The Unknown Man

The exact origin of the term machismo is unknown, but some social scientists argue that ethnographers coined the term while studying South Asian culture. Despite its vague origins, the term machismo is almost exclusively associated with South Asian culture in both popular and scholarly discourse…

truth natural at all, but is rather achieved. The muscle man is the end product of his own activity of muscle-building” (62). While the muscles and overall sense of masculinity may seem to fulfill a phallic desire or responsibility, the efforts are in vain. No matter how strong, manly, or stoic the male model is, he will never be able to fully live up to the phallic ideas of the world around him; it simply is not possible to be the ultimate man. Even though men in pin-ups do their best to assert…

deserve more than men. Emma Watson once said “Fighting for women’s rights has too often become synonymous with man-hating. This has to stop…” (McDonnell, n.d.). Feminism is about equality for men and women, not women having more power than men. A little unknown fact is that a woman earns seventy-eight cents for every dollar a man makes. The top ten paying jobs for women still make less than a man. In 2009 the World Economics Forum on Global Gender Gap ranked one hundred and thirty-four…

Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont (hereinafter “Chevalier d’Eon”, “d’Eon”, or “D’Eon”), was born on October 5, 1728 to a noble family that held various military and political offices throughout France. Given D’Eon’s noble heritage, his opportunities for a career and advancement in both the military or politics were practically limitless, and he took full advantage of his status, graduating with a doctorate degree in law as well as becoming a master of fencing.…

through each. Where Hospital Sketches does in fact have chapter titles but they are all very simple. A Day, A Night, Off Duty, are all very soft spoken chapter titles. Then you have With the Old Breed, the one work that is based off the experience of a man has such harsh chapter titles. Assault into Hell, Of Mud and Maggots, Another Amphibious Assault, Brave Men Lost, all of With the Old Breed has chapter titles that are harsh and so much stronger. From the very start the book about a man’s…

Top down processing is when one uses a known category to classify unknown people, meanwhile, bottom up processing is when one observes specific features of an individual and build a particular impression of that person. (Brewer, 1988) This explains what occurred in the room of jury’s, once Thad was interacting with the…

are arrested in La Purisima after being convicted as accomplices to crimes committed by Jimmy Blevins. Here in prison John must kill to save his life, this battle is one that ends with a severely wounded John Grady Cole. McCarthy describes, “Perez’s man bent…

which all people can travel on to dispose of outworn routines, explore uncertainty and attain heroic deeds. Whitman’s poem reflects Americans’ fascination with the open road. In people’s imagination about the open road, they depict a panorama of an unknown frontier, which attract them to embark on the journey to chase freedom, equality and independence. Actually, the open road, deeply influenced by racialized and gendered cultural context, has dual definition. For the disadvantaged and the…

Tough Guys: Masculinity in Hard-Boiled Fiction Hard-boiled fiction initially emerged in the pulp magazines, such as the Black Mask, in the late nineteen twenties and early thirties. The genre originated through the writings of Dashiell Hammett and further developed by the work of Raymond Chandler. Hard-boiled fiction is often acclaimed as an icon of American masculinity in modern literature. The conception of masculinity represented by the protagonist in these narratives became popular amongst…

THE CONTROVERSY OF EVOLUTIONARY JEALOUSY Jealousy is an emotion that almost every human being has experienced in her or his lifetime, it stems from the fear of being rejected, replaced, and the thoughts of comparison or competition. The notion on whether or not jealousy is more prominent in any specific gender is highly controversial. Although it is thought that women are more emotional than men, we cannot generalize that jealousy is a more feminine trait, but some researchers will suggest that…