This One's for the Girls

Cry” relates to this course by showing issues with a girl who wants to be a boy. She changes her image and then, she goes off to live as a boy in another town. The movie is relevant to this course because many time people are confused or maybe just unaccepted about things that happen in their life. Society doesn’t agree with everything that is presented to them so it makes you change who you are to fit the standard and be accepted. The story in this film was presented with a girl by the name of…

the limits of my world”. Though I believe there are definitely other factors that limit or expand one’s “world”, I agree that language strongly influences one’s perspective of the world and overall identity. In her memoir, Lost in Translation, Eva Hoffman addresses this very idea that one’s identity is deeply interconnected with one’s language and when the flow of language is disrupted, changes in one’s identity also occur. Throughout her memoir, Hoffman uses her own experiences to bring across…

safety advice instruct teenage girls to remain anonymous by downplaying or neutralizing their identity, and distrusting any online encounters. (Shade as cited in Hansinoff, 2012, p. 452) One the other hand, contradictory can be seen between the victimization of girls and the concern of their inhibition. Girls are repugnantly considered simultaneously defenseless and aggressive, however, in both cases they are blamed for their production of sexually explicit contents. This echoes with the gender…

be approaching to one’s privacy. Privacy and confidentiality include financial, medical, political, governmental and legal issues. The first issue involves not letting the participants know that they have the right to refuse any questions they feel is private. Participants think it is their responsibility and they must answer anything the examiner asks them and later when their private information is shared, it can become an ethical problem for the company and participants. This is often the…

Yuuki Yuuna Wa Yuusha De Aru is a tale akin to other magical girl stories. The show consists of the main character: Yuuki Yuuna, Inubozaki Fu and Itsuki, and Mimori Tougou. Later they are joined by Karin Miyoshi. The first five characters create the Hero Club; in which members are to contribute to their community by helping and volunteering. All of them are driven by noble intentions and values, their 5 tents being 1: Give people a good greeting 2: Try not to give up 3: Sleep well, eat well 4:…

surviving a tragic moments in one’s life; one can be forever altered. Their shell of their former self is gone with that moment, and it can never be recovered. The only thing they can do is pick up the pieces and resume life. This is what happened to the girl in the story “The Mutants” by Joyce Carol Oates. The girl has changed, and her cloak of innocence has forever been removed. At the beginning of the story, the girl was this dreamy, beautiful, innocent person that had this special aura…

For hundreds years society has been sorting the human species into nice neat boxes. Boys are expected to be emotionally unavailable, play with monster trucks, and exude masculinity. Girls are expected to be hypersensitive, play with dolls, and embody femininity. These expectations associated with ones gender are referred to as gender roles. Gender roles are what leads to stereotyping the nurse as female and the surgeon as male. Gender roles are what formed the sexist perspective that women…

all.”(Alfred Lord Tennyson). These are words Oscar Wao unknowingly lived by. As teenagers and frankly as humans, many people focus on finding a person to love and in return be loved. This same idea applies to a Mister Oscar Wao. He desperately wants to find love. Desperately meaning he fell in love with every girl he saw. The only thing holding Oscar back is what he believes is the fukú. The fukú is a curse put on a family for many, many generations. Oscar believes his lack of success in the…

analyzed in ghost literature and folklore, though one that is ever present throughout the beginning of the telling of ghost stories is the motif of the suicide ghost. This ghost manifests after the untimely demise of an individual who takes their own life. This motif is intriguing, because of its complex nature and the fact that this motif persists through time, as it is seen in early ghost stories to the most recent accounts of ghosts. The suicide victim is often seen as returning as a ghost,…

could properly hear how the two girls interacted between each other. I noticed that the “block girl” would pick out three or four cut-outs for her board and whatever she did not use the other girl would ask to use. This lead me to believe that the other girl did not really know what she wanted to make but was instead just putting the left overs to her board, which was strange becuase the pile of cut-out was rather large and there was no need to just use what the other girl did not. The caregiver…