...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. But, today something else is defining people, and that is their gender. In reading two essays, “Deconstructing Gender, Sex, and Sexuality as Applied to Identity,” by Whitney Mitchell, and their becomes a clear understanding why so many people become defined by their gender. These two writers have many of the same opinions on similar issues as well as different perspectives....
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...Write 2-3 page essay describing a special person, place, memory, event or experience from your life. Draw upon the five senses – sight, sound, taste, smell, touch – and employ the use of simile and metaphor. Your essay must have a thesis, in which you explain or allude to why this event/person/place is important to you. What is the personal meaning? Has your feelings on what you’re describing changed over time? Descriptive Essay Rubric and Grading Considerations • Correct spelling, grammar, and punctuation • Length: 2-3 pages, typed, proper MLA formatting (see book and syllabus) • Qualities of good writing (active verbs, sensory descriptions, written in the student’s own voice) • A clear introduction, thesis, and a conclusion that offers a reflection. • Includes a developed body, good paragraph development, transitions, and logical flow in essay form. Fresh Meat (from the “Cabrini Green Project”) By Darrius Barron Being the new kid on the block wasn’t always a good thing. The first day of high school, bashfulness erupted in every freshman’s body. The smell of fresh meat lurked around in the air, as the sophomores sensed it. There was quiet in every classroom. Very few people were talking to their friends from eighth grade. Every forty-five minutes in class felt like a decade in the lake of fire. I felt the dirty, disrespectful looks on my back. I felt the heat from the competition in the school. This year for high school, I tried...
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...In Peter Singer’s essay “The Singer Solution to World Poverty,” he explores the possibilities of each and every American giving up about 2/3 of his/her income. However, rather than simply talking of his own solution as another theory, he tells the reader in so many words (literally) that he/she is wrong. A large chunk of the essay is basically a big middle finger to everyone reading it. It is almost as though Singer wanted to invoke anger out of the reader so that he/she would then go and donate money to charity, so as to say something along the lines of “You lookie here, Singer, I’m not who you say I am.” Some people might think that Singer is just out of his mind, but I think he was angering the reader by making harsh accusations on purpose. Singer opens his essay with a ridiculous story from a film about a fictional woman named Dora. In the story, Dora is a “retired schoolteacher who makes ends meet by sitting at the station writing letters for illiterate people.” First off, how could anyone make enough money to live comfortably like that? She ends up selling a homeless boy to what she is told to be a “wealthy family.” Her neighbor somehow knows that this is not the case, that the boy will be put to death and his organs sold. Second of all, how does the neighbor know this? This accusation is not explained. Dora then goes home with her brand new television, feels guilty, and takes the boy back. Why would Dora do this without further research? She has no proof other than passing...
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...Guys don’t want to try Charles Dickson WP 3 Composition 1 Nowlin While a higher education is still valued in the United States, most boys in college avoid the class room unlike their predecessors in the 60’s, but is it that “guys still know what they are doing”, as Ehrenreich suggests? Girls on the other hand were not as much of a presence in school during the 60’s, and were typically not expected to be the bread winner of the family. In her essay Guys Just Want To Have Fun, Ehrenreich shows that boys are not putting forth the effort girls are, but still rule the business world. Even though most men earn more money than women in present day, girls try harder in school than guys because less men graduate from college than women and guys don’t put forth as much of an effort while in college but still seem to be more prevalent in the business world. It doesn’t make sense that most men earn more money than women in today’s society, it’s true though. On the official Whitehouse website (www.whitehouse.gov/equal-pay/carear) it is stated that “On average, full-time working women earn just 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.” So there is statistical proof that most men earn more than women, but could the reason lie within the type of college experience they had? In the op-ed Guys Just Want To Have Fun, Ehrenreich tells of an interview with “an Atlanta woman” who was “a skilled website writer” and after a few weeks on the job was fired without an explanation. In the interview...
