...Country Boy Who Quits School By Lao Hsiang As I read the story, I had realized that the life that the country boy has is somewhat similar on the life I have now. Based on the story, the family is living with their extended family which is their grandparents, and they were helping each other in times of needs. Although they are not that well-off to send the boy to school and to provide the needs of the boy, they still do so in accordance with the proclamation. As for my situation, I’ve been living with my grandfather since I was born, It was actually fun to have him around since he tells stories about the past and keeps on relating and comparing the life we have now in the life he had in the past just like the grandparents in the story. We are not also that well-off since we have 9 family members living in the same house, and we have different needs, my mother can’t afford to provide it all for us. I remember when I just graduated from high school, and I needed to enroll to a university and my mother can’t afford to send me to college because my brother need to pay fees on his school at the same time, so she ask me if I can stop schooling for year to sacrifice just to make my brother finish his schooling. I really cried a lot and can’t accept the reality, but just then my grandfather offer his savings just for me to enroll on the university I wanted just like the mother in the story, paying for the books the boy needed with the money she saved. And just like the boy in the...
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...The story is trying to tell us that gender should never be something that should hold one back from doing what they can do. We arrived at the conclusion that the story is discussing about gender inequality because it is truly what the story is about. a little girl, Alma Niles, who decides that girls should be allowed to carry water to the school instead of just the boys doing. It’s sexist in the way that society's image of boys and men being stronger than females so they get to do the “hard” jobs. But Some people such as Alma Niles have the determination to want to be treated as equal as the boys. On that fateful Friday, Alma ask the teacher Miss Ralston “Why can't girls go for the water too? “Silence filled the room instead of a spark of uproar where everyone instead of just bursting out laughing at Alma right away. This act of righteousness triggers the boys in the class and they start to bully Alma but, the girls stood up to the boys and protected her. The following Monday, the bullying persisted as the boys did not allow the girls to play softball with them but, either way the girls had to wait for the boys to pick out who they want on their team and force the girls to...
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...I do not think that schools have separate classes for boys and girls. I believe this because boys and girls will be able to work together better. They will be able to share their ideas. The noise level in the classroom will be reduced. I believe that boys and girls will be able to work together better. In school when boys and girls are in the same class, they will know how to respond to each other. They will be able to achieve higher grades in school as they were as a teen. For example most boys are weak in literacy, while girls are strong in literacy. In this way the girls will be able to help the boys in this subject in order to raise their grades. In addition, I also believe that boys and girls will be able to share their ideas better. For example, when the class is sharing ideas, boys and girls will not only ask for their own gender for their opinion, but ask anyone they wish to. They will also be able to hear opinions from both genders. When boys and girls share their ideas they will use the ideas they learned at school and continue to use them when they are adults . This will help them to become a better individual on their jobs. Hence, I think that the noise level will reduced with boys and girls in the same classroom. For example, if you put a boy in between two girls they will stop talking because they would not want anyone to hear what they are saying to each other. The class will have less distraction and noise because the boys will be working together...
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...In the past females have achieved less well than boys at higher levels in the education system, then during the 1990', the girls over took boys at all levels in the education system. The percentage of females in the UK achieving two or more A-levels or equivalent has increased from 20% in 1990 to 42% in 2006. Over the same time period, the percentage of males achieving the same level increased from 18% to 33%. On the other hand, there still continues to be a large difference in the choice of subjects by males and females. Even with the national curriculum being restrictive in the lower levels, meaning both male and females do the same subjects, when they get to a-levels and degree level, both male and females still tend to choose different subjects. At A-level males are more likely to study subjects such as; business studies, politics, economics and technical subjects, whereas females are more likely to study subjects such as; English and Modern Languages, and a large percentage also tend to choose Sociology and Psychology. Sociologists argue that these patterns of achievement and subject choice are the result of factors both within the education system and wider society. These changes within the education system are seen as the result of gender differences in education, although, external factors such as the impact of feminism, changes in the job market may have also influenced the increase in girls grades within education. Firstly, it may be argued that the way pupils are...
