Essays
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Resisting Gender Oppression throu...
Resisting Gender Oppression through Comedy The performativity of gender and gender stereotypes are enforced through society as a systematic device to classify and oppress all views that are not part of the dominant, masculine paradigm. ...
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Progressive Female Representation...
Progressive Female Representation in Comedy By Lauren Kaplan In the past century, comedy has transitioned from being a tool for social control and repression, to a form of rhetoric used to direct attention to disparities between minority and nor...
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Cultural Competence of the "Other"
This is a piece addressing the issues of abjection and otherness in mainstream society. The need to enhance cultural competence comes from being aware of the existing social construction of "norms." The essay assesses these aspects and reinforces the...
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Modern fanaticism is a different...
First, there is the material she uses: all her two-dimensional work — posters, woodcuts, charcoal drawings — is in black and white. The unartistic world that our eye perceives is ‘black and white’ only metaphorically, bu...
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DID and the Deconstruction of the...
The American Dream is one that is unattainable and yet idealized in capitalist American society as something that will, inevitably, lead to happiness. The American Dream is a concept that encompasses a number of priorities crucially important for...
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DID and the Deconstruction of the...
The American Dream is one that is unattainable and yet idealized in capitalist American society as something that will, inevitably, lead to happiness. The American Dream is a concept that encompasses a number of priorities crucially important for...
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The Novel: Fight Club as a Religi...
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Jihadism and Fight Club
In Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club, the religious imagery present in the text relates to the practices of extremist Islam rather than those of Christianity. Fight Club portrays instances of group expansion via social connections...
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Issues of Gender Identity and the...
Chuck Palahniuk’s novel Fight Club addresses issues of gender identity through the portrayal of the unnamed narrator and protagonist who struggles with the ability to reclaim his masculinity in a world overrun by consumerism and capitalism, a...
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Drum Circles on Welton St.
I've noticed lately, on warmer weekend afternoons in Five Points, some pick up drum circles on Welton St. and it brings a smile to my face every time I hear them. The other day, on my way to the store to pick up a jar of sweet relish (I like it in my...
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In Praise of Fortified Wines
ThunderbirdThunderbird is the iconic American fortified wine. Walk down any major skid row in America—Fifth Street in LA, Mission Street in Frisco, West Madison in Chicago—and shout out, “What’s the word?” And from behin...
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On the Light Rail with His Holine...
"I think that there has been a change in my attitude towards myself and others. Although it's difficult to point to the precise cause of this change, I think that it has been influenced by a realization, not full realization, but a certain feeling or...
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Walking Around Five Points...
In desperate need of some mayonnaise, a crucial element in my kitchen, I decided to walk to the grocery store and make an afternoon of it, the weather being as nice as it was that day. My one errand complete, I walked through Five Points, turning ran...
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A Perfect Meal.
Pasta a la me...Bring a pot of heavily salted water to boil (more salt than you might think, a good and trustworthy cook once told me that its pretty hard to over salt pasta water). Add a fistful of pasta and when done to taste, toss straight from th...
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As for Laws on Drinking...
The recent headlines about the selling of three two beer versus full strength beer in Colorado have got me thinking. The political, economical and social ramifications of selling full or half strength beer conveniently aside, it got me thinking abo...
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Beer vs. Wine.
"The culture of the hop, with the processes of picking, drying in the kiln, and packing for the market, as well as the uses to which it is applied, so analogous to the culture and uses of the grape, may afford a theme for future poets." ThoreauI thor...
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The Adulterous Act of Baking Brea...
"It doesn't cost much. It is pleasant: one of those almost hypnotic businesses, like a dance from some ancient ceremony. It leaves you filled with peace, and the house filled with one of the world's sweetest smells. But it takes a lot of time. If you...
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Close to Home-brew.
Grinning with glee, the old man ushered us into his house. Aside from a table and four chairs and an old, tattered easy chair, there was another furnishing that caught my eye and held it. Against the north wall stood a gleaming white refrigerator. ...
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On Fine Dining...
A few months away from officialities, I’d consider myself 30 years old. And while that may not be many years to speak of in the grand scheme, I’d consider it enough to speak of dining. I’ve dined at many places in my life (&hellip...
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Soul Satisfaction...
To eat and drink with grace, that is, with elegance and appreciation for form and with respect for function, is good for the soul; the inexplicable self in all of us, who happens to know the meaning of life, but stubbornly refuses to let us in on the...
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The Health Risks of Genetically M...
Chris Talarico The Health Risks of Genetically Modified Foods Throughout many areas of the world, the process of agriculture is shifting toward scientific techniques...
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Chords
Chords In one day, my life went from a note to a chord. The flat pitch of previous years became sharp. The blurry, muddy tone gained much needed clarity. I am of course talking about the day I picked up a guitar, and started teaching myself chords. ...
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The Odyssey
In the American west there are highways so long and straight that over desert flats the asphalt ribbon diminishes to the vanishing point in the rearview mirror and unspools interminably ahead. The driving is so easy that music is essential to imb...
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Major Essay