don’t understand why we have to learn some stuff we’ll actually never use. As you all know sex is very common in our early years now a days.“13% of U.S teens have had sex by the age of 15, most initiate sex in their late teen years. By their 19th birthday, seven in 10 teen men and teen women have had intercourse.”(Facts on American Teens). So it would make sense to be properly educated about it, right? Sex education is a very important topic to learn about especially in high school when everyone…
make good decisions. sex and their bodies to make the men stop fighting in an endless war. Though it is played up for comedy, Lysistrata, shows a unique viewpoint. Calonice and the other women don’t just want to have sex to please their husbands. They enjoy sex, as much as their husbands. That fact is what makes it so hard for the women to continue their sex strike against their husbands. Lysistrata is revolutionary in that aspect —The women are not vilified for enjoying sex, in fact their plan…
female-dominated world where she both controls and enjoys her sexuality." (Grigoriadis) The eroticism in this music video are completely aimed at and for women. The scene that most signifies this takes place in the kitchen where Nicki begins to insinuate oral sex with a banana then continues to break it in half, chop it to pieces with a knife and ending with a smirk to the camera. I interpreted that her aim in this scene was to demolish the idea of patriarchy and once again bring the…
advertisement is not the exception. Clearly without subtly, this message coached men to discipline women to “know her place.” In this advertisement Van Heusen seems reluctant to see women as an equal individual. The graphics effortlessly support the oral message of this advertisement, subordinating women by illustrating a woman on her knees portraying a “happy servant.” At the same time, they conveyed that for women, cooking, cleaning, and obeying her partner will keep him and her happy. This…
abstain from sex, particularly in the moment. There is often pressure from your partner or friends to have sex. This is why when teaching about sexual education is understand that dealing with temptation can be difficult for anyone to handle. The most common age group to contract an disease around one’s first encounter with intercourse. This happens around the age of 15- 22 years old. Comprehensive sex education is effective at assisting young people to make healthy decisions about sex and…
Capybaras are the world’s largest rodent at one and a half to two feet tall at the shoulder, four feet in length, and up to 150 pounds. They were once thought to be related to beavers but it has been discovered that they are more closely related to the rat. They are simi-aquatic animals and use water to escape from predators. They can stay submerged for up to 5 minutes and can press their ears to their heads in order to keep water out. They eat grasses and aquatic plants and have special…
Calvin Klein is a brand known for their sexually provocative jean and undergarment advertisements (Haig, 2011). “The first ad to violate the taboo against depicting buttocks and penises in mainstream ads was Calvin Klein’s 1983 ad for underwear, in which the model’s penis outline was visible.” (Lambiase & Reichert, 2002, p. 224). While Klein’s ad for Euphoria perfume is not as sexually explicit, visually as their 1983 underwear ad, it does have a sexual undertone. The advertisement, featured in…
Issues of gender is very important to adolescent literature. Gender is the first thing people generally look for when reading a book. Readers look for a character that they can associate with, or imitate. When reading adolescent literature, knowing the gender of the characters in the story, gives readers assumptions about the characters themselves without even knowing their background. Even if the author decided not to formally establish or intentionally state the gender of their characters, the…
In the early seventeenth century, and throughout the course of Shakespeare’s career, who a woman was revolved around a man. A woman could assume one of three roles: virgin, mother, or widow. Women were expected to be pure for their husbands, bare his children, and otherwise be absorbed by him. If perchance she did outlive her husband, her respect would die with him while also granting her brief financial freedom, however subjecting her to social rejection. This societal development was linked to…
1 The Songye Tribe & the Kifwebe Mask By Whitney Chester Morgan State University Kifwebe Mask 2 The people of the Songye tribe can be traced back to the 16th century. Their history is closely related to the Luba with who they are related to by common ancestry. People of the Songye tribe are well known for their unique masks that they wore which were referred to by the term kifwebe. This mask was unique because it stood out and was a prominent part of the Songye…