The problem is that sometimes people let their personal issues and…
Chapter’s 6 and 7 of Women’s Voices, Feminist Visions discuss the important topics of Sex, Power, and Intimacy, as well as Reproductive Justice. Although there are many important things discussed in both of these chapters, I feel by far the most relevant topic to my own experiences, is around asexuality. Given my fairly low sex drive, and emphasis on other aspects of relationships (such as shared activities, and companionship), I can identify with some aspects of the asexual community. Besides my personal experiences, however, I commend the authors for bringing to light, and discussing key issues on this important topic.…
Being gay, lesbian, or bisexual is becoming more universally accepted today, however, it is still frowned upon in some parts of society. In the poem “Commitments”, Essex Hemphill uses his work as a mirror to reflect his ideas and beliefs of being a gay African American writer and poet to readers. This poem exemplifies the unseen problems that gay, lesbian, and bisexual people face in their everyday life, and should be taught in literature in order to make others more aware of the importance of equality. This poem describes typical situations of gay, lesbian, or bisexual children in their families. They are often rejected by their parents and lack support from them.…
Aristotle and Dante’s differences aid them both in discovering and accepting their true selves. Ari, especially in the beginning of the novel, is very closed off in regard to his emotions. He finds it difficult to articulate his feelings and generally ignores them altogether. He learns from his father to shield himself from the world and keep everything hidden. The influence of his father left Ari uncomfortable discussing anything remotely personal.…
The social assessment report is on Ryan Fritas, whom has three different degrees of separation which are sex, race, and sexual orientation. Ryan was born on September 21, 1998 in Santa Clara California. His race is irish, german, dutch, and french which he just sees as white. Growing up his religion was determineed by one aspect of his life, and that was being gay. He at first said that he would claim to be atheist, but as I asked more he figured out he believed in science.…
In David Thomas’s book, Remember Why You Play he explains and provides evidence to show that football is more than just a game and teaches every important life lessons. Football carries many valuable lessons in it that many people don’t see. Coach Hogan and his team were put against the odds and tried their very best top overcome it. Reading material that is on current high school reading lists should have the criteria of a problem that gets in the way of things, what it means to be an adult, and being able to keep the reader engaged. Thomas’s Remember Why You Play accomplishes these purposes by overcoming challenges, teaching moral values, and entertains the reader throughout the content.…
John Banville once said, “I don 't know if there is a personal identity. We all imagine that we are absolute individuals. But when we begin to look for where this individuality resides, it 's very difficult to find.” When Tony Kushner wrote Angels in America in 1992, homosexuals were still trying to find their position in society. Since homosexuals were still trying to find their positions in society, many of them were still trying to find who they were as a person.…
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 this book I learned that no matter who you are, you don’t need a label or nickname to be guilty or to be treated differently, just because of the nickname or label they, people put on you. In the end of the novel. I loved how S.E. Hinton ended the story with going back to Ponyboy starting to write the essay because he was remembering how Dally acted so cold hearted forward everyone when he got out of jail but he believed that he couldn’t be happy no more because of such bad memories he had. But they prove Dally wrong but also it was to late because he got…
The novel I decided to read and analyze was “Two Boys Kissing” by David Levithan. Throughout the novel Levithan describes the day to day lives of seven different teenage boys and the struggles they face because they identify as gay. I will be examining the concepts of constructing gender, being transgender, and the correlation of compulsory heterosexuality and discrimination against LGBT people. Gender is constructed at a very young age.…
That is to say that most, if not all of the readers of this time were religious and would not even dare question God 's judgement. In the moment Dante cries out of pity for what they are going through, but after the reprimand both…
This theme appears more at the latter part of the novel, and is an extremely important one. One problem that love has created for Dante is his promise to not kiss Ari, even though he loves him. Ari’s promise, in return, is to not abandon Dante when someone asks him why he is friends with a gay boy, though based on his love for Dante that won’t be a hard promise to hold. It is Dante’s promise (to not kiss Ari, because Ari states “I don’t kiss boys” on page 248) that will test Dante. However, though love created this problem for Dante, it also provides a solution, or at least a way for Dante to cope with his currently unrequited feelings.…
Ari and Dante goes through major amounts of distress when leaving each other and not seeing or being in contact with each other for long amounts of time. The distress that they were going through caused them to make bad decisions, such as starting to smoke, do drugs, drink alcohol, and be careless teenage boys, which is not their personality type. Distress is painful, and all pain hurts, it is what we do with that pain that makes us great. When agony enters our lives, everything gets turned upside down.…
Rick Riordan’s children’s fantasy novel The House of Hades (2013) caused controversy when it was released for the explicit inclusion of the first queer child, Nico di Angelo, in mainstream children’s fantasy. Though Nico had been present in six instalments beforehand, in The House of Hades Nico came out as having feelings for Percy Jackson. Since The House of Hades, Riordan’s novels have featured gay, bisexual, and transgender characters. While queer themes may not be explicit in the rest of his works, many of his queer characters exist in novels that are not considered to be queer. Some of them, like Nico di Angelo and Magnus Chase, are initially implied to be queer before coming out.…
There were contributions to the evolution of western civilization. Aristotle influenced so much more than a few books and teachings. He was a coined a philosopher. The student turned teacher even after death. Today’s western civilizations were not possible if not for the many influential ancient scholars.…