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“I couldn’t stand the idea of a woman having to have a single pure life and a man being able to have a double life, one pure and one not.” [1] Published in 1963 this sentence was a part of Sylvia Plath’s banned novel, The Bell Jar. A novel exploring the roles and expectations of women, Plath’s pen became her sword. She was suppressed due to the brutal honesty she utilized to explain how her role as Woman had become suffocating. She explored aspects of the womanhood she experienced in the 60’s, never shying away from the nitty gritty. Since Plath’s time the western world has experienced many changes and shifts when it comes to gender and its roles and expectations. Not only is this shift integral to where gender rights reside today, but it is also in line with human tendencies and history. In the “nineteenth century, ideas about gender started to change” [2] in the Western world. Women were becoming more independent and their identities started to detach from that of a man’s. Understandings of gender have changed in Africa, Latin America, and Asia due to colonial influences not meshing with traditional understandings of gender. There is much variation to how different indigenous cultures globally understand gender. Notions of gender and what it entails are not universally understood. Depending on region, family, culture, media, and religion, one’s understanding of gender and how it applies to them will change. [3] Oftentimes gender goes beyond a simple personal identification. In the Western world, gender is not just about identity but also about power. [4] Due to socialization we often have a very limited view and understanding of what gender is and what it can be to those around us. Understanding that humankind does not and has not viewed gender as a universal or unchanging standard is vital to truly understanding and empathizing with the transgender community.
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Theoretical political ideologies have always had a place in the history of political development. When one looks back, it is easy to track these ideas and how they influenced our philosophers, founding fathers, civil rights leaders, teachers, and parents. John Locke, Plato, Aristotle, Fred Hampton, FDR, Napoleon, Che, and even Kurt Cobain each in their own right contributed to both the theoretical and applied political landscape. Punk is not only a genre of dress and tune but a political ideological movement. While punk today is associated with aesthetics of baggy clothes and loud music in the mainstream, in its foundation it is a political movement surrounding the leftist tenets of anti-establishment, anti-capitalism, feminism, and individual freedom.
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Every four years I sit on the edge of my seat looking at multiple blue and red maps of the United States, eagerly anticipating the results of our presidential election. Due to the heightened political landscape we have seen in the last few months I was already anticipating that the next election will be especially tense. I did not realize how tense until I saw the details of Project 2025, a plan published by the Heritage Foundation for the potential transfer of the White House if the GOP wins in 2024.
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