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...English Essay Every good boy The introduction of the story ´´every good boy´´ is starting out with the word ‘piano’, which makes the intro very interesting from the start and from that point on we know that the theme of the story has something to do with music, but in the way of finding something you are good at. The central ideas with this story is that you can always find something you are good at, even if you say that you are bad at everything. Like, when the boy finds out he cannot play the piano, he finds something else to play, like the violin at the end. Is there always something you are good at? And how is your personal quest to finding out what it is. The main theme of the short story is Michael´s quest to finding something he is good at, but there are more themes than that one theme. A theme like music does also play a role in this short story. Michael´s quest to finding out what he is good at has a really abrupt ending. The narrator is called Michael and he is the protagonist of the short story. He is telling the story as an adult, but he talk about his young years when he was a nine year old boy. And at that time he was a real talent loose boy. His sister was a really good majorette and his older brother was good at dismantling things. Michael was known for having no ability to do anything at all. Michael was a sweet boy with nothing but good intensions and he is very curious as well. For example when he gets the piano, he want to learn how to play it, but never...
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... Per.1 English Lord of the Flies Essay II. A leader is a person followed by others. Leaders who aren’t strong cannot stick to the rules and control a group. Leaders who are overly controlling become dictators and everything turns into chaos. A good leader is ambitious, intelligent, has good ideas and takes responsibility. In the novel, “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding, leadership is destroyed and anarchy is created. In the novel, young boys are on a plane that crashes and they arrive on a deserted island alone. There are no adults on the island. The boys were initially on the plane to be evacuated from the war. Their first thoughts are to be rescued. A boy named Ralph introduces himself to a boy whose real name is unknown but they call him Piggy, although that isn’t his wish. Ralph becomes leader because he is voted in by other children in the beginning. A leader is needed to help everyone work together and to get food, water, shelter and to be rescued from the island. Ralph had everything he wanted to stay organized, and to keep every rule he made. Ralph and Piggy discover a conch shell on the island and use it to call the boys together. "We can use this to call the others. Have a meeting. They’ll come when they hear us—." Piggy says this. At this point the conch is used to make rules for everyone to follow and it symbolizes civilization and order. Any boy, who holds the conch, has the right to speak. Every time Ralph wants to hold a meeting, he...
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...Aaron Schwartz Professional Communications Essay outline Prof. Kirshenbaum Farleigh Dickenson University Wednesdays 1:00-4:30 11/1/10 “Boys will be boy, girls will be girls” They say: “Boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls”. What does that even mean? Well our society has come to interpret this often said phrase to mean; little boys will always play with their guns while little girls will always play with their dolls. Teenage boys will always play with a football while teenage girls talk on the phone for hours. Men will always watch professional sports while women will still be talking on the phone for hours. Now is this just a stereotype or is this indeed a fact of life? Are guys truly more aggressive? Are women really more nurturing? You better believe it! Gender differences are real and they are simply more than just a serotype. “Boys will be boys” because their brain tells them to be, not because our society does. “Testosterone plays a huge role in aggression testosterone is the primary male sex hormone produced by the testicles. The male is said to produce forty to sixty times the testosterone then women. The University of Wisconsin did a study in which the researchers injected testosterone into unborn female monkeys. Once these females were born they did not nurture or groom their children they acted like male monkeys and began to become more violent and very aggressive.”(York) from that experiment we learn that once the testosterone...
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...Child raising Engelsk 1 1) The first texts is about a very strict Chinese mother of her 18-year-old girl. The essay is written by the mother’s 18-year old daughter because her mother published an essay called “Battel Hymn of the Tiger Mother”. This essay got many negative responses from the readers and the daughter explains her childhood for the readers of “The Wall Street Journal”. In the essay Sofia, the daughter of the Tiger Mother, tells about how her strict mother handled her as a child and “how Chinese parents raise such stereotypically successful kids”. This Chinese mother raised Sophia this way; if Sophia didn’t do her best her mother would say it to her. As an example, Sophia writes in the text that once she gave her mother a birthday card, and how her mother didn’t approve it, because she knew the Sophia hadn’t tried her best. Sophia had a lot of rules example she couldn’t be with her classmates after school, have playdates in her early childhood, watch TV, play computer games or play any other instruments than piano or violin. Sophia didn’t mind, for her it was to have goals in life and she didn’t care what people thought of her strict Tiger Mother. For her it was the perfect child raising. In the second texts, a parenting guru tells that he think that children should be allowed to watch more television and eat pizza, he believes that parent try to hard raising there kids. He thinks that the parent should let their kids handle their own life, it will...
