Surrogate motherhood

“You men need to tuck away your penises and surrogate penises (guns), because you will never get anywhere with them. Masculinity is a myth and a dead end.” - Stanley Kubrick Stanley Kubrick’s 1971 classic A Clockwork Orange is an interesting beast. The film has been vilified, banned, condemned on artistic grounds and yet it survives. The film’s hallucinatory visuals depicting a strange, narcissistic modernistic society, steeped in seventies art deco and harsh, contrasting lighting, paint a

If one were to read any article by the average woman in the media – and some males for that matter – regarding the declining state of marriage rates today. One could reasonably think that the reason marriages are on the decline is that women are choosing not to get married or some other such tripe that ineffectively attempts to hide the truth of the matter. (Ayanna, G. 2010), (Dewitt.1992), (Rosenbloom, 2006), (Campbell, 2001) The actual reason for the decline in marriage rates is not because ‘women

A great voice for this generation is Beyoncé Knowles because she is a feminist, she is an activist, she is a great mother and an overall wonderful person. She has worked hard to get where she is at. She actively speaks out on how women should be treated with more respect, how African Americans are mistreated, how being healthy is a big part of life, and how family should come first. But she is also known as not only a musical genius and very charitable, she is also in the movie and fashion industry

Some believe that sex is a primal need of human physiology, while others conclude that sex is not something that contributes to the survival of an individual. Catholic nuns and priests, for example, chose to remain celibate from sexual or romantic relations in order to better give themselves to their relationship with God. Being celibate allows nuns and clergy to be free to follow whatever path God and their religious community takes them, whereas having a family would make this more difficult to

Implications of Living in a Gendered Society Analysis from a gender perspective Throughout history women have engaged in 'burning their bra's', battling for prerogative and constructing what we now recognise as a feminist perspective. Being a woman is now defined in various manners: the career woman, the sports woman, the mother and the liberated, candid feminist. These are all valid and valued roles within womanhood however, this raises countless queries of where

The President of the United States, Barack Obama, once said “The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.” The thoughts that President Obama was trying to portray is the loss of true customs and values that many humans were deprived of when imperialism was in placed. Colonialism brought upon so much of a change, that it is impossible to see true heritage in its original form. In the novel Things Fall Apart, this change is very well seen. Written by Chinua Achebe whom was

Social Contract Brian Horvath Cleveland State University Business Society Government The concept of social contract theory is that in the beginning man lived in the state of nature. They had no government and there was now law to regulate them. There are three main philosophers Thomas Hobbes, John Locke, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau that are best known for the social contract theory. In the twentieth century moral and political theory with John Rawls’ Kantian version of social contract

Words and Images in Faulkner's As I Lay Dying Maybe I will end up in some kind of self-communion -- a silence -- faced with the certainty that I can no longer be understood. The artist must create his own language. This is not only his right but his duty. ----------- William Faulkner Virginia Woolf observes that "painting and writing have much to tell each other; they have much in common. The novelist after all wants to make us to see" (22). Indeed, many movements in the visual arts during

Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbearing are now epidemic in American society. Both forms of disrupted families are harmful to children and to society. The children of single parents are more likely to do poorly in school, commit crimes, and become single parents themselves. In addition, the increase in single-parent families contributes to such social problems as poverty, crime, and a decline in the quality of public education. Divorce and out-of-wedlock childbirth are transforming the lives of

(Rosenburg, 1984). Through the matriarchal religion, the culture of the pre-Greek inhabitants differed from the Greeks in a way that the mother was the head of the family unlike the male dominated culture of the Greeks. The pre-Greek tribes saw motherhood as the most sacred, mysterious and miraculous event, and the pre-Greeks valued the female children than the male and the most favored was the last female child since she will keep the family line longer (Rosenburg, 1984). And as stated by Rosenburg