The Naked Citadel, By Susan Faludi, Leslie Bell, And Sherry Turkle Essay

Throughout "Our Secret" Griffin explores the different characters' fears and secrets and she gives specific insights into these "secrets". Through examining others Griffin comes to terms with her own feelings, secrets, and fears. She relates to Himmler, Leo, Helene, and everyone else even though she is different than all of them. One fact that can be made about all of these characters is that they all represent humans and human emotion

According to Corrie & Betsie Ten Boom, life was a faith-building experience. Those two women were faced with one of the toughest experiences of their lives. Each day, Corrie and Betsie had to persuade each other that everything was going to be okay, once they were free from the “hell”, or the concentration camp they were placed in. And, yet, Corrie and Betsie somehow managed to keep in mind that God was with them.

In “Alone Together: The Robotic Movement,” Sherry Turkle explains some of the negative effects that robots are having on our lives. She also explains how they can have a negative effect on our daily lives without us even noticing. I am someone who knows a great deal about technology, however I had no idea that close human-robot interaction was happening at such an inappropriate level. There are many different examples Turkle uses in the article, however, I will only talk about two. I agree with Turkle not only that there are ethical problems with human-robot interaction but also that a lot of other forms of technology might be doing more harm than good.

The Glass Castle by Janette Walls is a memoir. The book starts from the earliest childhood memory in which Janette dress catches fire while she is cooking herself some hotdogs. The book retraces the Walls family life from Nevada, California, Arizona, West Virginia, and then finally ending in New York. Janette Walls gives a very detailed description of the events that took place over a fifty- year period; starting in 1957 and ending in 2005. The book really allows for the reader to understand the hardships of being raised in a dysfunctional family. The family is composed of Rex the father, Rose Mary the mother, Lori walls the oldest child, Brian the only son, and Maureen the youngest child. Regardless of the hardships, the Walls family remained

The demand for success encourages us to develop paths that matches our human identities. As technology continues to advance, there is a greater emphasis regarding the power of attachment. Humans are slowly becoming more attached and dependent on technology. Individuals lose their values among technology because it affects every aspect of their lives. For instance, our reliance on the Global Positioning System to find a particular destination or even a simple Google search for defining a vocabulary word illustrates that technology will always be there for us. However, the advancement of technology brings on many unethical and moral issues throughout the world. The intake of drugs and many surgical operations all proceed with one mindset: to save patients and better improve their well-being. Today, surgeons and psychiatrists have taken account to embrace radical changes with the merging of technology. The aspect of our humanness comes to an extent whether it addresses death or mental illness. In Lauren Slater’s essay, “Who Holds the Clicker?” the advancement of medical technologies helps a patient, Mario Della Grotta to overcome obsessive-compulsive disorder better known as OCD. Mario is one of the first American psychiatric patients to undergo psychosurgery. In Sherry Turkle’s essay “Alone Together,” there is an intimate connection between humans and robots through technology. Our authenticity to stand by embracing these so-called humanity changes can be controversial and

Complexity is what makes life exciting and fascinating; it is also, however, what makes life challenging and stressful. When difficult situations occur, people tend to avoid them as much as possible. In the essay “The Naked Citadel,” author Susan Faludi explores the underlying problems with sexuality, which are unknown to the general public, at The Citadel, an all-male military academy in Charleston, South Carolina. Shannon Faulkner, a female who applied to, and was granted admission to the academy, challenged the masculine mindset of the academy. Faulkner managed to gain admission by not marking her gender on the application, which led to a controversial court case. In “Selections from Losing Matt Shepard,” author and Laramie, Wyoming

After reading the essays “The Naked Citadel” and selections from “Hard To Get” by Susan Faludi and Leslie Bell, readers are presented with the various hardships young adults of both sexes face. While Faludi’s essay focuses on men and their hardships in a controlled environment like the Citadel to simulate how a “real man” should live in the real world, Bell’s essay focuses on women out in said real world and the different hardships they have to endure due to society’s standards of conduct. Both texts speak about sexuality, gender identity and expression and how they affect how one’s life will unfold depending on how different any of the three terms mentioned are from society’s traditionally accepted standards. By attempting to be a more original individual with strong characteristics and a unique personality, one should be aware that there will be challenges ahead for them, for people fear what they do not know. Society tends to ostracize and at times retaliate against those who choose to disregard gender roles. In addition, society prevents men and women from actualizing their potentials and achieving self-fulfillment by enforcing a strict set of gender norms. These gender norms leave individuals devoid of their humanity by demanding that they meet the extremes of many behavioral and sexual spectrums. Men are expected to act masculine, stoic, insensitive, etc. while women are expected to be conservative, feminine, charming, etc. without exception. With no in-between,

