...Compare and Contrast Has it ever been hard to be yourself? Well in the article Skinny Tomboy Kid and Bad Boy they both had a hard time being themselves. They both had similar challenges and they both had different challenges. In Skinny Tomboy Kid the character was a girl and liked what boys like and in Bad Boy the kid was a boy and liked what girls like. There were a lot of similarities between the two articles. One similarity is that both of the kids liked what the opposite gender liked. The second similarity that I noticed between the two characters is that that both had no friends and were lonely. The third similarity I noticed is that they think it’s ok to be themselves and they continue to do what they like to do. The fourth similarity...
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...we have unless a person changes it (Conley 279). Gender is defined as a “…social position; the set of social arrangements that are built around normative sex categories” (Conley 279). Furthermore, gender is the “…psychological, social, and cultural aspects of being a male or female” (SOC 150 Lecture). Another important concept are gender roles, which are defined as sets “...of behavioral norms assumed to accompany one’s status as a male or female” (Conley 287). For example, boys are expected to have blue toys, and society expects girls to have pink toys....
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...ideas of involvement from the employees and community groups. This will ensure the proper direction of invested interests toward the correct area and community relations programs. Evaluation of organizational involvement is vital to identify the key social initiatives, political, ethical, and moral effects. It is also taken into account the potential initiatives that may arise through the process. Every organization has similarities and differences that pertain to social responsibilities within a community. To ensure that organizations target the correct area they must first conduct a contrast and comparison process to decide where to focus their efforts in regard to other companies’ outlooks. A successful business has the objective to guarantee that products and services are free from obstacles and enable people regardless of their gender, ethnic background, age, or ability to use them independently. Similarities between different organizations Although each team member has selected a different organization, if examined closely, there can be similarities found among the organizations. Must Ministries is an organization that has been around for over 40 years in the Atlanta suburb of Marietta, GA. There are many things that this organization does concerning social responsibility. One contribution...
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... In England sport is really not very popular for girls in high school or college, back before 1980's and still to this day, not only the women but also for the men. Club teams are whats important and school sports are around but are more just for a bit of fun. Girls seem to be more interested in the girly things in life and the majority of the girls would not even enjoy participating during Physical Education class. My mum was slightly different and was a slight tomboy, she is the youngest child of 4 and she has 2 older sisters and the oldest of them all is her brother. My mum looked up to her brother the most with him being oldest and this is where her tomboy personality came into effect. She told me that during high school she liked to participate in P.E class and she also played street hockey for the school after hours on a small team of girls and boys. They played inner squad games between each other and was non contact but still quite tactical. There was one teacher at her school who did take it seriously and wanted the children to be involved with the school sports and he was also the coach for the boys soccer team. There were no real facilities for hockey just a painted area on the concrete where they held recess. She also told me that none of the school teams were taken seriously, and the soccer team was one of the only sports to actually go and play other schools in the surrounding area, but still many of the boys played for club teams and that is what they considered...
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...them. Boys and girls’ toys enforces multiple ideologies on how boys and girls should act and be. When going to any type of toy store, people can clearly see difference between the toys for girls and the toys for boys. Even the simplest of toys are separated by gender just because of the color scheme that it holds. Legos are simple toy blocks, but they have two separate sets, one for girls and one for boys. The appearance of the toy, the activities of each set, and the packaging of the toy reinforces stereotypes and the connotative meaning of boys and girls. One difference between the girl and boy Legos are their packaging. The packaging of the girl and boy Lego sets are almost completely different. The boy packaging has dark colors, such as blues, blacks, greens, yellows and reds. Some of the boy packaging also has just boys playing with the Legos on the front of it. When it comes to the boys’ Legos none of the colors are bright and colorful, but the girls’ Legos...
