tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61341005437309804772024-03-13T23:14:33.010-07:00La Vie est BelleJo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-87171537793068859062012-05-14T01:06:00.002-07:002012-05-14T01:10:25.013-07:00Product of a Year's Work (Portfolio)<span style="color: #783f04;"><br /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English 114B</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">10 May 2012</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Metamorphosis As A College Fresh(wo)man<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Last year, I was weeks away from anticipating my high school graduation ceremony. I was ready to enjoy my summer and I was scared, yet excited to start college. Forward it to now, a year later, I’m here at the CSUN’s library, fourth floor to be exact, contemplating on what to write for my cover letter for my English 114A portfolio. Once I turn in that portfolio and I turn in all my finals, it will conclude my freshman year at CSUN. Scary right? Well, in a way yes, because it just means that I’m growing up and going on to challenging, yet better things. This year, I took 9 classes (Fall and Spring semester), and to be frank, I can’t wait until it’s over. It’s been a little stressful; I had to get the hang of things. However, despite the stress, I have learned more and I’m grateful for that. One of the things I’ve learned during my first year in my collegiate endeavor. I’ve learned much more about writing than I did before in high school. I learned about more freedom to write, rather than the teacher or professor, for that matter telling you what to write.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> This spring semester, I wrote a lot about identity. Once upon entering English, never did I think that the topic of space and gender identity would inspire me so much. Last semester we did discuss this specific topic, but not as much as we did this semester and I’m glad that I got to learn about it. As I look back, I’m more aware of my different identities and the identities of others as well as how our space affects or contributes to our identities. You never really notice things until someone or something brings it up. Because this was the main focus this semester, I have caught myself thinking about, “why does this person dress this way? Is it because they really like they way the clothes fit or how are their friends, do they dress the same? Is it the space within his group of friends that inspired him?” Because of this, as I mentioned before, I am much more aware of things. Before, I would hear the word gender identity and I just thought, “Oh, well, that guy is a male and she’s a female”. That’s their identity; it was pretty black and white. When in reality, Gender Identity has so much more depth than that.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> My first essay, was about gender rolse in the graphic novel, <i>The Surrogates</i>, with influences from the movie, <i>Gamer</i>, although, I didn’t mention the movie in my essay; even though they are completely different plots they had a similar theme: gender roles. In my first essay, I pointed out the gender roles in the graphic novel and how it is relatable to the real world. In <i>The Surrogates</i>, the person who created the surrogates, Victoria, also known as Victor created them so she can get a higher position in her job. Because many seldom see that a woman can hold a high position job, she created her self as a man so it could be more “socially accepted”. Also, I mentioned how in popular culture in the world, we see authors such as S.E Hinton, whose actual name is S<span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial;">usan Eloise Hinton, knew her work would be recognized if she used a male pen name.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In my second essay, I discussed how a child would develop “normally” according to child development and how David Reimer developed. After reading as <i>Nature Made Him</i>, by John Colapinto, which talked a lot about nature v.s nurture and gender identity, I wanted to look at it from the psychological and child development aspect and how day-to-day things affect us, even if we don’t see it, using theories from Child Development to support it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I look at myself a year ago, as a writer, I see I’ve changed so much. I’m more stronger as I writer I feel, even though I’m not so confident. Also, I feel as if I know more about Gender Identity than your average college student (I could be wrong though). This year in English 114 A and B, taught me a lot and I feel I’ve grown as a writer and I gained a lot of useful knowledge that will help me in my collegiate endeavors for the upcoming 3 years. With new knowledge about Pathos, Ethos and Logos to learning about Gender Identity and how it’s just more than Female and Male. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ever since we can remember, we’ve had this idea of how a certain gender should be. Whether we notice it or not, gender roles have a big impact in the society we live in. In advertisements, we see the masculine male, who is handsome, buff, which can be related to strong. If he is with a woman, the woman is usually beautiful, tiny, and delicate, which can be related to weakness. In Disney movies, for example, we have seen the same old plot that a handsome prince comes and saves a damsel in distress. It’s not only Disney movies we see this, but also a lot of the romantic films. In real life, outside from movies, outside of the advertisements, we see that gender roles have a huge influence. Women are usually seen as the caring, who provide warmth and love while men who are usually seen as the strong, “macho”, and the breadwinner. In the 1950’s and even in the present, we see this. In the 1950’s a lot of women stayed home and were the housewife and took care of the kids and had a home cooked meal for the family while the husband was away at work. Today, we still see this, but it’s not as present as it was back then. Gender Roles has also influenced us on how we live, on popular culture, such as movies and even in books. Even in advertisements we see gender roles. The graphic Novel, the Surrogates uses gender roles that are similar to how gender roles are viewed in society in real life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> In the graphic Novel, <i>the Surrogates</i> we are taken to a society where people from the comfort of their own home operates as surrogates. These surrogates are robots who look how one wants them to look. This allows the owner to do normal day-to-day errands or activities without leaving sitting up or even going outside. We are introduced to the main character a man named Harvey Greer, who is on the case to find the person who is trying to kill off these surrogates because of these surrogates, people are forgetting what is real and they would rather be lazy and not enjoy life and they let vanity control their life. Harvey Greer, is a policeman, that seems to be strong, and in the end comes to his senses on the dangers of surrogates, and seems to be strong. In the novel, we are introduced to Harvey’s wife Margaret. Margaret is so consumed with her surrogate because it makes her young and feels beautiful. She can’t stand the fact that she is aging and when her husband Harvey tries knocking some sense into her, she won’t budge. The gender role that is being exemplified here is that while the man has common sense, he tried telling her that she didn’t need the surrogate that he wanted to see the real her, she wouldn’t listen. It showed that women could only care about how they look. At the end of the novel, Margaret commits suicide after the surrogates were disabled. Also, another gender role that were seen in the book was the creator of the original surrogate actually was a woman named victoria who changed her name to Victor. The reason why she chose to change her name and gender was simply because a woman could not be taken seriously and men could, so in order to be taken seriously because she was a woman, she had to change. It showed that for some reason women were untrustworthy and maybe even delicate. We’ve always