“Boys will be boys‚” a commonplace phrase that constitutes a diffusion of responsibility away from the male perpetrators of aggressive attitudes and behaviors‚ supports a dangerous rhetoric that a young male transitioning into adulthood will perform acts of aggression‚ display a detached and uncaring disposition‚ and develop attitudes of intense homophobia and sexism as part of a biological norm of that stage of adolescence‚ a stage of life comprising a larger and larger part of young man’s life
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On March 3rd‚ I went to a play called Boys Will Be Boys in UNI’s Interpreters Theatre. I initially went because a friend of mine was in it and they asked me to attend. I was excited because i’ve only seen plays done by Theatre UNI‚ so it would be a nice change to see a smaller scale production. The theatre is located in Lang Hall. It was a very intimate theatre with little to no staging. The actors had to rely solely on a few props and their ability to act. The play was written by a UNI grad student
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Adichie’s protagonist Ifemelu‚ is a girl who travel from Nigeria to America for college. During her stay‚ she makes several accomplishments including a successful blog that talks about race relations and a prestigious award at Princeton. She has a few boyfriends during her time in America as well‚ each coming with their own good and bad times. While in America‚ she is not whole heartedly resistant to the American culture. The biggest issue for her is the void between people of different color. This
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The Sympathizer follows a nameless narrator‚ a communist spy working as a captain for a South Vietnamese General‚ beginning just before the fall of Saigon in 1975. The narrator is destined to be divided as a half-Vietnamese‚ half-French‚ American Educated‚ Communist sleeper spy working for the anti-Communists‚ raised with only his mother’s love. He most often plays the role of a loyal captain‚ who happens to be a spy‚ but he constantly reminds himself that the role is meant to be his reality. He
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I chose to write about The Ceiling. This story begins with the narrator attending his son’s birthday party and he remembers the day so well because it is the first day that he saw the object in the sky later referred to by the press as the Ceiling “The square was without blemish or flaw‚ no larger than a child’s tooth‚ and I could not tell whether it rested on the moon itself or hovered above it like a cloud.” (Thing’s that fall from the sky pg.103-104). The object continued to grow larger and larger
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The Brethren is a book about the evolution of the Burger Court during the years of 1969 to 1976. The Brethren takes readers inside the court for a fascinating view of how things really work: how justices build majorities for their points of view and‚ occasionally‚ how they lose them; how the chief justice can use his power to assign cases to impress their philosophy on the final decision; and the unique role played by the law clerks. This book is a balanced account of the inner workings of the Supreme
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The Shining‚ written by Stephen King is an American horror novel that focuses on Jack Torrance’s life as a recovering alcoholic and his off-season job at the Overlook Hotel. Stephen King himself has struggled in the past with alcoholism and was inspired to write the novel upon his visit to the Stanley Hotel in 1974. After the novel was published in 1977‚ King clearly sets up his reputation specifically as an author of the horror-genre. The novel immediately received enthusiastic praise while readers
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As Hana cares for the wounded soldiers‚ she witnesses gruesome injuries and horrific deaths‚ and these experiences are so traumatic that her personality is unable to recover fully. The omniscient narrator describes Hana’s work during the war as extremely disturbing and harrowing: “Nurses too became shell-shocked from the dying around them.... They would carry a severed arm down a hall‚ or swab at blood that never stopped‚ as if the wound were a well‚ and they began to believe in nothing‚ trusted
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“What was it like to be a captive? I can tell you I was soon sorry that I had asked the river what it was like to travel...For when I was given what I was given what I asked for‚ it was not something I wanted at all.” This is a story of the famous journey of Lewis and Clark with Sacajawea. At age sixteen she is already married‚ a mother and taken from her home community. Sacajawea must find a way to live her life‚ still being a child‚ and help navigate across America with strangers. She tells this
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In the play Disgraced‚ by Ayad Akhtar‚ Emily and Amir’s friends Isaac and Jory call into question each other’s identities and values as they contradict each other’s views on Islam‚ racial profiling‚ and other cultural issues. Throughout the group’s conversation‚ the couple focuses on one other’s factual inaccuracies‚ preconceived notions‚ and moral judgments‚ calling into question their respective opinions and political ideologies. Akhtar uses Jory and Isaac’s questioning of each other’s credibility
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