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Social Psychology amongst Cheerleaders For this paper, I chose to evaluate my high school’s cheerleading team for concepts that were taught in Social Psychology. I was a member of this team for my junior year of high school- 2012 to 2013. I was a first-year varsity cheerleader, and it was my second year attending this school. This team was almost entirely composed of student dancers with teammates ranging from fourteen years old to eighteen year olds. I was the only non- freshman who had not…

Women’s Changing Dress and Role at the Turn of the 20th Century American poet Walt Whitman once wrote, “Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy/Of value is thy freight, ‘tis not the Present only/The Past is also stored in thee” in his poem Thou Mother with Thy Equal Brood. Throughout America’s short and dynamic history, women have played a vital role in the development of belief systems, policy making, and country building that fostered the country America is today. However, that is not to say…

hourglass figure that accentuated the feminine body type. Foundation garments like corselets, waist-cinchers, girdles, petticoats, and crinolines rose back into popularity to achieve this look. For a more sensual appearance, women wore fitted pencil skirts. If women wore a full swing…

While watching the class videos “Girls on the Team” (10/27/17) and “Skirting the Issue” (10/30/17), I discovered examples of gender discrimination. Discrimination is an action or behavior that treats a person unequally because of their membership in a group (McIntyre 2011). Gender is culturally defined expectations about attributes and behaviors of males and females (McIntyre 2011). The videos “Girls on the Team” and “Skirting the Issue” display gender discrimination by using judgment of…

In the Renaissance, there were laws called the Sumptuary Laws that allowed certain people to wear specific types of clothes. The lower class wore linen, which is a fabric made from flax seed fiber. The upper class wore nicer clothes made of silk, satin, and velvet. Cotton was made back in the Renaissance, but it was prohibited in the Elizabethan England to protect the wool industry. It was not until cotton farming in the United States and Eli Whitney’s invention of the cotton gin, that cotton…

code. For example, all students must have measured the size of their bodies in the school in order not to let students change the school uniforms such as a star mark and kind of a hard plank inside the girl’s skirts, which means teachers can find whether or not the girl students change their skirts. Also, it was unacceptable…

Loie Fuller Marie Louise Fuller (1862-1928) was a significant dancer born in Fullersburg, Chicago, later to be known as Loie Fuller or “La Loie”. Fuller is known for her innovation and experimental cooperation with technology and multimedia techniques such as extravagant lighting and usage of mirrors during the twentieth-century in order to ‘hypnotize’ and capture her audience. Fuller’s innovations would inspire many various types of artists and intellectuals, including future modern dancers…

schools because male teachers may try to sexually harass you. Sexual harassment is an issue that is present in schools and workplaces. For example, I had attended an all girl school that required us to wear uniform such as a polo shirt with skirts, and because our skirts were too long we would roll them up to be shorter. However, some students would roll them up to high and we had male teachers staring at students and become very distracted while…

“The Dark Ages gradually ended six centuries ago with the Renaissance, which seeded new ideas for a different world. The Renaissance ideal dominated our culture until three centuries ago, from the 14th to the 18th century, when it was superseded by modernism. Not surprisingly, this human ideal has almost been forgotten in our culture. The Renaissance, literally "re-birth", was a revival and rediscovery of classical Greek and Roman culture following the decline of culture, trade, and technology…

Flappers were women in the 1920’s who had a carefree way of thinking. They wore shorter skirts and higher heels, wore makeup, drunk alcohol, and went out more than what was deemed acceptable for being a respectable young lady. Flappers were very risque. A flapper was a free-thinking young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 1920’s. Women had just received freedom to vote and basically do as they please, some took this liberation as a way to branch out and to create…