Fetishism

With describing and defining sexual deviance, it is important to define sexuality. Sexuality denotes those encounters that lead to erotic arousal and a genital response. As John Curra states in the chapter The Relativity of Deviance, “human sexuality allows opportunities for communication that is deep and extensive, personal disclosure, and physical pleasure.” However, sexuality is indeed a social construction; there are rules that “govern” society’s expectations. For instance, heterogeneous…

Segu through a Historic and Cultural Perspective Segu, by Maryse Conde is a five-part prose centered around four brothers born into the prestigious Traore family. It is a novel gravely satiated with the history of a kingdom in Mali during the late 17 to early 1800s, a time of immense cultural refinement. These alterations depicted in the novel are: the spread of Islam, the slave trade, and the mutation of identity due to such refinements. Due to this, the lenses of New Historicism, Cultural…

propaganda and produces very particular messages and ideologies for the world to view. The second section of the paper will take very specific scenes from Ironman2 and examine how the film represents the following militainment tropes; clean war, Techno fetishism and Support the troops. Lastly the paper will assesses the extent the Ironman2 film shifts from spectacular to interactive militainment. The paper will conclude with an evaluation of Ironman2 and how media like this affects our…

Fairy tales and folk myths have a long history of being told to children as bedtime stories for many of generations, and as the tales get told time and time again different variations and versions of these stories have emerged. A prime example of this is Angela Carter’s book “The Bloody Chamber and other stories”. Carter has created multiple new stories from classic fairy tales such as “Beauty and the Beast” and “Snow White” allowing her to inject her own modern twist and interest in gender…

Fieldwork challenges are salient in both of Mendoza (2008) and Peterson (2011), as both of them have worked with the youth and in classroom setting, and deconstructed presuppositions that both had or encountered. What is interesting, and perhaps related to my situation, is that Mendoza was categorized as doing “auto-ethnography”, which is in my case critical, and thus not showcasing my optionality will be detrimental to my research. Starting with a surface deconstruction of the sign system used…

In “Goblin Market”, Christina Rossetti presents ethical tale of two sisters, Laura and Lizzie tempted by evil goblins and their fruit. Ever since the poet published “Goblin Market” in 1862, the poem has been very well respected. At the same time, it has been prominently controversial due to Christian allegory and sensual imagery. Even though the poem was originally composed as simple children’s fairy tale, the audience can certainly grasp the poem biblically and sexually because of Rossetti’s…

Karl Marx started and ended his life as a member of an oppressed group. Being of a Jewish heritage, a descendent of a long line of Rabbi in Germany, Marx had every idea what it was to be on the outside looking in. However, Marx had the opportunity to do something that most do not, trade in his stigma, his Jewish heritage, in order to maintain and grow his legal practice. Relinquishing his stigma did not however remove the awareness that Marx had in regard to the construct of society and classes.…

In social structural theories criminologist are understanding the correlation between individuals and their interactions with others. By looking at the interaction they are able to determine the cause of crime. Monster by Sanyika Shakur is a memoir about his gang life that started when he was eleven years old. Throughout his gang life he becomes the baddest gang member alive while his time was spent in and out of jail. Later into his life he came to a realization that the gang life was not going…

Connection between American Values There are many American cultural values that contribute to shaping America’s heroes and villains throughout our history. These American values are The American dream, achievement, individualism, universalism, and the fetishism of money (Messner & Rosenfeld 70-74). To begin, the American villain Jordan Belfort embodied the American values listed in the previous sentence. Since a young age, Belfort had a natural inclination as a salesman making it easy to…

The Piano: Excavating National Cinema’s “Desire” The concept of a national cinema is one that speaks to a discourse of a particular state or nation. However, the definition of what the constructs of this cinema is inherently problematic. Andrew Higson (1989:52) discusses the implications of the terminology asserting that “... the parameters of a national cinema should be drawn at the site of consumption as much as at the site of production of films”. Higson attempts to underline and further…