...Analysis of The White Man’s Burden (1899) The poem The White Man’s Burden is about imperialism and how the powerful countries seized foreign land to become a power with colonies. The text talks about how the inhabitants of the lands acted differently due to culture difference, and how it was the white man’s burden to lecture them in their own values and culture. The title of the poem is The White Man’s Burden. This tells us what the poem is about, so it fits well to the text. The structure of the text is build up by 7 stanzas, which contains 4 lines each. In every stanza there is the end rime pattern: a, a, b, b. Every stanza starts with the sentence “Take up the White Man’s burden”, which is a typical thing for poems to do. A lot of poems repeat the same sentence over and over again. The poem has a normal rhythm, which is helped by the split in the middle of every sentence, which separates the line in 2. This helps give the poem a natural flow. The first part of the line is sort of an exclamation in all instances throughout the poem. The exclamation gets elaborated on in the second part of line, which functions as an explanation. Throughout the poem there is also a lot of metaphors, which helps color the poem, and activates the mind. The most common metaphor is of course the lead sentence in every stanza. The sentence “Take up the white man’s burden” is a symbol on the pressure the white men thought were being put on to their shoulders at the time. Also the part “Take...
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...In “A Looking Glass for the White Man”, William Apess expresses his dissatisfaction toward the hypocrisy of the white Christian. Apess finds it challenging to live in an order that condemns an “inferior race” by the color of their skin. He supports his claims by using a combination of valid and religious reasoning to appropriate the differences between Christians. The white Christians who live by the truths of Christianity neglect to give Indians respect and treat them as second-class citizens. It is appalling that they would believe to find themselves in heaven when, by the Bible, they would not be accepted there. By not only using Biblical references as one of many examples, Apess exposes those contradictions, thus encouraging his white audience to reconsider their ways and to begin living correspondingly to their beliefs. Apess begins his essay by asking the audience, “Why are we [Indians] not protected in our persons and property throughout the Union?” Here he questions the reasoning behind the dehumanization the Indian race. Not having the...
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...I chose to take part in a ride along with Lake Charles Police Department’s Officer F. White. I began my ride along around 7:30 P.M. and ended around 12:00 A.M. Officer White is one of many patrol officers on the L.C.P.D. force. His supervisor is Lieutenant Smith. He supervises Officer White and many other patrol officers by radio contact and video surveillance from inside the police station on Enterprise Blvd. Our first event occurred at approximately 7:50 when we pulled over an old Chevrolet pickup truck for illegal placement and lighting of his license plate. As Officer White approached the vehicle he made sure to leave a finger print on the tail light of the truck for safety reasons and to make identification of the vehicle easier in case he got hurt and the truck drove away. Officer White ran a background check on the driver and found no warrants for his arrest or unpaid tickets, so he let the man go with a warning to get the placement and lighting of the license plate corrected. After the man drove away, a disturbing call came over the radio, “A black male is holding a gun to the head of a black female and threatening to shoot.” Officer White hurriedly threw the car in drive and raced to the scene. Upon arrival, another officer had already gotten there and had the man by the arm dragging him out of the house and into the driveway. By the time White got out of the vehicle, five other L.C.P.D. units (including a K-9 unit) with nine officers, one S.W.A.T. unit with three...
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...Ice Man – Elmore Leonard 2012 The title “Ice Man” can be referred to a person we meet in the short story. His is called for “iceman”, but his real name is Darryl Harris. The Iceman works for “immigration and Customs Enforcement”. He is a white man who is racists, we can see that the way he treats the Indian boys. He seems like a cold man as his nickname “ICE” The short story takes place in the US and it is about Victor and his friends Nachee and Billy Cosa. Victor loves to ride bulls and he is very good at it. When Victor turns twenty he wins 4,000 dollars at the All - Indian National Rodeo in Palm Springs. After that Victor and his friends - Nachee and Billy Cosa, decides to celebrate his rides at the bar where they drinks some tequilas and talk. Victor tells his friends, how he learned to ride bulls while he was working for his boss Kyle McCoy. At the bar he sees police officers that are at the bar to check if there are any workers without permission. Victor also noticing that a white man (Darryl Harris) at the bar watching Victor and his friends. The white man is working for Immigration and Customs Enforcement and asks Victor about his age. The white man provokes and threatens Victor to accuse him for something he didn’t do. Victor and his “NDN brother” (10) Nachee and Billy Cosa are Indian. Victor is from a “Mimbreno Apache”(8) and his to friends Nachee and Billy Cosa is from “Mojave” (9) tribe. We don’t get so much information about the boys, but Victor is twenty...
