Hanna Rosin's Essay: Embracing Equality

Correct punctuation is the focus of the book Eats, Shoots, Leaves by Lynne Truss, a self-labeled "zero tolerance approach to punctuation" (Truss). Grammarian, Lynne Truss, attempts to interest the everyday reader in punctuation by using comical situations and correcting popular signs and slogans. Her "inner stickler", however, makes the book come across as pretentious and aggravating to the non-sticklers of the world. Truss uses inappropriate examples such as sticklers getting "very worked up after 9/11 not because of Osama bin-Laden but because people on the radio kept saying 'enormity' when they meant 'magnitude'," since sticklers "really hate that" (Truss 5). The breakdown of the most popular forms of punctuation are useful, but made barely readable due to the author's sense of humor and pretentiousness regarding the subject.

Golding has reportedly said that he wrote the novel in response to his personal war experiences. “(The war)... taught us not fighting ,politics or the follies of nationalism, but about the given nature of man is negative. As he describes the happenings, he put out an idea of humanity based on some of the happening of the past allowing the reader to set his mind on that specific happening throughout the incident and comparing parallel ideas that Golding describes in his metaphoric writing in Lord of the Flies. He clearly identifies our basic negative side within us, present in our society making a clear focus of it, symbolizing it to be very important,resulting us thinking about a big happening down in the pages of

I don’t know what it is, but surgery just interest me and it seems exciting. Being a surgeon is something I would want to do everyday and look forward to doing everyday. I doubt I would ever get tired of it nor would it be boring. It takes a while to become a surgeon because of college, medical school, etc. But, I do think it would be worth it in the long run.

In the novel ‘The Great Gatsby’ written by F. Scott Fitzgerald, protagonist Jay Gatsby is a complex character who relies on his close friend Nick Carraway to divulge his story to the reader. However, Nick Carraway’s opinion of Gatsby is unreliable, Nick’s judgments shift enthusiastically from one end of the scale to the other, entailing approval and disapproval. Nonetheless, Nick succeeds in positioning Gatsby as a victim of circumstance, (many may also say as a victim of the ‘Great American Dream’) which causes the reader to sympathizes and attempt to understand the paradoxes and oxymoron’s related to the character, which is Gatsby. Nick is what we know as an unreliable narrator makes the story telling incredibly problematic, as we rely on him to disclose the true events that took place during ‘The Great Gatsby’. When we first meet Nick Carraway he promises us that he is “inclined to reserve all judgements” (Fitzgerald, 2008, p. 1) asking the reader to believe that he is a humble man with straightforward values, dependable and above all, not judgemental.

A Reference Material. Applying RBA in the Project Cycle, p.11. Inequality for Women “Women and men are not created equal. They each have their God given strengths, focused on their responsibilities for procreation and family viability. Those differences are not easily dismissed… however those differences do not condone gender discrimination in society, and certainly not in the workplace.”

However, her character embodies the struggle of a real woman. Despite being equally gifted, Judith would be held from achieving the greatness her brother would go on to accomplish, as “it would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.” (Woolf 523) While one could argue the shortage of famous, impressive literary works by women proves they are less capable than men, I can distinguish what Woolf truly implies. Essentially, the playing field is unequal.

Throughout the examples of sexism toward men, he is trying to prove for the readers his point , in which I agree with, which is the gender discrimination against men is as much important as it is not obvious. People’s apathy and lack of interest about men sexism stimulate Berlatsky to describe men’s injustice situations. Noah Berlatsky edits this article from a book and this reflects his personality as an educated person and likes to look at the issues from another perspective. What I realized that Berlatsky is being biased against women accomplishment in the prevalence of women discrimination controversy. Thus, he fires up men feelings in order to demand for a fair treatment when he says “If men can learn from them, it will be everyone’s benefit.”

Over history, the rights of women has been something that needs to be fought for. Women are treated differently than men, they are not as appreciated as men are. Stereotypes say that men are better, men are stronger, their ability is better than women. People have grown to believe in this stereotype. Emma Watson is one of the most influential people because she is trying to break the stereotype of gender inequality by encouraging men to play an active role with women’s rights, by being a positive female role model, and breaking down traditional gender roles.

Being pressured into conventional roles today is less common than back in the 40’s and 50’s when society had nothing but conforming roles for men and women in society. examples of this come from how men and women were brought up, culture and media. If it were not for these three factors gender roles would be farfetched. But unfortunately, there is still this pressure of gender roles and one way or another everyone has to make the decision of whoever they want to be and live with those roles. In this essay culture, media and how both men and women being raised affect gender roles and socialization.

Up until my junior year of high school, I didn’t know what type of surgeon I wanted to be. I was assigned a junior project, where I researched schools, and most importantly my career plans. That’s when I decided that a reconstructive plastic surgeon is what I wanted to become. I am a perfectionist and I like to take my time so that I can take pride in my work.

The physician assistant occupation truly began in 1965 when a considerable shortage of physicians brought forth a breakthrough. At this time there were also many corpsmen returning from the Vietnam War with adequate skills to access surgical conditions but without the formal education. A man by the name of Dr. Eugene Stead then created a program at Duke University to give these people formal training and education. By the time they finished their two-year fast-tracked program these individuals would be equipped to provide medical care to underserved populations and rural communities under the direction of a physician.

Men have given the media this unrealistic image that women cannot fend for themselves, cannot do hard jobs, or cannot get as far in life as a man. Even in jobs, though a woman and a man may be in the same position, women “earn just 74 cents for every $1 a man earns” (CNNMoney). This is truly unfair, yet men today still say that women are “equal,” though it is obviously false. Women today, though they have more rights than in the 1800’s, are still not in the place we need to be in ranking with men. Women are still abused, sexually harassed and mistreated more than men because of their sex.

As an undergraduate at IUPUI I would be very eager to pursue my academic and Career plans. I’m interested in biology and chemistry with the main goal of attending the physician’s assistant program after my undergraduate years. As an undergrad at IUPUI I would like to be in a position of leadership, in anyway, volunteering, setting on panels or committees and helping the community... Being an Indianapolis native I know all that the city has to offer and would love to be a part of it. Growing up it has always been my plan to seek a career in the medical field, however in the past few years I’ve become focused and very serious looking into my possible career options.

As well as it is more common for a man to get a higher position in a private sector then a woman. “I assume people know that discrimination is alive and well in our culture, but clearly that’s not the case. It’s not like I’m making these facts up or that this research is biased; the hard truth is that gender equality has not been achieved in our society” (Sinn 7). People claim that discrimination in our country no longer exist between race and gender. That discrimination is no longer a problem in Texas.

When I was growing up, I always wanted to work in the medical field. Freshman year of high school, I joined Student Athletic Training at my school because it exposed me to medical injuries in high stress situations. Even though I was working with an athletic trainer and loving it, I didn’t know exactly what I wanted to do; I switched from wanting to be a pediatrician to an oncologist and then an orthopedic surgeon. I settled on becoming an OBGYN because I had just watched my sister give birth to her son. I thought that delivering babies had to be the most important job because I’d be taking care of new life.