...been shown that boys and girls are raised in differing environments from infancy throughout their lives. Girls' rooms are often decorated in pink, where as boys' are ofter blue or red. Boys' and girls' toys often differ greatly. Girls are found to have more dolls, crafts, and domestic objects, and boys are found to have more blocks, sport related toys, and vehicles. By age three children can distinguish whether a toy is a “girl” toy or a “boy” toy. They also prefer playing in same sex groups. One study done showed that adults interact infants differently based on their sex. If the adults thinks that the infant is a girl, then they used more feminine toys (e. g. dolls) and will talk the the baby more...
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...Lyndia Stinson When I walked into the doors of the public library of downtown Birmingham the palms of my hand began to sweat because of the mystery inside the conference room. Questions began to raise as in who, what, when, where, why, and many more as the feet of my body started to approach the door.The door of mystery was awaiting me as the arms of my body began to shakily open the door. The only information I knew about the program was that it was an girl empowerment group and that it would be a good opportunity. Being The Good Girl Project’s LEAP program participant helped grasp the understanding of Literacy, Economics, Aspirations, and Progress. Literacy is having the knowledge to survive in today’s society this concept personally implemented...
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...In Karen Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves”, a group of girls are taken from their home in the wilderness where they live as wolves to St. Lucy’s Home where they undergo extensive training to become more civilized. Mirabella is the youngest of the girls in the program and is the only one to not learn how to act appropriately from the nuns. Mirabella represents individuals resisting conformity to societal norms as she stays true to her roots under pressure and harassment from her peers and authority. As Russell’s “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” progresses, Mirabella becomes more ostracized amongst her sisters and peers as she is the only girl who does not deviate from her identity as a wolf-girl. According to psychological research by Herbert C. Kelman, compliance, which is a form of conformity, is described as individuals adopting “the induced behavior because they expect to gain specific rewards or approval and...
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...nonviolent direct-action program to pursue racial justice or some other equality treatment. Why need direct action? Because this way can bring pressure and create tension in the society. People who face the discrimination need to repress emotions in nonviolent ways to avoid seeking expression through violence. Therefore, I think the proper way to eliminate discrimination is the significant thing people should think about it. In the Monday class, some classmates motioned the discrimination between men and women in China. This is the fact that in the past days China has the serious discrimination of gender because the social background and ideology. I have to say that such discrimination still exists, not only in rural but also in big city. In the rural, some people always have the old ideology that boys can do more thing than the girls. Boys should study and work and girls only need to do the housework and get married. I'm very surprise when I talk such discrimination to my friend. Her father is from a small village where most people never go outside the village. After the family members knew my friend's mom gave birth to a daughter, they were very angry and no one likes my friend because she is a girl. The reason is that they believe that when one mom give birth to the first baby is a girl, she will not only give birth to the second baby is a girl, but also influence other members in this family--make other "moms" have a girl. Girls cannot support the family. Girls are weak in all...
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...Mortality differentials 8 Social Implications 8 Brought women 9 Polyandry/abduction 9 Social fabric 10 Crime rates 10 Economic Implications 10 Labor force 11 Unorganized sector 12 Consumer Power 13 Economic status 13 Policy Constraints 14 Recommendations 15 Immediate strategy 16 Short term strategy 19 Long term strategy 20 Role of NGO’s 22 What needs to be done 24 The future 25 References 25 Abstract The rise of boy child population in India for the past twenty years parallels the experience of other Asian Countries such as China and South Korea. There were 945 girls per 1000 boys in 1991, 927 in 2001 and only 914 in 2011. India’s increasing number of rich class seems to have increased the practice of sex selection in the new technology promoted by private health sector. The new technology has aggravated the social problem of bias against girl child and continues to have caused the drastic reduction in the proportion of female children. This article focuses on appeal to government and civil society for immediate action to eliminate sex selection. The article accounts a lesson sharing experience for effective public policy responses to crisis similarly faced in the country. Introduction When a boy is born in India, friends and relatives exclaim congratulations. A son means insurance. He will inherit his father's...
