Gamete

Writer’s memo Gamete advertisements are becoming more popular these days. And within these advertisements lay issues about gender role, sexuality and morality. According to what Caroline Rubin wrote in the article The Gendered Language of Gamete 'Donation’ “the gifting rhetoric used to make gamete donation morally acceptable differs for egg donors versus sperm donors, from the advertisements used to recruit them, to the application process they must go through.” Based on this research, I…

Sexist School Dress Codes Changing clothes, embarrassed faces, and angry students have been a result of the dress code. All around the country, the school dress codes are getting harsher and harsher each year. Many of these rules have caused discomfort in many female students across the nation. The school dress code is unfairly directed towards females, it sexualizes the female body, and humiliates students whenever they get chastised for breaking the rules. As the school dress codes get more…

As a senior in college majoring in Mechanical Engineering of Technology (MET), and I did not give any attention to the communication that goes on in my courses. This communication course has given me insight on the sexist language that is exemplified. I have experiences things such as the “chilly climate” in many of my courses, and how the instructors communicate with me versus the other male students in my class. In many of my mechanical engineering classes I have had male teacher and majority…

In 1942, a doctor named Harry Kleinfelter, working in a general hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, documented abnormal symptoms in males that had not been cited before. Dr. Kleinfelter was treating males suffering from undersized testicles, gynecomastia, incomplete puberty, reduced body and facial hair, as well as other sexual developmental issues such as infertility, hypospadias, and cryptorchidism. The condition was named Kleinfelter’s Syndrome, though what brought about these symptoms was…

Introduction At almost every gym today you’re likely to find a sanitary wipe dispenser placed around the gym to wipe down machines before and after usage. Most exercisers go to the gym to stay healthy or to get physically fit. But the question is do all gym users consider the health of others? This is an epic battle of the sexes to see who has the best gym etiquette. Will the men finally overcome the win, in this battle? Or will it be the other way around. The researcher wanted to determine the…

Probability can be defined as “The chance or likelihood of an event occurring” (Mirabella, 2011, p. 2-1). When looking at Joint Probability, it shows the likelihood of the Event A occurring at the same time as Event B occurs. Therefore, it is the probability of two or more specific events occurring together. Within my current assignment, I am looking at the probability of event A, student genders and event B, the student majors. For example, when looking at joint probability within the…

Sylvia Plath had a troubled life. She tried to commit suicide once, but failed. She ended up marrying and having two kids, but the marriage ended in divorce. She later tried to commit suicide again, this time she succeeded. As seen in the poem Mirror, if we aren’t content with our reflection or focus too much on finding ourselves through the mirror, we will end up losing ourselves and never find happiness, just like Plath. We need to find ourselves without looking in the mirror, because if…

Polyspermy is when two sperm fertilize the egg as opposed to monospermy, which is the normal fusion of one sperm nuclei with the egg nuclei creating a diploid nucleus and therefore a viable zygote. Polyspermy will result in an egg that contains more than two copies of each chromosome (for example, forming a triploid nucleus) and typically results in a zygote that is unviable. There are two mechanisms that exist to prevent polyspermy. The first is fast block to polyspermy. As the sperm enters,…

There are vast amounts of reptiles in the world and they have a special way they determine their gender, which is an uncommon way of acquiring gender. Offspring gender of many reptile species are determined by the egg incubation temperature. Temperature-dependent sex determination (TSD) is an excellent example of phenotypic plasticity (Matsumoto & Crews 2012). The first reported TSD was over 40 years ago in the African agamid lizard, Agama agama (Escobedo-Galvan 2013). Embryos incubated at…

A Bird’s Eye View of the Gender Specific Parade Day Experience The following reports on the behavior of female University of Scranton student’s interactions and behaviors during the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade festivities, relative to their male counterparts. Reader discretion is highly advised. This study was conducted from the not so structurally sound observational deck of an old apartment’s window fire escape. The investigators consumed approximately two, twelve ounce Blue Moon bottles for…