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As I read “Miss East LA” by Luis J. Rodriguez I was touched and inspired it took me back to where I grew up and my childhood in Downey. I use to live an apartment on the Elm Vista Street by this abandoned NASA plant and film studio, which are now known as The Downey Landing and The Promenade. My two cousins Isabel and Bianca lived right down the street from me so we were practically joint to the hip.

(To Attract a man, a woman must look like a model or centerfold) in the 2006 Movie Phat Girlz

Why do people think that ethnic stereotypes operate in the same ways for men and women? That’s just being ignorant in common sense. Honestly they may never operate in the same way for both genders. In “Ghetto Bitches, China Dolls, and Cha Cha Divas”, Jennifer Pozner makes it very clear that women in are judged heavily in a feminist point of view. Ethan Watters examines Joseph Henrich’s research and explains how researchers have failed to corporate how the connection between culture and cognition affect psychology.

The film The Devil Wears Prada is about the personal transition of Andrea Sachs who is played by Anne Hathaway. In the film, Andrea seeks to get a job working for Miranda Priestly, the Editor in Chief of Runway Magazine, who is played by Meryl Streep. Runway is a fashion magazine, and although Andrea shares no interest in fashion or the fashion industry, she wants the job because she was informed that anyone that works for Miranda for a year without being fired will be given the chance to be promoted to a job position of their dreams. Since, Andrea aspires to be a journalist for The New Yorker; she believes that working for Miranda for a year and with Miranda's contacts, she will able to obtain her dream job. However, with Miranda's

“You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”- Thích Nhat Hanh . This quote means that it doesn't matter what others think of you it’s just matters what you think of yourself. In the novel, The Outsiders, S.E. Hinton addresses the theme of accepting yourself for who you are, and not to let others change you. It is implied by S.E. Hinton that people should learn to embrace themselves for who they are and not to change if others don’t accept you or have prejudice towards you.

In the quote above, William Shakespeare, describes that a person needs to place who they are and being confident above everything else. Nothing is worse than regretting a situation in life because someone wasn’t being their true self. No one should ever let success, a relationship, or what people think of them get in the way of being who they are. They may be putting on a mask and acting like a different person to try and impress the popular group in school or someone that they really like. In the long run, they may miss out on a great friend or relationship where they are not judged . The 90’s film, “Clueless”, is a perfect example of this quote. The protagonist, Cher Horowitz, tries changing who she is to find a boyfriend. She wants to

It's no secret that women are significantly less represented in literature. However, once in awhile, a novel comes around that challenges this overwhelming lack of representation. This rings especially true within the pages of Libba Bray's, "Beauty Queens." The underlying message of Beauty Queens is to combat patriarchal society using satire as a pedestal.

Audre Lorde was a famous African American essayist and poet. From reading Poetry Make Something Happen, it is evident that she had a powerful voice and was passionate about the work she published. Her work is stylistically refreshing and motivational, making it relevant for years to come.

The article, “Looking at Women” by Scott Russell Sanders published in The Norton Reader, 13th edition, embarks on a journey to find out why men look at women. Sanders starts off with his personal encounter as adolescence were he was told not to look at women out of lustful desire, because women would not want to be stared at like that. He also wondered from his early college days, were his bunkmate had pictures of nude women and he and others would endlessly stir at these pictures. Sanders questions whether women enjoy being looked at by men and how should men look at women. He uses quotes from people and facts to find answers to these questions. He also analyses the problem from global perspective. He wonders why women try so hard to look good. He concludes with the fact that women like looking good, but they sometimes don't like it when men stare at them. Sanders opines in his thesis that " to be turned into an object – whether by the brush of a painter or the lens of a photographer or the eye of a voyeur, whether by hunger or poverty or enslavement, by mugging or rape, bullets or bombs, by hatred, racism, car crashes, fires, or falls – is for each of us the deepest dread; and to reduce another person to an object is the primal wrong” (188).

Tonight (August 17, 2015) on 'Love and Hip Hop Atlanta' it started where it ended off. Jessica Dime had Margeaux perform "Start A War" at the show, Mimi put together but things did not go well after the performance. See clip below.

In the late 1950s and early 60s, one style of music that began to dominate the American music charts and permeate youth culture of that day came from the “girl groups.” Comprised mostly of three-to-four young females, typically teenagers themselves, the girl groups of the late 1950s through the mid-1960s were mostly African American, though some white groups scored hits, too. They were named The Crystals, The Shirelles, The Ronettes, and more. A few lone performers with and without female backup, also carried the “girl group” sound, and were considered a part this

Ever since 2011, ‘The Supremes’ has been the vocal group that most interests me. Originally called the ‘Primettes’, this female singing group was founded in 1959 and has since been one the most successful groups to date, in America. (Bronson, 265) The singing group had four original members, yet only three of the four made it to the peak of the group’s career; those women being Diane Ross, Mary Wilson, and Florence Ballard. Proof to this group’s success would be the fact that they rivaled the band ‘The Beatles’ in worldwide success and fame during their prime in the 60s. Not only did they challenge another wildly known band, they did this whilst also making a headway for future generations of African American musicians, which contributes to

I was so excited for this topic to come up because I was curious to know how sexism was argued in another field like dance other than what I am studying. As an engineering major, you will encounter many people that will tell you that is a male job and that women should not be able to do it. Many people often look at women physically or mentally incapable of doing something and this issue has been going on for many decades and unfortunately, in this century there is still a lot of gender discrimination.

I chose to watch and write about King of Queens. King of Queens plot is based on a middle class working delivery man named Doug Heffernan (Kevin James) and his wife Carrie Heffernan (Leah Remini). They live in Queens with Carrie’s father Arthur Spooner (Jerry Stiller). The particular episode I watched was entitled “assaulted nuts”. It was originally aired in 1999 in the second season, 28th episode (epguides.com, n.d.), although I have seen it repeated endless amount of time since. Even though I have seen this episode multiple times I have never noticed how much body language the main character Carrie displays. For example in this episode Carrie was fed up with the noise that her father and husband were making while she was working. She huffed, put her hands on head (kinesics) and sighed (paralanguage) in frustration and decided she needed her own office space (proxemics).

She wasn’t ever afraid of what other people thought of her, one of her most admirable traits. She simply does what she believes is best for her and truly brings the most meaning to what it means to live one’s life to the fullest.