According to Donna Freydkin, "For Celebrities, image isn't everything. It's the only thing (Freydkin, 2004, p. 1)." The author of this article takes a look at certain celebrities who have been through rough times of late. She suggests ways in which these celebrities can repair their image. The celebrities mentioned were Janet Jackson, Michael Jackson, Ben Affleck, and Jennifer Lopez. Janet Jackson disappeared from the public eye after her breast flashing incident during the Super Bowl halftime show but she did make an appearance on the David Letterman show. At late night show Janet Jackson said that it was not planned and the incident was simply a wardrobe malfunction. Publicist Maureen wishes she would make light of the situation instead of just saying the same line over and over about the incident. She suggests that if she makes an attempt to laugh about it then the public could see that she…
Karen Norris, a member of my church, was born on July 5, 1942 in Huntington, West Virginia and is now seventy-three years old. She grew up in Chesa Peak, Ohio on a farm. The long cabin she lived in was built by a free black man in 1860 with rooms add on to it. The neighborhood was very rural with a few small house spread out. The town had many house that were used for the underground railroad. Everyone knew everyone in the community of very few people. Her father ran their dairy farm that was given to him by his father, and they raised all kind of animals. There was lots of wide, open fields to run around in, and forests to playing hide-and-seek.…
The History Alive! textbook explained a lot about important feminists, such as Susan B. Anthony, Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and more. It went over the things that they contributed to the Women’s Rights Movement, and what their lives were like. When Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were alive, they both met at an anti-slavery convention in 1851. When they weren’t allowed to speak, they were outraged. They had a strong feeling about this, and they were since then, involved a lot in the Women’s Rights Movement.…
In particular, Ritchie-England’s own interpretation of feminism placed little emphasis on the superiority of her race. As an egalitarian rather than maternal feminist, she described her vision as a desire for ‘full liberty, perfect justice and equality of opportunity without discrimination between sexes, races and creeds,’ a belief that would not be compromised by the war.27 This determination set her apart from more conservative firstwave feminist leaders, including her fellow physicians from Ontario, Dr Augusta Stowe-Gullen and Dr Elizabeth Smith Shortt, who are accused by historians of representing a ‘constrained’ form of feminism.28 Ritchie-England’s commitment to these principles was shaped by her family’s evangelical and liberal traditions, her own struggle for equality in education and medicine, a non-patriarchal marriage, and her close relationship with French Canadian men and women. Considering how much trouble…
1. Who is the protagonist of this novel? Identify him/her quickly and the role played in the novel. What motivates this central character’s actions? Magdalena ‘Lena’ Ella Haloway Tiddle or more prominently known as Lena, she is the main protagonist and the narrator in the Delirium trilogy.…
Karen Horney defines a basic anxiety as insidiously increasing, all pervading feeling of being lonely and helpless in a hostile world” (Horney, 1937, p.89). When a child experiences basic anxiety they can develop self defense mechanisms. These self defense mechanisms can become very common throughout the child’s life. So common in fact, that they become a permanent part of one’s personality and become a neurotic need. Horney developed a list of ten neurotic needs that could be categorized into three neurotic trends: moving towards other people (the complaint personality), moving against other people (the aggressive personality) and movement away from other people (the detached personality) (Shultz & Shultz, 2013, p.164). An apparent connection can be drawn between Horney’s neurotic trends and Timothy Keller’s chapter “The Seduction of Success” in his book Counterfeit Gods. According to Keller, “a sign you may…
The feminist movement began in the 1960s, as women’s groups searched for equality in the workplace. The movement resulted in the increased participation of women in the paid workforce, and the widening of career opportunities from traditional occupations such as teaching, nursing and secretarial work.…
In society, media plays an integral role and can reinforce our morals and norms. In this week’s readings, Patricia Hill Collins discussed a tragic assault, rape, and attempted murder of a female jogger known as the “Central Park Jogger” panic. The police believed that she had been beaten by twelve black and latino adolescents. They were convicted of most charges and they received sentences ranging from five to 15 years. However, years later another Hispanic male confessed to raping the jogger and admitted he did it alone.…
Today, feminism is a term that attracts a great deal of controversy and often leads to heated debates over the true definition of the word. Feminism began as a movement for women to prove their worth and finally gain the recognition of equal members in society to that of men, to be equivalents rather than domestic servants. Moreover, the role women played during the second world war unequivocally proved the strength and endurance which put to rest any question as to whether women had the ability to perform the tasks only believed to executed by men. The war further implemented itself as an important component in continuing evolution of feminine justice as it created the iconic role model of “Rosie the Riveter”, a strong woman capable of hard…
While these societies were going on the rights of women were being brought to surface for the first time. Judith Sargent Murray held many ideas about women’s education that were extremely radical…
Her gender and race seem to be the common denominator in this feminist theory. She becomes a governess to get ahead in the time of the booming Industrial Revolution. It's all business in the male dominated world. With this opportunity, comes great responsibility, that could have possibly led her to improper relationship with numerous individuals in…
The goals of the feminist movement in the 1960's were to have workplace equality. They wanted job and salary equality. In 1964 Representative Howard Smith of Virginia had an idea to add "prohibition on gender discrimination" into the Civil Rights Act. The other congress men laughed about it, but with the help from Representative Martha Griffthe of Michigan the law later on…
The first wave of feminism began in the United States in the mid-late 1800’s. In this era, women were being treated more like property and trying to…
A feminist is a theory of the political, economic, and social equality of the sexes. Russell Scott Sanders, “The Men We Carry in Our Minds,” discusses his personal observation of the conflict of gender equality that grew in his mind after seeing the harsh lives of his surrounding class of people. It deals with the problems that exist between sex and social class issues. He reveals that the men in this class had no choice over their own destiny in life. Their only ways of making money to barely survive were as factory workers or soldiers. He had envied women for what he thought they had a pleasant lifestyle, spent time in the home looking after the children, compared to the difficult lives of the men having to work at the factories and go to war in the foreign land.…
‘The Industrial Revolution intensified the inequalities between the status of men and women based on the roles each fulfilled.’ The statement provides an insight of how the world use to be, a world where people were seen for their abilities and not for who they were. A question like, “Do we need feminism in this country,” should not be allowed, a question like that insults the progress of other generations. A question that allows people to think that they are better than others because they were born with XX chromosomes or XY chromosomes. A world, a city, a town, or a country should not lose feminism, it is a act that fight for…