The Naked Citadel, written by Susan Faludi, chronicles the life of cadets in an all white male school- until Shannon Faulkner, a daring woman, disrupts The Citadel’s prestigious tradition: no females allowed. Although, according to Faludi, Shannon was anything but the feminist poster girl: “She prefers to call herself “an individualist” and seems almost indifferent to feminist affairs-” (198). Despite Faulkner’s disregard to the feminist revolution, she did manage to be the first women to challenge the stereotypes that restrained people of color and women in society. Faludi, however, further exposed The Citadel beyond their gender boundary; she detailed the severe bullying that shaped

The meaning of this story, I think, is that Brian Aldiss wants to show what will happen when science develops too much. The reason why the family needs permission before the parents can have a child, is that the World is overpopulated, but the main complex of problems is surely that advanced science has its responsibilities towards the population. In this example, Teddy and David have feelings that are not treated; instead they are considered as sheer machines. In addition to that, it is also important to say that even though science gradually does not have any limits, it is still to be used with care and consideration so that it will pay off in a proper way. It is impossible to form an acquaintance with a robot without starting to have feelings for it. However, humans are not

Robots and Wii-like games that take us on ‘sex trips’ perhaps, without the trouble of leaving our chairs.” The future holds many possibilities of relationships and family structure, but it is all but certain that technology will play a huge role in the changes of the

I believe machines have the ability of detecting the emotions of a person by using technological advances, but they can never understand how one truly feels. According to Phillip K. Dick (1968), androids “had no regard for animals, which possessed no ability to feel emphatic joy for another life form’s success or grief at its defeat – that, for him, epitomized The Killers” (13). The author explains that machines are products instead of living creatures because they lack emotions. One human quality that androids have is intelligence. Despite the fact that androids do not have feelings, they are very smart in everything that they do. The mood organ is the perfect example. It makes a person feel a certain way (happy, sad, etc.) by activating the mood

Companion robots are being developed at the moment and they are going to be used as companions for children. While the majority of the European Union citizens responded positively towards the use of robots in the future, this positive attitude was relative to the specific context those robots were applied to, as 60% believe robots should be banned from taking care of children and the elderly. This leads to many challenges and complications that need to be addressed in order to be able apply this technology. This will need a lot of careful planning and execution to be performed correctly. To make humans more comfortable with the idea of robots taking care of their children, robots should be programmed to be more predictable and have certain set of limited actions towards children. Those robots can range from entertainment for children during their playtime or for rather delicate tasks such as interacting with the children and learning from their encounters. Robots will also be used to instill “desirable traits” in children such as honesty and kindness. This will lead to a more positive response towards this field of

Throughout history, emotions, whether they are positive or negative, have played a major role in how people establish emotional connections with each other. Whether these emotions create beneficial or detrimental connections between other individuals depends on the perspective it is viewed from. This theme of different perspectives on emotions can be seen in Susan Faludi’s “The Naked Citadel”, where she reports on the horrible incidents at the Citadel that result in two opposing opinions, one that is in favor of these acts and one that is against it. The role this theme has in establishing emotional connections with other individuals can be seen in Barbara Fredrickson’s article “Selections from Love 2.0: How our Supreme Emotion Affects Everything We Feel, Think, Do and Become”, in which she discusses the effects that positive emotions has on the human body and in creating connections. With so many different feelings and perspectives that can be seen throughout the Citadel, feelings are bound to play a major role in how these perspectives will be developed. Feelings are shown to be positively affecting how emotional connections are developed between individuals involved with The Citadel because they allow for people to have a medium to connect with.

American psychologist Henry Murray developed a theory of personality that was organized in terms of motives, presses, and needs. Murray defined a need as "potentiality or readiness to respond in a certain way under certain given circumstances. … It is a noun which stands for the fact that a certain trend is apt to recur". (Murray 1938 p. 124) Theories of personality based upon needs and motives suggest that our personalities are a reflection of behaviors controlled by needs. Murray believed that human actions are motivated mainly on a person’s needs. As an extension, Murray also believed that needs are largely at the unconscious level

There could be a lot of reasons why someone would want some form of companionship when real life presence is not readily available. Katie Collins (2013) quotes, “Like any proud parent whose kids leave home, Hayashi had a void to fill. He’s doing that by creating a robot