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...School Counselor Agenda - Sex Education Course Student’s Name High School Affiliate School Counselor Agenda - Sex Education Course Outline 1. Abstract 2. Introduction 3. What is sex? 4. How you are changing? 5. Why boys and girls are different and where babies come from? 6. Importance of studying sex at age 10-12 years 7. Conclusion 8. Reference 9. Appendix Abstract As a school counselor, I am in charge of presenting a sex education course to the student body of late childhood ages 10 through 12 years of age. The discussion is needed to help children grow in a way that is essential on the basis of what is happening on their physical, emotional and mental life. Therefore, an enumeration on the topics like: what is sex, how you are changing, why boys and girls are different and where babies come from? After listing the above topics, an enumeration on the topics will be made to help the reader fully comprehend what can be done to assist children aged 10-12 on matters associated with sex. Lastly, a conclusion will be initiated to help understand what the sex topics can be utilized on children aged 10-12 years. Introduction Teaching children aged 10-12 years of age is a fundamental approach especially if it is associated with sex. Brooks (2012), indicates that sex as a subject, it is very delicate, and hence, having a proper and fundamental topics on sex generates a society that is responsible...
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...Shakiera Swinton Professor Vazquez ENC1102 T-TH 12:30-1:45 11 February 2014 The Resistant: Abraham Rodriguez & an Unreliable Narrator Harry Stone, an author of the 1960s, describes the story Araby by James Joyce as “preserving a central episode in Joyce's life, an episode he will endlessly recapitulate. The boy in "Araby," like the youthful Joyce himself, must begin to free himself from the nets and trammels of society. That beginning involves painful farewells and disturbing dislocations” (349). The story “Araby” is a short memoir of James Joyce’s life as a young boy. Growing up in a predominantly Catholic republic in Dublin Ireland, the unreliable narrator somehow felt alienated, introspective, and at times disappointed. Being a part of a community where there is one religion can have influence the way one sees the world. Corresponding to the unreliable narrator in “Araby”, Abraham Rodriguez from “The Boy without a Flag” is affected by the environment he lives in. Overcome with defiance, the two characters become resistant: one resisting being a part of a bizarre place and the other resisting to conforming to an American tradition. In the two short stories, hypocrisy, disappointment, and religion and beliefs are themes that successfully illustrate their resistance. False hopes and discovering actuality through personal caused the young narrators to resist and resent; Resisting being a part of the atmospheres they dwelled in. James Joyce refers to religion throughout...
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...stage of the film. I chose director, in which my role was to oversee the film's artistic and dramatic aspects, while guiding the rest of the crew and actors. We did not have a scriptwriter, so I worked with the cinematographer and editor to create a realistic story, in terms of our equipment and cast. Being that our genre topic was Drama, we had a vision of it involving “high school drama.” We came up with the idea of two boys fighting over one girl, but we struggled in giving the film a meaningful ending. This is where the script supervisor and I came up with idea that the girl would be intentionally killed by one of the boys in revenge of her acting interested in both boys. I knew that we had to emphasis drama through facial expressions and body language, so I made sure to communicate with the cinematographer that in conversational shots we had to go CU or even ECU. Additionally, I collaborated with the set designer and cinematographer to construct a realistic high school environment. We agreed that we should utilize our schools locker area, workout facility, and parking lot to portray high school in a true sense. Once we moved into the production stage of the film, we found that construction noises were inhibiting the quality and consistency in the sound of the film. However, I suggested that we turn off the sound for the opening dolly shot and replace it with the sound of another shot from a later day where there were no construction noises. This ended up working...
