Gender and Sexulaity

Jackie Pappas Professor Winchock ENWR 106-AN March 5, 2013 Paper #2 – Middle Draft Gender & Sexuality Our everyday lives are greatly affected by ones gender and sexuality. They shape who we are and define our identities. Society expects a certain gender to behave in a specific way and if this does not happen, one is seen as shameful and wrong, leaving the individual to feel defeated and out of place. In society only a few decades ago, women were meant to be silent and restricted. Men were the superior ones who had a voice. They freely got to do whatever they pleased.In Julia Avarez’ â€Å"Daughter of Invention and Judith Ortiz Cofer’s poem â€Å"The Changeling,† women were restricted of their true identities and their voices were silenced by the Ppallogocentric order. As a female in society, one was not permitted to speak freely of her opinions because of men. She must remain silent. It is evident that the narrator, often referred to as Cukita, in â€Å" Daughter of Invention† cannot speak what she wants. She reads poems from a book her father bought her written by Walt Whitman. She reads his free words; words he can openly speak. These are words of â€Å"a flesh and blood man† (Alvarez 14).Because Walt Whitman was a man, he could speak and write what he so choose. However, when Cukita â€Å"plagiarizes† his words, because she was a woman, she was not â€Å"permitted† to read her work at the assembly for which she was writing. When she read her speech to her mother, her mother beamed with pride. It was quite the opposite when she read this speech to her father. He was shocked that his wife would let their daughter read the speech she wrote. â€Å"You will permit her to read that? † (Alvarez 15) Cukita’s father said as if she needed permission to speak what she believes. As your father, I forbid you to say that eh-speech! † (Alvarez 15). Since he was a man, he had the final say in what h is daughter said. He could say whatever he liked but his daughter, because she was a woman, could not. Women were expected to be silent and could only speak in the male voice. We see the silence of a girl in Cofer’s â€Å"The Changeling. † In this poem, the speaker recalls a memory of when she was a young girl. She dressed in her brother’s military clothes which â€Å"[molded her] into boy shape† (Cofer 725). Her father found it very amusing. He would listen with a smile† (Cofer 725). She loved dressing up as a boy and pleasing her father because it was the only time he noticed her. The speaker pretended to tell stories of her times in the war as a man and this was the time that her father would pay attention to her. The only time he would listen to her words was when she was speaking in his voice – in a man’s voice. All other times, her words were not important to her father; they did not matter to him because she was not his son, she was his daughter. Females were restricted in what they could say and do.Women were not allowed to do as they pleased. They were limited not only in what they said but what they could do. In â€Å"Daughter of Invention,† Cukita’s mother liked to work on her inventions. â€Å"She always invented at night, after settling her house down† (Alvarez 10). The mother could only work on her projects after she had completed her obligations as a woman. It was a woman’s responsibility to take care of the house and keep her husband and family happy; putting her wants and wishes aside until these are taken care of first. Even her inventions were restricted.She would not invent things that would help the world as a whole but come up with ideas that would only help with your everyday life, particularly for the typical American woman. When discussing her inventions and why they did not help the greater good, â€Å"she would have said that was for men to do† (Alvare z 10). This shows that she was not allowed to create what she really wanted to invent. American women were not the only women who were restricted. It was common for women to be restricted all over the world. The narrator, Cukita, talked about the fact that her mother did not want to return home. She did not want to go back to the old country where she was only a wife and a mother† (Alvarez 14). In the Dominican Republic under Trujillo’s rule, women were only expected to be two things: a wife and a mother. They were restricted to being anything but. They did not have permission to explore their interests such as inventing. Women were expected to take care of the house and the family and if they did anything else, saying they’d be in trouble is an understatement. Women were not allowed to be free to be who they are. Women were expected to only take care of the family and the house even if they wanted to do something else.It is still joked about today all over the I nternet that women belong in the kitchen. While it is meant as a harmless joke, it is a reality for others. For example, it was a reality for the speaker in â€Å"The Changeling. † While her father was very amused with his daughter dressing as a man, her mother was not. When it was time for the family to sit down for dinner, the mother â€Å"[forbad her] from sitting down with them as a man† (Cofer 725). The mother felt that when her daughter dressed in her brother’s clothes, it was distracting her from being a girl.She is forced to go back into the closet to change back into her expected outfit. The speaker, who once saw a closet full of adventure, then saw the same closet as a dark space (Cofer 725). When she emerged from the closet, back into reality, she walked back into â€Å"the real world of her [mother’s] kitchen† (Cofer 725). For the speaker, a woman belonging in the kitchen was no laughing matter; it was her reality. She longed to be able to do the things a man did but she could