...Television in our society today is quite a large part in the lives of many individuals. The fact that TV is constantly available to just about everyone which causes everyone, who is available to it, to be exposed to the same visual and verbal stereotypes that it provides. The popular television show Grey’s Anatomy shows many different stereotypes within their storyline. This show tells a story about the personal and professional lives of surgical interns and attendings at Seattle Grace Medical Center. Throughout many seasons of Grey’s Anatomy it is clear to see that there are many stereotypes that display specific gender roles that show their perception of men in a workplace hierarchy, while negatively portraying women of authority within their...
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...simply for the pleasure of the men, and placed in two categories which are mainly based on their appearance or the way they act. This movie is the story of Elle Woods, a very cute and friendly student who is also the most popular girl in her Los Angeles sorority. Elle has just finished her studies in Fashion and is getting prepared to marry her boyfriend, Warner, who will soon be going to Harvard Law School in Boston. Unfortunately, Warner, who is actually a somewhat superficial jerk, decides to break up with Elle, because he wants to find a more serious looking girlfriend who will help his career in politics after he gets out of law school. Although Legally Blonde does have many outstanding points in which the main character overcomes stereotypes and challenges she faces, there are many faults to the movie. Under any feminist movie list, it can be guaranteed the popular movie, Legally Blonde, will make an appearance, because of how the main character must wage the battle of her life, for her guy, for herself and for all the blondes who suffer endless indignities every day. Identify the Characters in the Movie With this in mind, the major characters in this movie are the following. Elle Woods, played by the actress Reese Witherspoon, is the main character of the movie Legally Blonde....
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...readings, or in your other assessments. Representation is both the process and the product of media texts, in terms of sexuality in media these representations are shaped by ideologies; the way people think and interpret the word. In turn, different ideologies promote discourse and the discussion of ideas in relation to sexuality. In relation to specific media texts such as True Blood, there are several ideologies in the program, social, political and cultural which show a non-heteronormative view on sexuality. Ideologies are ways of thinking and how we interpret the world around us. It’s through ideology that representation in media text functions to reinforce the view of that particular school of thought. Representation can be through stereotype, strengthening sometimes negative views or typecasting those who are represented. Looking especially True Blood, vampires are being “re-presented” as the gay community which have to struggle and fight for equal rights(Dhaenens, 2013). The concept of Ideology, a way of thinking which impacts how you view and world and interact with people directly influences the discourse, how we discuss the ideology in relation to the representation of sexuality. Media representations are the ways in which the media text portrays particular groups of people, communities, experiences, ideas, or topics from a particular ideological or value perspective. In relation to sexuality, sex and gender are not the same thing and are not always...
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...dramas such as Grey’s Anatomy and House are physician dominated shows, offering viewers little to no truth about nursing profession. However, all the above shows fail to portray nurses with a positive image; most of the time the role of nurses is being undermined, insulting, or misrepresenting the profession. For example, on the show House, nurses are fairly irrelevant. Nurses are barley background noises; rather, it is the doctors providing direct bedside patient care in the hospital. In my 20 years of experience in nursing, I have never seen doctors spend so much time at the bedside with patient and performing tasks. I have worked in different settings, from a large teaching hospital to a small neighborhood hospital, and not even the interns and residents spend that much time giving direct patient care. For the general public and for the new generation who has not decided as what they want to be in life, this show portrays nursing as standing silently in the back ground. On all of the TV shows, the physician performs critical nursing tasks and this makes the doctors look more heroic and nurses look more incompetent and inessential. In these shows, we do not see nurses interacting with patients, but that is a misrepresentation of the profession, because we all know that nurses are the most in contact and interaction with patients and their families. However, there are some positive media representations of nursing. Have any of you seen the nursing commercial by Johnson and...
