Binary option

Over the year’s social media has played a major role in the stereotypical views of social groups. Stereotypes are characteristics imposed upon groups of people because of their race, nationality and sexual identity, among others. Whether it be knowingly or unknowingly, these negative viewpoints are spread throughout our world on an everyday basis. It can be as simple as a tweet saying “All Indians are terrorist and seeking attack on the United states” which stereotypes their race and could…

sending or shipping differently by the user, content, location, platform, application, that’s attached equipment, or the way that communicate. Net neutrality basically means that all data has to be equal treatment (FCC) group opened the door for a binary system where the giant Internet service providers by (ISPs), such as the Comcast and Verizon, that can be charged for send the content more quickly. It would allowed large companies to buy way faster lane, and let everyone else in slower lane.…

From movies to books to seeing people on the streets, I was never really aware that a relationship with someone who was not a male was an option. My uncles got married last year, after they had been together for thirteen years. Thirteen years and I never noticed (though I was questioning it for the two/three years before they announced they were getting married). All of the heteronormativity…

mentioned Buddhists and the variety of other groups with similarly opposed systems of worship or even medical conditions. Unfortunately, according to Sports Illustrated magazine, 100% of all drug tests involve a urine sample, so different testing options simply do not exist . For these people, the basics are impossible requests, and we relegate entire strata of our population through unyielding enforcement. To follow up my earlier point, not only are a large portion of the American population…

The concept of heteronormativity is referred as an intersection of gender and sexuality, which defines gender into a binary category and naturalizes sexual attraction (Hofstätter, 1). In the film Strictly Ballroom as well as Mad Hot Ballroom the theory of heteronormativity is established and exemplified through the gender roles prescribed within traditional dance rules, specifically in ballroom dance. In Strictly Ballroom, the dancers who are attempting to compete in the Pan-Pacific…

In addition, thousands of individuals who lived in the new land acquired by the United States were Mexicans. In the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, these individuals were given the option to automatically become United States citizens, which included all of the rights that Caucasian Americans were endowed with. Consequently, the new American citizens were considered white Americans under the law but were not treated as equals. Many…

Introduction Throughout the twentieth century and beyond there has been a clear correlation between literary theory and scientific philosophical enquiry. Both have become intrinsically linked with each other, with this direct and complicated relationship being most evident in the field of poetry and poetic theory. Within this field there has been a continued but arguably fractured questioning of this enduring relationship. I propose that there have been within the modern age two main lines of…

understanding on how altering the chemicals in the body changed our behavior. As I started to connect the dots, I realized that everyone around me is influenced by these chemicals which give rise to certain personality traits and behaviors that may not be so binary as previously thought. The fact that Fluoxetine, an antidepressant created in 1987, has now been used to treat seemingly numerous behavioral disorders such as Major Depressive Disorder, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, and Bulimia means…

boxes? What about non-binary or gender-fluid kids, to name just two of the other possibilities. For example, what if boys and girls were separated and you had a non-binary person in your school? Would you just ignore them, putting them in the group that matches their gender assigned at birth? Or would you make a whole new class for the people that don't fit into those groups, alienating the kids that are already different, much like their classmates already do. Both of those options sound…

even if they may have different preferences. Butler recognizes the root problem for “proper gender” is the whole binary framework of gender, since whenever masculinity “sets itself up as the original, the true, the authentic”, femininity is rendered as “a copy, an imitation, a derivative example” (1712). The solution leading to a fundamental liberation for women would be renouncing the binary system as women can then be themselves without concerns of how men behave. In this case, the commercial…