Redneck

This essay discusses white privilege in the United States through the eyes of a middle class white woman who seems overwhelmed by an accident that changed her life. Jennifer Cramblett a 36 year old women and her unknown partner filled for a sperm donor and were hapily accepted, now simply had to complete the proccess by artificially inseminating herself with the sperm. But they were mistaken because the couple not only received the wrong sperm, but received an african american sample rather than…

I grew up in church, I remember going to church every Sunday. So when I entered first grade and was around the age of six I had the opportunity to save the salvation prayer and I took it. A couple of years went by and I was in the third grade when I made a group of friends at school who were homeschooled and I went to public school. This was one difference that I feel started my comparing my walk of faith to. To me they were perfect and where doing everything God wanted but I felt as if I failed…

most common forms of entertainment in the many households. “Here Comes Honey Boo Boo” is a popular reality TV show aired by TLC, featuring a “Toddlers and Tiaras” star Alana Thompson, who is well known as the ‘Honey Boo Boo Child’ by many, and her “redneck” family as they screen their daily life in rural Georgian. The show was thought to be one of the most controversial reality TV shows of all time and although the TV show series quickly became a well-discussed topic for the internet and has…

Identity paper: Societies View on Me In this day and age everyone is judged, judged by strangers, by friends, by essentially everybody based purely on their appearance. This judgment stems from multiple sources, the way certain types people are portrayed in movies, ads, etc. I don’t believe there is any type of person out there who isn’t stereotyped on one level or another, it is human nature to assume things about people based on what we see in the media and other sources. The fact is, many…

Humans enjoy organizing things. More specifically, we enjoy grouping other humans. Many social categories are formed based on the similarities of people in them. Stereotypes are clusters of characteristic that are associated with all members of a specific social group, often including qualities that are unrelated to the objective criteria that define the group. They are based on the assumption that people have certain characteristics because of their membership in a particular group. Attributing…

Waiting to die is one of the oddest sensations a person will endure. As I sat, with an unreasonable amount of opiate substance in my body, I began to ponder what brought me to this junction of life and why I had chosen it. The response was simple, It was my birthright. I had been born under a bad sign, during a storm, to a cursed soul. It was my fate. I realized that as I had waived in and out of consciousness. I was damned My mother was a dope fiend. My father was an atrocity as well. They…

What’s going on under the sea? There are many fan made speculations of the show “SpongeBob square pants” but the main one we will be looking at is the seven deadly sins and how each main character in the show correlates to each individual sin and the thought through meaning behind why each character is based on a sin from the seven deadly sins and which character hold which sin using examples from the show as well as research to help us understand more about the semiotics of a story. But First,…

The clock shines 10:00 AM in Eric’s room. It’s time for another round of chemo therapy. He’s spent six months in this hospital. Each day brings a different bouquet and Hallmark card. Looking at them makes Eric feel nauseous. He already can’t stand looking in the mirror at where his once plentiful hair once grew. As he is being transported down the hall, he finds himself looking into other patients rooms only to be disappointed with the same flowers and cards laying in a pile next to the IV. He…

Mates between the troops and the Chief. One of them was a humungous, good natured native Hawaiian named Silva. (Nobody, including me, ever seemed to use his first name, which is what he clearly preferred.) The other was a wiry six foot five inch tall redneck-but-good-as-gold guy named Charlie Ferris. Both eventually became Chief Petty Officers…

Reality television has made a breakthrough in the last fifteen years and, despite its spreading popularity, the role it plays in shaping not only the mindset of a young America, but also the views of older generations, is causing negative impacts. These shows often portray stereotypical models all across America, emphasizing, and even exaggerating their habits and Ebonics, leaving viewers with a narrow vision of American citizens and lessening ethical and moral values. Shows such as Jersey Shore…