The First Man

Some of the questions include: which ones are the turnips? Do you have to wash them first? Do you have to peel them? If you peel them why did you have to wash them? What do you peel them with? Do you cut them into strips, cubes, or little round pieces? Do you use the same thing you peeled them with? (Berry 74) This may be one of the main…

social work programs. I have received comments from other people who were part of my program in which they thought I was gay. The impression that they were getting of me was just because I was part of a program that is mostly represented by women. At first, this bothered me, but then I began to get used to such comments. I am not saying that there is anything wrong with being gay, but I guess it just bothered me a bit because I know that I am straight and people shouldn’t get the impression that…

When I hear the word foot binding, the first thing I think of is pain and bondage. Foot binding is the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep their feet as small as possible. Foot binding began in the Shang Dynasty about 1500-1000 B.C. This custom became popular during the Ming Ch’ing eras after 1368. The process of foot binding began at the age of five. Mothers were breaking their daughter’s feet in order for them to marry a good husband. According to the principles…

series fights social norms, some more than others. The first daughter, Mary Crawley, is head strong. With there only being three daughters and no sons, a pressure is placed upon Mary to marry the heir to her father’s fortune. This would have definitely been someone she was related to. Being headstrong, she was determined not to marry…

Marketing to Men The Burger King “I Am Man” commercial uses gender to present the advertisement as anti-woman and strictly for men. The advertisement begins with a well dressed man in a fancy restaurant, eating a tiny meal with a beautiful woman. Like the narrator from Fight Club, the man here appears feminized, as he is surrounded by perfectly dressed individuals in an organized consumer space. Troubled by this, the man sings “I am man hear me roar…too hungry to settle for chick food”. From…

Snow is one of the Earth’s most beautiful and ugliest creations. When it first touches the ground unaffected, it’s a lovely white blanket that covers our world. However, it becomes a yucky black mushy mess as soon as we trample through it. Eventually we get tired of seeing it and hope the sun melts it all away. Its sort of like a relationship, which, in my mind, consists of three stages. First there’s the good times; everything seems to goes right and you’re all lovely dovely with the one you…

men, twelve long rectangular sheets of color paper transitioning from light green, blue, purple, orange, and yellow and a painting of the man facing towards the audience while standing on top of a cliff overlooking the ocean during the time of a sunset. As I continue to look my eyes caught a quote on a mustard color wall. A particular section of the quote sparked my curiosity. It stated, “As a cradle of humanity, Africa is a part of everyone’s heritage.” What strikes me as odd, is the fact that…

definition of a stereotypical man. In society, everything a woman does is put under the radar, the way she dresses, what she eats, the way she speaks, and even something so private as her sex life. In the dialogue from A Gay Man and a Straight Women, they state “I just think that women's eating habits fall under the general category of "things the public feels comfortable commenting on," like women's clothes, bodies, and faces. They would almost never do so for a man—not because they're shy,…

the head of the household. Women get equally or sometimes a better job than their spouse. Women are more independent compared to the 1984’s. In the 1984’s women were most likely house wives and that was their ‘place’. Women stayed at home while the man was out working brining in the household income. Now in present time, a woman that work and bring income to the household is more socially acceptable compared to 1984. There are even cases in present day that the woman of the household is the one…

the world of rodeo has since always embrace the hegemonic masculinity culture and its attributes, elevating it to a stereotype. Originating from the mythification of the cowboy that symbolizes the clever, courageous, enterprising and individualistic man, It showcase performance of domination, strength and courage that describe the hegemonic men. It is a world where the main principles of that masculinity are represented, and reinforced. It includes ideologically domination over women, and a…