I have an aunt who suffers from schizophrenia. When I was a child, I wasn’t aware of her diagnoses, I was too young to understand what it meant. I remember thinking she was a little odd. I never understood why she talked to herself when she did the dishes, or why she would burst into …
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The Pathology of Imprisonment
In his excerpt, The Pathology of Imprisonment, Philip G. Zimbardo discusses a study that he conducted to investigate the relationship between prison guards and inmates. He did so upon receiving a letter from an inmate who had recently been released from solitary confinement after having been abused and stripped of his basic human rights for …
Eating Your Friends Is the Hardest
I once went on a date with someone who told me that cannibalism was acceptable. Had I driven my car to the date, I would have immediately fled the scene in fear of being eaten alive. I had no choice but to stay and make conversation so I asked him, “What makes you say that?” …
That Was Weird- Required Writing
As much as I like to believe that I’m an open, accepting person, I often find myself falling into the trap of judging others based on appearance. It is often advised not to judge a book by its cover, but one cannot deny that you can learn a lot about a person just by looking …
The American Family
The white picket fence is symbolic of middle-class suburban life in the United States. If you Google search this phrase, you’ll come across an image of an attractive white family, usually consisting of two children, heterosexual parents, and possibly a dog. The modern American family looks and acts nothing like this, many have argued that …
Wedding Dreams
The older I get, the less I want to get married. I used to always fantasize about what my wedding day, I would imagine the typical white wedding on steroids. I wanted everything to be over the top, down to the very last detail. I pictured myself in a wedding dress that would take up …
Chapter 8: White Wedding/ Marriage and the Family
In the year 2015, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that limiting marriage to heterosexual couples violated the 14th amendment’s guarantee of equal protection under the law. There was a lot of controversy surrounding this decision as nearly 30% of Americans are opposed to gay marriage. This decision drew a lot of attention to the nation, …
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“But What Do You Mean?”
I often find myself getting my feelings hurt easily, especially when it comes to interacting with the opposite gender. I grew up in a household with mostly females and therefore adopted a style of communication that took the feelings of other people into account, sometimes even above my own. This style of communication, however, does …
Sexuality And Gender in Children’s Daily Worlds
Sexuality and Gender in Children’s Daily Worlds, presents research done by Barrie Thorne and Zella Luria that explores the lives of pre-adolescent children and their gender-based interactions with one another. The interactions described between the children in this research are very similar to what I experienced from the ages of nine to eleven, and are …
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Counting Beauty
To develop a systematic account of beauty concerning gender, race, ethnicity, and skin tone, I identified about 50 Vogue covers all of which were taken in the last ten years. My first observation of the magazine was that they rarely ever feature men on their cover, unless it was a Vogue Men’s issue. If a …
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