Bruce Jenner: A True American Hero

Heroics is used very broadly and can consist of many different aspects of ones= feats or achievements. While researching this topic, I have found that there are numerous ways to describe a hero. What makes a hero? I have determined in my opinion, that the word Ahero@ consists of ones accomplishments, actions or service that leads to the betterment of others. From my definition of the word, exceptional athletes do have the potential to be heroes.

As she grew up into a superstar, a massive amount of ordinary people started to take interest in her lifestyle. In the sociocultural perspective, the state of gender impacts the way a person acts (Rathus, 2010). As a female celebrity, the media exploits her body image for other viewers. According to the American Sociological Association, media outlets “report on celebrities’ bodies and fashion styles, sometimes offering a price and purchasing information to assist imitative consumption” (Kurzman, 2007). For Britney, the paparazzi feeds on her lifestyle for the demand of people interested in the life she lives. Due to the capitalist mindset of the media, Britney felt that she had no escape from the bombardment of other people. The environment of a popstar evidently shows factors of stress that caused her outrages.

She even won an ESPY in 2013 for best female college athlete. During her years at Baylor, Griner outperformed her high school self and set school as well as national records. But even beneath the surface old issues began to rise once again. Griner claims her head coach at Baylor, Kim Mulkey, told her to keep her sexuality under wraps due to the culture of the school, which denounced anything outside of heterosexual marriage. Additionally issues of bullying and cruel words resurfaced. It wasn’t until April 17, 2013 during an interview with SI.com that Griner broke her silence and came out publically as lesbian. Yet Griner didn’t stop there. She went on to be the first out athlete to be signed with Nike. She also wrote a book called, “In My Skin”. The novel touched on her painful past and relationship as well as her triumph. “Too many kids go through what I went through and they don't make it out,” she said. “Some nights, I just wanted to end it all. No kid should want to end their life or not feel like they want to be here you know on this

After finalizing the divorce of him and Kris Jenner in early 2015, a 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer came out in April of 2015, releasing the news that Bruce came out as a transgender woman. Caitlyn said that she had dealt with gender dysphoria since her youth and that, she cross dressed for many years and also took hormone replacement therapy, but stopped after her relationship with Kris Jenner in the early 1990s became more serious. Caitlyn recounts having permission to explore her gender identity on her own from Kris, but because of not knowing the best way to talk about the issues they faced about this situation of wanting to become a woman, it lead to the deterioration of the 23-year-long

Leslie Feinberg’s “Stone Butch Blues,” narrates protagonist, Jess Goldberg, through hirs bodily transformation as a transgender. Jess, born as a woman, went from identifying as a “he/she” to passing as a man, until ultimately identifying as neither male nor female. Jess’s journey as a trans was far from easy, due to the violence, from the police and peers, ze often fell victim to. Moreover, when growing up Jess never felt as if there was a place for hir in society. When Jess was around 16 years old, ze finally begins to search immensely for hirs “type of people.” Through the referral of a co-worker Jess was able to find a bar, Tifka’s, which possibly contained hirs “type of people.” Once inside the bar Jess describes it as “everything [ze]

Carl Bruce Roberts, also known as Bruce, was born on April 20, 1948 to William and Gladys Roberts in Bogalusa, Louisiana. He attended Bogalusa City Schools and graduated from Bogalusa High School in 1967. Both of his parents lived through the Great Depression and because of this, the value of hard work through any adversity was deeply instilled in him.

Greg Mortenson 's life as a humanitarian , a climber, and a nurse was very impressive. He was also a founder of the Central Asia Institute (CAI) which builds schools in Afghanistan and Pakistan. He became a hero and was praised for building schools in remote areas. He appeared on the Oprah Winfrey show, Charlie Rose and many other national television programs. He wrote a book entitled "Three Cups of Tea" which has been a best seller for 220 weeks. He was also awarded Pakistan 's Silver Star. Further, President Obama also contributed $100,000 to the CAI. Although Mortenson had been known for the good deeds and received several awards, it was soon discovered that these accomplishments were earned with decrepit and unethical behavior.

