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Set in an all-female jungle paradise, Nicki Minaj’s “Anaconda” music video features dancing, rapping, fruit, skimpy outfits, and endless bum-shaking. According to Billboard, music videos quickly became an integral part of pop culture after their debut on television in the early 1980s. In her article, “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” Laura Mulvey explains how “cinema satisfies a primordial wish for pleasurable looking” (17) by focusing “attention on the human form” (17). Nicki Minaj’s…

For example, Isabella Rossellini talks about how shrimp prepare to mate in her video “Bon Appetite- shrimp”. In this video she states how female shrimp shed their outer shell and get “naked” in preparation for sex as humans do. Furthermore, one major similarities between humans and nature is the act of masturbation. Many animals masturbate such as monkeys, Elephants, Walruses, squirrels, dogs…

“Never ever accept ‘Because you are a woman’ as a reason for doing or not doing anything”. To me, this quotation by author, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie perfectly summarizes the Walk Tall talk by Jannette Taylor. This quote explains that though someone may be a woman, she can do anything she wants to do; she can do anything that is acceptable for a man to do. She continued by saying that life is too short to not be yourself; life is too short to not take; life is too short to not strive for what you…

In today’s society, women are expected to have all of the rights that men do, and those rights are supposed to be equal. However, this idea is preposterous to some males. This was especially true in the 1980’s, where women’s rights were not as much of a norm as it is in 2017. This period of time, precisely 1986, is when Margaret Atwood wrote her dystopian novel, The Handmaid’s Tale. The novel describes a society in which women are stripped of all of their rights and forced into social classes…

Ad Analysis Today advertisements for women's clothing and makeup target the insecurities of young woman. Companies use the appearance of young, fit, beautiful models to persuade consumers that their appearance is insufficient to societal standards without their product. The ad that I have selected is an advertisement for mascara put out by L'oreal Paris in 2011. This static ad while it is effective is unethical. It uses snob appeal and causes woman to compare themselves to the model, Gwen…

“I collapse into myself- a delicious craving into myself…And I am not afraid” (Anzaldúa, 7). In La Frontera, Gloria Anzaldúa presents herself as a Chicano woman of many identities and cultural contributors. In addition she identifies the many aspects that shape her different identities and her ability to truly express herself through them. She assertively ensures her audience that she is who she is because she declared such identities. Therefore, Anzaldúa identifies identity as a concept that…

Women stay in abusive relationships because they think they are in a loving relationship. In the essay “Dear Young Ladies Who Love Chris Brown So Much They Would Let Him Beat Them,” written by Roxane Gay, she talks about how women get easily impressed by young men with charm. Women are willing to sacrifice their identity because they fall in love with an abusive life partner. They are unable to escape from abuse because they have given all authority to someone else. Therefore, American culture…

widows within Water exhibit agency in ways that both subvert and exploit their specific positionality as widows within the ashram. While there is oppression, exploitation and trauma in the lives of these Hindu widows, there are also moments of genuine female friendship, love (both platonic and romantic), and kindness.…

Examining gender portrayed from Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House verses the woman’s role in the 21st century. The woman of the 19th century displayed in the play was a woman who stayed home, raise children and attended to her husband’s wishes with little say in how the responsibilities of their home and family was handled. While a woman of the 21st century has more independence and their own identity they are freer to go out for education, jobs and have more stance at the home with their spouse and…

Grendel’s mother may show her justice through fighting, but she is doing what she feels is best in memory of her son. Everyone sees her as evil: “She’d brooded on her loss, misery had brewed/ in her heart, that female horror, Grendel’s/ mother, living in the murky cold lake/ assigned her since Cain had killed his only/ brother” (“Beowulf” 1259-1263). Yet in this poem there is a silver lining. Men were not used to women standing up for anything, therefore they would…