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Abigail Adams was the wife of John Adams who played an important part in the American Revolution and went on to become the second President of the United States. In this letter, Abigail Adams is addressing her son, John Quincy Adams, as he travels with his father on an embassy to France. John Quincy would later become the President of the United States and played a key role in the forming of America. Throughout this letter, Abigail Adams establishes appealing to pathos and illustrating key ideas…

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best. With that, he must not crumble to feeble traits as women, or he’s disposing all of his hard work and reputation away. Especially one-upping Unoka, the female embodiment. To summarize briefly, his own insecurities within the custom to uphold the manly image will manifest within himself. “His rage, inflexibility, and fear of appearing weak like his lazy father, the musician Unoka, consistently overshadow his respect for his community.” Okonkwo’s tragic flaw lies with…

waging a contest over who does more repetitions of the heaviest weights. Weight lifting has now become a sign of superiority and machismo more than being an exercise regimen. It has become a man's world that woman who venture into it are seen as, well, manly, discouraging many other females from this kind of regimen. But the truth of the matter is that weight lifting does not necessarily mean heavy lifting. Lifting light weights is also possible, and in fact, is what is recommended for those…

usual, they stood upright and gradually and no doubt unsteadily at first, began to walk on their hind limbs.Small bipedal steps for apes, and as it would turn out, a giant leap for mankind. Walking upright required profound changes in the anatomy manly in the limbs and pelvis, and these were passed on to modern humans.It eventually put limits on the size of infants at birth and thus created the need for longer nurturing with sweep cutural consequences.It may have a bearing on human sexuality…

At the age of 15, many young boys are going to school, worrying about acne and perhaps dreaming of becoming a superstar sports figure. But in the case of Private Dan Bullock he became a casualty of the Vietnam War, becoming the youngest American serviceman killed in the line of duty.Bullock was a southern boy, who was born and raised in the small town of Goldsboro, North Carolina which is about 52 miles north of the state capital of Raleigh. When Bullock was 12, his mom passed away and he and…

The women in the ads and commercials are young good-looking women, in some commercials and ads dressed in skimpy clothes. The listed purpose is to get the audience to buy their product. The persuasion used in their ads is that by purchasing their Manly product, you will become a better or stereotypical man. A man who your women will love even more if you buy this…

In Willa Cather’s novel entitled My Antonia, she writes about several female characters that, in essence, challenge the stereotypical women’s role in a male-dominated society during the early 1900s. In Trifles, a play written by Susan Glaspell, she depicts her female characters as crafty and bright and not simply inferior intellectually to their male counterparts. Upon closer examination of these two pieces of work, Cather and Glaspell demonstrate that these female characters defy the existing…

The men are afraid to be viewed as feeble. Tim is afraid of what people will say about him if he does not go to war, the men of the Alpha Company act manly around each other, and the soldiers mock the dead all because they are afraid of revealing weakness. The men of Alpha Company embody this idea of apprehension to display weakness. Fear influences how everyone acts, not just the Alpha Company, and not…

one step ahead on everyone else. Mrs. Hopewell, Joy’s mother, is the only one who’s name appropriately fits her attitude and identity. The very idea of Mrs. Hopewell’s beliefs disgusts Hulga who has professed to believe in nothing. Besides Hulga, Manly Pointer the bible salesman is the second biggest example irony in “Good Country People”. The reader would first presume that this man is the very definition of good country people; he turned out to be the complete opposite. Every presumption that…