Gender inequality in the workplace is prevalent now and has been for hundreds of years even with the presence of laws and policies that forbid it. Kristen Schilt the author of “Just One of the Guys?” targets how natural difference schemas shape today’s workplace and reinforce gender inequality. She does so by using both open and stealth transmens’ experiences in the workplace to provide examples of how natural difference schemas are prevalent and hard to undo. Schilt also highlights how race, height, sex, and masculinity can benefit or hurt one's place in work world. Before understanding how natural difference schemas shape the workplace, fully understanding what a natural difference schema is necessary.…
“Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” is a story about a about a fifteen year old girl named Connie. Connie holds two sides of herself, one side of her life at home and the other when she is with her friends. When she is at home she walks and acts childish and when she is with her friends she acts grownup. Her mother treats her and her twenty-four year old sister much differently. She praises her older sister about how perfect she is but puts down Connie about how she can’t do things around the house.…
Has someone important to you passed away and you feel like words were left unspoken, or conflicts were left unresolved? In The Four Things That Matter Most, Dr. Ira Byock teaches us how to practice the following four phrases in our day-to-day lives to avoid that feeling of unrest after losing someone: “Please forgive me,” “I forgive you, “Thank you,” and “I love you”. Dr. Byock is an international leader in palliative care and is a Professor at the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth. He is a recipient of numerous awards for academic achievement and community service and is the author of two other books, “Dying Well” and “The Best Care Possible”. In The Four Things That Matter Most, Dr. Byock shares his stories of helping families reconnect during difficult times and leaving them with the knowledge of how to use the four important phrases daily.…
Fantasy Versus Reality: Connie In Joyce Carol Oates “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?”, the point that is being made about coming of age is that the transition from child to adult is one Connie learns in a difficult way as she is forced to abandon her fantasies for the realities of what comes with being mature. Connie is introduced as a stereotypical teenager who has a strong focus on her looks, and her relationships with others. When Connie stays home alone one day she began to daydream about boys and how she hoped for her experiences with them to go just like it is in “movies and promised in songs” (52).…
Response to Cory’s Post It is impossible to know the things that go in individuals’ souls unless they speak them out. As a person grows old, s/he experiences many things, some with a positive influence on their lives, while others with negative influence. Some people are quick to judge others depending on their behavior, not having taken a chance to know that might be the reason for them to behave that way. It is indeed wrong, where one should not conclude an issue not having known what might be the problem.…
Recently in the United States police brutality and the killings of innocent civilians have been frequent. On average, in the United States, a police officer takes the life of a civilian every seven hours on Fatal Encounters. Fiction books catch kids interest and that makes them want to read the books. The importance of fiction books can provide real-world information and better educate students about the problems we live in. The Hate You Give, by Angie Thomas is a story about how a teenager goes through the life and struggles of growing up in a minority community, Garden Heights.…
I am disorganized by nature. I have come to learn that the only way I can work efficiently is with rigid structure, but that rigid structure does not translate into the work itself. Crafting a well-organized text tends to be difficult for me and is one of the things I have struggled with most in English classes. Because I possessed this self-knowledge, I knew it was something to focus on, especially in final drafts. In the past, I was often told that my writing was convoluted, and while I usually did not see a problem with that, eventually it became clear that the word “convoluted” was not uttered in praise of my ability to craft extensive, rolling sentences overflowing with complex ideas, but rather a complaint of my inability to organize…
I read the post Like Sheep (May 26th, 2016), from Our Daily Bread on July 25, 2016. This devotion begins with a story told by a man, who had to take the sheep to pasture in the morning and evening. The sheep were unruly and would wonder off, he found them to be frustrating. He says he “…so I quite understand when Isaiah says, ‘We all, like sheep, have gone astray, each of us turned to our own way’ (53:6).”…
Professor Adisa’s students and students all around the nation know the feeling of not knowing their identity, it comes from the dense language forced upon them by their teachers. With not knowing the words that are being spoken to them, these young people get lost, feel discouraged, and feel disconnected with their education. Here, Adisa is not scolding these brilliant students, she is scolding the teachers and professors. These people of higher education to not understand the struggle their pupils are going through because the people the students trusted to help them learn, are there nothing more than to teach their class and continue the which probably does not consist of these young scholars. Not only is the time of Adisa writing her essay, I Must Write What I Know…
A mixed marital arts fighter named Wallace, the main character from the story “You’ll Apologize If You Have To” by Ben Fowlkes, flies to Florida to fight someone he had never heard of, and for a payment of ten thousand dollars. Wallace is knocked out in the fight by the other fighter and does not remember how it happened. All Wallace knows is that he has a bad bruise on the side of his head. He is later informed by Coach Vee of how he was knocked out. They travel back to San Diego and part ways at the airport to their own houses.…
What role do we play in protecting or destroying our environment? How do we treat others who are not like us? How often do we think about those who are starving every day? Is it only on Thanksgiving, when we are extremely full, or do we think about world hunger and how we can make an impact on solving this problem? With images of social injustice and environmental degradation, the video for “What I’ve done” brings all of these questions to mind.…
I was super excited when the announcement about captains was posted on Facebook this year! I have been on the CVHS Swim Team for all four years of high school and I know that I have always put 100% effort into the team. My freshman year, I swam with a broken hand. Sophomore year it was a torn ligament in my knee.…
The song “Human” by Rag’n’Bone Man came out in February of 2017. Rory Graham, or better known as his stage name Rag’n’Bone man, is a British singer and songwriter in the Alternative and Indie genre. His song “Human” argues that everyone is human and makes mistakes. Its argument is effective because of its use of Aristotle’s forms of persuasion ethos, logos, and pathos. As well as the choice of words in the lyrics.…
Emily Dickinson is well known for her unusual poems, however during her life she wasn’t famous till after she passed away when her family started to find 1000’s of her poems stuff in tiny spaces all around the house. Dickinson’s writing wasn’t well understood during her time, she had a uniqueness that was ahead of her time; she had an amazing use of symbols, capitalism, themes and tones in her writing which make reading her poems so intriguing. While growing up she wasn’t the average women, she had her own thoughts and beliefs which is something I love about her which brings me to one of my favorite poems by her: “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” I 'm Nobody!…
The Detriment of a Wish Literature Galen College of Nursing The quote, "Be careful what you wish for," has become such a colloquialism. It is generally used as a warning before destruction, yet it is an off handed response that allows for people to give heed to others without being specific. This quote is also used to give a general warning to a large group of people: unspecific warning. Most times people are wishing for things that add the glitter and glam to the doldrums of life. The granting of wishes is a literary convention that is used throughout many cultural literary genres, especially fairytales.…