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...Compare and Contrast Essay 5/12/2014 Ashford University English 121-AXC1415E Instructor: Jamie Cooper Student: Katherin Wheat When it comes to writing the compare and contrast essay style, it is one of the more difficult ones to achieve. The differences between these two essays “How to say nothing in 500 words” by: Paul McHenry Roberts and “caged bird” by: Maya Angelou is easy to pick out. As far as the similarities goes that proved to a little harder to give a lot of examples. In the following paragraphs there will be plenty of examples of compare and contrast, give summaries, a couple of quotes and a paraphrase will be included in this essay. While how to say nothing in 500 words and Caged Bird are both well-written essays, caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention, the attended audience was more overly open to more people than that of how to say nothing in 500 words essay, and the author of caged bird had a bigger and deeper impact on the readers then the author of how to say nothing in 500 words did. Caged Bird was more visual than How to say nothing in 500 words because the author painted a more detailed picture which kept the reader’s attention. Maya Angelou’s descriptive essay “Caged bird” tells a story of a caged bird and a free bird. The caged bird signifies a person with the skin color darker than that of a peach colored crayon, held down by the paralyzing...
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...child reader? This essay will indentify the use of certain literary characteristics that Seuss incorporated in The Lorax, which stemmed from successful environmental children’s literature from the late seventeenth century to the twentieth century. It will establish the success of each work due to the theme or agenda it had that reflected the social and environmental issues of its time, and will then establish to what extent Seuss’s The Lorax stands as a strong example for ecocritics and educators alike, of an environmental children’s story and its impact on the child reader. To further understand the position of this paper, it is important to identify the nature of ecocentricism and the development of the interdisciplinary field. Ecocentricism is an ethical practice that “decenters humanity’s importance in nonhuman nature and nature writing and instead explores the complex interrelationships between the human and the nonhuman,” (Buell, 2011). The practice, in the last twenty years, has become a field of inquiry in response to “growing academic concern about the response of literature and literary theory to the global crisis of environmental degradation,” (Sigler, 1994). Using an ecocentric lens, this essay explores the characteristics and social and environmental agendas that children’s literature has had from the early eighteenth century, to the nineteenth and early twentieth century, up until the 1970’s with Dr. Seuss’s The Lorax. The Lorax begins with a boy (described as a...
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...Essay grid: Introduction – a good way to get started is to briefly introduce the main theme of the text in a way that catches the reader’s attention. | The story is about fortunes and material wealth. The narrator of the story has been pickpocketing since he was five and has lots of money hidden in a cardboard box in the room the narrator has rented. One Sunday he sees a man with a bulging wallet and decides to follow the man and his son. When the narrator sees his moment to steal the wallet, he takes it and gets away. But when he comes back the boys stands against a wall and the narrator takes him with him home. | Characterisation of the main character. Useful links:1) General advice on characterisation2) Advanced advice | The Narrator: Has been pickpocketing since he was five. Has a “fortune” of money hidden in his apartment, but he do not count the money. The narrator has never counted his fortune, because he is afraid of knowing waht he is worth. He grew up with his mom, who tried to raise him good. His father was not very good and did not give him any attention as a kid and when he died, the narrator was not sad. He has a strong sympathy for the kid and keeps telling the boy how much he is worth. He also likes Chinese fortunes a lot and keeps every single one of them in a box. He describes himself as ugly with crooked teeth, oily hair and bony knees. The boy: He is described as quiet and very unhappy. He does not like his home, and when the narrator drops him off...
