Rhetorical Analysis Of A Thank You To Taylor Swift

Our gender has an effect on every aspect of our lives, varying from how we view ourselves and other people to how we interact in social and civic life. It also impacts the way we set our goals in opportunity areas such as education, work, and recreation. Gender socialization starts at birth then manifests through family, education, peer groups, and mass media. Gender norms are automatically placed on us, where women should learn how to be nurturing, sensitive, emotional, passive, and always hold a man’s position higher than hers. On the other hand men should be overly confident, aggressive, dominant, and view women beneath them. This paper uses various readings to show how these gender norms are supported and challenged in today’s society.

Taylor Swift really knows how to have hidden messages and secrets throughout her lyrics and music videos. Taylor Swift also likes to trash talk other celebrities including Kim Kardashian and Katy Perry. Which gives a viewer a good chance to critic her lyrics and videos.

Family: Beyonce is Beyonce lives at home with mother, mother's husband, Pablo Velasquez, and three siblings - Jose (age 15), Solange (age 13) and Tristin (age 12). Beyonce parents have been separated for a number of years. Beyonce father resides in Florida and she las limited contact with him. The family originally is from North Bergen before moving to Elizabeth NJ. Beyonce and Mrs. Crespo continues to have a volatile relationship. Mrs. Crespo seems to relate to youth in a negative manner and seems frustrated with her behaviors. Beyonce asks Mrs. Crespo if she can live in North Bergen with her aunt Amber and Mrs. Crespo became verbally abuse towards youth. Mrs. Crespo expresses her feeling towards Beyonce question in a verbally hostile tone, she used several different foul words to describe how she feels about youth and her behaviors in the home. Mrs. Crespo behavior language became so inappropriate CM and Sosa had to inform Mrs. Crespo that if she cannot talk inappropriate tone without using foul language we are going to have to end the phone call. It is clear that Mrs. Crespo and Beyonce continues to have a difficult relationship and that due to the lack of respect they both have for one another.

In this day and age it’s all about feminism and how women are in second place. When in fact, the feminist views are misguiding and causing a huge impact on the education systems that favors girls rather than boys. In “The War Against Boys,” Christina Hoff Sommers supports her belief that it’s the boys who need help, since their underachievement is worsening and continuing by the year.

A rhetorical analysis looks into the logos, ethos and pathos of a text. Logos or λόγος is a Greek word translated to logic or reason. When an analyzer is searching for logos in a text, they must ask themselves if the text comes in a logical progression. The Greek word ethos or ἠθικός means ethical. When looking for ethos, the analyzer will look for credibility and trustworthiness. Pathos or πάθος is also a Greek word that means passion. Finding pathos in a text involves searching for emotions, beliefs, sympathies and/or values in a text.

Women all over the world have been mistreated for more than a century. It has been exploited throughout the world as how “women aren’t currently treated the same as men in certain situations” but it is far more beyond that. Only half of the world seems to at least know what is really happening behind the curtain. Ambiguous people have manipulated the very much realness with what is exactly taking place in our society. In this essay, I will be talking about the following things; Inequity in the workplace, “Asking for it”, Violence against women globally, Education, and The psychology of it all. These five topics need to be demanded attention. Our younger generation needs to be cognizant of what has been going on for many millenniums. Girls and women should be able to walk around at night and not be afraid, nor should they be afraid to oppose another man. There is no real justification on why women should be treated like this but there is plenty of justification on why they shouldn 't, so genuinely why is this problem happening? Some of the books that I read to have mostly validation on this paper from other human beings but also to enlighten myself even more that I already am. “Subjection of Women” by John Stuart Mill, “Created Equal: Voices on Women 's Rights” by Anna Horsbrugh-Porter, and “Equal Pay for Equal Work” by Grace C. Strachan. I chose these three texts because each one yet talks about the same thing but has a little bit of a different perspective on each. I

Deconstruction, according to Dictionary.com, is a philosophical and critical movement, that questions all traditional assumptions about the ability of language to represent reality. "A Rose for Emily" by William Faulkner incites its readers to look for the deeper meaning behind every temporal shift, symbol, and conflict in order to truly understand the author's view about a certain reality.

Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell (2013) and I am an emotional creature’ by Eve Ensler (2011) are works that have us question global gender inequality. Both Rowell and Ensler depict social expectations for teenage boys and girls and what is considered to be ‘normal’. In Eleanor and Park, Eleanor is expected to be nice and dress as a girl, while Park is mocked for not being manly enough. In I am an emotional creature the speakers tell us how girls are expected, by society, to have model like bodies, how they have to fight for their rights to make their own life decisions and how then strive to obtain education while their brothers go to school.

In musical superstar Taylor Swift’s music video for her song “Blank Space,” she is portraying herself as the high maintenance and dramatic girlfriend that the media believes she is. The speaker of this text is the media’s perception of Taylor Swift and her message is about the disconnect between who Swift really is and who the media sees her as. I believe Swift has two purposes for this music video. One is for her character in the music video to warn her audience about the type of love that boys want, and the other for real life Taylor herself to poke holes into the media’s concept of her love life. The video is filled with satire and paradoxes to convince us that our idea of Taylor Swift is not an accurate opinion of her.

Expecting certain gender norms of men and women show how the world we live in today is one based on sexism - stereotyping and discrimination, typically women, based on sex. However, gils have attempted to break these norms despite not making much progress as seen today. Throughout the semester, the children's and young adult literature

In today’s day and age of culture, we find that there are still comments made against young girls and women that are of disrespect and condescending. Although the gender gap has been closing since women first started gaining rights back in the 20th century, there are still comments that are holding females back. Sexism is detrimental to young women’s perspectives because the backlash that they are hearing often prevent them from going on and improving aspects that may have been previously before male dominated.

In order to properly view a story from a feminist perspective, it is important that the reader fully understands what the feminist perspective entails. “There are many feminist perspectives, and each perspective uses different approaches to analyze and interpret texts. One is that gender is “socially constructed” and another is that power is distributed unequally on the basis of sex, race, and ethnicity, religion, national origin, age, ability, sexuality, and economic class status” (South University Online, 2011, para. 1). The story “Girl” is an outline of the things young girls

Robbins' choice to employ girls whose stories vastly differ from each other illustrates the different struggles girls face around the world, be it physical violence, second-class rights, or otherwise. Presenting stories of girls who are relatively well-off by developing country’s standards, such as Wadley from Haiti and Mariama from Sierra Leone, alongside those who weren't nearly as fortunate, such as Suma from Nepal and Amina from Afghanistan, opens up the viewers’ eyes to the ways misogyny manifests itself in different cultures. These variances are representative of the wide array of real-life conundrums girls are presented with in developing countries; they help lead the audience to the conclusion that we must begin at the root of the problem and work from the bottom up in order to make a fundamental change in education systems

In the article Macho Man, Little Princess: How Gender Norms Can Harm Kids Everywhere discussed common gender problems that we are all familiar with. One was that there are kids and adults who still believe girls are vulnerable and that

Today, women have more rights than ever before, but the belief of male has resulted in a never ending convention toward women. This leads to predetermined thought from younger girls that they must become inferior. Clifford states in her article, “Children look first to their own parents for examples and inspiration, therefore when a child see their mother living a life of inequality, the cycle often continues as girls feel there is no alternative for themselves.” When younger girls see their mother or any woman submitting to the standard, they feel they must do the same. An effect on men is that they have to live up to the