not because she was a restricted woman. She wished to have the same power that a man did.After explaining about how powerless a woman was, it is clear that men were the superior ones. In â€Å"Daughter of Invention† after the father disapproved of his daughter’s speech, the mother and daughter felt the need to â€Å"rebel† and â€Å"join forces† (Alvarez 16) against the father. They knew that he was the man in charge. They could not simply tell him what he was doing was wrong and they certainly could not do it alone. It took two women to stand up to one man and they still lost, the father tearing his daughter’s speech to shreds, tearing her to shreds in turn. As the father, he had the final say on what happened.After calling her father the hated nickname of their former dictator Trujillo, the narrator ran to her room. Her father â€Å"ordered [her] on his authority as [her] father to open that door† (Alvarez 16). Because he was a man, he held the power in the house. He got free reign to tell his daughters and wife what to do and they must obey. In Dominican Republic, men were so superior that giving birth to a daughter was not as great as giving birth to a son. A mother was seen as a failure if she did not give birth to a son. When Cukita and her mother went into the father’s room, â€Å"his face rightened as if at long last his wife had delivered a son† (Alvarez 15). Fathers were happier when their wives bore them a son. There were fathers who did not pay attention to their children if they were not a boy. In â€Å"The Changeling,† the speaker must â€Å"[vie] for [her] father’s attention† (Cofer 725). Because she was not a man, the only way she could get her father to notice her was to dress, speak, and act like the son he always wanted her to be. After he mother made her change back into the girl she was supposed to be, she â€Å"return[ed ] invisible† (Cofer 725).Since she was no longer dressed as the superior man her father so wanted her to be, he did not pay any mind to her and she felt as if she was no one; as if she was invisible. It is because of her gender that she did not fit into society. Gender plays a major role in our everyday lives. Men and women were expected to act in a specific manner or otherwise they end up defeated. Women were meant to keep their thoughts and opinions silent. They were also not allowed to act as freely as they would like. Women were restricted in what they said and did.Because women were so repressed, it was evident that men were the superior ones. In modern society, women have earned the right to be treated as equally and as fairly as men. However, there are still some areas in society where women are more oppressed than men are. Works Cited Alvarez, Julia. â€Å"Daughter of Invention. † Approaching Literature. Eds. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl. Boston: Bedford/St. Mart in’s, 2012. 10-19. Cofer, Judith Ortiz. â€Å"The Changeling. † Approaching Literature. Eds. Peter Schakel and Jack Ridl. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin’s, 2012. 725.

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The Submissive Covering In reality, most people live through virtual fences as they feel social exclusion and racial covering arises. The fences have double standards either to protect the revered ones in protection, whereas, the common people are enclosed from society. The imagery of fence in Fences of Enclosure, Windows of Possibility and the Covering Hidden Assault Cover In our Civil Rights shows the theory of the way power structures restrict and control over society. All these fences are interconnected with racial covering in Covering The Hidden Assault on our CivilRights, where the minorities being excluded from virtual fences that restrict them from achieving mainstream. The representation of globalization is similar to white supremacy in the United States, the domination on less powered people. In this case, relating Klein term virtual fences will demonstrate how racial covering is affected by society with white supremacy Just as capitalism is built by the ones with huge reso urces. Lack of resources and racial pressure combine to create virtual fences on people who are not accepted and the search for window of possibility arises.Klein describes that the fences that protect public interest is disappearing fast. Similarly, the gap between the white and minorities is visible even on public television as virtual fences between different races. For example, when Hosting students say how they cannot imagine Asians appearing on TV, and goes says she cannot imagine any self-respecting minority could remain untroubled by the whiteness of television (Hosing, 306). It is showing the tendency of public TV not showing minorities and more likely the whites to be appeared.As invasion of the public by the private hectically put up new barriers, whether in schools, hospitals, workplaces, farms and communities, show commodity or necessity is becoming untouchable by common people Just like Asian Americans being less likely to be on public TV. The invading of the public by the private has reached into categories such as health and education, of course, but also ideas, genes, sees , now purchased, patented and fenced off, as well as traditional aboriginal remedies, plants, water and even human stem cells (197).Yes, and citizens are becoming more lack of resources and barred under many restrictions even on commodities. In both cases, it shows the bitter truth of virtual fence categorizing people in terms of race and resources, to dictate who is inside of power dynamics and who is not. One of Hosting students says that she will not mind how white television casts are and rather she will assimilate to the white norm or speak unaccented English. The productive way