...(Darwin, 1878). When deciding to play golf for the first time and join my high school’s team as a junior, I had no idea the amount of sexism I was soon to be faced with. From lack of funding for specifically the girl’s team, the noticeably fewer number of matches scheduled, and the outdated, underwhelming quantity as well as the poor quality of...
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...beliefs, we are learning skills outside of the classroom that will help us later in life. I have missed ten to fifteen days of school because I am involved in agriculture groups. 4-H and FFA have greatly shaped my life. In September, I miss four days of school because I was attending a conference in Wisconsin learning about my role in the dairy industry. In those four days, I had the chance to network with young adults from over twenty-three states and Canada. I do believe I can develop social skills in high school; however, statistics say an individual will cut ties with ninety percent of your high school peers. Also, my social skills would be limited to the individuals in a rural town. By associating at the conference, it is my duty to keep in contact and put forth effort to talk to my fellow delegates....
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...was gone, once the sun was lighting someone else’s day up. My memory had always been vivid, especially anything traumatizing. Were these the bad memories? Or were these the best ones? That answer was never clear to me, and sometimes I wondered if they would be. We’re all foolish as teenagers, whether it be the span of our years or for a single night that we sneak out. When I was young, I would stargaze thinking my teenage years would consist of sneaking out to jump into the neighbors pool with my friends, or something like going to a bonfire, a bonfire that was purely just marshmallows and ghost stories. Sometimes I think if I held onto that innocence, those pure thoughts I wouldn’t be where I...
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...Imagine millions of people taking the darkest things you or your family have done and ‘celebrating’ them. That is what Amy Stretten describes in her article, “Appropriating Native American Imagery Honors No One but the Prejudice.” In her article, Stretten uses her own life experiences to dispel why this treatment is not honoring her. Even in her hometown, where it’s population should feel the safest, Stretten faces the appropriation of her Native American culture every day in high school. She explains how other children see it as a service for them to be representing her culture as their mascot. I can relate to some of these situations because my high school mascot was an Indian, we were the Braves. Growing up in a small rural farming town,...
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...Society has changed women into an accessory, taciturn and subservient. Although my parents want me to be the stereotypical women, devoted and family oriented, ultimately I do not want this kind of life for myself. I want to be a resilient, ambitious, hard-working, independent women, traits that do not fit the ‘mold of being a women.’ There is a difference of expectations between the two genders, with men as independent and assertive and women as selfless and interdependent. Traditional females characteristics are used to complement the male, conforming women to not be seen or heard. However, gender stereotypes are in a sense complementary to each other, with each gender having their own set of strengths and weaknesses. In Arthur Miller’s play...
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...This notion gives the reader a sense of joy and delight as the possibility of some good emerging from the trauma of the plague arises. This also gave me hope that there is good in everyone. But the funny thing is those words were spoken from a hypocrite Michael Mompellion. A man, who in my mind was supposed to be the town savior and was initially the novel’s hero that was born through the traumatic event of the plague, but instead he left me and the town disappointed and without a hero. Mr. Mompellion was once an idolized man but is now a man with twisted thoughts, mirthless laughter and deceitful...
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...Improving Communication and Diversity at Huzzah Valley Kaitlynne Forbes Western Governors University A. Introduction/Abstract Due to our ever changing culture and diversity, the United States has become commonly referred to as the “melting pot.” Every day this country is becoming more and more diverse and acceptant of other cultures. This is becoming more and more prominent in the workforce as well. Not only are people from all around the globe able find work in the United States, but women are also becoming more dominant in the workforce. Although there is still a lot of speculation as to whether or not women and men are getting equal treatment and pay, many women today are finding themselves suffering from little to no discrimination in the workplace. In today’s society, people also tend to stay in the labor force longer. Recent studies show that more elderly people are working longer than in previous years. With more women, elderly, and culturally diverse people working, communication between workers can become quite challenging. Therefore, it is important to practice improving communication abilities in the company through the application of diversity skills (Linn, 2013). A.1. Demographic Changes One demographic change that we see regularly today is the work force becoming more culturally diverse. Every year the numbers of culturally diverse employees are growing more and more. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, by race, Caucasians made up...
