MOVIE REVIEW: REVIVING OPHELIA In the videorecording, Reviving Ophelia: Saving the Selves of Adolescent Girls, Mary Pipher outlines challenges that today's adolescent girls face. In particular, she emphasizes the way media manipulates popular culture and the negative backlash this has on sh...

Sexism in America has grown to be a great problem for women in this country. "Sexism means ascribing superiority or inferiority, unsupported by any evidence, in traits, abilities, social value, personal worth, and other characteristics to males or females as a group." (Albee 1) Sexism de...

As I sat down one night to watch television, I continuously came across shows that had more sexual content in them then I wished to view. Female characters were having sex with several male partners, yet suffering no apparent consequences. In some instances joking and bragging about who they slep...

Human curiosity is the essence of our lives; we live to understand and explore others troubles or triumphs, their faults or follies. However, since the beginning of time, our views have been slanted by whoever tells these stories. We are led to believe that what they say is the truth, when it cou...