Promiscuity Essays

  • Self-Esteem And Cognitive Dissonance Theory

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    Ladies submerge a focal piece of themselves in life choices as well as in the everyday bargains and conformities that living intimately with someone else. According to Waller and MacDonald (2010), women prefers house perfect and deliberate while she is neglectful of her surroundings; she listens to nation western tunes while her husband requests news of the world; he leaves the latrine seat up, she requires it down. In Pakistan, women have a tendency to be exceedingly social and subsequently sharpened

  • Disney Princesses Analysis

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    Many girls dream of their knight in shining armor, a perfect wedding, and a happily ever after ending. Disney princesses give them hope to find love and happiness along with emphasizing their want for the beauty and grace princesses illustrate. Authors of “Cinderella and Princess Culture” and “The Princess Paradox,” Peggy Orenstein and James Poniewozik respectively, agree that most girls like princesses. However, these articles convey differing parental opinions on lessons girls learn from princesses

  • Analysis Of Rebecca Solnit's Essay 'The Longest War'

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    Everyday there are new victims to this unjustified social issue, and everywhere it happens, but the victims are helpless to stop it. This social issue perpetuates inequality, offensive stereotypes and unpleasant remarks/ observations. This social issue is known as sexism towards women and its continuity is being preserved by men. The artifact in question is a comic series called “Archie”. Although, not the entire series itself, but rather a specific piece, which states that all women are failures

  • Tv Show Shameless Analysis

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    Prescribed question: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Text: pilot of the TV Show “Shameless” (US) Part 2: language and mass communication: the potential for educational and ideological influence of a media, the power of a media to deliver a message, to express an opinion. Thesis: The creators of the TV show “Shameless” included homosexual characters in the show not only to make an appeal for tolerance, but also to present a realistic modern society in which differences

  • Rhetorical Promiscuity Essay

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    grounding my essay in a discussion of rhetorical promiscuity as Branstetter lays out, and then focusing on Lecture Delivered at the Franklin Hall, I will elucidate the connection between rhetorical promiscuity and Maria Stewart, a uniquely significant female rhetor. I argue that although she is the first American woman to speak publicly to a mixed audience of both male and female, black and white listeners (and thus automatically employs rhetorical promiscuity), some of Stewart’s appeals work to attain

  • Promiscuity In The Good Soldier

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    Within The Good Soldier, Florence Dowell, Edward Ashburnham, Jimmy, Maisie Maiden, and Nancy Rufford all commit some type of promiscuity. For Florence, Edward, Maisie, and Jimmy, they all act out lustful deeds, while Nancy does so from afar. Florence becomes involved with a young man named Jimmy, who she tosses aside for another man. Jimmy loses very little due to his involvement with Florence, but his dignity and self-esteem lower due to Florence viewing him very lowly and going to someone else

  • Promiscuity In Brave New World

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    The idea of a Utopian society is one that many are familiar with. A utopian society is defined as a seemingly perfect society actually plagued by mass corruption. While the novel Brave New World by Aldous Huxley may seem extreme, the ideas of the corrupted society expressed are not incredibly far off from today’s society. Quite frankly, today’s society is more like the New World society than what one may prefer. One of the many similarities between reality and this novel is that of drug usage. Throughout

  • Naomi Wolfe's 'Excerpts From Promiscuities'

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    Since I was a little kid all I’ve ever heard was to stay away from boys. Boys are no good and nothing but trouble. They have bad intentions and are only out for sex. This has had me questioning whether this is true, that men, much different then women, prefer lust to love or if this is all a sexist idea our society has constructed. For this reason and others such as personal experiences that men are much more concerned with sex then I or many of my friends seem to be, I’ve chosen to look into

  • Promiscuity And Responsibility In Mary Wollstonecraft's Work

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    British upper-class society wagging. Known for her multiple suicide attempts and her many love affairs with married artists, an American adventurer, and an English radical anarchist (whom she would marry), Wollstonecraft’s unhappy, unorthodox life of promiscuity and debauchery rendered her a moral lesson used by British mothers to frighten their daughters. (Todd, 2000) Her critics sneered that no self-respecting woman of any social class should deign themselves to read her work, and as a result, throughout

