...gone by the appellation stereotype was the prejudicial notations used to define members of a social or ethnic group. However in today’s social order the term stereotype has transposed into something based less on ethnicity and race, but more towards face values, in other words an individual’s personal image or identity. Stereotypes allow human beings to typecast an incalculable amount of people into categories almost as if defining the world in order to see it. Stereotypes save society the trouble of unmasking what the world is truly like by giving it its familiarized look. On the subject of stereotypes there was a situation in the Delta Zeta sorority at DePauw University that raised some questions on the matter. It was scrutinized to see if stereotyping might have played a role when 23...
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...What is your opinion on sororities? Do you think that they are treated unfairly? I don’t think so. I know there’s a few stereotypes for certain sororities but those are not made by people that really know anything about them. I know for a fact, some people think that sorority girls are easy to get with, sleep with whatever, they’re all bitchy, all they care about is themselves, and they only hang out with their sisters. Those are some of the stereotypes that we have but none of them are true, I’ve been around them for multiple years and I know plenty of them and enough of them to know that those aren’t true and it’s not fair for them to have people think about them like that. What are some stereotypes that you’ve heard about fraternity guys and sorority girls? I mean I did just touch on sorority girls, people say that they’re bitchy, they’re easy to sleep with, all they do is hang out with all their sisters, and they don’t care about anyone else or support anyone else and obviously none of...
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...really investigate how they live and interact with the world. By studying, researching, and observing the community, you can unveil how the group is perceived and how those perceptions actually fit the society. While using several forms of, both primary and secondary, research I was able to discover many common themes and stereotypes that are incorporated with members of the Greek Life on college campuses. These themes consist of good and bad labels that have been put upon this community. While some hold true, I was able to disprove several others with my research. These themes have, both positively and negatively, effected the reputation and name of the Greek world and its members. They cause many people to be afraid or not want to become apart of this community, while they don’t realize the full truth. These members stand for much more than they are perceived to, and they have many durable and ageless principles that still exist today. However, people cease to appreciate all the positive impacts this society brings to college campuses across the nation. Hopefully my discoveries and information will help people see the truth behind all the negative stereotypes that face members of the Greek life. The specific community that I observed and based my research on is the members of Greek life on college campuses, particularly at the...
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...The second time we see Sydney needing male assistance is after the mortifying event that sees her kicked out of the sorority and sitting in the rain – certainly not princess behaviour! Whilst sitting in the pouring rain once again in a state of emotional dishevelment another male, Lenny - one of the dorks, swoops in and saves the day! Oh but wait Sydney’s damsel in distress syndrome doesn’t stop there! Towards the end of the film Sydney is ‘saved’ by not one male figure but two, how strong could traditional patriarchal ideologies get?! While one of these white knights may be her father yet again, the final white knight is the absolutely guessable Tyler Prince - who in an urgent rush to get her to her student presidential candidate debate - kisses her to wake her up – where is the consent in that! That’s right ladies and gentlemen Sydney our ‘strong empowered’ female who ‘disembodies’ traditional stereotypes is completely reliant on men to make everything better! How does this belief back up the film's marketing strategy of ‘not your average fairy tale’? If anything this film doesn’t only reinforces sexist stereotypes but redefines constant as being...
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...Scream Queens: Not Your Average Scare Scream Queens is a new series that has just started airing on Fox; in a nutshell it is a new genre called Horror Comedy that takes place on an “everyday” college campus. Seemingly out of the blue a masked “Red Devil” begins targeting what is thought to be the “IT” sorority, Kappa Kappa Tau. The audience wants to know if it’s by random or grand design. The big question remains throughout the show, is the Red Devil someone who is just plain evil, or a reminder of the past of Kappa Kappa Tau? Like most “whodunit” shows, it keeps viewers guessing, every episode has the audience questioning a different character each week. Although it may seem like a typical mystery show it should not be overlooked, everything...
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... The ad is of a girl, sitting on her knees and holding an oversized perfume bottle. The characteristics of this girl reinforce what was stated in the film Killing Us Softly. Firstly, the girl in this ad looks very young and innocent. She has a very delicate face with absolutely no imperfections. Her body is extremely skinny and she has very long legs. Although some people can tell that her legs and body are airbrushed, it still makes girls and women feel like they should look like this. The girl in the advertisement is also wrapped in pink flowers and has ribbons on her legs and a bow on the top of her head. This makes her seem even younger, and very girly. The model is naked in the ad, giving the message that even young girls should be sexualized to attract the opposite sex. movie #1 The movie The House Bunny strongly reinforces what is argued in Killing Us Softly and Tough Guise. The House Bunny is about a Playboy bunny named Shelley who gets kicked out of the mansion because she is too old. This gives women the idea that they are only acceptable and attractive to men when they are young. In the movie, when Shelley has no where to live, she finds a sorority house in need of a house mother and in desperation, she takes the job. The sorority is very unpopular and if they do not receive 30 pledges, a sorority of mean girls will buy their house. Shelley believes that they will get enough pledges if boys like the sorority. She gives all the girls in the sorority makeovers and attempts...