had an idea that strength is by how big are a man’s muscle. In the novel, the gender role that were perceived is that men were strong and the rational ones, while women were untrustworthy and vain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Women tend to be viewed as vain because of how the media portrays us. In real life, we see magazines and it’s women usually beautiful celebrities trying to sell us a product. If you pay close attention, you will see that the product that they are trying to sell us is a beauty product. We also see how a women’s role is viewed as vain in the shampoo section or the hair product section at target, or Wal-Mart. Shampoo and conditioner is a unisex product, but it seems to be appealing more towards women then men. You do see the shampoo that does say “for men” but those are very limited. Because women care more for beauty product, companies try to get their attention more. It just shows that many think that one of the many roles that a woman can play is being vain. Or in television shows, they always make a joke about how a girl must always go shopping in order to be happy, or we see in a show or we’ve all encountered a friend that can’t go out because they have no make up on. It is a sad reality that we have this idea on how women are supposed to look or how man is supposed to look because of the gender role that we’ve came to know. In the book, Margaret was so vain that she would rather commit suicide when her surrogate who was younger was disconnected. She did not want to see herself nor accept the reality that we all age and we all grow up that beauty is not only in youth, but as we grow older too. Another juxtaposition from the novel and in real life is when the creator of the surrogates’ name is Victor, but in reality it’s actually victoria. She chose to do this because she as not taken seriously as a woman. Maybe because they’re not viewed as smart as men? Or is it because they are viewed as weak? Whatever reason it may be, she decided to change her name to a manlier name. It just in a way proves that many believe that in order to be successful, you must be a man. A case like this that happened in real life, with S.E Hinton whose actual name is Susan Eloise Hinton, the author of a great book, “the outsiders”. She decided to change her name because probably many thought that a woman could not write a book about gangs the way she did. In order for her books to sell or get published for that matter, she had to change her name to make it seem like a man wrote it. Which isn’t fair because women can write a book just as good as a man, but because of gender role and the perception many have, it just makes it difficult for a woman to be taken serious at times.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> The gender roles that are found in <i>The Surrogates</i> can be easily related to the gender roles that are in real life. Many have this view on how women should be or how a man should be. It was showed how Margret was seen as this woman who just loved beauty more than her husband and wasn’t happy because she wasn’t young. And Victoria becoming Victor just to be taken seriously. We see this in real life because how the media can sometimes portray women, as women who are more bout their beauty more than anything else, or women have to change their name in order for their book to be published. But it’s not only in the book industry that this happens.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 32px;"> Compared to the fifties, women have came a long way. Now we see women working and holding higher position jobs. Instead of being a teacher (which was expected of women back in the day), women are now doctors, executives C.E.O’s, etc. Even though women are still portrayed as weak, dependent on their male friend, some women go beyond the status quo and achieve and prove that women can hold a high position just as a man. Gender Roles, even today is still relevant in our society but it’s not as </span><span style="line-height: 32px;">prominent</span><span style="line-height: 32px;"> as it once was. More and more women are going to work and some are even the </span><span style="line-height: 32px;">bread</span><span style="line-height: 32px;"> winner of their own home.<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">English 114 B<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Have you ever wondered why we are the people we are? What shapes us to be the people we end up being in the future? Is it the way our parents raise us, the nurture they give us, is it solely our nature that shapes us, the events that we are faced with, the people we meet or even how we develop according to the four stages of identity? Or, could it be a combination of all five? In Bruce’s case, we can see that his parents, the people he met and the situations he and his younger twin brother, Brian were put while growing up, shaped them into the adults they grew up to be, which left them with emotional and psychological trauma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> While we are kids, more than one thing shapes us into being the adults we eventually end up being. It’s a mixture of the situations we’re put in, the people we meet, how our parents nurture us, and how we develop accordingly to the 4 stages of identity. Those whose parents nurtured them correctly, and went through the four stages of development in a healthy manner, turn out to be a “normal” member of society; by normal, meaning that said person develops to be a healthy--mentally, physically and emotionally. While others, on the other hand like Bruce, whose situation was an odd, yet had a negative affect on him.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Ron and Janet had a normal life when their twin baby boys, Bruce and Brian were born. But because of some health issues that the twin baby boys needed to get a circumcision. That is where everything changed for the Reimers. The doctor, who was to do the procedure on the twin boys, used an incorrect tool for the circumcision. The first who was to be circumcised was baby boy Bruce, the oldest twin, it was supposed to be a quick and simple procedure. But what happened was anything but quick and simple. The tool that was used to cut off the foreskin on the baby’s penis actually burned off baby Bruce’s penis. Because of this the doctors decided not to follow through with the procedure with the other twin, Brian. This event changed the Reimers’ lives forever. Ron and Janet had gone to doctors to see what could be done about their baby boy, but it had seemed that everything was just hopeless.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> One day, while Ron and Janet were watching T.V, they saw Dr. John Money, a well-known psychologist at Johns Hopkins being interviewed and talking about sex change, gave the Reimers hope. Immediately, Janet contacted Money and soon, the couple was on their way to Boston to meet Dr. John Money. There, Dr. Money had given assurance to the young couple that if they did decide in giving their boy a sex-reassignment that the boy would live like a normal woman and function as well, the only thing is that she wouldn’t be able to conceive. Dr. Money convinced them that they could nurture their boy to be a girl. But before the sex-reassignment, Money told the young couple to takes some steps, like changing the baby’s name, “Within days of their return from Baltimore, Ron and Janet stopped cutting the baby’s hair, allowing the soft, light brown locks to curl down past the ears. Janet used her sewing machine to turn his pajamas in to girlish granny gowns. Their son had become, for Ron and Janet, their daughter. Dr. Money had counseled them, when deciding what to call their new daughter…. Janet, following Dr. Money’s instructions, called her new baby daughter Brenda Lee” (Colapinto 53). After consulting with Dr. John Money, the parents eventually slowly, but surely changed their boy into a girl. Believing they could nurture their now daughter, into being a girl, ignoring that genetically speaking, she was a boy and hoping that the boy in her didn’t come out. This could lead to a lot of psychological problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Because Ron and Janet tried their best to nurture baby girl Brenda into a girl, ignoring the fact that nature played a big role into molding Brenda as an adult. They did what ever they thought a girl should do and what a boy shouldn’t do, “Ron and Janet tried their best to do just that. They furnished her with dolls to play with; they tried to teach her to be neat and tidy; and they tried, whenever possible to reinforce her identity as a girl. So when, for instance, the twins had just turned four, and Brian was watching Ron shave and asked if he could shave, too, Ron gave him an empty razor and some shaving cream to play with. When Brenda also clamored for a razor, Ron refused. “I told her that girls don’t shave”, Ron says. “ I told her girls don’t have to.”