Crass

The Art of Offense The art of stand up comedy is one that has been around for decades, from the early Bob Hope, to Don Rickles, to the more modern Anthony Jeselnik. This form of communication has been used not only to make people laugh, but to convey messages, thoughts, ideas and societal values. People often overlook this form of performance, or worse, they seek to limit it. This is a terrible thing that is happening in our society, people looking to censor art, tell people what they can and…

Some people argue that etiquette no longer matters, that the rules for good behavior are old-fashioned and out of date. However, good behavior and manners are never out of style. Etiquette, like all other cultural behaviors, evolves to match the times. Without etiquette, members of society would show far too much impatience and disrespect for one another, which would lead to insults, dishonesty, cheating, road rage, fist fights, and a rash of other unfortunate incidents. Do you ever wonder why…

Abrahamic Religions and it’s Compatibility with Liberal Democracy The topic of religion and democracy’s compatibility is an especially complex one. The academic debates and the current literature express different opinions regarding religion and democratic values and if they are compatible or not. What is meant by compatibility is, if the core values of them both are contradictory or not. This essay will argue that the Abrahamic religions and it’s values are incompatible with liberal…

Throughout weeks five through eight of our class it has become apparent that the early 1900s experienced a drastic amount of musical and athletic appropriation, which disproportionally affected African Americans. The role of whites in the suppression of black music and sports is substantial, yet blacks have been able to overcome this bigotry to a varying degree. Both articles account for the Euro-American preference of white role models. Almost every white American craved to hear the…

Erik Erikson 's theory of psychological development is a set of stages a healthy individual must pass through from infancy to adult hood. It is a set of eight stages, pioneered by none other than Erik Erickson and his wife Joan Erickson. They met in Vienna where Erik Erikson had been studying at a school founded by Anna Freud. It is perhaps the main reason we see similarities in between Sigmund Freud 's theory of psycho-sexual development. However where frauds work focused on the relationship in…

According to the article, “In the first flush of feminism, women offered to pay half the check with “woman money” as a way to show that these crass calculations that a woman’s worth in society was determined by her looks, that she was an ornament up for sale to the highest bidder-no longer applied.” (Dowd, 2005) Modern women no longer care about using check to assert their equality, but they are…

Birth Control Access: Making America a Better Place What does the average person think of when they hear “birth control accessibility”? The right to contraceptive medication does not include the legal right to abortions, in fact, it actually decreases the need for them. It is an important part of women’s right and conclusively, everyone’s rights. That’s what anyone should think when they hear those three words. Birth control should be accessible to women nationally because it slows abortion…

the valiant and violent warriors in the story would closely resemble the Vikings. Though the poem defines the characters as honest, God-fearing heroes, the movie shows them as being drunken brutes. The king is not strong and honorable, but rather crass and harsh. The poem does not mention slavery, servitude, or any abuse of peasants but these are frequented throughout the movie. Serfdom was commonplace in the Medieval Ages, so it is understandable the movie would include it. The movie also…

Fashionably Ill People often look to the world of fashion for what the next trend in beauty will be, for many decades it has been an unattainable goal. It has been an epidemic for numerous years of young girls going to extreme lengths to achieve this goal. Copious amounts of models develop eating disorders to stay thin, and the girls who look up to them develop their own, through Cheryl Diamond’s Model : a memoir we can see the hardships models face, the cultural impact of them,…

At the tender age of 13 most american children are sat down by their parents and forced to listen to them awkwardly explain the mechanism of sex. A generally traumatic experience that most kids end up repressing to the far recesses of their mind. However this once in a lifetime event is typically an American experience and is not something most immigrant children are exposed to Instead, because it is seen as more socially acceptable, they are made to embrace celibacy and abstinence. (…