The two had a poor relationship and naturally got a divorce because divorce wasn’t new to the two, they had both already been through a divorce with their first marriages. However, major conflict perspective happened when Bruce decided he wanted to be a woman in season 10 and came out to his family. This shocked everyone. It took Bruce a long time to become who he really is because of societies expectations and his gendered role as a male and father in the family. He has stated numerous times that the reason he kept this hidden for so long was his fear over how this would effect his children not only within the family but also protecting them from the media. This ended up positively changing societies views on sexuality, gender, and roles people traditionally expect from a male. This news was shocking to the family and completely changed the relationships among members. Kris and Bruce kept it together for their kid’s sake, but with this single act of Bruce turning into Caitlyn, she inspired people across the nation to come out and be who they really want to be. The media praised Caitlyn for her bravery and strength that she won several awards and started her own reality television

A weakness to Skyes’ article would be the fact that our society is very judgemental. Sports organizations fear the classification process of transsexual and transgender athletes into mainstream sporting events. Although most people will say they are for the equality of others, in reality many people in our society do not approve of transsexual and transgender people. These non-binary athletes may never be fully accepted into mainstream sports if sporting organizations continue to fret about anxieties these

Transition. Despite being an Olympic hero for America, Jesse Owens becomes a victim to racial discrimination during the 1936 Berlin Olympics. Jesse Owens was the son of a share cropper and the grandson of slaves. At the age of 10, he was expected to pick 100 cottons a day to help support his family. In high school, Jesse started setting records for his local track team. He was known as the ‘Buckeye Bullet’ (Jesse Owens Biography) because of the overwhelming amount of records he set. In 1936, Jesse competed in his first ever Olympics, representing team America. News reporter William Shirer commented on the games: “’the berlin glitter as merely hiding a racist, militaristic regime’” (No place for games: Nazi Olympics exhibit opens in Illinois).

The film Stop at Nothing: The Lance Armstrong Story, is a documentary about Lance Armstrong, a professional bicyclist. Lance was on the United States Postal Service team and was sponsored by brands like Nike, cycle maker Trek and Budweiser. In this documentary, Lance was taking performance drugs to improve his timing during his races.

Communication is a process that allows us to construct identities based on the interpretation and intention of speech acts. Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, spent most her life identified by her master identity as a cis-white-male and until a few years ago she adopted the interactional identity of a transgender female. In this paper, I will demonstrate how various forms of speech acts build, remain and/or change the master and interactional identity of Caitlyn Jenner as well as her relationships to others. To do so I will explain how Caitlyn Jenner seeks advice from her close family member Scott Disick to help her understand the variety of speech acts coming from both her private and public life: ranging from Scott who demonstrate face redress and accept her based on her new interaction identity as a female, while also dealing with the face threats that come from those (particularly males) who only see her as her previous master identity as a male.

Sexual subjectivity refers to the notion that a person’s sexual orientation, or rather, sexual desires dictate their identity and how they perform said identity. For the purposes of this essay, the focus will be on the recently dubbed “American hero” for her journey with transitioning from being a male to a female, Caitlyn Jenner. The famous news of Caitlyn Jenner’s transition had plagued the tabloids in 2015, where some probing questions about her sexuality have been answered and some left unanswered. Caitlyn Jenner has performed two distinct forms of gender on the family reality television series (Keeping up with the Kardashians) and her new reality television series, which will be the media discussed (I am Cait). These distinct forms of gender roles also accompanied a change in her sexuality—or at least the spark of a change. Although Caitlyn Jenner’s new identity has majorly evolved during the past few years, due to her lack of disclosure in regards to her sexual orientation, her identity as a whole remains to be under questioning. Certain aspects of Caitlyn Jenner’s transition tend to indicate that she will succumb to society’s ideals of heteronormativity and transform her sexuality as a result, by creating a new sexual identity for her new gender. It can also be argued that her sexuality is completely dependent on how she performs it, rather than what she as an individual actually wants and desires. This essay will use evidence through Caitlyn Jenner’s new reality

In early 2015 the former Olympic gold medalist and the now reality TV star, Bruce Jenner, came out to his family about not being comfortable with his gender identity on the famous reality television show "Keeping up with the Kardashians". It was an emotional shock to the family. Later in April 2015, the rest of the world received the news that Bruce was becoming a trans woman on 20/20 interview with Diane Sawyer. In June 2015 Jenner officially debuted to the world as Caitlyn Jenner on the cover of Vanity Fair Magazine after transforming herself into a transgender woman. This news took the world by storm which stirred up a mixture of responses from the rest of the world.

When Jesse Owens was a boy he loved to run and because of that he started to run in competitions and events and and as the years past he was a able to get faster and he ended up winning more and more races he entered. By the time he was in highschool he had caught the attention of a mentor Charles Riley. After Charles met Jesse he had set up special trainings for him before and after school. And after a year he was running the 100m dash in 11 seconds and after another year he had broken 3 worlds records and matched two more records.