A Serious Man

time watching his neighbors, who for the most part are ignorant of his stare. The implications of his gaze are complex: he watches the different stages of marriage, observes his alluring neighbors such as Miss Torso, and monitors Mr. Thorwald with serious interest. In addition, the way he sees Lisa changes over the course of the film: at the beginning of the film, he shows up to be too involved in looking out the window to pay consideration to Lisa, but by the conclusion of the film, once she…

Soldiers of the Vietnam War viewed it as a complicated and unwanted conflict, as illustrated in Tim O’Brien’s historical novel The Things They Carried. The soldiers in the book faced fear, pain, and death for a war they didn’t believe in; they killed and died because society taught them to place strength above all else. The Vietnam War introduced a pressure to aspire for masculinity and twisted love into obsession which shaped the beliefs, ideas, actions, and feelings of the soldiers in an…

throughout the book. In Things Fall Apart gender roles are a large part of the function of society, both in the family and socially. In African families, there are many gender roles which contribute to the community as a whole. In the household, the man is the leader. He has power over everyone else in his family and can make decisions for them. He protects his household…

Mini Essay 1: Was the argument that young men are drawn to high risk activities presented well throughout Into the Wild? Yes, the book follows a young man, Chris McCandless, who expresses an unhealthy amount of monomania for the wild, and many believed that he was mentally ill. However the author, Jon Krakauer, believed otherwise. There were many young men before McCandless’s time that expressed this same obsession. Although, there were many young men that shared this enthusiasm…

illustrated in Rankin’s “Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants” where he states that the man has “self-centered and insecure motivation for pursuing the abortion” (235). The man even oversimplifies the abortion by calling it “an awfully simple operation” (“Hills” 213), and he does not realize the drastic consequences of the procedure. As they begin to get serious about the topic, the girl pleads for the man to stop. In the end, they are still together and she claims to be fine. This shows that…

believes that man need to be powerful and the head of the household. For many women seeing men powerful is what makes men masculine and strong. In the article, ““Two Ways a Woman Can Get Hurt ”: Advertising and Violence” Jean Kilbourne explains the importance of relationships between women and men, but unfortunately the society prefers men that are hostile and indifferent, “Indeed the very worst kind of man for a woman to be in an intimate relationship with, often a truly dangerous man, is the…

The ‘Duty’ of Mom Who comes to your mind think of a ‘homemaker’ and ‘CEO’? Maybe, if you were not enlightened about gender or live in an advanced society, about the former, you would recall a woman, and the latter, a man. It is not because you have patriarchal values and think that women can’t do as well as men. It is just because you have lived in the society, exists the glass ceiling, especially in Korea, in addition to difficulty in career advancement, women are being violated even a social…

Most people think that men can not get sexually assaulted, but it is pretty common to hear about male victims of sexual assault, but not as common as hearing about ladies getting sexually assaulted. If a person ever heard about a men getting sexually assaulted you probably think about prison or if the male is homosexual; that can be the case, but actually most male victims get sexually assaulted by ladies. The actual definition of sexual assault is” the sexual exploitation, forcible penetration,…

understanding of whatever I am asking them. They also love to talk so having a conversation with them is much easier than having one with a boy. When talking to my guy friends I have to take a completely different approach to how I word things. If I have a serious problem and go to the guys, they show no sympathy like the ladies do. They mostly complain and tell me what a stupid idea something was or how it was too easy for me to fall into a guy’s trap. Talking to the guys I could see that they…

present through many of their portrayal of lesbian life during that period was how they would categorize themselves. Lesbians at the time would place themselves in one of two categories - butch or femme. This binary view of being lesbian often had serious consequences. One of the women interviewed even described how, because the ratio of butch to femme was often 10 to 1, fights between butch women in competition for femme women was not uncommon. Because being lesbian was already taboo at that…