Louise Archabrielle Gender

For years the expected roles of women have been confined to such things as, housekeeping, cooking, and child care, in the majority of the cultures around the world. The expected roles of the women in, Mona Lisa Smile, are also confined to limits such as those. In this movie the women are expected to attend college and make excellent grades, all while trying to find a husband. They are to graduate from Wellesley College, but going on to further attend a graduate school is unthinkable. These women all possess the same goal, which is, to get married and then they think no further than having children. They are expected to stay at home and take care of the house and the children, while their husband is out working to provide for the family. They are above all else supposed to respect their

Gender derives its formative meaning from culture and societal values, it is not a universal entity as there are various cultures, societal values, beliefs, and preferred ways of organizing collective life across the globe and even within a single culture the meaning of gender varies over time. Chapters three and four of Gendered Lives by Julia T. Wood helps to insightfully look at those views, and rhetorical movements (women and men’s movements) that have overtime influenced, defined and given various meanings to gender (masculinity and femininity).

Although characters are simply a tool to represent the ideas of different groups in society, the views they express and voice they have provides directors with a unique opportunity to shine light on various social issues present in society. The coming of age film, The Black Balloon, directed and co-written by Elissa Down, steps into the world of the Mollison family, who through experiencing love, laughter and hardship, are able to shed light the reality of having a severely disabled family member. Throughout the film, the audience is exposed to ideas surrounding intolerance, innocence, overcoming resentment and unconditional love, as they are explored from the perspectives of Thomas, Charlie and The Parents. Overall, it is the ideas these characters represent which encourage the audience to question their own belief system, as well as the prejudices towards disability still present in society.

3). Because of the narrative mode of this novel, we are not only able to be told the story of Grenouille’s birth and troubled childhood, but we are also able to read the minds of these characters and their uncanny feelings towards Grenouille, which would not be possible through any other narrative mode or voice. And this is all being done to create a distance between the reader and Grenouille.

Elisabeth Lesuer was a very faithful, and intelligent woman in the late 19th century early 20th century. Being brought up in the upper-middle class, she was able to be educated privately in languages, arts, and literature. She has also studied much of the Catholic Faith. She meets the love of her life Felix Lesuer in 1886 while he was attending the University of Paris. The two married in 1889. While going to the university, Felix quits Catholicism, but the two had an agreement that Elisabeth can remain faithful, but Felix did not practice in the faith at all. Later in time, though, Felix started giving Elisabeth readings against Christianity weakening her participation in Christianity; One day this backfired on him when handing her Earnest Renan’s History of the Origins of Christianity, the first volume of which, The Life of Jesus, denies Christ’s Divinity. After reading this, Elisabeth does research on this matter, and experiences deep adult conversion, and returns passionately practicing the Faith,which she saw as the truth. Begins writing her spiritual journal in 1899 called Journal et pensées de chaque jour. The journal just showed how committed she was to that faith, even though her social society was against it, and how she would get by being faithful, without making Felix mad, and anyone else against the Faith she knew in her life. Elisabeth’s journal explained why she was so faithful, and how she would study, and pray the Faith in ways that didn’t upset those

Bauer begins the essay by introducing her daughter who has down syndrome and the destruction the word retard inflicts upon those with disabilities. She then criticizes the political incorrectness of the film Tropic Thunder and the movie industry’s negative effects nationwide. Stating that since the film’s

The film we watched in class was called Louis Theroux: Extreme Love – Autism. The main point of this film was to show you what it is like for those who live with autism, and the loved ones that have to deal with it. “Autism is a developmental disability” (“Autism – Autism Spectrum Disorders”, 2017). People with autism usually have problems with communication, language, and social skills. The individual from the film that I will be analyzing will be Nicky. Nicky during the time of the film was nineteen years old. His living situation was with his mother. His family was very loving. To prove that when Louis asked Nicky’s mother the question, “would you change Nicky?” Her response was, “No he is special and can-do stuff that my other children can’t” (Louis Theroux: Extreme love – Autism). Now I shall go onto evaluate Nicky from what we have seen in the film.

