A second phenomenon is same-sex marriage. ... In Illinois, same-sex marriage is also legal. I am in opposition to same-sex marriage and the thought that an open mind must accept this. ... Restricting same-sex marriage is the same as infringing the freedom everyone is entitled to. ... According to an article, the opposite-sex parental model is viewed as the ideal model and thus is wary of recognizing same-sex parenting because it also entails recognition of same-sex relationships. ...

• Word Count: 1936
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The novel "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Attwood tells the story of a near future oppressive society governed by an elite group - men. ... Words such as Commander, Guardian, and Angel name men's varying ranks of power, but the words themselves do not reduce individual men to their sex alone. ... They use only certain parts of the Bible, for example the Rachel and Bilhah story, which serve as justification for the men's rigid control of the avenues to satisfy desire. ... There, we experience the juxtaposition of the Handmaid (Offred) used for procreation and the Prostitutes...

• Word Count: 1443
• Approx Pages: 6

On example of this is in Andrea Weiss' story Female Pleasures and perversions in the Silent and Early Sound Cinema. ... Weiss discusses how women were used as "objects of desire."" (304) This story was showing how easy it is to view something so natural as--sexuality and turn it into this erotic nightmare. ... People have always said,""sex sales."" But, sex and violence in conjunction with women can't be a good recipe. ... When we see people namely women: as objects, figurines, wives, mothers, sex, objects, and not human. ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Previously, Eva used her stories to influence only one other person at a time, but once her telenovella is put on air she gains political influence over virtually an entire country. ... He does not reject society's constructions of masculinity and power relations between sexes, which places women in inferior roles to those of men. ... Society's values of that time regarding sex are challenged by Allende through Eva's character. ... It could be the soap opera that Eva Luna is writing; it could also be the story that Eva Luna is inventing about her own life. ...

• Word Count: 1714
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The short story Boys and Girls, by Alice Munro, demonstrates this point excellently. ... During adolescence, differences between the sexes are suddenly intensified by not only peer groups, but the society as a whole. ... Myers mentions, "Differences between the sexes arise, genetically, from their differing sex chromosomes and, physiologically, from their differing concentrations of sex hormones" (Myers 126). ...

• Word Count: 1761
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gender role attitudes are generally conceived as opinions and beliefs about the ways that family and work roles do and should differ based on sex. ... Through the progression of "No Name Woman," Kingston details a story of her aunt who commits adultery. ... After her heroic story of the great swordswoman, Fa Mu Lan, she leads into a story of her own life and an incident she had with her boss. ... By using her story telling to illustrate what she would like to do to the boss she uses her story as a way to act on the possibilities that Fa Mu Lan had, but because she is living in a male domina...

• Word Count: 1870
• Approx Pages: 7

Women are the weaker sex is an ideology that fuels consumerism. ... Women are just sex objects. ... Narrative is a convention that the media uses to suspend our belief and draw us willingly into the story. ... The character has a goal---always an individual goal--- and the story revolves around that, cutting out the rest of the world. ... Artfully done and seen repeatedly, these TV stories build on one another so that eventual...

• Word Count: 1987
• Approx Pages: 8

The characters and their life stories are quite peculiar. ... But, he narrates the story mostly through the life of Kathy H. ... Throughout this entire book, Kathy's narration is key in putting this together the story. ... I learned a lot about Ruth and Tommy's personality and life story through Kathy. ... We know now why sex is talked about heavily and why it is somewhat encouraged. ...

• Word Count: 1620
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Statistics show that in January 2011, same sex cohabiting couple families stood at 63,000. However, this norm is still an undesirable 'choice' to many people, including the Coalition for Marriage, whose petition against same-sex unions in the UK has so far attracted 500,000 signatures. ... This is because negative media coverage on an event will cause a general consensus, regardless of the true nature of the story. ...