(Colpinto 56). Brenda at a young age showed interest in more manly things and Ron and Janet just ignored it, and forced her into more girly things. But the more they tried to steer her in that direction, the more they failed, “Brian says that the episode was typical of the way their parents tried to steer him and his sister Brenda into opposite sexes—and how such efforts were inevitably doomed to failure. “ I recognized Brenda as my sister,” Brian says. “But she never, ever acted the part.” (Colapinto 57). Nature played a big role in the Bruce’s development. He was just trying to act how he genetically was made. The more his parents forced the role of a girl and the idea of femininity into the young child, the more the child resisted. Which is unhealthy.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Because you’re constantly told that you’re a specific way, your whole life, you tend to be confused and it plays with you psychologically. When talking about his past, David mentions how he just wishes that that part of his life was completely erased, “It was like brainwashing,“ he was saying as if he lit the first in an unbroken chain of cigarettes. “I’d give just about anything to go to a hypnotist to black out my whole past. Because it’s torture. What they did to you in the body is sometimes not as near as bad as what they did to you in the mind-- with the psychological warfare in your head.”” (Colapinto, xiii). This could be dangerous, being told you’re one thing and feeling something else, especially when you’re at that age when you’re trying to find your identity and who you are. Your adolescent years are very crucial to your development as well as your childhood. During this time, you go through what Erick Erickson called, the four stages of development. The first identity achievement, which occurs when an individual has gone through an exploration of different identities and made a commitment to one; the second stage of identity is moratorium, which is the status of a person who is actively involved in exploring different identities, but has not made a commitment; then it is foreclosure status, which is when a person has made a commitment without attempting identity exploration, and finally, identity diffusion which occurs when there is neither an identity crisis or commitment.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> Erickson’s four stages of identity explain a lot when it’s relating to adolescent development. If one goes through the stages in a healthy manner, then they will most likely lead a happier life. Once one reaches identity achievement, which is after figuring out the different identities, they commit to it, everything is easier. Why? Because after searching for one’s identity, and thinking about who they are, when they find one that they’re happy with, everything tends to fall into place. When one reaches that stage in identity, they know how they are and they tend to start looking for a group where they would fit in and feel safe. It’s a satisfaction one gets by knowing who they are and in what category they fit in without constantly having to doubt or think about it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> However, when one has not reached identity achievement, and they are in the earlier stages, it can be hazardous. Because they feel like one does not belong to a certain group, per say, they will most likely be angry and upset all the time because they lack knowledge of who they are and they will more than likely be isolated. We clearly see it in David Reimers case. David Reimer, before successfully killing himself, did try to kill him self before his suicide. At one point, according to David, he tried to coincide with what he was told his identity was. Meaning, he tried putting on make-up and started to wear clothing that a girl her age would typically wear, just to make his parents happy. Even though on the inside, he himself was not satisfied. This, as mentioned in one of the points earlier did affect David greatly because his whole life, he was trying to cope with figuring out who he was. He felt a different way than what he was told he was. This ultimately shaped him into being the adult he was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 24px;"> </span>Another thing that vastly affects the development and shapes us as adults is the people we meet and the situations we are put in. After the sex reassignment, Dr. John Money requested to meet up annually with the twins and Brenda alone. During these sessions, Money would make the twins do things that would get him fired, “But the children did not enjoy these enforced activities—particularly those involving “play at thrusting movements and copulation,” which Brian recalls that Dr. Money first introduced when the twins were six years old. Money, he says, would make Brenda assume a position on all fours on his office sofa and make Brian come up behind her on his knees and place his crotch against her buttock” (Colapinto 87). This is a traumatizing experience for 6 year olds to go through. Because Money wanted to be right in his experiment, he did what ever it took to get the results he wanted. Even if it meant hurting someone else. This part of the counseling left a deep scar on both twins, “ Today David is still unwilling to speak about it. “There are some things I don’t want to remember,” he says. In 1989 he did describe the sessions to Jane Fontane, the woman who would become his wife. The tow had just watched a TV documentary on CIA torture involving electro shock to people’s genitals. “He cried hysterical,” Jane told me. He was crying about John Money. I’d never seen him like that.” (Colapinto 87). Here we see that that those specific counseling sessions left David traumatized, but not only David, but Brian as well. Since this is a form of abuse, it highly affected them. In Jane and Greg Cook’s book , “the world of children”, Childhood abuse may also have a permanent effect on the brain structure. The limbic system, important for regulating emotion and memory, seems to be especially affected. Stress is a toxic agent that can disrupt normal brain development”(Teicher, 2002). We don’t know how much the twins’ cognitive development was affected by this, but after wards they refused to go and refused to see Dr. Money. When he went to their house, they were stubborn and refused to see him.<span style="font-size: 9pt; line-height: 24px;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ultimately, situations we are put in also leave a scar and traumatize us. Because David didn’t fit in with the other students since he first started going to school, he would get made fun of so much. Being bullied severely affects one. The type of bullying that David had gone through was verbal and rational. Verbally, people would call him things such as “ape”, rational; he would be excluded from many groups within the school. According to Guadalupe Espinoza, kids who are bullied are more likely to be depressed, have suicidal thoughts and have social anxiety. In the book, David tells John Colapinto that he’s tried committing suicide as when he was older after having the sex change.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As we grow up, the events that we end up going through shapes us, as well as the people we meet and how our parents decide to raise us. It could be a bad thing or a good thing; some unfortunately have such a difficult child hood that when they are adults, most of them have a depressing life. The Reimer twins died tragically – they both committed suicide. Of course, they had many reasons why they had committed suicide, but what they went through in their childhood, had vastly affected them. Even if you try, the memory of what you went through will always stick around. And the twins had gone through so much.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Colapinto, John. <i>As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl</i>. New York: HarperCollins, 2000. Print. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #7f6000; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cook, Greg, and Joan Littlefield. Cook. <i>The World of Children</i>. Boston, MA: Allyn & Bacon, 2010. Print. </span></div>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-60007888824099906992012-04-30T03:32:00.001-07:002012-04-30T03:32:43.542-07:00Our childhood and how it vastly affects us as adults<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Have you ever wondered why we are
