Introduction Sports are a very popular activity around the world. There are all different kinds of sports. You got basketball‚ football‚ baseball‚ soccer‚ and many more‚ but those are just the mail four that are played in America or at least televised. If you look at sports they all have something in common. Either it is trying to score more points than the other team‚ and all of them require some sort of round shaped object. Also‚ sports require a team and you work together as a team. Although
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gendered body were “viewed as along a continuum” moving in one direction or the other (Fisher‚ 6). This early modern thought implies that gender as a performance rather than its ontological core on the stage. Shakespeare’s comedies may suggest that masculinity on the stage is like “a suit of clothes” that could be put on or taken off at will (Smith‚ 3). While the controversy surrounding women allowed dramatists of this period to portray them in ways that defined and questioned the validity of the old
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written by Robert Jensen‚ a journalism professor at the University of Texas‚ in Austin‚ he tells us that “if we could get rid of the whole idea of masculinity‚ we have a chance to create a better world for men and women.” He states that it’s not easy to be a man in our society‚ especially with the demands that come with the dominant conception of masculinity‚ which is where men are perceived to be tough‚ competitive and aggressive and must show those qualities in order to prevail as a “real man.” He
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The concept of masculinity is encouraged and reinforced to young boys before they are able to comprehend what they are being taught. Society regurgitates these ideologies of what is an acceptable form of masculinity‚ and passes them on to other men and boys. The exposure that young boys and other men retain from what masculinity should be‚ is not limited to what their family consciously projects on to them‚ but also in various forms of media. Such as‚ on television‚ within the film at the movie theaters
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Lysistrata a classic greek comedy written by Aristophanes‚ who is considered to be the greatest representative of ancient Greek comedy and the one whose works have been preserved in greatest quantity. Originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BC‚ Lysistrata is a comic account of a woman’s extraordinary mission to end the Peloponnesian War by denying all the men of the land any sex‚ which was the only thing they truly and deeply desired. Lysistrata‚ a middle-class Athenian housewife‚ plans a
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have to purge themselves of their femininity to achieve the level of acceptance that they hope to reach‚ while others are proud of being feminine and feminist. This has become a point of contention amongst many women‚ causing women to question whether femininity and feminism can coexist. If we abandon femininity‚ we are creating a new stereotype. While being strong and achieving gender equality is a noble cause‚ no one should be required to sacrifice their femininity; unfortunately‚ many women are
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American Norms vs. Japan Norms In sociology‚ when we discuss culture (which is the totality of learned socially transmitted customs‚ knowledge‚ material objects‚ and behavior (Schaefer 2010:50))‚ we discuss how culture includes such things as; language‚ beliefs‚ values and norms. When sociologists studied culture they mainly looked upon the norms of society. Norms are "the agreed-upon expectations and rules by which a culture guides the members in any given situation"(Cultural Norms). There are
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When reading the play Hamlet‚ it sometimes seems that everything occurs because of a woman. However‚ there is a problem with that assumption: the women are a little too passive to cause anything. Certainly‚ the men’s feelings towards the women shape the events of the play‚ but that’s not exactly because of the women. Instead‚ it’s the basic relationships between the men and women‚ the relationships of husband and wife‚ of brother and sister‚ father and daughter‚ and especially mother and son‚
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Mother‚ sister‚ daughter‚ aunt‚ and grandmother all are titles for women in people’s lives. What are their purposes in their lives? Over centuries‚ women have matriculated through the hierarchy of respect and authority societally. Through some literature‚ they can be looked at as symbols of strength. But‚ for Shakespeare‚ especially in Othello‚ women are viewed as worthless‚ gullible sex symbols. Three authors in their article state Revisiting Shakespeare and Gender‚ “For Shakespeare‚ as well as
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Masculinity/ Femininity Dimension in the Last Samurai According to Hofstede‚ Masculinity/ Femininity dimension explains Masculinity: The way the samurais in the movie were portrait are in fact extremely accurate to those that existed in the 18th century. From as young as seven or eight years of age‚ boys we turned from kids into killing samurais. In one of the scene’s of the movie‚ we see two young boys learning to fight with wooden sticks. Although so young‚ their skills were already better
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