The First Man

thought that it would happen in a kid’s summer camp. First instance, I tried to help a group of men carrying heavy boxes to the cafeteria’s storage room and one of the man who saw me carrying a box told me that I did not need to help and that I should go to supervise the kids. I believe that man has been influenced by the innate society idea of gender stereotyping and as such, men do the hard jobs for example carrying the heavy boxes. This man has learned that boys are tough and girls are weak…

On display in the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art are two works painted within about a decade of each other. At first glance, they seem to have little in common other than the fact that they each depict four human beings. One would not expect to be able to draw a meaningful commonality between the two based solely on this, and if the viewers make their observation merely on the surface level of the works, they will not. However, the existence of these two sets of people, the essence of humanity…

and highly trained US Navy seals. The first scene brings adrenaline-filled action, helicopters, jet skis and a boat exploding. It depicts to the audience the sense of masculinity and toughness. The audience is engaged at how skilled these seals are. The males are represented as been strong, fearless and not afraid of danger. The audience automatically identifies with Shane Wolfe been the hero and the focus of the plot. Shane wolfe is a strong and a powerful man. He is very hegemonic, in other…

privilege, eliciting deference, and resisting exploitation.” These acts usually vary by culture and region. They also vary on situation, like Norman’s situation where he is an un-masculine boy getting dropped into a situation that requires him to “man up” to be efficient and productive at his job. Throughout the film, Norman completes a number of war related manhood acts on his journey from a male to a…

The Dickies advertisement we see here is an excellent place to begin. The man in this advertisements is not some “bulging” mountain of man we see in “rocks”, nor is he the toned, slender man-child we see in “leaners”. When we see the man in this picture, I go back to my childhood, and think of my father fixing our broken toilet. This is most likely the image people think of when they see this add, and a…

Sympathetic to her situation, Butch Al decides to take her under her wing and shows her the ropes of LGBTQ culture—from the butch/femme dynamic, to how to have sex as a butch, to how to act and come off as a butch. Yet, when Jess is on the verge of her first consensual sexual experience with a woman, she “couldn’t remember anything Al had taught [her]—not a word” and lets Angie “show [her] how” (71). Jess and Angie proceed to have archetypical butch/femme sex with a dildo. Despite this being a…

As the footsteps got closer and closer William Quirke scanned the room. He took in the scared faces and tense bodies as he tried to think of something to say, something to say that would not only convert the men standing before him but give them hope. Give them hope that one day Ireland would be free and the people of this great country would remember their names for centuries. Finally, William took a deep breath and cleared his voice. One last time he looks at the scared faces surrounding him.…

On the other hand, you could of decide to take a different course of action and detained him. After all, there was only one man against twenty or more men. It wasn’t the young man’s threat to O’Brien that made him throw the grenade, it wasn’t that he was in danger at that moment in time. It was the violence that resonates with war and the paranoia that grasps a man by the throat and won’t let go. The violence the O’Brien has experienced up until this moment pushed O’Brien to cross the line and…

When watching John Cassavetes’s film, Shadows, one of the first elements that intrigues me the most is the cinematography. He does an excellent job of telling the story not so much through the story being told, but the way it is told in the different shots. A lot of directors and cinematographers often do not have the same vision when it comes to telling the story of the film, but both Cassavetes and cinematographer, Erich Kollmar, take it to the next level. The films use of cinematography is…

Herman Melville alludes to the Romantic theme that the corruption of man is always conquered by the power of nature, therefore in the realization of his inevitable death by foolishly challenging nature, Stubb wishes to divulge in one last sexual act, as represented by his exclamation of cherries. In order to fully comprehend the significance behind cherries one must first analyze the events leading up to Stubb's delirious exclamation. In this scene, the men are in pursuit of the great white…