Bicentennial Man

themselves from the restraints that society and culture have placed upon them. Women have gotten too complacent, they have lost their conviction and settled for what is given to them. Wollstonecraft asserts that a woman “must not be dependent” (662) on a man for her livelihood. Wollstonecraft believes that women must, in order to break the shackles that society and culture have placed upon them, go beyond the home. Women are stuck, they have become slaves of the home, their conviction drained by…

According to the United States Census Bureau’s Industry and Occupational Statistics (2012), 9.6% of all registered nurses (RN) were male as of 2011. This is over a 300% increase since 1970 where the prevalence of men in all nursing fields was only 2.7%. Although the prevalence of men in nursing fields has increased, the statistics show that there are significant challenges of recruitment of males into the nursing role, and retaining them. Chad E. O’Lynn, and co-author Russell E. Tranbarger of…

Randolph Trumbach's essay, Sex, Gender and Sexual Identity in Modern Culture: Male Sodomy and Female Prostitution in Enlightenment London, questions why male sodomites and female prostitutes were awarded similar social status in this period. Trumbach investigates this question through an analysis of the effects that Enlightenment thought had on the gender/sex system. Trumbach utilizes police documentation, hospital manuscripts, written laws, and his own previous research concerning the sexual…

For as long as there have been humans, there have been two sexes whose role have been mercurial, and their places constantly challenged. In the second wave of Feminisms people fought for equal status. In the play “Trifles”, Susan Glaspell shows the social disparity between Men, and Women’s status in the American society through wide-ranging conflicts. In the initial conflict between Minnie Wright and John Wright, Minnie’s husband, Glaspell delineates the disparity through their presumed…

It can make them put on a front, act overconfident. Opposing to these reactions, fear can also make people run away or hide. In the mid to late 1900’s during the Vietnam War, soldiers were faced with this same fear. The men did not want to appear weak to each other, their community, their family, or to anyone. In Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried he reveals stories of the Alpha Company, a United States unit of foot soldiers, that he was in during the Vietnam War. Some men went to war to…

one-up position, or at least avoid appearing one-down” (154). This is true because I am always trying to one-up my wife. I attempt to find something that she has done wrong so that subconsciously I can feel better about my own wrongdoings. I am the man of the house, and I am not supposed to show weakness or my integrity could be in…

different ethics. He was very compassionate, diligent, and courageous. While reading the novel, one will see that while having these certain ethics it indeed helped Walt in solving the crime. Throughout the entire book Walt was a very compassionate man. Walt showed so much compassion for his job, he even sacrificed time with his family and friends so he could do work. Once he got word that there had been a murder in his town, he set his whole heart on trying to solve the mystery. Which, in the…

The media uses diction and juxtaposition to characterize society as primitive and sexist in its treatment of menstruation. In his article “Free the Tampons,” reporter Rony Caryn of The New York Times notes that “even in the age of oversharing, periods are treated like a dirty little secret” (Caryn). While “dirty little secret” refers to a truth that people conceal from others because they perceive it as too embarrassing to share, Caryn’s use of the word “even” indicates that he sees this view of…

It was a dark and stormy night in July. My friends and I were fishing in a boat on Sylvan Lake, and the water was beginning to get very choppy and bubbly. As the water splashed into our boat, we tried to paddle towards the docks. We began to panic as the waves pushed our tiny boat further out towards the center of the lake. Soon we got tired and stopped paddling all together. The current forced us to a strong, spinning whirlpool that took up the entire center of the lake. All of the…

In Chrys Ingraham’s “Heterosexuality”, she discusses an angle of women’s oppression that stems from heterosexuality being normalized in society. This normalization is not natural, and is instigated because it helps men stay above in power. It is a social institution that has a bias in favor of heterosexuality and romanticize heterosexual relationships and related rituals. The main argument of Chrys Ingraham’s “Heterosexuality” is that heterosexuality is not something people are born with or…