the people we are? What shapes us to be the people we end up being in the
future? Is it the way our parents raise us, the nurture they give us, is it
solely our nature that shapes us, the events that we are faced with, or even
the people we meet? Or, could it be a combination of all four? In the Bruce’s
case, we can see that his parents, the people he met and the situations him and
his younger twin brother, Brian were put while growing up, shaped them into the
adults they grew up to be, which left them an emotional and psychological
trauma. While we are kids, more than one thing shapes us into being the adults
we eventually end up being. It’s a mixture of the situations we’re put in, the
people we meet, and our nature as well as how our parents nurture us. Some turn
out to be “normal” while others; on the other have an unfortunate event. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ron and Janet had a normal life when
their twin baby boys, Bruce and Brian were born. But because of some health
issues that the twin baby boys needed to get a circumcision. That is where
everything changed for the Reimer’s. The doctor, who was to do the procedure on
the twin boys, used an incorrect tool for the circumcision. The first who was
to be circumcised was baby boy Bruce, the oldest twin, it was supposed to be a
quick and simple procedure. But what happened was anything but quick and
simple. The tool that was used to cut off the foreskin on the baby’s penis led
to Bruce’s penis to be burned off. Because of this the doctors decided not to
do this to the other twin boy, Brian. This event changed the Reimer’s lives
forever. Ron and Janet had gone to doctors to see what could be done about
their baby boy, but it had seemed that everything was just hopeless. Until one
day, while Ron and Janet were watching T.V, they saw Dr. John Money, a well-known
psychologist at Johns Hopkins being interviewed and talking about sex change,
gave the Reimer’s hope. Immediately, Janet contacted Money and soon, the couple
was on their way to Boston to meet John Money. There, Dr. Money had given
assurance to the young couple that if they did decide in giving their boy a
sex-reassignment that the boy would live like a normal woman and function as
well, the only thing is that she wouldn’t be able to conceive. Dr. Money
convinced them that they could nurture their boy to be a girl. But before the
sex-reassignment, Money told the young couple to takes some steps, like changing
the baby’s name, “Within days of their return from Baltimore, Ron and Janet
stopped cutting the baby’s hair, allowing the soft, light brown locks to curl
down past the ears. Janet used her sewing machine to turn his pajamas in to
girlish granny gowns. Their son had become, for Ron and Janet, their daughter.
Dr. Money had counseled them, when deciding what to call their new daughter….
Janet, following Dr. Money’s instructions, called her new baby daughter Brenda
Lee” (Colapinto, 53). After consulting with Dr. John Money, the parents
eventually slowly, but surely changed their boy into a girl. Believing they
could nurture their now daughter, into being a girl, ignoring that genetically
speaking, she was a boy and hoping that the boy in her didn’t come out. This
could lead to a lot of psychological problems. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because Ron and Janet tried their best
to nurture baby girl Brenda into a girl, ignoring the fact that nature played a
big role into molding Brenda as an adult. They did what ever they thought a
girl should do and what a boy shouldn’t do, “Ron and Janet tried their best to
do just that. They furnished her with dolls to play with; they tried to teach
her to be neat and tidy; and they tried, whenever possible to reinforce her
identity as a girl. So when, for instance, the twins had just turned four, and
Brian was watching Ron shave and asked if he could shave, too, Ron gave him an
empty razor and some shaving cream to play with. When Brenda also clamored for
a razor, Ron refused. “I told her that girls don’t shave”, Ron says. “ I told
her girls don’t have to.”(Colpinto 56). Brenda at a young age showed interest
in more manly things and Ron and Janet just ignored it, and forced her into
more girly things. But the more they tried to steer her, the more they failed,
“Brian says that the episode was typical of the way their parents tried to
steer him and his sister Brenda into opposite sexes—and how such efforts were
inevitably doomed to failure. “ I recognized Brenda as my sister,” Brian says.
“But she never, ever acted the part.” (Colapinto 57). Nature played a big role
in the Bruce’s development. He was just trying to act how he genetically was
made. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Because you’re constantly told that
you’re a specific way, your whole life, you tend to be confused and it plays
with you psychologically. When talking about his past, David mentions how he
just wishes that that part of his life was completely erased, “It was like
brainwashing, “ he was saying as if he lit the first in an unbroken chain of
cigarettes. “I’d give just about anything to go to a hypnotist to black out my
whole past. Because it’s torture. What they did to you in the body is sometimes
not as near as bad as what they did to you in the mind-- with the psychological
warfare in your head.”” (Colapinto, xiii). This could be dangerous, being told
you’re one thing and feeling something else. According to child and adolescent
development, when one reaches adolescent, one goes through 4 stages of
identity: 1) Identity Achievement, 2) Identity foreclosure, 3) identity
diffusion, 4) Identity moratorium. Identity achievement is the status in which
an adolescent has experienced and worked through the crises and has made a commitment.
Identity foreclosure is when the adolescent has experienced very little crises
but has a made a commitment based on what other have said he is and what should
be. The adolescent has take on an identity without much self-examination or
questioning. At one point, while he was an adolescent, David recalls that he
tried his best to comply with being a girl. It worked for a while, but he wasn’t
happy. David, was just angry and upset. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Another thing that vastly affects the
development and shapes us as adults is the people we meet and the situations we
are put in. After the sex reassignment, Dr. John Money requested to meet up
annually with the twins and Brenda alone. During these sessions, Money would
make the twins do things that would get him fired, “But the children did not
enjoy these enforced activities—particularly those involving “play at thrusting
movements and copulation,” which Brian recalls that Dr. Money first introduced
when the twins were six years old. Money, he says, would make Brenda assume a
position on all fours on his office sofa and make Brian come up behind her on
his knees and place his crotch against her buttock” (Colapinto 87). This is a
traumatizing experience for 6 year olds to go through. Because Money wanted to
be right in his experiment, he did what ever it took to get the results he
wanted. Even if it meant hurting someone else. This part of the counseling left
a deep scar on both twins, “ Today David is still unwilling to speak about it.
