kids across our district get dress coded everyday for the smallest things that teachers could just let go? For example‚ the other day I was dress coded for jeans that I was wearing and they had a hole in them yet they were still covered with string‚ but just because you could see a tiny part of my leg‚ it was a problem. Dress codes are sexist‚ humiliating‚ and make us feel like we are not qualified to make our own choices. Here’s proof that not only me feels like dress codes are sexist Anna Loisa
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Issues with School Dress Code When a girl gets told that her outfit is unsuitable to wear to school‚ her self esteem is dismantled from her. (Kate) In recent years‚ multiple girls have been punished because of the way they dress while attending school. Dress codes have taken a toll on how girls think about themselves as a person and the way they dress because of the fact that they might have to change due their outfit being “inappropriate.” Public schools should enforce dress codes but they should
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What does it mean for gender to be a social category? For Evelyn Keller in her article “Just what is so Difficult About the Concept of Gender as a Social Category?” she illustrates gender as “existing in social space‚ and exerting force on the world through its power to shape the development of individuals and institutions” (Keller 721). With this description in mind‚ gender is an integral part of our society with the means to influence our institutions including the manner in which knowledge is
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Leslie Shirkey His112-C01 Christopher Holcom Due November 21‚ 2015 The Boy in the Striped Pajamas Holocaust “Childhood is measured out by sounds and smells and sights‚ before the dark hour of reason grows.” – John Betjeman The Boy in the Striped Pajamas took place during the 1930s to 1940s‚ during the Holocaust. It was about a German boy named Bruno‚ who moved from Berlin out to the countryside because his father‚ a Commander‚ got a promotion. Unbeknownst to Bruno his work was heading the concentration
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to think about the feelings of girls when they tell them that they are violating the dress code. The school administers has been rude about the dress code‚ and how they address the problem. Teachers has called out girls for their clothing‚ and they were rude instead of being polite by taking the girl aside and quietly talking to her (“Rosalind Classroom Conversation”). I don’t believe that the teachers are realizing they are being rude about telling the girls that they are violating a dress code‚ but
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Wright’s book Black Boy one goes through an emotional story about a real child who is impacted and affected dramatically by racism and discrimination. These tragic experiences that Richard faces involving racism shapes and develops him from childhood to adolescence. One can see the ways that
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Red dress-1946 is a short story from Dance of the happy shades (a collection of short stories) by Alice Munroe. It is about the great social pressures faced by the narrator‚ surrounding the chronological events that take place before‚ during and after a school dance. The ‘Red dress’ is the dress her mother makes her for the dance‚ when she would clearly like to buy one instead from a store‚ this suggests to us that she can-not afford readymade clothes which then leads us to presume she is of a lower
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Our views on racism have changed drastically over the years‚ as it now means one group of people feeling superior to another. In today’s age and time‚ we often accuse someone of being racist though we do nothing about it. Are categorizing the wrong attribute? This has been occurring for so long‚ how do we know that not everyone is racist? Being racist can come through both mentally and physically agonizing ways. Physically other citizens can harass you or put you in potential danger‚ but you can eventually
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S. A Novel about the Balkans‚ by Slavenka Drakulic‚ is a story about a Bosnian woman‚ named S.‚ who was tortured by the hands of brutal soldiers during the Bosnia war. The novel mainly centers on a series of S.’s flashbacks‚ as she recounts the horrific ill-treatment she endured throughout this time period. Through telling S’s story‚ the author creates a vivid image of how deep and dark human nature is during wartime. The story is a revelation of the terrifying aspects of war‚ which include torture
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both forward and backward in time‚ to a town where the songs are still records‚ candy is still a dime‚ but everyone excepts each other for who they truly are‚ there is a fifteen-year-old gay boy named Paul. Paul lives in a fictional town in the fictional novel Boy Meets Boy written by David Levithan. Boy Meets Boy is a good book because it’s diverse characters and descriptive language. In the small town‚ there lives a colorful group of friends. Paul the main character and speaker of the
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