Erotica

What does it mean to be able to read a book? Is it a way to accumulate more knowledge? Or could it be just another form of human pleasure? The vagueness of these prior questions illustrates a truth that pervades the world of literature: its inherent subjectivity. Specific books may appeal to or disgust different people; truly, it is impossible for any piece of literature to be celebrated by every single individual. Those who are particularly offended by a specific piece may choose to just ignore

Gender Role in Dracula Introduction Bram Stoker’s Dracula is a story that narrates the association between a woman and a small group of men led by Professor Abraham Van Helsing that counteracts with Count Dracula. The Count Dracula travels from Transylvania to England to change human beings into something they refer to as, “foul things of the night like him, without heart or conscience, preying on the bodies and the souls of these (they) love best” (p. 223). The author utilizes the epistolary format

One particular class that has influenced me tremendously is my Ethnic Studies 130 course, the Chicano/Mexican-American Experience with Professora, Dr. Julie Figueroa - a badass professor most definitely. In her class we read the book, “Subtractive Schooling: U.S.-Mexican Youth and the Politics of Caring” by Angela Valenzuela. In this book, Valenzuela thoroughly explains her three-year ethnographic study “of academic achievement and schooling orientations among immigrant Mexican and Mexican American

MEDIA AND THE YOUTH What has the humanity come too lately? It repeatedly seems as everywhere one looks, hostility rears its hideous head. We witness it on the streets, school, college, shopping malls and even at home. The very last of these is a key basis of violence. In numerous peoples' living rooms there resides a channel for violence that frequently goes unobserved. It is the media, and the individuals who view it are frequently drawn into its realistic planet of violent graphics with sometimes

Text messaging turns out to be most prevalent path for youngsters to stay in touch with today and is also destroying the way we are communicating. Presently we can utilize online networking to get our messages out to thousands or millions of individuals uncensored. Everything is always showing signs of change; especially technology. Since change is unavoidable, rather than opposing it, individuals should figure out how to grasp and adjust to it. With each new innovation comes the obligation of taking

significantly disruptive to the work environment. During their time out of the classroom, teachers can do mostly as they please, unless their state has a law against teachers participating in “unbecoming” acts such as pornography or penning and publishing erotica. Since K-12 teachers have an impressionable audience of students, most school districts have regulations on what opinions teachers can

George Washington once said "If freedom of speech is taken away then dumb and silent we may be led, like sheep to the slaughter." This mentality still holds true in the United States today where the freedom of speech is held as one of the greatest rights Americans possess. However, to fully understand the first Amendment right of freedom of speech it is paramount to understand what it entails, its limitations, and how it has evolved over time. The first question that must be answered is what is

Obscenity revolves around what constitutes pornography and sexually explicit material to be protected by the First Amendment rights of freedom of speech and press as stated in the Constitution. I want to look at the language and definitions of obscenity created by the Supreme Court and interrupt their effects on society. In this essay, I want to argue that the creation of the definition of obscenity and obscenity laws constructed from community standards can be harmful to society because they can

10 Things I Hate About You takes William Shakespeare’s classic play, The Taming of the Shrew and manages to make it relevant to a modern audience. The story remains the same with the younger sister, Bianca, not allowed to have a relationship until her older sister, Kat, does. They did maintain several original scenes and even used several direct quotes from the original play. The writers have eliminated some of Bianca’s suitors and changed the way Kat is tamed to appeal to a modern audience.

The use of irony in the novel also contributes to its postmodernism. Many postmodernists treat serious subjects jovially to distance themselves from the difficult subject. They evoke black humor and different types of irony to offer critics of society and to display how society should not fear dark and somber things. DeLillo sprinkles irony all throughout his story using it even at the most serious of times. He uses it to show how the characters should not fear death and how the characters ignore