...The modern day portrayal of women on the screen, in T.V. Serials, Telefilms and in sundry other forms has played an important though shameful, role in the diminishing of respect for women as individuals and the mystique attached to them. The over sexual menaces in most forms of the mass media notably films, play a significant role in not only the creation of inappropriate stereotypes of women in the male mind but also the creation of wholly perverse role models for the pliable minds of teenage girls. The debonair hero on the screen nudges and teases the young heroine, harasses her along with his friends that are till they irrevocably fall in love. The conversion of the heroine into the vamp, the women who uses her sexuality for scandalizing the audience is a case in point. In recent years, in India, there has been a fold of movies starting perhaps with Raj Kapoor’s “Ram Teri Ganga Maili” in which female sexuality has been perversely portrayed. Since then a krishma Kapoor or a shilpa Shirodkar or a Puja Bedi has had no inhibition in terms of exposing and catering to the perverse tastes of the male audience. In the West, such portrayal goes back to many decades. A marlyn Monroe or a Brigitte Bardot were the sex symbols of a generation almost three decades back. They played the role of women slaved to their sexual instincts, and whose sense of self-worth arose only from their degree of sexual satisfaction. The myth became the reality in the male mind and women became only and...
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...Stereotyping The Hobbit Stereotypes are qualities given to a group of people based on their race, or the qualities they have. They take something that is partly true about someone and believe it is true about the whole race. For example, in Asia they hold education very highly and Asian people typically do very well in school. The stereotype regarding Asians is that they are all very good at math. This is not true. I have some Asian friends and they struggle with math just as much as I do. Many stereotypes exist today. They are bad because we just assume we what the person is like without getting to know them. The stereotyped image I brought into class was a picture of an Italian man. He had his hair spiked up, his skin spray tanned orange, and was wearing a wife-beater. This image is how we perceive Italian men to be. We view them this way because that is how we see them on the show Jersey Shore. All of the people on the show are dressed, and look like the picture I brought in. In reality only some Italians look that way. The majority of them look and act like ordinary people. Just because someone is Italian does not mean that they dress and act like what we think they should. You cannot judge someone based on how they look. In J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Hobbit, this proves very true. There are a few characters throughout this story that break the stereotypes of themselves. The biggest example of this is with Mr. Bilbo Baggins. Bilbo is a hobbit. Hobbits are described as tiny,...
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...I realized quickly that, at the University of Akron, there is not a misrepresentation of different cultures on the campus, but there may be a misrepresentation of non-caucasian students in the technical fields, or the “smart” classes. I began to see my internalized racism and hated myself for it. I thought some students were lazier by the way they look or act; a stereotype that we should throw away entirely. Even attempting to remove stereotypes, I find it difficult to connect with people of different cultures - there is too great a division. The most I have been able to connect with is via my co-workers at a part-time job just South of campus, Chipotle. At that restaurant, I learned more than I ever thought I could. I learned things such as; people of color can be racist toward their own culture, believing that some members perpetuate negative stereotypes and further a ‘negative’ name. People of color deal with vastly different issues than I do, for example, the stereotyping that can sometimes be seen in law enforcement, racism in the workplace, difficulties applying for loans, not being taken seriously in professional or academic situations. Working at Chipotle has taught me about racism in the world, cultures in urban environments, and the inherent normalization of racism in...
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...The Devil Wears Prada Essay By: Winnet The movie version of “The Devil Wear Prada” is superior to the novel because it explains the different types of stereotypes dealt with better, it is more visually appealing, and it is easier to connect to the characters. The movie itself is overflowing with different types of stereotypes. An example would be when Nigel tells Andy that” as a child, he told his family he was attending soccer practice when he was really taking sewing lessons, and read Runway under the covers of his bed at night with a flashlight,”. This shows us that Nigel is afraid of what people will say about him. They may not take him seriously because he likes to do female jobs. By saying that he is going to soccer practice it does not make anyone suspect anything. The book did not do a very good job on explaining the different types of stereotypes. Nearly, every man that appears on the pages of “The Devil Wears Prada” is so homosexual that it begins to feel like a mock. It is common knowledge that a group of men in the fashion industry are homosexuals. However, in the book, the majority of male workers that work in the publishing industry are gay. In addition, that those who are gay are incapable of holding decent conversations without devolving into gossip and slander. Firstly, in the book The Devil Wears Prada “every time they mentioned a homosexual person they would be engaging in some...
