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Jeannette Beltran SOCI 127 Final Prompt Nativism, in its Modern Form Intro: With the alleged increasing influx of immigrants, the intensification of racism and nativism has taken a new shape and seeped into the media, as well as local, state, and federal policy. Particularly, the escalation of nativism is concentrated at Latinos, and has thus, created an issue of illegality. In addition, nativism, an adverse outlook of foreign individuals, has remained molded by dynamics that shift with…

Two of my foil characters that I picked out of the play Antigone, which was originally written by Sophocles but translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald, are Antigone and Creon. Foiling characters means that they shows qualities that are in contrast to each other. This basically highlights the traits of the other character. These two characters are so different. Antigone is the round protagonist; which means we know a lot about her, and she is the main, good, leading figure. While Creon…

their real-life affairs. Kim Kardashian most closely identifies with Ishtar, Goddess of naked jewelry. When she was absent, there was no sex (in the media). Kim serves as ring leader of the clan, having elevated the family to success with her shameless behavior and legendary sex tape. As "principle goddess" among the family, Kim is well-celebrated for her dramatic outbursts, and coined phrase “you’re seriously being so rude right…

Gender roles have been engraved in our society and our culture. It 's an idea that has been accepted and taught generation after generation and is the ideal of what is expected of us accepted individuals. There are the gender roles assigned to men of being strong, and being good providers. For many generations, the definition of being a good father was of being a good provider. Women have their set of gender roles, of being dainty, pure, timid, homemakers, submissive, subservient. The Secret…

Circe, Penelopeia, Clytemnestra, and Athena all demonstrate qualities that are nonadherent to the social norms of our society today and in historical civilizations. Athena depicts great vigor and wit while helping the mortals with his or her daily needs. Circe and Clytemnestra illustrate predation and power over men, mortal and not, while Penelopeia conveys both strength and vulnerability with her love to Odysseus and her pure intentions towards his care. From book one of Homer’s The Odyssey,…

Monique Dobson ENG 101 B01 Jennifer Carbone 11/17/14 Privatization of Social Security Social Security is a payroll tax that funds the Old Age Survivors and Disability trust funds (Van de Water). When eligible, employees can receive benefits from these trust funds. Each generation supports the previous retirees. Rather than investing in the trust funds, workers argue that they should be permitted to privately invest their money. Privatization is investing money into personal accounts, stocks…

loves black culture but does not accept black people all too much. I agree completely with this statement because America takes black culture and tries to claim the ideas as its own. Leaving Africans Americans to think they should feel a sense of shameless of their culture. In reality black culture is one of the things that make America great. From exotic beats, dance styles, Bold fashions, to the language all…

women, and the sexually perverse. He believes that power encompasses these groups of people through sexuality. Foucault blames the bourgeoisie for giving sexuality so much power. He discusses how in the past, “it was a time of direct gestures, shameless discourse, and open transgressions, when anatomies were shown intermingled at will, and knowing children hung about amid laughter of adults: it was a period when bodies made a display of themselves” (3, The History of Sexuality). Sex used to be…

Good morning students and welcome to the HSC study day. Todays lecture is on how the two texts, The Courtship of Joe Wilson and Saving Private Ryan increase our appreciation of the world through language and to explore the world in general. Henry Lawson’s extraordinary novel, The Courtship of Joe Wilson depicts through various literary techniques the past world of rural Australia in the late 1800s and employs colloquial language, imagery and dialogue to emphasise our understanding and…

The Rise of Infidelity In today’s hookup culture, the idea of being disloyal and dishonest is at an all-time high. This is not to say that social media is causing this new ideology, but it certainly sheds light on this growing trend. It seems as though more and more people are believing it acceptable to cheat or be disloyal to their partner. Hookup and throwaway culture seem to have risen around the same time that this became common, and it also stems from an openness and increase in sexual…