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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…

Teenage driving privileges cause a large amount of conflict in many families today, but in the sitcom Home Improvement, this problem is used to resolve a hidden issue and bring the family closer together. This television show is famous for using comedy to relate to the audience in order to execute an important lesson. In the episode “Rebel without Night Driving Privileges”, the mother, Jill, restricts her newly licensed son, Randy, from driving at night due to his older brother’s past…

picks up on a notion or meets one of these people, she always expresses her feelings leaving an imprint on the reader. In the short story “Devadasi” by Rishi Reddi, Uma observes and experiences gender and cultural values that she strongly reacts too. She first noticed and was heavily affected by the gender roles in India. However, as the story…

Annotated Works Cited Ansari, Aziz, and Eric Klinenberg. Modern Romance. Penguin Press, 2015. Modern Romance explores the nature of today’s relationships. Throughout the book, Aziz Ansari and Eric Klinenberg examine the effect technology has had on modern-day relationships. With each chapter, they compare courtships and dating methods of today and in the past. Using several anecdotes, charts, and journal references, Modern Romance finds that technology-mediated relationships are gaining…

How many historical events can you think of in which individuals fought for their own equality? You could most likely think of quite a large variety- but according to the articles,”From Briggs v. Elliott to Brown v. Board of Education” and “Alice Paul and the Struggles for Women's Suffrage” two most commonly recognized historical events in which equality was fought for were the fight for women’s suffrage and the fight for equality of African Americans. According to the article,”Alice Paul and…

People tend to create labels for certain groups; such as religion, culture, race, gender, and appearance. The exposure to overly simplistic and incomplete comments can create an unbreakable boundary between communities. This is known as stereotypes. Moreover, gender stereotypes have been around since the beginning of time, and are still very relevant today. We live in a society where we assume that every ethnicity and culture are categorized to male and female roles, who have to live up to the…