Transitions into new phases of life and social contexts employs wit specifically to engage with transformative circumstances that challenge maturity, and the philosophical poise of an individual. The music video ‘Same Love’, composed by Ben Haggerty probes the life of a homosexual individual through a momentous time lapse, arising impediments as it explores the enduring themes of human condition; attitudes and beliefs, and the unique interpersonal bonds that define humanity. As such, through confronting and convivial repertoires, responders gain a greater understanding of their effect on individuals transitioning into new phases of life and social contexts.
Convivial semantics and experiences can shift attitudes and beliefs, forming prosperity
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Such notion overshadows the theme of homosexuality exhibited in ‘Same Love’. Responders wit are drawn specifically to a prominent game, ‘Spin the bottle’, that focalizes upon our protagonist through a zooming mid shot. The confronted persona reveals a moribund smile, apparent to his sexual ambition and thus impotence to participate in such inquisitive estate, albeit limiting the transition into new social contexts. Moreover, Haggerty proclaims the idea of social norms, through the visual “Man Made rewiring of a predisposition”. Such sentiment alludes to nihilistic perspectives on homosexuality by subjecting such individuals to erroneous composition, further reiterating confronting practise that demoralises the concept of transitioning into new social contexts. Furthermore, Haggerty employs one the three rhetorical appeals; ethos, pathos and logos, concocting credibility and proficiency through the anecdote “third grade, thought I was gay, I could draw, my uncle was… kept my room straight”. Audiences are drawn extensively to the existing fear of being homosexual, a confronting dovetail, further insinuating to the ethos appeal by illustrating societies malfeasance, limiting the youth’s transition into new social contexts. Hence, by addressing such confronting practise, responders are drawn to nihilistic
There are more than three billion people living on Earth; however, not everyone adores each other. On the other hand, if people met Bill and Bud, two main characters from The Tender Bar, they would find them charming. J.R. Moehringer wrote an emotional autobiography about himself and his devastating life, in The Tender Bar, J.R. walked into a bookstore in an unhabituated mall, and met Bill and Bud, who changes his life forever. Many youth, teens, and adults would find Bill and Bud likeable, because the pair of them are smart, optimist, and loving.
Imagine a time where every detail about your life (credit score, personality ranking, “hotness” ranking, etc.) was available to anybody around you through something similar to the present-day iPhone. Now imagine this world being reality. In Gary Shteyngart's Super Sad True Love Story, this idea is reality. Everybody in the world has an äppäräti, and everybody knows everything about one another. But is knowing everything about your friends and neighbors really a good thing, especially when the world around you is crumbling because of this knowledge? Perhaps it isn’t. As Bertrand Russell, a British philosopher, once said, “In all affairs, love, religion, politics, or business, it’s a healthy idea, now and then, to hang a question mark on things you have long taken for granted.” The relationship between Lenny Abramov and Eunice Park, the main characters of Super Sad True Love Story, could have used a question mark on how culture, media, business, and technology impacted their personal relationships throughout the book.
In the graphic novel Fun Home, by Allison Bechdel, sexual self-discovery plays a critical role in the development of the main character, Allison Bechdel herself; furthermore, Bechdel depicts the plethora of factors that are pivotal in the shaping of who she is before, during and after her sexual self-development. Bechdel’s anguish and pain begins with all of her accounts that she encountered at home, with her respective family member – most importantly her father – at school, and the community she grew up within. Bechdel’s arduous process of her queer sexual self-development is throughout the novel as complex as her subjectivity itself. Main points highlight the difficulties behind which are all mostly focused on the dynamics between her and her father. Throughout the novel, she spotlights many accounts where she felt lost and ashamed of her coming out and having the proper courage to express this to her parents. Many events and factors contributed to this development that many seem to fear.
A common practice when faced with a difficult choice, self-examination, is the centerpiece of two popular poems: Gregory Corso’s Marriage and T. S. Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock. Both poems are dramatic monologues in which the speakers address the similar situations that they find themselves in. While the speaker of Eliot’s poem has a nervous and bashful approach in his attempts at romance, the hesitant postmodern speaker in Corso’s poem makes use of sarcasm to attack the institution of marriage. When these two monologues given by similar personas are analyzed together the result is a dialogue which discusses two distinguishing views on the ideas of romance and love.
