Scott Russell Sanders in his essay "looking at Women" has his views shaped by the people he is surrounded by. This trend is apparent even in his early child hood. He continues this trend thru early adulthood. Well into adult hood this trend show it self through his actions‚ and through the quotes that he chooses. Sanders forms his opinions from the opinions of others in this essay‚ and demonstrates thoroughly. Two people‚ the first of which is a friend‚ affect Sanders first realization of sexuality
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EN 1011 Academic Writing 8-10-2013 Orestis F. Tutor: Petros Z. “Looking at Women” Analysis Essay (Final Draft) The term “Gaze” was first introduced by Jacques Lacan and it describes the nervousness that someone feels when he realizes that he is being viewed. In the second rise of feminism in the 60’s one of the many topics that had been discussed among the social scientist and people all over the world for many years was the male gaze. Some people
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from the constant hassle of society. These people wish to roam incognito without having to be responsible for anyone but themselves. This divorce from human relationship can become dangerous for the person as well as the surrounding people. Scott Russell Sanders makes a good point that‚ “...if we make a career of being unaccountable‚ we have lost something essential to our humanity‚ and we may well become a burden or threat to those around us.” The nicest thing about getting away from it all is
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“Looking at Women” by Scott Sanders was first published in spring of 1989 in the Georgia Review and was later reprinted in Sander’s essay collection titled “Secrets of the Universe” (1991). In this work‚ Sanders tells us his thoughts on how men look at women‚ hence the title; he explains to us that he feels that men turn women into things rather than people by objectifying their bodies. He goes into great detail about how a lot of women feel their role in today’s society is to exist for the pleasure
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Women throughout history‚ from the 1500’s till now have been looked at as objects. In the 1500’s during the time of the Renaissance woman were often portrayed in art in the nude. Curves at that time showed women as being goddess like. The more curvy and voluptuous you were the more beautiful men saw you. Artists who painted the female body were often commissioned by rich men to paint these paintings to hang in their houses. Women in this age are still portrayed in art in the nude. Mostly in nude
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sexes. Russell Scott Sanders‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds‚” discusses his personal observation of the conflict of gender equality that grew in his mind after seeing the harsh lives of his surrounding class of people. It deals with the problems that exist between sex and social class issues. He reveals that the men in this class had no choice over their own destiny in life. Their only ways of making money to barely survive were as factory workers or soldiers. He had envied women for what he thought
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Influence” by Scott Russell Sanders Scott Russell Sanders’ narrative essay “Under the Influence” is a piece about his experiences with his alcoholic father. To describe these experiences‚ Sanders uses animalistic diction‚ asyndeton‚ and explains how his father’s disease creates insecurities in himself. Sanders’ purpose is to describe life with an alcoholic in order to demonstrate the effects and devastation in correlation with the “disease”. Using negative connotation‚ Sanders creates animal-like
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Workaholics and alcoholics have few differences‚ but are similar in many ways. In Scott Russell Sander ’s essay‚ "Under the Influence"‚ he shows how children of alcoholic parents suffer from self-blame and how such blame can affect them for the rest of their life. Sanders illustrates the troubles he experienced as a young boy due to his fathers drinking problem. Scott blamed himself for his father ’s addiction to alcohol. Whenever Scott became older‚ he then dealt with an addiction to work‚ as his father had
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Minds‚ Scott Sanders explains his thoughts on gender equality as a boy‚ and how his views change when he realizes the problem is not with gender inequality but about problems with social class. In a conversation with a friend‚ Sander believes that women have a harder life than men because women are trying to prove their equality. This conversation makes Sanders think about the men he knew as a young boy‚ they worked back-breaking jobs and died young because they were worn out. As a child Sanders was
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