Over Easter break I went to Improv Comedy Club to see Owen Benjamin headline. One of his jokes reminded me of a discussion we had in class about gender differences.
The basis of his joke was that women are paid more for their eggs than men are for their sperm. Therefore, his conclusion was that society [...]
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Why do you want to get married?
Before: For love of course! Because I want to spend the rest of my life with that person.
After: I still want to marry for love. I still want to marry for companionship. On top of that, I would also like to start a family (the natural order of [...]
For my final explore assignment I have decided to look at the Griffin family from the Show Family Guy. Within this family there is Peter Griffin, the father, Lois Griffin, the mother, Meg Griffin, the daughter and the oldest, Chris Griffin, the first son and middle child, Stewie Griffin, the second son and the youngest, [...]
i seriously do not understand beauty and appearance. i wish we would have gone into more detail about this subject, and talked more about why we wear makeup and stuff. i get that we wear makeup to look pretty, because we think we will look good. but why do we think this makes us look [...]
Why do you want to get married?
i want to get married for many reasons, both because of structure and agency. i think i started out this course thinking i only wanted things because of personal autonomy. however, i feel like now i have developed my reasoning so that i am aware of how structure affects [...]
once again its that time of year when classes end, i can truly say that i have learned alot about what it takes to make a marriage last. and that love isnt the only thing that makes a marriage work. it was a very fun semester, i really enjoyed my time learning about family and [...]
I have decided to tackle option 2 of the final assignment. Throughout the course of this course, I have felt that this class has had the most practical application to my life, and I think that this final assignment will allow me to synthesize all of my ideas into one understanding of my past, present, [...]
For the final assignment, I have chosen to blog about Option #2
Why do you want to get married?/What is the purpose of marriage?
I want to get married for the sole reasons of love, starting a family, and for religious reasons. When you find the person you are meant to spent the rest of your life [...]
marriage is one one of those big life accomplishments that most people want to get into. alot of the times, people dont fully understand what it takes to actually make a marriage work, from a sociological stand point of structure vs agency, its clear to see that more factors must be taken into consideration than [...]
I remember the first time someone told me I was beautiful. I mean, my mom probably told me all the time and when I was little I was always told that I was cute or whatever, I’m sure, but once I hit the awkward middle school years there was no arguing about the fact that [...]