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To say that gender is performative is to argue that gender is “real only to the extent that it is performed” - Judith Butler, Gender Trouble To what extent do the characters in Glengarry Glen Ross and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, conform to or challenge their socially constructed gender roles? In her seminal work of cultural theory Gender Trouble, Judith Butler regards gender identity as a social and cultural construction, ‘supported by a masculine heterosexual hierarchy within society’…

The Do right is a novel written by Lisa Sandlin who enhances the societal depiction of gender roles. Sandlin allows room for those same characters to challenge the stereotypes within their singular character arcs. Sandlin provides examples of women siphoning the power from the male-dominated culture of the time and setting. The feminist theory was created to shed light on the oppressive state of women in society. Theorist based their claims on the overt power of men and their domination of…

Gender inequalities is nothing new to the world and has been around for as long as society has existed. Inequalities, because of gender, can be found in various aspects of life. Gender and Economic Inequality. By: Wienclaw, Ruth A states that “despite the progress being made to improve the economic equality between the sexes around the world, economic inequality still exists.” Gender inequalities exist in various ways in society that originate from this traditional ideology of gender roles and…

Understanding of Gender Construction in Kaffir Boy: What is it like to live in a ghetto but trying to outlive poverty? The narrator Mark tells about his true story in the book Kaffir Boy. Born and raised in South Africa, Mark was a young and innocent boy when he first encountered severe racial conflicts between white and black. As a child, he had to watch white police took away his father along with many other black men and beat them up in the street and put them into jail. Seeing this chaotic…

Gendered violence affects everyone, because even if one person doesn’t experience it in their life they more than likely know someone who has. More than 1 in 3 women and 1 and 4 men have experienced some form of gendered violence at the hand of an intimate partner (Black, et al., 2011, p. 12). I myself am a victim and so are many other people I know. Therefore it is important we know how to react, protect, and more importantly how to prevent gendered violence from occurring in our communities.…

In essence, everyone lives their lives in the same basic fashion: a constant cycle of encoding and storing new memories, along with the retrieval of old ones. Granted, there are those exceptions to the norm, but in the grand scheme of things they are really the outliers. Now since our brains don’t function like a video camera perfectly capturing every moment of our lives, we have to work earnestly in order to remember every minute detail which is deemed important or necessary. This is where…

folks were still together, which, in this day in age, is rare. I knew that my family dynamic was a big impact on making me into who I am today. Sometimes, I don’t think they realize it. The middle of my sophomore year, I decided that I wanted to study abroad. If there was any chance for me to get out of St. Mary’s County, I found it. I didn’t want the normal “high school experience” I wanted to take a different path from those at my school. I didn’t know how to bring up the situation with my…

Concerning the Toraja people of Sulawesi, Indonesia and the resentment the grew toward tourist when it came to altering ceremonies to attract tourist, Scollon and Scollon present the reasons for the resentment in the form of four cultural differences. These differences are ideology, socialization, discourse, and face systems. These four cultural differences served as motivation and explanation for the rejection of tourism by the Toraja people. Scollon and Scollon describe ideology as the groups…

Chapter Five Discussion The Importance of Reclaiming Your Entrepreneurial Culture This article talks about of the heart of a franchise is the entrepreneurs who put their passion and instinct which helps them achieve their goals and achieve their desires into a profitable business. Additionally, this article states that during the growth of its business an entrepreneur has to be organized, and be accessible to the public to ensure achievement in his business. According to the writer Terry Powell,…

technology to protect patient safety and quality of care with evidence-based research -- practice and health policy start the transformation of research into practice amidst the healthcare organization. According to Polit and Beck (2017), research study is a skillfully organized investigation of variables to explain, manipulate and foresee an experimental event. Data compilation is a critical phase of a research design, inadequate data compilation answer the research question produce an invalid…