32 Bit Bust and 64 Bit Waist: Cross-Gender Play in Video Games In her book, Gender Trouble, Judith Butler describes gender as a performance. She argues that traits and behaviors are understood as belonging to a gender and that, through the performance of these gender markers, people gender themselves and each other. A person can perform gender in a variety of ways. Dresses, for example, are readily noted as a feminine marker; monotonous voice pitch is readily tagged as masculine. Gender performativity
Woolf's “The Death of the Moth,” she explores the life and death continuum while drawing her readers into her own realizations of them using a moth as a tangible subject. Woolf utilizes her levels of language to manipulate her audience to take on the role of what her tone is suggesting and leads them to her ultimate conclusion through sympathetic pathos, juxtaposed diction, bookending structure, and her overall appeal to the audience’s humanity. Woolf draws the reader in immediately in the first paragraph
integrity of words and promotes their dissemination (71). Howarth explains how the four principles help in reading a work of literature where nature plays an important part. The four principles are of due importance when exploring environmental literature. Each stresses the relations of nature and literature as shifting and moving shapes. Here, the role of an ecocritic is to examine this relationship where human culture is "linked to the physical world and has an effect on the natural world". Therefore
as a whole and this memorial’s quiet and reflective design provides a neutral ground for
significance (4). A. Scene connection: Shrek in the movies major battle scene enters as an opposition to the power supremacy that Lord Farquaad holds on Dulac. Lord Farquaad fears and envies him because Shrek dominates the battle and wins over the crowd. B. Essay connection: The goths in Disneyland were significant because they were the monsters in this situation, meaning they struck fear in the attendees of the park by dressing in black and sporting a sullen face (Hine 275). However, for goths they wanted
dictatorship. But under their skin these books have a far deeper meaning; glimpses of freedom, epiphany, one’s true self and fundamental feelings of oneness coinciding with dualism are all at the heart of what Laforet sculpts within her pages. In this essay we will look at and discuss how Laforet approaches the these philosophical issues and equates them with her own view of philosophy in her literature, different from traditional ways of thinking. By looking at the three novels, Nada, La isla y los demonios
The Equality Act promotes the respect and value of people’s difference within a workplace and in society. This legislation plays an important role within the HSC setting as it enables professionals such as nurses to flourish and realise their full potential thus providing the best service possible. For example, whilst interacting with Alan, the nurse must treat him with respect and care
The Relationship between Morality and Religion This essay explores how religion and morality intertwine. More often, morality is perceived unsatisfactory without religion because why should someone be moral if there is no reward after every day life’s struggles. According to Gaukroger (2012), during the 17th century, it was perceived that morality could not do without religion. This view gradually changed in 1690 when Pierre Bayle asserted that religion is neither necessary nor sufficient for morality
“Clear your head, dammit!” I scold myself. Of course, this only further adds noise to my internal dialogue. Dialogue? Monologue? Dialogue. No…Monologue. And so it goes in my head; there is no silence, there is no rest. Everything is processed and analyzed until any meaningful insight has evaporated in a “steam of consciousness.” But this can be tamed. As I struggle to write my observation journal, attempting to keep a totally impartial and unfiltered lens in my mind, I can tell myself to focus just
This week we learnt about the barriers to communication and the factors to overcoming these barriers, for example training and building relationships. We also learnt that there are several aids to communication so it can be carried out effectively, such as an advocate, interpreters, and mentors or technological aids such as hearing aids, loop systems, voice activated software, pictures and signs. Learning these have been useful because these are the barriers I may have to consider in my future career