- The effects of homoeroticism in friendships: To what extent are they beneficial and or detrimental?
- Regarding the first topic when it comes to homoerotic friendships, if I chose to focus on this I’d like to center my scope to students at Baruch; focusing on if they have friendships either male or female that are too touchy/border the line of friend and romantic partner. Using this scope I’d like to see how this effects the view of their friendships, where this may stem from and if they are truly comfortable with it.
- The phenomenon on non-white voters voting for Trump? What are their reasonings and their political stance?
- After having a conversation with a peer about who they would vote for in the 2024 election and they said Trump I’d like to see how many other Baruch students feel this way. I want to find out where they stand on the political spectrum, and understand what their reasonings are based in: bias, misinformation, political association, etc. Ultimately to see if there is a common trend amongst them.
- Does Tyler Perry perpetuate negative stereotypes onto the black community?
- I’ve seen a lot of Youtube videos on my feed for the past couple years that have dissected and criticized the work of Tyler Perry due to his portrayal of black women in his films and tv shows. I wanted to watch some of Perry’s work with a more critical view since I am older and come to the conclusion whether or not Perry’s work is harmful to the black community and ask the black community their honest opinions on the media that I watched of him for this paper stating my opinions on it but also the opinions of black students at Baruch.
Topic 1: This article shared on The Californian is a anecdote about this woman her her experience with her and her best friend. The beginning of their anecdote describes how close they’ve been with their best friend and how they have often been questioned how close their friendship truly was. In the later half the narrator describes how they’ve begun to hang out with them more: doing art with each other and being handsy, spending time with each other outside and wanting to kiss each other, enjoying each others company on the phone for several hours at a time. The story ends with the narrator going to have sex with one of her old flames (a guy); they end up cutting the sex early because the narrator hadn’t talked to their friend in several hours. While the guy is still in the room the narrator realizes she doesn’t want to have sex with the guy and their story ends there. “”Do you even want to have sex with him?” she asked. “Not really.” We both laughed.”
Topic 2: This article was written in March of 2024, it discusses the increase in black voters voting for Trump in the 2024 election. The article talks about the recent data showing that Trump has increased his votes amongst the black community, the history of the black community and voting and how Trump is maximize this amongst the voters. The reasoning that this article comes to for Trump spike in popularity is due to the lack of cultural ties to the Civil Rights Movement; while young black voters may experience some sort of oppression, its much harder for them to feel the same effects that their parents and grandparents had experienced due to them fortunately not having to suffer the same fate as them. “However, younger Black voters do not have those same civil rights legacy attachments”. Due to this lack of connection to their history, younger black voters are able to look at the Republican party without the lens of suffering. Moreover without this lens they tend to look at the Democratic party with a sense of resentment due them being known for supporting minority groups, however in recent times, black voters feel as if the party isn’t living up to their statements.