What’s Wrong with Fifty Shades? Throughout history, novelists have been writing about romance, from William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” to Margaret Mitchells “Gone with the Wind”. Readers can find a romance novel about any type of love they can possibly imagine. From the perfect romance where a prince sweeps you off your feet or a rough around the edges cowboy that is stubborn but you know he means well. Romance novels are over the top, feel good books, but just recently a new novel came out…

Although by no means a literary masterpiece, E.L. James' Fifty Shades of Gray offers tantalizing insight into sexual fantasies and their impact on the individual psyche. The books' shallowness is offset by the ability to extrapolate from its steamy drama issues that are pertinent and global in nature, including the persistence of gender performativity and gendered hierarchies. Symbolic male hegemony is implied in the fact that Christian is the "top" to Ana's "bottom." Christian manipulates Ana,…

Blissed Pleasure Gwendoline Christie once said, “Genuine and true love is so rare that when you encounter it in any form, it’s a wonderful thing, to be utterly cherished in whatever form it takes.” In the novel Fifty Shades of Grey, by E.L. James, Ana and Christian are two strangers, with different viewpoints on love. Their relationship shows that true love comes in different ways. Ana’s innocence and Christian’s impeccable voluptuous suit forces a bond, and intercedes them both to a ‘vanilla’…

A Character Analysis: The Fifty Shades of Christian Grey Brittany Juarez D. Standard 8/22/2013 Character Analysis of Christian Grey The Truth behind his Fifty Shades E. L. James, author of the Fifty Shades Trilogy, created an incredibly, emotionally torn character in Christian Grey. In this paper, I will discuss the truth behind his need for control, his guarded emotions, and his lack of self-worth. I will delve into his past and link…

The Female Nude in Fifty Shades of Grey This essay will be an analysis of the Female Nude in the film Fifty Shades of Grey. The female nude is one of the topics that has been covered and this essay will be a discussion of the female character Anastasia and how her representation has been portrayed in the film. There are a number of nudity scenes in Fifty Shades of Grey and this involves anyone that is naked or typically wearing less clothes. There will also be references to the female body in the…

Being a woman means you don’t have enough power from birth and during all your life you need to prove that you are as strong as a man. Being a woman of color is even more difficult. You don’t get privileges as white color skin gives you. During all their lives, women of color often fight for their rights for education, health care, religion, and etc. The racism in the US has a long history. It started with African slavery, Asian immigration, and opening America by Christopher Columbus. White Americans…

NATIONAL CENTER FOR CASE STUDY TEACHING IN SCIENCE The Evolution of Human Skin Color by Annie Prud’homme-Généreux Life Sciences Quest University, Canada Part I – Skin Cancer “Stop it!” called Tatiana, playfully. Her boyfriend, Zach, was inspecting her skin very carefully. “Look,” he answered her, his voice taking on a more serious tone. “Today a woman walked into the clinic for her annual physical. Everything about her seemed fine. She leads a balanced lifestyle, she eats well, she exercises:…

Fifty Shades of Woman “Do you like Bitchy Women?” I asked a good friend of mine who seemed to be perfectly content with his single status. “Yes. A woman like that would be interesting,” he replied. I had just finished reading “Why Men Marry Bitches,” in the midst of my research for an answer to a question I had randomly scribbled down while deciding on a topic for this essay. “Is confidence in who and where you are as a person a deciding factor in relationship success?” His reply ignited my interest…

The hot seller Fifty Shades of Grey is a descriptive novel of a man fulfilling his dirty fantasy. It starts off clean talking about a man meeting a women, Christian Grey and Anastasia Steele, then leads to talking over coffee, and advancing to a friends with benefits. The friends with benefits is more than just hooking up with another, it becomes a submissive and dominant relationship. Christian is the dominant and exercises his sexual fantasies on Anastasia Steele who is the submissive. Throughout…

used to emphasize discipline and obedience skills that factory owners wanted in their workers in the 1800’s. Children would be free to question anything they like in an appropriate, respectful and timely manner. Students would be of all races and skin colors. Complete integration of all students would be the norm. This would be strongly implemented for the children during their first years in this learning environment. The sooner they are exposed to other human beings of different features their age…