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A Bird’s Eye View of the Gender Specific Parade Day Experience The following reports on the behavior of female University of Scranton student’s interactions and behaviors during the Saint Patrick’s Day Parade festivities, relative to their male counterparts. Reader discretion is highly advised. This study was conducted from the not so structurally sound observational deck of an old apartment’s window fire escape. The investigators consumed approximately two, twelve ounce Blue Moon bottles for…

narrator’s didn’t want to leave his father due to the changes he would have to face in school. It seem that the boy was afraid to step out into the real world. Once the narrator enter into school, he experience so many new things like meeting new friends and enjoying an average school day, but a huge turn came within the story. The shift in the story is when the boy realize that he is no longer young boy in school anymore, but a grown man. According to the Overview of “Half a Day by: Dell 'Amico…

When he was a little boy, he ran out to the shop as soon as his dad got home, to prepare it by cleaning everything so his dad could get right to work. He hoped his dad would start teaching him how to use these “ big saws and drills that made my eyes pop out of my head,’’ Chic said. Since he was a young boy, Chic had always been drawn toward tools. Starting with his play sets, he would always be attracted to the…

In the story of “Godliness”, by Sherwood Anderson, the character Jesse Bentley goes through a lot of hardships in his life, which affect the person who he becomes. Jesse suffers through loss and the pain of being alone. Anderson says, “Enoch, Edward, Harry, and Will Bentley all enlisted and before the long war ended they were all killed”.() With his brothers gone and his mother who had recently passed away the only person to take over the family farm was Jesse . He was not in the best of shape…

Throughout the Ex-Friend ad, there is no form of verbal communication besides the slogan, “stop being a friend, and start being a man” near the conclusion of the commercial. In doing so, the commercial relies heavily on the facial expressions and grunts between both males to communicate the battle of manliness. In the ad, the manly construction worker continually grunts when he tries to battle with the younger male to pull down the woman’s zipper (Unilever Interns, 2010). When watching the ad,…

The two boys appeared to be African American and the girl Hispanic. I wondered which person standing in line they belonged to. I started to listen to their conversation. To my surprise, they started speaking Spanish. The little girl that was with them started whining and they were trying to figure out what she wanted. One of the boys got up and went to the line to tell the adult they came with. She told the boy to save her spot in the line and came over to the other boy and handed the girl…

Women in film and television are not treated the same as their male counterparts. To think that women should not get a similar treatment is practically archaic in this time and age. In 2012 there were three big grossing movies which featured female leads (IMDB, n.d., “Most Popular Feature Films Released in 2012”). But if we truly break it down are they everything we had hoped for or are they still lacking in comparison to their male counterparts? A simple test can tell you whether or not a…

to be consumed by sectionalism and riots over events like the Fruitvale station shooting, the crisis in Ferguson and one of the most popular and still most debated events to this day the Trayvon Martin shooting.” Trayvon Martin a Seventeen year old boy was gunned down on the night of February 26, 2012 in Sanford Florida while walking…

she is active, brave and also the heroine of the story. This is not a common happening in movies because she states that only 9 out of the 10 movies you pick up, the main character will be a boy. She claims that this is because the film industry is mainly run by males. This puts girls only in relation to boys besides the rare occasion of Ariel. While Ariel looks like Barbie, she still has a story that makes her adventurous. This is uncommon among most movies because they commonly portray women…

skills. The young men will take their own food and take a lot of risks to see the Northern Lights and a settlement called Inuit. All this will be the test for the seventeen-year-old journey from boyhood to manhood. Michael Thompson feels that every boy is searching for this one such test to transform to boyhood to manhood. I agree with Michael Thompson one hundred percent. I do feel everybody wants a test to become a man; as do I I want to test myself to become a man. In a way this college…