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... In this story, there are two types of people: the “Socs” and the “Greasers”. The Socs are a young and wealthy group who believe they are superior over the less fortunate. The Greasers are an example of a less fortunate group. The Greasers are “hoodlums” who live in the ghetto and are basically uneducated criminals who live in poverty.The Greasers get there name from the casual way the gang dresses, long hair that it greased constantly, and leather jackets. Ponyboy is the main Greaser character. Ponyboy has two brothers, Sodapop and Darry, and all three of them are in a gang. The Curtis’ boys have been through a lot since their parents died, and they are living each day trying to fend for themselves. Ponyboy is an intelligent young man who is constantly pushed to become something better than what he grew up to be by his two brothers. Ponyboy is walking home from school where he had been abruptly confronted by the West Side Soc who asked Ponyboy is he “needed a haircut” while he held his switchblade close to Ponyboy’s face. The Socs begin to beat Ponyboy up until Ponyboy’s brothers hear his death scream and quickly gather the gang along to the scene. Months before, another member of the Guillot 2 East Side(Greaser’s) had been beaten up as well, but Johnny’s beaten is much more fatal. Later that evening, Ponyboy and Johnny, two of the most quiet and youngest gang members, decide to go watch a drive through movie with their friend Dally(another Greaser, who...
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...Chivalrous knights. Athenian olympic athletes crowned in laurels. Composed samurai. Confederate soldiers with glints of stone-cold malice in their eyes. Professional football players built like massive siege walls. World War II soldiers supported by shining, unmoving medals of honor. From a young age, the idea that boys and men must be creatures of warrior-like stoicism and Herculean athleticness is reinforced, at the cost of emotional depth and academic success. One can find the culprits of this embedded in America’s archetypes of masculine ‘normality’, the school system’s dependence on sport-programs, and culture’s reverence of military honor. The stereotypes of American heroes and men are heavily entrenched in the toxicity of masculinity,...
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...Professor Yacullo English 151 20 October 2010 “Gender and Sexuality Defining Our Identity” How do we establish identities? We construct our identities through experiences, emotions, connections, and rejections. An identity is a snapshot of who we are at a point in time. Identities are fluid, constantly changing, shifting, becoming. Identities vary across scales, and affect each other across scales. Gender– “a culture’s assumptions about the differences between men and women: their ‘characters,’ the roles they play in society, what they represent.” By nature, we as humans have needed to identify ourselves and others in broad and exclusionary/inclusionary terms. But then, “human nature” is actually nothing more than human habit. Every set of standards that we as a society currently use to identify ourselves is coupled with an opposing set: good versus bad, female versus male, hetero versus homo. This system of duality in the everyday assessment of ourselves and those around us holds the power to rob individuals of their dignity as human beings. As society changes over time, the people of society change as well. People all around the world are defined by many things, including characteristics, ethnicity, and many, many more...
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...of view of his life from when he was a little boy to being a man, and also he talks about his insecurity of being a man. In the essay he says: “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This quote is true because this is what is stereotyped everyday. Theroux tells us that America's view of "Being a Man" means to be stupid, obedient, and soldierly. This idea goes against everything that Theroux is. Theroux has many examples that back up his belief ."In paragraph nine he says “everything in stereotyped manliness goes against the life of the mind”. This means that writing is not a manly behavior. Theroux believed the idea which is why he hates being a man.Theroux goes into detail about how sports harms little boys and how it make boys every violent."Just as high school basketball teaches you how to be a poor loser, the manly attitude toward sports seems to be little more than a recipe for creating bad marriages, social misfits, moral degenerates, sadists, latent rapists and just plain louts I regard high school sports as a drug far worse then marijuana.." I have witnessed two experience similar to Theroux. One was when I was in the 3rd grade. My teacher had gave the class an assignment to do. We either had to write a peom nature or make a picture collage of nature. Most of the girls chose the poem and all the boys did the collage expect for 2 boys. Those 2 boys did the poem. When the other boys found out that they were doing the poem they kept...
