...Yang, Chirstina Prof. Robert ENC 1102 Date: October 22, 2015 Title: “Boys and Girls” Author: Alice Munro Characters: The father, the mother, the sister, Laird, Henry Bailey, the grandmother, Flora Setting: The house, the barn Plot Summary: The sister is hurt that she’s defined by her gender, and the stuff she enjoys are considered boys stuff. Laird is expected to do all the manly stuff even if he don’t enjoy them. One aspect of the story that I really enjoyed: I enjoyed when the sister purposely let Flora leave. One aspect of the story that I found puzzling of that I did not understand: Was Laird jealous of his sister? Why the mother felt like her daughter shouldn’t be trusted? What made the sister let Flora go? Three-Paragraph analysis: The story was about a sister and a brother named Laird that were always being compared to each other. Everything the sister truly loved and enjoyed to do was considered a man’s job. It was hard for anyone to take her seriously because she was a girl and only expected to act like a lady. Laird on the other hand, had a hard time because everything he did wasn’t good enough or wasn’t as good as his sister. Laird was expected to be or manly since his a boy. They both had a hard time growing up since Laird had to always help his father, and the sister wanted to be with the father but her mother would force her to help her instead. The sister would have dreams of her a little older rescuing people from a bombed building, shooting two...
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...Common Wealth Essay: Girl power or Boy power ! The way I figured it out, everyone has the same point of view about girls. Like, how we jump into conclusion too quickly when we see our boyfriend talk to another girl, that we gaze at ourselves in the mirror at every opportunity we get, that it takes us an eternity to decide between the soup or salad or that we don’t understand why the quarter back is running one way when we are watching hockey. I have to admit that most of it is true but not all girls are like that. My point being that people can surprise you, well girls can. This isn’t another story about a regular girl trying to prove a point by joining the boy’s soccer team; this is a story about my life. I always had a deep passion for hockey. When I was younger I remember sitting next to my father and watching the sweat drip off his face as he jumped off the couch yelling at the TV. I would just stare and follow at the little black dot on the screen launch itself into the net and smile at the hockey players celebrating their victory head bumping each other. Whenever hockey was on TV, whether the Habs lost or won there was always a bond between the people watching. It was something people did together. Ever since then I wanted to play hockey and make people feel the way I felt when I was younger. That I would be creating a union between people. But I never had the courage or the guts to join a team because I was always told that girls are no good at sports...
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...January 2012 A year ago I noticed a pattern in the least successful startups we'd funded: they all seemed hard to talk to. It felt as if there was some kind of wall between us. I could never quite tell if they understood what I was saying. This caught my attention because earlier we'd noticed a pattern among the most successful startups, and it seemed to hinge on a different quality. We found the startups that did best were the ones with the sort of founders about whom we'd say "they can take care of themselves." The startups that do best are fire-and-forget in the sense that all you have to do is give them a lead, and they'll close it, whatever type of lead it is. When they're raising money, for example, you can do the initial intros knowing that if you wanted to you could stop thinking about it at that point. You won't have to babysit the round to make sure it happens. That type of founder is going to come back with the money; the only question is how much on what terms. It seemed odd that the outliers at the two ends of the spectrum could be detected by what appeared to be unrelated tests. You'd expect that if the founders at one end were distinguished by the presence of quality x, at the other end they'd be distinguished by lack of x. Was there some kind of inverse relation between resourcefulness and being hard to talk to? It turns out there is, and the key to the mystery is the old adage "a word to the wise is sufficient." Because this phrase is not only overused...
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...that “girls attending girl’ schools were significantly more likely to attend a 4-year college compared to girls attending co-ed schools” (Single-sex vs. Coed). In the same article it shows that girls and boys scored higher on Florida Comprehensive Assessment test. The girls proficient score were “coed-59% and single-sex- 86%” and the boys proficient scores were “coed-37% and single-sex-75%” (Single-Sex vs. Coed). This proves that the children learn better when they are in single-sex classrooms. Students in interviews shared that they felt more “comfortable and at ease in single-sex classrooms” (Single-Sex vs. Coed). In recent media broadcastings America has heard numerous incidents that involved suicides due to bullying in the coed schools. Parents in America are in turmoil worrying how to stop the bullying. In the same research article “Single-Sex vs. Coed” researchers interviewed boys that were not involved in sports which are “gender-atypical boys that usually experience bullying in coed schools the boys stated that this was not an issue in the single-sex schools” (Single-Sex vs. Coed). Single- sex schools could be the way to eliminate bullying in schools. One theory that makes this argument clear is the Conflict theory. Single-sex classrooms would teach girls that economically they do not have to be dependent on men. This could also help in the manner of there not being an issue of boys talking over girls in the classroom. Teachers giving more attention to the boys than...
