Donald Trump is a complicated leader. His leadership style is a mixture of transformational, charismatic, and authoritative. What makes him complicated is that he does not stick to one, which is a good thing to show versatility, but shows uncertainty for the public. That is because the public do not know how he would respond to certain situation. For example, during his campaigning he renounced the use of violence on Syria but he then dropped a bomb on Syria in early April. Leaving the…
In the short story, Jock Culture , Robert Lipsyte discusses his interview with the Columbia University crew coach, Bill Stowe and the difference of what he called “jokes” and pukes”. He describes the jokes as “brave, manly, ambitious, focused, patriotic, and goal-driven” people and the “pukes” as “wolly, distractible, girlish, and handicapped” (Lipsyte, 305). I would call myself a jock just because I was a 3-season athlete throughout high school. I was captain of my high school volleyball team…
Rape culture is defined as not only rape in general, but the exploitation and normalization attached to it (Crisis Center). For generations, rape has almost always been blamed on the victim, undercharged, and used as a joke. This is not performed by a specific group or handful of people, but rather a society as a whole. Society twists the cruel torture of rape into a nonchalant action in the everyday life. Rape is conveyed as a form of mockery for the victim, rather than the crime it is. The…
Stathis plays the ignorant well, stumbling through each interaction with timing that's just off enough to stop the joke building. And there's always a joke building, the joke that's rescued Chris from so many other scrapes we can imagine are just like the ones we see in Party Animal. But Stathis brings a flavor of desperation to Chris which is wonderful, if cringe-inducing to watch. His performance…
In this sociology game simulation, many players played it all in good fun, making jokes and accepting their fate based on their financial status. If this was the real world however, those players wouldn't have been making too many jokes. Social inequality occurs when opportunities and rewards are not the same for everyone within a group or society. Social structure can be described as the make up of societal institutions and social practices that form a society, which creates and organizes…
Colombiana and am finally proud to say so. Until my two month visit to Bucaramanga ,Colombia I was embarrassingly ashamed of my ethnicity to the point where I felt the need to tell anyone I met that I was half-white so I would be “safe” from stereotypical jokes. Years of ridicule took its’ toll on my 12 year old self and made me resent my culture, ethnicity, and overall self. I hated bubbling Hispanic…
The most pressing issue our world is facing today is social inequality. Social inequality includes issues of gender, race, and sexuality. It is the most pressing issue because it negatively impacts countries economically, it negatively impacts individuals physically and mentally, and it ignores the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. It’s important to realize that inequality can and is ruining the economy, it is unable to grow and affecting everyone. The disturbance of the economy was…
and it looks like the next DC flick will be well worth the wait. The new teaser features more of Margot Robbie’s Harley Quinn (and we mean MORE), Viola Davis’ Amanda Waller and even a quick glimpse at Ben Affleck’s Batman! Plus, there are plenty of jokes, mostly at the expense of Jay Hernandez’s El Diablo! The clip opens with the villains still in their cells while a question is raised: “What if Superman had decided to fly down, rip off the roof of the White House, grab the President right out…
is how with this new technological age we create a distance between ourselves and those around us. Wampole has us to question whether we are sincere about our actions or words when we interact with people. "Do I communicate primarily through inside jokes and pop culture references? What percentage of my speech is meaningful? How much hyperbolic language do I use?"(Wampole) I believe most of the sarcastic, ironic, insincere tones that the so-called 'hipster' brings is because of age and social…
In the Miriam Toews’ A Complicated Kindness, the irony is used throughout the book to get deeper meanings across. Toews’s even uses dark and adolescent humor to not only to show the gap between reality and the ideal but also to bridge that gap. An example of this ironically laced humor would be Nomi explaining what there is to do in East Village ‘”Golf was another one because it consisted of using a rod to hit something much, much smaller than yourself and a lot of men in this town enjoyed that…