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...experience such as a freak accident that took away their mobility made the paraplegics more tough skinned and resilient but that goes for all humans, the ability to rise above what life throws into your face and making the best of every situation. The paraplegics in the film used their disability to pursue other interests, which led them to Murderball. If it were not for the accidents that landed them in their positions today, they would not have been professional rugby players...
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...Why is it that when a girl reaches puberty, her self-confidence begins to plummet? It is known that this happens in most girls and the cause behind it is mostly due to stereotypes. Always, a company for feminine hygiene products, created an advertisement that not only conveys a positive message but also helped empower girls/women ages 10-24. They use both male and females of two different age groups to raise awareness and spread a positive image about why the phrase “like a girl” should not be seen as a negative connotation. Females, all throughout time, have always been seen as inferior and weaker than men and this commercial teaches women that they need to rise up and take charge. This commercial, which went viral through social media and...
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...An Essay on “Ice Cream” by Helen Dunmore The term of a dream is a strongly desired goal or purpose, something that fully satisfies a wish. A dream is something that all needs to have. It is a vision. Dreams are our world; they are the inner workings of the mind. Some dreams gives ideas and some help solve problems. To succeed a dream, you have to believe in yourself. Once Theodore Roosevelt said, “believe you can and you are halfway there”. But sometimes believing is not enough. Sometimes everything is fighting against you. Clara, who is the main character in this short story, is battling with a lot of struggles. As a 23-year-old, she already had a tough life. As a 14-year-old “she was as wide and sleek as a whale”, (page 84 line 13-14). Which is not easy for a 14-year-old, where appearance starts to mean a lot and others are judging on the look. Clara always wanted to be a model, so she went from booking agency to booking agency, but she always got told that she weighed too much, (page 84 line 28). The way she describes herself on page 84 lines 12-14, shows that it had affected the way she perceives herself. But on page 84 line 25-27, she believes what the booking agency, they confirms her in the way of thinking about herself. She is now struggling of always looking the best that she can, but the image of the booking agencies judging on the way she looks, will always be a permanent injury, as so are the way she pictures herself. After the many rejections, she got help from...
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...Her religion is not being a strawberry in a Hansel and Gretel pageant, otherwise she would not be the runner she is today. She dislikes—no, despises—her mother’s expectations, and that drives her to run away from this vivid hell. Like the protagonist of the song, “Carry On”, Squeaky is saying, “Though I’ve never been through hell like that / I’ve closed enough windows to know you can never look back”. This window that Squeaky has closed is Squeaky’s mother’s imagination. This hell she has been through—this hell that defied her lifestyle, has no place in the runner’s world. Indeed, Squeaky states: “I am not a strawberry. I do not dance on my toes. I run. That is what I am all about” (p. 32, lines 199-200). Though Squeaky has closed the window to hell—the hell still shines through. In other words, her mother is still trying to convince her that she has to be the perfect girl. This is where the curtains to her window come in. These curtains help to filter out these negative female stereotypes by allowing her to be adamant and adhering to her running “religion”. She is turning away from these girly stereotypes to zero in on her true passion of running. That is what she is all about. However, even the resilience she radiates on the outside cannot compare to...
