Full name: Nabila Rizwan HCC ID: 206665638 English 1301 Diagnostic Exam Evaluation of Why Women Smile Amy Cunningham argues, in her article "Why Women Smile", how women smile over everything even if there is no reason to smile. Her words "My smile has gleamed like a cheap plastic night-light so long and so reliably that certain friends and relatives worry that my mood will darken the moment my smile dims." shows her awareness about how people are obsessed with her smile that her relatives get worried that if her smile dims out, it will dim down the fun around them. She thinks that the women are genetically programmed to have a smile on her face as it has been in our culture that women are much more tolerable than men and thus. are expected to have a smile on their face on every situation. She quotes "What is it in our culture that keeps our smiles on automatic pilot? The behavior seems to be an equal blend of nature and nurture." that clearly blames how we are raised and the culture have a big share in how women are by nature. …show more content…
Translation: "Your real emotions aren't welcome here." shows that she thinks women hide their emotions by forcing a smile on their face and expect others to do the same. It could also mean that she thinks women is raised in a way that they think that it's necessary to smile in all situations since it brings positivity around. Hanging words "Enter Smiling" shows that the women think if people enter their house with a smile on their face, there will be positivity in her
The Perception of People Initially, I thought that this piece would be about a man or a woman who struggled to find their sexual orientation, however, I soon found it to be so much more. This reminded me of an article that I read recently that recalled the the story told by the rapper, Macklemore, that explained how he thought he would be gay merely on the account that we was able to draw. The article infers that his song, “Same Love” was a reflection of these thoughts. However, let us not stray from the topic at hand.
They have manifested a particular way to smile without actually smiling. A tight-lipped stretch from ear to ear, a cracked paper mache version of the real thing. This hatred-ridden mask of pure despise that can tear through your flesh right to your delicate emotions, if you are willing to let your soul be monitored by the beholder. Gretchen easily hides behind this persona, using her seemingly innocent trick/smile to swarm your brain with cowardly thoughts as if she, herself, is the mastermind behind mind-control. Hazel wonders if a smile from girls these days is even possible. If they have hoarded so much disgust for their own selves that even the simple task of a true, genuine smile will somehow make their bodies turn to stone and crumble, exposing all of their self-hatred. Continuing with similarities, both parties bring up flaws in another person 's life that at the moment are unchangeable. When Gretchen’s posse realizes that Hazel is more prepared than they imagined, they jump onto the fact that Hazel’s family is different. Raymond, Hazel’s disabled brother, basically has a bullseye on him at all time. Anyone can easily snipe him with physical and emotional abuse. By either taking his allowance or calling him names, no one backs down from targeting Raymond. That’s exactly what happens with Mary-Louise and Rosie. With absolutely no surprise,
The mind is shaped by those with which one surrounds him or herself. This is a result of the human desire to see oneself in others as a tactic to relate and discover commonalities. The inclination to build relationships and connect to other humans is so strong that people become dependent on external gratification, even in environments where acquaintances do not necessarily reflect a person on the most basic level: sex. Due to overpowering masculinity, women oftentimes submit to the ideals of their male counterparts and the societal expectations pushed onto them as women in a patriarchal society. Jesmyn Ward’s Salvage the Bones displays that the feminine inferiority complex is not innate, but rather is informed by external forces.
In Karen Horney's "The Distrust Between the Sexes," she attempts to explain the problems in the relationships between men and women. She writes that to understand the problem you must first understand that problems stem from a common background. A large amount of suspiciousness is due to people's intensity of emotions.
At first, I think the reason that Cunningham used monkeys to be as an example is to make the connection between two closely species. As the monkeys, they use their smiles to show that they are passive and not going to harm anyone around them; this detail makes us think about women use the smiles just like monkeys by a biological trait to show that they are non-threatening. The act of smiling is seen as non-threatening because of how it has been perceived by other people. This facial expression of smiling has actually gone through an evolutionary history much like any living species, following the rules of survival of the fittest. It has been seen as a happy expression, used when someone laughs or hears good news. Because of this, it is popularly seen as the stereotypical expression of happiness.
