Victoria's Secret

easier for the workers. 11. Chartism is a movement that occurred from 1839 to about 1848, and it was for the working class to get a better working environment and fair treatment from parliament. Every man over 21 to have the right to vote A secret ballot to be…

According to ‘JustSayYes.org’, “teen girls are more afraid of gaining weight than they are of cancer, nuclear war, or losing a parent” (Strickland). The constant desire amongst young women of being thin and losing weight is disturbing and all too common. This craving of thinness stems from a lot of factors, but a largely prominent one especially in our technologically advanced youth is social media. The instant access to other user’s profiles and photos can aid in the development of mental…

Reflection and Cover Letter It is not ironic that I choose to rewrite the first essay that I ever wrote as a Nittany Lion, my rebuttal argument. Looking back to the awkward freshmen that walked into the first day of English 15 and the person that I am today, I realized that I grew in many ways. This includes my maturity level, my independence, my social life, and, yes, my writing. I was completely closed minded about my writing abilities at the beginning of the semester. I convinced myself that…

Many women have had experiences with sexism, whether that is in the workplace, on the street, or anywhere else. I have had many encounters with sexism. Men have stared at me inappropriately, called me stupid because I am a female, and demeaned me for my gender. My first experience with sexism was when my male teacher from the second grade advised my dad “to stop teaching me how to play baseball, to stop teaching me how to snowboard, stop taking me to football games, and start making me wear…

The Price We Pay for Cheap Labor: Prison Labor Revealed The average American citizen probably doesn’t notice that many of the things they use in their daily lives have been produced by the hands of prison inmates somewhere in the U.S. The same person also probably doesn’t know that often when they call a phone number for technical support for a product they are having an issue with; they could be talking to a prison inmate. This in and of itself really does no one any harm and usually the…

People possess culture that makes them significantly different from the others. Each group boast a unique history, language, arts, traditions, beliefs, and other materials people make—whether tangible or not—that build their cultural mark. This mark is learned and passed through generation. However, the diffusion yield a vast increment of cultural groups that influenced each other, so some exhibit mixed cultures. In fact, people nowadays engage in popular culture which is a result of this series…

Moving Towards Body Positivity Growing up in the early 2000s, the pressure for females to be skinny was intense. Models, actresses, singers, socialites, and most of the women seen in the media were super skinny and very tall. Looking back on my childhood, I recall Paris Hilton being the prime example of a women that exhibited the “ideal” body type. Hilton’s protruding hip bones, scrawny arms, thin legs, and thigh gap, paint the picture of what women, and men alike, found to be the most…

What is art and what art is have been very controversial topics of discussion for centuries. Art is a very opinionated subject, and many people tend to share different views when it comes to art. To this day, we still do not have one solid, universally agreed upon definition of art. This makes it very hard to decide what is art, and what is not, considering we do not have a perfectly correct guideline to follow. Philosophers and artists have been sharing their beliefs on the argument of art for…

There have always been lengthy and ongoing debates throughout the years, as the apparent issue of teaching sexual education in schools has been a topic of incredible interest over the past few decades. There have been numerous attempts and strategies put in to place to make every parent feel “safe” and “in charge” of their children’s knowledge of reproductive health, including abstinence-only education, monogamy-only education, and getting parent permission to teach the kids. However, there…

Racism Lady Justice has been the symbol of the legal system in America as the standard which all that practice law should follow. Since the era of the civil rights movement the premise has been and should still be that all people in the United States are equal. Despite countless efforts there is still a flaw in the system and that flaw roots itself in racism. In fact, there is a racial divide that separates those who practice law from those that are to uphold the law. Eleanor Roosevelt once…