. Whatever man worked on became valuable. This of this as such: Silicon is sand. Using silicon, integrated circuits are being made such that their value becomes far greater than gold of the same weight. An IC circuit if valued in contrast to gold of equal weight will be greater. Consequently we can say: “Today man has made effort upon sand and made it more valuable than gold” it’s sold at double the price. So making effort on sand makes it double in value compared to gold, what if man makes effort on himself why will he not become valuable in the eyes of Allah” Today you see aeroplanes in the air; it transports tonnes in weight through the air. O mankind, if you made effort on metal and made it fly, if you make effort on yourself why won’t you attain spiritual heights? But nowadays the direction of our effort is on the outside rather than our inner selves. That’s why outside there is progress everywhere, the latest innovations are being produced, the architecture of buildings...
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...Preliminary No. 1 of Essays on the Intellectual Powers of Man Thomas Reid Copyright ©2010–2015 All rights reserved. Jonathan Bennett [Brackets] enclose editorial explanations. Small ·dots· enclose material that has been added, but can be read as though it were part of the original text. Occasional •bullets, and also indenting of passages that are not quotations, are meant as aids to grasping the structure of a sentence or a thought. Every four-point ellipsis. . . . indicates the omission of a brief passage that seems to present more difficulty than it is worth. Longer omissions are reported between brackets in normal-sized type. First launched: April 2006 Last amended: May 2008 Contents Preface Chapter 1: Explaining the meanings of some words Chapter 2: Principles that I take for granted Chapter 3: Hypotheses Chapter 4: Analogy Chapter 5: The right way to get knowledge of the operations of the mind Chapter 6: The difficulty of attending to the operations of our own minds 1 4 17 21 25 27 29 Preliminary Thomas Reid Chapter 7: Classifying the powers of the mind Chapter 8: Social operations of mind 32 35 Preliminary Thomas Reid Preface Preface Human knowledge falls into two parts, one relating to body (material things), the other relating to mind (intellectual things). The whole system of bodies in the universe, of which we know only a very small part, can be called ‘the material world’; the whole system of minds, from the infinite creator right...
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...between gender and power. Defend your answer. In Macbeth a very important theme is that of morality. This means the difference between good and bad. In the beginning of the play, Macbeth is portrayed as being the “bravest” soldier and for being an honorable thane. We see Macbeth as being a man with morals who fights for good reasons and in honor of the king of Scotland. However as the play implies, who is “fair is foul and foul is fair,” (Act 1, Scene 1) meaning that appearance can be differing from reality. Gender and power are two topics that are shown in detail in the drama of Macbeth. With regards to gender, throughout the play we encounter how man has to have no morals at all and how man should have no remorse on the actions they do. In fact Lady Macbeth tries to be unsexed from a woman to be as strong as men: “Come, you spirits That tend on mortal thoughts, unsex me here, And fill me from the crown to the toe top-full Of direst cruelty! Make thick my blood; Stop up the access and passage to remorse” (Act 1 Scene 5). Even though Macbeth never says it out loud, Macbeth in the beginning did care about his morality and about doing right and not wrong. In fact he wasn’t sure about killing Duncan but when Lady Macbeth questioned his manhood, he decided to be a man. However we then see that after Duncan’s murder the guilt kills his sleep and thus he realized in doing wrong. But throughout the play, Macbeth is deceived more and more with power and doesn’t care anymore...
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...masculinity in the printed advertisement of Mens Biore Double Scrub. All phenomena in the advertisement are described. To present more analytical description, the signs found in the advertisement are analyzed based on Barthes’ orders of signification. Besides that, this study also employs Kress and Van Leeuwen’s method of reading images and intertextual analysis in order to obtain more comprehensive analysis. The result of this study shows that Mens Biore Double Scrub advertisement represents two different concepts of masculinity. The first one is the traditional concept of masculinity. The second one is the new concept of masculinity offered by the advertisement. Generally, words that are used to represent both concepts of masculinity are power, confidence, aggressiveness, competition, challenge, and bravery. The connotative signified success, financial independence, and physical attractiveness are emphasized to change the concept of traditional masculinity to be in line with the company’s need. Keywords: advertisement, semiotics, masculinity Abstrak: Penelitian ini berupaya untuk menganalisa representasi maskulinitas dalam iklan cetak Mens Biore Double Scrub. Seluruh fenomena dalam iklan tersebut dideskripsikan. Untuk menyajikan deskripsi yang analitis, tanda-tanda yang ditemukan dalam iklan tersebut dianalisa berdasarkan gagasan orders of signification milik Barthes. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menerapkan metode reading images yang digagas oleh Kress dan Van Leeween dan...
