#26

Looking at several case studies, one may observe all the reasons keeping gender equality out of our society.   One specific study explains the results of surveys taken rating the quality of company leader and superiors. The study showed that "individuals were found to make different judgments about identical leadership behaviors depending on whether those behaviors were attributed to men or women. Women exhibiting the same behaviors as men were judged less favorable than men" (Carter, 29). As well as the descriptive stereotyping of the qualities women are capable of, the studies show that our culture also carries a prescriptive stereotype for women, stating the beliefs about the parts women and men should play in society. In the case study the participants were asked to make promotion recommendations. Results showed that little evidence was needed for the men's leadership abilities as compared to women. Also there was evidence that when women went beyond their prescriptive female stereotypes, by mastering leadership roles, they endured unfair punishments. Also as females would perform leadership jobs with competitive attitudes, such as men in similar positions do, they were accused of hostile behavior. Identical tasks of the different sex's were even rewarded differently, favoring the male of course. All in all, the conclusion of the study provided that the participants recommendations favored compensating the male leaders as in relation to female promoting. As expected by other studies concerning gender biasing, studies propose that females are in certain risk of discrimination and stereotyping in the workplace.

#26

Despite the enormous amounts of gender stereotyping that how society faces, women are on the move to do big things. The massive increase of women in the labor force, during the recent half of this century is occurring because of the help of this progressively materialistic, competitive, and technologically abled society. The direction toward gender equality relates to the past gender roles of million of years ago when both the males and females shared the act of gathering and proving for their families. Similar to then in our ancestor's days, today women provide family-income just as they contributed back then. The idea of the two-income family is barely rare these days. The talents of women to create networks, and come to consensus, will lead to new ideas in the art of negotiation. The women's brain will be required in the progression of business, education, medicine, law, and the media. "The natural talents of women as communicators, integrators of information, negotiators, educators, and healers are recognized and exploited in the global marketplace, they will reshape many professions and corporations" (McDonald, 1). With the increase in women power and the acceptance of women in society, the confidence of the female will rise, correlating with the decrease in male confidence and power. This effect, concerning confidence and power,  is due to a female's aptitude to control conception, the major increase in single motherhood, the rise of women's wages in relation with men's, the habit of the U.S. government to decline welfare to male-headed families, and a rise in social recognition of male bashing in our culture.

#24

Why have we yet to have a woman president in this country? This is somewhat a rhetorical question because our society could tell you the answer is because she's a women. In our society gender stereotyping is one of the most biased things out there. People in our world dismiss the pervasive vacancy of females in leadership positions and roles because of the diversity in the traits of men and women. Yet, studies have shown that this biased perspective is so easy to have but yet very hard to prove with evidence. Studies prove that females and males share many more traits and qualities than ones that they don't. Both men and women are found to share the stand out qualities of cognitive thinking and personality traits. So surprising was this fact that the authors "concluded that a person's sex was not a realiable indicator of how that person would lead (Carter, 26). Women in the bussiness world well-qualified for postions in leadership declare that the gender stereotyping in society about females being able to lead continue and end in bias and discimination. The common beliefs of society say that female leaders are ultimately less task-oriented than male leaders. The stereotype of men depict that they geniunely carry qualities of a leader just because of thier gender and that women sterotyping depicts ill-suited leadership skills. We will never question why a man has authority in certain postions but it's our nature to examine a woman in power. Many women are rising up in big postions but get stopped before reaching their full capablitly because society is so quick to judge a woman's abilitys before they even know them just because of the fact she is a female.

#22

The scholarly article I read today was called "Independent School Leadership -A Gendered Experience," by Susan Feibelman and Martha Haakmat. Ultimately this article discusses why more women aren't at the top positions and in leadership roles in independent schools. The reason the article gives for women not rising up to the ranks of leadership in the independent school communities is of course gender based. They say it's the same reason why our country hasn't of yet elected a female as the president of the United States, gender biases and issues of the broader culture. In fact our country is currently tied for 69th place among counties with the greatest percentages of females in national legislatures. Like I've discovered in most of the  articles I've been reading for this paper, cultural beliefs are not beneficial to women in leadership roles. This article explains why in four main points. First, female leaders are expected to combine compassion with their leadership and when they don't they are disliked. Secondly, people less adequately and take commands from women than men. Next, when women advertise themselves and their capacity they acquire disapproval. And finally, as opposed to men, to be good leaders, women need more apparent acceptance and awards to feel secure in her position. It is told that the hardships actually facing women to maintain leadership roles, has nothing to do with their actual skill it's just the societal stereotype. The article goes on to say that the schools need to acknowledge that this gender biased problem is hurting their school and they need to do something about it. This is yet another article that proves my stereotyping topic, women have the traits to do the important things but are not accepted to do them because of their gender.

