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Gender is defined by social concepts formed by culture and society. All over the media we see gender stereotypes that portray how a man and a woman should look and act. Indeed, this is known as femininity and masculinity. Even before we are born we are assigned a gender, through the colors and designs of our blankets, room, diapers, toys and clothing. According to society every woman and man should abide to these stereotypes we see in our everyday lives in order to fit in. For instance, when we…

The following question will look at where I believe rhetoric should go from this point and do so by using identity approaches in rhetoric as well as discuss how rhetoric can be used to analyze other forms of media that the course didn’t dive to deep into, such as poetry, the invention of identity of animals on social media, how social media can shape new musical and or social identities. Throughout the semester we learned a lot about the theoretical significance of rhetoric and how we can use…

in a society that fills with social expectations of gender. We response to these expectations at our early age. For example, noticing Barbies are for girls while robots and cars are for boys only. In the “Performative Gender”, “Doing Gender”, and “Nerd Box”, authors all indicate gender is learned instead of inherited. They bring out their insightful observation and critical personal experience to illustrate how the social expectations with punitive effects construct our gender unconsciously.…

Mean Girls Social Investigation The storyline centers around a young girl named Cady Heron, who has just entered the American school system. Cady is introduced to many different social groups, one of which is named the Plastics who includes Regina (Ring Leader), Gretchen, and Karen. They are the most admired girls in school. Cady decides to take down the group's leader, Regina by sabotaging the group with the help of some social outsiders. The film concludes with Cady realizing that these…

What comes to mind, when you think of mother’s participating in their child’s high school life? Maybe it’s the lack of parental participation, or perhaps it’s that overzealous mom, who just have to participate in everything. Have you ever wondered, that the lack of knowledge, could keep mothers from being productive in school. Maybe you have the mom that’s so focused on her career, she forgets about her child education. Do mothers feel once their child gets to high school they should treat…

Erikson defines the age of adolescence as the early teen years, in between the age of twelve and the young adult stage. Those in the age of adolescence are faced with the large question “Who am I?” Their conflict lies between a settled identity and role confusion. Often in the young teenage years one is starting to develop and change in many ways. A lot happens physically, emotionally, and socially. In many Western societies, according to the textbook, it is common for adolescents to begin to…

Racism had made Robinson’s fate of dead inevitable. “Tom was a dead man the minute Mayella Ewell opened her mouth and screamed”. In the particular place and time, it was simply because Tom was black and Mayella was white. In the era of 1930s, the whites had overwhelming power over the blacks who were seldom protected by law. Although Atticus did a brilliant job to expose Bob Ewell and his daughter’s lies and convinced most people that Tom Robinson was closer to innocence than sin, and it took…

Homeschooling is the education of children at home by their parents. Homeschooling has grown greatly since the early 2000s, so much so that 1,770,000 students are homeschooled in the United States today—which is 3.4% of the school-age population (HSLDA). The National Center for Education Statistics says that children who are homeschooled are 68% white, 15% Hispanic, 8% black, and 4% Asian or Pacific Islander. Also, 35.9% of families that homeschool have four to six kids, %25.3% have seven or…

Fantasy football, a game based on starting players from various teams to gain points based off of their respective performance, gives great delight to sport nerds. With data, players tend to favor players based on raw stats over favorability. In this instance, a player would prefer to pick a rival team’s quarterback over his favorite team’s quarterback if the rival puts up better stats. This simplistic data…

Does anyone remember the last time we saw a found-footage film that was actually good? Seriously can you remember? The Gallows reminds us that even though Hollywood loves making found footage movies they seem to be against making them good. In this horror film we have a gang of cliché annoying teenagers Reese Houser, Pfeifer Ross, Ryan Shoos and Cassidy Spliker. The actors seemed to enjoy keeping their real names in the film and Ryan is the only one to keep both his first and last name, so in…