“Sexual identity is dead,” says Derrida; however, according to Hubbard[3] , it is not so much sexual identity that is dea...
This essay sets out to distinguish how male characters can be portrayed in the same fashion as their female counterparts, and therefore become subjected to the same erotic objectification. This will be researched under the circumstances that the production revolves around gay characters and the assumed audience is exchanged from a homogenous crowd of heterosexual spectators, to a homogenous crowd of homosexual spectators. To support this claim there will be references to a segment from the American remake of the television series Queer as Folk (USA, dev. Ron Cowen, Daniel Lipman, 2000-2005) where Brian Kinney (Gale Harold) and Justin Taylor (Randy Harris) first meet.
Sexuality is very diverse, in some instances normality is based on the cultural context of the individual 's society. In "The other side of desire" by Daniel Bergner, the author goes in depth into the lives of four individual 's whose lust and longing have led them far down the realms of desire. The current paper addresses the four individual 's Jacob, the Baroness, Roy, and Ron each exhibits a paraphilia that may or may not meet the full criteria in the DSM-5. Furthermore, each person’s specific paraphilia is conceptualized and explained in depth. Countertransferential issues anticipated before working with these individuals is analyzed and clarified. Also, the apprehension of sexual arousal and sexual behaviors is conceptualized into normality
Love has many definitions and can be interpreted in many different ways. William Maxwell demonstrates this in his story “Love”. Maxwell opens up his story with a positive outlook on “Love” by saying, “Miss Vera Brown, she wrote on the blackboard, letter by letter in flawlessly oval palmer method. Our teacher for fifth grade. The name might as well have been graven in stone” (1). By the end of the story, the students “love” for their teachers no longer has a positive meaning, because of a turn in events that leads to a tragic ending. One could claim that throughout the story, Maxwell uses short descriptive sentences with added details that foreshadow the tragic ending.
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Love and hate are powerful and contradicting emotions. Love and hate are also the subjects under examination for several centuries yet even to the present day; it remains to be a mystery. For the past centuries, writers and poets have written about love showing that the stories of love can never fade way. For this essay, I will discuss three English literature sources that talk about the theme of love and hate. These are the poem Olds "Sex without Love”, the poem Kennel "After Making Love We Hear Footsteps and the story by Hemingway "Hills like White Elephants. I will use the poems to compare the traditional stance of sex that are within the parameters of marriage and love versus the belief that love is in itself an act of pleasure
In Hayslip’s book When Heaven and Earth Changed Places, she talks about her life as a peasant’s daughter and her and her family’s involvement in the Vietnam War. The Vietnam War has not only affected Vietnam itself, but also the United States, where in the beginning they did not want to get involved. However, with the spread of communism, which had already affected China, the president at the time Lyndon Johnson, thought it was time to stop the spread of the Vietnam War. With America’s involvement in the war, it caused great problems for both sides. In Vietnam, it causes the local people from the south and north side to split up and either becomes a supporter of communism or of the US’s capitalist views. In addition, it caused displacement for those local people, thus losing their family. In America, the Vietnam War has brought about PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder, and deaths of many soldiers, more than World War II. With the thought of containment for communism, the US had gave back Vietnam their war and “gave up” on the war, leaving Southeast Asia in the sphere of communist views. With the thought of the domino theory that a country will fall in similar events like the neighboring countries, like China as Vietnam’s neighbor the United States tried to remove communism from Vietnam. US’s involvement in the war caused problems for both sides of the war.
The Friday Everything Changed” written by Anne Hart describes how a simple question challenges the
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For John Hnery MacKay the term “Nameless” derived form the highly publicized Oscar Wilde obscenity trials was the root for his later description of same-sex and man-boy love by calling it “nameless/namenlose.” MacKay asserted that the love between a man and a boy could not be named, nor pathologized by medical science or sexology. MacKay’s disdain for these terms, led him to describe his homosexual desire as to be without a name because of the stigmas attached to these terms and how there were used in Weimar German society in the political and legal system to criminalize and punish same-sex desire. In order to make this more clear in his literature, MacKay’s Sagitta writings BNL and Puppenjunge serve as examples of MacKay’s own search to explain something that cannot or should not be named.
On the other hand Brantenberg’s novel exploits the real worlds views of sexuality and applies them in th...