#21

The article I read today is called "Women 'Take Care,' Men 'Take Charge': Managers' Sterotypic Perceptions of Women and Men Leaders" by Jeanine L Prime and Nancy M Carter. This article is ultimately all about gender stereotyping. The article says that because of the beliefs of the great gender difference is so noticeable, society frequently likes to blame the gender inequalities for the reason why we hear of the differences in the skills and traits of women and men. The article discusses conducted studies showing that all the records of gender inequality are oh so easy to assume but not as easy to support with actual evidence. Studies they've shown prove that women are a lot more like men than they are different, in both personality traits and cognitive functioning. This article is proof the harsh women stereotyping in the business and leadership world. Global views implicate the beliefs that women carry less leadership qualities as opposed to typical men and also that female leaders are less task -oriented than leaders in general. Women notice the different biased behavior they are treated with based on their gender, and conclude these reasons are what is stopping their career advancements. The main point of this article is how gender stereotyping describe men to be genuinely fit with the qualities for leadership and describe women being unfit for a leadership position. It goes on to describe their studies, research, gender behaviors and beliefs. I think this article is an excellent source for my paper dealing with gender stereotyping.

#20

The article I read today is called "Citing the Rising Influence and Power of Women" by Kim A. McDonald . This article is about two colleagues's at Rutgers University comparing their predictions of future gender roles and what will happen to the world when women continuing to gain power. One anthropologist from Rutgers believes that the turn approaching gender equality is a recurrence to the past ancestral relationships between the sexes millions of years ago. More and more women are entering the workforce and creating two-income families and there is always a growing number of females in higher education. Society is just becoming generally feminized. The accustomed traits of females such as, negotiators, communicators, educators, integrators of information, and healers are recognized and exercised in the global marketplace. These talents will "reshape" corporations and professions, according to Helen E. Fisher. The female capabilities of contextually analyzing, developing interpersonal skills, and their efficiency for language will prosper the the assembling and altering of information and their traits of compassion and need to nurture will make the the female presence in medical schools rise resulting in the change of the face of medicine. In this society it is being discovered that a lot of areas of specialization are going to require a women's mind. The article goes on to tell what this transfer of gender power will do to men and families as a whole. This article relates a lot to my topic of women becoming equals. I think this will be a very helpful source.

#19

One of potential sources for my research paper is an article called "Iron ladies, men of steel: The effects of gender stereotyping on the perception of male and female candidates are moderated by prototypically,"written by Joris Lammers, Ernestine H. Gordijn, and Sabine Otten. This article is about women being underrepresented in parliamentary positions and the stereotype that they often face. The article explains how equal representation in parliament is crucial for three important reasons. One, the United Nations Development Program accents that female political power is necessary for good governance. Two, without participation of half of the population, the theory of democracy will not work. And lastly, the participation of females in representative bodies can deliver independence because women politicians can act as role models. Despite these reasons, worldwide only 16% of parliamentary seats are held by women. Even if, stereotyping of sexism has become "less hostile, more subtle, and more benevolent in tone" it still has a contrary effect on how females are perceived and how people act towards them. Gender is generally one of the first departments of which people are judged and it is also one of the most intrusive departments. The article explains that voters tend to favor a politician based on their view on the problem they think is the most important. Because men are viewed as competitive and assertive, people often vote for them when they think terrorism or something to that degree is most important and women would only be favored if someone thought maybe health-care was the most important problem, because females are seen as "communal and pro-social." Voters are very reliant of stereotyping because it makes it easy to achieve a fast image of the political candidates and use that image to assess the weaknesses of that certain candidate.

