Gender-neutral pronoun

“In the end death claim us all”. This is a phrase that for me represents what equality means. No matter the social class, the race, the nationality or the gender of a person we should all be treated the same way and be able to have the same rights. Throughout the history of the United States, the majority of the people had to struggle with different problems to be able to have the right of equality. Most of this people are African Americans, Women, and Immigrants. Even today we can all be judged…

Introduction In just the short thirty-five years that I have been alive television, computers, phones and films have began to evolve at unimaginable rates. The rate that information can me transferred from one person to another amazes me on a daily basis. That being said we are able to send and receive images information from or to the society that we live in. I believe that has been a good thing but in some circumstances it has been a bad thing. When I was going up I saw magazines with…

working and it showed Mrs.Linde’s independance and her willingness to take on a job which only men were supposed to do. In the article “Women in the Victorian Era” by Trudy Mercadal, “The Victorian era lasted a long time and had different impacts across gender, social class, and countries.” This means the time period affected the middle class differently. “In comparison with Panchal 4 modern women, Victorian women were isolated from the spheres of work and…

A study performed by Joan C. Williams indicates that existence of gender discrimination keeps women away from STEM fields and the extent of the bias might differ depending on women’s race and ethnicity (The 5 Biases Pushing Women Out of STEM, 2015). Usually women, especially married women who have children, are less paid…

Gender and the Politics of History by Joan Wallach Scott contains a series of essays that look at various gender/women histories (women 's, labor, etc.) and how the perception of women and gender has changed over time. This is an updated version of the original text with an added sections further discussing the term "gender" and its definition. In the preface to the new version, Scott discusses how the term "gender" in the modern sense can be represented of five different groups: men, women,…

For my presentation I chose The Trigger: What Gives Rise to a Story? By Debra Spark. Spark argues, weaving together multiple examples throughout her article, that anything can be a trigger for the inspiration of a story. That trigger could be anything: ranging from an object, to a setting, to another story, or even a single word, and varies from person to person. What is a incomplete for one person may not be incomplete for another, which is why everybody has different triggers. And sometimes, a…

Yvonne Orji is an actor on Insecure, an HBO series. On her Ted Talk, “The Wait is Sexy,” she was trying to convey the message that waiting is worth it. Over the course of her life, she realized that plans do not always go accordingly, she has to lived by faith and not fear, and she expressed how relationships do have certain aspects worth waiting for. Throughout the Ted talk, many sociological ideas were emphasised by her, also. Yvonne Orji did not try to persuade her audience to wait for sex,…

Even though most women in the world have equal rights in a lot of countries, women’s rights are still an issue. Women who are born in countries where their rights almost don’t exist are mentally hurt and these women possibly become unstable. In Ronald Dahl’s “Lamb to the Slaughter”, and in the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, “The Yellow Wallpaper”, the abuse of men towards their wife affects the women’s mental state negatively. In fact, people tend to underestimate those who seem to be…

Llywelyn, C. (2015, June 23). Why I Left Scientology. Retrieved November 09, 2017, from http://gawker.com/why-i-left-scientology-1703997050 Carmen Llywelyn is an actress and photographer. She used to be part of Scientology and was a Scientologist for eight years. She is no longer with Scientology and I think that would make her be against it because she left for a reason. Her purpose is to show her audience, anyone that wants to know about Scientology, what she went through in…

their biological sex. It is common that they will keep that gender for the rest of their lives, conforming their actions and behaviors to what they have been directly told, and to what society has set out. As a result, they live their lives under one perspective, purposely or instinctively acting or behaving in a certain way. However, one might question what it would be like living in a whole new world, the world of the opposite gender. How would life be different? A question that Rebecca Solnit…