Fall of Man

Keven Carlson Comm 3070-001 Gender Roles Challenged in New Girl In September of 2011 a new television show aired named “New Girl” it told the story of a young girl in Los Angeles who, after a break-up with a long time boy friend, tries to find a new place to live. She ends up finding a place where she wants to stay, but the catch is that she’ll be living with 3 men, all single in their thirties. This show, starring Zoe Deschanel, on the surface may seem like a light-hearted, quirky comedy,…

The man had bright red-orange hair, and a smile brighter than the sun. He was bent over him, head blocking out the rays of the sun from his eyes. “You okay there kiddo?” The man asked, dropping his hand towards them, offering help to get up. “You took quite a fall.” Lachlan only grinned sarcastically, getting up without the help of the stranger. “I’m fine thank you very much.” He said, brushing off the dirt from his clothes. “It wasn’t a long fall in the first place, a few feet at least.” The…

Though both of the genders were specific, the men or the courtiers were more detailed than that of the court ladies. Physically, the men’s height was described as to not ideally fall on the ends of the spectrum as it attracts attention so only those in between were highly preferred. However, if one were to choose, the shorter man would win due to the notion that tall men lack in knowledge and agility. The build must be more muscular as it displays a sense of strength, participate and excel in…

Gilda, film by Charles Vidor follows the romantic tragedy of two strangers turned lovers Johnny (Glenn Ford) and Gilda (Rita Hayworth). Johnny is a gambler from Buenos Aires that is caught cheating in the game and casino owner Ballin (George Macready) decides to hire him to watch his wife instead of prosecuting him. The plot develops and Johnny and the promiscuous Gilda begin a relationship and husband Ballin finds out and fakes his death. The story then follows Johnny and Gilda in the wake of…

The Stalking Dead I was running away from the strange man who kept following me. Everywhere I went he was there. I was trying to escape him, but every turn, corner, or street, he was there. He kept telling me “it’s time just accept it.” As I was running away, he kept stopping in front of me. I was starting to freak out, but kept telling myself “stay calm” but that didn’t work. When I got to my house, there he was sitting on my doorstep. Also next to him there was an hourglass tipped over.…

Lonely men with an itching internal conflict controlling their every action are men without women. The desire to become someone else or even disappear to cope with the hurt and haunting desolation a woman can cause a man to feel is exactly what each male character in Haruki Murakami’s ‘Men Without Women’ feel in one way or another. The confusion life can bring calls for a clear perception of yourself. The characters in the short stories struggle recognizing their internal conflict that is…

In the essay “Araby,” James Joyce uses a grown man looking back on his life, when he was a young man, as his narrator. Reflections on his loneliness, the oppression caused by his church and confusion about his feelings from being attracted to a girl are scattered throughout the story. There are many references that speak of being lonely in this essay. The second sentence of the first paragraph sets the theme for the story. “An uninhabited house of two storeys stood at the blind end, detached…

The issue with this era was that now society was starting to adopt the begining of gender roles. Where the man works and brings home “the bacon”, while the wife stays home cares for the children, cooks and cleans. In this era, a division between who was helping the family survive and whose role mattered more began. During this time, successful marriages had…

of today can relate to this situation Atalanta has faced that was based on her gender and appearance. Beautiful women are considered distractions instead of assets to the team, and in this case Jason turned away the one woman who is better than any man with a beautiful face. Furthermore, after Prince Meleager’s death Atalanta was warned by the oracle at Delphi that marriage would cause her whole nature to be changed. Atalanta’s warrior-like lifestyle would be traded in for the one thing her…

Since an early age, I remember viewing myself as an ultra-conservative, as my parents instilled strong conservative values in me. Like most conservatives, I viewed poverty as a curse: one that passes the hard-working and falls heavily on the lazy. I was taught that government shouldn’t handle poverty, for the community and Church can effectively solve it. I “idolized” the conservative fanatics and passionately believed in cutting social programs to lower taxes for individuals…