• Word Count: 2016
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

This aspect has been parodied since in comic form in films such as Toy Story II when the character Buzz Light-year discovers his mortal enemy is actually his father. ... Sigmund Freud, in his research in dream analysis, discovered infantile sexuality and founded the 'Oedipus complex', which constitutes the erotic attachment of the child for the parent of the opposite sex, together with hostility towards the other parent. ... The comic phenomenon combined illustration with dialogue, creating a story that could be followed without the need for visualization. ... The interlinking thread...

• Word Count: 1933
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Heckerling's Clueless is indeed a clever film, transforming a 200-year-old story and making it relevant to today for a modern screen audience, despite radical social changes. ... However, even though sex before marriage is assumed in most social circles and prevalent in current film, Cher herself steps out of social expectations and admits to remaining a virgin despite friends whom "say it like it's a bad thing-. ...

• Word Count: 1375
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Now when we talk of spirituality in particular, there is a long path that lies between the stage of a woman's spiritual novice and the ultimate state of transcendence where all boundaries of caste, class and sex get eroded. ... Instances of vociferously protesting the ties of marriage, as in the case of Akka Mahadevi, or the outright refusal of marriage, as in the case of Andal and even the rejection of the fiercely imposed widowhood, with regard to the story of Mira- are all exemplified stories that that travelled through time as tales of rebellion in the name of God, the beloved. ...

• Word Count: 2258
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By selecting ways in which to present a story on a labor strike the print media can help influence the success of one class over another, and how these classes are perceived. ... Likewise, many movies use sex and violence in ways that play to the most base elements of entertainment that further contribute the problems with gender and class. ...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

By selecting ways in which to present a story on a labor strike the print media can help influence the success of one class over another, and how these classes are perceived. ... Likewise, many movies use sex and violence in ways that play to the most base elements of entertainment that further contribute the problems with gender and class. ...

• Word Count: 1776
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Film translates a story to the audience through settings, music, film techniques and other aspects that theatre does not provide. ... Society's views have changed immensely and the involvement of prostitution in the plot shows the 1990s audience to be more open with sex whereas in the 1910s it would have been a taboo subject. ...

• Word Count: 1818
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Amy Heckerling's film Clueless is an appropriation of Jane Austen's Emma, closely paralleling the story in terms of plot and characterisation. ... The same level of education is offered to both sexes and this allows opportunities for women not to rely on marriage or inheritance but to be independent. ...

• Word Count: 1760
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Much of what goes on in entertainment (movies and TV) is a reflection of what goes on in the news; the media echo messages young people hear at school - in particular, themes of violence and sex are constantly reinforced" - John Merrow, 1999. ... Journalist Claudia Dowling noted, "Generally, I must write what the market demands, and today that seems to be unambiguous stories that display tensions, historic context, "color," resolution--all wrapped up neatly with a clear beginning and a definite ending... perhaps the examination of a childhood shadowed by violence can inform our understanding ...

• Word Count: 2159
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Graduate

It has been fifth teen years since the release of the controversial movie, American History X. It was released on October 30th, 1998. Fifth teen long years later the movie still stands as a riveting and brutal drama about white supremacy and racism in America. The film was directed by Tony Kaye and ...

• Word Count: 2014
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

Teacher and Inequality Paper Incorporating "Tis by Frank McCourt Introduction The book "Tis by Frank McCourt describes how a young man was able to leave his home in Ireland, by way of the U.S. Army, and went on the graduate from NYU with a degree in Literature (without having a high school diplom...

• Word Count: 1906
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

The issue of Identity is a complex one. Identity consists of innumerable defining characters that make up the whole of who we are in any given moment. These fragments of self-include our sexuality, gender and sense of belonging to a particular culture, nation, religion or family. It also includes ou...

• Word Count: 1932
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Through this narrative she brings into the story the poor professor and clergymen who are both male, the wealthy shoemaker, tailor and butcher who are also all male and the University students who appear in the first scene, whom of which are all male. ...

• Word Count: 2149
• Approx Pages: 9
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate