Essays on Machismo

Masculinity also known as manhood is a set of behaviors, roles and attributes that are associated with men or boys in the society. Primarily, manliness is a social construct that is composed of both biologically-created and socially-defined factors. In Puerto Rico, a real man is exhibited by traits like courage, assertiveness and independence. The society in Puerto Rico has placed more emphasis on power and masculinity with great regards to responsibility and consequences. In Puerto Rico, the Machismo is a masculine concept that is associated with a sense of masculine pride. The man in this society is tasked with ...

The small island nation of Cuba has been the site of socialist revolution for the second half of the 20th century. The revolution aimed at granting equal access to nation’s resources to all its people and ambitiously marched to produce a just society free from class, race and gender differences. Its alliance with the communist super power of Soviet Union was not appreciated by its immediate neighbor and Soviet’s rival, the capitalist super power of United States. US reacted by placing a trade embargo on Cuba, a policy which severely affected its market prospects. As a result ...

Question 1

Health status and health outcomes are influenced by a multi-factorial of factors all which act concurrently, simultaneously or independently. From a more detailed view, this is because of the dynamism with which the socioeconomic health indicators exist. Within this dynamism, there is much truth in the knowledge that the health outcomes and health status will vary across different geographic regions whereby we can denote that geography has its independent role in influencing health disparities (Singh, Azuine & Siahpush, 2013). This implies that some regions will indicate high prevalence of an illness while others will indicate lower prevalence of the same ...

The first thing that comes to mind when one thinks of artistic or cultural movements is some kind of social upheaval or a dramatic change in the way people within a particular community or political geography think or behave. However, there are some movements which are not so easily classified and make it hard to understand where one must draw the lines of political boundaries. The Narcocorridos is one such example – in spite of originating in Mexico, they have quite a powerful influence on shaping the culture of borderland USA and Mexico. Rosalino “Chalino” Sanchez is perhaps the most ...

The nature of a movie star versus an accomplished actor is an interesting divide within the realm of film criticism: Theorists often discuss the nature of stardom and its relation to the craft of acting when viewing classic films by stars like Marlon Brando and Marilyn Monroe. Central to this discussion is the source of their stardom: are they really playing their roles in a way no one could, or have they simply mastered the art of acting in a way that is so great that no one else could replicate it? The issue of stardom is a prevalent ...

Junot Diaz’s “How to Date a Browngirl, Blackgirl, White Girl, or Halfie is a story about a Dominican boy who talks about meeting and his expectations of sex with girls from different races. The story is in the form of a “How to” book; a self-help guide on what to do and what not to do on a date with a girl. But behind the simple narrative Diaz hides larger issues of identity and race. His attitude towards the different girls and their race is a result of not only his socio-economic status but also his race. Race, thus is quite important in this story as ...

Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Man That Was Used Up” is an astounding dramatic farce involving the search for truth of an unnamed narrator to discern the true secret of a distinguished war hero, General John A.B.C. Smith. Along the way, Poe illustrates a Civil War-era society that brims with a very specific type of cultural revisionism and American exceptionalism that belies the true ugliness of the nation’s atrocities underneath. Looking at this story in the context of the Jacksonian era, in which Indian removal was a very prevalent cultural practice and the upper class lionized military might borne of a ...

In Kimberly Pierce’s 1999 film Boys Don't Cry, the true-life story of Brandon Teena (played by Oscar winner Hilary Swank), a transgendered man who attempts to pass for a biological man in rural Nebraska, is told. Over the course of the film, Brandon (born Teena Brandon) tries to fit in with a group of male friends he encounters, and continues to pose as a man in order to woo her friend Lana (played by Chloe Sevigny). However, by the end of the film, his friends find out about his anatomical femaleness and is raped and murdered by them. The film is commonly ...

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Question 1 According to Banksy's, graffiti should be perceived positively owing its affirmative expression of an individual’s feelings. In his argument, the artist attests that graffiti sanctifies our surrounding rather than vandalize it as perceived by some people. He offers the reader with insightful example where he makes the reader imagine of a colourful city with a few phrases and billboard advertisements, a city where standing and waiting for a bus could not be boring but rather interesting to watch the beautiful and colourful graffiti. In Graffiti: Art or Vandalism by Jessica Barahona, Barahona expresses her positive perception of graffiti similar ...

Essay 2 Final Draft

The issue of gender roles is one of the central themes of this novel. All the main characters of the novel spend their whole lives trying to conform to the standards of masculinity and femininity expected of them by the society. The inability of the main character of the book to meet the expected stereotypical roles not only causes themit personal turmoil but also makes theirits social life miserable. They try tointo fit in the ascribed gender roles of their Dominican culture, but are simply incapable of doing that. However, the society does not understand their incapability and makes ...