“There are some things I don’t want to remember,” he says. In 19898 he did
describe the sessions to Jane Fontane, the woman who would become his wife. The
tow had just watched a TV documentary on CIA torture involving electro shock to
people’s genitals. “He cried hysterical,” Jane told me. He was crying about
John Money. I’d never seen him like that.” (Colapinto 87). Here we see that
that those specific counseling sessions left David traumatized, but not only
David, but Brian as well. Since this is a form of abuse, it highly affected
them. In Jane and Greg Cook’s book , “the world of children”, Childhood abuse
may also have a permanent effect on the brain structure. The limbic system,
important for regulating emotion and memory, seems to be especially affected.
Stress is a toxic agent that can disrupt normal brain development”(Teicher,
2002). We don’t know how much the twins’ cognitive development was affected by
this, but after wards they refused to go and refused to see Dr. Money. When he
went to their house, they were stubborn and refused to see him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ultimately, situations we are put in
also leave a scar and traumatize us. Because David didn’t fit in with the other
students since he first started going to school, he would get made fun of so
much. Being bullied severely affects one. The type of bullying that David had
gone through was verbal and rational. Verbally, people would call him things
such as “ape”, rational; he would be excluded from many groups within the
school. According to Guadalupe Espinoza, kids who are bullied are more likely
to be depressed, have suicidal thoughts and have social anxiety. In the book,
David tells John Colapinto that he’s tried committing suicide as when he was
older after having the sex change. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As we grow up, the events that we end up
going through shapes us, as well as the people we meet and how our parents
decide to raise us. It could be a bad thing or a good thing; some unfortunately
have such a difficult child hood that when they are adults, most of them have a
depressing life. The Reimer twins died tragically – they both committed suicide.
Of course, they had many reasons why they had committed suicide, but what they
went through in their childhood, had vastly affected them. Even if you try, the
memory of what you went through will always stick around. And the twins had gone through so much. <o:p></o:p></div>
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For my final essay, I wanted to write about how early
childhood effects one, as they grow older. How the events and situations that
one is put in when they are young shapes the character or who they are when
they’re older. Using Brenda/David and his twin brother Brian as an example. I
decided on this subject because everyday, we are molded into the people we are
or who we eventually are going to be. What mold us are experiences, peoples,
and situations we are confronted with. Traumatizing situations from childhood does
have an effect on one, which can be a positive or a negative one, depending on
the person and how they try to accept it. We can see in Brenda and Brian’s life
that because what they went through, they were the adults that they were.
David, born Bruce, was a healthy baby boy whose penis got cut off due to an
unfortunate circumcision accident and later had a sex re-assignment to a girl,
who was called Brenda. I will be discussing how the experiences that they went
through with Dr. Money shaped them and then how this gender identity did too. I
guess the question to my essay is: “how strongly does our experiences effect
us?” Because we can clearly see that the
situation that the Reimer twins went through with Dr. Money vastly shaped them
to the person they were in adulthood. However, if they wanted too, they could
have changed, in my opinion, it was just harder for them. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<br /></div>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-71379728264183000592012-04-16T00:42:00.000-07:002012-04-16T00:48:39.621-07:00Part Deux: As Nature Made Him response<br />
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About two weeks ago, I finished reading the book as nature
made him by John Colpinto; where he depicts the life of David Reimer (also
known as: Bruce, and Brenda) and his life as a boy, to girl back to a male. His
story is unique because he was born a healthy baby boy and due to an
unfortunate circumcision accident, his parents, with the advice of Dr. Money
had a sex reassignment to a girl. Colpinto just depicts the life of David as he
grows up; emotionally, physically and psychological. <o:p></o:p></div>
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The more I got to analyze this story, the strongly I felt
against Dr. Money and his theory. I just think that it was so unfair that he
was so pompous and stubborn that he didn’t care about the life he was ruining—or
shall I say lives; yeah, lives sound better, for the sake of his reputation. He
ruined the lives of the reimer family, he tried to put his “theories”
and tried to make Brenda happy with whom she was, even though on the inside he/she was miserable. We can clearly see that the twin's ending is not your typical, "and they lived happily ever after", because of Dr. Money's meddling and stubbornness. the scars that were left were deep, which hugely affected the twins, even in the later years of their lives. Another thing that upset me was the things he made the
twins do, it was completely disturbing. Dr. Money tried messing
with nature and nature came back and bit him in the arsenal (I apologize for my
lack of better words). Another thing I realized while we discussed this in
class was nature vs nurture go hand in hand. You cannot believe that one is
greater than the other, and we can see in this case how nurture did not work. <o:p></o:p></div>
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What I learned about gender identity is that your identity
(well the majority of it) comes from within, how you feel and not by how your
parents dress you, not by how people tell you how you should feel. In David’s
case, even though he was dressed as a girl, he felt like a boy. His thoughts
were boyish; his attitudes were more masculine than feminine, boyish things
interested him. But he was constantly told that he was something else. Gender
Identity is not the sex you were born, it’s how you feel. Also with
construction, I’ve felt that if you feel that you should change, then do it. Because
you feel like you’re old enough to make your own decisions and how you feel. What
the Reimers should have done, what Dr. Diamond stated is that: they (parents of
those who went through the same situation as David) should let the children
decide when they are aware of their gender identity. When they know who they
are, even if you’re 4 years old, kids know who they are. Maybe it won’t be 100%
but they know. <o:p></o:p></div>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-28804895658778715482012-04-08T23:15:00.001-07:002012-04-08T23:15:21.447-07:00As Nature Made Him blog response numero uno<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Reading “As nature made him” brought mixed thoughts,
reactions. While reading this, I didn’t know what to expect and as I read more
into it, I was just getting more upset and Dr. Money. I was so upset with him
because he didn’t take the twin’s feelings into consideration, and all he
wanted was to look good. He was ambitious and didn’t stop at nothing. When he
was questioned, he would get agitated and yell. But aside from that, as I read
it I realized that even if you’re born a certain gender, it doesn’t mean it
determines how you act, if that makes any sense? I feel that you’re born a certain
way and you can’t, even if you try psychologically make someone feel a certain
way. In Bruce’s example, even though he was a girl, he never felt like a girl,
no matter how much he tried to feel like a girl and fit in. The parents tried
their best to make him fit into society. David’s (Bruce or Brenda’s) accident
was a horrible one, and his parents out of love did something so he won’t feel
left out. But in the end, it just made things worse. This happened during the 60’s 70’s, during the
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As I said earlier, I
feel as if gender does not determine how you feel (feminine or masculine). A
woman can be a woman, but if she doesn’t feel like one, regardless of the times
she’s told one, she won’t be happy. Like Bruce’s case. <o:p></o:p></div>
<!--EndFragment-->Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-10037503952377646692012-04-08T22:48:00.000-07:002012-04-08T22:48:05.696-07:00Space: influencing character? (Persepolis)<br />
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Space is everywhere. I’m not talking about the outer space,
where the nebulas, and different planets are (although, that is a space). But
space: where one goes to relax, to read, heck even personal space is space.
