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The Black Dahlia Murder is one of the top 10 most famous unsolved crimes in the United States. Also one of the most famous in LA based on the awfulness of what happened. Elizabeth Short was an aspiring actress from Boston and she moved to Los Angeles to make sure her dreams came true, but ironically, it wasn’t until her death when she really became famous. Her body was found January 15th, 1947 in a lot near present day Leimert park. Her body was cut clean in half at the waistline with extensive…

In the introduction, Conley and Ramsey discuss Kilbourne’s Killing Us Softly series, which details about portrayal of women in various advertisements. Kilbourne stated that there are five ways women are portrayed as subordinate in advertisements, such as making themselves smaller than normal, having their mouths covered, comparing them to young children, using bondage, or depicting violence against females. There are also several differences between men and women in advertisements and Kilbourne…

In “The Sexual Double Standard and Adolescent Peer Acceptance” (2009), Derek A. Kreager and Jeremy Staff research the sexual double standard by measuring the social status of the sexually permissive youth. They came up with the hypothesis that sexual behaviors affect peer status and that gender and socioeconomic origin may influence this. Using a network approach with data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health’s first two student surveys. They evaluated report numbers of…

13yoa, because his work required him to travel. He described his father as being short tempered and his mother as caring. He noted that he and his sisters communicated while growing up, but two of his siblings refused to talk to him because of his sexual orientation. However, he…

From the information above it is easy to understand that hegemonic masculinity, as well as many of the other sub areas of masculinity, prompt the idea of men acting tough, aggressive, showing leadership, asserting their dominance, and dominating others. This is the similar with traditional gender roles and a patriarchy society. Men are taught violence from a young age and are taught to use that violence in ways that assert their masculinity and authority. Through this it is easy for men who are…

Edwin Navarro Composition 10 Jose Bolivar 6/7/2016 Abortion after Rape Abortions should be allowed only for rape victims that don't wish to keep the baby because it would remind them of the day it happened and they won't show their love towards the child. Many families would be disappointed because of how they got the baby and they would hate the baby and not feel good if it looks like the guy that raped her. That would make them feel uncomfortable and the kid would…

Prostitution is commonly used to refer to haggling of sexual services in order to a form a social interaction that is concurrently economic and sexual. Through this it makes prostitution a difficult cultural category, as society’s economic and sexual relations are systemized and conceptualized in divergent ways. According to Kingsley Davis (1937), Prostitution is defined as largely economical and providing a function through quick impersonal sexual regalement that does not involve individual…

In contrast, there is a condition under which sexual impulses are acceptable without posing a threat to humanity. According to Kant, this condition is marriage, or as he calls it “Matrimonium.” In marriage, the couple do not only devote their sexuality, but their whole lives and person to each other. Through reason, each person has the right to the other’s whole person which allows them to have sexual desires towards one another without violating morality or humanity. Although Kant is right…

The concept of gender role is a major focus in Alpha Behn’s The Rover. I would like to argue that Behn uses the theme of rape to distinguish the different views that men and women have on gender roles. The main struggle in this play is the challenge that two young women have to face in order to escape the fate that their male family members have determined for them. For Florinda, it is an arranged marriage with a man much older than her, and for Hellena it is for her to become a nun. These women…

For decades a debate over contraception has been among one of the most argumentative topics to date. From the feminist viewpoint to the perspective of the church, opinions on this topic can be polar opposites. No matter the seat you occupy in the spectrum of the varying viewpoints about birth control, the woman’s right to make choices about her body and about planning her family should be reserved by each individual woman. The choices available to women to protect themselves against unplanned…