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...People can better understand human nature from Studying The Crucible. In The Crucible by Arthur Miller there is a group of girls and one of them in Abigail who is the main antagonist in the story. The group of girls was seen in the woods doing “witchcraft”. Abigail and the girls are accused of witchcraft. The group of girls start to name other women in the town like John Proctor's wife. Abigail picks her mainly because she wants John Proctor for herself since John and Abigail had an affair previously. Now the girls accuse other people in the town to draw less attention to them and try to keep their names good. By studying The Crucible and other resources people can better understand that people are greedy and are quick to blame. In “The...
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...Feeling like an outsider can be a variety of different things. Picked on in school, or excluded from different events because of a certain trait about someone. In this case in particular two ladies are viewed as an outsider because of their class and different personality compared to the others in their surroundings. After reading and understanding the main characters in both stories, Phoenix, the grandma from "A Worn Path", and the mother from "New York Day Women" seem to have a striking similarity when coming to be an outsider, and the everyday experiences they face both have a common bond, the way the people on the outside perceive and treat them. Both Phoenix, and also the mother in "New York Day Women" are round characters in the story. Aside from the interesting style and tone of the text, where it switches off points of view from the daughter narrating to things she imagined her mother saying to her as the story progresses, the mother's characteristics are very developed based off how her daughter goes on to give a description. For example the imagery she gives off in the way she describes her mother when she left the house in the morning, " in her bathrobe, with pieces of newspapers twisted like rollers in her hair" (345). The mother seems to be very aware of her surroundings, poor and lonely. Her awareness comes to light in the story when she is in a neighborhood her daughter Croucier 2 never thought she would see her in, and not only was she there, but she was...
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...Trouble is a Friend of Mine is an outrageously wild journey within its three-hundred pages full of energetic sarcasm, unconventional characters that push the boundaries of what is normal in Young Adult contemporary, and a plot that likes to fly by you at the speed of a fighter jet - I didn’t want this crazy ass adventure to end. Zoe Webster, our protagonist, (in the stereotypical Young Adult trope) has parents that have just divorced which, in turn, forces her to move to a small, unknown town with her mother. As we all know from other novels which use this same formula, the main character ends up feeling depressed, bored, and extremely annoyed with whatever parent took her – in this case, her mother. Zoe has always been a lot closer to her...
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...Curl-ella” III. Conclusion: Stereotypes, roles, and Society A. Humor and the Audience B. Effects of Stereotypes C. Stereotypes Thrive Adrianne Council Dr. Harkins-Pierre Introduction to Humanities 115 October 24, 2011 Journal # Contemporary Stereotypes Contemporary Stereotypes: Three Play Summaries There is a trivial tradition in comedy which dates back to both Shakespearean plays and literature. This tradition involves the usage of a coined blend of comedy and stereotyped characters. These characters are often for comical entertainment and laughter. Shakespeare always uses fools or stereotypical characters that are thought to have a diminished sense of intellect by the other characters. More interesting, however, these stereotyped characters are often actually wiser than perceived. The presence of stereotypes continues to prevail in modern-day plays....
