Knot

On Tuesday October 20th, 2015, I went with my sister and dad to see Gidion’s Knot at Centre Stage. The play is about the course of a parent/teacher conference, where a grieving mother and an emotionally overwhelmed primary school teacher have a fraught conversation about the tragic suicide of the mother's son, Gidion. Gidion may have either been bullied, or he may have been an abuser. As his story is slowly uncovered, the women try to reconstruct a satisfying explanation for Gidion's act and…

After reading the Devil’s Knot written by Mara Leveritt and watching the trial in class and analyzing all the evidence in the case I’m sure a lot will agree with me that in this case the evidence was very poor. The sentence was not justified or supported with enough evidence. In a case with this magnitude in which minors were involved people would think that the jury would take a close look at the evidence and lead the decision from there which in my opinion did not happen. Most people were…

In the first chapter of the Gender Knot by Allan Johnson, the author describes the patriarchal elements in our society as a degree that upgrades male privilege by being male dominated, male identified, male cantered, and obsessed with control. Even though patriarchy is a type of society in which both men and women participate in, according to the author. First, Johnson defines male dominance as a position of authority and power that creates differences in power between the two genders. As a…

Dance therapy is a way to bring families together by letting them express themselves and spend quality time. The journal article is titled Untying the Knots: Dance/movement Therapy with a Family Exposed to Domestic Violence by Christina Devereaux evaluated dance therapy as a primary intervention technique for a family who underwent domestic violence (Devereaux, 2008). The case study members were a mother named Laurie who was 44 years old and her two daughters named Nicole, 12 years old and…

A fracture in my life The autobiography “knots in my yo-yo string” is a autobiography about Jerry Spiaelli whos perfect until he found a knot in his yoyo string. A yoyo string is like life, and a knot is like a problem, everyone gets a knot in there yo-yo every once in a while. “My life was going great. Just got moved up to the A team in volleyball and just started dance. When I was at my last game playing for the B team, I jumped to block the ball and I instantly fell onto my knees. Everyone…

The book Untie the fear knots of your heart written by Dr.Ken Nicholes is a book that is easy to relate to in my opinon to a lot of people Christian and non-christian believers. The overlying theme so eloquently put in the title is fear. Fear is an emotion that everyone has, fear can help shape us into the people that we are today. Fear can sometimes be a good thing and other times fear can hinder us from our destinies in the book Untie the fear knots of your heart, each one of those senarios…

In Allan Johnson’s The Gender Knot, he summarizes everything I was taught about men and women when he states, after giving a brief list of different traits belonging to a male and female that, “As this (referring to the list) shapes how we think about gender, it creates a great divide, with men on one side and women on the other. So long as everyone buys into the split, whether or not it actually describes them, all can have a relatively clear and stable sense of who they are and what’s what(61)…

about. These roles are not thought about because it’s not something that people feel the need to understand. People tend to believe what society tells them since gender is a concept that has been around for hundreds of years. In his book The Gender Knots, Allan G. Johnson writes, “masculinity and femininity make up “gender roles” (65). Johnson claims that “In the simplest sense, masculinity and femininity are cultural ideas about who men and women are and who they’re supposed to be” (61).…

Craig, Maxine L. "Race, Beauty, and the Tangled Knot of a Guilty Pleasure." Feminist Theory 7.2 (2006): 159-77. Web. Maxine Craig in her article, “Race, beauty, and the tangled knot of a guilty pleasure” writes about the complications of beauty standards and the way in which it is perceived in our society. She argues that the discussion of beauty norms by feminist is often incomplete because race and class play important roles in the conversation, yet are frequently left out. Her contribution…

The Devil’s Knot: The True Story of the West Memphis Three written by Mara Leveritt is a nonfiction story about a 1993 murder of three eight-year-olds and their three teenage killers. Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley Jr., better known as the West Memphis Three, abducted three children, Christopher Byers, Michael Moore, and Steven Branch, on May 5, 1993 in West Memphis, Arkansas. The children were last seen playing together around 6:30 p.m. the evening they went missing.…