Who are you? It is a simple question but not easy to answer. The song by Meredith Brooks lyrics “Bitch” describes how I feel often.
“I'm a little bit of everything/ All rolled into one/ I'm a bitch, I'm a lover/ I'm a child, I'm a mother/ I'm a sinner, I'm a saint/ I do not feel ashamed/I'm your hell, I'm your dream“ (Brooks & Peiken, 1997)
While I can relate to both ends of the scale on many things, I seek to find balance in everything in my life. I was the youngest of five children, with poor examples of a healthy relationship should look like. I see myself as an introvert, but my family sees me as outspoken.
I have learned that how I feel may not be always accurate, and that how others think of me is certainly subject to inaccuracy. Through this class I have been enlightened to others’ perceptions, that they are not wrong, just different than my own perception. There are many factors that must be considered when talking about one’s perception, Variables with environment, past experiences cultural, and many others. For me, religion plays a factor in the perception from my family that I am outspoken. The childhood religion persuaded for humility and adhering to the coveted commandments, so to question its foundation was unacceptable.
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It was destructive and dangerous for me. I am lucky to be alive today because I put myself in harms way numerous times. When this lifestyle changed due to relocation, I began to desire peace in my life. God made me see that I am alive because of Him. He kept me from the cliff’s edges. That is when I began realizing that God does indeed exist and that I have always been in His sights. The craving for a drink or to find an external mean of coping still presents itself to me. Since I have been in school, I have declared that alcohol needs to be in moderation or not an indulgent at
Quentin Tarantino’s film Jackie Brown, released in 1997, challenges the pervasive stereotyping of not only blacks but specifically black women. Nowhere is the cinematic devaluation of African Americans more evident than in images of black women which, in the history of cinematography, the white ideal for female beauty has overlooked. The portrayal of black women as the racial Extra has been fabricated through many semblances in the history of American film. Film scholars and feminists alike have long been plagued with lament for the negativity and stereotyping that sticks with black women in American cinema. In this paper, I will argue that Jackie Brown highlights and stresses the racial variance of the female African American protagonist,
In a powerful experiment we were able to see through the eyes of a kindergarten children prejudice dynamics. In a famous experience by Jane Elliot she separated her class between blue-eyed and brown-eyed students. Professor Elliot had separated her students by making one eye group inferior to the other making them have certain benefits and better treatment than the other group of students. Eventually, the students were switched the following day. This experiment have showed this group of kindergarten students how colors and discrimination affected the minority population. After this successful experiment with the kindergarten student’s professor Jane Elliot had done many other experiments using adults using the a similar technique blue-eyed
Mark Water’s ‘Mean girls’ portrays the story of a girl who moves from being home schooled in Africa to entering a public high school for the first time and encounters many psychological problems within the school. Throughout this film many concepts of social psychology were used to portray today’s society. Within the school setting many stereotypes are made of one another along with intergroup conflict resulting in prejudice and discrimination.
Elizabeth Blackwell is best deserving of a monument because of the constricting, insulting stereotypes she challenged by becoming the first woman in the United States of America to earn a medical degree and become a practicing physician. During the time period in which Elizabeth Blackwell lived in, which was around the 1800s, there were many stereotypes against women. Especially since women weren’t allowed to vote during this time period, there were institutionalized prejudices and many false stereotypes. Namely, women were believed to not have enough brain capacity to comprehend subjects such as math and science. Once they finally were allowed to attend school, they were only taught subjects such as geography and writing, as math and science
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Even though my family is close, we place value on the differentiation of self, a concept developed by Murray Bowen (Hutchison, 2015). Each of the members within the family have unique personalities and methods of living life. Each member in my family has always been encouraged to express one’s own opinion and to be independent. We converse about our conflicting opinions, but we are usually respectful and still support one another.
"For most of history, anonymous was a woman", quotes Virginia Woolf. (1) Throughout history, women’s lives were restricted to domesticity and family, and they were left oppressed and without political voice. Over the decades the roles of women have dramatically changed from chattels belonging to their husbands to gaining independence. Women became famous activists, thinkers, writers, and artists, like Frida Kahlo who was an important figure for women’s independence. The price women paid in their fight for equality was to die or be imprisoned along with men, and they were largely forgotten in written history. However, the roles they took on were wide-ranging which included working in factories, tending the troops, taking care of children
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When I was only a little girl, I had been told that true beauty came from within. Yet as I grew up, I noticed that looks mattered. From their attractiveness, race, age, or gender, anyone’s image was always up for scrutiny. Under those circumstances, I grew up thinking that if people were to judge me based on my appearance, that I should judge them the same way. Though, as I became older, I at some point learned that how a person looked wasn’t always in their range of control. A person simply isn’t born with the choice of picking what they look like, nor are they born with the choice of having a genetic disorder or disease. In that case, I believe that nobody should be defined purely based on what they look like.