Sommers present her article “The War Against Boys” arguing that boys are facing a crisis that is directly affecting their scores in school‚ their propensity to violence and crime and their lack of motivation to go to college. According to her‚ the ones to blame are the feminist efforts to promote girls and create programs to boost their academic careers. These efforts are doing more than just improve girls’ performance in school; they are harming boys by diverting the attention from them. As a direct
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In her slave narrative‚ Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl‚ Harriet Jacobs makes the case that “[slavery] is terrible for men; but it is far more terrible for women.” (Jacobs #) According to female slave narratives like Incidents and The History of Mary Prince: A West Indian Slave‚ it is worse to be a female slave because‚ in addition to the brutalities endured by all slaves‚ enslaved women are also victims of a sexist and patriarchal society where they are victims of sexual abuse and exploitation
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“Dark Girls” The 2012 documentary Dark girls‚ is a fascinating and controversial film by American filmmakers‚ Bill Duke and D. Channsin Berry. It goes underneath the surface to explore the prejudice‚ dark-skinned women face throughout the world. It explores the roots of classism‚ racism and the lack of self-esteem within a segment of cultures. Dark girls shows the many struggles which women of darker skin face. It allows women of all ages to tell their stories of the damage done to their self-esteem
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Student Summarizing Jessica Hemauer " Farm Girl" Eng Professor 1-18-14 The essay read was "Farm Girl" by Jessica Hemauer. What I think Jessica was trying to tell her readers was tasks or situations you may be in that you may consider awful or just plan not fair can turn out to benefit you later in life. Struggling through these tough situations might just be worth it later on in life. I don’t believe that was Jessica’s only main point. Jessica also explained
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Summer Girl‚ Lust Girl In David Updike’s “Summer”‚ Homer vacations at a beautiful lake with his friend Fred’s family and experiences his summer time with Fred’s sister Sandra. He was attracted by Sandra’s pure appearance; however‚ he is too shy and timid to express his unfamiliar feelings to her. Sandra has few senses about Homer’s feelings since she is innocent and lacking of awareness. In Susan Minot’s “Lust”‚ the protagonist loses herself in lust. She keeps searching love and fulfillments among
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Critical Analysis and Response Essay “Girl Toys‚ Boy Toys and Parenting: The Science (of) Toy Preferences in children” by Gwen Dewar examines factors that influence the toy preferences of boys and girls. Dewar’s argument focuses on how genetic factors affect sex-biased toy preferences for children by citing studies and experiments. However‚ studies and experiments given as examples detracted from the main argument‚ that “gender-typical” toys are partly a result of genetic factors‚ resulting in
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English+ assignment: Girl culture In a hundred years a lot can change. Take a look at young women ‚ or as we call it : girl culture. Threw time society changed and girls were exposed to a lot of commercial forces and media. However this exposure wasn’t without consequences. When we look back in time the differences in girl culture are remarkable. In 1900 family‚ school and community shaped a girls’ mindset. However a hundred years later this doesn’t apply anymore. They made place for commercial
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Farm Girl English Composition Oct 27‚ 2012 Abstract As I was reading the story “Farm Girl”‚ I realized that the author Jessica Hemauer wrote an essay to let people know they can never forget where they come from. Some people may have to work harder than others to get what they want; but it can happen. Yes‚ we are all different and it is okay. In the essay‚ “Farm Girl” by Jessica Hemauer‚ Jessica shares her background of working on a farm as a child‚ and how her long hard days on
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“A Very Happy Birthday” A Critical Analysis of “Birthday Girl” by Haruki Murakami Haruki Murakami’s “Birthday Girl” is a piece that can take the reader into the past and help us analyze if any of our wishes ever came true. Hopefully we all reach those birthday milestones and we get whatever it is we wished for. The main character in this story has reached an important milestone birthday in Japan. At 20 you are a full fledged adult‚ a member of Japanese society so this
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Video Games Discussion: Visuals/Narrator’s position The narrator provided a variety of different visuals on the specific topic of “Do video games make you smarter? With a few visuals that were along the lines of mental and visual‚ one showing the increase in cognitive functioning of the brain; associated with memory‚ strategic planning‚ and fine motor skills‚ video games have shown to have a positive effect on education. Along the lines of effectiveness‚ they’re designed as teaching tools
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