Categorization

Stereotypical Depictions of Sexuality to Reinforce Sexual Identity The use of stereotypes has been a way to simplify our way of thinking within the world socially. Stereotypes are formed when we generalize one idea to a whole group. Each social categorization has associations that we use in interaction. We make these assumptions of a people assigning a defined set of characteristics to the group. The stereotypes we use often create huge misunderstandings about a subject. Stereotyping blinds one…

As a Criminal Justice Major and to take it even further as an African American male I have found it hard to sometimes distinguish what is legally right and what morally wrong when it comes to justice in certain aspects. This article is an eye opener on another group of people who have been legally and morally wronged by America with its idea of “War on Terrorism”. I’d like to start off with a quote from the last sentence in the article that stated “Then everybody was seen like suspects”. To me…

the human being, the denial of his beauty, dread, power,” (Baldwin 538). Uncle Tom’s Cabin depicts Tom as an angelic, Christlike figure; though noble, entirely unbelievable and unrelatable. “(the novel fails) in its insistence that it is his categorization alone which is real and which cannot be transcended” (538). Stowe does not assign Tom with any flaw that makes him human. The only thing about him that is real is the fact that he is black, and that he is a slave. Stowe could not portray Tom…

Kanye West is an artist whose works can never be replicated. If you start with his first studio album, The College Dropout, West brings an entire new style of rap to the genre of hip hop. This album focused on topics such as consumerism, religion, and family instead of ordinary rap subjects like drugs or crimes. In his song “All Falls Down,” West scrutinizes the problems with college using lyrics like this: “She has no idea what she doin' in college/That major that she majored in don't make no…

Racism is the idea or belief that all members of each race possess characteristics or abilities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races. It is prejudice, discrimination or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one’s own race is superior. Racism has been an unsubsiding issue in the world for a long time, dating as far back as the 17th century. Many people believe that race is created by…

In Death and Redemption, Steven Barnes provides the first major revision in our understanding of the Gulag since Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Gulag Archipelago of the 1970s. Barnes, while noting that Solzhenitsyn – who lacked archival records and relied only on first-hand testimony and his own personal experience – was remarkably correct about many aspects of the Gulag’s history, nevertheless challenges Solzhenitsyn’s contention that we should understand the Gulag only as a place of destruction.…

Colapinto and McCallum developed a radiological classification of injuries of the posterior urethra based on RUG (Table 1) (Colapinto and McCallum, 1977): Type 1 Membranous urethra is stretched but not severed. Type 2 Membranous urethra is ruptured above the urogenital diaphragm, with extraperitoneal pelvic leakage above the urogenital diaphragm. Type 3 Membranous urethra is ruptured. The injury extends into the bulbous urethra. Leakage above and below the urogenital diaphragm. Table 3:…

During the last two centuries scientists have discovered the secrets of DNA, they created the internet, sequenced the human genome, and they are trying to find ways to mimic certain biological processes. Eventually through the continued advancement of biotechnology scientists are going to find ways to create body parts, bodily fluids, and develop other ways to treat several diseases. The historical and political aspects of a country easily influence science and medicine, yet medicine and science…

taught us that we are to blame our uncontrollable sex desire. It has geared our views towards it as the victim’s fault. That her “skirt was too short” or the manner she “carried herself” insisted that she was “asking for it”. There are several categorizations as the reason of why people rape. The most common type of motivation present on college campuses is Power Rape. Power rape stems from dominance and control issues. By stripping them away of their sexuality, the rapist’s hopes to obtain…

An individual’s life in American society is defined by many predetermined factors. Most often determined before we were born, by the lives led by those before us creating a caste society. Our society along with many others strive to achieve a level of economic and social status based on obtaining levels of wealth, health care, career or education status and being able to participate in activities defined by ones class. In America this is termed the American dream. These levels however are not…