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...Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx Xxxx SOCI111-87N-N1 23-Mar-12 Written Assignment #1 – Discrimination After watching the video, A Class Divided, I recalled seeing the program years ago. Despite remembering the film from 1985, I found myself taking away a deeper lesson than I did back then. This time around, the program taught me that it doesn’t take long to marginalize a group of people simply by playing upon a particular shared attribute. When all the students were told they could throw the collars away at the end of the two-day exercise, watching young Brian wrestle with the collar… twisting and attempting to tear it to shreds… was very powerful. He had been on top, and then on the bottom and, in the end, he seemed very determined to destroy the visible remains of what had been a powerful lesson. As a young, white boy born into unearned privilege, it was very likely the first time he felt the sting of discrimination, and I felt him trying to make sure he wouldn’t experience it again. Surprising to me was K.R., the outspoken blue-eyed woman in the adult workshop. She was the epitome of someone oppressed. Angry, defiant, rude, and uncooperative, she was determined to somehow claw her way to the top of that class, to be seen and heard. Yet Jane Elliott knew exactly which rungs of the ladder to remove to keep K.R. down at the bottom, just as white people have done to people of color for decades and...
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...The Holocaust: Effects of Dehumanization in Art Spiegelman’s Maus War broke out in Europe in September of 1939. Everything went downhill from then, Germans began to take over and minorities such as Jews were quickly forced to go to concentration camps, these horrible camps were stationed all over Europe. One of the main camps in Poland was Auschwitz. Opened in May 1940, it was an extermination camp located in southern Poland in a small town named Oswiecim. The camp consisted of three separate camps not far from one another so that communication could be kept between them. These three camps included: Auschwitz I, Auschwitz II–Birkenau and Auschwitz III–Monowitz. Auschwitz I was classified as the base camp where prisoners mainly worked, Auschwitz II–Birkenau was the main extermination camp where prisoners went to die in a variety of ways after being too weak to work, and Auschwitz III–Monowitz another labor camp, which held prisoners who worked at a German chemical factory, IG Farben. The killing methods ranged from being lined up at a wall and shot to being put into ‘showers’ that realized a toxic gas. Once the prisoners were dead, they were then burned in the crematoriums at the camp. Essentially the prisoners of the labor and death camps were treated as objects and not as the humans that they were. Many might even go as far as refer to the Germans as heartless for doing the things that they did to the innocent Jews and other monitories. Art Spiegelman’s Maus shows...
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...them in the category of “good country people.” O’Connor distorts these characters to the extreme of stereotypical southern, country, elderly women. The title of the piece itself is a play on a cliché. However, most of the true distortions and stereotypes found in O’Connor’s story is not found in the immediate and obvious. With Hulga, the stereotype starts to get a bit more complicated. Hulga is a thirty two year old, highly educated, one legged, dying child according to her mother. The distortion present here is that this extremely educated woman continually acts as a child. You, the reader, feel superior to Mrs. Hopewell and Mrs. Freeman while reveling in the irony of a doctor of philosophy wearing the clothes of a six year old and stomping around as if she’s trying to throw a tantrum. A good example of Hulga’s feelings of superiority over everyone is shown with her association of Mrs. Freeman’s daughters, Glynese and Carramae, with glycerin and caramel. The distortion and stereotypes O’Connor uses in this story starts to lead you, the reader, to fall into the trap she sets in order to reveal the shortcomings of humans as a whole. In “A Good Man Is Hard To Find,” O’Connor once again distorts her characters and uses drastic stereotypes to expose shortcomings all humans possess. The grandmother’s perception of life, of herself, and of her family and her society are all dramatically distorted. She thinks she’s the most righteous person in her family, as is illustrated by her...
