Innuendo

Genre and Gender in The Good Time Girls The Good Time Girls creates a well-written female revenge fantasy in an unexpected genre: the Western. The film is part of Refinery 29's Shatterbox Anthology, created to increase female representation in entertainment, both behind and in front of the camera. The Good Time Girls opens with Clementine dressed in men's clothing, holding a shotgun at an off-screen target while she recounts her born-in-a-whorehouse origins; she takes another shot as a…

Sexual innuendo presented in the ad is a shirtless male, lying on the sand with a woman underneath him both of them oiled up and twisting around each other, suggests stripping the rest of his clothes off by the tugging of his pants zipper. The ad uses logos because…

The protagonist of the play Twelfth Night is highly regarded as Shakespeare’s strongest and most developed female character by both critics and scholars. Viola is a cunning character who prompts a central issue in the play by disguising herself as a man; she provokes hetero- and homoerotic responses. Though Viola is a very intellectual woman, it is not her mind that stirs these emotions from Olivia and Orsino. Due to the soft and gentle features Viola has when in disguise, both males and females…

Once he sets out to destroy Othello, he achieves his goal through plot and innuendo. He tells others only what he wishes them to know, sets one character against another, and develops an elaborate maze of circumstantial evidence to trick Othello. Iago’s success in convincing other characters of his tall tales is a matter of the…

Ostracism; a technique exercised to manage societies. Ostracism can be defined as a form of social control, in which the general mass utilizes exclusion. WWII is a historical example of ostracism. Adolf Hitler had a desire to develop one race and one religion in Germany: the pure Aryan race. The Aryan race can be described as having, blonde hair, blue or green eyes, and fair skin. Hitler used violence, or in other words, the threat of violence, to exclude Jews from a “pure” Germany. Hitler used…

Today children appear to be growing up faster and faster. It has often been said that the youth is losing their innocence at younger ages. However these ideas are new. Neil Postman wrote the Disappearance of Childhood, where he attributes to this fleeting youth to the birth of new technology, especially television. What is interesting about Postman argument is to establish his points he first begins with discussing the invention of childhood. Thus giving his readers the impression that he…

behavior with devastating effects on everyone no matter the race or culture. Not many people are familiar with mobbing in today’s time, but it actually is a big deal in our society. Mobbing consists of: “Ganging up on someone using tactics of rumor, innuendo, discrediting, isolating, intimidating, and above all, making it look as if the targeted person were on the guilty party…” (Elliott). This is shown in the text how mobbing can be the worst form of bullying yet. In most cases, violence can be…

As long as I can remember I have had a connection with people, mostly children, with special needs. In fifth grade I met a girl on the playground that suffered from severe autism, her name was Sydney. After I talked to her a few times I went home one day and asked my Dad if he could find a book for me about autism. I watched every movie and read every book about autism that I could get my hands, I wanted so badly to understand Sydney. Sydney trusted me, she knew I would not make fun of her, so I…

In the clip from ABC News’, “What Would You Do” (2013), an African-American mother of a large family is shown to be judged by a condemnatory waitress through her use of multiple innuendos about the family’s finances, size and makeup. Other restaurant patrons come to the defense of the woman stating that her actions were “inappropriate” and “politically incorrect” (2013). Despite one patron’s remarks that she hopes the mass majority of people do not think the same as the fake waitress; I believe…

of a pecuniary nature, such as loss of a job or loss of customers or business. Libel per se is a statement which is clearly defamatory on its face. Inducement and innuendo are not needed to establish the fact that the statement is defamatory. Conversely libel per quad is not defamatory on its face but requires inducement and innuendo to establish the…