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    child’s identity the opposite results are seen. Often when children have positive coming out experiences with their parents, their mental health improves for the better. This being due to the release of the stress and anxiety that come with being closeted. Also, the parent-child relationship is improved. Knowing that one’s parents love them unconditionally strengthens the relationship. Sharing such a personal aspect of one’s life with their parent, improves communication between both parties. A…

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    Portrait of a Man in Habit I depicts Shaowanasai in his Buddhist monk garment, holding on to a peculiarly placed pink child-like, “girlish” handkerchief, with his face fully made up with feminine make up. The portrait is a stark presentation of his true reality, as a practicing Buddhist and a gay man. This image practices Cotton’s description of “Deadpan Aesthetics” in portraits, which is one of the most prominent and frequently used styles of photography. The deadpan aesthetics describes as a…

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    In a deep demonstration of lost connection between family members, Hart Crane’s ’My Grandmother’s Love Letters’ shows us that memory is a powerful gift that we are given as humans and that we should use it to our advantage. The excerpt that I have chosen to write about from the text begins, “Over the greatness of such space steps must be gentle. It is all hung by an invisible white hair,”. The poem ends with, “Yet I would lead my grandmother by the hand through much of which she would not…

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    At first glance, Ellen Garvens’ St Sebastian appears to be a tangle of metal, but a second look reveals the artist’s powerful political statement. The piece consists of a hanging construction of copper tubing, a black and white photograph and a sheet of aluminium. Garven uses the photograph to symbolize the oppression of nontraditional sexual orientations and the metal to symbolize the expectations of a heteronormative society. The photograph depicts the left side of a young man’s torso, from…

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    Slut shaming has been and continues to be a way to oppress women, particularly women who have sexual experiences or used against women who are perceived to be overly sexual. It is a derogatory term that is used to dehumanize women, and devalue them. When looking at slut shaming, we can think of the many stereotypes that women face on a daily basisWhen looking at the prominent written rules that run our society which are known as “ruling texts” (Dillon. 333), we can see that all have been…

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    The characters, Miss Lucy and Kathy H, have very different perspectives when it comes to being creative in the book “Never Let Me Go.” When Kathy learns that Miss Lucy had told Tommy that it was okay not to be creative, initially, she was agitated. She says, “That’s rubbish, Tommy. If you’re going to play stupid games, I can’t be bothered” (2, 24). Kathy was angry to hear such a thing. From this, it is understood that she is a firm believer of being creative and being acknowledged in…

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    There 's no doubt that in The Great Gatsby, the gender roles are somewhat differentiated between dominance of men, and independence of woman. With several theories going around as to what women are portrayed as “gentle”, and what woman are considered “tough”. Fitzgerald in truth wanted to have the woman subdued by the men with their physical and authoritative strength, where there is one case of role reversal in the case of Nick and Jordan. Here, in this essay, you will understand why the gender…

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    In the short passage of The Medium is the Message by Marshall McLuhan, he explains his views on the transition from verbal communication to writing words down on a paper, and also the constant advancement of technology. McLuhan proposed that writing words on a paper led to inventions such as book, roads and more. At the same time, writing caused Western society to live in a world of invisible lines. He emphasized that alphabet had no true meaning until lines were added to it. Also that before…

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    She was a young writer with a bestseller already under her belt. Josie’s friend and agent, Brice, had urged her to write a second novel. She wanted to; she could feel the story bubbling, straining to surface, but she couldn’t break through. It was driving her crazy! Josie voiced her concern to Brice. He was sympathetic as he heard her out. Reaching into his shirt pocket, he took out a small plastic bottle. He explained the little pink pills would help get her back on track. He urged her to take…

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    Of all the youth belonging to the Lesbian Gay Bi Trans* (LGBT) community, 30% have attempted suicide by the time they were 15, four times the amount of suicide attempts among cisgender and heterosexual youth. A factor in the suicide rate is conversion therapy. Conversion therapy is a practice in which sexual orientation or gender identity is attempted to be changed. In the past, extreme measures such as institutionalization, castration, and electroconvulsive shock therapy were taken. Today, some…

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