I rubbed the little gray mouse against my cheek as I looked around the plywood walls, my eyes resting on the little brown and red mouse running so fast her tiny feet were a blur.
“Run boi, run.”
Negative attitudes and stereotypes are a part of society; they become bigger issues when these thoughts and beliefs turn into actions, such as discrimination and aggression. Over the last decade strides have been made to change societal ideals and norms but research shows discrimination among particular groups remains high. The results of a study done by The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force shows that members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) community experience high rates of discrimination and violence (Grant et al., 2011). Theories on the formation of attitudes and stereotypes include Social Learning, Social Cognition, Implicit Association. Resent studies have started to examine the effects media can have on attitudes…
The Hedgehog Erinaceous europaeus Hedgehogs are fascinating creatures! With such a small body length and only weighing a few ounces, it’s astonishing they are not categorized as rodents. What’s even weirder is that some hedgehogs eat dog food. Hedgehogs have a much shorter gestation period compared to other animals. Have you ever wondered what a hedgehog looks like?…
“Women have it harder than men… Women aren’t treated equal… Society is dominated by men”. Has society even thought that maybe men don’t have it as easy as society thinks? Society has focused too much on women's rights movement that they forgot about men. Media has affected gender roles throughout generations.…
To the ones who believe asking, “What are you?” is a valid conversation starter, I am multiracial and proud, but to simplify my ethnicities to others when asked, I identify myself as Asian. I was stereotyped because of how we are perceived in media and society. I spent years cowering in my own skin because others made me believe I was not Asian because of the size of my eyes, the color of my hair, and my personal interests. I was ashamed of what I looked like since I was convinced it embodied who I am as a person.…
Zootopia, directed by Byron Howard and Rich Moore, is a children’s movie with a much deeper and important message. In the movie, Judy Hopps, a bunny whose whole family works on a carrot farm, becomes Zootopia’s first bunny cop. Zootopia is a big city with animals of all kinds working in all kinds of jobs, just like a normal city. Throughout the movie, Judy is underestimated because of who she is, until she solves a case involving predators become dangerous, or “turning savage”. The different species of animals have different stereotypes and preconceived notions associated with them.…
Without delay, Francine Prose’s Hansel and Gretel adaptation caught me off-guard and drew me with an extraordinary introduction sentence. Many questions popped into my head as I finished reading that line and I had to go online to find the answers, dealing if having sex with an animal is illegal. I need a stronger word to describe how I felt about the information I uncovered about Beastiality/Zoophilia because disturbed doesn’t cut it. After reading the information, I sat there with my jaw hanging open; maybe it’s because of how my parents raised me, but I may love my cat yet doing anything sexual with her doesn’t make sense to me. Anyway, to escape that uncomfortable discussion, as soon as I read Lucia’s cat is black, I thought, “Lucia is…
At first glance, Zootopia seems like your average kids movie. Cute, unique characters, a bright and colorful story, lighthearted dialogue and issues. One could easily brush it off as just another ‘dumb movie for little kids’ and move on without another look back at it. But Zootopia is much more than that, with much bigger issues and deeper meanings. Using stunning visuals, amazing dialogue, and beautiful lighting, Zootopia tackles one of the most controversial issues in the country—racism—in a way that the whole family can understand and learn from.…
In “Female Chauvinist Pigs,” the author Ariel Levy writes on her point of view as to how she feels about women who abide by raunch culture. Levy believes women have to identify with several different gender stereotypes in order to participate in raunch culture. Gender stereotypes refer to simplistic generalizations of gender attributes and roles of individuals or groups. They may also be positive or negative but hardly disclose accurate information of others and reflect judgement. In addition, she categorizes the two different types of women which she considers participate in raunch culture, as one being the female chauvinist pig and the other being the “girly-girl” in order to support her arguments.…
A day in the opposite gender is very interesting and very much interests me. I would love to dig around in the mind of a male. I would do experiments all day to see what happens. I would want to understand what it is like. I’ve never wanted to be a minded reader, that’s just way too much information, but I would like to understand the logic men use and to see the different reactions in different situations.…
I woke up this morning with an uneasy feeling ,I've had that feeling ever since nazi power took over so I didn't think much of it. Lately businesses have been closing and people leaving each day I didn't know why but it definitely creeped me out to a certain extent. When I try asking my mother about it she immediately changes the topic. I like to think she does that so we don't worry about something that isn't a big deal…
Growing up on a small farm taught me the lessons for hard work and how to live life with animals. This was a place where it was never quit and there was no break the animals need to be feed and some needed to be worked. I grew up always being on the top of a horse. If there was time to rest it was done riding on a horse. It was quit when on the horses no noise except the wind rustling the grass on the mountain top.…
Without delay, Francine Prose’s Hansel and Gretel adaptation caught me off-guard and drew me with an extraordinary introduction sentence. Many questions popped into my head as I finished reading that line and I had to go online to find the answers, dealing if having sex with an animal is illegal. I need a stronger word to describe how I felt about the information I uncovered about Beastiality/Zoophilia because disturbed doesn’t cut it. After reading the information, I sat there with my jaw hanging open; maybe it’s because of how my parents raised me, but I may love my cat yet doing anything sexual with her doesn’t make sense to me. Anyway, to escape that uncomfortable discussion, as soon as I read Lucia’s cat is black, I thought, “Lucia is a witch!”…
Animals Did you know animals live everywhere or even anywhere and they also need habitats and where you go you see animals some. Also a lot of animals live in hot places like deserts, Egyptian, and Mexico, or New Mexico and some cold places to like Antarctica, sometimes deserts, at night winter places North pole there also some weird names like the mammoths mammals and some big animals like the even there so much animals all around the world like all over the world not kidding some are dangerous nice or calm and sometimes there shy to some of you might be asking how many animals there to exact there might be over 10000 animals are all over the world. What do animals do…
In Patricia McKissack 's version of the Little Red Riding Hood tale entitled “Flossie and the Fox”, the reader is introduced to Flossie a young ill-educated little girl who is sent by her grandmother to deliver eggs to “Miz Viola” (McKissack). Early in the tale it is easily assumed that Flossie is a naive little girl as she asks her grandmother “How do a fox look? I disremember ever seeing one” (McKissack). Unsure what a fox actually looked like, when the protagonist encounters an unknown critter she faced him head on, “ nodding a greeting the way she had been taught to do” (McKissack). In this tale the critter is forthcoming that he was indeed a fox expecting to invoke fear in the mere child as he is accustom.…
Nerd, geek, emo, gothic? How many of you have heard someone use these phrases or said them yourself? The sad truth is, stereotypes are very common in society. Hello everyone, today I will be talking to you about the negative effects of stereotyping. I will be mentioning what stereotypes are, their impact on people and society and the media’s influence.…