Public display of affection

Gustav Klimt's canvas uses oil paints and ranges of gold leaf to make a suggestive, resonating picture that catches the eye on a physical level and exploits enduring subjects of affection. Klimt was often called a painter of women. He was an artist who was able to describe the personality of women through brushes and oil paint. Klimt probably wanted to portray that women are as strong and independent as men are. The imagery behind…

emotions are often disguised as colorful, chameleons. Teen’s chameleons easily adapt to their audience. Generally, teens possess a profound interest in expressing disgust to parents, while saving face around peers. This principle can be demonstrated in public when a teen addressing his parent inquires about a sleepover on a school night. This stealthy teen chameleon explodes in the form of pixie dust, covertly dusting his disgust over the masses. Around parents, a teen’s chameleon freely matches…

completely arbitrary, as sexual acts are only assigned meaning through social and cultural contexts, but also that individuals became labeled as deviant and were thought of as fundamentally different from “normal” people who engaged in traditional displays of intimacy. In American culture, generally it is only married, heterosexual couples that are safe from having their sexual activities labeled as “immoral” (Fischer, p. 38). Standards of sexual morality are determined and passed down by those…

participate in American culture. 6. Normally a sense of rigidity dominated the public activities, but at Coney Island visitors were free from normative demands. Coney Island encouraged loose behavior so a person could have fun. For example, the norm was that before talking to a lady a man must first be acquainted, but at Coney Island men and women struck up conversations. 7. The photographs show public displays of affection at Coney Island. Demonstrated by a couple hugging on the beach. Others…

in a holding cell, videos were taken and released to the public, with his genitalia blurred. The part of the video released, “appears to be him urinating in the cell.” (CNN) Miley wearing her G-string shaking her bottom in the faces of her audiences. Knowing young children are going to see her in this action, she cares not, she’s making money which is all that matters. Consequently, Miley a young lady who appears half naked in the public does not reflect a positive image for our youth.…

hostile towards the Jews. An incident involving the deportation of the Jews in 1290 and Jews being legally titled as threats, further illustrates the extent of anti-semitism throughout Europe. Many distinct characteristics of the Jewish lifestyle displays the difference between Christians and Jews in society. For example, Jews were forced to wear red hats and live in specialized ghettos. Jews were publicly degraded by being forced to wear special hats or stars because the Christians did not want…

diction “endow” suggests an appreciation for this change from a hectic party to calming isolation. The partygoers are associated with the superficial demands of society. The reality of Gatsby’s loneliness releases him from his persona that he must display during the parties to fit in with the crowd, attributing frivolity with his persona and modesty with his reality. Following the death of Myrtle, Gatsby is in a “new world” where “material” is not “real” (161). Gatsby witnesses the reality of…

An intimate relationship shared between two college women was labeled as a “smash” or a “crush” up until in the late 19th Century. There was seemingly nothing deviant about the relationship and was defined as, “one girl, generally an underclassman, and usually a freshman, becomes much attached to another girl, ordinarily an upper-class girl. The young girl is ‘crushed’ and the other, sends her flowers and tries in various ways to give expression to her admiration.” Historian Lillian Faderman…

Educational material is utilised as a building block for social situations. Therefore, an individual’s public success is dependent on their literacy. Austen reprimands her society for the devalumnet of prose by satising its need in Pride and prejudice. The exclamation, “there is no enjoyment like reading!”, was uttered insincerely, yet inadvertently displays the importance of education to the point of pretence. However, simple enjoyment of literature is overshadowed by the cultural…

The word “love ”appears one hundred and thirty-one times in the one hundred and forty-eight pages of Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s novel Herland. On almost every page, descriptions of familial intimacy and compassion are presented, in theory, in metaphor, and in daily practice. However, the male protagonists discovering Gilman’s utopia are adamant that real love is absent from Herland, one remarking that “[the women] hadn 't even the faintest idea of love--sex-love, that is.” (Gilman 91) The three…