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...segregation based off differences in both culture and appearance, flourishes amongst the ignorant and is prevalent throughout both America’s distant and recent history, as well as in the archives of world history. A parent to ignorance and the culprit to the divisive vices of racial prejudice of all creeds, a lack of sufficient education, along with blatant disregard for one’s global community, is the underlying reason why Orientalism is a recurring theme in history that has yet to be abolished entirely. However, there exist scholars and filmmakers, such as Le Espiritu, Sucheng Chan, Wakako Yamauchi, etcetera, who give hope to the fight against such ignorance by using their work to inform and educate the public in order to challenge such stereotypes and atrocious ways of thinking. In order to effectively and efficiently push against orientalism in today’s age of information, and secure a future for future generations in which no one racially profiles one another, discriminates against anyone else based on racial profiling, or constructs social barriers that belittle and...
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...CAIR branches have since been established in twenty states, and a lot of them having multiple chapters to better serve large Muslim populations in different states. Each CAIR chapter is conducted by an independent board and gets its funding almost completely from the local community. CAIR's national office and branches have more than sixty staff, more than three hundred very engaged volunteering board, and countless interns. CAIR's consultative decision-making body consist of a little over 200 people from very diverse backgrounds and religions across the U.S. This was shocking to learn. Each year, thousands of Americans participate in CAIR's annual banquets in over twenty cities. One of their largest banquet, in South California, draws about two thousand attendees per year. Their banquets have been attended by U.S. senators and representatives, mayors, state assembly members and representatives, state governors, and city council members. Numerous interfaith leaders, social activists, academics and media personalities also attend the annual banquets. Letters of commendation and support have been written from all of the above...
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...Legally Blonde: The Musical Legally Blonde is an American musical with music and lyrics by Laurence O'Keefe and Nell Benjamin and book by Heather Hach. The story is based on the novel Legally Blonde by Amanda Brown and the 2001 film of Legally Blonde. It tells the story of Elle Woods, a sorority girl who enrolls at Harvard Law School to win back her ex-boyfriend Warner. She discovers how her knowledge of the law can help others, and successfully defends exercise queen Brooke Wyndham in a murder trial. Jerry Mitchell directed and choreographed. The original musical stars were Laura Bell Bundy as Elle Woods, Christian Borle as Emmett Forrest and Richard H. Blake as Warner. I also tried to include all the musical numbers in the sequence that they occurred and they will be in parenthesis. This was my second musical that I have attended, what was really cool was when I attended this one they had the musical production on DVD copy. After the musical was over, I of course purchased the DVD copy. I was fortunate enough to travel to the Palace Theater, in the ninth grade to witness what I still believe to be the best Broadway production yet! I was hesitate at the beginning do to all the critics and their stereotypical views that this production, was going to be a modern chick flick sitcom. It was girly and pink, but I believe that the female to male ratio was around 14:10. Jerry Mitchell did an amazing job directing and choreographing this musical, the only thing that it lacked was...
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...Canterbury Tales. The first explains how important the Wife is to the feminist critic, while the second paradoxically argues that she can be looked at as antifeminist based on the fact that she is a speaker that in reality is the voice of a man. Her views are manipulated and characterized by a man, therefore they do not allow a true woman's voice to be heard. In part one of her argument she is in favor of the idea of the Wife of Bath breaking through the stereotype of the silent and submissive woman that ruled the Middle Ages. Through Wife’s use of her speech in the prologue, she gains control and, authority, a trait conventionally deemed male. She continues the male convention by using examples from the Bible that all deal with men and their tendency to have multiple wives. The Wife does this as a way to defend her previous five marriages to the societal conventions of what men have deemed morally right or wrong. The story she tells however, of her first three husbands, show that she herself exhibited the stereotypes that were asserted about women. In part two of Hansen’s argument, she discusses the real point of view of the Wife’s tale and of misogynistic texts, both which are derived from a male authority. The fact that the Wife's character was created by Chaucer, a man, means that she can only “superficially” rebel against patriarchal authority. Also, since the wife is created and essentially does not exist, she provides a unique aspect of the feminist analysis. ...