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...Boys and Girls should be allowed to play on the same team because it will help develop friendships. Many people say boys are stronger then girls but if we put our mind to it we can be just as good. Many hockey teams are girls and boys. There is no difference For example in football girls should not play. They will get hurt. Boys are used to that pain. Girls are not used to pain. That is why there are no girls playing in the nfl. Boys are really big. Girls are not as big as boys. Girls should not play basketball, baseball, soccer together either. One reason that I believe girls and boys should be on the same teams is because it would make for good competition. If the boy, for example, is better than the girl it would make the girl want to work...
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...social environment combined with biological maturation provides each individual with a set of "crises" that must be resolved. The individual is provided with a "sensitive period" in which to successfully resolve each crisis before a new crisis is presented. The results of the resolution, whether successful or not, are carried forward to the next crisis and provide the foundation for its resolution. |Erikson's Theory of Socioemotional Development | |Stage |Age |Expected Resolution | |Trust |Infancy |Child develops a belief that the environment can be| |vs. | |counted on to meet his or her basic physiological | |Mistrust | |and social needs | |Autonomy...
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...Us vs Them: The Obstruction Of Community In many history classrooms at schools there are posters hanging up of kids glaring at each other and on one side it says Us and on the other it says them. Teachers correlated key events in history to show the devastation a mentality of “Us vs Them” would bring. The most common “Us vs Them” situation that teachers would bring up is The Natsis vs The Jews, Hitler divided the people of Germany apart making the Jews seem as threat of the other side. This was the beginning of school teachings that taught kids that the division between two groups is problematic. After just like the famous Maya Angelou once said, we are all more alike than we are unalike. Teachers would ramble on correlating historical conflicts...
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...B.2.a The goal I decided to analyze is goal 3. On the per-assessment the girls scored 21.21%, and the boys scored 44.44%. The boys out scored the girls by over double their percentage. The girls had eight students that scored 0% on the pre-assessment, and only two that scored proficient. The boys had three students that scored 0%, and also two that scored proficient. On the post-assessment the girls average was 81.81%, the boy’s average percent was a little higher at 86.11%. When comparing the improvement the girls more that tripled their average percent, and the boys almost doubled their average. Both groups made significant gains in this area. The girls made the most improvement but were unable to meet the average that the boys did. At...
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...in the nature vs. nurture debate. The nature vs. nurture debate raises the question about whether human development is mostly based on behaviors which are inherited or those which originated from environmental influences. My sister’s two children, Taylor and Abigail are biological siblings who inherited their green eyes from their mother and their straight teeth from their father, but that is where their similarities end. The siblings are so unalike in looks and personality that at times it is hard to believe they are even related, biologically or otherwise. My niece resembles her mother: light complexion, petite, dimples in her cheeks, and long hair. While my nephew looks a lot like his dad: dark complexion, light brown hair, tall, stout and broad shoulders like his paternal grandfather. Patrick is very friendly and outgoing like his mother, while Abigail is shy and reserved like her dad. Patrick, who likes to dance loves being the center of attention and whenever he enters a room all attention, must be on him. In contrast, you’ll hardly notice Abigail is in the very same room and she is quite content with that. “Slugs and snails and puppy-dogs' tails, that’s what little boys are made of?” I beg to differ. Abigail likes riding the lawnmower whenever my brother-in-law decides to mow the lawn. She shies away from shopping malls preferring to accompany her father and his buddies on fishing and hunting trips and she can play baseball better than any boy I know. I can...
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...Social Factors vs. Sex Roles Men should behave like men and women should behave like women. All over the world, a born child could be a boy or a girl, which means different genders. Therefore, both genders should have different sex roles and behaviors. What makes both genders behave differently is an argumentative subject. Some people say biological factors and others say social factors. However, they could be the social factors such as socialization, treatment, and role models. The first social factor that determines sex roles is the socialization. Boys and girls can be socialized to behave differently. According to the article titled Sex Roles, “most differences between females and males are learned through family interactions, socialization in schools, and the mass media. Thus, sex roles could be socialized. The second social factor that determines sex roles is the treatment. Boys and girls get different treatment; girls get more sensitive and emotional treatment. An example from the article titled Sex Roles is that adults describe girls as delicate, sweet, or dainty; however, they describe boys as bouncing, sturdy, or handsome. So, the treatment is important for determining sex roles. The last social factor that determines sex roles is the role models. Role models affect children’s thinking and behaviors. Sex roles article has reported that children can be influenced of determining which jobs are for them and which are not by watching the role models available in a...
