I was sad and unwilling on The airplane, looking down the window, saying goodbye to my country. I was only 13 years old, but afterward , I realize that coming to America has helped to develop my interests successfully. My talent in art was motivated from what I usually love to do: Playing dolls, making crafts, and watching cartoons. These things might seem normal, but precisely they are what had made me different. __________________________________ Interests always start from the little things around. I love dolls-paper dolls and Barbies- like most girls do. My mother did not buy me a lot of toys, but I wanted to collect different kinds of clothes for my Barbies and paper dolls to wear. By changing the style of apparels, it also changes their identities which makes the dolls more interesting and fascinated. So I found some towels …show more content…
and fabrics, wrapped up my barbie’s body and design dresses by using ribbons to tie the fabrics on her body. A few years later I learned how to draw, I drew a naked girl on a cardboard paper, cut her out, and put her on another piece of paper.She is my model that can help to measure her size accurately, so that I discovered that I love to create unique clothes for my dolls, the clothes that only I can make. __________________________________ Craft making builds up my artistry as well as my other interests. I learned how to knit in a summer program that I attended in Taiwan. I chose a pink and a white yarn for my scarf which took me about a week to finish it. Even though the knitting was unprofessional and imperfect. I still felt proud of myself. I enjoy the feeling of seeing my achievement after I struggle with it. Once My best friend in Taiwan gave me some beads, so that I made a pair of bracelets for me and her before I left. Those unique bracelets represent our friendship, the special us. Another day, my friend gave me a sewing machine, It reminds me the unforgettable feeling when I designed clothes for my dolls. Therefore, I started to learn about sewing. I keep developing my interests in order to make myself have the ability to create whatever I want, whenever I have the idea to be creative. _______________________________ As an anise fan, I’ve been always imagining those scenes that aren't shown on the screen.
I bought myself a tablet a year ago, started to learn digital illustration. Like a story writer, I draw the stories and feelings behind my art pieces by creating my own characters and settings. For instance, a student dressed girl, falling from sky with her backpack next to it, but she is happy because she is flying. Things in her backpack also falling out with her in the sky. I smile when I drew the piece, and pretend I am her, doing something that I can’t usually do. I enjoyed the process of imaging and thinking, ______________________________ Thinking back to the time when I was eight, and had a watercolor painting class in Taiwan with my brother. He painted out a colorful art piece. I admired him, and my painting was filled half with black and brown. At the time, I would never think I would become an artist. I have been trying to understand who I am for a long time, and these experiences have guided me to find my values and led my path. I pursued a higher education in order to keep developing my
artistry.
Who is really responsible for stereotyping among the ethnic characters in films? According to Jessica Hagedorn in her article “Asian Women in Film: No Joy, No Luck” she explains the stereotypes that are happening in the movie industry since then. In fact, this issue was very popular in Hollywood films. There always have been this racial issue about the roles that they give to Asian actors and actresses that were always limited. Another problem is about the racial options of the casting of the films even though the original roles was made to be Asian (“Yellow Faces”). Hollywood writers and directors have a social responsibility to avoid stereotyping ethnic characters because they have the power to choose the characters, to interpret the movies, and to influence people.
Modern society is typically split into a strict gender dichotomy of males and females. Each gender has a set of socially constructed roles and stereotypes that determine how each individual is viewed and treated in society. As I have progressed through school, I have noticed that expectations for females differed from their male counterparts. In school and at home, girls are typically expected to be more well-behaved and studious than boys. Since girls are beginning to attend college more than boys, society expects more girls than boys to pursue a college education. I have probably internalized these expectations and inadvertently used them as motivation for success. In some ways, my gender has also put me at a disadvantage in school. From a young age, many girls are coddled and encouraged to act nicely (Conley 130). They are expected to be caring, loving, and quiet. Being raised as a female has ingrained these tendencies into my personality and behavior patterns. Therefore, in
I am a prospective art history major and visual studies minor. To me, art has been a passion rooted in my very soul and an inseparable part of my life ever since I started painting at nine years old. However, where I come from, pursuing art is rarely respected or supported. As a result, I spent both my freshmen and sophomore year as a STEM major. Yet throughout my freshmen year, experiencing art while visiting New York was the fountain of my happiness. I can still vividly remember the holiday windows, New York Fashion Week, and especially the artworks in countless galleries and museums I visited. Spurred by my thirst for art, I took an Asian art history course, where I got to examine how philosophy, politics and local culture shaped Asian art by studying monuments, paintings and calligraphy. Art sustained me through the many frustrations of academic pressure and cultural barriers, and I became determined to make art my life’s pursuit.
As I boarded the plane to move to the United States, the beginning of September 2005, I couldn’t help but think about all that I left behind; My family, my friends, my school, my clothes, and all of the awesome cultural food. Then again, I looked forward to this new life, a new beginning. I imagined it being like life in the movies, where everything seemed easy and life was just beautiful. After all, I was going to the States; the place where most people only dreamt of. I felt very blessed to have this opportunity because I knew that it wasn’t given to everyone. Coming to America marked my coming of age because I left behind my old life, I started life afresh, and I became a much grateful person.