Space doesn’t necessarily means a room with four walls; it could be outside in
a park, beach, and mountains. Space does determine who we are, too; or it
shapes us, it can mold our characters. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In Persepolis, we see the different spaces that Marjane
finds herself in. These spaces transform, and shape Marjane, whether or not she
sees it. For Example, in the beginning of the book, when Marjane is explaining
her childhood, she was a very imaginative child. She talked to God; she thought
that she was going to be a prophet. Even though her parents weren’t so
religious, but she read books about religion.
Also, as the Islamic revolution starts, and Marjane starts finding out
about heroes she wants to learn more about them and she is more interested in
different governments, this is where a seed is planted, where she starts
getting more interested in politics which later on shape her more. As she grows
older, Marjane gets more politically involved because she knows more and she is
more aware of her surroundings, she starts rebelling and questions her teachers
to a point where she almost gets expelled. In the book, her parents decide it’s
best that they send her to Austria. Here, is also another space where Marjane
inherits a different persona. The people she met change her, and she starts
smoking weed and even sells it, and starts dating. When she goes back to Iran,
she enrolls into an art school with her then husband. Because she wanted
freedom, she got married, thinking that she loved him, but the marriage didn’t
last. During the “space of marriage” I guess you can say, she wasn’t the same
Marjane. Although her husband wasn’t those, “macho” men, Marjane would still
just lounge around her parents’ house, and dind’t talk to her parents—to a
point that her father had told her that she was just being lazy and wasn’t
doing much with her life. All of these influenced her a great deal, it in a way
shaped who she was whether it was permanent or temporary, but these spaces
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The Gender
roles changes in Iran and in the west; in Iran, the women (after the
revolution) women where required to hear the veil and the long skirts, barely
showing any skin. Whilst in the West, it’s not strict as far as dress code
goes. But it seems that women in Iran
were more oppressed, and they didn’t have the chance to do much. A great
example is for marriage. Women couldn’t divorce, without the husbands consent.
While in the west, well, a woman can get divorced on her own account and
doesn’t have to ask for her husbands permission. It exemplifies part of the gender
role. Women aren’t allowed to do much in Iran. While in the west, there are
different gender roles, but it doesn’t oppress women’s right.<o:p></o:p></div>
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Okay so I came across this video whilst tumblring (Yes, I just made up a word using tumblr in the past tense). But while I was on tumblr, I came across this and it reminded me of our class discussion on Monday, I believe? When I mentioned points similar the the points she mentions here in the video. The day Syuzanna called me a feminist (I honestly, do not understand why I remember this, but I do) although, twilight and the hunger games should not be compared because they are completely different plots they DO have similarities. Also, this coincides with all the topics we've discussed pertaining to gender roles, Also, because we're about to read "as nature made him". As a hunger games fan myself, I agree with her to a certain extent--to which I won't mention here unless asked. I just wanted to share this with you guys because this was the topic on Monday and I find it funny when she mentions twilight because as you all know, I'm not a twilight fan. But enjoy! /END RANT/</div>
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Btw, "may the odds be ever in your favor" :3 (le kitty face)</div>
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMliYMGp7HI&feature=relmfu"></a>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-50374150916486486762012-03-25T23:24:00.001-07:002012-03-25T23:24:36.354-07:00project spaceFor project space the group and I decided to go to different parks. Due to lack of transportation and time management, I was only able to visit one park. The park I decided to go to was Northridge Park, by Reseda and Devonshire. Around the park there were restaurants and houses, the houses seemed to be in a secluded area though, the streets were not main streets. Also, around the vicinity of the park there is a police station. When I went it was on a Tuesday around 6:30, the sun was still out, but it was soon to turn a little dark. The people that I saw were couples jogging, there was a kids working out area, and what seemed to me to be an exercise, people who were in their mid twenties to thirties and forties were working out and taking the class; both men and women. Also, by the basketball court I saw a lot of men in their early/mid twenties playing basketball. It was a nice park, clean with a lot of facilities and it seemed like they offered a lot of classes. A lot of the people were there after work it seems, to blow of steam or to relax. The ethnicity varied, too. I didn’t see just one group. Also, there were kids practicing soccer. Since it was a Tuesday, I think many were there to relax or to get their work out. It wasn’t a lot of people either, not compared to how it would be on a sunny Saturday afternoon. The park itself was very nice and clean. I can't say it was your standard park, because each park depending on the neighborhood is different. But it was a middle-upper class park. It was clean and you didn't see graffiti, and it offered many classes. I visited a park in Los Angeles once, and it was not as nice as this one, it wasn't clean nor did it seem like people cared taking care of it. So depending on the area you're living in, the park will reflect a lot about the neighborhood.Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-85794135536505909342012-03-05T02:51:00.002-08:002012-03-05T02:54:03.886-08:00my essay<br />
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Ever since we can remember, we’ve had
this idea of how a certain gender should be. Whether or not we notice, Gender
Roles seem to have a huge impact in the society we live in. In advertisements
we see the masculine male, who is handsome, buff, which is related to strong.
