Shrek the Musical was based upon a young oger who lived with his parents until the age of seven. At this point in his life, he was sent into the idk world to make a living for himself. As time progressed, an embittered Shrek is living contentedly alone in a dirty, musty, swamp. His life was flipped upside, down when all the fairy tale beings of the land showed up in his confinement of solitude. From that point on, the journey that Shrek embarked was portrayed through the strong and weak…
Having a transgender friend is amazing, I have one friend and I see him as he sees himself. I was always interested in transgender because I heard about it all over the news, communities and families. The news always showed how one transgender youth always being bullied, hazed or even discriminate. Why can't they show that transgender is just as human as nontransgender people? Media play a huge role if they expect transgender people, who knows the social norm might change toward them. Not only…
When I did my preliminary 60 hours in a preschool, one of the my biggest takeaways was how gender impacts a child. In this reading by Martin, I was intrigued by the further exploration of the construct. In the present-day, gender can be a tricky idea. Concepts like gender neutralism and transgender are becoming increasingly prevalent in the culture conversation of equality and acceptance. Furthermore, the roles that society consciously and subconsciously apply to genders is a hot button…
speech, “On not winning the Nobel Prize” (2007) which heavily explores the differences between first world and third world countries. Both these composers address the issues of injustices in their society and they are driven to deliver their speeches with the desire the challenge the audience’s perceptions and shift their understanding of the world. Atwood’s speech was published after the third wave feminism which embraces contradictions and conflicts, accommodating for diversity and change,…
increasing population is immigration. People now have the opportunity to travel to more developed nations which offer far superior medical treatment, education, security, and employment. I too, emigrated from India. Even though India is not considered a third world countries, the facilities provided in the United States are far superior to those provided in India. It also given me the option to thrive, more than I would have done in…
Currently, there are 1.015 billion cars in use in the world. 97% of these cars are gasoline powered. However, in thirty-seven years, the fuel powering these machines will be gone ("Worldometers - Real Time World Statistics." Para 2). Oil is non-renewable and will take millions of years to even begin to replenish. Unfortunately, this isn’t the only non-renewable resource that is near exhaustion. Coal will be gone in about 150 thousand days and if continued to be used by the world at the current…
Third World Countries Need Our Help Imagine our country is in great devastation, and there is barely any water for the majority of us due to the current global warming crisis. Our country is undeveloped and not a single person watching chooses to take concern over our dying nation. How would we feel? We would be scared and anxious about the near future. Unfortunately, this is how many third world countries feel today. Currently, they may not be at their highest points of development, but they…
male or female attributes (“The Hijras of India: Cultural and Individual Dimensions of an Institutionalized Third Gender Role” Nanda). Similar to the Two Spirit individuals Hijra is a largely sacred term, having strong ties to indian religious practices. In Chapter 12 more information about the Hijras is given, “A commonly told story among hijras, which conceptualizes them as a separate, third gender, connects them to the Hindu epic, the Ramayana” (Nanda Chapter 12). The tale references how a…
My main goal is to shape young people into disciples filled with Bible knowledge and to help send them out in the world to witness to the unsaved. I plan to do this by combining the discipleship model and the ministry model talked about by Richard R. Dunn in his book, “Reaching A Generation For Christ”. He states that the philosophy of the discipleship model as, “The discipleship model trains students to be God’s people in an ungodly world, equipped with Bible study and prayer skills developed…
Deconstructing the gender binary and gender roles and expectations, serves as an initial pedagogical tool in the discussion of trans identities in the classroom. Since trans identities are as much a part of the field of gender and sexuality studies as conventional cisnormative and heteronormative identities, they cannot be studied in isolation, but must rather be viewed in terms of intersectionality. Mary Armstrong, in her essay, “Towards a Queer Pedagogy of Conflicted Practice,” identifies a…