pornography can be graphic and the images tend to put women in the “inferior position”, but Longino is the one who is giving entertainment power over women in society. Pornography does not teach people how to treat women in society, it portrays fantasies for entertainment and shock-value. Pornographic videos are not meant to be used as a manual for how women or men should behave. Longino is demeaning men and women by saying that they use exaggerated entertainment to define their role in society.…
Shannon Wells-Lassagne (2013) explains that “Game of Thrones’s opening episode includes dismemberment, beheading, adultery, prostitution, rape and incest, to name but a few” (p. 418). Wells-Lassagne (2013) then proceeds to ask “Is aesthetic detachment possible [or preferable], or is this emphasis on prurience a concession of HBO’s quality television to commercial viability?” (p. 418). Wells-Lassagne…
not only to seek economic self-sufficiency but for protection. Rural areas were more vulnerable to things that would deprive African Americans of life, liberty, and happiness but it also was more susceptible to causing the women to become victims of rape (p.277-278). The paid labor African American women were placed in were mainly domestic jobs in private homes, where they did laundry, cleaned, cooked, and did basic housework, especially since they were excluded from manufacturing plants. One of…
Prior to the rape of Chloe, there was a time in the locker room after practice one day when the football team had conversation regarding “easy girls” in the school that would be available to have sex with the team after they had chosen one. The team continued to joke about how “all girls are easy.” They describe how all girls want sex just as bad as “guys want sex.” Some of the boys on the team even go so far as to say that girls have described fantasies of being raped as a way of making them…
A wise American poet, Roger Zelazny, once said “The power to hurt has evolved in a direct relationship to technological advancement.” It is 2016: advancements are endless, especially when it comes to horror films. Think of the famous 1897 horror film Dracula; the blood that looked like blobs of ketchup, the large amounts of makeup on the actors, it all seems so fake now. With advancements in technology producers are able to create horror films with undeniable visual effects. Better visual…
Thankfully for my parents, not to meth or cocaine, but to daily fantasy sports.…
Last year during fantasy football I had a great team my players rarely got hurt and none of them got suspended. On the other hand almost all of my opponents had to deal with that. My opponents all agreed that I had the best draft overall, and I would still get beat by all of them. First is the draft of a lifetime, I got the second pick and I picked Le'veon Bell. I also got many other good players such as: Drew Brees, Panthers Defense, Derek Carr, and Amari Cooper. I also got the best…
thirty three million people playing fantasy football each year. Fantasy football isn't just a game, it is a past time. People spend hours on research trying to find the perfect lineup. People also gamble trying to earn money and bragging rights. Fantasy football is an American phenomenon and will continue to grow because it helps win money and earn bragging rights. Fantasy football is an American phenomenon and millions of people play every year. people love fantasy football and would do…
According to the Crime Museum, a serial killer is conventionally defined as a person who murders three or more people in a period of over a month, with “cooling down” time between murders. Often driven by a psychological thrill or pleasure, serial killers murders must be separate events. Serial killers commit murder in different places over a long period of time. The characteristics of a serial killer often lack empathy, guilt and often become egocentric individuals. They also hide their true…
That is only when the idea of portal fantasy began to take effect, and be classified as a subgenre of fantasy. On the contrary, people have been travelling to other worlds and universes, since they were able to think. Asking themselves questions such as: “What if a place like … existed?”, “What would I do if I went there?”…