If he is with a woman, the woman is usually beautiful, tiny, and delicate,
which can be related to weakness. In Disney movies, we’ve always seen the same
old plot that a handsome prince comes and saves a damsel in distress. But it’s not
only in Disney movies in which we see that. In movies that are out today we
sometimes see that the huge role that gender roles partake in. Even in real
life, outside from movies we see that gender roles have a huge influence. Women
are usually seen as the caring, who provide warmth and love while men who are
usually seen as the strong, “macho”, and the breadwinner. In the 1950’s and
even in the present, we see this. In the 1950’s a lot of women stayed home and
were the housewife and took care of the kids and had a home cooked meal for the
family while the husband was away at work. Today, we still see this, but it’s
not as present as it was back then. Gender Roles has also influenced us on how
we live, on popular culture, such as movies and even in books. Even in
advertisements we see gender roles. The graphic Novel, the Surrogates uses
gender roles that are similar to how gender roles are viewed in society in real
life. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> In the graphic Novel, the surrogates we
are taken to a society where people from the comfort of their own home operates
as surrogates. These surrogates are robots who look how one wants them to look.
This allows the owner to do normal day-to-day errands or activities without
leaving the comfort of their own home. We are introduced to the main character a man
named Harvey Greer, who is on the case to find the person who is trying to kill
off these surrogates because of these surrogates, people are forgetting what is
real and they would rather be lazy and not enjoy life and they let vanity
control their life. Harvey Greer, is a policeman, that seems to be strong, and
in the end comes to his senses on the dangers of surrogates, and seems to be
strong. In the novel, we are introduced to Harvey’s wife Margaret. Margaret is
so consumed with her surrogate because it makes her young and feels beautiful.
She can’t stand the fact that she is aging and when her husband Harvey tries
knocking some sense into her, she won’t budge. The gender role that is being
exemplified here is that while the man has common sense, he tried telling her
that she didn’t need the surrogate that he wanted to see the real her, she
wouldn’t listen. It showed that women could only care about how they look. At
the end of the novel, Margaret commits suicide after the surrogates were
disabled. Also, another gender role that were seen in the book was the creator
of the original surrogate actually was a woman named victoria who changed her
name to Victor. The reason why she chose to change her name and gender was
simply because a woman could not be taken seriously and men could, so in order
to be taken seriously because she was a woman, she had to change. It showed
that for some reason women were untrustworthy and maybe even delicate. We’ve
always had an idea that strength is by how big are a man’s muscle. In the
novel, the gender role that were perceived is that men were strong and the
rational ones, while women were untrustworthy and vain. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> Women tend to be viewed as vain because
of how the media portrays us. In real life, we see magazines and it’s women
usually beautiful celebrities trying to sell us a product. If you pay close
attention, you will see that the product that they are trying to sell us is a
beauty product. We also see how a women’s role is viewed as vain in the shampoo
section or the hair product section at target, or Wal-Mart. Shampoo and
conditioner is a unisex product, but it seems to be appealing more towards
women then men. You do see the shampoo that does say “for men” but those are
very limited. Because women care more for beauty product, companies try to get
their attention more. It just shows that many think that one of the many roles
that a woman can play is being vain. Or in television shows, they always make a
joke about how a girl must always go shopping in order to be happy, or we see
in a show or we’ve all encountered a friend that can’t go out because they have
no make up on. It is a sad reality that we have this idea on how women are
supposed to look or how man is supposed to look because of the gender role that
we’ve came to know. In the book, Margaret was so vain that she would rather
commit suicide when her surrogate who was younger was disconnected. She did not
want to see herself nor accept the reality that we all age and we all grow up that
beauty is not only in youth, but as we grow older too. Another juxtaposition
from the novel and in real life is when the creator of the surrogates’ name is
Victor, but in reality it’s actually victoria. She chose to do this because she
as not taken seriously as a woman. Maybe because they’re not viewed as smart as
men? Or is it because they are viewed as weak? Whatever reason it may be, she
decided to change her name to a manlier name. It just in a way proves that many
believe that in order to be successful, you must be a man. A case like this
that happened in real life was in S.E Hinton’s life. The author of a great
book, “the outsiders” decided to change her name because probably many thought
that a woman could not write a book about gangs the way she did. In order for
her books to sell or get published for that matter, she had to change her name
to make it seem like a man wrote it. Which isn’t fair because women can write a
book just as good as a man, but because of gender role and the perception many have,
it just makes it difficult for a woman to be taken serious at times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> The gender roles that are found in the
surrogates can be easily related to the gender roles that are in real life.
