Lisa Owens’ Personality (Trinity) Assessments Summary Is the information accurate? Why or Why not? According to Lisa, the information from the MBTI, DISC personality profile and Holland code was quite accurate.
Adam Bourdeau Professor Albert DiChiara SOC370: Criminology 4/30/2024 Understanding the Challenges of Teenage Girls: An Analysis of "Getting Played" by Jody Miller Jody Miller's 'Getting Played' is a meticulous study of the lives of young girls in urban areas, shedding light on the contexts and individuals they encounter daily. This book examines young girls' challenges and dangers in various settings, including neighborhoods, schools, parties, dating scenes, and peer networks. Getting Played goes beyond these circumstances to explore how teenage girls react to threats of victimization and violence, offering invaluable insights into the social constraints that shape their world. The Different Contexts of Teenage Girls' Lives In urban neighborhoods, Miller details the harsh
It was in the late spring of 1886 in the life of a simple settler. His name was Jedadiah Miller. He and his wife, Rosanne, were on their way to their new home in Nevada. Jed had returned from the war and searched for a home all this time. Then, a few months before this, he found his dream property.
Emotional Memorability: Feelings We Develop Towards Characters Whether it is music, film, or a piece of writing, works such as these are meant to elicit some form of a reaction from an audience. To some extent, the ability to evoke a notable emotional response is one of the most gratifying characteristics a writer or director can give to a character. An audience ultimately remembers a character or a work because of how they were pushed to feel towards a character within a work. The ways in which an individual character both interacts with others and how he or she is portrayed directly reveals the character’s own scope of morality and his or her genuine personality, which is key in prompting an emotional reaction from an audience.
Analytical Book Critique “On the Edge”,” written by Char Miller, is an absolutely great book which harps on the public issues which took place in the southern region of the United States, specifically in the State of Texas, the State of California, and the border of which lies between Texas and Mexico. Char Miller did a great job with this book and did not fail to exclude his own opinions. By doing so, Miller took full advantage of the reader’s capability to interpret his views and has portrayed himself as a viable source, worthy of his own opinions. Miller gained his credibility by these three simple aspects: major/minor events, religion, and quotes used by political leaders. Char Miller was born on November 23rd, in 1951 in St. Louis, Missouri.
In Barbara Welters essay,”The Cult of True Womanhood”, she explains what a true woman is supposed to be. She speaks of the housewife appearance she must keep, and the duties that come with that. Both reading relate in the views of what
Women throughout history have undergone specific personal experiences that have constrained them within a society that epitomizes the dehumanization of women through forced social expectations. My mother reiterates this continual theme as a woman in the US and abroad who have experienced constraint from living in a man's world but has also benefited from woman’s liberation within her culture/home life, as well as, education/the workforce. Through each of these three aspects of her life, she was able to experience forms of liberation, as well as, constraint based on a variety of factors which have related to many different readings we have had the opportunity to study in class. Her personal experiences have related to the experiences of many
Judith Butler’s Gender Troubles emphasizes gender as the constant repetition of non-existent ideals to uphold a masculine-dominant culture. Likewise, “Body Politics” highlights this belief within the overtly feminine qualities of city women. As a whole, the poem contrasts idealized feminine “city women” with a “real woman” who possesses both feminine and masculine qualities. The mother figure challenges both the gender binary and the patriarchal order by rejecting the feminine gender norms of the society. This feminist reading of the poem makes many valuable and probable claims, however the feminist approach contains some weaknesses.
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She has been brainwashed by the patriarchal society of her time to worship the man, her husband, and perform her duties and daily rituals as a means to please him. Welter outlines several characteristics that constitute the perfect or true woman; however, the most crucial and detrimental so-called “virtues” exhibited by Gilman`s the narrator are her submissiveness and domesticity. Although the artistic narrator clearly has her own desires to be free and write as she pleases, her desire to satisfy the patriarchal construct of the household by attending
The Representation of Women as Objects of Desire within “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer The representation of women as idealized objects of desire in “The Miller’s Tale” and “The Reeve’s Tale” by Geoffrey Chaucer functions as a way to present the value of women as seen by men. In particular, throughout “The Miller’s Tale,” Alisoun confirms the traditional stereotype of women as being lustful and desirous creatures as well as cheaters. This is identified when she tricks her husband in order to share a night of passion with another man in their bed. It is also represented in the comparison of Alisoun to animals and their actions, which suggests that women are animalistic in their search and need for sexual activity.
Women can either choose who to be or be made into someone described by viewing Box Man beside lonely women. Ascher begins this essay by using a detailed play-by-play of what she saw to make others imagine the event as if they were in her place. This technique establishes a common understanding of the Box Man and implants a different view than the quickly assumed view that the Box Man is a lonely person. The Box Man sees the boxes “[j]ust inside the entrance” (Ascher paragraph 1) and realizes their worth to him.
This common interest of postmodern feminists about women’s bodies and how it serves as a “feminine language” to define identity continues to represent explorations, discovery and opinions of the traditional mind and body dualism, the role of sexual analysis in the development of gender and the self as well as the analytical modes of exploration of the body which all in all defines what it means to discuss about postmodern feminist issues in this twenty-first century. For example, in Mislina Mustaffa’s opinion, the female body directly reflects an artistic subjection to what is considered a norm to women in society today. Nevertheless, the artist disagrees with such manner. The entire discovery of what makes a woman a woman in fact lies in the matter other than the body itself. One route of inquiry along these lines concerns reevaluation of the senses and the conservative materials that are fashioned into forms or ideas that define the identities of women today.
This essay discusses transnational feminism in contemporary art and Reilly talks about her experience curating the art exhibit "Global Feminisms: New Directions in Contemporary Art," which presented a selection of young to mid-career women artists from a variety of cultures. The essay examines transformations in feminist theory and contemporary art practice and talks about artists Patricia Piccinini, Dayanita Singh, and Catherine Opie. Reilly really focuses on challenging First World Feminism that assumes "sameness" among women. Instead, the show and essay acknowledge the differences in the woman's lives. " In other words, this all-women exhibition aimed to be inclusively transnational, evading restrictive boundaries as it questioned the continued privileging of masculinist cultural production from Europe and the United States within the art market, cultural institutions, and exhibition practices."
This novel is also autobiographical. Throughout history, women have been locked in a struggle to free themselves from the borderline that separates and differentiate themselves from men. In many circles, it is agreed that the battleground for this struggle and fight exists in literature. In a