#18

The article i read today is called "Hear Them Growl" by Lisa Miller, Arian Campo Flores, Eleanor Clift, Eve Conant, Andrew Romano, Daniel Stone, and Pat Wingert. This article is about Sarah Palin and her famous term "momma grizzly." According to Sarah Palin a mama grizzly is a mother who takes charge when she needs to protect her children from bad policies in Washington. Palin describes a mama grizzly as a different new kind of political predator. With a mama grizzly's fearlessness along with the mixture of her femaleness makes the mother quite scary. She says the mama grizzly's will take on any enemy and the result will be that they will be ripped to shreds. The first time this term was used was in Sarah Palin's 2008 vice presidential run. She continued using this term like in a speech she gave for a women's pro-life group. Soon Sarah Palin's political action committee recognized the power of this phrase and created an Internet ad appropriately named "Mama Grizzlies"Since Palin was obviously running as a republican vice-president and said that the mama grizzlies protect their kids from the bad things in Washington the name is particularly aimed at the conservative mothers. The article ask that with all this commotion about this term it  is fair to know what these mothers have actually done for their kids, or the kids of this country. It is shown that all these female conservative politician mothers, Sharron Angle for example, voted against a domestic violence issue that would recognize restraining orders that were issued in other states. Virtually all the grizzly's voted against policies that liberals would consider good fro children such as health care. This article could help a little in my research showing big impacts females have made in the political world but I think I could find more helpful topics.

#17

I would like to conduct reseach proving that women are becoming just as important as men are nowadays. I know that is not fully 100% true, but I would like to prove that women are taking on more powerful positions and jobs in this world. I want to show that people have a lot more respect and confidence in females these days then they have in the past. Also I want to recognize how there is now a smaller gap between the powers of men and women. I would like to also provide reseach about stereotyping based on gender hopefully find that it's not that big of a subject anymore. I will probably provide information including quotas and affirmative action because I feel that conducting this reseasch a lot of topics like that will appear. One of the articles I've found in my seach is called "Sex and the GOP." This article focuses on the women of the repulican party in the United States of America. This article is about all the ladies of the country who are making the republican party oh so interesting, how the GOP was boring and "defined by a white male old guard along with a luckluster lineup of young guns cut form teh same drab cloth." Women are now taking senatorial seats in various states and heading and organizing huge organizations, spicing up politics in a whole new way. I think this article will be somewhat helpful to my research because it is proving my argument of women taking prestigious positions and making differences in the world instead of just be house wifes as they were to be before. I think this topic may be a little hard to reseach considering there is still some women discrimination going on in the world and mnay topics about laws stoping stereotying and such will be brought up in a lot of the articles.

#16

As of now I'm pretty sure my paper is going to be about women in powerful positions and changing points of view and stereotyping. I'm going to base my information and support my argument with a lot of scenes from the first episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. The episode is called "The Freshman" because it's setting is Buffy and her friends first few days at college. In this episode it is shown that Buffy Summers is very powerful and people have a lot of respect for her and a ton of confidence in her. Buffy, played by Sarah Michelle Gellar, is a young, beautiful, petite, college girl, yet she defends the world against all evil forces such as demons and vampires. One of the other head characters of the episode is Sunday and she is also a petite, young, blond girl that holds just as much power and respect as Buffy. This episode is showing a lot about stereotyping and how we judge people based on looks. Also the obvious change in power from male roles to females roles, which that along with the stereotyping topic will be the thesis of my paper. Just as in this episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, our world's views and powers of women are changing. I feel I can make strong arguments to prove that, such as women rising to places of authority so high as to run for president of the United States. Unlike past stereotyping and views, people are starting to realize that just because somebody is a female doesn't mean she can't make big decisions, or be strong, or brave, she is just as good as the next male. I think I will have many good claims to back my thesis based on the Buffy episode and today's world politics,economics, and sports ect.

#15

There are quite a few grammar rules that mess me up quite frequently. One of them being subject verb agreement. With subject verb agreement the basic rule is that singular subjects take on singular verbs and plural subjects take on plural verbs obviously but there are tricks. First you need to recognize what kind of subject is it to match it with that type of verb. Verbs don't add s to make plurals as subjects or nouns do most of the time. To chose the correct verb you should think of which verb would make sense with he or she and which verb would make sense with they. Then there are the cases where sentences have a multiple number of subjects or nouns. When the subjects are connected with or or nor one must pick the singular verb to use in this sentence. When two singular subjects are connect with either or neither they will also require the singular form of the verb. If one of the two subjects connected by either/or or neither/nor is I it should be put last and followed up by the verb am. When there is both singular and a plural subject connected by or or nor, the plural subject should go last and the plural verb should be used. When two or more subjects are connected by and it is obviously appropriate to use the plural verb. One of the tricky rules is when using words such as everybody, everyone, anybody, anyone, each, someone and somebody the singular verb is always used. In a sentence like "Each of the boys knows the offensive plays." it would be easy to mistake know for knows because the subject before the verb ,boys, is obviously plural but when saying each the singular form is always to be used. Lastly when using portions as subjects such as, percents, some, none, or a fraction always look at the noun in the prepositional phrase to see if it's singular or plural and match your verb with that noun.

#14

The episode I chose to rewatch was the first episode of the fourth season of Buffy the Vampire Slayer, "The Freshman." This is the episode where Buffy first goes off to college. Willow and everyone else is enjoying it and exciting about everything while Buffy is just overwhelmed and not sure what she thinks of it  yet. Buffy meets a friend, Eddy, one night and the next day she comes to find that he is missing. She finds it odd that he is gone and she finds out that he left a note on his bed saying he couldn't handle it anymore. The next night she thinks she spots him on campus and runs up to him to find he has turned into a vampire. She kills him when he tries to attack her and then the head vampire, Sunday, that captured Eddy and killed turned him into a vampire is there to find that Buffy is a slayer and tries to kill her. I think this episode shows a lot about women in power and stereotyping. Two of the most powerful women in the episode, Buffy and Sunday, are young, blond, small, petite girls who many people look up too. These two girls have a lot of power in the show. Buffy is the chosen one, a slayer, you realize when you watch the show that everyone has a lot of confidence in her. When Buffy goes to Giles to notify him on the missing student he tells her she "is old enough and experienced enough to handle it herself" and when she tells Xander of the whole situation he tells her that when ever he is alone or freaked out he always things "what would Buffy do," and that she is his hero. Sunday has a lot of power to all of the other vampires in her crew would never think to disobey her and she is in charge of when they eat who they eat and what they do. This is what is happening in the real world too, women are rising to places of authority and power, stereotyping is different than in the past.

#13

Today I watched another episode from season four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. I think this was one of the most intense episodes of Buffy that I have watched so far. This episode focused a lot of Oz. In this episode it is the time of the year or month that Oz becomes a ware wolf. Everyone is obviously already aware of this trait and he has a cage he stays in at night during these few ware wolf days in order to protect him and other people and ware wolves he could hurt. The problem this time is Willow notices that Oz is attracted to some girl he is talking to at lunch and that they have a lot in common and she gets a little worried but Buffy helps her realize it's nothing if a guy is a little bit attracted to another girl because he loves her. It turns out that this girl from lunch is also a ware wolf and they have a shared, intense, attraction for each other caused by their animal traits. They end up getting together and Willow notices that something is wrong but Oz assures her that is it nothing. The next day Buffy hears from her professor that she was attacked by two wild dogs. Right away Buffy knows that it was Oz as a ware wolf but doesn't know who the other one was. She goes to Oz to tell him to keep his friend locked up or something bad will happen. He gets her in the cage and their attraction for each other takes over. When daylight hits Willow goes to get Oz and finds him naked with the girl, her heart is broken. She runs off and tries to do some voodoo when the ware wolf girl comes to kill her. Oz comes to kill her and rescue Willow but the sun goes down and he turns into a ware wolf and tries to attack Willow also but then Buffy comes to save the day once again. Later on Oz realizes he was wrong and tells Willow he loves her but leaves and says he doesnt know when he will be back.

#10

Today I watched the episode called "Beer Bad" of season four of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. In this episode Buffy is still going through the typical teenage boy relationship thing and is still very hurt after the whole sleeping with Parker and not talking to him anymore thing. While she is in one of Professor Walsh's psychology classes she keeps playing out scenarios and daydreaming about saving Parker's life and then him wanting her back more than anything, all the while Parker is a few rows ahead in that class with another girl. In the mean time, Xander gets a fake ID and gets a job as a bartender at a local college bar. One night Buffy goes to the bar with four college guys and Xander serves her up some Black Frost beer. Buffy ends up getting really drunk and in the morning Willow tries helping her deal with her hangover. That night Buffy gets more drunk and then we see a clip of why. Someone has a chemical lab set up and it putting something bad in the beer. Buffy finally goes home but then when her friends come to check on her they find her writing Parker Bad on her dorm room walls. Her friends try to keep her in her room but she keeps craving more beer. Willow blames Parker for Buffy's behavior and then go to the  dorm to help her. In the mean time the guys Buffy went to the bar with turned into neanderthals and bust into her dorm and knock her friends unconscious and light her room on fire. Although Buffy is unable to use the fire extinguisher, she still mangers to save Parker and Willow. They then thank her and Parker apologizes to her just like she imagined it.