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...schooling, no real family, and no future. Throughout the film, Michael has experiences that put him in a difficult place. He has never experienced such loving kindness from anyone, and to see it now coming from a white family, he is hesitant to believe it is too good to be true. In our ethnic studies class, we discuss the different type of cultures and races that are in our community. In this case, the African American culture has many of the following stereotypes: Unintelligent and childlike, animalistic/bestial, lazy, criminals, uncivilized, and part of the poor class. All throughout the movie we will see several examples of this and how it affected Michael and the Tuohy's, the white family that took him in as one of their own. Our story takes place in Memphis Tennessee. The main character, Michael Oher, is a poor African American that was taken from his mother as a child. He lives in a foster home, but tries many times to escape, but every time he leaves he would be brought back or placed into a different one. Again, he would run away and not want to be found. He spent most of his time on the streets, walking around with nowhere to go. Michael was noticed for his size and athletic ability, but he never got an education. His teachers would pass him with d's so that he could move to the next grade and they wouldn't have to deal with him anymore. He was currently attending an all white private Christian school. It seemed as though he paid absolutely no attention in...
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...You have the bloods and the Crips for starters. The most known gangs in our society. If you came upon one of these members, you’d probably already stereotype them as low life criminals. To me, these people are family to one another. Let’s say there’s a kid named Gary who grew up in an area with bloods being the prominent gang. His life won’t be the same as ours. Even if he wasn’t a part of the gang. Gary would be introduced to fear early in his life because of the violence, drugs, and many other things related to the bloods. If he walked to the corner store to buy a pop, his mother or father would tell him o be careful. Tell him to watch out for any suspicious behavior. OR tell him to protect himself with a weapon or his hands. He would go to school with gang members who influence his reactions, thoughts, and perception of life. Say he was sitting at lunch with his friends wearing his new shoes his mom bought him and overheard a conversation including two blood gang members. They were talking about how this guy was “flexing” in his new shows on their turf, right? Well, Gary would be confused as to why it matters or why they care so much. They’re shoes. OR Gary would think that he shouldn’t be “flexing” in his new shoes that his mom just bought him the other day. So he runs to the bathroom to take off his shoes and throws them away. That’s just the beginning of how Gary can be influenced by the life style of gangs....
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...he famous American writer and satirist, Mark Twain, wrote many novels that received critical acclaim throughout the globe. His novel, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, made people realize that he is one of the greatest authors in the world. Soon he was seen as one of the greatest American writers in history. The book is about a boy named Huckleberry Finn, who is about twelve or thirteen, and about his great escape from his alcoholic and violent father. He flees with a runaway slave name Jim, and the two steal a canoe and travel through the river. Also, Huck decides to try to free Jim from slavery instead of turning on him. As they travel together, Huck learns more about Jim and his many stereotypes. He sees that many people he thought he could trust were hypocrites and lost faith in the legal system. After risking his life and beating many obstacles, Huck sets Jim free. Mark Twain focuses on the legal system, superstitions and religious hypocrisy throughout the book and uses his enthusiastic style of writing and satires three traits throughout the novel. The first use of satire Mark Twain used in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn is the legal system. Huck's father is am extremely volatile man. He is a...
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...Women can undertake a journey for many reasons: to escape, to seek a new way of life, to find adventure, to find love, to discover oneself or to simply keep moving. In the novel The Bean Trees by Barabara Kingsolver, Taylor the main character sets off on a journey for all these reasons. On her journey to self-discovery Taylor Greer manages to overcome her weaknesses The beans that are continually revealed throughout the novel represent Taylor’s life. The earliest mention of the beans took place when Taylor takes a close look at the reality of her life. “I had never done anything more interesting for a living than… picking bugs off somebody’s bean vines for a penny a piece.” (Pg 4) The beans so far are a symbol of Taylor’s weaknesses, as she and the beans are both of poor quality. Gradually, the beans are becoming of some significance in the novel, since they are truly beginning to echo Taylor’s life. Just as the beans did, Taylor begun her life without a great deal of impact on anyone, only to come plowing up and impact people where they did not expect it. At the end of the novel, the reader again encounters the beans for the last time. Although this time, the reader captures the complete significance of the beans. The beans, symbolism reflects Taylor’s development throughout her life perfectly. Taylor grew in poor soil and without the influence of the people, whom act like rhizobia that she encounters, she would have never been able to fight her weaknesses and realize her...
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