Essays on Aging

“Young Man on Sixth Avenue,” is a quick story written in the year 1995 by Mark Halliday. He presents a younger man of a good and admirable looks, as the protagonist of the story, whose life as a young man is symbolically contrasted with his later length of his life....

I can attribute the thoughts that McConnell-Ginet and Eckert articulate in their article, Learning to be Gendered to my interactions with other personalities in the society. According to Eckert and McConnell-Ginet, adults in the community play a significant position in the behaviors of a child by executing various activities...

How do we consider the impact of time on us as we get older? Indiana Jones may be implying here that the passing of time has only a physical effect on him, and that the visual physicality of time, rather than how a human feels on the inside, is what reflects...

Ageism is a social stigma in which people of all ages are discriminated against because of their age. The topic of age is also a significant concern in housing, representation, and service delivery environments. The most prevalent aspect of ageism in modern culture is the condescending depiction of man as...

I recall visiting my maternal grandmother regularly as a teenager to check how she was faring. She was in her late fifties by then and lived alone. As she used to be quiet and less talkative, I never really appreciated these visits. Her silence also made it impossible for me to...