Although most short stories at first glance may seem to be simply fictional tales about people and situations that don\'t exist, this is not always the case. Some short stories are actually the author's criticisms of specific cultural values and social conventions veiled by an interesting plot and e...

Carly Elliano 11-17-03 Everyday Use From a Sociological Standpoint Name: Everyday Use Date: 11-11-03 Location: Auditorium I went to see Everyday Use, which was directed by Marymount's own Bruce Schwartz. It was based on a short story by Alice Walker. Starring in the short film are...

Why Women Love Men by Rosario Ferre from The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories I found particularly interesting and beautifully crafted. It's a story of two women, Isabel Luberza, Ambrosio's wife, and Isabel la Negra, his lover. When he died, he left each of them with half of his inherit...

Smoking 1The Effects of a Mindfulness Manipulation on Adolescent SmokingEvidence suggests that smoking cigarettes increases the likelihood of suffering from heart disease, emphysema, lung cancer, high blood pressure, and premature aging. The smoker is also at risk of many short-term health conse...

Guy De Maupassant's short story "The Necklace" tells of a woman's intense desire of becoming associated with the upper class and how it ultimately brings about her downfall into poverty. The protagonist, Mathilde Loisel, shows many characteristics that bring about her downfall. The character eleme...

In the short play Antigone, by Socrates, we find the chorus embodies the static voice of traditional society in many ways. In this play traditional society is following the rules and also obeying King Kreon and his rules. We will see how the characters Antigone, Kreon and Isemene relate to tradition...

Gender roles are growing less and less defined as today's society is becoming more tolerant of different sexualities and different family structures. The two short stories "Odour of Chrysanthemums" and "The Blooding" portray gender assumptions relative to the time of when they are set, being the mid...

During the last decade issues concerning Who stole Feminism have been debated. Although the issues are complex and the opposition argues that it has not been stolen, that the fire burns on with ambitions of workforce equality monetarily and feminist leaders contend that they know exactly what this 2...

Violated! A Report on Social Norms My mother always told me that there are things that you just don't do. For example, horsing around in Church, being loud and yelling at the table or in public, picking your nose, etc. While your mother may have simply called this "behaving," soc...

The film we watched on autism spoke about the causes, incidences, risk factors, and treatments for this condition. One of the treatments the film focused on was facilitated communication, and this therapy seemed to be frequently adapted for individuals who have autism. Though the cause of autism is ...

Tough Guise Reaction C13 - Intro. to Soc. From Watching Tough Guise-Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity I have awaken to the social construction of masculine identities in our country during the past 20th century. I always knew of the social differences between males and females because ...

Chris GurskiStigma AssignmentOver the summer I work at a Boy Scout camp in Rockaway New Jersey. I've been working there for about 5 years now and last year we had this one kid on staff named Greg. Greg seemed like you average 15 year old. Though he was a little on the short side when you talked to h...

"A Rose For Emily" is a short story written by William Faulkner, which describes how the protagonist Emily Grierson personality is developed by the contribution of various characters in the story. Laura Wingfifld, the central character of The Glass Menagerie by Tenseness Williams whose personality ...

Social and Racial Boundaries Between "Lovers" The social and racial boundaries in South Africa are clearly portrayed in Nadine Gordimer's short story "Town and Country Lovers". There are two characters in the story that come from completely different backgrounds. They be...

Willy Russel's novel, The Wrong Boy, gives an insight into a world that society has never experienced and find difficult to empathise with. As the book progresses, readers realise Raymond Marks is a boy struggling to survive a succession of miseries on his journey from childhood through to manh...

Two Kinds, an exceptional piece of literature written by Amy Tan is about a mother and daughter at war with what is best for the daughter's future. The mother simply wants the daughter to be successful and strive for the best, while the daughter just wants to be herself. The concepts of cultu...

These two stories in Lawrence's compilation of short stories are very different, however, they contain many similarities in the way that D.H.Lawrence presents families, especially of the different classes, although there are also contrasts shown. There are three main families, which due to marriage ...

Americans and individualism The United States of America is the land of the free, the land of opportunity, and the wealthiest country in the world, a country that half the modern world is modeled after. Its President is referred to as the "Leader of the free world." Thousands of p...

Abner Snopes is a poor sharecropper and onetime horse thief who take's out his frustration against the upper-class by burning their barns. William Faulkner's short story "Barn Burning" published in 1939 tells about the Snopes family. The story is a recollection told by Abner Sno...

Comparison Between American and Indian Culture and Values There are a lot of differences between American and Indian culture and values. As we know today, the American culture is a mixture of different cultures. India, on the other hand, has its own culture and values. I would like to introduc...

Interpellation, according to Althusser, is a hailing by social ideologies that form 'individuals' into 'subjects' by forcing social identities upon them. This primarily occurs through Ideological State Apparatuses (ISA), including the family, education and mass media. It is thr...

Response: The Lady with the Dog There are several ways in which you may interpret a story. Marxist interpretations put the emphasis on materialistic concerns and the social classes that make up a society. In the short story "The Lady with the Dog" by Anton Chekhov, Anna and Dimitri ar...

KALEIDOSCOPE Who is the other? That's one of the questions one is posed with. This is where kaleidoscope comes in. Not only does the short student film explore the essence of 'the other' and 'otherness' but it also 'the other' in specifically Franklin & Mar...

The Martin Luther King keynote address fundamentally challenged my understanding and perception of social structure and race in the United States. The address has encouraged me to become more critical and aware of the social environment that I live in. The relationship between social structure a...

Are the arts - namely music, dance, visual arts - so vitally important to a student\'s education as to receive as much emphasis as mathematics, science, reading, and other mainstream subjects? The speaker gives an affirmative answer to this question. However, although I agree that the arts play a ve...