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Cassandra Clare once wrote,“Lies and secrets... they are like a cancer in the soul. They eat away what is good and leave only destruction behind.” Everyone has a secret, but, it is what a person lets a secret do to them and to others that can be destructive. In Election written by Tom Perrotta, characters in a suburban town live everyday hiding secrets from their peers, elders, and even themselves.…
In America, over 3.8% of the population identifies as a gay, lesbian, bisexual, or transgender. This has become more common as the years go by, but in the short story, “Tiny Smiling Daddy”, it was unaccepted by one specific character, Stew. Stew is the father of Kitty, and Kitty identifies as a lesbian. Throughout the story, Stew shows strong emotions towards his daughter and her sexuality. One might infer that his strong emotions come from his life as a kid, with his family.…
Growing up in the latter part of Sullivan’s generation, I can relate to and agree to the majority of his perspectives of what is a homosexual. None the less, I can also relate to the evolving perspectives of homosexuality in today’s generation. Raising a homosexual child in today’s society has provided me with an updated insight into the ever changing homosexual culture. The combination of my experiences, as well as the accompanied sources, has provided me with an understanding of both perspectives represented within the materials. In relation to Sullivan’s excerpt, What is a Homosexual, I was able to make a connection to the topics of nature versus nature as well as how individuals learn to come to terms at a young age with their homosexuality.…
Cultural Competence Self-Assessment This paper will examine how to recognize the extent to which a culture’s structures and values may oppress, marginalize, alienate, or create or enhance privilege and power, and how to recognize and manage personal values in a way that allows professional values to guide practice. By using self-assessment tools such as the Cultural Paradigm Survey and the Project Implicit Attitudes Tests (IATs) the author identified the strengths that she wish to enhance, and the improvement opportunities for the weaknesses that she wish to reduce or eliminate. The author is a 44-year-old African American female attending Edinboro University obtaining her master’s degree after completing her bachelor’s degree late in life.…
In her novel, The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall draws her readers into her novel by creating a likable and relatable character that resonates. Her portrayal of Stephen as an intelligent, caring girl, with perhaps tomboyish qualities, endears her to the readers if not many of those with whom she has interactions. By allowing readers to get to know and relate to Stephen as an individual first, while only hinting at the aspect of sexuality, Hall creates an applicable story that anyone can enjoy. All readers, whether man, woman, heterosexual, homosexual, or bisexual can form a connection with the story told of Stephen’s childhood, due to aspects such as her struggle to fit in; fierce love for a parent; and the absence of love and understanding from another parent.…
John Schwartz’s book, “Oddly Normal” illustrates how his third child showed signs that he was gay at a very young age. The content of the book that made it readable was not because his son was gay or the criticism that him and his wife received as parents, but the style and tactic that he wrote with made it readable for us. In Schwartz’s book, he uses many of the characteristics that John Trimble the author of the “Writing with Style” shows that are what makes a book readable. John Schwartz utilizes word pictures, honest, personal experience, communicating, and verbs throughout his book which made it readable. John Schwartz uses honesty and trust in pages 9-11 of his book, which made it readable for us.…
As Maggie’s mother lives through life crying, Jimmie takes on a different method. To be well liked by his peers, he denounces his sister. Jimmie wonders about Maggie’s decline from her perspective. He estimates that she never knew a better way, but he is incapable of admitting the truth of this, even for himself. The words “higher social plane, and publicly damned his sister,” all illustrate Jimmie’s sense of ego.…
Both Fred and Laurence’s mother highlight the stress that a transgender individual’s support system faces on account of the individual’s, in this case, Laurence’s, identity and transition. Both Fred and Laurence’s mother draw the viewer’s attention to the challenges of accepting and maintaining a relationship with someone as they transition. Fred struggles with her lover wishing to alter their body and their gender presentation, while Laurence’s mother struggles with understanding her daughter’s new form of expression, as shown through the scenes when she tells Laurence that Laurence’s father will never expect her being a woman and when Laurence surprises her at the train station with a gift for her birthday. Additionally, both of their mentalities towards their children are drastically altered throughout the film.…
Many people define themselves by traits that they possess that are outside of their control. This sense of identity is often fixed, and the perceived fluidity of their identity evolves as a result of their experiences changing their perception of the world. This is exemplified in Lauren Slater’s “Three Spheres”, which tells the story of the author’s own experience with mental illness and how it shaped the course of the rest of her life. Although a person’s nature does impact their personality, as shown in the innate quality of Slater’s mental illness, the way that they are nurtured also has a great impact. “Three Spheres” best shows the character of the author due to its illustration of her experience and the impacts of both the way she was…
“The traditional family consisting of a father, a mother and children is ‘a fashion that does not happen’. ” Are words from the founders fashion designer Domenico Dolce of Dolce & Gabbana brand, according to New York Daily News. Gender equality at this time brings us changes in the family, not only heterosexual couples want adopter children also gays couple want to do it. Should same-sex couples adopt children and raise a family? Everyone has the right to have a father and a mother, but not everyone has the right to be fathers or mothers, the gay designer is aware like many people that gay adoption should not be recommended for many reasons like psychological disorders, identity and socialization problems. These problems could lead to various…
When Jeanette was only three years old, Rose Mary applauded her for cooking hot dogs. Jeanette and her siblings had to find food on their own when their mom and dad were out of town. When there was not food during the school year, Jeanette had to pick up untouched food from the trash cans just to eat. These types of examples show what Jeanette and her other siblings had to go through at a young age on their own just to survive. Taking the example of Jeanette cooking at a young age showed the lack of commitment from the mother but at the same time she wanted to her children to learn the value of being independent.…
Reception has been around for a long time, yet just as of late has the topic of gay appropriation risen. There are numerous vagrants on the planet, yet insufficient families or guardians to take them in. There aren't that numerous families who can and will receive youngsters, whether this is on account of they can't bolster them, they have offspring of their own, or they simply don't need kids. The final product is still an excess of stranded youngsters needing a cherishing family. There is an answer for this issue.…
This essay intends to analyse the 1999 film ‘ But I’m a Cheerleader’. The film explores many different themes with a focus on sexuality, gender and family. It makes use of exaggerated stereotypes, specific costuming styles and set design in order to highlight and emphasise certain aspects of characters and the issues discussed within then film. The story follows Megan who was unwillingly sent to an almost comedic version of a Conversion Therapy camp by her parents; it is from here that the meat of these themes can be analysed from within the film.…
The character I have decided to analyze is a stubborn sixteen-year-old female named Callie Jacobs, from the show The Fosters, who lives a troubled life as a foster child. In her past, Callie has been in bad foster homes and was even sent to Juvie for hitting a male foster parent with a bat because she was trying to protect her younger brother Jude from being abused. Once she is out of Juvie, a social worker decides to put Callie and Jude in a new foster home with a female authority figure. Callie and Jude move in with their new foster parents which are a lesbian couple named Stef and Lena Adam Foster, but Callie reminds Jude to not get comfortable because she expects to be transferred to another foster home in a couple of months.…
1) What are the issues facing Dean at this point in his development? Being that Dean is in Erikson’s psychosocial developmental stage of Identity vs. Role Confusion and with the information provided about Dean in the case study, it would be accurate to say he is facing concerns of who he is, who he is to be, and what other’s think of him (p. 303). Dean as a teenager is faced with the task of moving from an innocent, dependent child to a young adult ( p. 282).…