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...As a seductress, Carmelita is “heavily made-up,” and is costumed in clothes that show off her figure, definitely connoting Laura Mulvey’s “to-be-looked-at-ness” (Williams 215). She is very loud and passionate, speaks with a heavy accent, and she actively and purposefully seduces a white man away from a white woman. All of these elements combined create a factor of racialized gender, where “ethnic markings and her gendered performativity,” make Carmelita a representation of “sexuality and embodiment,” when compared to white women (Garcia 70; Modleski 330). Some cite 1933’s Hot Pepper, also starring Lupe Vélez, as the first “Mexican Spitfire” film (Treviño). However, it was The Girl From Mexico that coined the term for the stereotype, along with its seven sequels, referred to as the “Mexican Spitfire Movies.” While the film should not be entirely vilified, especially as Carmelita is a very likeable character, it cemented the image of the Mexican Spitfire in popular culture, and created a negative stereotype for Anglo audiences to latch on...
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...Abstract: This study attempts to investigate the representation of masculinity in the printed advertisement of Mens Biore Double Scrub. All phenomena in the advertisement are described. To present more analytical description, the signs found in the advertisement are analyzed based on Barthes’ orders of signification. Besides that, this study also employs Kress and Van Leeuwen’s method of reading images and intertextual analysis in order to obtain more comprehensive analysis. The result of this study shows that Mens Biore Double Scrub advertisement represents two different concepts of masculinity. The first one is the traditional concept of masculinity. The second one is the new concept of masculinity offered by the advertisement. Generally, words that are used to represent both concepts of masculinity are power, confidence, aggressiveness, competition, challenge, and bravery. The connotative signified success, financial independence, and physical attractiveness are emphasized to change the concept of traditional masculinity to be in line with the company’s need. Keywords: advertisement, semiotics, masculinity Abstrak: Penelitian ini berupaya untuk menganalisa representasi maskulinitas dalam iklan cetak Mens Biore Double Scrub. Seluruh fenomena dalam iklan tersebut dideskripsikan. Untuk menyajikan deskripsi yang analitis, tanda-tanda yang ditemukan dalam iklan tersebut dianalisa berdasarkan gagasan orders of signification milik Barthes. Selain itu, penelitian ini juga menerapkan...
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...outside and walked at a leisurely pace down Malcolm Ave. It was the best time of year for my line of work: the summer when all of the tourists came to New York. I got to the city square, and as usual, the very same cliques were there, and in numbers today. 'It looks to be a very good day,' I thought as I smiled to myself. I saw a white man in his late 30's. Guessed he looked kind of lost. 'Perfect,' I thought to myself. “Time to work.” I calmly and confidently stepped up to the man. "Hello, sir. Can I help you?" "Yes. I am looking for the Malcolm Hotel." "Yes, yes... Oh, okay. Go three blocks down, and take a right. It will be on your left. You can't miss it" "Thank you." "You're welcome. Have a good day sir." I walked away with not only a smile on my face, but with the man's wallet in my pocket. I opened it up to see 48 dollars, a Discover, and a MasterCard. A couple of hours and 4 wallets later, I decided to get lunch. So far, I had acquired 6 credit cards, 726 dollars, and several patent leather, hand-made Italian billfolds. I decided to go to my favourite place a little bistro called daVinci's. They have the best pizza. But then, I saw the man. He was about 6 feet tall, with a dark chocolate complexion. He was actually walking in circles - even an amateur could easily recognize that he was lost. Perfect. I cautiously approached him, like a lion stalking his pray. "Hello, sir. Can I help you?" "Yes. Do you, by any chance, know where the movie theater is?" "Ah...