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...Andrew Holloman ENG 1101 11/13/12 Compare and Contrast Essay Similarities between Harper Lee’s Childhood Life and Scout Finch’s Childhood Life The To Kill a Mockingbird novel written by Harper Lee is commonly considered one of the twentieth century's most widely read American novels. The vast majority of people that have read the novel are of the belief that the events contained within the novel are based on Harper Lee’s childhood experiences growing up in the South. However, absent of Harper Lee actually confirming the inspirational source for her novel; it’s still an assumption made by the masses. Nonetheless, we all have to agree that there are some very distinct similarities between Harper Lee’s childhood life and the childhood life of Scout Finch’s in the novel. Similarities that exist between Harper Lee’s childhood life and that of Scout Finch in the To Kill a Mockingbird novel were the facts that they were both raised in small rural towns, both of them were tomboys during their childhood years, and they both lived through times of racial prejudice. The first similarity between Harper Lee’s childhood life and Scout Finch’s childhood life is that they were both raised in small rural towns in Alabama. Harper Lee grew up in the small rural town of Monroeville, Alabama that. The town has a small closely knit population where everyone knew their neighbors and knew their neighbor’s business. Aside from this the town of Monroeville is riddled with poverty and racial...
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...In the short stories “Lessons of Love” by Judith Ortiz and “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” by W.D Wetherell the narrators are both similar and different. In the story “Lessons of Love” the narrator is a girl and in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the narrator is a boy. The difference is important because boys act different than girls in the sense of crushes or true loves. For instance in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” the narrator was watching her through bushes and finally got the nerve to ask her out and in “Lessons of Love” the narrator went to the grocery everyday just to see him. Another difference is that in “The Bass, The River, and Sheila Mant” she never even notices that he like her, even when he asked he on...
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...observational study was done to assess the behavior of two groups. The girls were insistent that they expressed less aggression than their male counterparts. For this study we are assuming age similarities and surrounding environmental conditions being equal. This study was done in during recess sessions over the course of a week on school property. Breaking this study into the simplest definitions will assist in determining the accuracy of this study and help to explain the observation in a sensible manor enabling the undereducated to understand the results. The mean is considered the average. Or the sum of all scores divided by the number of scores used. For girls the total score is 49 divided by 10 or 4.9. The boys the total score is 51 divided by 10 or 5.1. Once again this would seem to indicate that the boys are more aggressive. The mode is the most frequently appearing score in the distribution of numbers. These numbers are presented for analysis as below. For girls 1 show up 1 time, 4 show up 4 times etc…. 1-1, 4-4, 5-2, 7-2, 8-1, therefore the mode for girls is 4. For boys 2-1, 3-2, 5-4, 6-1, 8-1, 9-1 therefore the mode is 5. By this simple analysis it would appear that boys are more aggressive. The median score is determined by the exact middle of the scores laid out from lowest to highest. Using the same information, the exact middle for girls is 4.5 and for boys it would be 5.0, Indicating that boys are more aggressive. The Range of each group is a measure...
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...Essay 1: The Code Talker Paradox In the chapter “The Code Talker Paradox” by Mark Baker, he argues that language is surprisingly complex and paradoxically simple. This claim backed by evidence of similarities and differences between languages has also lead Baker to conclude that grammar is universal among children. He arrived at this concept because of the easiness for children to pick up language while the smartest of adults struggle endlessly to learn. When one looks at how complex language is, the only proof that can explain this phenomenon is that any child with a healthy brain must have an innate universal grammar that must coincide with all languages. One difference between the languages of Navajo and English is the that while in English the direct object of a sentence goes after the verb, in Navajo the direct object is before the verb. So if in English one were to say, “Boy saw girl”, even if the Navajo knew the word translation they would have no idea what you were saying. While vice versa in Navajo if one were to say that it would read to an English person Boy girl saw, which wouldn’t make any sense in English. Even if one can understand the translation of words, to make sense of a sentence is incomprehensible. Another example showing the complex differences between the two languages having to do with word order is the Navajo’s primal importance placed on nature in their tongue. In a Navajo sentence humans are placed at the top of the pecking order, meaning...
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...cities share there difference and similarities. The difference and similarities to be discussed are the politics, societies, and the economics. These differences between the two are what have given them the historical relevance they have today, while the similarities are what made the Greece societies shine as well. Athens can be considered as one of the most glorious cities of the ancient world. The Athenian society was far different then its rival Spartans society. The greatest difference would be the up brining, as far from birth until adult hood. The Athenian’s believed in education, philosophy, art, science and of course military training, but of course during this time period men and women were educated very differently. The Athenian men were far more highly educated, while the women not as much. Women were made more objective for men. “An Athenian boy would be taught at home either by slaves or their mothers until the age of 6 or 7. Then the boys would go to school and learn reading, writing, literature, and arithmetic until they turned 14. During this time the boys also learned wrestling and gymnastics to make sure the boys were strong along with learning how to play the lyre and sing […] Girls on the other hand had a very different training. Their mothers would teach the girls to clean, cook, weave cloth and to spin thread. A few girls also learned ancient secret songs and dances for religious festivals. Around the age of 15 girls married a man much older than the...
