Post1: Oldmgastudent

The views on today's roles concerning gender, especially the female, are varied. My classmates have similar views, such as Michael Brinkley and Ariel Waller, who both think that the former roles have been changed and offer choices regarding roles within the modern family dynamic. Michael wrote that the "women in todays society are now capable of of bringing home the bacon." He also believes that the roles are now in some cases being reversed, with men electing to stay home and assume the role of homemaker. Ariel wrote about the roles being equal in today's world, and also contended that it allows us to feel free to attain college degrees and start our own businesses. In contrast Mr. Howard thinks that the modern roles females assume has been somewhat negative. He wrote that with womens liberation the "value of a man began to decrease". Imani on the other hand views the female empowerment as a positive. She wrote that "women want to do more than just st...

The expected role of women today are not much different from that of the nineteenth century. We are still expected to designate our main roles to that of wife and mother. Today, most women play the role of both wife and mother, but also as a contributing and equal member of the household and society. Nora, the protagonist in Ibsen's Dollhouse, plays the traditional role well, but then feels the need to become an independent person whose ideas and contributions are equally respected and appreciated within society and her home. She feels that in order for her to become the most successful person in her life, she needs to find out who she is. Her husband thinks that this is ridiculous and compares her thoughts to that of a child. However, in the end, the importance of educating herself and gaining her own independence, become most important. Women today do not have to make those choices. We have the option of getting our education and starting our careers before or during marriage. O...

The movie Usual Suspects which is a murder suspense, has one of the best plots in a movie I have ever seen.  The plot is about the events surrounding a gun battle on a boat, involving five criminals who met during a police lineup. The entire story is told by the lone survivor, a cripple named Roger "Verbal" Kent, who identifies the antagonist as Keyzer Soze. Keyzer is supposed to be a notorious mob boss who employs the five for various illegal jobs. No one ever saw him in person. In the end, it is revealed that Verbal, who no one paid attention to or gave much credit, as indeed Keyser. The way this movie was written kept me compelled from the beginning to the end. I thought I was rather good at figuring out the murderer, but this film proved me wrong.  

I love watching Golden Girls, whose main setting is a beautiful home in Miami, Florida. The setting represents the reason most retired people move to Florida, and is the focal point of solving most of the life issues presented to these four women. It is always more comfortable to be in ones home and to have your most intimate moments discussed with others who live with you.

E. E. Cummings poem "next to of course god america i" is filled with irony in reference to patriotism to our country and us going to war. He writes "why talk of beauty what could be more beautiful than our heroic happy dead" which is saying that our beautiful country sends our soldiers to die so they can be called heroes. The dead feels no emotions so calling them happy is ironic. XTC does the same in their song "dear god". The lyrics are a letter to God and the first verse begins with "Dear God", but then it ends with "I can't believe in you." If one is atheist why write a letter to God?

The Doors and Robert Frost both have lyrics in which the word night becomes the focal point but they both symbolized different meanings. Frost said " Proclaimed the time was neither wrong nor right. I have been one acquainted with the night." My interpretation of this is that the speaker has become acquainted with the feelings of loss and death. No one is aware of when it may strike and how it may make us feel but in the end, he knows the feelings personally. The Doors sang of the End of the Night and even though the melody is dark and somber their lyrics mean something different to me. "Take the highway to the end of the night" says come take a great adventure with me, lets get away from the darkness. This symbolizes getting enebriated as a means of escaping the bad things and going mentally to a brighter place.