Gender-neutral toilet

For my ethnographic interview I had the opportunity to interview a family friend, Linda. Linda is 31 year-old Asian Hispanic who has been married for 10 years with three children; twin boys who are 9 years old and a daughter who just turned 2 this month. Linda is currently a current Fresno State student who plans to become a social worker in the near future. Linda described herself as a “good parent who enjoys spending her leisure time by playing games with her children”. When I asked Linda to…

building that needs to be watched on how much water it uses is the toilet. The toilet can use up to almost three to five gallons of water every flush, and in most industrial sized buildings that over thousands of gallons of water a day. When just thinking about how much water that is being used it is outrageous. So engineers have come up with a new toilet appliance known as a low-flow toilet. A low-flow toilet does what a toilet needs to but instead of using the whole five gallons of water it…

While sitting down and rolling toilet paper, my heart just became so excited because of where I was. I was getting the opportunity to help people out and just by rolling toilet paper I was making a difference. I was helping in something so underlooked, I realized that it’s the small things that count, truly. After this, I got to go to the clothing ministry…

For example, the author of this commercial obviously thinks that Charmin is the number one brand for toilet paper. That is all an opinion though because everybody has different tastes. Since the author believes that Charmin is the best toilet paper around, it must also mean that the author believes that it is the softest and longest lasting toilet paper. Another appeal that is used is pathos. The bears set off an emotional aspect that gets the audience to watch the commercial…

Halloween from a candies point of view is waiting to be chosen by someone from a bowl, and being put in a bag. Some pieces of candy get lucky because they are at the bottom of the bowl, and might not get picked. Other pieces of candy are unlucky, and get chosen, and they get scared being in a bag, and having other candy landing on them. They think they’re safe, but little do they know is the people are going to eat them. The candy start to hear talking, “Jordan what kind of candy did you get…

and Language: A critical analysis essay Gender equality is a very hot topic these days as women demand equal rights in the workplace and are even running for President. This fight for equality can even be seen in the way we speak and write. Cyra McFadden, the author of “In Defense of Gender”, writes about how the English language is increasingly becoming gender neutral in an attempt to be sexually unbiased toward women. However, the overuse of gender neutral terms is quite comical. To write…

It was a Wednesday morning at Peters Elementary, I was steadily copying down the week's homework waiting for the morning announcements. After I finished copying down the homework I turned around to talk to my friends Benjamin and Vincent about Minecraft, when the announcements abruptly came on asking us to stand and do the Pledge of Allegiance than saying, “Are you interested in joining Pentathlon?“ In my head I wondered, “Man, what is Pentathlon? It sounds like something a nerd would join.”…

In his satirical folk song “Talkin’ Seattle Grunge Rock Blues”, Todd Snider said the alternative to alternative was a band that wasn’t even together. However, with the internet becoming such a creative force, the alternative to alternative has become more than a joke. With the advent of the internet, new genres are birthed and begin to gain popularity daily, most without any trace of a record label to their names. The term “Indie used to mean without a record deal, all by themselves”, but was…

Gender equality is a very hot topic these days as women demand equal rights in the workplace and are even running for President. This fight for equality is even in the way people speak and write. The English language is increasingly becoming gender neutral in an attempt to be sexually unbiased toward women. However, the overuse of gender neutral terms is quite comical. To write or speak an already complicated language in a consistent and unbiased way is, if not impossible, futile. Neither…

third person epicene pronoun, also coined a gender neutral, gender-fair, or common-gender pronoun (Adami 281, Baranoski 379). Generic he has persisted since the 1850 Act of Parliament that declared it so, but is he truly generic (Zuber and Reed 519)? The use of he is sexist, excluding females and people who do not fall neatly within the male-female gender binary (Strahan 17). English also lacks a third person pronoun for instances when a person’s gender is unknown. To combat this void, speakers…