Gender is ascribed meaning something people are not born as or with‚ while sex is prescribed meaning something someone is born as or with such as race. Society assigns gender to each person and those children who are born with an ambiguous genitalia are often assigned a gender based on what doctors may think is easier to make‚ boy or girl. Why is it so wrong to leave these children as they are? Why must a gender be assigned to these children immediately? We are constantly “doing gender” even when
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action can result in a good way‚ and other times it can end in a poor consequence. For example‚ the movie Legally Blonde is about how an attractive‚ blonde woman named Elle Woods is considered unintelligent because people believe she obsesses over her looks and ignores her knowledge. Although Elle proves herself to be smart the end‚ people continue the initial stereotype in their minds that blondes are naturally stupid‚ in reality‚ because they are pretty. Another way that television and movies can
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comes into play. Discrimination always remained hot topic. We have lots of examples in past in which womens were the victims. As we can see women never get chance to be in politics in this managerial society. Last few days I watched a movie named Legally Blonde which gave the reflection of gender discrimination in society. This movie is actually about a girl who wants to get back her ex-boyfriend by earning a law degree. Her boyfriend who was in Harved Law School‚ just breakup with her and claiming that
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Literature Index with Full Text. Web. 11 March. 2013. Lahrmann‚ Jessica. "Hilary Radner: Neo-Feminist Cinema: Girly Films‚ Chick Flicks and Consumer Culture." American Journal of Psychoanalysis 71.2 (2011): 178-81. ProQuest. Web. 12 March. 2013. Legally Blonde. Dir. Robert Luketic. Perf. Reese Witherspoon‚ Luke Wilson. Metro-Goldwyn_Mayer (MGM)‚ 2001. DVD. The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Dir. David Fincher. Perf. Daniel Craig‚ Rooney Mara. Columbia Pictures‚ 2011. DVD. Stenport‚ Anna
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behind the velvet-red chair‚ hoping to become unseen. Thick‚ smoke-scented air began to shake my senses‚ along with a blistering “BOOM!” Left…was a dark‚ defined shadow of dust-like ash.. floating low in dense fog. The not so “Legally blonde” Like her “blonde” hair‚ she bleaches out her past with little‚ yet loud lies. Pretty pink on the outside but‚ blistering black controls inside. She walks slowly‚ silently… Alongside Bruiser‚ her aggressive black pit-bull‚ looking for her next
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overgeneralised‚ clichéd image‚ used repetitively to establish a pattern among texts such as films‚ magazines or television programs. This form of representation is extremely judgemental. For example‚ one recognized female stereotype present would be the ‘dumb blonde’‚ portraying commonly that women can have brains or beauty but not both and a common male stereotype is the nerd (Bowles‚ 2014). Stereotypes are‚ therefore‚ terms generally used to define the fixed qualities or traits and how these may be attributed
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negate the strength that she shows‚ sometimes the reality of being a woman is being in love. Elle Woods goes above and beyond‚ and shows the being smart and being pretty don’t have to be mutually exclusive. In a world that tries to tell women that all blondes are stupid‚ and all nerdy girls are ugly‚ this is an important message for girls to receive. A girls intelligence isn’t limited‚ or determined by‚ her
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researching about the great stars and icons of musical theatre such as Donna Murphy‚ Audra McDonald‚ Gwen Verdon and Mary Martin‚ etc. I also gave myself the task of watching and studying a musical per week to have more knowledge. And started with Legally Blonde The Musical‚ because one of my friends sings “Much Better”‚ which I love‚ and I have always been interested to see how that was. I’m also working on my first scene for acting class and my partner and I decided to place in a crime scene being
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Upon visiting London in 1592‚ the Duke of Wurttemberg observed‚ “most of the inhabitants are employed in buying and selling merchandise‚ and trading in every corner of the world.” Explore and compare the dramatists use of trade in Christopher Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus and William Shakespeare’s The Merchant Of Venice with reference to a range of critical reading. Both plays were written in the 1590 ’s‚ the same period at which the duke visited london and made the statement that features in the title
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Dayjah Franklin Mrs. Trapp Writing 4-28-13 CELBRITIES GONE WILD As we all heard our favorite actress Reese Witherspoon was arrested in the peach city of Atlanta‚ Georgia. For those who don’t know who she is she stared in the movie “Legally Blonde.” She was the good girl of Holy wood until that night. She used those cocky words “ Do you know who I am”‚ now normally you hear those words in the movie‚ but this is reality. My topic is “ Should celebrities or professional athletes be viewed as
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