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...on what the movie is saying about communication in general. I will also analyze the role of communication between the main characters and their relationships with each other. I will describe power and conflict issues. I will also write about the purpose of self-disclosure. Lastly, I will discuss whether any self-disclosure issues exist between the parties. The main characters in this movie are Elle, Paulette, Professor Callahan, Vivian, and warner. Elle is the main character of the movie who serves as the female lead challenging the norm of how society views women. Society may view women as loving, girly, and pink. Elle fills all of the stereotypes of a college girl age. Paulette is Elle’s friend. They both benefit from its relationship; Paulette learns to be assertive and Elle realizes their potential. Professor Callahan, hired her as an intern only to make sexual advanced on her just to make her believe that she can never become a good lawyer. Vivian, who is successful both academically and professionally, comes off as cold and unattractive. In this movie no one believed Elle had what it takes to get into Harvard and become a good lawyer. This portrays the first example of society stereotyping as her not achieving something with intelligence. Elle proves that they are wrong as she gets into Harvard...
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...The Price of Middle-Class Dignity In the nineteenth century women of dignity and grace married men who could provide enough money so that the she could “go housekeeping”. Marriage wasn’t a bond of unity and love, in most cases it was an agreement of sorts that the groom would provide stability to his bride and she intern would provide meals and a clean home. Eunice’s life did not go according to the plan that she or anyone else had imagined for a respectable, middle-class New England woman. In contrast she did transect many of the stereotypes for low-class, immigrant women. As a child in the 1830s Eunice had little idea that her life wouldn’t live up to the status quo in New England society. Her mother, Lois, had led a fairly normal life of domesticity (up until her husband of twenty-five years abandoned her and their eight children) of cooking, cleaning, baking, planting vegetables, sewing, mending and caring for the children and Eunice aspired to do just that.(Hodes43) In order to do so she must first marry, and marry a man that could provide for her and her future children. At the young age of seventeen Eunice Richardson became Mrs. William Stone. Hodes speculates the reasoning behind Eunice’s early marriage was due to the fact that she was already working in the Amoskeag mill and marriage could rescue her from the weaving room. (Hodes49) In 1850 the work in mills and domestic help was for degraded Irish and African American girls. After William’s departure to Mobile...
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...International Journal of Psychology and Psychological Therapy 2007, 7, 3, 381-391 Factors that affect decision making: gender and age differences María L. Sanz de Acedo Lizárraga*1, María T. Sanz de Acedo Baquedano1, y María Cardelle-Elawar2 1 2 Universidad Pública de Navarra, España Arizona State University West, USA ABSTRACT In this study, the influence of gender and age in the importance allocated to several factors in the decision process was investigated from a naturalistic perspective. For this purpose, the Decision-Making Questionnaire, DMQ was administered to a sample of 589 participants (294 men and 295 women) of ages between 18-80 years old, who were grouped into three developmental stages: youths 18-25 years (n= 207; 97 men and 110 women); adults 26-65 years (n= 205; 110 men and 95 women), and retired persons 66-80 years (n= 177; 87 men and 90 women). The statistical analyses revealed significant differences due both to gender and age in participants’ perception of the factors that determine their decision processes. Keywords: Decision-making, Decision task, Gender, Age. RESUMEN En este estudio se investigó, desde el enfoque naturalista, la influencia que tienen el sexo y la edad en la importancia que se otorga a ciertos factores en el proceso de decisión. A tal fin, se aplicó el Cuestionario de Toma de Decisiones (CTD) a una muestra formada por 589 participantes (294 hombres, 295 mujeres) de edades comprendidas entre 18 y 80 años, agrupados en...