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...well, more women get a college degree than men do. Actually, the number is for every two men that gets a college degree three women will get one. In addition, the jobs that were lost during The Great Regression were primarily men that lost their jobs, jobs such as mechanics, construction workers and financial sectors – all men. Today it is easier to succeed, as a woman somehow, because again, they are the superior sex today, their abilities and strengths is what makes you successful in today’s society. Because every boy in high school will get the same, preach: “Don’t crash your car, don’t get a girl pregnant and stay in school!” while girls are raised to be nice, respectful and decent. That is also, why more and more couples prefer to have a girl rather than a boy. In the ancient Greece, men would cut off their left testicle, because they believed that would only produce boys and later on women would kill themselves or are killed if they did not give birth to a boy. For about 2000 years the man have been the greater sex, but today it is the woman, because of her kindness and women being able to multitask and manage to control more things at a time than a man....
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...In the documentary Raising Cain programmed by PBS, host Michael Thompson debunks stereotypes found with boys. He explores the emotional development of boys in the United States, consulting with various psychologists, social activists, researchers, and educators in regards to issues young males encounter. The documentary provides researches about boys with their inner workings, dispelling a number of common misconceptions and highlight programs that bring out the best for boys. As an insightful film, it particularly would apply for anyone who parents developing boys. So what makes a boy, a boy? Is it nature or nurture? The nature aspect for boys refer to all of the genes and any hereditary factors that influence physical appearance and personality...
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...Vernissage - Claire Anderson-Wheelers Claire Anderson-Wheelers short story Vernissage is a story about an afternoon in a boy’s life. After school, Alex’s mother picks him up. At home she serves him a banana sandwich, and tells him to do his homework. Alex doesn’t want to do his homework, and therefore crawls under his parents’ bed to hide. Here he overhears a conversation between his parents. The short story does not tell the age of Alex. Instead it tells about Alex as a young boy being in the spot of going through a transition process. He observes things he used to like in his everyday life as now being baby stuff. “(…) and took down his toothbrush. It was green, a crocodile, yellow eyes. This too, he decided, was a child’s thing. “(p. 11, l. 168) “Maybe he was getting too old for banana sandwiches. He thought about saying that he didn't want to eat them anymore. But he liked them …” (p. 8, l. 49). Alex has a hard time letting go of these childish things. He likes them, but at the same time he knows, he is a little too old for them. However, after listening to the conversation between his parents, he decides to quit the childish toothbrush and ask his mother for a regular one. “He would ask his mother for a new toothbrush, one that was a toothbrush and nothing more.” (p. 11, l. 170). He goes from being a small child into a sensitive boy, maybe on his way to being a teenager. After a day of observing and sensing everything around him – especially regarding his mother, her femininity...
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...Review of “This is England”, directed and written by Shane Meadows “This is England”, centers on the young skinheads in England, in the year 1983. Summary: It is a story about the 12-year-old boy Shaun who is getting bullied in school. He does not have any friends and his father is dead, so it is only his mother and himself. Walking home from school one day, he meets a group of young people under the bridge. They are all skinheads, wearing Doctor Marten boots, shaving their heads and with their Ben Sherman shirts. Woody, who is the leader of the group, sees how sad Shaun is and invites him to join the group, among them Milky is the obly black skinhead in the group. Everyone accepts Shaun as a member, except Tubb who feels that Shaun is taking his place. But soon after the problem is solved between them and Shaun feels better than ever between his new friends, also the older girl Smell he feels attracted to. Then the older skinhead named Combo, with racist views, returns to the group after a prison sentence, together with two friends. He tries to take the leadership of the group from Woody, which leads to a rift. Woody stays leader of the apolitical group, whilst Combo becomes leader of the new political group. Combo likes Shaun and identifies with him, who in turn sees Combo as a role model. They go to a White Nationalist meeting and on their way back, a member gets thrown out because of his doubt over the group’s racist and national politics. After being rejected by...
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