  • Brave New World Sexual Promiscuity Analysis

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    In the novel Brave New World, author Aldous Huxley links sexual promiscuity and happiness by utilizing diction and imagery, proving that the only link sexual promiscuity has towards happiness is that it promotes a false sense of happiness. In the “New World Society”, where the main characters Lenina and Bernard Marx are from, everything is controlled and created to fit the social ecosystem of their “perfect” society. Even the people are created, from vials. Not born or produced. Emotions are also

  • Homosexuality: Elliston Vs. Stewart

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    Both Elliston and Stewart present thought provoking arguments: Elliston views noncommittal sex as promiscuity which encourages freedom from emotional commitment and allows the achievement of enhanced sexual experiences in the social matrix of human interaction (Elliston. 148) while Stewart views noncommittal sex as junk sex; an act which devalues higher values such as love, self-knowledge, self-esteem and more by making the experience a mere physical tension release rather than something meaningful

  • Brave New World Analysis

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    Aldous Huxley uses his novel Brave New World, to over exaggerate the sexual relationships between people in the 1930s, whilst portraying how this promiscuity was harmful to women. The 1930s were a time in history when women were beginning to work and provide for themselves. They had gained employment during wartime, continuing their labor even as men returned home. Huxley’s society portrayed in the novel strips women of their new independence and status and instead tries to take away their sense

  • Essay On Double Standards

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    Double standard has been around for centuries when it came to men and women, however; when it came the to promiscuity between the two sexes, it seemed like women always got the raw end of the deal. This weeks gender exercise only help prove this point even more so, and show how women and men differ in how they treat those who are more open and or immoral with their sexual behaviors. I first created my own list of words, names and or slang, used to describe both female and male who are promiscuous

  • Controlled Society In Brave New World

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    them from the truth on what is going on around them. In Brave New World Promiscuity is not frowned upon,like it is in the real world, it is actually the opposite. Promiscuity is the law and having romantic or emotional attachment is illegal. Promiscuity being the law is just another way for the government to control the citizens. It is yet another distraction for what is really going on. Soma helps keep promiscuity alive. When the citizens are on soma their guard is down, they do not really

  • Happiness In Brave New World Essay

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    everybody is happy; Soma and promiscuity do not satisfy Bernard, and, as he tells Lenina, Bernard would “like to be free to be happy in some other way… In [his] own way, for example; not in everybody else’s way” (Huxley 91). When John enters the “civilized” world, he is unable to align his truths with the truths of the State. John’s truths match up

  • Summary Of Ransom On The Planet Of Malacandra

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    the Malacandrian’s themselves value based on specific conversations with the different species living on the planet. He realizes that Malacandra is almost a utopian society when it comes to dealing with other species. There isn't war, poverty, promiscuity, or avarice. While interacting with the hrossa, sorns, and pfifltriggi, Ransom recognizes that there are true needs for humans back on Thulcandra. Humans obviously need food, water and shelter to survive. Ransom tried to live off of what he could

  • The Theme Of Female Sexuality In Jamaica Kincaid's Girl

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    theme demonstrates the dangers of female sexuality. In the story, the other is worried about the way her daughter is acting even though she has not hit adolescence yet. She says that if her current behavior continues it will lead to a life of promiscuity. Kincaid wrote, “this is how to behave in the presence of men who don’t know you very well, and this way they won’t recognize immediately the slut I have warned you against becoming” (180). She talks about how to have

  • Polyamory In Brave New World

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    ideas of a dystopian society to predict the future of the world and it’s citizens. He illustrates his bold views on promiscuity, technology, consumerism, and drugs. The story is his idea of how society will change, if it’s people continue on the same path. Huxley’s views are being proven true each day in society, and continues to make his predictions a reality. Huxley’s take on promiscuity is accurate, and most evidently shown through the new boundaries and expectations in today’s relationships. In

  • Banning Of Brave New World Research Paper

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    Aldous Huxley, is a dystopian fiction novel that is deemed extremely controversial by the public for its way of presenting new ideas to the audience. In this novel, subjects considered taboo such as, familial relationships, individuality, drug use, promiscuity, and eugenics, are explored in an almost disturbing manner. Some people feel as if this novel should be banned due to the influence of these sensitive topics. Nonetheless, it’s crucial to consider the severity of these themes as well as the appropriateness

  • Hypocrisy In The Scarlet Letter

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    Both Olive and Hester are shamed and shunned by society for their “promiscuity”, however, Olive unlike Hester lies about her acts. They both endure extensive shaming for their “acts”, despite the difference in time period and beliefs, and as a result, both Olive and Hester lose the support of those close to them. Both Easy