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  • Little Role In Star Trek
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    Gender Roles In Star Trek Next Generation In 1966 a series called "Star Trek" was created. It's creator, Gene Roddenberry, did not create the show to be a science fiction series. The series was much deeper than that. It wasn't just about discovering new planets and civilizations. It was about controversial issues. Even though the series' take place in the 23rd and 24th century the issues struck with the times and related current issues. Through each series, The Original, Next Generation, Deep Sp...
  • Change In Sex Roles
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    Mr. Mom Children learn from their parents and society the conception of "feminine" and "masculine". Much about these conceptions is not biological at all but cultural. The way we tend to think about men and women and their gender roles in society constitute the prevailing paradigm that influences out thinking. Concerned with being good parents, people are accumulating a lot of information on the subject. As the information can be very helpful, sometimes it can be destructive. That is the case wh...
  • Gender Role Attitudes
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    The Effects of Advertising and Media on Society Advertising is an important social phenomenon. It both stimulates consumption, economic activity models, life-styles and a certain value orientation. Consumers are confronted with extensive daily doses of advertising in multiple media. Withthe continual attack of marketing media, it is presumable that it will affect our individualism and society as a whole. Consumer minds' can be changed, opinions molded. Images of men influence the gender role att...
  • Goes Against The Female Gender Role
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    Mi Vida Loca Mi Vida Loca means "my crazy life (as a girl)". The movie documents the phenomenon of female gangs in the early nineties in Los Angeles. It is written and directed by Allison Anders, who grew up in Los Angeles and went to UCLA. She uses personal experiences to help influence her story writing. In Echo Park, a group of young Mexican-Americans show what it means to live in the inner city. The film looks at gang lifestyle from a woman's point of view to uncover relationships, conflicts...
  • Pairing Of Masculine And Feminine Images
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    Rip Biggs English 380 Powerful Weapon Emily Dickinson's poem 'My Life had stood-a Loaded Gun-' is a powerful statement of the speaker's choice to forego the accepted roles of her time and embrace a taboo existence, a life open only to men. The speaker does so wholeheartedly and without reservation, with any and all necessary force, exulting in her decision. She speaks with great power and passion, tolerating no interference, and wills herself to maintain this choice for her entire life. The mix ...
  • Gender Of Sports Media
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    Women and men are nestled into predetermined cultural molds when it comes to gender in American society. Women play the roles of mothers, housekeepers, and servants to their husbands and children, and men act as providers, protectors, and heads of the household. These gender roles stem from the many culture myths that exist pertaining to America, including those of the model family, education, liberty, and of gender. The majority of these myths are misconceptions, but linger because we, as Ameri...
  • Changes In Other Roles
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    Introduction Sweden has developed a modern industrial culture based on natural resources, technical skills, and a sense of quality. Simplicity and even severity resulting from geographic and economic conditions characterize Swedish society and life. The title suggests that there have been changes in the roles of the Swedish woman. There is no doubt that this is the case. The degree to which and the speed with which changes have occurred, however, are somewhat more difficult to evaluate. At the s...
  • Discriminating By The Gender Roles
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    Gender Differences In Israel When I go places with my friends, I cannot help but notice the obvious difference between my male friends and female friends. Men and women are very different; however, this does not mean that they should have separate roles in society. I believe the United States has done a nice job of providing equal opportunities so that women have a choice of what they want to do. But not all places have done as well. In Israel, women are badly discriminating by the gender roles ...
  • Ideal Male Female Role In Society
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    Time and time again gender-conflict is brought to the attention of the public in various forms. In our time someone who wants to make a point about gender-conflict and the inequality that is present will be more likely to use television or song to reach their audience. This however is a fairly new technology. Books or some form of writing on the other hand have been around for thousands of years. Gender-conflict is nothing new. It is not as though one day it just came out of no where. It has bee...
  • Gender Oppression
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    Through the mass media, our patriarchal capitalist system has created the illusion that Women's Liberation has progressed when gender equality policies were introduced, such as "equal salaries" and the right to vote. It has convinced the common North American woman to believe that she is not socially restrained, that her accomplishments can be unlimited, that she is in total charge and control of her life. However, conventional norms veiled deeply and expressed indirectly in the mass media conti...
  • Traditional Gender Roles
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    Throughout many decades women have been struggling to be equal to men, both at home and in the work place. Women have come a long way and are certainly fighting to gain that equality, but gender roles are very important in our society. They have become important in life from birth, and society continues to push these gender roles. The treatment of the male gender is very different from that of the female, and this issue has become very important to me, as a woman. As children we learn and adapt ...
  • Gender Does The Separation In Moral Perspective
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    Gender and Morality A study on the possible relation between sex, gender, and moral behavior Our history is an account of changes, struggles and progress. It mostly contains writings and deeds of great 'men'. However, in this century, many nations' talent pools have been doubled by the introduction of Women's Suffrage. With that event women in many societies have been able to elevate themselves to a point where they can work towards gaining recognition in domains in which they used to be viewed ...
  • Role Of The Prisoner
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    When first reading Zimbardo's prison experiment, I was disturbed with the ethics. However, once I got past my disturbance, I was able to actually consider the implications. And, I became fascinated with the impact that resulted from randomly placing otherwise equal individuals into roles that forced them to interact with each other on a new uneven playing field. The volunteers were thus no longer able to relate to or understand each other in the same way. Both the prisoners and the guards were f...
  • Ideology Of Gender Roles Through Her Writing
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    The ideology of something is a lived experience and isn't categorized as true or false for it is always true since it is lived. Ideologies are used to obscure the structures of domination. As quoted by Terry Eagleton in "Marxism and Literary Criticism:" 'superstructure' are certain forms of law and politics, a certain kind of state, whose essential function is to legitimate the power of the social class which owns the means of economic production, it also consists of certain 'definite forms of s...
  • Word Girl
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    Gender issues have been a popular topic in literature for centuries. Authors of both genders have used this theme to address the role of men and women in the culture and time period they represent. Much of Alice Munro's work addresses theses issues in several aspects such as work and work divided by gender. Her 1968 short story "Boys and Girls" demonstrates this theme using several different motifs and symbols. The most predominant being the horses, Mack and Flora who embody the attributes the c...
  • Differences Between Females And Males
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    Sociological imagination is a power that enables us to think about why we are they way we are now, an ability that allows us to improve the habits we adopt from our parents, and a sense that permits us to learn more about our society through our personal experiences. By definition", sociological perspective is a point of view that helps us understand human behaviour in the larger social context in which it occurs" (Kendall, 2000: p. 3). My family and I moved from Macao, a city in China, to Canad...
  • Varied Degrees Of Masculinity And Femininity Being
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    "Historically, man has been obsessed with dominating the world, capturing animals, dissecting them, domesticating them. He has also fought wars of incredible destruction, against demonized enemies". (Blake, 1995) While the woman has been the keeper of the hearth and the nurturer of the family. Society has defined the way we look at ourselves in gender roles. Adopting one (gender role) means totally ignoring the other. According to John Kennedy (1999), orthodox masculinity is the opposite of femi...
  • Study Of Androgyny On Marriages
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    Androgyny: at Home and in the Workplace According to Webster, to be androgynous means to have both male and female characteristics. In studies of gender, it is referred to as an individual's tendency to report having both traditionally "masculine' and traditionally "feminine' characteristics (Baron & Byrne, 1997). What all that boils down to is that there is a man in every woman and a woman in every man, but by no means should this be interpreted as a human being having both female and male sexu...

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