Susan Faludi

self, to live out your purpose, and to do it courageously”. Setting one’s heart and mind to something is a big step in anyone’s life, and the things learned on that journey toward accomplishing something can transition a child into a mature adult. Susan Komen for the cure is a non-profit donation foundation that raises money for cancer awareness by providing a 5k marathon. When I heard this race was scheduled in St. Louis, I had my heart set on crossing the finish line whether I would be first…

Background American Express was among the first few organizations to launch a successful cause related marketing campaign and raise funds about $1.7 million for the Statute of Liberty restoration project. In a competitive market, where every organization is working hard towards winning their customer’s loyalty and employee’s morale, Cause-related marketing (CRM) help organizations gear up towards building a differentiating image. According to a study (Varadarajan & Menon) published, CRM is a…

by student’s interactions, interactions between staff and students, and the goal of the institution. The men of The Citadel, a military school in the south, and the social hierarchy that exists there are great examples of community in education. Susan Faludi illustrates different examples of The Citadel’s student community in her essay, “The Naked Citadel” Cathy Davidson also shows many examples of community in education and how community defines how students learn…

First, Faludi speaks of the expectations of men. These expectations include being a powerful, strong, independent, provider, that can confront his enemies and wins (Faludi). My initial reaction to this was that all of these are good. Perhaps it is conservative thinking that it is as good thing that men have these expectations. But as Faludi would point out, many of these expectations can be harmful and destructive to a men…

cringe internally. In her essay, Nelson claims that individuals have urges to watch different flow if images that would distract them from reality or wanting to take actions. She demonstrates this through Susan Sontag’s theory of individuals existing in an “age of extremity” (Nelson 306). Susan Sontag states we live in “an age of extremity, characterized by the continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed destinies unremitting banality and inconceivable terror” (Nelson 306).…

The Terror Dream by Susan Faludi and Malala Yousafzai and the White Savior Complex by Assed Baig, give readers a backstage pass on the show the media puts on for the world. Faludi deeply searches into how the media played a role post 9/11 and refers to the terror dream as haunted terror we do not remember. The event 9/11 destroyed the myth of invisibility that America could not be attacked and the media reacted in such a way that nothing like that would ever happen again. In 2012, When Malala…

In both passages “Biographies of Hegemony” by Karen Ho and “The Naked Citadel” by Susan Faludi, there are two higher institutions, which would be Wall Street and the Citadel whose goal is to “remold” an individual to fit their criteria. Each individual has a certain identity and presents themselves in a specific way. People are known to change due to influences on their everyday lives, which eventually changes their identities into someone completely different. In these two passages, it becomes…

Hierarchies are used in life every day because people who are higher up usually have more power in the decisions those groups make. These hierarchies are usually prominent in the military where this type of order rules all the actions the military takes. Susan Faludi discusses how colleges that have a slightly strong association with the military (The Citadel) use hierarchies, in her essay “The Naked Citadel.” The way that these students are treated in a heavily ordered system forces one to…

The cadets surround themselves with a campus which “feels more like an architect’s rendering of a campus- almost preternaturally clean, orderly, antiseptic - than the messy real thing”(Faludi 73) and is full of disabled canons that are stuffed with cement. This alone suggests a gesture of superficial, deceptive and unreal nature. At the same time, the cadets are regularly exposed to the context consisting of the hazing of the knobs on…

steadily shipped overseas, mechanized, and replaced with low paid, part time work, the American male has lost his ability to comfortably support a family and has therefore lost part of his masculine identity. Faludi contends that “to be a man increasingly [means] being ever on the rise” (Faludi 11). In the past, hard work ensured steady, if slow, improvement; many people would work at the same company for the majority of their careers with reliable raises and a certain future. However, modern…