Common Man

Orenstein goes to the extend of explaining how princesses being a common trend is as clear as Harry Potter being a book (Orenstein 326.) This feminist mother believes that pink becoming the new gold could have detrimental effects on the future of the younger generation (Orenstein 327.) Although there are no studies proving…

Gender Inequalities in Children’s Everyday Life How did the color pink, butterflies, dresses, makeup and dolls become a symbol of a girl’s? Why do we relate GI joes, dinosaurs, camouflage, the color blue, and dirt to boys? Why are boys thought of as the stronger sex and girls as the weaker sex? Why are certain everyday household activities deemed unmanly or manly? We are hurting our children by forcing societal gender roles upon them by telling/showing them what to wear, what toys to play with…

The quote represent that the child is the father of men. A child grown to adulthood by the impression received by him as child during the formative periods and mental makeup of a man is shaped by the experience he gets or encountered during the childhood. As such importance of child welfare cannot be ignored at all, as because the welfare of the entire community and its growth and developments totally depends on the health and well- being of its children. Children are supremely important…

The Influence of an Outsider in Society in Sula and Mama Day In every society, there are certain rules about how one should act, think, and say in any given situation that are perpetuated and must be upheld. If one strays from those rules, those ways of being, they are considered outsiders. The idea that outsiders do not follow the conventional rules of social behavior that are set in place by a society are prominent in Toni Morrison’s Sula and Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day. Morrison looks at an…

In youth, kids see the difference in sexes as little more than boys peeing while standing and girls sitting down. Somehow, despite their proximity to the bowl at that age, boys still get reprimanded by parents and others for their inaccuracies, too, but by and large, many (though certainly not all) view this as a male advantage due to the ease of use for male, anatomical plumbing. In September 2017, experts published a study suggesting that there is a psychological or educational advantage to…

A referendum on the anti-discrimination ordinance known as the Houston Equal Rights Ordinance (HERO) was on the ballot for Houston voters in Harris County, Texas, on November 3, 2015. It lost 61 to 39. Houston is a fairly liberal city with a lesbian mayor who has been elected for the past 3 terms without much controversy. Part of this referendum would allow transgender people to use the bathroom that correlates to their gender; makes sense, right? It is frustrating that HERO was so strongly…

find a friend when they need someone to talk to. One question that arises from this is, Does the invention of social media take away the initial fear of a new person since can just look them up on Instagram or Twitter and see if they have anything in common with…

First, Kathleen is O’Brien’s ten-year-old daughter, and she is a representation of ordinary people in everyday life. Many people do not understand the concept behind war and often question it. Kathleen finds it very common to ask her father if he killed anyone while he is serving in the war. She expresses to her father, “You keep writing these war stories, so I guess you must’ve killed somebody” (O’Brien 125). However, O’Brien cannot be truthful to his daughter and…

internal conflict. While this still contains multiple homosexual connotations, the uncensored version of The Picture of Dorian Gray reveals that the editors omitted Basil professing that he had “worshipped [Dorian] with far more romance of feeling than a man usually gives to a friend […] never [having had] loved a woman.” Basil's idolatry of Dorian has the quality of unrequited love, as his praises and jealousy connect to feelings that are more than platonic, but are still…

The manmade apocalypse The concept has been pondered for decades: what would our world look like if we were to succumb to a nuclear apocalypse? The critically acclaimed author, Cormac McCarthy, devises his own interpretation of a fallout, and expresses it through his literary masterpiece, The Road. McCarthy’s novel shares the experiences of a father and son wandering through an ash-filled and decimated wasteland in a post-nuclear war scenario, and their encounters with the few remaining…