The Vixen

Kate Chopin’s short stories entitled At the Cadian Ball and The Storm, is a young woman that lives her life according to what society believes is right. She comes from a lower-class family, but is also described as a beautiful woman and a “Spanish vixen” (216). Calixta has strong feelings for a “handsome young planter”, but those feelings are overshadowed by a “big, brown, good-natured man” that society believes she should be with because they are in the same class (216). In those times, a man…

were not present during the incident to confirm or deny Smith’s story. Even then, the Pocahontas in Smith’s story is only about ten, but in order to fulfill the desire for the classic Disney romance, Pocahontas is aged “…into a flirty, full-grown vixen…concerned with finding Mr. Right.” (“‘Pocahontas,’ Romantic and Revisionist,” New York Times,…

school I seen a lot of girls dropping out and getting pregnant, what Michelle said really was encouraging to me. I never drop out of school and got pregnant but it made me more focus. Now days kids, teens, and young adult only look up to rapper, video vixen, and celebrity that or horrible influence. And Michelle really standout out from them, all by saying get an education because the fame life is not what it seem to…

As students taking psychology at Hood College, we started to learn about the branches of conditioning. After learning about this we were then asked to observe 3 different commercials that were very peculiar because they seemed normal to the naked eye. But after analyzing it more closely we saw a few different types of conditions being present. The types of condition that were perceived were classical conditioning, operant conditioning and observational learning. To start off, classical…

represented opposite coasts. They were both God’s of Hip Hop respectively and in there own deserved right. Starting with 2Pac on the West Coast he a staple in what is considered gangsta rap. His lyrics were about gang related violence, what he witnessed and what he was involved in. He was anti-police and hated them. Racism, poverty, police harassment and inequalities about black people weren’t far from his mind and rightfully he spoke out about these social issues in his music. At the time of…

Nick Wilde, the main character in Disney’s Zootopia, is cunning and driven. He’s a red fox, and his portrayal in the film isn’t as far off from historical beliefs of foxes as one might expect. Throughout history, foxes have been seen in various environments, come in different shapes and sizes, but have retained a well-known reputation as clever. In Europe during the Dark Ages and Renaissance, foxes were portrayed as tricksters or those of fraudulent behavior, according to Janetta Benton’s Holy…

On Prostitution Prostitution is one of the most debated topics of our time. Sex workers believe that prostitution should be legal, and that its illegality has led to more violence and exploitation. Those against believe that legal prostitution would lead to more sex slavery andsexually transmitted diseases, as well as more of what prostitutes already face. The negative effects of criminalization, and the comparison of countries with limited legal prostitution policies proves that…

When these persons come of age, they continue to be stigmatized by a society that barely accepts their lack of authenticity. Elizabeth Atkins, for instance, reports that she is commonly associated with a wealthy family, being an “oversexed video vixen with no ambition besides being someone’s object”, and as acting and talking white (Herring & Hayward). Similar struggles are experienced by male light-skinned African Americans, who are commonly judged by their skin color, rather than their…

African-American girls from marginalized demographics, such as low income families, impoverished and crime ridden neighborhoods, and violent homes and communities, often undergo feelings of worthlessness and invalidity due to their socio-economic standings; which often results in low- level academic performance and self-esteem behaviors such as poor coping skills, decision- making, and risky behaviors (Wallace, Townsend, Glasgow & Ojie, 2011). This lower self-esteem is caused in part by…

Ang Lee challenges the racial stereotyping and heteronormativity present in Hollywood through his film The Wedding Banquet. The Wedding Banquet is a 1993 film about an interracial, homosexual American couple, Wai Tung and Simon. Due to the patriarchal nature of Taiwanese culture, Wai Tung cannot reveal his sexual orientation or his relationship with Simon to his parents and is therefore incessantly pestered by his parents in Taiwan to get married and have children to carry on the family name. In…