Difference and Bernard Lefkowitz of Our Guys face the issue of gender roles and stereotypes, and how they affect our lives today. Our Guys focuses on the way that young boys are brought up by society by telling the true story of a group of Glen Ridge, New Jersey teenage boys who sexually assaulted a young retarded girl. Neither the boys nor the townspeople saw what they did as wrong, and tried everything in their power to get them acquitted. They were however, fighting for the wrong cause. It was
separate and separated from the American ideal. But these Glen Ridge kids, they were pure gold, every mother’s dream, every father’s pride. They were not only Glen Ridge’s finest, but in their perfection they belonged to all of us. They were Our Guys (page 7).” This is a story about White Privilege, I thought. After reading the next two pages, I changed my mind. “...I wanted to understand how their status as young athlete celebrities in Glen Ridge influenced their treatment of girls and women, particularly
The novel Our Guys, written by Bernard Lefkowitz, is a very dynamic story about the heinous actions of a dozen middle-class athletes, from a small New York suburb, against a defenseless mentally handicapped girl. Lefkowitz describes a brutal gang rape involving a baseball bat and broomhandle, which took place in this unsuspecting town, by these upstanding young group of boys, as the town would describe them. Lefkowitz looks at the incident which took place and then examines the “jock clique” sub-culture
In 1989, in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, a group of popular high school athletes gang raped a mentally impaired 17-year-old girl with a baseball bat and a broom. If this story isn’t disturbing enough, the community of this small close-knit upper class town stated their boys are innocent and the blame was put on the mentally impaired girl. There were even reports that a number of other boys had tried to entice a young woman into the basement a second time to repeat the experience. The news of this tragic
Apollo 11 Apollo 11 was a space mission that landed the first men onto the Moon. The Saturn V rocket flew Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins up to the Moon and back to Earth. The mission was most famous for having the first human, Neil Armstrong step onto the Moon. The Moon landing happened on July 20, 1969. During the 1950’s and the 1960’s the “space race” was a huge dispute between the U.S and Russia. The U.S and Russia had a competition to see who
This paper will have a detailed discussion on the shareholder theory of Milton Friedman and the stakeholder theory of Edward Freeman. Friedman argued that “neo-classical economic theory suggests that the purpose of the organisations is to make profits in their accountability to themselves and their shareholders and that only by doing so can business contribute to wealth for itself and society at large”. On the other hand, the theory of stakeholder suggests that the managers of an organisation do
limitless range of masquerades, roles, projections” (Sobieszek 229). Born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, Cindy Sherman grew up in suburban Huntington Beach on Long Island, the youngest of five children and had a regular American childhood. She was very self-involved, found of costumes, and given to spending hours at the mirror, playing with makeup (Schjeldahl 7). Cindy Sherman attended the state University College at Buffalo, New York, where she first started to create art in the medium of painting. During
Sexual assault, abuse, and rape by athletes is a devastating crime. These crimes by themselves are horrendous, but when committed by athletes there are many different factors involved. Through extensive research this paper will show contributing factors that may result in assault, abuse, or rape by athletes. Special treatment for athletes throughout their career, belief in sexual male dominance, and the role of alcohol are all important factors. Other crucial factors are the attitudes and responses
Cindy Sherman (b. 1954) is arguably one of the most well-known and influential photographers in contemporary art. Exhibited worldwide in a variety of venues, particularly in major cities throughout the United States and Europe, her pieces inspire a great deal of feminist and postmodernist debate and discussion because they embody ideas related to “studies of the decentered self, the mass media's reconstruction of reality, the inescapability of the male gaze, the seductions of abjection, and any number