attended a public high school understands the struggle of dress code. On those scorching hot days as the school year approaches summer‚ many girls can be found scavenging through their closet for a “school appropriate” outfit or one they won’t melt into a sweaty puddle in. Her dresses will show too much leg‚ her tops will inapporpriately expose her shoulder or collar bone‚ and her shorts will be too short - at least that’s what the school says. Dress code in modern day high schools discriminates against
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2014‚ two boys at an Los Angeles school were seen wearing a shirt with an extremely sexulized photo of a near naked woman in class. This was a huge violation of the school’s dress code‚ yet a teacher stated that one of the boys walked around campus for the entire day wearing the shirt and was never asked to change (Chemaly). If the dress code isn’t enforced for boys the majority of the time‚ why are girls continuously being humiliated with their simple dress code violations‚ such as wearing a tank-top
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In a cartoon by Roz Chast‚ called “Shelved”‚ it shows a boy on a laptop sitting in a room full of books. All the books look at him sad faces while they watch him type away at his computer. The author shows irony by having the boy ignore all of the books and just focus on his computer. The books have faces of jealousy‚ fear‚ and anger as they watch him. They don’t stand a chance against the laptop that can do almost anything the boy wants it to do. But a book is something that you can take and
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“Becoming the Red Dress” ! In the poem‚ “What Do Women Want?” by Kim Addonizio‚ the author conveys the thoughts of a woman who wants to don a dress‚ no matter what the thoughts of those around her are. The woman in the poem wants to be seen as confident and strong. In the poem‚ the writer says she wants a “red dress” (line 1)‚ and that she wants it to be “flimsy and cheap” (line 2). This gives the reader the idea of exactly what kind of dress she wants. She states that she “want(s) it too tight/I want
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6. It is Jack’s lack of a stable‚ male role model that is to blame for his actions. To what extent do you agree? Tobias Wolff’s memoir‚ “This Boy’s Life”‚ explores the idea that an individual’s actions can be altered due to the people they are exposed to. The protagonist Jack Wolff lives an impressionable life where he undergoes somewhat of a dilemma in relations to his actions‚ being incapable of changing for the greater good of himself. The absence of a proper male role model plays a large role
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Boys will be boys‚ and girls need to conform to keep things under control. Under a strict dress code‚ school officials make female students conform to the perverted minds of teenage boys. School dress codes claim to teach students how to dress properly for their future career and create a safe environment in school‚ but in reality it often sexualizes young women’s body parts and underestimates young men’s maturity. Establishing strict dress code rules perpetuates rape culture and prevents young people
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Dress codes and uniforms have been around since the 1900’s. However‚ skin shaming has been around since the 1600’s. In Victorian ages‚ men would gasp at the sight of an ankle. Now people wear shorts that cover the same as one’s underwear. As times change so do social norms. In 2015 it is perfectly acceptable to see a person walking down the street in short shorts and a crop top. It is now accepted that people’s bodies are not meant to be criticized as if they are no more than a sexual object. However
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I think that in this book the way that the future is shown is a bad thing. thing as well to show what we could be if we don’t take care of our planet now. I think it was a bad thing because there wear so many different problems that where happening and going on to the point when something did happen that was actually something bad. People weren’t willing to help or didn’t want to because they thought that it was just another stupid person. An example is when wades trailer got blown up but the sixers
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A straightforward question‚ what is good art? A complicated answer‚ but that is good art. How does a certain piece of artwork become recognized as "good?" What are some of the traits that make art good? What simply makes art good‚ and what makes art bad‚ in general? Does having a recognizable art or design "style" limit one’s creativity? Is an exact reproduction as good as the original? It used to be that anything called “Art” had certain meaning attached to it. Art was assumed to be beautiful‚ intricate
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get your bike it eight years old.Because if you get your bike at 8 you can practice. So when you get twelve you will know how to ride your bike to where you need to go. So you need to get your bike taller than twelve. In the b community you have to snake out. When John’s smoked out with the other twine planes you’re trying to find tham and they were having to hide just because they didn’t like the community and so the other twine wouldn’t get killed. They should not have to snaked
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