When We Were Very Young

Just Be U Rationale We as a group wanted to reach a large number of individuals for a significant number of challenges and obstacles that we all face in our lives. We wanted one place to be able to go to for help with all sorts of gender issues focusing generally on college age students, yet would also help others. The best way we knew to impact a large number of people was of course through social media, Facebook. From there we started developing what topics we wanted to cover as well as the…

a river. The young soldier, terrified, clenches the rifle in his hands. As the young soldier is running, a mortar round goes off behind him, and he falls and lands on his chest. The young soldier falls into a deep slumber. He awakes suddenly, the light blinds the eyes of the young man. He finds himself in the park asleep under a tree. He gets very unnerved by the terrifying dream he had experienced. He feels like he has been playing too many online games. But the dream felt very vivid. He…

public? By: Kaalynn Jackson On May 20, 2010, Governor Perdue signed into law House Bill 571. It made important changes to Georgia’s sex offender registry laws. Employment and residence restrictions were reduced. The restrictions that apply to a person is now based on the restrictions which were in place in the law at the time of the offense conduct. If the offense conduct occurred prior to June 4, 2003, the employment and residence restrictions will not apply to the registrant. If the offense…

We Were Liars is the book that I chose to read this quarter. The setting of the book is Beechwood Island, Massachusetts. Even though the main character lives in Burlington, Vermont, her family goes to the island every summer. The main characters are Cadence, Harris, and Gat. Cadence suffered a bad head injury during her childhood, but nobody will tell her what happened to her. She doesn’t know what happened, but she knows that her family does. Harris is Cadence’s grandfather, who built houses…

When we feel that we--or our world--is falling apart, we sometimes fail to comply with social norms. When under stress or in anguished circumstances, we are often unable to uphold societally conditioned and accepted practices. “Among the Living” by Dana Levin presents a scene and brief exchange in which a bystander comes forth and offers validation and recognition to a woman so deep within her own human experience that she fails to follow learned protocols--something that incites judgment and…

societies and their hierarchies, along with their development which is, for the most part, very similar to the development of our species. Throughout the book, Jane Goodall describes the many challenges she faced trying to get the protective chimpanzees accepting of her presence in their territories, as well as the strong human to chimp relationship formed between the two alike species. Unsurprisingly, given that we share ninety-nine percent of our DNA with chimpanzees, Goodall’s findings can…

It is easy to deny things that are difficult to face or that make a person feel inferior as a defense mechanism. Young Essie watches her mother employ this type of behavior when faced with adversity and decides at a young age that she would rather question the things that do not seem right to her. She realizes at a very young age that racism is real and is perplexed by it. She understands that there is a difference in skin color, but she does not understand how that equates with darker skin…

practices of western society has tried to change the African American ways and beliefs but we are strongly tied to our roots in many ways. It is up to us to realize them and build on them as a people. Traditional African societies…

coming of age films and what it means to “come of age “ in regards to both masculinity and femininity. Coming of age movies set an expectation for teens and young adults it lays out what they should fear and what they should thrive to be in order to transition to adulthood successfully. The media defines cultural and gender norms that are often very stereotypical (). The cultivation theory suggest that exposure to stereotypes in the media can lead to adopt these beliefs in their real lives ().…

I found it really interesting that we were able to learn about Mary Wollstonecraft, and her writing a Vindication of the Rights of Women. I have spent this last semester taking Intro to Gender Studies with Sarah Shady, and I have really enjoyed learning about the history of feminism and learning about all the different things that feminism touches on - and ultimately things that we should know about since we have the privilege of going into a higher education. To find a woman in the 16th century…