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    playing soccer for his school this year. This is his first time playing a sport with a team against other schools. I am so proud of his dedication to his team, but am scared for his self-esteem. Andrew is more on the “thin” side, and feels he isn’t big enough to play and is often scared of the ball hitting him, or other kids kicking his shins. He was injured in his fourth game and sat out for 10 minutes or so. The ball hit him in his face and left some redness around his eye area. I was…

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    (Hochschild). Throughout her reading she talked about how this typically lands in the hands of the woman instead of the man. b. How are women both the villain and victim of the second shift according to Hochschild? (Please give a 2-3 sentence description for each item) 3 pts Women tend to be the villains in the second shift because they speed everything…

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    Hemingway Male Dominance

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    perspective on not only the world, but herself. The way a man presents his dominance can be shown in several ways: language, manipulation, physical and mental abuse. Hemingway 's Hills Like White Elephants and Moore 's How To Be An Other Woman, have a strong theme of male dominance. Both Hemingway and Moore emphasize the power of male dominance, however, the man in Hemingway is more aggressive with his language than the emotionally withdrawn man from Moore. The men 's love interests are both…

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    San Diego Museum Essay

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    look for a painting that matched the criteria of a painting from 1800-1880 that illustrates realism or romanticism. I came across an oil on canvas painting of everything I have learned what realism art is suppose to look like. The painting was of a man on a horse looking down on a boy with a dog close behind them on a dirt trail. There were tall trees, large mountains, and a river that seemed to show how small the characters were in painting and how nature was that surrounded them. The painting…

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    Manhood And Masculinity

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    the rules for what it means to be masculine? What are the differences in what those lessons are based on a person’s social economic status (SES)? What happens when a boy does not have the resources available to meet what society defines as being a man? The answers to these questions influence how boys grow into adulthood. The process of how boys mold their perception of what manhood is determines how they interact with society and contributes to their values and life goals. Violence has…

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    both have completely different authors that portray a young boy attempting to pass some kind of ritual into manhood. Beryl Markham, the writer of “Brothers are the same”, creates a young, African warrior determined to enter the gateway of becoming a man. While Doris Lessing, generates a boy no older than eleven to experience his rite of passage of leaving his boyish self. To go in more depth, both stories share struggles and conflict for the characters to reach their goal, while having the same…

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    and was very protective of Lennie this man 's name was George. To George there was his best friend and his companion was named Lennie. Lennie was a nice, tall, and not so smart guy but there was a very deep bond between the two. They were inseparable. The two were on their way to a farm/ranch going to find a job for the two to get to their big American Dream. In that farm they met a couple of nice guys which one was a old guy who had only one hand. The old man was a shy guy but his name was…

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    Shakespeare Gender Roles

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    the workforce but also in politics and pop culture. For once we can actually see women expressing their thoughts and emotions which we can see very clearly in kat’s speech “...but mostly I hate they way I don’t hate you, not even close, not even a little bit not even at all.” (“10 Things I Hate About You”) Meanwhile the women of shakespeare’s time were given less opportunities, they were limited on what they could actually do during the 15-1600s. So women took pride in being mothers, since it…

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    through each. Where Hospital Sketches does in fact have chapter titles but they are all very simple. A Day, A Night, Off Duty, are all very soft spoken chapter titles. Then you have With the Old Breed, the one work that is based off the experience of a man has such harsh chapter titles. Assault into Hell, Of Mud and Maggots, Another Amphibious Assault, Brave Men Lost, all of With the Old Breed has chapter titles that are harsh and so much stronger. From the very start the book about a man’s…

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    and full of cooties. I felt like, as a girl, I had to separated from the boys because somehow they would “ruin” my “purity”. I recall being in Kindergarten, and a teacher stopping me from playing Tag with boys because that was “too dangerous for a little girl to be doing” and that I should “play House inside.” I was weird because I preferred riding in a red mustang…

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