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...Irony of Childish Behaviors in “The Man Who Was Almost A Man” In Richard Wright’s “The Man Who Was Almost A Man”, there are a constant examples of irony that is opposite of its literal meaning in the story. This irony, in which Dave expresses his needs to be acknowledged as a adult, but he does a lot of immature acts. In “A Man Who Was Almost A Man”, Dave acts of manhood worked against him. He goes about trying to get respect in the wrong ways. He wants a gun for respect, he wants to be a real man but his mother keeps his money, and he runs away from his debts, which is something a real man would never do. Wright’s purpose for writing is to not only show how immature Dave is but to show that becoming a man is a lengthy process and t help someone else avoid those same childish acts. The transition from manhood to adulthood is quiet and force to be reckoned with but Dave shows that his childish mind has a lot to accomplish. A gun is merely a piece of metal tube in which bullets are propelled out of and a noise is given off. Dave wants a gun or metal tube for all of the wrong reasons. He believes that if he had a gun or brought a gun his co-workers would no longer treat him like an boy, in which he really is. Dave is only a young man who is trying to find his identity in his little hometown in the South. Every male wants to have power, to be masculine, and respected but if you still have a child mindset, there is no way possible that a person well ever take u serious...
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...men but celebrates a particular form of masculinity exalted by the most privileged in society. Conell and Messeschmidt suggest that there is a gender hierarchy amongst men in which particular groups of men are considered in subordination to others. The authours concept of hegemonic masculinity provides a more dynamic perspective of the existing power structures and subordination. It takes into account a wide array of sociopolitical/socioeconomic factors and cultural groups in consideration rather than approaching hegemonic masculinity in terms of binary absolutes. They also lay out the problems with granting superiority to an ideal form of masculinity which is unattainable by most men and excludes women. Drawing on empirical research and the history of hegemonic masculinity concept, this article examines the complex ways in which hegemonic masculinity is used to legitimize the power structures put in place in a patriarchy society. In patriarchy societies, people with hegemonic masculine qualities such as white, able –bodied, assertive, heterosexual males in the middle or upper class are granted more privileges hence have more power. People of color, women, persons with disabilities and homosexuals are some of the people who become marginalized by this concept. A system of subordination, whereby all individuals are measured according to a standard of masculinity espoused by a privileged few, is...
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...Macduff killed Macbeth. This is similar to many problems of society today, especially in teenage boys. Many people believe physical violence is the only way to fix their problems, which actually, it will most likely only cause a bigger one. Fights can never end up good - someone will always come out of it second best, and the other may even be caught out by the police or teachers! This leads to my next point, masculinity. "Dispute it like a man I shall do so, but I must also feel it as a man, I cannot but remember such things that were most precious to me." This is a quote from Macbeth (IV.3.26) where Macduff is ready to prove he is the more 'manly' one of both him and Macbeth. Even Lady Macbeth is willing to become more masculine so Macbeth can become king, shown in the quote under Ambition. Like Macbeth, Macduff and Lady Macbeth, people nowadays still 'need' to prove their masculinity by violence, especially teenage boys, and that is why the theme of violence is so relevant in today's society. Ambition and Power Ambition is the most obvious theme seen in Macbeth. We see ambition run amok in both Macbeth and his wife, who try so hard to fulfil their desires, that they completely change themselves. For example, Macbeth goes from a good, loyal and honset general into a murdering maniac. Ambition eventually destroyed Macbeth, and the quote on the art piece on the left shows how Macbeth used his ambition, and how his ambitious personality was so dangerous, and...