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...According to the Girls’ Attitudes Survey in 2016, 40% of girls ages 7-10 feel self-conscious about their body image. This number only grows, shown by the study that close to 80% of girls who are ages 17-20 experience similar discomfort. The survey also touches on equality between boys and girls and how girls feel about being with a group of boys. In fact, 45% of girls change their behavior in this situation to avoid harassment. If one applies this scenario to a co-ed gym glass, a change in behavior may include a lack of participation for fear that the boys will poke fun at the girls for not being as “sporty.” But something can be done about this problem. As shown by Wissahickon School District, which will be used as a model throughout this...
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..._______________________________ ______________________________________ Phone Number: _________________________ Email Address: __________________________ For More Information, Please Contact: Allison Markham 512-963-5325 allison.markham@utsa.edu Upcoming Events: Boy’s Youth Soccer Camp Girl’s Youth Softball Camp Boy’s Youth Baseball Camp Girls’ Youth Soccer Camp June 24th, 2013 – July 5th, 2013 UTSA Main Campus What Is UTSA’s Girls’ Youth Soccer Camp All About? UTSA’s Girls’ Youth Soccer Camp is run by UTSA’s seasoned girls’ soccer players for up-and-coming athletes. This twelve day sleep over program will teach advanced soccer skills to players from the ages of 10 to 14 years as well as teamwork, endurance, and the fun of the game. Joining the UTSA girls’ soccer team in running the camp will be experienced coaches who will help your girl to reach her full potential. The camp will consist of running drills, skill building, and strength training that will build up to a final tournament for the last day of camp! Family members are welcome to come to the final day of camp to see how much their little girl has grown in her skills! The girls will be split up into teams with a UTSA soccer player as their coach. Each day, they will be grouped by position...
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...Societies’ Corruption Within the short stories “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison and “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves” by Karen Russell, the writers focus on the theme of societies’ corruption upon young, developing girls. The authors choose to center their stories on two groups of girls that are changed by their experiences as they mature in and outside group homes. In both stories the diverse group of girls are placed into homes by their parents for entirely different reasons. Despite these reasons the two girls in the story “Recitatif” grow closer while in the home, but the family of werewolf girls, in the story “St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves,” grow further apart after they learn the ways of humans. As the girls are influenced by society they grow further apart due to the naturally selfish state of the world and the constant strife between the many cultures that it contains. All of the girls start out pure and untouched by the world and its flaws, but as they are taught to conform to societies expectations they become uncaring towards one another. The main characters of the two stories, Twyla and Claudette, are both placed into group homes by their families for the girl’s betterment. In “Recitatif” Twyla states that she and her friend were taken to St. Bonny’s home because her “… mother danced all night and Roberta’s was sick” (Morrison 201). The two girls bonded over their mother’s mental and physical illnesses, but the relationship between the Caucasian...
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...Parents, teachers, and psychologists alike warn one another about the horrors of the teenage girl, directly transplanting the concept of infants’ “terrible twos” to “terrible thirteens.” With the entrance into junior high, popular culture states that the adventurous girl turns into an emotional, distracted teenager, more concerned with the number of likes she gets on Instagram than the homework teachers assign her. Though the majority of these ideas are gross generalizations left over from a misogynistic, patriarchal period of time, Therapist Mary Pipher perpetuates them, describing the teenage girls she works with as superficial and overly sensitive to the opinions of others. In her passage about working with adolescent girls, Pipher explores...
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...choice of being a feminist is personal. I don't want to depend on a man for my education or for any needs of mine because I don't want to be like my mother, who stayed with my step-father for years. Despite being young, beautiful, educated, and informed she was pressured to go back to him for the sake of my sister and me. He would refuse any financial responsibility for us if she left him and that was his way of controlling our mother. Society also teaches girls to shrink themselves, to make themselves smaller. People say to girls “You can have ambition, but not too much, you should aim to be successful, but not too successful otherwise you will threaten the man.” Because I am a female, especially an Armenian female, I am expected to aspire to marriage. I am expected to make my life choices always keeping in mind that marriage is the most important of choices. Marriage can be a source of joy and love and mutual support but why does society teach girls to aspire to marriage and not teach boys the same? The world raises girls to view each other as competitors. Not for jobs or for accomplishments which I think can be a good thing. Yet...
