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From the back angle, one can observe her shoulders are slumped over, and that her back is somewhat muscular. One leg is awkwardly bent at the knee as if she is in motion. Her upper torso is unclothed but she does have a cloth placed very low on her waist. The cloth is very detailed, showing…

We viewed a documentary called Babies Behind Bars which, documented the lives of pregnant women in the Women’s Indiana Prison. In the Babies Behind Bars, we were introduced to a newly implemented program for pregnant mothers called The Wee One’s Nursery. Introduced in 2007, the state of Indiana Women’s Prison holding 670 women prisoners put a new program into effect for 10 “qualified” pregnant inmates, which allows the mother to keep her child while serving the remainder of their sentence in…

The narrator, Offred, describes how she and other handmaids slept inside a gymnasium in the new nation of Gilead. There are two Aunt, Sara and Elizabeth, who has cattle prods around their waist in order to put fear into the handmaids. The women are not allowed to speak with one another so they must resort to lip reading when the aunts are not looking. The handmaids were allowed two walks a day around the former football field. While the women are walking , the guards stand with their backs…

cases on the news where someone has been shot by the opposite race, or a White Cop shoots a Black Male or vice-versa, and someone says the suspect had done nothing wrong while he’s either resisting arrest or pulling some kind of object out of their waist or pocket. Today’s society feels they have to be so politically correct and feel they need to against everything. We’re always seeing on the news of riots or protests of people holding signs saying either: #WhiteLivesMatter, #BlackLivesMatter,…

cure for fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia pain is considered chronic and widespread. Chronic pain lasts at least three to six month. Mayo Clinic notes that "widespread" refers to pain that "must occur on both sides of your body and above and below your waist." In other words, fibromyalgia pain is pain that hurts everywhere all the time. Individuals who suffer from fibromyalgia sleep a lot, but the sleep is…

the cloth covering the bed and the drapes to create a sense of softness. The Venus figure herself is very pale, even in comparison to the putto. Her waist appears to have been corseted, which was incredibly common for the time period. Corsets made the waist appear smaller and if worn enough permanently changed the appearance of the body through waist training. The angle of her hips and shoulders are also at odds with one another as per contrapposto…

On July 28, 1914 the First World War began in Europe. It lasted three years before the United States joined the fight in April of 1917. It is no question that the few years of United States involvement were greatly impactful on American society. Additionally, the three years before American involvement were impactful on American society. The First World War, or the Great War, had a large effect on the American people and American society, specifically in fashion. Women’s fashion dramatically,…

Hair flowing through my fingers, frozen angel tears brushing upon my face. Screams come through my ears, but I see nothing through this colorless land. I try to emerge from the weight holding at my knees as I make my way through the screams only to get louder. I am so shaken by the noise I run, and I keep running looking for a way out but no door will appear. I wonder if I were to just fall would the angels tears pull me under wings or pull me to my demise. Brushing through I can see…

Colleges these days are hotbeds of sexual activity. With sixty to eighty percent of undergraduates admitting to having taken part in some kind of hookup, no one can seem to keep it in their pants (Garcia). Hookup culture effects safety and psychological heath, especially in women, and this is a problem. To get to the root of the issue, we must first fully understand what the term “hookup” means. In today’s world, the word “hookup,” also referred to as a “one night stand” or even a “quickie,”…

problematic task due to the various factors that need to be taken into consideration. Before the numerous advancements of health care, obesity was initially assessed by anthiopometie measurements such as weight for height, skin fold thickness, and waist circumferences. Obesity has grown so much it can now be said to have replaced smoking as the number one preventable…