English Essay Role models are a very powerful figure in our society. It is because of them that trends are set, groups are created, and how our culture is determined. The most prominent, and popular role models are ones that we see in Hollywood. We see how powerful role models are in William Golding’s Lord of the Flies, and that the madness that grows in each of the boys is the product of the role models struggle for power. Each of the role models believed that he should be the leader, and used the littluns gullability to sway their loyalties, which lead to their madness due to the conflicting opinions.
Speaking in terms of the male, he exhibits behaviour such as direct guarding, in which a male is especially vigilant to their mate in order to restrict her sexual autonomy. Retention strategies can also include violence against the woman either in physical or verbal form. In extreme cases, an unintended consequence of this evolutionary behaviour may be her death (uxoricide). The explanation of uxoricide as being a consequence of jealousy cannot account for the fact that younger women are at much greater risk of
Because this method of dealing with confrontations seemed to work and in a way demand respect, the Barrios began to develop a “Code of the Street" attitude in which they valued their toughness as a means to get respect over the economic progress that they saw as impossible. (Elijah Anderson, 1999). By standing up physically to their oppressors, the Mexican community gained a sense of control and self worth in their lives. As this subculture grew within the Chicano community, toughness became the way of proving your manhood and gaining respect instead of economic success. The Chicano community did not have many “successful” role models, except their parents who were exploited in their jobs for long hours and little pay.
It is a known cultural difference that men usually dominate the world. There are many times when women are abused that they do not file charges against their assailants. Some of the governing assumptions that strengthen the mainstream explanation of the intimate abuse that many women face are as follows: First, men batter women because they are privileged, physically, financially, and socially; it is under the assumption in this belief that we need not understand the violence behind men’s violence beyond that point of the patriarchal explanation. Second, women stay in abusive relationships because of patriarchy. Third, the criminal justice system is sexist.
This is where males have evolved a number of strategies specifically for the purpose of keeping their mate, so that she does not copulate with another male. Such strategies include ‘direct guarding’ (restricting their partner’s sexual autonomy) and ‘negative inducements’ (threatening violence if the woman cheats). An extreme example of mate retention strategies is uxorocide (wife-killing), where the threat of violence becomes very real and goes too far). Buss and Schackelford (1997) support the idea of mate retention strategies as they found that men who suspected that their wives might be unfaithful over the next year exacted greater punishment for a known or suspected infidelity than men who did not anticipate future infidelities. This finding is consistent with the claim in evolutionary psychology that mate retention strategies are evoked only when a particular adaptive problem is faced, in this case the belief that the wife’s infidelity is likely.
The bitter captain would routinely be seen over seeing their movements from a distance, and whenever he saw something suspicious he would act. This is a deployment of this concept because Thad uses power and black mail to rule over the younger men, and almost get the answer he needs, “Who touched his butt?” The story line goes on and Machiavellianism is showed all throughout the scenes. Another well rounded thought for me was that the idea of “Self-Monitoring” occurred throughout this show. Self-Monitoring says that “High self-Monitors”, for example pay close attention to others reactions to them and control how they present themselves in social interactions.” (Myers and Anderson 62) Alex Moran is another key character in this Show, Alex is one of the main suspects in the trial being done amongst the Captain and his teammates. The teammates all know who did this to Thad; it was Alex, but they weren’t about to tattle tail.
While assuming JIB to be true, Shelton wages war on the government and by extension those who support it. He views this as a last resort, since he watched all the other non-violent options fail him. Thus this war can be justified. Shelton is justified in his actions because he is redressing a wrong suffered, and his intentions are to rid the corruptness from the judicial system. The people that Shelton killed are considered combatants because they support they governmental system and work with it.
There are many instruments used to perpetuate male power (particularly rich, white, male power). Among the instruments used to perpetuate male dominance is male violence against females or the “privilege” of men to oppress women (Hooks 50). Among the feminist interests of U.S. ideology is termination of this violence. Living within a male-dominated system that suppresses women; can one rationalize women using murder as a counter to assault? The story of Aileen Wuornos was of specific interest to the feminist movement.
Coach Boone: “Eight”. Coach Boone uses this story to manipulate his player to perform and play to a higher level. Coach Boone, Is successful in manipulating the players to change and combine as one, which consequently results in there team unison, they make the most of the racial change and reap in the rewards. This has changed my understanding of the consequences of change as it has shown me that through a positive leader change can be used for positive outcomes. In Othello we also see the consequence of manipulation but these changes result in negative consequences due to Coach Boone’s oxymoron the not so “honest”
I largely agree with his view. My society is known for its 'Kiasu culture', it means people are afraid to lose, work very hard and try outdoing each other. This culture exists largely because of the tough competition among people in this island state. Due to limited resources and meritocratic system, people need to work harder and harder in order to get the privilege. This eventually leads to imbalance between work and play.