will be comparing and contrasting the way in which two different authors portray femininity in their respective dramatic texts. The two works I am using are Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw and Medea by Euripides. I will be looking at how the way men and women are portrayed can affect the way we interpret the texts‚ and showing that femininity isn’t necessarily a trait restricted just to women. I believe that femininity reflects expected female behaviour. There are certain traits which are believed
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Gender Representation: Males in the Media: How and why is a social group represented in a particular way? Advertisements‚ such as TV commercials influence our views of gender roles in a variety of ways. A Pepsi commercial aired during the 2009 Super Bowl (American Football League) displays mostly middle aged Blue Collar American males as strong physically and emotionally‚ klutzy‚ accident prone‚ and have a “Do It Yourself!” attitude‚ all as a product promotion strategy. Pepsi highlights
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have to help the rest of the world with their issues of poverty‚ as well as our own? If we honestly think about reducing poverty‚ how will the world benefit? How will the US benefit? Peter Singer is the author of the article “America’s Shame: The Chronicle of Higher Education." He completed this article on May 13‚ 2009. The author’s intention is to show America’s true and current role‚ as a developed country‚ in the decline of poverty. Per Singer (2009)‚ "Education seems to be the key to eradication
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The phenomenon of dress and bodily adornment has always been a matter of conflict. It seems that society is constantly trying to repress the notion of aesthetics being a priority in any sense. Generally speaking‚ we are taught from a young age that looks are not important and we should not use them to make judgements of people. This is then contradicted by the notion of a doting mother always concerned about their child’s appearance‚ a nervous girl on a first date spending hours attempting to find
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Throughout Shakespeare’s Hamlet‚ Love plays an important role. Love causes certain things to happen‚ sometimes not always good things. Love causes Ophelia and Hamlet to go crazy‚ but also brought back good memories. Hamlet went crazy and went on a rampage about how love made him mad. Ophelia brought up the fact that Hamlet promised her love. Ophelia went crazy and had started to sing songs about Hamlet. When Hamlet was in the graveyard‚ Yorick reminded Hamlet of his childhood. He had always looked
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A Semantic Calculator for Bias in Rhetoric When this piece was written‚ Stephen Burd was a senior writer for the Chronicle of Higher Education and had been working in that capacity for nearly a decade. In this context it makes sense that he would write on such things as the "working-class student". White male‚ middle-aged‚ middle-class‚ bachelors degree in history- all of these are attributed to Mr. Burd (though none of these things are explicitly referenced in his writing). In this piece there
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How to Poison the Earth and Chronicles of Ice Saukko focuses in this essay explaining a process of “How to Poison the Earth.” and “Chronicles of Ice.” by Ehrlish. Both authors make excellent point about how to save and conserve the planet of Earth. Both go about making these point in two completely different ways although
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The play Macbeth‚ written by William Shakespeare‚ explores an abundant of encounters to the rigid gender representation demonstrated in the play. The play revolves around the questioning of femininity and masculinity‚ allowing us to explore how certain characters equivocate the definition of gender to please their favour and how each gender identities are created for persuasion of the natural order that corresponds to the traditional order - Lady Macbeth and Macbeth exploit and redefine gender ideology
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Nicole Cabrera Eng. 104 Intro. Composition 02/10/13 Wonderful Thunderstorm I remember walking in my tiptoes through an endless hallway with tall white walls. I was little and I was scared. During this everlasting path I was illuminated by a striking white light that came from the sky. Finally I arrived to my mom’s room. I watched her sleep peacefully and doubted about waking her up. As I hesitated‚ my mom slightly opened her eyes and watched me observed her. She gave me a welcoming smile and
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means that we had to take one of our older papers and turn it into something new like a Youtube video or a Pinterest board. The options were endless. Although I did not gain any reading‚ writing‚ researching or literary practices and my views on femininity and women were the same as in project #1‚ I did end up gaining skills in critical analysis. I analyzed my project to see what different rhetorical devices I used in my video‚ which helped me gain skills in seeing rhetorical devices that other people
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