Sexualization

Toomer intends to use Fern’s body as a form of racial sacrifice for the benefit of society. Fern’s complex identity embodies the sorrows of African Americans and Jews who are overwhelmed by the intense oppression caused by white supremacy. Toomer centralizes his focus on Fern’s peculiar eyes and the atrocities which she has witnessed. Her eyes are perceived as “strange” and “that they sought nothing” (Toomer 18). With the racial hybridity of African American and Jewish heritage, Fern’s strange…

In American society a woman’s body is sexualized in the media. Beauty is an image that everyone strives for. There isn’t an exact definitions of beauty, it can be external and internal. What one sees as beauty another can view as ugly. Normally, women in ads/ TV are portrayed as sex symbols. There goals is to get as many buyers to indulge in a certain product and project an image that if you consume what I have you’ll look and feel beautiful. Over the course of class we have read many myths…

Analyse the representation and formal importance of transformation with regard to two texts studied so far. Metamorphosis, meaning change of form, underpins the process of transformation in Kafka’s The Metamorphosis (1915) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (008AD). Present throughout Kafka’s text is the political instability of central Europe during the early 1900’s; the social and militaristic unrest of the Second Reich was rife in Kafka’s home city of Prague. The grim reality of Gregor’s metamorphosis,…

Critically analyze the star Tina Fey by considering the writing of Mean Girls: the movie, the musical, and the movie musical, which she originally adapted to a screenplay from the book Queen Bees and Wannabees by Rosalind Wiseman. The original movie, Mean Girls, from 2004 was adapted into a musical for the stage by Tina Fey, which premiered in Washington, DC, in 2017 and went to Broadway the following year. As well as most recently, twenty years after the original, the story was converted into a…

Objectification of Women in A&P Throughout history, women have felt the need for changes and have constantly called for equality. Equality in the workforce, the household, political force, and in society. But what puts up these restrictions anyway? Does it stem from religion? From our cultures? Or is it something we as a society put up? Looking at artform- a medium that can be used to identify or examine a culture- we can see that the nature of how women are seen is definitely different from…

By utilizing “good fortune” to rescue Arthur out of dangerous positions he has thrusted himself into, Pym highlights Arthur’s privilege compared to the appalling circumstances that the “savages,” which is the derogatory term used for people of color throughout the novel that is meant to degrade their humanity, do not have such luck escaping. The narrative sanctions Arthur’s childish impulses of adventure that arise out of an insecure desire to manifest his masculinity by means of embracing the…

The LGBT movement has made significant strides in gaining representation in popular media over the past thirty years. Still, there is a serious lack of LGBT characters in television, movies, and other fiction-based media. The focus of this paper will be on representative divides within the community itself. Though there has been better inclusion of non-straight characters in popular media in recent years, it is a fact that we continue to see a disproportionate number of (white) male characters…

"Growing up" is very confusing yet pivotal for learning, self-discovery, and development. It is difficult to maneuver through this time under "average" circumstances. However in The Complete Persepolis, the author Marjane Satrapi recounts her childhood spent in Iran during the Iranian Revolution, her teen years spent in Austria in asylum from the Iran-Iraq War, and her return to Iran after gaining global perspective. Throughout the graphic novel Marjane is required to adapt to her ever-changing…

Patriarchy, like other social constructs, is an internal systematic oppression that has slowly evolved over the course of humanity and somehow managed to stick around. How the patriarchy came to be and why it is still in place are questions with indeterminate answers. However, many feminist works go on to challenge the patriarchy’s actuality by identifying certain characteristics of our society that may have contributed to the growth and dominance of the male gender. Although, so as to correct…

One of the cruelest dictators in the Dominican Republican history was Rafael Trujillo. Rafael Trujillo was born on October 24, 1891 and first began his career on December 9, 1918 when he accepted training to become a National Guard officer ("Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina"). Due to his obedience, enthusiasm, and discipline, once Trujillo had finished training he was quickly promoted, becoming the chief officer(second in command) in 1924 and commander in chief in 1928 (Schoenhals, “Trujillo…