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...and that I am in fraternity. The fraternity I am apart of is known as Sigma Chi. For those of you who don’t know what a fraternity is, “The terms "fraternity" and "sorority" describe groups of men and women who join together to offer fellowship, academic support, leadership training, participation in campus activities, service to the community and University, and preparation for future careers. They are referred to as Greek chapters because they are named according to the ancient Greek alphabet.”(Fullerton.edu) A fraternity is known to be a brotherhood that is unbreakable. There is a bond among members who share a common belief in an ideal, yet posses’ different temperaments, talents, and convictions. Yet being a member of greek life also comes with the stereotypical comments being thrown at you constantly. Some example would be: how guys in fraternities are considered as bro’s that just get together to drink beer and get with chicks, guys in fraternities always mistreat women and disrespect them, there is peer pressure to drink excessively, and finally that there is hazing involved within joining a fraternity. There is a long list of these stereotypes put on guys in fraternities, so I took it in my own hands to study the people I already hang out with to see if these stereotypes are true. The first stereotype that I was most interested about was whether or not fraternities are just drinking buddies for four years that just want to pick up women. To be honest before I was initiated...
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...more derogatory words. Answer: When reading over the selections for this assignment I decided to pick option four. I found this assignment interactive and interesting. Seeing what the opposite sex think about each other. I interviewed eight people in total. Men: Andrew: He described women as: seductive, adorable, alluring, beautiful. He described men as: Tough, headstrong, rude, and egocentric. Joey: Joey was very harsh on describing women: Dumb, airheaded, blond, whores, and psychotic. He described men as: Sensitive, players, enticing and fuzzy. Hayden: Hayden likes men so his description on males were different then the two others: Smooth, velvety soft, warm, delicious. Description on girls: Ugly, stupid, mean, hurtful. Michael: Description on girls: Cuddly, dreamy, adorable and heavenly. Description on men: Can’t multi task, want to please/make the opposite sex happy and smart. Women: Julia: Description on men: Creamy, yummy, cuddly, and spicy. Description on women: two faced, backstabbing, whores, and haters. Katie: Description on men: Mentally delusional, corrupted, rude, hurtful and disgusting. Description on women:...
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...Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of Legally Blonde. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner. She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others, and successfully defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham in a murder trial. Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed. The original musical stars were Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods, Christian Borle as Emmett Forrest and Richard H. Blake as Warner. I also tried to include all the musical numbers in the sequence that they occurred and they will be in parenthesis. This was my second musical that I have attended, what was really cool was when I attended this one they had the musical production on DVD copy. After the musical was over, I of course purchased the DVD copy. I was fortunate enough to travel to the Palace Theater, in the ninth grade to witness what I still believe to be the best Broadway production yet! I was hesitate at the beginning do to all the critics and their stereotypical views that this production, was going to be a modern chick flick sitcom. It was girly and pink, but I believe that the female to male ratio was around 14:10. Jerry Mitchell did an amazing job directing and choreographing this musical, the only thing that it lacked was the timing and a sense of direction for a couple of the minor parts ( basically, the fill in in the Delta Nu Sorority in the opening act). I remembered like it was yesterday, walking through the huge doors...
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...nothing to challenge that with its characters. The men are all shown to have some form of a position of power whether in the work life or in their personal lives and relationships and use this power to get what they want. Women in this movie are seen to be there simply for the pleasure of the men, and placed in two categories which are mainly based on their appearance or the way they act. This movie is the story of Elle Woods, a very cute and friendly student who is also the most popular girl in her Los Angeles sorority. Elle has just finished her studies in Fashion and is getting prepared to marry her boyfriend, Warner, who will soon be going to Harvard Law School in Boston. Unfortunately, Warner, who is actually a somewhat superficial jerk, decides to break up with Elle, because he wants to find a more serious looking girlfriend who will help his career in politics after he gets out of law school. Although Legally Blonde does have many outstanding points in which the main character overcomes stereotypes and challenges she faces, there are many faults to the movie. Under any feminist movie list, it can be guaranteed the popular movie, Legally Blonde, will make an appearance, because of how the main character must wage the battle of her life, for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless indignities every day. Identify the Characters in the Movie With this in mind, the major characters in this movie are the following. Elle Woods, played by the actress Reese Witherspoon...
