Skip to main content

Unit 1

Gavin Blaylock's Published Works Unit 1

College Application Essay


Imaginative Writing Project


Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Tough Guise/Toxic Masculinity

     Toxic masculinity, a very prominent feature of modern American culture, has been a constant and relentless issue since its inception.  The idea that a man has to prove, through violence and anger, that he is indeed a man.  Over time, the problem in our country has gotten increasingly worse, but now is the time to truly combat this problem.       In Tough Guise 2,  Jackson Katz explains how a history of violent stories. told through folklore and film, has shaped the masculine identity of men.  These past stories have given out the idea that men have to be big and strong and "manly" to be a "real man."  The ways that these ideas are expressed, however, have consistently become more violent and full of anger.  Another compounding factor into toxic masculinity is how our society berates men, through feminine insults like "bitch", "pussy", or even just calling them a woman.  These types of insults have had a devastati...
1 comment
Read more

Arguing: Yelling vs. Debating.

    What starts arguments?  Resentment for another person?  Differing opinions?  Most of the time it comes from a desire to be "right."  Though it seems that many arguments create more tension between individuals rather than solve their issues, arguing is a necessary and trivial factor of humanity.  In recent times it seems that arguing has been given a highly negative connotation and many people associate that word purely with yelling, screaming, and anger.  However, the purpose of arguing is not to win a screaming contest, it is to share one's opinions with one another and show others your point of view on a subject.  Instead of wasting unnecessary amounts of time by yelling at someone else to prove that we are right, we as a whole need to learn more about how we can get our points across to others by remaining calm, collected, and also listen to our opponents' ideas.     Arguing, while making many people uncomfortable because it ...
3 comments
Read more

Individuality is What Makes You Great

  The 2006 movie Little Miss Sunshine, directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris, is about an incredibly dysfunctional family caught in an unexpected journey across the country. The family of six consists of Richard and Cheryl (mom and dad), uncle Frank, Grandpa Edwin, and the two kids Olive and Dwayne. While Cheryl and Richard are at a difficult point in their marriage, Olive gets picked to be a contestant in a beauty pageant, the Little Miss Sunshine pageant. The trip that no one in the family was excited about only got more and more painful for them as their van would consistently break down. Before they could leave their current stop, it required the family to cooperate and push the van to start and quickly hop on. As more and more setbacks and troubles are sent their way, the family realizes that they need each other's support and have to stay strong for Olive's sake. It gets worse when the family arrives at the pageant late and Olive is unable to participate.  ...
Post a Comment
Read more