Straight

The reading for this week consisted of Tanya Erzen’s Straight to Jesus: Sexual and Christian Conversions in the Ex-Gay Movement. Erzen’s work is an ethnography of individuals at “New Hope”, which she states is the oldest ex-gay organization in the United States (Erzen, 2006). Erzen excels at providing historical and social context in her writing along with her ethnographic findings, giving the reader a well-rounded basis to form their opinions from. The “ex-gay” movement is one that is widely…

Becoming A Straight-A Student Seeing the students around you earning A’s, they make it seem easy but when it comes to you there is no way in becoming a straight-A student. Now do not be deceived it is not easy but it takes time and flexibility in order to accomplish the strategies of becoming the straight-A student you want to be. In the book, How to Become A Straight-A Student by Cal Newport the author’s message is to give the reader his perspective of how to become a successful straight-A…

opposing parties, which they referred to as negative partisanship. Abramowitz also indicated that negative partisanship leads to straight ticket voting which increases the polarization and removes moderates from office (Abramowitz 2016). This result increases the divide between the voters who are engaged and those who are not, leading to fewer informed and virtuous citizens. Straight ticket voting is dangerous as citizens are less diligent, do not know what candidates stand for, nor do they…

The title “Life almost straight” is meant to show how the situations and actions we encounter, make us who we are, thereby leading into a greater term or idea known as the human condition in that the things we experience throughout life: our struggles, our achievements, heart breaks, fights etc all help us build ourselves into the person we are. According to this google search the human condition defines as:”the characteristics, key events, and situations which compose the essentials of human…

Creating an effective performance of stage combat or straight acting involves a great deal of preparation and thought. There are many elements that come together to create the show and as a performer there are several things that can be done to make the rehearsals leading up to it an effective use of time. Preparing physically and mentally for every rehearsal, spending some time discovering the character’s world, and being open to discussions and changes throughout the process. These are some of…

Starting off with the movie that we watched in class “Straight Laced” I thought that was a very interesting movie and something that gave me personally a lot of perspective and sort of opened my eyes a little bit. Because I am from a big city (washington Dc), I am used to being around people who are openly gay or openly transgender. But it really made me think about my high school. My high school was in the city and prided itself on diversity when in reality it was not that diverse. I think that…

For over several years, straight party voting has been one of Texas’s method for voters to cast a vote. Straight party voting’s effectiveness in Texas has lasted up until a recent discussion. It wasn’t until after “long hours of debate in which two lawmakers faced off in the middle of the Texas House floor, that the lawmakers decided to pass a bill into law that would eliminate straight-party voting option starting on September 1, 2020”(Barragán). Although straight party voting has been utilized…

MUSIC HISTORY II RESEARCH PROJECT: EXPLORING THE STRAIGHT-EDGE PUNK MOVEMENT Chris Spears MU332: Music History II March 3, 2017 Thesis and Credible Bibliographic Sources 1.1 Thesis The “straight edge punk” categorization within contemporary musical history is a subculture of hardcore punk rock which celebrates the musical themes of the 1970s and early-1980s hardcore punk scene but does so in a way that steers clear of the traditional “excesses” of the punk subculture, such as alcohol,…

Scared Straight Juveniles do not know firsthand experience of what it’s like to be in a real prison; they think they do but in reality they do not. In the documentary entitled Scared Straight directed by Arnold Shapiro is a program developed to scare juveniles straight instead of having them live a life of crime. The program takes place at Rahway State Prison, NJ where they have inmates—called Lifers—of different criminal records terrorize seventeen juvenile deliquesces into going straight. The…

Scared straight Yes, I think fear is the best motivational force. I think this because people might see something that they didn’t want to see and it might change their behavior and attitude. One reason appeal to fear is the best motivational force is, in paragraph 5 of “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God,” Edwards says “The devil is waiting for them, hell is gaping for them, the flames gather and flash about them,” (42). Also, in the article can kids be scared straight it says, “visibly…