of getting over the barriers is to arouse the pride of authenticity as an individual feels the virtual fences of racial pressure.The window of possibility is created when Hosing speaks The Japanese believe they are a race apart, proclaiming their blood more pure than that of other peoples (299). Hosing explains how the other side of people can think differently, as well as remembering he was part of majority in mainland Japan. Hosing starts to show his Japanese pride and accept his heritage and says in Japan Hess part of majority too. The virtual fences in Klein writing relates to the racial covering mentioned by Hosing as people see the downside of either capitalism or globalization that puts bars around people or take away their rights, they conform to society.Virtual fences favor people with more accepted appearance and view someone's cultural aspect of racial identity as being different and furthermore, it elicits negative characteristic of a person, leading social exclusion. Klein says this as the fences of social exclusion can discard an entire industry, and they can also write off an entire country, as has happened to Argentina (197). The essential power of globalization has dark shadow over the world, disregarding common citizens who deposited their life savings.Th is claim clearly specifies how one country can be devastated by social exclusion. In comparison, Hosing mentions Yet if dating Janet represented assimilation in one sense, it was also its rejection. To date another Asian as to be raced apart. We would often be the only Asians in a social group (Hosing, 303). This fear comes from the worries about being fenced out of society and the racial barrier acts as locking out these people into their own barrier, groups of Asians, Hispanics and Blacks.Hosing mentions how another form of reaching windows of possibility is found as racial minorities try to breach the social contract of assimilation sometimes, Just like an African-American woman wearing cornrows. Racial covering can advance over categorical exclusion as written by Hosing, Times eave changed, and I suppose you could call it progress that a Chainman, too, may now aspire to whiteness (Hosing, 308). This also can open window of possibility as they challenge themselves to racially ass imilate to white people in order to be more conformed to society.Hosing questions how its worth asking when we will live in a society where Americans will feel central without feeling white and that we are far from that society. The virtual fences have great impact on individuals to feel socially excluded from one another, resulting racial covering to be socially accepted. Surprisingly, people are being barred from work for showing their diversity and federal Constitution and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. It only protects race much more than orientation.Even at work, there's virtual fence as Hosing writes the unfairness of Title VII claims that English-only rules that require employees to speak English in the workplace (Hosing, 313). This states that the employers are being more required to be conformed to American society under their restriction. These policies have been another virtual fence on the basis of national origin. In imprison, globalization, which seems to b e decent title, misuses power over people by prevarication that co-opts only limited people controlling certain private companies that are open for certain types of people.Globalization is no longer organizing societies of the world, but as Klein explains the fences that surround the summits become metaphors for an economic model that exiles billions to poverty and exclusion (Klein, 199). This is when the activists were withstanding all the attacks from the police to confront the form of virtual fence. People fight back to open window of possibility on the social structure. Klein talks this behavior as following, their goal, which I began to explore in the final pieces in this book, is not to take power for themselves but to challenge power centralization on principle.Other kinds of windows are opening as well reclaim privatized spaces and assets for public use. (Klein, 200). They are both euphemism terms and the people misuse things are that are meant to be good to show their power over lower people. People sometimes take challenge on virtual fences to advance over exclusion and discrimination and confront at the stage. Hosing and Klein share many examples and that limited

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Ethnic Diversity at Workplace - Research Paper Example Notably, the term ‘relational demography’ is often defined as the individual’s demographic similarity or dissimilarity observable in comparison to other members of the organization. It is in this context that the distribution of co-ethnic workers could have implications for the well-being of African American or Latino individuals. As stated by Kanter (1977), on the lower extreme of this distribution, one finds tokenism, a segregated work environment in which the minority group comprises less than 15% of the working group. These minority members would represent a â€Å"critical mass,† possibly reaching equal representation relative to the culturally dominant group (Henderson, 1998). The recent phenomenon depicts that the growing attention towards diverse population research has been increasing constantly and rapidly since the past few decades. However, guided by a philosophical and social point of view, insignificant number of diversity research focuses on t he impacts of workplace racial as well as ethnic diversity at workplace. With the passing time, diversity concerns have deepened instead of fading away as intended with the implementation of anti-discriminatory policies and various