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Summary of the research question and outcome The final question my research project was based around was inspired by an article I read. It explained that a new generation of teens were being brainwashed by social expectations, this spurred many underlying questions: “what effect does the media have on teens?” were these affects short term? or can they possibly follow teenagers into later life? does age, gender, location affect how they see themselves and what can the parents of today do to…

Romeo And Juliet In the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, two star-crossed lovers named Romeo and Juliet take their love to a whole new level which leads to their death. Romeo and Juliet can’t always be together because Romeo is a Montague and Juliet is a Capulet, the problem is that the Capulets and the Montagues don’t get along very well. This story took place in the 1300’s in the city of Verona, Italy. We as readers can see that the play had three citizens named Capulet, Friar…

as well as research to help us understand more about the semiotics of a story. But First, What and who is SpongeBob square pants? The series is an American made animation series about the adventures of a character and a few friends in the city of bikini bottom and journeying through the daily lives of the friends of SpongeBob and mainly…

Christianity has always been a large part of my life, as far back as my memories will reach. I grew up in a Christian home and we would go to church just about every week. From there, I thus knew about Christianity from your typical church atmosphere where your parents stick you in a room with other children as they go listen to the sermon. To be completely honest, I truly don’t remember learning much, but just wanting to be back home so I could play. In fact, I don’t remember where I really…

“[Carl’s Jr. advertisements] are really more like soft porn rather than food promotions” (Bisbing). This may seem like a gross exaggeration, but unfortunately, it isn’t far from the truth. The Carl’s Jr. franchise is infamous for portraying women as purely sexual objects through advertisements in order to make their burgers look better. ‘Sex sells’ is possibly the most common excuse for this type of advertising, though humans don’t naturally crave sex in the form of a 30-second commercial…

During the Cold War, the Marshall Islands served as a nuclear testing ground; sixty seven nuclear bombs were detonated by the United States government (17). On the 1st of March 1954 a hydrogen bomb, called Bravo was dropped on the Bikini Atoll (11). The bomb was dropped regardless of weather forecasts that predicted winds which would blow the radioactive fallout over much of the surrounding islands and the island’s inhabitants. The consequences that followed the explosion left the indigenous…

In relation to one’s enrolment in a specific social circle, both masculinity and femininity correlate with the social segregations that ethnicity and race experience, resulting in gender injustice (Briton, 2013, p. 4). When gender is perceived from a position of professional sport, it seems as though there is a dissimilarity in how females and males are regarded. Over time women have established universal expectations; consequently, in the sporting domain, these assumptions about women are…

Men. As clear as day, the default setting, for almost anything; unless it has to do with marketing, then the default is a sexy blonde woman who is half naked, trying to sell cologne on a six-foot poster. If women can sell all of these products, why does the marketing industry think that video games with female leads won’t sell? And, why is it that men are always thought of first in a positive way, and women second to mind in a demeaning way? Sex role stereotyping. Sex role stereotyping is hard…

Society today has the common misconception that women are no longer objectified through visual media as the were in the past, this is not true. The Gaze is a term that was originally used during the film industry during the 1970s that refers to how someone views any visual medium. How women are viewed within society has changed over the years but one can see through visual media used today, women are still portrayed in a certain manner in order to sell or promote products. One can see the…

Sirenidae The cave’s shadow fell over me as I paddled into its mouth. After squinting through the sun, the sun off the waves, the cavern was doubly dark and rimmed in after-image shades of violet and green. Emelia’s yellow kayak threaded through the gloom ahead. I lingered at the mouth of the cave, remembering the strange calm that had fallen over the water on our approach. The wind had fallen, the waves became even and flat. The sea was holding its breath, like a whale surfacing before a dive.…