Girls are supposed to play with dolls, wear pink, and grow up to become princesses. Boys are suppose to play with cars, wear blue, and become firefighters and policemen. These are just some of the common gender stereotypes that children grow up to hear. Interactions with toys are one of the entryway to different aspects of cognitive development and socialism in early childhood. As children move through development they begin to develop different gender roles and gender stereotypes that are influenced by their peers and caregivers. (Chick, Heilman-Houser, & Hunter, 2002; Freeman, 2007; Leaper, 2000)
Changes in society have brought issues regarding gender stereotype. Gender roles are shifting in the US. Influences of women’s movement (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006) and gender equality movement (e.g., Obergefell v. Hodges (2015)) have contributed to expanding social roles for both genders. Nevertheless, gender stereotypes, thus gender stereotype roles continue to exist in the society (Skelly & Johnson, 2011; Wood & Eagly, 2010). With changes in gender roles, pervasiveness of gender stereotype results in a sense of guilt, resentment, and anger when people are not living up to traditional social expectations (Firestone, Firestone, & Catlett, 2006). Furthermore, people can hold gender stereotype in pre-reflective level that they may
The work's topicality is characterized by the existence of the gender stereotypes in society, having generalization, and does not reflect individual differences in the human categories. Meanwhile, there is still discrimination on the labour market, human trafficking, sexual harassment, violence, women and men roles and their places in the family. Mass media offers us the reality, reduces the distance, but we still can see the negative aspects too. TV cultivates gender stereotypes, offering ideas about gender, relationships and ways for living. Such media ideas attach importance to many people in the society. Consequently, it is quite important identify gender stereotypes in the media, in order to prevent false views relating to gender stereotypes.
I was sure that I had used my pencil to create the next Mona Lisa at the end of those seventy minutes. Yet, years later when my family cleaned out my art folder I couldn’t even tell what the items I was supposed to have drawn were. The picture looked as if it had been drawn on a boat in the middle of a storm having its curved lines in place of straight lines. It was as if the pencil had a mind of its own and what I intended for it to do just wasn’t on the agenda for that day. During my time in art class I continued this cycle. The cycle of not thinking that I could draw, to having an epiphany moment, to realizing that what I actually created was worthless. When I began to climb the mountain of hardships involved with music and acting I had to push my failure in art class to the
When I was a little girl, I loved to draw. I spent my days going on adventures with my dolls and then doodling the scenarios down on paper. Drawing was amusing and it brought me true pleasure and up to age eleven, I was determined to become an artist when I grew up. One day, while I was sprawled out on the floor doodling, I mentioned my ambition to my mother. There was a moment of silence, and I stoppe...
It is through the events in the journey of life that shapes and molds who we are as people. As for me, immigrating to America was one of those milestones that have shaped who I am. Those who have had the opportunity of moving from a different country to America know what a privilege it is. I felt the same honor to know that I would be journeying to the land of opportunity. Without hesitance, I spent the last two months packing and making the final preparations before moving to a new continent. Although it was a bittersweet time, leaving my beloved family behind, I knew that I couldn’t resist the treasure that waited for me in the new land. Coming from a developing nation the high level of sophistication that greeted me on arrival to America made feel like I was in paradise.
I have always had an interest in drawing and animation for as long as I can remember. Like every other child growing up, I loved to draw and I was obsessed with cartoons and watched them everyday. In fact, I still do. I have such an infatuation with animation because I admire the hard work and dedication that goes into making a project that is visually appealing and has a story that people in the world can relate. I want to create characters people can connect and identify with because that is what I did as a child, and those characters are very special to me. I want to create a story with a purpose that many people can learn from and watch over again.
Such analyses should be raised insistently and for good reason. Negative stereotypes of women reflect and reinforce additional gender inequalities in any society but more so in Saudi Arabia due to its extremism. Furthermore, studies of women representational issues can be used as a tool to evaluate media bias not just in regards to gender equality issues, but in regard to the media’s ideology and political values. Due to the lack of appreciation of a woman’s role in society, which translated itself into the high percentage of illiteracy and lower socioeconomic standing, and through the obstinacy of the traditions and customs within Saudi Arabia society such as early marriage arrangements and dress codes, the right of women’s rights organizations
Gender stereotypes are very prevalent in today’s early childhood classrooms with societal expectations playing a significant role in generating the negative outcomes of both sexes (National Union of Teachers, 2013, p. 4). These societal expectations perpetuate inequality and become apparent through various interactions, messages and materials as well as through professional documentation such as the Australian Curriculum or the Early Years Learning Framework (EYLF) (Siraj-Blatchford, 2004, p, 22). This type of inequality disadvantages students creating restrictions on the possible opportunities they can encounter throughout life as well as impacting on their self-esteem and relationships (Siraj-Blatchford, 2004, p, 22) (National Union of Teachers, 2014, p, 3).
When I come to a realization, everyone is admiring the art and complementing my classmates and I. People I had never even talked to coming up to me and saying, “I wish I could could draw like” with friendly smiles on their faces and asking me about my work with large intrigued eyes. This moment is what changed
It was just an ordinary day. The sun had just set and we were all sitting around the table eating dinner. My mother and father always asked us about our future and what we were hoping to accomplish. My brother and sister always explained how they wanted to go into the air force and be doctor. Of course I would just sit there and think about how I didn’t know what I wanted to be. But this particular night I had an idea of what I wanted to do! So before my mom and dad could get out of their mouth the question, I said “I know what I want to be!”. They all stared and asked what that might be and I replied, “A famous artist!” I said, “I want my paintings and sketchings to be shown worldwide!”. They told me that, that was all good and well but that there was a lot of steps to achieve this goal and that it wasn’t very realistic. But what they didn’t know was that very line pushed me to prove them wrong.