#9

The episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer "Fear Itself" is set on Halloween night, and gives an account of what Buffy and her friends take part in. Buffy seems to be reluctant to her friends ideas of Halloween activities in the beginning, and would rather patrol and be on vampire watch. Much to Buffy's dismay, they decide to go to a local fraternity for a haunted house/party to celebrate the holiday. Soon after their arrival, they find the frat house to actually be haunted. The demon that which took over the house feeds on the fear of the college students it is terrorizing. The group of friends is split, and the house proceeds to hone in on each individual students fear. After much chaos, the group manages to meet back up and regroup in one of the main rooms of the house. There they find a book on rituals, and take note of the demonic symbols painted on the floor by the frat at the beginning of the night. With the help of those who were in the house with her and Buffy's mentor, they manage to reveal the demon which incidentally turns out to be minuscule and harmless. The end and overall theme of this episode emphasizes the fact that fear tends to be something that is extremely built up and exaggerated in one's imagination. Perhaps it can be taken from this episode that things are not always as they seem. This is displayed directly through the experiences of Buffy and her friends on Halloween night, in the episode "Fear Itself".

#8

The article "High School is Hell" brought up some really good points. I've been watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer so i understood a lot of the messages they emphasized. It's really interesting to think about how writers can come up with all the things they do. There is so much irony and so many metaphors with every little point the show conveys. The creators of this show appeal to the viewer's thoughts in such discrete, inclusive ways that every body can relate to. It's crazy how much thought could go into all the episodes. The show shows that the fake things that people are afraid of in real life, such as demons and mythical monsters, are the things that are real in the Buffy world.  In the Buffy world the characters biggest horrors are not the monsters and vampires though, they are the things that we too have to fear too, well in high school at least, such as making sports teams, fitting in with the right friends, having a date to the dances, and having the perfect prom dresses. Then things like graduation, which for us is a huge step, something we would think of like end of the world really would be for them if it wasn't for the Mayor's ascension. So graduation is thought of as the last coming together of the class along with the mourning of the hardships every one will face trying to keep in touch but in Buffy's world it is a victorious day because they blow up the mayor and their school. The writers of these sci-fi shows, along with other writers of books, shows, and movies, are genius and how they can relate to the viewers in their ironic and metaphoric ways.

#7

I watched the third episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer of season four tonight. This was third consecutive episode I watched of this season and I'm actually starting to like it. Although it's kind of weird sometimes when you feel like you are watching a normal show with a normal plot and then people suddenly turn into vampires and attack each other. In this episode "The Harsh Light of Day," Spike, a powerful well-known vampire you could say, comes to Buffy's campus. She meets him at some college party and they start fighting, all along his so called "girlfriend," Harmony, (one of Buffy and Willow's old acquaintances) accidentally spills a secret in front of Buffy about why Spike is back on campus. Spike is supposedly trying to find and capture a magical ring that makes it impossible for him, or any vampire, to die. He wants to possess this ring so he will be invincible. Buffy tells one of her slayers about it and he recognizes what it is and does some research on it, when he finds out what it can do he tries to warn Buffy about it but of course she is already fighting Spike. It takes her a stab with one of her vampire killing weapons to realize he is wearing the ring and she won't be able to kill him as long as he acquires it. After a long troublesome battle Buffy captures the ring from him and he is sucked away. This is mostly the main concept of this episode as in all the episodes so far from this season, Buffy is just living her college like with boy problems and room mate problems and there is always a vampire scandal going on that her crew researches and they and her use it to defeat the bad guys.