The five adverts selected for the purposes of this paper primarily appeal to a sense of machismo (sexual desirability) as well as affiliation associated with the use of the respective products. According to Fowles (1998), the appeal to sex comes through in a subtle manner, which in turn makes the audience not feel as if it is being manipulated into buying the product, coupled by fact that explicit reference to sex risks obliterating the product information. According to Fowles (1998, p. 1), “there is always the danger that as in the case of sex, if the appeal is too blatant public ...

English

The issue of gender roles is one of the central themes of this novel. All the main characters of the novel spend their whole lives trying to conform to the standards of masculinity and femininity expected of them by the society. The inability of the main character of the book to meet the expected stereotypical roles not only causes them personal turmoil but also makes their social life miserable. They try to fit in the ascribed gender roles of their Dominican culture, but are simply incapable of doing that. However, the society does not understand their incapability and makes ...

The following paper is a case analysis of Ernest Hemingway’s bipolar disorder. The paper uses a psychodynamic model to discuss treatment, symptoms, and diagnosis. The case study uses the concepts of abnormal psychology to trace the etiology of a mood disorder beyond just the vestiges of uncommon behavior. The paper argues that he suffered from a mood disorder. His problems were exacerbated by alcoholism and a tendency to exhibit bipolar mood swings that contributed to his suicide. He was most likely motivated to rescue himself from an overprotective mother and a cold and disciplinarian father. The task of the psychoanalyst is to help ...

When I Was Puerto Rican is a memoir written by Esmeralda Santiago. She writes of her childhood life in Puerto Rico and how she lived in primordial conditions. Santiago paints a vivid picture of her early life which creates unforgettable memories of her childhood. The author talks about her life from her rural home in Puerto Rico to Brooklyn, and to her graduation in Harvard University. The memoir details the struggles and freedoms of a young woman in a foreign land with a foreign culture. In her memoir, Santiago reveals the history of her life and her family in the Puerto Rican Island. ...

Introduction

Over the past around thirty years, the Hispanic population has manifested tremendous growth in the American country. Hispanics consist of about eleven percent of the American population, with the inclusion of over three million dwelling in Puerto Rico’s Commonwealth. A clear estimation of thirty one million individuals has the Hispanic identification. The American Hispanic population was the biggest minority group by the year 2006 (Enrique, 2011). Above seventy percent of the Hispanic population concentrates wholly in five states, which are Florida, Arizona, California, New York and Texas. Mexican is the biggest Hispanic ethnic subdivision in America that consists ...

Everyone suffers from guilt sometime in their life while some people suffer these bitter feelings for a lifetime. Guilt is a bothered conscience that occurs when a person commits an offense, crime or violates a moral standard or code. It is associated with the beliefs of what is right and wrong, moral and immoral. A person’s guilt not only affects his/her own life but also the lives of everyone involved. This particular emotion is the subject of my analysis in which I have chosen to evaluate the novel, “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” written by a Colombian writer, novelist and journalist, Gabriel Garcia Marquez. ...

“All your words are but to say: you are a woman, and your part is in the house.”

̴ J.R.R. Tolkien, the Return of the King

Introduction

Media has played an important role in conditioning and shaping the mind of the people in the society. The different forms of social media groomed the perception of individuals regarding many ideologies. One of these ideologies includes the role that men and women play in the society. Social analysts and psychologists call this as gender role. Gender role distinguishes men and women according to the set of standards that the society assigns . Usually, these set of standards varies depending on culture. However, a common denominator to this is the influence that media ...

Machismo and Marianismo

The male ideology machismo is existent and is a commonly used connotation in many cultures across Latin America. In some languages, it is introduced with a primary meaning mainly as exaggerated masculinity. In contemporary Latin America society, the connotation machismo is used to describe masculinity particularly found in men though this can also be applied to women. This indigenous ideology was based on a patriarchal and militaristic society, which socialized its men to be warriors and women to be home caretakers and subordinate to men. While many in the society debate the role of women in the Latin America society, the music ...

Introduction

María Candelaria (Mexican: Xochimilco) is a 1943 Mexican film directed by Emilio Fernández. The movie won several accolades for the subject matter, direction, and acting. In 1946, it became graded as a classic in the history of Latin American cinema, when it felled down the linguistic and cultural barriers as the first Mexican film that ever won the Palme d’Or at The Cannes International Film Festival. The film can be simply categorized as a classical romantic-tragedy, but the qualities that truly made it famous were the expressions gender and cultural issues and the hauntingly beautiful cinematography of the film. Today, ...

19 May 2011

Black Masculinity in the Media

Introduction

Representation of black masculinity in the modern mass media is one of the most topical themes of our times. At present time there are a lot of studies which analyze portrayals of Afro-American men in the media and also play one of the crucial roles in creation of these images. However, still there are certain gaps in research. That is why in terms of this paper we would like also to focus our attention on the black masculinity and analyze images, which are shown in a variety of the media sources. In the course of our ...