Ballerina

Toys play an important role in gender socialization. Huge corporations, like Toy’s R US and Wal-Mart, have manipulated children into gender roles by exposing them to toys that act as social indicators of gender expectations. Gender socialization and Gender roles, are the processes by which individuals are taught how to socially behave in accordance with their assigned biological sex. The required behavior, individuals are expected to commit to, are set on societal norms dictating the types of…

Joseph Cornell was an artist known for his shadow box art. He kept his interests separate and together by creating these boxes which also reflected the small wooden house in which he lived. The script is made of compartments rather than having one event trigger another. A character may come into a scene or Cornell may move out of a scene and the scene completely changes. It is not always clear if the stage directions are to only be followed or if some are to be read. Sometimes there are…

The show will introduce its viewers to young girls trying to land a shot in the professional dance business. She has already written her own book titled “Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina.” Misty has even stared in the movie “A Ballerina’s Tale” about her journey to…

Dystopia Dystopian societies are represented by different pictures in the minds of different people. One might imagine the human rights disaster that is North Korea, for example. A few fictional examples include Harrison Bergeron, The Lottery, and The Ones Who Walked From Omelas. These short stories all feature a common theme: society is seen as a utopia to the characters, but the author has added a characteristic (or characteristics) that contaminates it. The characteristics can be very minor,…

New York Times. I’m so jealous. Unthinkable jealousies, jealousies of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel I’m reading and the Oscar-winning movie I just saw. Why didn’t I think to rewrite “Dalloway?” I should have thought to chronicle a schizophrenic ballerina. It’s inexcusable. Everyone else is so successful, and I hate them. There’s a German word I learned about in psychology class called schadenfreude, which means a pleasure derived from the misfortune of others. The word…

Every day, athletes sustain horrid injuries. There are football players with broken noses, soccer players with torn ACL’s, ballerinas with fractured feet, and many more. Every time an athlete steps out onto their specific playing field they face a potentially career-ending injury. As a dancer, I have seen numerous amounts of injuries while performing. Sports injuries are some of the most common injuries that doctors see. For serious athletes an injury can be detrimental to their career…

muffins in six different types of packaging. One arrived in a “feminine” exterior, with the word “health” and an image of a ballerina. One, for the men, came with the word “mega” and an illustration of football players. One was meant to appear gender neutral with a pastoral scene and no splashy adjectives. Others mixed up all these qualifiers, pairing “mega” with, say, a ballerina.” Let’s not get it twisted though, I do believe everyone should be able to eat whatever they choose to eat. Whether…

Love songs give us insight into the broader nature of love. Each song painting a particular picture about what it’s like to be in love or what it’s like to try to understand love,through the language of touch and time. Feeling the norms that underlie romantic love is like stepping onto a dance floor where love’s reality is socially defined and found amid the noise and haste. As the insider develops an individually sentimental rhythm of love as a dance, the lack of intersubjectivity leaves the…

Can you imagine being a star in an abundance of movies, receiving several awards, learning additional languages, and being named best dressed all in one lifetime? Audrey Hepburn was very well-known in the acting world, in addition, she was also a young philanthropist who loved helping and giving to people. Furthermore, she set the bar quite high with her sense of style. An acting career, many accomplishments, and an amazing family allowed Audrey Hepburn to be quite successful. Despite Audrey’s…

In order to be effective, a dystopia focuses on the original problem and attempted solution that caused the society, teaching the importance of preventing the loss of humanity. In "Number 12 Looks Just Like You," Marylin discovers the original problem that caused her society when Marylin meets with Professor Sig, and he explains to her how inequality and injustice ravaged the world. They learned that unattractiveness was one of the main causes, so the government decided to eliminate ugliness by…