Others wonder, ―Are pregnant athletes selfish? For many women athletes there is a tension, perceived or real, between motherhood and athletics. What should Fantasia have done? This case was based on and adapted from a case published by the Association of Practical and Professional Ethics for use in the national intercollegiate Ethics Bowl competition, and is being used with their permission. Did her game suffer?
Why did they ban the burqa? In Timothy Ash’s article, he says that there are three main reasons for the ban: “… a threat to public safety,” “an open society is one in which we can see each other’s faces,” and “women are compelled to veil themselves by fathers or husbands.” France should revise this law because it seems like an ethnocentric decision and with this law active it breaks traditions passed down for 14 centuries, aggravates Muslims, and will cause France to have financial repercussions. While growing up, I’ve always seen my mom wear a burqa before she left the house, and I always wondered why she would do that. When I was 13 I found out it was to hide her beauty from others. Now why would a female decide to hide her beauty from others?
Don’t call me hot tamale” In the story “Don’t call me a Hot Tamale” by Judith Ortiz Cofer – a Hispanic woman writes about being stereotyped as a latina, living in a non- hispanic culture. She describes her encounter in reaction to both her heritage and her gender. Growing up in New Jersey Judith and her parents “practiced strict Catholicism complete with Sunday mass in Spanish.” They also kept a tight surveillance on their daughter. As a teenager she was constantly lectured on “how to behave as a proper senorita.” Controversy grew when schoolmates and their parents thought Judith’s mother would dress them up to “mature and flashy.” Puerto Rican customs were being misinterpreted by customs of the everyday Americans in her surroundings. Judith’s mother was raised on a “Tropical Island where the natural environment was a riot of primary colors, were showing your skin was one way to keep cool as well as to look sexy.” One of puerto rican “traditions and laws of a Spanish/catholic system of morality and machismo, the rule of which was: you may look at my sister, but if you touch her i will kill you.” signal often get mixed up “when a puerto Rican girl who is dressed in her idea of what is attractive who has been trained to react to certain types of clothing as a sexual signal, a clash is likely to take place.” Judith being the mature woman that she is chooses not to “fight these pervasive stereotypes.” she replaces them “with more interesting set of realities.” She now travels the around the United States telling stories from her personal novel and poems.
Culture and Women In “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “How to date a browngirl, blackgirl, whitegirl or halfie” by Junot Diaz, both authors elaborate on culture, and how it shapes the outlook on women. In Jamaica Kincaid's “Girl” a mother enforces her cultures strong beliefs on appropriate female behavior onto her daughter. To do so, she displays her parental authority with a series of short commands influenced by her culture. A sense of naivety can be seen in the young girl after questioning her mother's request. The culture associated with “Girl” has a definite attitude towards women, believing they should live a modest, conservative lifestyle.
Ignoring that, Nancy Lee still raises her head up and smiles, “This won’t keep me down. But when I’m a woman, I’ll fight to see that these things don’t happen to other girls as this happened to me” (Hughes). Even though Nancy Lee is disqualified to receive the scholarship, she still accepts it and lets it pass. Nancy chooses to face her own struggle by using it as her own advances instead of letting it paralyze her. Moreover, because of her decision, Nancy Lee becomes more mature and responsible.
Amy Gunnells Mrs. Wooten AP LANG 2 2 May 2011 She’s the Man What happens when the high school girls’ soccer team is cut? And when the boys’ soccer team won’t let any girls try out? “Everybody knows girls aren’t as fast or strong or athletic as boys,” says the boys’ coach. So the only thing left to do is to prove them wrong by beating them. In the movie, “She’s the Man,” Viola Hastings pretends to be her brother, Sebastion, while he is actually in London.
The Indian born protagonist, Jessminder, finds herself caught in the middle between her love for soccer verses her love for her authoritarian family. Her struggle is adamant from the beginning with the use of non-diegetic sound effects illuminating the juxtaposing British modern pop music against the cultural Indian music, establishing a segregated mood within the film. Jess’ inability to belong is amplified through the racial slurs made by the opposing soccer team using degrading comments such as “Paki” and “black.” Her family create a disaffection between them and Jess because of their strict views and lack of understanding to a modern British society that Jess desires to belong in. As a result, she is constantly rebelling and sneaking around in order to follow her dreams. In the beginning, Chadha uses isolating close up shot’s of Jess to exhibit her lack of connection to others but as the film progresses, wider shots are used involving the other characters.
The Taliban was also the cause for why women weren’t allowed to be educated thus leading to the Malala Yousafzai incident. Malala Yousafzai was a young schoolgirl who protested for female education, she wrote a blog explaining her life under the Taliban and wrote about her beliefs in having female education. Malala was negatively influence by religious fundamentalism when she was shot in the head on her school bus by the Taliban. Luckily enough she survived but
Although the woman has avoided the problems of reality, and made the baby stop crying, now the baby is likely to become unhealthy since the woman is probably going to continue this method. Finally another example showing a more realistic way of avoiding reality is shown in “It’s no go the picture palace, it’s no go the stadium”. Although the people cannot afford to go to these venues for whatever reason it shows that they want to go to them as a way to relieve themselves, and give them another way to distract themselves from everyday
Anzaldua responds with the statement, “Attacks on one’s form of expression with the intent to censor are a violation of the First Amendment” (pg. 77). This clearly displays her displeasure to the suppression of her native language, which she experienced when growing up. Anzaldua continues into her next section, ‘Overcoming the Tradition of Silence’, to discuss how she, as a female, use to be taught to be kept silent as part of her culture. She notes that none of the rules she was taught she heard of being applied to men.