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...society looks at young girls. Through the commercial the little girl wants to either play in the mud, play with animals, make a solar system and use power tools. All of these activities are shut down by her parents. Her parent say, don't get mud on your dress and let your brother use the power tools. Since all of her activities involving science and math are not encouraged she starts to listen to her parents and stop exploring. When she is in Middle School she stops at a science fair poster. Instead of signing up she uses the window to put on lipgloss. Society does not make science or math ‘cool’ for girls to enjoy, so girls stop finding excitement in science and math. The commercial is...
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...The best ancient Greek city-state to live in would’ve been Sparta for many reasons. The first reason is that everyone in Sparta had rights. For example, women in Sparta had more rights than most Greek women, such as being able to own property. Even slaves had many rights of their own. According to the Athens vs Sparta History Alive Reading, “Spartan women had many rights Greek women did not have. . . They could own and control their own property.” Also stated in the Athens vs Sparta History Alive Reading about the slaves, “They could marry whomever they wanted, they could pass their names onto their children. They could sell extra crops. . . They could even buy their freedom.” Because everyone had rights, the Spartans in their own way, were...
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...5-2-2013 What different forms can segregation take in US schools? When we hear the word segregation the first thought that comes to mind is usually about color. In this case there are a lot of different forms of segregation. One of the different types of segregation are the classes that they offer for girls and boys. One of the classes for girls is the Child development class which consists of teaching students how to be babysitters, what to do in case of emergency, how to feed a baby, change them, and care for them. Boys say that they should be able to register for the class, but know they will be harassed by the girl students in the class if they are allowed. Another class which usually is only offered to the boys is workshop. This class consists of how to make different things like wood work boxes, mailboxes, carpentry, doing flooring work, and working outside. Girls say they do not want to be a part of a class like that it’s usually for the guys to handle that type of class. Although there were a few girls say they are interested in signing up for the class. The girl students that were interested said they did not want to be wanting for a guy to do something like that when they can do it themselves. There is a test that these students have to take to get in these classes because they can be transferred into college credits. When can these methods affirm diversity and when are they detrimental to learning? Consider economic segregation, culturally-based schools. These...
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...a culture shapes what the individual experiences, knows, feels, does, and understands social life as a whole (Wood, 2009). This theory can be used to enrich our understanding of why people communicate in different ways and it empowers the viewpoints of the marginalized (CommunicationStudies.com, 2011). The major contribution of standpoint theory is that it can be used to show how our different social locations (e.g. according to gender) provide the possibility of having different standpoints (Wood, 2009) which then affects how individuals develop particular perspectives, identities, skills, and understandings as a result of their standpoint within society. Plan’s (2011) research into gender expectations demonstrates that in many settings boys and men are encouraged to be ‘tough’, are put under pressure to be heads of households and often face institutionalized violence, much at the hands of other men through choice of profession. The...
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...Anna Richey Opinion Editorial Dating vs. Hanging Out I met a guy in my class the other day and after some small talk we finished with “lets hang out tonight.” That same night a friend of mine introduced me to someone and that person called me the next night and set up a date for that weekend. Obviously the second person was ready to take action and had the courage to ask me out. There is a difference between dating and hanging out and both girls and boys value dating. Dating and hanging out are two completely different things. Young Adults need to stop replacing dating with hanging out and bring back the value of dating. The way my brother, Daniel met his fiancé is a perfect example of Dating. Dan is 27 and had just gone through a bad break up with the girl he thought he was supposed to marry. He had met up for conference with his friends where they discussed all their plans and trips for the summer. In the April session of General Conference, they stressed to young single adults of the need to date, find their eternal companion, and get married. After listening to the counsel of the prophet his summer plans changed very quickly. He decided to attend every FHE, Young Single Adult Activity, Dance etc and ask out a couple girls a week. He took out one particular girl named Tiffany to Airborne Trampoline Center in Draper, Utah. He noticed the blonde cashier on his way out and started talking with her (his date wasn’t with him). The rest was history; they are getting married...
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