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...to keep him safe. Everyone thought he was dangerous to them and were afraid of him. “According to Miss Stephanie, Boo was sitting in the living-room cutting some items from the Maycomb Tribune to paste in his scrapbook. His father entered the room. As Mr Radley passed by, Boo drove the scissors into his parent’s leg, pulling them out, wiped them on his pants, and resumed his activities” (Lee 12). This was one story told to go with his stereotype of being violent, which in fact he wasn’t. People made up stories about him because the town was so small and they wanted to gossip. He was not dangerous because in the end of the novel Arthur “Boo” Radley, saved Jem and Scout from Bob Ewell. Ewell tried to kill the children to get revenge on Atticus for making him look like a fool in court. Boo also left little trinkets for the children to find. “Tin-foil was sticking out of a knot-hole just above my eye level, winking at me in the afternoon sun. I stood on my tiptoe, hastily looked around once more, reached into the hole, and withdrew two pieces of chewing gum minus their outer wrappers" (Lee 33). Gum was very rare during the Great Depression, so when Scout saw them she put them right into her mouth. Later in the novel, is when the Jem and Scout realize that Arthur “Boo” Radley left the gifts for them. Boo is one of the “mockingbirds” in To Kill a Mockingbird. “Well, it'd be sort of like shootin' a mockingbird, wouldn't it?” (Lee 276). In this scene, Atticus and Scout were talking about...
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...edge and that it could be great. The picture above is pretty obvious, it is two African-Americans getting hung from a tree by two white men. The time period that this could fall in could be from anywhere from when the KKK was active in the 20th century or as far back as slavery. One thing that she does in this image that you rarely see an artist do is that she is very descriptive of the African-American’s facial expressions while they’re getting hung. Many artists shy away from painting something like this, but Kara Walker shows it in all of its entirety, a large reason as to why she is so well known. Every image of Walker’s that I have seen has been racially charged in some way, race and ethnicity obviously have played a big role in her life, as was stated in Quintance Morgan’s assessment of Kara Walker’s work in Art Monthly. She chose to document events in modern time and well before that to provide the world with the brutally honest truth, to get a real sense of what actually...
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...Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey 1. What is your initial response to the novel? Do you find it interesting or tedious? Does it remind you of any other stories? Explain why you think it is. My initial response to the novel was an expectation that it would involve darker themes such as racism since one’s review on the book stated it as “An Australian’s To Kill a Mockingbird” alongside with a picture of a boy for the book cover which made him mysterious in a way for potential readers to be curious about. As for the first few minutes reading the novel, it started off rather tedious as nothing much was established in the story but after the first sign of conflict which ultimately is the driving plot of the novel did the novel became an interesting read. It starts off without a proper introduction rather just simply a phrase “Jasper Jones is here” creating this sense of mystery and curiosity for the readers which was quite effective in doing so. This novel shares certain elements to common crime and mystery novels. Elements such as the unknown killer, a progressive plot that cause readers to create theories on who is the true killer, and most likely a plot twist near the end where every major and minor event in the novel starts to make sense to the readers. The use of a limited first person point of view is also common in mystery novels since this certain point of view limits readers at the same pace with the protagonist as he/she attempts to solve the murder. 2. Explain what ideologies...
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...the constraint of the traditional roles of women. Both Nora and Cristina extensively challenge their roles expected of them by disobeying the rules set on women in each of their settings in history. In the novel Lives of the Saints, set in a typical rural town in post-war Italy, a culture saturated in tradition and superstition, women were expected to conform to the traditional “housewife” roles, cultural norms, and to act like a woman, something that the protagonist, Cristina, refuses to do. This is evident when Cristina is bitten by a snake, but when neighbor Antonio Di Lucci arrives to take her to the hospital, Cristina’s state does not match what would be expected of her, “But when we pulled up in front of my grandfather’s house the noise of the crowd fell down to a murmur, because there was my mother sitting calmly on the stone bench as if nothing had happened, one leg crossed over the other, her hands folded neatly on her lap” (Ricci, 11). Cristina does not act as the crowd would expect a women to after being bit by a snake. She is extremely calm, and is quite the opposite of the helpless “damsel in distress” that would be expected by others of a women in a dangerous situation. In A Doll’s House’s setting of a Norwegian town in the late 1870’s, when women married, similar to Cristina’s position, it was bestowed upon them to be the traditional housewife, while the husband works to provide for the family. Nora challenges her role as a housewife when she’s arguing with Torvald...
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