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- 231: Males In The Nursing Profession
- ... to be shunned and as a result end with non-satisfying less paying jobs. C. Williams (1995) point out, " the hidden advantages in hiring and promotions for men are thus linked to social and cultural stereotypes about masculinity. Masculinity is associated with leadership abilities, technical prowess, and physical strength- all qualities deemed necessary and important for some of the best paying and most prestigious jobs in nursing, thus giving men a ...
- 232: Life, Death, and Politics: A Run-Down Of The Abortion Debate.
- ... human life is wrong no matter what the circumstances or in which tri-mester it is done. The controversy over abortion has avoided the real issue facing today's woman - her need to grow beyond stereotypes. Whenever an individual or group realizes it has been treated unjustly, the first reaction is anger, but often the anger is first expressed as aggression. People outgrowing oppression have so much stored-up bitterness, so ...
- 233: Affirmative Action
- ... programs because, they were wrong and unfair.(NY Times, July 22 1995, pp.7) There are however two unusual twists to the assault on affirmative action in the University of California system, that defy the stereotypes. First the race based preferences are being attacked by a black member of the board of regents and defended by Berkeley's Asian-American Chancellor. Second the racial makeup here has extended the fault line ...
- 234: The Hippie Movement That Arose From Vast Political Changes
- ... a generation of youths looking to set their own standard - to fight against the establishment, which was oppressing them, and leave their mark on history. These kids were known as the hippies. There were many stereotypes concerning hippies; they were thought of as being pot smoking, freeloading vagabonds, who were trying to save the world. As this small pocket of teenage rebellion rose out of the suburbs, inner cities, and countryside ...
- 235: The Role of Prejudice In The Merchant of Venice
- ... Merchant of Venice depicts the Elizabethan perception of Jews, a people who were truly foreign to them in both appearance and demeanor. Edward I banished Jews from his kingdom in the 11th century, however Jewish stereotypes abound in England throughout the Renaissance. Although the average Elizabethan had probably encountered only a few Jews in his lifetime, his church sermons condemned them with words like "blasphemous," "vain," and "deceitful."The Christians considered ...
- 236: Television Shows Reflect American Culture
- ... parents do not understand them. Their friends provide comfort and advice which is valued. Although parents may not provide guidance that is appreciated, they do provide money to their offspring. One of the more common stereotypes of American life fits right in with the materialistic values promoted by our society - in print, in television, in commercials, in movies - in other words, in all aspects of the media. All economic echelons of ...
- 237: Birth of A Nation: Art or Propaganda
- ... the film's main characters. By placing blacks in this position it isn't difficult to imagine the reaction of an average theatre goer. The film spawned riots, fired up racism, built stronger the negative stereotypes of blacks. It portrayed them as lazy, as illustrated in the black parliament, where a man rests his bare feet on a desk, alluding to uselessness in the employment environment. More horrifyingly than that it ...
- 238: Movie Review: Dangerous Minds
- ... Johnson these students probably would have failed. At the beginning of the movie it shows how two teachers have already quit their job at this school and had given up on these students. Many educational stereotypes are out in today's world, which makes people believe that these students do not want to learn or just do not care about their futures. While this may be true in some instances many ...
- 239: The Different Kinds of Advertisements
- ... for the product “easy breezy beautiful Cover Girl.” That slogan makes me think that the make up is easy to put on and it doesn't take that long to do. This advertisement does perpetuate stereotypes in a few ways. They do this by showing a lot of upper-class girls hugging each other like they wouldn't talk or hug anyone else that wasn't as rich as them. The ...
- 240: Merchant Of Venice: Shylock the Antagonist?
- ... were also viewed as devils by Elizabeathan audiences. Old stories portrayed them as "blood-thirsty murders" that poisoned wells and killed Christian children for their bizarre Passover ritu! als. (Stirling 2:1) These were the stereotypes which Shakespeare's audience held in regard to Jews. Shakespeare himself had never seen a Jew but he goes to great lengths to humanize Shylock even while perpetuating the stereotype. In Act 1:3, before ...
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