#6

Tonight I watched another episode from Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4. It was called living conditions. I actually enjoy the Buffy series and think its quite interesting. In this episode Buffy experiences a lot of differences with her room mate. At first it's little things and her friends tell her to just try to get over it and get along with her but then Buffy has some serious feelings that her room mate, Kathy, is evil. Buffy and Kathy start to have the same dreams, which is weird to us, but Buffy and her friends know that encountering with some evil thing or vampire could be the reason for that. From what i know of the series, she thinks she is some sort of vampire or monster that needs killed. All of Buffy's friends think she is overreacting and that one of her fights with a demon she encountered is making her think this way. Buffy's friends begin to realize that it is probably not safe for Buffy to be around Kathy because they know she wants to harm her or kill her and prove she is evil. Willow, Buffy's best friend, goes to tell Kathy that she should probably have some away time from Buffy. While this is all happening, Buffy's other friends are holding her hostage so she cant harm Kathy. Buffy ends up escaping and going back to her dorm to fight Kathy. It turns out that Kathy really was some sort of demon. Her and Buffy fight until Kathy's demon dad comes to get her and takes her back to their land or wherever they go. Buffy's friends feel bad for not believing her and Willow gets to move in with Buffy to be her new room mate.

#5

Today I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 4 episode 1, "The Freshman."  I actually liked this show a lot for it being the first time i watched it. In this episode Buffy goes to college and doesn't like it very much. She realizes that one of the friends she meets is missing when he does not show up to the class they have together. She checks his resident hall to find out where he was when she finds out he is gone and supposedly just left cause he couldn't handle the college life. She finds this weird and abnormal so that night or a few nights later she spots him walking through campus and catches up to him to find that he was turned into a vampire. She tries to talk to him when suddenly he attacks her but she ends up killing him. The group of vampires who killed her friend, Eddie, then show up and realize she is a vampire slayer when she defeats Eddie so they decide they want to kill her. The leader of the vampire group tells all the others to stay back because she wants to fight her on her own. Buffy gets hurt but not killed and she eventually meets up with an old friend and tells him about the campus vampires. He tells her they need to get their crew together to go defeat them. They go to plot the attack and her friend leaves to go get weapons and the rest of their crew, while he is gone Buffy finds herself in the middle of a battle with all the vampires. She is outnumbered but puts up a fight until eventually her crew arrives and she defeats and kills the campus vampires and stops their cereal murder. Buffy then returns to normal campus life.

#2

I felt that the episode of "The Train Job" on Firefly was interesting but sort of hard to follow in some aspects. I feel that the whole job should have been more well-discussed and prepared for how big of a big job it was suppose to be. The engineering girl and the doctor didn't seem as confident as they should have been about getting the initial first step, of getting him on to the train, done. Secondly they ended up getting caught anyways resulting in a unnecessary rough fight. Third, they ended up taking the wrong cargo, or it was the right thing they just felt bad so gave it back, ultimately going trough the whole process for nothing. After this they were stuck in the town and had no idea what to do, mean while part of their own crew wanted to leave them there. Luckily some of the loyal crew members were there to take charge and stay to organize a plan of how to get the captain and the other girl back on their aircraft thing. When finally all back and ready to go they had to revise a new plan to return the cargo so that the suffering citizens could get their medicine, but while in the process their enemies arrived and fought them. The enemies injured some of the crew and put some in severe danger before the previous bad guy of the crew came to the rescue to save them. Once that was over with, they went to return the cargo but yet again got into some more trouble with the citizens of the town that they previous lied too. It was all just a huge mess. I did somewhat enjoy the episode though because you weren't really expecting what was going to happen next and it was quite interesting.

#1

Hi classmates! I'm Allison Johnson! I am a freshman planning to major in Business Finance and minor in Chemistry or Biochemistry. I would also like to participate in undergraduate research. I want to attend medical school post graduation and hopefully someday become a surgeon and drive a black Escalade Ext. I live in Stradley Hall on the eighth floor on South campus and love it. I also love my two great roommates, Megan and Emilie! Megan and I already leased a house for next year with three of our other friends. I'm really excited. I really enjoy going to Ohio State. I'm from Genoa, Ohio which is right outside Toledo. I have a sister, Rachel, who is a senior in high school and twin brothers, John and Jake, who are sophomores in high school. I also have a black lab named Brutus, I love him to death! I played softball all my life for recreational teams, travel teams, and my varsity high school team for three years. I also umpire softball games as a summer job. I love football too. My favorite team is the Pittsburgh Steelers, and I of course love college football too. Go Bucks! I like rap music, Drake and all of Young Money is my favorite. I have democratic political views. I would shop all day if I could. My favorite place to go on the weekends is AEPi, the Jewish frat house. I love to have a good time but I'm also serious about my school work.