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...hegemonic masculinity provides a more dynamic perspective of the existing power structures and subordination. It takes into account a wide array of sociopolitical/socioeconomic factors and cultural groups in consideration rather than approaching hegemonic masculinity in terms of binary absolutes. They also lay out the problems with granting superiority to an ideal form of masculinity which is unattainable by most men and excludes women. Drawing on empirical research and the history of hegemonic masculinity concept, this article examines the complex ways in which hegemonic masculinity is used to legitimize the power structures put in place in a patriarchy society. In patriarchy societies, people with hegemonic masculine qualities such as white, able –bodied, assertive, heterosexual males in the middle or upper class are granted more privileges hence have more power. People of color, women, persons with disabilities and homosexuals are some of the people who become marginalized by this concept. A system of subordination, whereby all individuals are measured according to a standard of masculinity espoused by a privileged few, is...
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..."The Man who loved Flowers" The title of the text is “The Man who loved flowers”. Reading this title made me at once pay more attention to the flowers that have an symbolic meaning. My interpretation of the symbolic meaning of the flowers’ colours is that they represent the girl in the lane, the young man and the relationship between them. The white rose represent the girl, it stands for innocence and ignorance, just like the girl that hasn’t done anything wrong and is unknowing about the man’s intentions. The yellow rose represents the young man. Yellow colour is often connected with lies and falseness as the man tricks the reader and the girl into believing that he is an ordinary man. The last colour is red, it stands for love and is the colour of blood, and love is what connects Nora and the young man. The young man is well dressed (s. 175 l. 11-12) ”he had that look about him. He was dressed in a light grey shit, the narrow tie pulled down a little”. He has got an ordinary face (s.175 l.13-14) “not an extraordinary face, but on this soft spring evening...” . The people that look at him see him as an symbol of spring and young love. You can see that in the way they describe him when he walks by the old lady at the end of the story. This is also what the reader sees him as until the man steps into the lane. Stephen King makes us believe that this is a love story, all the people the man walks by looks at him and think that he is in love, an example is (175 l. 8-10)...
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...A)Violence against Women -Wrestling with manhood -Violence is connected to manhood (real men invite confrontation, trash talk) -Fear and respect go hand in hand -Bark like a dog (subordination of women is part of the “man” package) -Comparison to women as a challenging idea (you are a “bitch”) -Chyna becomes so strong, she is stripped of femininity (later rejects public image) -violence as “deserved,” even really crazy awful sexual violence (“bark like a dog”) -“...it's only entertainment.” -Sex Trafficking (Trade) B)Gender, Beauty, Normalization -Wolf, beauty as a prerequisite for success for women -“girls learn that stories happen to 'beautiful' woman but don't happen to women who aren't beautiful” -beauty as a market and product -the female body as a constant -Kaw, Asian Americans (3% of pop., 6% of cosmetic surgeries), most likely ethnicity to get c. surgery -encouragement of self hatred -pressuring women to conform to standards of normality -media representation of Asians as “sleepy, dull, uninterested” -origins in facial reconstruction at WWI -now used to “fix” completely natural features -Valenti, beauty as a “shut the fuck up” tool -beauty is a distraction -women are too ugly or too pretty to be consequential/deserve public attention -Bordo, Slender Body -double bind: producer v. consumer -moral coding: fat is seen as lazy, thin as control -cultural...
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...Skyy Eaddy September 28, 2011 Quitman street school grade-8-room-305 Autobiography Jefferson and Alison Crowther Mr. Jefferson and Mrs. Alison look like a great family to me. For someone to love there kid as much as any one, is some what great. I read a paper that said in the being. That ever morning when he got up he would put his suit, he would have a nice white handkerchief in the pocket. He would have a blue bandanna. so when there son the hero turned seven or eight, and they were getting ready for church and he put his jacket he ask could he have a handkerchief too;. So he got a white handkerchief so he put it in his pocket, so then he said I want a bandanna so he got him one of his and he only had two. Mrs. Alison said going right to 9/11. Welles had actually recovered in the lobby area of the south tower, with a group of men. One man was named Donald the later learned captain burns that was incident of the south tower. Welles had the bandanna around his face trying to falter out as much bad air as possible. But as the were saving people the men and boy got blown, as a group they were out and against the wall the world trade fell passing as a group I for ever more rest in peace. I pray for the family having to go through 9/11 with out there...
