strong female protagonist who ends up saving her male counterpart. Katniss Everdeen breaks out of the passive female role and becomes an ambiguous mesh of masculine and feminine traits depending on her behavior and desires. In feminist criticism, “Judith Butler (1993) has influentially argued that gender has a performative aspect—in the sense that…
Na tha kuch to Khuda tha, kuch na hota to Khuda hota Duboya mujh ko hone ne, na hota main to kya hota - Mirza Ghalib Baba Ramdev once emphatically put down his ideas against homosexuality in words, ‘had God been in favour of homosexuality, he would not have created two sexes’. He also equates homosexuality as mental illness, which he proposes to cure through yoga. However, Ramdev is just one among many faces in our society who argue vehemently…
The Making of a Subject: How Men and Women Curse Differently Cussing. Swearing. Cursing. Blasphemy. These are just a few of the many words that are used to define profanity. As taboo language, profanity holds a powerful position in our society. Throughout the various languages in this world, there are almost always words that are considered to be taboo. These profane words have a different place in the minds of people than those that fill their daily lexicon. The way that these words are used is…
I myself am the youngest in my family I have one older sister. Amanda is 20 years old and a junior in college. To say she makes my parents proud is an understatement she was accepted to Hofstra University’s Honors College and has a 3.9 GPA. From an early age teachers always said “Look here I have Amanda’s little sister in class” and on almost every report card it would say not as the same level as Amanda. All through elementary school I struggled a lot with math and school in general. So…