Many have this view on how women should be or how a man should be. It was
showed how Margret was seen as this woman who just loved beauty more than her
husband and wasn’t happy because she wasn’t young. And Victoria becoming Victor
just to be taken seriously. We see this in real life because how the media can
sometimes portray women, as women who are more bout their beauty more than anything
else, or women have to change their name in order for their book to be
published. But it’s not only in the book industry that this happens. Many women
will not be taken seriously in a job that is only male dominant because they
are viewed as weak. Gender role is everywhere. Unfortunately, nothing can be
done about it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman';"> <o:p></o:p></span></div>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-51041300120040210592012-03-05T02:45:00.001-08:002012-03-05T02:45:19.157-08:00The place that my group and I decided to visit was the botanical gardens which is located near Chaparral hall. We just roamed around, until we found a cool green house that you could visit that had many exotic and beautiful plants and flowers. Because it was ten in the morning, my group and I were the only people roaming around the place. It was empty but it was really nice. I think the purpose of that place was just to educate those who are in biology about plants and science, although, it's not very big. But any one can go and visit if they'd like and see around. It just serves more of a learning place rather than a place to relax.Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-22969429403541614532012-02-20T01:00:00.001-08:002012-02-20T01:00:47.127-08:00<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">4)<span new=""> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">Explore gender roles in </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">Gamer</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;"> and/or </span><i style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">The Surrogates</i><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; text-indent: -24px;">For my essay, I decided to write on number four and expand. I wanted to expand on how women are treated and compare and contrast on the surrogates and the gamer. Also, I want to write about how men are viewed in both films.</span>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-74577847108043029352012-02-13T23:29:00.000-08:002012-02-13T23:29:34.501-08:00Is this where we are heading?The movie "Gamer" looks at society and how maybe it would be in the future. At first, I wasn't interested in it, but because we were reading the surrogates, I found it more interesting because both, movie and novel surprisingly went hand in hand. In the graphic novel, people control robot type people called surrogates, from pretty much the comfort of their own home. They can control how their surrogates look like, what they do, without actually being there. To me, it's pretty much saying, "Hey chromosomes, I don't like how you combined and my genetic makeup sucks and I'm not happy with myself, so I will make myself my ideal self". In the movie Gamer we see something similar, people can control an avatar and make them interact, like a real life sim. Also, in the movie we find the main character, Kable a convict by force (I say by force because the main guy who is control of the society made him kill someone), being controlled by a teenage in a game called slayer. The game would put convicted fellons into battles and if they win 30 battles, they are forgiven.<br />
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In the film there is this group called Humanz. Humanz hijack the television show and games and explains to people that soon they will be controlled by the guy who invented society and slayers pretty soon. I believe that their whole purpose was to bring out the truth of what was actually going on, which unfortunately, not many people knew what was happening because they were brain washed. As I was watching the rest of this film, I always went back to the surrogates and the novel Fahrenheit 451. These three have a resemblance in the sense that if we don't change, soon enough we will be controlled by government or someone and we won't be happy with ourselves. Also, in both the surrogates and Fahrenheit 451, they have someone who tries to bring people back to reality.<br />
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Although it was just a film, it kinda scares me that soon we may or may not be in the same or similar situation as in the movie gamer or even the novels. So many are using their free time or their entire day devoted to television, internet or video games. What people do with their lives, it's up to them. But it just seems scary that even in reality we do is spend our times on the interent rather than going out. I know this isn't for everyone, but it seems the majority do these, then again, I could be wrong. But as I was analyzing this, I kept thinking to myself: "is this the way that we are heading too?" because if it is, soon identity, freedom, authenticity would be soon gone... which is a scary thoughtJo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-14265529532109484392012-02-06T00:00:00.000-08:002012-02-06T00:00:09.611-08:00Le video games.<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">2) Write a blog arguing for or against the proposition that the heavy use of RPGs can blur one's ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px;">"can heavy use of RPGs blur one's ability to distinguish between fantasy and reality?" I have to say that my answer to this question is, yes. just by reading the first few paragraphs of "videogames, avatar, and identity" proved my answer to be true. The writer claims that he was supposed to be in bed, but in reality he kept thinking about his game and that is what deprived him from sleep. That he kept thinking about his avatar. In my honest opinion, I believe that if you let one thing have the most of your time, then eventually it will disorient you from reality. In this case, if you play RPGs games constantly, chances are that you will feel a little out of place in the real world because your mind is so consumed with playing a video game. To a point that even when you're not playing and actually doing your every day thing, your mind would be so consumed by it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">I can sort of relate, in a way. My summer before going to ninth grade I got my hands on the SIMS 2. It seems silly, but the amount of hours I spent playing that silly game is ridiculous. Because at that time, I couldn't go out as much, until I had the house cleaned and I guess playing the sims was an escape? I created my avatar, and honestly I just picked random stuff to create my avatar. I didn't really put much thought into it. But even though I didn't let it get to me as much, at one point it got that all I wanted to do was play that game. I guess it was nice dreaming about a life where it was easy. if you got bored quick, you could fast forward your day. and if you didn't have to go to school to be a doctor. there was something interesting about it, i just can't put my finger. But before anything, I realized I spent way to much time on it, and killed my avatar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;">But, to make my point yes it can. From personal experience, playing RPGs games can distort you form reality if played way too much. </span>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-49064737297784250882012-01-29T22:05:00.000-08:002012-01-29T22:05:18.418-08:00<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">Reading<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span>Implications of User Choice: The Cultural Logic of “MySpace or Facebook?” By Danah boyd, actually surprised me. It was surprising how many of the students she interviewed thought about the different socio-economic classes, and which would go to which specific social website. I think it surprised me because when I did the switch from facebook to myspace it was mainly because the majority of my friends went to facebook. Actually, I was one of the last people from my group of friends to get one, I at first refused to get a facebook because I hated that you couldn't personalize it, and it was all the same. Also because I knew how to work around Myspace, and I didn't want to learn how to use a new social website. But when I saw that more of my friends rarely went on Myspace, and I needed to talk to them, I just decided to go to facebook. I never really thought about what group decided to stay on myspace and what group decided to go to facebook. Personally, I find it rather inane that many believed Facebook was classier than Myspace, it's just a social website, where you interact. Although I can see where they may believe that facebook was classier, in a sense. Because more adults used facebook, just like adults used myspace in the beginning. But as both websites became popular, they got a wide variety of users from different ages. But in the end, they both served a common purpose: you found old friends through these websites that would take a long time with a different method, and it kept/keeps people in touch. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif;">As a facebook user, I have my facebook designed with pictures from church events or from when I hang out with friends, because I'm the one who always takes the pictures, so I just have that there. After re-activating it during winterbreak, I hardly update my status anymore. I would de-activate it again, but because I have family in El Salvador that uses facebook, I keep it just to talk to them. I just feel like it's a little less personal, and I just got bored of facebook, I guess that's why I just don't use it as much and I try not to post as much personal stuff on there. When I did deactivate it, I deactivated it because it did take a lot of my time out of school work. It was between deleting my facebook, or deleting my Tumblr. I chose to de-activate facebook instead, because I would spend more time on there than on any other website. Another reason being that I needed to focus on school more, I deactivated it a month before finals began, I believe that helped me a little bit. </span></div>Jo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6134100543730980477.post-56006604198017037322012-01-25T10:15:00.000-08:002012-01-25T10:15:59.758-08:00"Be it true or false, what is said about men often has as much influence
upon their lives, and especially upon their destinies, as what they
do."- Victor Hugo, Les MiserablesJo http://www.blogger.com/profile/13429977034462324999noreply@blogger.com0