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...Dave drove a Ford.” Shaking his head in disbelief, the first man looks up to see a man holding a box of Twinkies. When he was offered the sweet treat, his face lights up and the music begins to play again. Additionally, the narrator comes on to say “Chevy Silverado, from the beginning of your work day to the end of the world, Chevy runs deep.” The advertisement appeals more to the male population, alluding to the idea that the truck is indestructible, therefore, so will you be if you drive a Chevy Silverado. On the other hand, Chryslers ad campaign titled half-time in America wrote by David Gordon Green (poet) and directed by Matthew Dickman produced this touching presentation by using the metaphor, “halftime in America” The ad clearly depicts the fight to revive the American economy with a specific focus on the decline in Detroit and the automotive industry. This two-minute piece starts when Clint Eastwood begins to speak, “It’s halftime. Both teams are in their locker room discussing what they can do to win this game in the second half.” The dark silhouette of the man walks through a dimly lit...
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...Your environment can help shape who you become as a person what you believe is right and wrong and what is “normal”. It is hard for me to understand what “normal” really is because who is and who is it based off of? In our society it is told that a woman should behave as a woman should and a man as a man. Men are said to be tough, masculine, and the providers of the home and family. Their job is to work and make sure everyone is taken care of finically. A woman’s role is to be the care taker. To raise the children, clean the house tend to their husbands and family, cook and do what is asked of them. Women were seen as weak and inadequate to men. Men are seen as fearless and ready to conquer the world. Along with these views of society of a man and woman’s...
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...ordered, “see yah”, said the haymakers. Next, Puss went to the Rich Man’s Mansion. “Stop right there!” yelled the security, “who do you think you are just walking into the rich man’s castle.” “Who me” said puss well I am the presidents good friend. “Oh sorry for bothering you, you may enter.”said the guard. “Who is it!” yelled the Rich Man, “its me Puss the chimp”, Said Puss, “come here Puss the chimp.” then Puss said,“I heard that you can dress up as a sheep”, said puss, “well yes I can said the rich man.” 5 minutes later he came out, “how do I look?” he said, “you look like a sheep.” said Puss, “follow me” said Puss, “out to the field of sheep to see if they think you are one of them, okay? he said, “Here we are” ,said puss, “well here goes nothing” ,said the Rich Man. Puss started to run away behind him, he could hear the wolves howling. None ever seen the rich man again. Puss went back to invite the president to dinner at the rich mans mansion that is now Fancyman Johns. When the president got there puss told him that this was Fancy Man John’s house. The president and his family all ate dinner at his house, one day later the president told Fancy man John that he could marry his daughter. Fancyman John and...
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...The conflict over the devastation of the wetlands is a destructive conflict, no parties are cooperating. There is competitive motivation to win against the oil industry in a billion-dollar lawsuit. There is a hostile attitude toward the oil companies for destroying protected land. The issue over the control of resources in Louisiana is a blame game between the Oil companies and the state. This has created credibility issues for both sides, there are many factors involved in the destruction of the wetlands near the gulf coast, the state is blindly blaming oil companies for it. This makes the conflict somewhat misattributed and displaced. The people protecting the wetlands want the oil to pay for the projects that will help stop erosion but it’s not clear if that will do any good. To promote cooperative interdependence between the oil companies involved and the people protecting the wetlands is difficult because it is close to impossible to please both parties in this situation that involves out recourses and money. I can’t see anyway to make this a mutually beneficial situation. The Board fails to see that its not just he oil companies and the oil companies fail to recognize that their drilling took a huge toll in this particular area even though there are many of factors that destroy the habitat. The credibility of both parties also makes it hard to see a positive out come. This is an international conflict involving social values in Afghanistan. Women’s rights are close...
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