Matchmaking

The triangle is the strongest geometric shape. It cannot physically collapse, and stresses are equally distributed over all three legs. But the triangle, like many things that have roots in the number three, requires a dichotomy of balance and instability. To illustrate this dichotomy, take two triangles, one that sits upright with its single point above its base, and the other that is inverted, with the wide base above the single point, on which the shape balances and teeters. In Virginia Woolf’s

In Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, love and belonging is the third level to accomplish in order to get to self-actualization. People around the world are trying to fulfill the third level through online dating. However, deception can be part of online dating with an 86 percent of online dating people feeling as if they were lied to (Hancock, Toma, Ellison). In the article, “The Truth about Lying in Online Dating Profi by Jeffrey T. Hancock, Catalina Toma and Nicole Ellison illustrate how several people

graceful, polite, delicate, refined, poised, punctual… all for the purpose of making good wives and “bearing sons””(Word Press). This shows how the film constructs in a scene how women are meant to be in order to be an acceptable bachelorette for the matchmaking process and how women adhere to

No matter what one 's social status was, if one was born in China pre twentieth century, one would have at least rudimentary knowledge of Confucian gender values, whether through direct study or through traditions that were already soaked in Confucian ideology. In upper-class society, daughters are taught through study of classical Confucian texts and as a result most have a great understanding and following of those values; sons are likewise taught their role and are required to follow it if they

Light Skin the Right Skin Colorism is a form of discrimination based on the color of someone’s skin tone. Colorism has the greatest impact on the African American culture and community. It is sad that we have to face discrimination within our own ethnic group, Along with every other ethnic group in the United States. Colorism has been passed down generation after generation. It is dated all the way back to the slavery dates. The idea of light skin being better than dark skin has been deeply rooted

Throughout post-WWII history, the United States has taken on the role of the world’s police. They feel the obligation to ensure the spread of their ideals for selfish and self-righteous reasons. John Mueller and Odd Arne Westad share their arguments as to what the United States’ actions have produced during the Cold War in Eastern Europe, Korea, and Vietnam and during the post-9/11 period in the Afghanistan and Iraq. While some of their arguments are valid, others are flawed. In “Questing for Monsters

One of the biggest anomalies among current events today is the topic of Muslim women. Islamic women have been in the shadows for years, hidden by their spouses, therefore resulting in the reason why so many of them have been the subject of abuse. The devastating incident that led to many deaths on September 11th of 2001, could possibly be the most recent event that has sparked interest with the Muslim population (Daba-Buzoianu et.al 148). Even then, however, Americans were more concerned for their

CLUELESS VS. EMMA Adaptations of Jane Austen’s, Emma, are usually period pieces diligent in capturing and replicating the manners, dress, language and values of the original text. Clueless, written and directed by Amy Heckerling, deviates drastically from the norm, as the film is not a period piece. While Emma is set in the early nineteenth century in the country village of Highbury, sixteen miles out of London, England, Clueless is set in Bronson Alcott High School almost two hundred years later

The Charter 8 documents seems like many we have seen throughout time. But to think that people still doesn't have these basic rights is insane. The fundamental principals of the Chapter 8 document are freedom, human rights, equality, republicanism, democracy and constitutional rule. These seem pretty similar to our own declaration of independence. We wanted all these same things from our repressive monarchy regime. They wanted to freedom of speech, press, assembly, association, where to live, to

The Amish Both the Amish and the Mennonites were part of the early Anabaptist movement in Europe, which took place at the time of the Reformation. The Anabaptists believed that only adults who had confessed their faith should be baptized, and that they should remain separate from the larger society. Many of the early Anabaptists were put to death by both Catholics and Protestants, and many others fled to the mountains of Switzerland and southern Germany. Then began the Amish tradition of farming