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...The group in society I have decided to focus on for this internal are teenage girls/young women and how they are represented as sexualised/beautified to market a product to a viewer. Also how they are shown as promiscuous, beauty driven people who are obsessed with achieving physical “perfection” based on their favourite celebrities throughout the media. The three media texts I have chosen that I think best portray the idea of teenage girls and how they strive to be physically perfect are; the film ‘The House Bunny’ , the television show ‘Gossip Girl’ and the magazine ‘Cosmopolitan’. (Mainly the cover) My first example is the television series ‘Gossip Girl’ The first image is a photo from the March 2011 Cosmopolitan magazine of Blake Lively portraying her character Serena Van Der Woodsen in the T.V series ‘Gossip Girl’. Serena has been styled based on her character, beautiful and desirable (mostly due to her wealth and social status in the show). She has been dressed in entirely white, surrounded in a completely white background, this allows her skin to be the main aspect of focus, and it portrays perfectskin and skinniness. Most girls who see this aspire to imitate these images and may inspire feelings of failure when they do not achieve the exact image. Her lips in the picture are pouting making her look sexy and draws attention to her lips by also making them look glossy and shiny. Her face has been ‘retouched’ (or photoshoped) giving her a look of perfection and...
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...Role of Conflict and power Paper Kimberly Ferrusquilla BSHS/385 9/22/2015 Jeffrey Engbrecht Role of Conflict and power Paper In this paper I will write about the movie “Legally Blonde”. This movie is about a sorority queen that was dumped by her boyfriend, she decided to follow him by enrolling into law school where his ex is currently enroll. She later realizes that she is a better lawyer than she ever imagined. In this paper I will identify the characters in the movie and provide an overview of their relation to each other. I will include my personal thoughts on what the movie is saying about communication in general. I will also analyze the role of communication between the main characters and their relationships with each other. I will describe power and conflict issues. I will also write about the purpose of self-disclosure. Lastly, I will discuss whether any self-disclosure issues exist between the parties. The main characters in this movie are Elle, Paulette, Professor Callahan, Vivian, and warner. Elle is the main character of the movie who serves as the female lead challenging the norm of how society views women. Society may view women as loving, girly, and pink. Elle fills all of the stereotypes of a college girl age. Paulette is Elle’s friend. They both benefit from its relationship; Paulette learns to be assertive and Elle realizes their potential. Professor Callahan, hired her as an intern only to make sexual advanced on her just to make her believe that...
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...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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...In Butler each sorority and fraternity has a stereotype. People, before rushing even starts, will assume where they end up based on these stereotypes. The worst part of this is that they are being surrounded by people who are not going to help them change as people, because they are all the same person. That is my best guess on why people in Indiana and Butler fit archetypes so well, because they surround themselves with near carbon copies of themselves. In Oregon I was friends with athletes, theater kids, brainiacs, band geeks, and choir snobs. Many of my friends fit several of those categories. We all had characteristics in common, but we were not the same person. Essentially, my biggest adjustment with Indiana has been with the cliques that Indiana’s culture breeds. I thought my high school had a clique problem, but it...
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...Symbolic-Convergence Theory When a group of individuals have similar thoughts about a certain topic in a group conversation, they can relate to similar issues, experiences, and situations. This phenomenon has a term called symbolic convergence theory, developed by Ernest Bormann, John Cragan, and Donald Shields This theory has different levels of communication, which enhance the relationships between people. The symbolic-convergence theory is also known as the fantasy-theme analysis, which can be created in small groups or interaction between two people, thus creating a similar perspective. This theory states that individuals tend to believe certain things or think a certain way because their point of view has been molded by society. The symbolic convergence theory has different concepts that can be applied effectively to generate articulate conversations. Ernest Bormann's Symbolic Convergence Theory illustrated a method of looking at a group interaction and cohesiveness. According to “Bormann’s Symbolic Convergence Theory,” by Denise Young she stated that this theory meets the scientific standards of explanation of the outcome, relative simplicity, and practical effectiveness. But it also meets the humanistic standards considering the community agreement and the reform of society. It brings the group together through symbolic interaction and can continue expanding from one person to the next one. Bormann's theory provides a straightforward strategy of examining the relationship...
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