There was a seven year old child named Kiki who was found and dug out of rubble in Haiti after being stuck buried in there for 7 days. At first he was scared to leave the hole but when he got out he wasn't scared anymore, he didn't cry, he did quite the opposite in fact he stretched out his arms like a star and had a huge smile on his face. All the people around couldn't help but smile aswell because Kiki’s smile was infectious! Now a show of hands how many times a day you think that you smile? 4000? 20? 150? 60? On average a child smiles approximately 400 times per day but adults only smile 20 times per day teens like us are anywhere within the middle because of the fluctuating hormones. Out of the thousands of smiles we have shared by this
Throughout modern society, people are frequently expressing the widespread anthem of the millennial generation--do what makes you happy. Contrary to what some people may believe, happiness is not a fantasy or elusive fragment of our imaginations. As a matter of fact, an individual's happiness can be manifested in a multitude of different places. Merriment and contentment can be found in forming a relationship with God, experiencing love, being around family and friends, achieving one’s goals, and pursuing an activity or hobby. However, over the course of the last couple years, fewer people are choosing to seek out recreational activities as sources of enjoyment.
THe Beauty Myth:CHapter Beyond the Beauty Myth Naomi begins this chapter looking at how we can move past the beauty myth. After analyzing the beauty myth and what it means to women, she wonders about what kind of life there would be for women, if ideal of the beauty myth was gone. She examines what the problem is, “The real problem is our lack of choice” (Wolf, 272). A woman’s reasoning behind her motives to change or alter herself to fit into society standard of beauty is why women have a lack of choice. The choice is made for them, they just have to adhere to the pressures society places on women.
Well, just about everyone would love to have a beautiful smile light up their face. However, some people are born with less than
Results of the experiment overwhelmingly supported the hypothesis. Particularly in the measurements of smiling. Male-female dyads showed extraordinarily higher frequencies of smiling during conversation than the other dyads. Both same gender dyads showed relatively marginal to moderate frequencies for smiling. Eye contact frequencies were also higher for male-female dyads, though not as overwhelmingly as smiling. In contrast, both same gender dyads showed relatively low frequencies for eye contact.
Nobody in the world can always have a amazing life where their attitude will always be laughing and full of happiness to the point where they don’t have any worry. Somewhere in a human’s life, they’ll encounter a struggle where they can’t handle and that’s normal. With this, there will always be a time of laughters and tears in a person’s life. Both female and male have their own difficulties in American society however female tend to have a tougher time with rape, teen pregnancy, and society pressure on women’s body.
If I were able to create a personal library, I would have the books "Smile" by Raina Telgemeier, “Wonder” by R. J Palacio, and “The running dream” by Wendelin Van Draanen. “Smile” is a graphic novel that gives the message of overcome obstacles in life. This book is a true story about a girl who struggled with having braces and fixing her teeth on and off braces for her middle school and high school and also fitting in in school. This book teaches me to be more outgoing and to make new friends in hopes of a strong connection. “Wonder” would be included in my library. It's about a boy with a deformed face. He is entering high school for the first time. He had been homeschooled before. He wants to fit in even though he stands out. It gives the
It is flooded with opinion, and is very one sided. She states “we are actually surprised when someone who is beautiful is also intelligent, talented good.” (Sontag, pg.153, paragraph 2) Unfortunately this is a very popular opinion, but as women, why can’t we strive for all of those things logically? Where is her positive outlook on beauty? “It does not take someone in the throes of advanced feminist awareness to perceive that the way women are taught to be involved with beauty encourages narcissism, reinforces dependence and immaturity.” (Sontag, pg. 153, paragraph 5) Another opinion, while this may be true to some extent, however, it can be viewed as this; that narcissism can also be self-esteem or confidence and that dependence is personal dependence within us. Teach women that it is important to look good for yourself, become involved with their own beauty, but for themselves and not as their first priority. Match you inner beauty with your outer
All characters in the novel are living in a man’s world; nevertheless, the author has tried to change this world by the help of her characters. She shows a myriad of opportunities and different paths of life that woman can take, and more importantly she does not show a perfect world, where women get everything they want, she shows a world where woman do make mistakes, but at the same time they are the ones that pay for these mistakes and correct them.
She compares the few tasks that civilized women are able to perform with the wide variety of tasks that men routinely perform in order to illustrate how little autonomy the modern woman has. For instance, while a male soldier can “march and counter-march” and manipulate the senate to work for them, women do not have any of these opportunities. Men have so much more power; they govern everything that goes on outside the house, and have a lot more freedom in what they do. Even in a relationship, the man is “responsible” and the women is reduced to a “cypher,” she claims. Furthermore, it is extremely difficult for a woman to get a job that pays enough so she can be financially independent of her husband;