I chose the movie I am Sam to challenge my own opinion on how people with disabilities should be treated under certain circumstances. I am Sam is a movie about a mentally challenged man, named Sam, striving to raise his daughter, Lucy, alone. Diagnosed with Autism, Sam’s intellectual capacity cannot exceed the age of 7. As we watch Lucy grow up under Sam’s roof, we are able to see the love they have for each other. When Lucy reaches the age of 8, social workers see this as an issue, so they place Lucy in a temporary home while Sam goes to court to try to win Lucy back. Sam’s lawyer, Rita, took this “pro bono” case to impress her coworkers. At first, Rita doesn’t believe Sam is capable of raising Lucy along with the social workers who

In her essay “ Dispelling The Myth Of Gender Bias In The Family Court System,” Cathy Meyer, a certified marriage educator and divorce coach, tries to prove that courts have no bias and are not the cause of mothers obtaining custody in the majority of divorces. To support her conclusion, Meyer includes quantitative information and her own experience. Although she includes facts, Meyer fails to explain each fact and focuses on mentioning more of her own opinion.

In the Academy Award winning film Children of a Lesser God, Director Randa Haines characterizes Sarah Norman (played by Marlee Matlin), as a rambunctious deaf woman without a purpose trying to find a place to fit in. Sarah deals with a bottled up anger regarding the way people have treated her throughout her life and uses her beauty and sex as a replacement to fill the void of the lack of communication with hearing people. In order for Sarah to fit in and to feel accepted, she uses beauty and sex with boys/men so they would like accept her due to her hearing disability. Sarah experiences audism, low self-esteem, and finally reaches her self-actualization.

The short film Stutterer written and directed by Benjamin Clearly depicts the ways which one’s physical handicap causes social isolation and low self-esteem. Set in London, the thirteen-minute film features a young typographer named Greenwood who stutters when he talks. Greenwood’s speech impediment keeps him totally detached from society to a point where he can’t build relationships .His sole form of connection with the outside world is a six-month old online relationship with a woman named Ellie who Greenwood cherishes a lot. At risk to lose the biggest relationship in his life yet, Stutterer unveils how Greenwood disregards his handicap and comes out of his social closet to meet his soulmate.

Another reason why I think this movie is such a great, inspirational movie is because of how a woman with autism can accomplish something so inspiring that shows people with autism shouldn’t be viewed as someone who can’t do much or someone who doesn’t have the skills and knowledge to do what normal people can. Temple Grandin has probably made a big difference in what people think of ones who have autism and I think that is great. Just because a person has autism doesn’t necessarily mean that people don’t have autism should view them as someone lower than themselves. People with autism are only stronger-willed and even though they may have difficulty with life, Temple Grandin shows that it doesn’t matter if you have autism or not because you can achieve your goals, you just need that determination in your life. From this movie, I have learned that no matter how small other people may think of you, you have the

Gender Matters is a collection of various essays on feminist linguistic texts analysis, by Sara Mills. Mills develops methods of analyzing literary and non-literary texts, in addition to conversational analysis based on a feminist approach. The author draws on data from her collection of essays gathered over the last two decades on feminism during the 1990s. The essays focus on gender issues, the representation of gender in reading, writing, and in public speaking. Furthermore, it highlights the importance of feminists’ analysis of sexism in literature and the relation between gender and politeness. The article is informative for my research paper, as my

her father tries to change who she is and force her into a gender role

The director did a fantastic job writing this film. All of the points he wanted to get to the audience, I feel did. The actor, Sean Paul, did a wonderful job impersonating someone with a developmental disability. The director’s goal was to have people that were his targeted audience, try and think about what they take for granted and show that people need love and support just as much as anyone else that is important to them. People never know what other stories other people have and are going through. It is always nice to be kind and to be a supportive human being.