Female athlete triad

Inequality based on height is something I’ve dealt with my whole life. It’s something that has been embedded in me every since I can remember playing sports. If you’re not tall, you’re not good. That’s the message that has always been sent. It doesn’t matter if you can play better than someone who is taller than 6’, if you’re shorter you’re no good. Now, it has even progressed to an everyday encounter. Many women now have an obsession with height. So how did this all start? Where did this 6’…

says is contradictory from her true nature and character. As the pilgrimage begins, in the General Prologue, Chaucer describes The Wife of Bath as a character, who desires to be equal among men and provokes a shocking response. She is a strong female who seems to wear her Sunday best, ten pounds of cloth, woven by her, underneath her hat. He continues to describe her cloths, legs, feet, hips and the gap between her teeth. She thinks highly of herself and her work as a…

Set in the 1940’s, Adam’s Rib is focused on the courtroom battle of two married attorneys. After Doris Attinger shoots her philandering husband, Adam Bonner (Spencer Tracy) is assigned to prosecute the case. The case seems fairly straightforward at first. However, when Amanda Bonner (Katharine Hepburn) gets wind of the it, she steps into the role of Attinger’s defense attorney, complicating Adam’s seemingly easy win. As the case progresses to trial tensions mount both inside and outside the…

often portrayed in romantic comedies; for instance, The Klutz. The word “Klutz is defined as a clumsy person and that’s the type of woman Mindy describes in this anecdote. Therefore, Kaling describes this archetype, as “100-percent-perfect-looking female is perfect in every way, except that she constantly falls down” (Kaling, 73). The seven anecdotes…

During World War II, the difficult task of raising money to fund the production of supplies for soldiers fell onto the U. S. Department of Treasury. In 1942, not long after America’s entry into the second World War, highly acclaimed artist Lawrence Beall Smith creates “Don’t Let That Shadow Touch Them,” which portrays an image of three young children playing on a field, while a shadow of a swastika closes in on them. This image becomes adopted by the U. S. Department of Treasury for official…

This is Bernard’s first appearance in the novel. He is in conversation with Henry Foster and the Assistant Predestinator. Most men do not value women as people or for their character but rather consider them as objects. Bernard believes that women should be valued for their character and he believes that men should not constantly move on from women to women. This first appearance is telling of Bernard’s differences with the rest of the society and how he is constantly finding problems in several…

Conferred dominance is the act of giving one group unearned control over another group. Additionally, unearned advantage is the privilege that one group holds over society. An example of this can illustrated though the hierarchy system where white men are usually on top. This “unearned enticement” gives the dominant group an advantage based on their race, gender, place of birth, etc. Furthermore, a contemporary example of unearned advantage can be the wage gap between men and women. According to…

influence to the game design industry. One of Carol Shaw’s most famous works, "River Raid" was one of the most popular games back in 1982 when she worked for the company Activision. This achievement was controversial and has paved the path for other female game designers to rise from the dark to fight the oppression and prove that more prominent women have a positive radiant. While some might say that the River Raid game still would have been developed without her, this is falsely stated. River…

Even though I want assigned this speech, I do happen to fin its message compelling. I think this speech of hers was spectercular due to many reasons some been the messages hidden behind her words, use of rethorical devices such as logos pathos and more. Looking at this selection from the speech (look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted, and gathered in to barns, and no man could heard me! aint I a woman. I think this is "Logos" and it is meant to appeal to the male audience listerning to the…

It is no surprise that men have generally gotten more benefits than females. For example, the wage disparities for men and women are high, despite the job being the same. There are not as many women in top level management positions then there are men. And this is a global phenomenon. This makes one wonder, were women always discriminated against? Well in ancient Roman times, men citizen heads to a family group were the only people with full rights. Even when a family head was not present, women…