Emasculation

very first speech, dated to 1994, bin Laden is already sounding the notes that reverberate throughout this collection: the entire Muslim world is under seige, from Afghanistan, to Palestine, to Iraq, to Chechnya and Bosnia; the humiliation (and emasculation) of Islam by the western world is the implicit goal. Now, clearly, one can quarrel with his analysis, but such a message has broad appeal. The editor and translator are to be commended for striking just the right balance here; they provide…

The Führer, on the other hand, had a more nebulous relationship with Nietzsche’s writings. While Hitler appropriated Nietzsche’s ideas into his ideology, he never actually read his works personally. There were, however, stories and rumors spread throughout Germany regarding the two. Viennese actress Rosa Albach-Petty, for example, reportedly heard a story from a friend of a young workman named Adolf Hitler who asked to borrow Thus Spoke Zarathustra and another book by Nietzsche, saying, “‘almost…

The term Oedipal complex was initially used by Sigmund Freud as he developed a theory to explain the psychosexual stages of development. He attempted to describe the boy feelings of attraction to the mother with anger and envy towards the father (Fear, 2005). Basically, the boy may feel like he is competing with the father for the belonging and possession of the mother. The boy sees the father as a threat for her affections, desires, and attentions. In terms of the psychoanalytic theory, Oedipus…

Ernest Hemingway’s, The Sun Also Rises, describes narrator Jake Barnes’ journey from Paris to Pamplona with the company of old friends and expatriates. Throughout the novel, Hemingway depicts an association of several thematic ideas, especially the connection between gender roles and its destructive effect on relationships. Hemingway suggests through the use of dialogue and characterization the reversal of gender roles creates superficial relationships between characters of the novel, using sex…

This paper examines the fictional character Buffy Summers from the critically acclaimed TV series Buffy the Vampire Slayer. This paper provides a brief character description of Buffy Summers and her various behavioral, personality and physical attributes. The character of Buffy Summers is then examined in relation to 4 concepts covered in PSYC 366: sexism, gender schema, gender socialization and the heterosexual script. Next, various female stereotypes and gender roles are examined and applied…

Ambivalent Ambiguity Dawn by science-fiction novelist Octavia Butler defies the constraints of Earth, moving human issues of identity and individuality into the unknown frontier of outer space. Butler begins the novel in the aftermath of the desolation of the human species, presenting the reader with the few people saved—maybe imprisoned—by the Oankali, an extraterrestrial race. The human based necessity to retain individualism and the rejection of the new liberal mechanics of the foreign race…

In the movie Fight Club, Edward Norton stars as an unnamed man, who is both the narrator and the protagonist. This man is discontent with his white-collar job, depressed, and plagued with insomnia. His only solace is to attend support groups for various afflictions and illnesses, none of which he possesses. In one of his various support groups, he meets a woman named Marla Singer, played by Helena Bonham Carter, who is also a support group imposter or “tourist.” Her presence robs him of his…

The shrieks of people screaming, the rush of adrenaline running through your veins as you try to get away from the gunshots and the slaughter. The fear you feel as you see your family murdered and the joy you feel when you join them soon after. The blank look in the eyes of children as they surrender to the fact that they would die soon. You hate that you're helpless and can’t do anything to save yourself or your family, the torture you're subjected to please the maliciousness of others. The…

he was diagnosed with Anorexia and brain damage due to malnutrition, which also may have contributed to the shooting as well as his development (Shooting at Sandy, 2014). Another shooter, David Carneal, the perpetrator of the Health High School shooting also had developmental shortcomings. Carneal suffered from alleged paranoia that caused him to cover windows and vents believing he was being watched (Kimmel & Mahler, 2003). This caused him to be a social pariah at school, unable to be social…

Strike cannot even buy the culturally accepted entry into manhood, and the viewer sees this develop through the mise-en-scene and narrative. Strike’s nerves lead him to the bar next door, where he asks for a Chocolate Moose, only to be ridiculed by the other men. His older brother Victor is a regular, convening at the bar after long days at work. In this initial introduction to Victor, the viewer sees the stark contrast between younger and older brothers. Strike, now sipping on a piña colada, is…