Jerry Siegel

Criticism of Masculinity in “Split Personality” Ideal masculinity is depicted everywhere in our society from movies to books to comics. It is a socially constructed set of attributes for boys and men to achieve. Some common characteristics include: strength, heroism, audacity, control, lack of emotion, superior, fearlessness, honor, and heterosexuality. In a 1950’s issue of the Vault of Horror, the horror comic, “Split Personality,” depicts the male protagonist, Ed King, as a character of great strength and fearlessness who commits the acts of polygamy and deception. Ed King exhibits similar masculine qualities as those of Superman in Action Comic including strength, fearlessness, and his appeal to women, however, unlike Superaman, Ed’s ideal masculinity is criticized. The comic “ Split Personality” constructs masculinity by underscoring Ed’s strength, his fearlessness, and his appeal to women to encourage the reader to question the notions of ideal masculinity and to show that ideal masculinity is objectifying of both men and women. Superman is an eminent, ubiquitous paradigm for ideal masculinity. He is celebrated by the readers for his selflessness to help those in need and for his heroism in to exterminate the corrupt and the repulsive; his acts for the greater good are facilitated by his strength and fearlessness. . On the contrary, Ed King is admonished for his immoral acts of deception, polygamy and manipulation, which ultimately lead to his own demise.…

The passing of the eighteenth amendment provided an opportunity for Lucania to recruit some new meat. Lucania became one of the “Big Six” of bootlegging along with Meyer Lansky and Bugsy Siegel (“Luciano”, n.d.). His bootlegging gang grew throughout the 1920’s. Lucania and his friends recruited new Jewish gang members, including Louis “Lepke” Buchalter, nicknamed “Lepke” by his mother, Abner “Longie” Zwillman, another Jew, and Zwillman’s partner, Willie Moretti (Gosch, 1975). These unscrupulous…

Every morning Americans’ takeout to Starbucks or Dunkin Donuts and grab a cup of coffee on their way to work, but at the same time, people really have no idea where the coffee they drink everyday originates from or who, how, where it’s produced. As the matter of fact, a farmer produces the coffee we drink on daily basis. According to the article “ The Coffee Connection”, Elizabeth Neuffer says, Behind every cup of a coffee Americans drink, there is a farmer like Santiago de la Rosa laboring to…

“When I left that icy prison I’d no idea where north and south were but I did have two very strong convictions. One was that good novels must be a poetic transposition of reality, and the other was that mankind’s immediate future lay in socialism” (qtd. in Bloom 11). This is the essence of Gárcia Márquez. A man of hard principles and passionate imagination, he was born on March 6, 1928 in Aracataca, Columbia. His childhood years were marked by his relationships with his grandparents and his…

Dagoberto Gilb’s short story “Shout” addresses the idea of a life full of struggle. It begins with a guy struggling to open the door to his house. After moving to the states from Mexico, losing his old job, and losing the duplex apartment that they had lived in for years, they had to keep the door locked on their new apartment because they didn’t want the baby to get out into the bad neighborhood they now live in. From here the day just got worse, he had been working all day and was hot and…

With the invention of the Internet has come with the creation of a whole new way people express their creativity. A common form of expression on the internet is through the use of fan made content, including things such as fan fiction and memes. In recent months, the 2007 animated film Bee Movie has received much attention on the internet through the use of this fan made content, in particular memes. Many of these memes are about making the film seem even more absurd through editing the film or…

Case of Stella against McDonald's in New Mexico on August 18, 1994. The actual event happened in February 1992. This lady is 79 years old (at the time) was passing through the McDonald's drive through appearing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and asked for a cup of coffee which was offered in Styrofoam cups. After receiving the trophy, grandson (who was driving card) going forward so you can put some sugar in my coffee, when I tried to open the lid, and spill hot coffee through her lap burn inner…

Starbucks Corporation is an American coffee company and coffeehouse chain. Starbucks was established in Seattle, Washington in 1971 by Jerry Baldwin, Gordon Bowker and Zev Siegl. To begin with, the three partners only sold roasted whole coffee beans, and it was not until they sold the company to employee Howard Schultz in 1987 . Schultz, still the Chairman and CEO of Starbucks. Value Chain Analysis Michael Porter states that getting competitive advantage can be achieved through analysis of the…

Nowadays Starbucks coffee company has become one of the main favorite coffee shops for many individuals, this company impress their customers with high quality coffee and friendly environment brought by the employees. These employees who are highly motivated by their managers and have a great connection with them seek to provide a welcoming environment to their customers. The main focus in this company is to look after their employees and create opportunity for them, opportunities that let their…

1.0 Introduction ”Coffeebrewer Nordic A/S is the company behind the Grower’s Cup brand. They are a small and innovative Danish company located in Middelfart that have decided to “battle” with the big boys and all their machines. The company is founded in 2008 and their small office, artisan roastery, and packing facility is established in an old restored farm building, nestled in a hilly landscape, surrounded by forests and the sea.” The product is innovative and very useful for most of people…