Hooks

are, not about what you do” (Firestone). Incidentally, numerous people believe that hook-up culture is just involved with college students, unfortunately hook-up culture is starting at a younger age. In addition, more and more high schoolers are getting…

Bell hook is an American author who focuses more on race, class and being a feminist. She has written many books or novels and also has given numerous speeches. She mostly expresses herself through art,media, and literature. One of the things she focuses on also has a big impact on her life. Her growing up being black, Class and racism have affected her life growing up in the united states. In Bell Hooks “Learning in the shadow of race and Class,” She talks about the struggle she had to deal…

noise. When do we start conversations with people we do not know? Enter: Tinder - an app used mostly among single - some dating - millennials that is known for connecting people in an area. The app has developed a stereotype for becoming a way to “hook-up”. Hooking-up can be defined as any sort of physical contact, often kissing or even intercourse. According to Business Insider, the app has an estimated 50 million users every month (Shontell; 2014) and 83% of those…

a travel companion of hooks being called by white female flight attendants and accuse her of occupying a wrong seat. The truth is that the airline “made” a mistake on her ticket, but K did not get a chance to explain to the flight attendant. The sense of powerlessness in K forces her to move to a new seat and give up her assigned seat. hooks describes her emotion towards the white men who took K’s assign seat as killing rage, and she wants to stab him and kill him. hook is mad at the white man…

Hook. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a historical fiction novel that follows Hester Prynne, an adulterer, through her life with her daughter, the father of her daughter, and her husband that she cheated on. Taking place in the Puritan Massachusetts Bay Colony, Hester is released from prison and lives and provides for her daughter solely alone, which is a complete contradiction to the standard conventions in her community at the time. As part of her punishment Hester is forced to…

Summary On December 14, 20012, Adam Lanza killed six adults and twenty children at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newton, Connecticut. He had killed his mother, Nancy Lanza, earlier in the house they shared together. Adam Lanza committed suicide while the police were approaching the school. Sandy Hook is listed as the third deadliest mass shooting in US history as of date. The weapons that were used in the shootings, a Bushmaster XM15-E2S rifle and a semiautomatic.223 caliber rifle, were…

institutional, and societal responsibility. The individual must understand that no means no whenever it arises in the situation. Institutions must educate on this principle and how to provide and receive consent. Society must challenge the norms of “hook-up” culture and assert that consent is the most important aspect of one’s sexual relations. One peer noted that, at times, individuals find that it is easier to ‘consent’ to sex instead of rejecting a partner, even if they want to say no.…

The ideas of “feminism” and “being a feminist” have morphed and changed throughout the years. In Talking Back, published in 1989, bell hooks discusses her experience as a black feminist woman. While ideally there should be no negative connotation to this identity, I have been noticing recently that “feminist” has become almost a dirty word among certain people. The other day, I overheard a conversation at lunch about how a large presence of feminists and their opinions had “ruined” a classroom…

enough, but should be. In order to understand why the oppression of women is still taking place, one must identify the groups involved in the oppression and how their actions contribute to the oppression? In the first two chapters of Talking Back bell hooks sheds light on her personal experience of being oppressed both by males and females in her…

Ill-fitting blue jeans are the bane of my existence. From here on I will never squeeze myself into a pair of jeans for as long as I shall live. Undoubtedly my hips and legs are being compressed tighter than a vacuumed sealed ham. Not to mention, having to endure trudging up and down long flights of steps just to make it to class while wearing said pants. Life getting any worse than this moment came across as highly improbable. By the time I manage to arrive at the dreaded stairway that will…