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...Janie only suffered domestic violence when Tea Cake got ill and could not control his actions making him wanting to shoot her. Tea Cake failed to kill Janie and this is where Janie found dominance within herself. She slowly started to find dominance is when she left Jody because she was unhappy and doing what she please and wanted to do. Janie started to be known for being superior within herself because she began to go against that a housewife would be, as in she played checkers and started to become more and more free. Bessie Smith wrote a poem about just because she’s a woman does not mean she can not get the man she wants. The poem as a whole means that she is just like everyone else, the poem says “I’m a good woman, I can get plenty of...
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...boy is motivated by compassion his decision to stand up t a crowd of men creates an understanding by the end of the story. In the story, David is shown as a young boy instead of a man to represent innocence. When the family of three first arries, David calls out to his dad to do something, but simply, the reply was,”I can’t do that David...It isn’t any of our business” (Dahl 7). Although David understands he needs help, he doesn’t understand that the world is not perfect and and not everything can go his way, all the time. He is losing innocence, but he is still a child with a lot of world to learn. If the author would have used a man, the idea that not fully understanding the world affects how a person impacts society would not be as strong....
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...Does Old Spice Body Wash make men more attractive? While the scent is aromatic, the product itself will not guarantee luxuries that their commercials say you will get. The commercial I am referring to is the one narrated by Isaiah Mustafa, also known as, “The Man Your Man Could Smell Like.” This body wash does not have the magical powers that are fundamental to making you rich, famous, or better looking. The only thing this bottle of soap can do for you is make you not smell like a foot. Commercials like these use rhetorical strategies to persuade the audience to buy their products. They use ethical appeals to convince an audience of the author’s credibility or character, and they also use pathos to invoke sympathy from an audience. This thirty...
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...A)Violence against Women -Wrestling with manhood -Violence is connected to manhood (real men invite confrontation, trash talk) -Fear and respect go hand in hand -Bark like a dog (subordination of women is part of the “man” package) -Comparison to women as a challenging idea (you are a “bitch”) -Chyna becomes so strong, she is stripped of femininity (later rejects public image) -violence as “deserved,” even really crazy awful sexual violence (“bark like a dog”) -“...it's only entertainment.” -Sex Trafficking (Trade) B)Gender, Beauty, Normalization -Wolf, beauty as a prerequisite for success for women -“girls learn that stories happen to 'beautiful' woman but don't happen to women who aren't beautiful” -beauty as a market and product -the female body as a constant -Kaw, Asian Americans (3% of pop., 6% of cosmetic surgeries), most likely ethnicity to get c. surgery -encouragement of self hatred -pressuring women to conform to standards of normality -media representation of Asians as “sleepy, dull, uninterested” -origins in facial reconstruction at WWI -now used to “fix” completely natural features -Valenti, beauty as a “shut the fuck up” tool -beauty is a distraction -women are too ugly or too pretty to be consequential/deserve public attention -Bordo, Slender Body -double bind: producer v. consumer -moral coding: fat is seen as lazy, thin as control -cultural...
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...Suleiman is raised in the male dominated Libyan culture, yet he develops an interesting view of both his role as a man and the role of women around him. As a young, innocent character Suleiman is perplexed by the stories he hears from older men about women and does not instinctively agree with the morality of masculine dominance. Due to his fathers frequent absence, Suleiman is raised virtually by his mother alone. This lack of a male role model results in him identifying more with the oppressed women around him, rather than developing a strong sense of dominance. Again because of the lack of a male role model, Suleiman feels discontent with himself as a man and desperately hopes to be respected among those respected men in his community. Suleiman is often told stories about women, and how they are treated by their fathers and husbands, and he is scared and confused in reaction to most of them. Cousins and friends tell him vague explanations about women, ironically intending to guide Suleiman into masculine adulthood. These stories leave Suleiman confused at the inequality of the Libyan culture but also fearful of women as if they had some mythical “curse”. Suleiman is fearfully aware of the ominous role of men, without it being explicitly taught to him. Whilst knew “what a man had to do with his wife” he didn’t quite understand why men were given societal power and freedom whilst women were to simply remain virtuous and do as they’re told. The lack of a strong, consistently...
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