pupils‚ I believe that over all girls are slightly more intelligent than boys. For this piece of coursework I am going to investigate if my hypothesis: "girls are more intelligent than boys" is true. In my opinion I believe this statement is more or less correct because in the years I have been in at school‚ the majority of pupils who consistently performed the best by getting the best examination and test results each year‚ were mostly made up of girls rather than boys. Also‚ because of tests and surveys
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a myth where girls are more affected by the media than boys‚ in fact the pressure on both ends are all the same. The weighted expectations of how the media display society’s standards impacts on boys are just as equivalent as it is to girls –what differentiate between the two sexes are the different stereotypes that face. In contrast to what the general public presume girls to be‚ vulnerable and delicate; a porcelain dolls or better yet damsel in distress‚ the perception of boys are quite the
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The Boys and Girls club has been around since the early 1860s‚ and has a long history of inspiring young children to realize their ability to become productive and strong-willed people. As a result of the clubs’ history‚ they have taken a stand on their affiliation with the Christian faith and America’s traditional inherent standards and beliefs. In their club code they state “I believe in God and the right to worship according to my own faith and religion. I believe in America and the American
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In the movie version of “Boys and Girls”‚ there were many differences‚ such as the beginning. In the movie‚ we open into the scene where the first horse is shot. The girl and Laird are both watching‚ however another difference to the original short story is that Laird has an adverse reaction to the death of the horse. He runs out of the barn and away until his sister catches him and tells him that it was good that he saw‚ so he now knows what has to eventually be done in these cases. In the events
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The Illusion of Happiness Some say that happiness is just an illusion. It is an abstract word that is too fleeting and many say that no one can find ‘true happiness’ without it being a trick of the senses and the mind and‚ in other words‚ an illusion. True happiness is often defined as satisfaction‚ contentment‚ and acceptance. But what comes after the feeling of contentment? Arthur Schopenhauer believes the world to be a "vale of tears‚ full of suffering. All happiness is an illusion. Life
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The telescope is an important astronomical tool that gathers and focuses electromagnetic radiation. Telescopes serve to both increase the angular size and the brightness of objects. When we speak about telescopes we are usually referring to optical telescopes‚ but many other types of telescopes also exist for other spectrum of electromagnetic radiation. It is unclear as to who it was that actually invented the telescope but Galileo Galilei is credited as being the first to use a telescope for
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Alex Pham author of "Boy‚ You Fight Like a Girl" investigates the ever growing world of online gaming and how gender affects both worlds. The "fastest-growing segment of the computer game market"(185)‚ adventure gaming‚ has hundreds of thousands of players that average twenty hours of play a week and thousands of them are playing as characters of the opposite sex. This gender switching is making games not only challenging‚ but also confusing‚ and possibly embarrassing. Pham first introduces a character
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because of their inability to distinguish illusions and reality. Throughout the play‚ hallucinations recur as a reminder to Macbeth and Lady Macbeth of their murders. Shakespeare reveals in Macbeth that being able to determine reality from illusion is essential for sanity and human survival. There are many ways in which illusions cause Macbeth’s downfall throughout the play. At the beginning of the play‚ Macbeth is visited by the three witches‚ illusions that Banquo told him not to trust‚ who tell
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Some individuals may be deceived into believing incorrect expectations and some will fight for what they believe in. In the stories “In Line” and “Boys and Girls”‚ through the conflicts of the main characters‚ the authors portray the impact that people’s expectations have on us and how this affects how we live our lives. This is important because we do not realize that we are living our lives according to stereotypes and expectations that society considers acceptable‚ instead of choosing our
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She also looks at the very different worlds—outside and inside‚ the male sphere and the female sphere— described by Munro in the story. ‘‘My father was a fox farmer.’’ So begins Alice Munro’s short story ‘‘Boys and Girls‚’’ a narrative which highlights the almost invisible societal forces which shape children‚ in this case‚ the narrator and her brother Laird‚ into gendered adults. There is no doubt that males and females are biologically distinct at birth. Yet the behaviours and roles ascribed
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