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April Rivera Marmol Professor Sipper ENGL 111 20 March 2016 Duality of Man Every person has two sides to their character: one out in the open for everyone to see and the other masked personality that only a few, if any, are familiar with. Having a public persona to display the finest aspects of one’s character is common. People constantly withhold parts of themselves to mask any characteristics they believe people will think are strange. It may be something simple and embarrassing like a…

Following a young man’s journey through seduction, moral corruption, and eventual demise, Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is considered to be one of the best known homoerotic novels ever written. Although the novel does not contain any explicit homosexuality, leaving the novel to be a suggestive work of such a theme, Wilde, being queer-coded himself, is able to use his work as an outlet to validate the identity of homosexual individuals. By including homosexual subtext, Wilde promotes…

her wishes of death that her new husband disgusts her. She cannot even bring herself to touch him or else she will die. Thus, Dos Passos reveals that Elaine did not marry this man because she loves him. In fact, John Oglethorpe is presumed to be a closeted gay man. Jimmy Herf refers to him as “that” instead of he, implying that he is no ordinary man. And when Herf asks Ruth why Elaine married John she says, “Ogle’s done everything in the world for her. If it hadn’t been for him she’d still be in…

Salinger uses disheartened wordage, closeted yet illustrative language and tones full of gloom to bring to life the fact that society only honors those that belong and that Holden Caulfield loathes that specific fact. With the vast amount of rhetorical strategies, Salinger brings up the notions…

Famous- known about by many people. How does the son of an unsuccessful salesman become amongst the most famous American authors of all time, and the author of a book discussed in high school curriculum all across the nation? He does something unprecedented, taboo. F. Scott Fitzgerald was a man of his times. He wrote during the Jazz age, about the Jazz age, in all of its glory. A less discussed attribute of this time period was that, along with the rise of independence instilled in women and the…

could not join. Statistically gays had to have been in the ranks. We do not hear a lot about gays in the military because they did such a good job with hiding their homosexuality. Later in World War II lesbians did the same exact thing that their closeted counterparts did thirty years prior. If they came out then they would get kick out or demoted based on the circumstance. If the gay and lesbians could hide thier love in the twentieth century than heterosexual couples should be able to do it…

Gender roles and masculinity are social themes that are frequently discussed in our society and apply uniquely to Latin@ culture. ‘Macho’ is simply the Spanish translation of ‘male,’ but it has taken on connotations that relate to having masculine qualities. In the context of Latin America, ‘machismo’ is a term that relates to male sexuality; it is “a concept that dictates many aspects of Latin American male behavior,” (Kobashigawa). Such qualities are performative in that men and women are…

During the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, America had ample racial tensions between white Americans and African Americans. Many white Americans believed that their social class was above any free or enslaved African American. This belief of superiority by race led to racial strife within the United States which plagued the entire country. Paul Laurence Dunbar used literature as a catalyst to portray the racial strife occurring within late nineteenth century to early twentieth…

I will be sociologically analyzing death as a cultural phenomenon, stage of the life course, and personal experience. The first day in SOCY 4131, we talked about death. In a “Life Course” class, one may be surprised death is brought up so early. The ironic thing about the life course is that living with a “good” death in mind usually reflects a good life. I will further explain what this means throughout the essay. Elizabeth Hutchen, in Dimensions of Human Behavior, states that, “Most…

Meanwhile, as Judge Sandoval got his cherry ass busted open by Min-jun, Bailiff Bob stood guard outside the Jury’s Deliberation Room. This was freakin’ foolish. Here I am babysitting these jurors, while the Judge interrogates that Defendant. All of this in the name of law! Bailiff Bob could hear the jurors and the arrogant box-tie wearing Foreman in a heated discussion behind the closed door. This was the only way in or out of the Deliberation Room. The door had a frosted glass panel on the…