Sarah Elmira Royster

Have you ever asked a little girl what she wants to be when she grows up? The usual response is no different from her male counterparts. As young children they don’t pay much mind to gender roles. Girls and boys are equally likely to have confidence in their athletic and leadership skills. As girls grow up they grow more and more doubtful and discouraged from those things. Women are originally not so insecure and we have our own ideas of what we want in life. What is to blame for this sudden…

reported whilst in or running for office. The media is harmful in their insistence to sexualize women, such as Sarah Palin, and ignoring all aspects of her political beliefs to reflect instead upon her appearance and sexuality, taking away her power and ability to be seen as an intellectual or an equal to any other men in politics. A reporter herself insisted that all people are talking about are Sarah Palin’s breasts, as opposed to her achievements or beliefs. On the other end of the spectrum,…

This sketch was one of the many moments Saturday Night Live as particularly feminist. Fey and Poehler, along with writer and performer Seth Meyers pointed out the fact that the way American politics was sexist; they were not going to remain quiet about, instead they pointed it out through a parody and got people thinking about the qualifications of the candidates rather than their sex. Another humorous feminist moment during the 2008 election was when Fey guest starred during a Weekend Update…

The Asics advertisement depicts a women running with her dog. The ad uses several gimmicks and physiological tools to promote the product, the GEL-Nimbus 11. The advertisements arsenal includes: the use of color, the theme of escape, the illusion of action, and the invocation of guilt. With these commercial cutlasses Asics slices through the mind of the viewer and straight into the wallet of the consumer, thus creating an effective advertisement. Dog owning women are the targeted demographic…

Blasted Takes place in a posh hotel room in Leeds England and begins by introducing us to an expensive hotel. Sarah Kane’s Blasted creates the setting of a war torn Leeds, England. The play itself is characterized by degradation, suicide and violence. Blasted was Kane’s first play which introduced us to Ian and Cate. Ian is a middle-aged misogynistic, homophobic, racist, tabloid journalist. He is also divorced and has a son named Matthew. Cate is a young mentally challenged, child-like woman…

The actor who speaks on the behalf of the ASPCA, is Sarah McLachlan. She is an animal rights activist and supporter. So to say, she knows a great deal about animal rights which made her perfect for this commercial. In addition to having McLachlan as an actor, ethos is also shown through the pictures. The…

Imagine someone sitting at home on their couch, watching TV when Sarah McLachlan pops up with a dog in her lap that looks healthy and happy. The commercial starts, the song “Angel” plays in the background, and words start to pour across the screen. “Every day in America thousands of animals suffer from cruelty and neglect… thousands were rescued last year, but for thousands of others help came too late…” through these words, the screen cuts to pictures of animals that have been rescued, animals…

The 1991 science fiction action film, Terminator 2: Judgement Day vastly explores a small rift in time (1995) just years before the world becomes a destructive place where technology has greatly evolved, to the point of exterminating humans, via the form of an AI(artificial intelligence) system called Skynet. However the dark future of Skynet is tied up to the present day via form of time travel, as the AI sends a Terminator back in to the current time set in Terminator 2 (T2) to kill John…

In Frankenstein, Nature and science have brought a significant impact onto the characters. The progression of science combined with nature leads to a debacle. With this, there are various effects and roles shown through nature and science. Mary Shelley expresses her message about this. In her times, she was part of the transition from the Enlightenment to the Romanticist age and this led her to composing a story with nature and science competing against each other. From the struggles between the…

“A White Heron”, written by Sarah Orne Jewett, depicts the struggle of a young girl trying to understand the true nature of the feelings of attraction that emerge in the adolescent years. These feelings, she soon discovers, are often at odds with the values that one holds dear, which often leads to a conflict. In “A White Heron”, Jewett applies contrasting images of light and darkness to depict Sylvia’s struggle with and eventual victory over the deception of human attraction. This struggle…