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Start All Over The cultural artifact I decided to pick was the show One Tree Hill, now I didn’t necessarily watch it while growing up because I was pretty young when this show started (2004) and I would have not understood it quite as I do now. In the show, there is this character named Brooke Davis, who is the basic popular cheerleader that everyone loves and hates at the same time. During the third season of the show, the main characters are preparing for college applications and the show displayed the many feelings each person goes through during this important time. Although Brooke, who encountered a great high school experience is not ready to let that go because she is going to have to have to start all over which I related with her. At that time when I saw this show, I had recently graduated from high school and I was having a hard time letting go of that environment, and was not ready to step into adulthood. While everyone was so eager of college, I was not that I ended ...
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Blog 2: Gender Representation

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She Plays Like a Girl https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZzVags7TfU Prompt 1: For years we have heard the expression, “She plays like a girl” ,which can be interpreted as playing at a lower standard than males in athletic sports. There are some some individuals, that  still live in the world where they believe that females cannot be as great at playing any kind of sport like males, who are apparently the only ones with that ability. Through time, that has changed in our society, we have seen the immense growth in Women Sports, which have proven that they too can be as good or even better at sports than just the males. In the movie Gracie , the story it tells the audience is about a girl named Grace Bowen, who is trying to demonstrate to her father and the rest of her school that she has the ability to play alongside with the boys in the soccer team. Now, the representation of  girls at being athletes is being tested and not just in the sense that women cannot play sp...
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Blog 1: Gender

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Prompt 1: Bretman Rock, is a young youtuber who became famous for his artist skills in makeup, that have given him the opportunity to launch his own collection with high brand makeup companies. As you can see he is not your common male figure, since he does not represent the gender binary to which states that males are masculine. Since, Brentaman is associated with makeup and his sexuality is homsexual, he does fit the proper representation of what being a male is in our society. Prompt 2: In our society Bretman, as a male individual, has shown his gender expression differently from what his gender should naturally express. He is not your typical male figure who likes sports, women, or the other traditional things that “all men” are supposed to enjoy. Although, that does not make him more of a woman and less of a man, he is simply bending the rules, the gender roles to be exact which contradict the natural ways of behaving like a man. According to our perfect, balanced world,...
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