other equal opportunity initiatives. Simultaneously, complexities have also increased by a significant extent in relation to diversity, especially within an enclosed and structured workplace setting. It is in this context that there are a few significant factors relating to ethnic diversity such as the biological sex concept, which is the only defining characteristic between a male and a female populace within the modern day workplace setting. Some feminist researchers recognized the essence of evaluating the distinction as well as historical and cultural features within women populaces in workplace setting categorizing them as a proportion of diverse population (Shore, Chung-Herrera, Dean, Ehrhart, Jung, Randel & Singh, 2009). Personal reflection There a re many reasons behind choosing the diverse population at work place for performing this particular study. The underpinned philosophical context behind this study depicts that for the purpose of developing the public policy it is essential to recognize that workplace diversity is a critical variable to develop a stable, sound as well as progressive society. The significance of managing diverse workforce has been rapidly increasing since past few years owing to the diversification as well as the international expansion of the organizational boundaries. It is fundamentally due to this reason that a large variety of populace who differ in terms of gender, ethnicity, color and even race tends to be employed in a specific workplace setting. Simultaneously, with the increasing influence of globalization, customers groups are also emerging as widely diverse, which further increases the necessity of studying the issue of workplace diversity, especially in terms of ethnicity (Gandz, 2001). I t is in this context that diversity at workplace is increasingly being considered as an essential factor which can assist to interpret into product as well as services which are effectively and efficiently provided by the organization. Consequently, many organizations have been realizing the need of providing better services to diverse customers

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Personal Creativity - Essay Example It is creativity that gives meaning to our lives and it is during the process of creation that we feel life in its highest, most enjoyable form i.e. we feel happy and fulfilled at not only being connected to the highest being of the universe but also being able to benefit the existing universe as a result. But what exactly is Creativity? Is it found in a special class of human beings or is it a quality we all posses? Some definitions of ‘creativity’ explain that the idea behind the term is the conceiving of a new idea.’ â€Å"The word creativity is a noun naming a phenomenon in which a person communicates a new concept (which is the product). Mental activity (or mental process) is implicit in the definition.† (Rhodes, n.d.). ‘Creativity involves being imaginative, going beyond the obvious, being aware of one’s own unconventionality, being original in some way.† (Craft, 2000) â€Å"Creativity is the act of turning new and imaginative ideas into reality. Creativity involves two processes: thinking, then producing.† (Naiman, 2011) Contrary to common belief, we are all involved in various acts of creativity without realizing it. Without creativity, not only would our lives be empty, it may even be a continuous downward spiral as life needs creative input. At every step of our lives we have to do something new to change for the better. It can be as simple as trying out a new route to work in order to create a shortcut and save time. Or taking the risk of adding an extra ingredient to enhance the taste of something you’re cooking. Creativity is not accepting things just as they are, but in order to improve them, striving for new ideas. Thus creativity is present in all of us at some level and it comes to use when there is some problem to be solved. According to Nomura Institute of Japan, we are presently living in the era of Creativity, where constant innovation is required for us to be able to survive (Naiman, 2011). This statement proves itself as we take a look around and see how the economy and the com petitiveness surrounded by it have resulted in a need for change in all fields of work. Followed by the Agricultural, the Industrial and then the Informational age (Naiman, 2011), the age of Creativity looks for the New and the most Efficient. In this age anything, even a light bulb that produces less than it is given as an input, will be thrown out of the race and only the fittest will survive. Therefore every field of knowledge has increased pressure on research to keep up, and thus we see a faster pace of development. Along with the quantity we also have much better quality. With economic and environmental sustainability in mind, more responsible technology, education, designs and services are produced in all areas of life. In spite of what I’ve said about the everyday nature of creativity, when it comes to the working environment, where there is competition, not everyone stands at the same level. There are the original genius’s who seem to make everything work in w ays so simple they surprise us. Then there are others who have followed every rule, have stuck to routines that ensure maximum productive time and yet they’re work, although detailed and complete fails to bring to attention anything new, thus lacks creativity. This can be very commonly observed in creative fields such as art and design of which I am a part and have worked through various types of creative processes. People who are more creative in nature than others usually have a certain type of personality i.e. they have certain traits that distinguish them from others. The first