Sequence Analysis Assignment "Rear Window," is a classical Hollywood mystery capturing many aspects of human curiosity and society as it was in the twentieth century. Through restricted narration Alfred Hitchcock not only portrayed human curiosity, but also awakened a stream of suspen...

Video in the Home – A critical discussion of "Behind closed doors: video recorders in the home" pp327-336 Ann Gray (1987) Media studies a Reader This article outlines the role of gender in authority and use of home technology, specifically the home video recorder, or VCR. In ...

Upon reading The Joy Luck Club, by Amy Tan, I was fascinated by the many ways in which a segmented collection of unrelated stories could weave themselves into a book with all the elements of realistic fiction. First of all, I found a good deal of symbolism carried throughout the book. Some symbols...

Rajeev Dhar Professors Klot & Perryman Human Sexuality Final Paper With the advent of cloning and human genetic manipulation on the horizon, the focus of the future doesn't seem to be jet packs, automated apartments, and sarcastic robot maids as in so many "The Jetsons" cartoons...

Many factors influence the works of artists. The time they are working in, the culture, and their own lives effect what they depict and how. Gender is no exception. Feminist Historians believe \"that gender is an essential element in understanding the creation, content, and evaluation of art.\" (Ada...

The questions of infidelity, love and sexuality and the influence of Jon, Josef, and to a certain extent Ben over these. Atwood portrays early in the novel the divide between male and female, for example at school she and Steven are separated because of the "Girls and Boys" different e...

The American Pie trilogy has become a huge success for teens as well as adults. The films all made a huge amount of revenue. Even though the major role of all American Pie films is sexual material, it sort of expands its horizon in the second and third films. Relationships, love and drama start to o...

The lack of definition in gender roles is central to a major body of Hitchcock's oevre. Hitchcock usually incorporated the aforementioned theme to the mother-son relationships as seen in: Psycho, North By Northwest, Strangers on a Train, and as well as in Notorious. But, it is in Notorious that th...

Feminism at its WorstIn her social commentary, A Room of One's Own, Virginia Woolf, one of the most prolific feminist authors of the modern day, writes an exhortation of women and their stifled intellectual and creative abilities. Through fictionalized examples and specific facts, Woolf encouraging...

The book entitled The Difference "Difference" Makes: Women and Leadership, edited by Deborah L. Rhode, collects various articles and writings that reflect and comment on the role women play in leadership positions and how these roles are specifically defined by them being women. In a way, this book...

Who comes to mind as the creator and developer of female sexual freedom in the past 20 years? Most would answer with one name: Madonna. When Madonna was asked where she wanted to go with her career she replied " I want to rule the world". Madonna meant that she wants to change things for women i...