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...Knowledge Management Using Microsoft SharePoint Problem Statement L’Oreal, founded in 1907, is world’s largest cosmetic and beauty company selling globally more than 500 brands. L’Oreal has five worldwide research and development centers spread over France, United States, Japan and China. To link every one of them on the same platform of information is a difficult task. The intranet for this division must support thousands of researchers working in France, the United States, Japan and China. The intranet is required to support professional applications as well as databases on subjects including biology, patents, hair color and laboratory security. In such a vast network its difficult for teams to communicate. Team members lose interest in commercial activity when they consume more energy in communication. To overcome these hurdles and to manage its largest internet initiative L’Oreal chose SharePoint Portal Server. Microsoft SharePoint is a web-based platform that has historically been associated with intranet content management and document management. SharePoint can integrate with the Microsoft Office suite and has a similar interface with the web tools designed to be usable by non-technical users. SharePoint can be used to provide document and file management, collaboration, social networks and workflow automation. 1. What are the challenges facing L'Oreal management? L’Oreal, founded in 1907, is world’s largest cosmetic and beauty company selling...
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...Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap Michael Warren University of Texas at El Paso Culturally Responsive Teaching: Bridging the Gap The changing demographics in classrooms are not often reflected in the pedagogies, curriculum and strategies used in represented grade levels and content areas by the education professionals that drive our education system. Recent research has considered the idea that culturally responsive or culturally pedagogical teaching may be the answer to closing the achievement gap created by the absence of cultural awareness. The concept of cultural awareness may be simply defined as an understanding and awareness of the diversity in the classroom (Villegas & Lucas, 2002); however, such a simplistic definition does not recognize the many dimensions involved in the pedagogy of culturally responsive teaching, which for students includes seeing germane links between subject matter and lessons and their experiences outside the context of the classroom and how those links influence what and how they learn. The purpose of this literature review is to examine the many facets that make up the term Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) and the impact and implications implementing such a broad concept may have on the education system. While the literature discusses several topics connected to CRT, I will confine this review to the following: (1) CRT Background/Definition (2) The methods of study, the participants involved and the significance...
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...Organizing Paper Boeing is the largest manufacturer of commercial and military airplanes, is the world’s leading aerospace company, and has a long tradition of leadership and innovation in the aerospace industry. Boeing is an international company headquartered in Chicago, Illinois, and employs more than 158,000 employees worldwide. The company’s corporate structure consists of the Boeing Commercial Airplanes and Boeing Defense, Space, and Security Divisions (Boeing, 2010). In the early 2000s Boeing struggled and was surpassed by Airbus in annual airline sales. Through the organizing function of management, Boeing is once again the leader in the aerospace industry, continues to build a competitive advantage, and is more flexible, innovative, efficient, and responsive to its customers. The organizing function of management follows the planning function and requires management to develop and organizational structure, assemble and coordinate the human, financial, physical, informational, technological, and other resources needed to achieve the organizations goals. To be effective, managers need to use new forms of organizing and possibly view people as the most valuable resource. Companies will departmentalize an organization during this function of management. Examples of departmentalizing an organization include organizing by function, product, geography, or customer. Although the organizing function of management consists of assembling and allocating the...
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...Demographic Changes The united states is a rapidly growing "melting pot" of cultures and diversity, but over the past decade it has exploded into a nation with ever changing diversity, a widening wealth gap, and a ever increasing age gap. Immigration has always been a part of America's history, but the consistency of incoming cultures and the diversity they offer is always changing. In the 1950's Europeans made up half of the immigrant coming into the United States, while Asians brought in only 6%. Only forty years later immigration shifted the diversity of the land with more Asian immigrants than Europeans, as well as 4.3 million Mexican immigrants, and 1.4 Philippines, just to name a few (History.com). Immigration has affected the diversity of our church in the same way it has America. Today the church has welcomed people from all over the world, Madrid, California, New Zeeland and so on. Only fifteen years ago ninety-five percent of followers were Missouri residence but, with all the new additions, residence have become the minority in this Missouri based church. Not only has the diversity of the land changed but, a widening wealth gap has hit every age group, striking the 65 and older age group the hardest. Over the past twenty years the wealth gap between the 35-44 age group has steadily grown by 21% and will soon take the lead among all age group gaps (Martel, 2013). Judy Martel from Bizrate.com describes contributors to wealth as gains in the stock market...
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