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- 251: The Matchmaker
- ... are coming on strong. Mary Larkins has beautiful blonde hair. At the age of 36, Mary has been doing construction for 17 years. She has lived down the expectations of being a woman. All the stereotypes, leers, and catcalls have vanished. Mary is the only female that works for R.D. Olson Construction in Irvine, California. She says that she doesn’t get very much flak from her co-workers, rather ...
- 252: Freedom of Speech & Censorship on the Internet
- ... be raised in some unexpected places: one newsgroup is the rec.humor list, which is a collection of jokes submitted to subscribers. There are straightforwardly rude jokes but others are politically incorrect, focusing on sexual stereotypes, mothers-in-law, women and so on. It has been suggested (Interpersonal Computing and Technology, 1994) that discretionary warning labels could be attached to potentially offensive material. With warning labels like those on records this ...
- 253: Advances in AI
- ... these results to indicate is that intelligence is the ultimate privilege. Someone who is given the privilege of above average intelligence is able to overcome all other disadvantages they experience as results of socially constructed stereotypes. In the knapsack of privilege, intelligence occupies the main compartment while other privileges fill the smaller pockets. This does not mean that those ethnic minorities that are endowed with above average intelligence do not suffer ...
- 254: Escapism and Virtual Reality
- ... their society? It seems unlikely that a combination of hereditary intelligence and social or emotional deprivation can be the only causes of such behaviour, but they are certainly not unusual ones, judging by the common stereotypes of such people. The line of thinking that will be pursued throughout this essay is the idea that a person who enjoys extreme forms of escapist thoughts will often feel most comfortable with machines in ...
- 255: Breaking Down Racial Barriers
- Breaking Down Racial Barriers Barriers between races exist everywhere in our daily lives. They are shown in stereotypes, how we live, and how people are treated. For a society that seems to think of itself as so far advance we definitely are not doing a very good job of working out its’ racial ...
- 256: The Beauty Myth: Themes
- ... of a lip, belong in their imagined interior . . .” (140). This is one of the main reasons why women want to change the way they look. Culture was the third significant idea in the book. “Culture stereotypes women to fit the myth by flattening the feminine into beauty-without-intelligence or intelligence-without-beauty; women are allowed a mind or a body but not both” (59). This is saying that the culture ...
- 257: The Awakening and The Scarlet Letter: Struggles of the Heroines
- ... off, in a way, the way one’s wife can entertain. As Edna begins to realize how unhappy she is about the woman that she is supposed to be, she starts to rebel against the stereotypes. This feeling was like an "indescribable oppression, which seemed to generate in some unfamiliar part of her consciousness, filled her whole being with a vague anguish" (Chopin 14). Although she had been unhappy, this desire ...
- 258: The Turn of the Screw: A Psychoanalytic Interpretation
- ... made particularly clear by the governess' hallucinations and the way in which she deals with the children. Any opposition to these interpretations, such as her detailed description of Quint, can be put down to sexual stereotypes naturally manifesting themselves in her mind, as proven by Renner. Other interpretations of The Turn of the Screw, such as a feminist or deconstructive approach will, naturally, come to a different outcome due to the ...
- 259: The French Lieutenant’s Women: Sara As A Nonconformist
- ... goal in life was to get married. Sara swims against this current in the river of Victorian society and in return she is ostracized. Men also have predetermined roles; this is evident today in the stereotypes created for men by what they wear and by their interests. By entering into a category, you are somehow expressing your individuality. In reality, a person is giving up their individual freedom and fitting right ...
- 260: Neighborhood Shock
- ... to see and hear everything that was going on around the neighborhood. Although he was a drunk he was also the one person who seemed able to look past these faultlines, not judge people by stereotypes. He had been part of the global village for many years and had learned to live with these people of other cultures. He knew the conflicts that arise when different cultures mix and he recognized ...
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