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Like actors Black people fell into the roles, placed on them by white slave owners, of Jezebels, studs, and savages. Tom Burrell’s Brainwashed Chapter 3: Sluts and Studs describe the sexual stereotypes and labels placed on Black people. The nature of some Black American’s can be traced back in history, to slavery and the deep psychological damage that was done to us as a culture. Burrell explains the idea that sex, in the eyes of Black people, is seen as a means of survival, conquest, and a…

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower” is a book that many parents consider to be inappropriate for their children to be reading. It is no question that this book contains graphic material, but it also has many positive messages. “The Perks of Being a Wallflower” should not be removed from classrooms because banning this book would lead to many other issues in the classroom, the book deals with confronting issues and is relevant to high school students, and many other classic books in the classroom…

different in each time period. Pop music from the 1950’s will be remarkably different from pop music today. Music is said to affect a person’s brain. Countless parents do not allow their children under the age of ten to listen to explicit content albums. Albums with an explicit content sticker are stereotyped to affect younger children. Many people believe that their children will learn slang words and that genres like rap all imply unsatisfactory messages. However, this might not be the case.…

Twitter, and Instagram negatively affect mental health in teens and young adults because it is addictive, gives rise to cyber bullying, glamorizes drug and alcohol use, causes a decrease in personal skills, and exposes teens and young adults to explicit and violent…

In the 1999 film, Fight Club, Tyler Durden proclaims, “we’re the middle children of history. We have no Great War. No Great Depression. We’ve all been raised on television to believe that one day we’d all be millionaires, and movie gods, and rock stars, but we won’t. We’re slowly learning that fact. And we’re very, very pissed off” (Fincher) Then, through the 2000’s, we experienced a highly televised war and an economic crisis. When the idea of upheaving the economic structure of society from…

The story Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, by J.K. Rowling, has both explicit and implicit themes present in the story. Some explicitly expressed themes are good and evil, with the clash of different groups within the story, mostly between Slytherin House and Gryffindor, because the way the author describes the characters on each side, as well as the ever-present theme of the young and innocent against the old generation which is evil and destructive. There is also implicitly theme of…

Tuckman has four phases of group development. The first being forming, the second being storming, the third being norming, and lastly the fourth being performing. Each of these four phases are influenced by different aspects of your group coming together and working. Essentially the three of these phases are meant to lead you to the fourth phase with success. My group has gone through all four of these phases throughout this semester, while working on our project for COM 240. Tuckman’s first…

The article “War in the Lay of the Cid” by Francisco Garcia Fitz argues how the epic poem Lay of the Cid is best used as a historical document illustrating “the art of war”, as Fitz calls it on page 62, in the middle ages. The author argues that the poem can best be used as a primary source of military life in the Middle Ages, more specifically from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries when the poem is believed to have originated. The argument continues that while the poet loosely based his poem…

In the Untied States of America, the First Amendment allows individuals the right to freedom of speech, press, and religion. According to The Law of Journalism and Mass Communication, “The First Amendment to the U.S Constitution includes only 45 words. It says, congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the…

The media has been known to be very beneficial or detrimental on social issues in society. Furthermore, coinciding with poorly funded and unregulated sex education programs adolescence turns to the media for questions about their sexuality. As a result, debate on whether or not the media negatively impacts adolescent sexuality has been brought into question. With that said my view on the issue is in agreeance that the media does in fact negatively impact adolescent sexuality. There are three…