Biological Arguments about Gender Difference
1. Look at the link below and examine the images posted on gender and toys. Describe the images that you focused on. Identify some of the gendering of products (such as how little boys’ toys are often active, engaging, and require critical thinking, whereas girls’ toys are often reduced to housework or caregiving).
One toy that caught my attention the most was the hot wheels. I remember playing with the exact same toy cars as a child. These toy cars came with a race track that require me challenge myself by putting together the tracks. Another toy that caught my attention was the Legos. This gendering product teaches children how to build simple and elaborate structures while still having a great time. I love how simple toys such as hot wheels, Legos, play dough, leap frog, and …show more content…
The four days ceremony encapsulate the Apache creation story by moving Inna Cochise through the stages of life infant, child, adolescent and womanhood. The ceremony begins with the rising of the morning star followed by an all-night dance of the young girl. These four days means little sleep, because emotion need to be set aside throughout the ordeal she about to encounter. The first day she is blessed with dust pollen to symbolize fertility, the second and third day the girls run toward the rising sun circling around a basket filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did. They must circle around the basket four times to mark the four stages of life. The fourth and final day brings Inna to the cusp of womanhood she will pray to mountain spirts for a long and successful life. The meaning behind the ceremony requires Inna to live by strict rules. Once the passage is completed Inna will receives the right of passages as a young
1. Look at the link below and examine the images posted on gender and toys. Describe the images that you focused on. Identify some of the gendering of products (such as how little boys’ toys are often active, engaging, and require critical thinking, whereas girls’ toys are often reduced to housework or caregiving).
One toy that caught my attention the most was the hot wheels. I remember playing with the exact same toy cars as a child. These toy cars came with a race track that require me challenge myself by putting together the tracks. Another toy that caught my attention was the Legos. This gendering product teaches children how to build simple and elaborate structures while still having a great time. I love how simple toys such as hot wheels, Legos, play dough, leap frog, and …show more content…
The four days ceremony encapsulate the Apache creation story by moving Inna Cochise through the stages of life infant, child, adolescent and womanhood. The ceremony begins with the rising of the morning star followed by an all-night dance of the young girl. These four days means little sleep, because emotion need to be set aside throughout the ordeal she about to encounter. The first day she is blessed with dust pollen to symbolize fertility, the second and third day the girls run toward the rising sun circling around a basket filled with pollen and other ceremonial objects as their ancestors did. They must circle around the basket four times to mark the four stages of life. The fourth and final day brings Inna to the cusp of womanhood she will pray to mountain spirts for a long and successful life. The meaning behind the ceremony requires Inna to live by strict rules. Once the passage is completed Inna will receives the right of passages as a young