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...1. The new P.E. teacher is also responsible for what? - The new P.E. teacher was also responsible for the girl’s sports program. 2. What was the sport? What season is the sport played? – Field Hockey, just for girls was not Coed. & the season hockey was played was in the fall. 3. ****Who found the equipment? List the equipment they had. In what condition was the equipment? The couch found the equipment. They had long wooden sticks, think it was table legs for the hockey sticks. Wooden balls. Something on their arms. The equipment was old and kind of lousy but it still worked. Still in enough good condition to work. 4. The sign, glossed as HAVE, means what? – It was the equipment available. 5. Why did Cinnie join the new team? They need volunteers and Cinnie loves sports. She wanted something to do and had never played field hockey before. She wanted something different. 6. How many girls signed up for the new team? – 12 girls 7. How did Cinnie describe the coach’s language or communication skills? Weak signer, signed lousy and it was awkward. Pretty poorly, she tried to sign to teach the players and to communicate the rules and the players didn’t always get it. She would try to sign and explain the meaning and Cinnie and the other girls would try to understand and go along. Kept moving forward even though the teacher’s signing was lousy. 8. What was the one important rule the coach emphasized? – Never put the hockey stick above your waist...
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...This essay will look at how women are represented in the media and how they are portrayed differently to men. I will be looking at the different types of media products such as Television or Magazines. What is the media portrayal of women today and how does this impact how young girls feel about themselves? With programs such as The bachelor showing a dozen women competing for the attention of one man, often using their sexuality, magazine ads displaying a half-naked female body to sell a fragrance or beauty product, and television commercials showing off a woman's thigh and bum to sell trainers, it may be difficult for society not to be influenced by the overwhelming message to objectify women. The first thing I am going to talk about is the differences between the way male and female characters are portrayed in films. For example in modern day action movies the male character is usually the hero of the story, saving the world and getting the girl. They are intelligent characters who make the most vital decisions, they would most certainly get the girl along the way and she would most certainly be beautiful with a body to match. Even in films where the girl is the heroine, for example’ Lara Croft’ she would almost certainly have to be physically appealing to the male audience. In other film genres the woman is seen in the same way, look at the comedy character...
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...exposure towards adolescent girl’s low self-esteem on their physical body. The study explains the young girl’s favorite television characters as an important factor for their overall low self-esteem and body image. This source also included statics with relationship to young girl’s body image. 2. Friendly Advice? Beauty Messages in Web Sites of Teen Magazines: I will be using this article because it discuss valid reasons adolescent girls are using the web for beauty advice. The study included statics in their findings based on three of the most influential website young girls are using with examining their attitudes towards the beauty products usage. This article also referenced other studies that are similar to their own findings such as young girls using the web for fashion magazines, shopping, and music. 3. Role of television in adolescent women's body dissatisfaction and drive for thinness: This study examined adolescent women being unhappy with their body image and wanting themselves to become smaller because of the type of program they were watching. This source is effective for my research essay because their finding were proven to be true regarding adolescent women unhappiness with their body image after seeing an image of someone whom they...
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...Quinceañera is the Spanish word for a girl who is 15 years old. In the latin american culture, a quinceanera is an important time in a young girls life when she is being transformed from a young girl to young woman. A quinceanera is where a young latino girl go throughs her rite of passage into being transformed into a woman. In order to prepare for womanhood, girls were to learn the traditions for this social and religious coming of age ceremony. During the official religious rites of passage, the community would thank God for the future wives and mothers soon to come, and the young women would vow to serve the community both socially and religiously. Later, missionaries turned the coming of age ritual into a testimony of faith by the young women and to promise that they will become good...
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...When a girl becomes a teenager, her mother rewards her with plastic surgery so she can look more “caucasian” (Hidayat). The previous statement was written about young asian women in Japan and Korea. Nina Hidayat wrote an article about the expectations and body image issues for young women in Asia. When people think about body image, they only think of the US. Not many people think about how those in other countries have the same issues we do. Studies show that the more reality television a young girl watches, the more likely she is to find appearance important (Web 1). The media plays a large role in how women perceive body image and themselves (ie, magazines, internet, television, etc). The results said peers predict the negative outcomes...
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