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...Thesis: Bullying is a big problem. Have you ever gotten bullied before? [pic]Bullying is a big problem. Bullying is the biggest problem I know of as a fact. My reasons for this thought are that; [pic]more and more kids get bullied every day. Bullies don’t get blamed for what they do. Kids get hurt by bullies and I personally want that to stop. [pic] All of this is important because you can hurt someone or some can hurt you in bullying. Bullying is a big problem because more and more kids get bullied every day. That should stop immediately; children do not deserve that kind of treatment at school and at other places. It is frustrating. [pic] Hard to deal with a bully. Maybe a bully shows up at your soccer practice or even at a park or where you are and bullies you. I am disappointed at those bullies out there. [pic] I have information to support this serious problem that is going on; [pic] it affects over 60 of [pic]kids in the world, I want to stop that. [pic] On this chart what it shows is, to me I see that in fourth grade there is a lot of bullying, [pic] there is less in the fifth grade for some reason than it sky rockets in sixth, seventh and eighth grade. The reason for this information about grade bullying is that more kids bully and more. [pic] I used to think that the bullying is evened out, but know I realize that as you get older there are more bullies. The chart that I showed shows the percent of kids getting bullied in grade order...
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...General Writing resources and Requirements NOTE: Please use this as reference for each writing assignment! Your grade may be adversely affected if you do not follow all of these requirements. Email or call your instructor if you have questions. The required literary essays for this course demand careful planning, drafting, revising/editing, and correct documentation. The following resources and requirements provide instruction on writing, research, and avoiding plagiarism. Carefully review them before writing your literary essays. Plagiarism Plagiarism encompasses more than the use of printed sources without giving proper credit. It means handing in writing in the name of one person that another person has composed, revised, edited, or proofread without the instructor's approval. Accordingly, the following guidelines are set down, and you must study and understand them from the outset. The instructor will assume, since this issue is clearly discussed, that you will be responsible for understanding and applying it. Any fact that is not common knowledge, any idea, phrase, or paraphrase that is taken from a printed source, from a lecture, sermon, or radio broadcast must be documented. Any work submitted in English 102 will be understood to be the work of the student submitting it and his work alone. Taking credit for someone else's proofreading ability, suggestions, ideas, or words is plagiarism. An exception to this definition is group work assigned and directed...
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...characters in the short story are a man and a boy. We are told that a refugee woman left her baby by the old man and then she never came back - That's how the man got the boy. The man doesn't know something about the boy and that's why they are choosing a day to celebrate the boy's birthday. As a birthday present the man wants to take the boy to a place without war. On their way to the place, they talk about the color of different uniforms when they see four soldiers. When they arrive, they eat their lunch, close their eyes and sleep for a while. In the end of the story, we are told that the man wakes up and discovers that the boy is gone. Different thoughts go through the man's head and those are interrupted by the boy when he says "Gotcha!" Characterize the boy and the old man. The two main characters in the short story are the boy and the old man. The old man in the short story feels that he hasn't been a good father, which is expressed different places in the story, such as: "I haven't been a good father, letting you go without birthdays this long… You're entitled to one every year, you know, and I've let six years go by without a birthday. And presents, too. You are supposed to get presents." (7. 30 - 32) The old man does not like the war and he does not like the soldiers. Every time the boy talks about something which has to do with the war, the old man gets a bit sad and upset. The old man does not want that the boy talks about war and things like that, which...
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...Perhaps your own community’s children… Sitting on a bench enjoying my lunch, I am approached by two young-looking boys. “A slice of bread please, auntie,” the taller of the two asks shyly in Afrikaans. Their clothes are old and smell of body odour, their faces are slightly dirty and they are in need of haircuts. My first instinct is to ignore them, as I have done so many times in the past. I don’t owe these kids anything, I think to myself. Yet, something in their eyes sparks an intense sadness inside me. “What are your names?” I ask them after a few seconds of silence. The taller boy answers first. “I’m Marco,” he points to the boy standing next to him, “and this is Peter.” I hand Marco a paper bag with four doughnuts inside. He reaches inside with his dirty hands and gives two doughnuts to his friend, who eats them greedily. “Thank you”, they say together. It becomes clear that they haven’t eaten in a while. I discover the boys ages. Marco is fourteen and Peter is twelve. Both have turned the streets into their homes. They met each other on a street corner in Bellville where they had been begging for food. They soon became friends and started sharing whatever they could find with one another. How did they end up on here? What are two children doing on the streets in the first place? I wonder. Where their parents are, their families, and their homes? The two boys...
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