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...relationship with mr. Soto's life. Most of these real life connections are from Gary Soto's childhood. This paper will examine the similarities and differences between "Mother and Daughter" and "The Jacket". The first book to examine would be mother and daughter. Mother and daughter is the story of a poor mother and her daughter, Yollie who are having a hard time financially and trying to live a happy life. The main character is a Yollie, a teenage girl. The teen and her mother have financial problems and there are many things that they want but they can't have those things. In a small part of the story, Yollie is faced with a problem, she wants to go to a school dance, but her mother can't afford a new dress. So she and her mother decide to use her old summer dress and paint it black. The story, as in most of Garry's stories has it's happy times and sad times and...
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...Since the early 1990’s, girls have begun to outperform boys at most levels of the educationsystem. According to Pirie in Item A, the modular courses and continuous assessment found ineducation today has been seen to favour the systematic approach of girls, compared to the oldO level exam which typically favoured boys. These changes within the education system are seenas the main result of gender differences in education, nevertheless, external factors such asthe impact of feminism and changes in the job market may also have influenced the increase ingirl’s attainment.Firstly, it may be argued that the way pupils are assessed has favoured girls and disadvantagedboys. Gorard found that the gender gap in achievement was stable from 1975 up until 1988 whenit increased rapidly. This was when GCSE and with it coursework was introduced. Mitsos andBrowne support the view that GCSE’s favoured girls as they were more successful in courseworkdue to the fact that girls are seen to be more careful with their work, more likely to spendlonger on their work and meet deadlines. However, Ellwood argues that although coursework hashad some influence, exams themselves have a greater influence in the final grade. Thereforethis does not create a significant gap between gender differences.Secondly, the way in which teachers interact with pupils differs. Sociologist Jane and PeterFrench argue that classroom interaction between teachers and boys was not that different tothat of girls in terms of academic...
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...Both of these stories have many similar elements and themes throughout their story lines, but since they are both written by very different writers the differences present themselves by default. To begin, I will talk about the similarities between the two works. Starting from the beginning, most evident similarity is the structure of the characters in the stories. “Anna on the Neck” has a young girl (Anna), her father (Leontych) and a man that lures the young girl away (Alexeich). “The Station Master” also has this same setup with the Dunia, the station master and the hussar. Both girls come from a family that is very low on the social class and don’t have a lot of money along with living without a mother at the time the stories take place. Another similarity is the fact that both women in the stories got drawn into the wealthy life style and didn’t want to go back. Dunia did not have the initial motive to go with the hussar in order to take advantage of his wealth and social standing, she was under the impression she was going to church and once she learned that was false she still didn’t choose to come back. She began to dress and take in the wealthy life style. I felt the way Pushkin used the boy to describe Dunia at the end was very key when the boy described her as “A beautiful lady. She was traveling in a carriage with six horses with three little children and a lapdog.” (Proffer 78). This description...
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...I think Jonathan Smith is a hero because he save a lot of people in the Las Vegas shootout . In the Las Vegas shooting he helped a group of people that was there for his brother’s birthday . While during the shooting his family was involved in it . Also some people died and some lived because there were to many people he was trying to save . During the shooting he tried to help his nieces and while he was doing that he was shot in the neck . After the shooting he was rushed to the hospital and i think he has to spend the rest of his life with a bullet lodged in the left side of his neck . This 15 year old boy can be known as a african american hero too . He saved a little girl while she was getting kidnapped by this 63 year...
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...can often be a way for writers to reflect on their lives and to express feelings like sorrow and happiness from their past. Through this, a clear parallel can be drawn between a poet’s life and their work. A poet’s specific life events are often influential in the themes displayed in their poetry. By drawing from life experiences, poets may be able to infuse deeper meaning into their poems because the poet has truly gone through the emotions of these occurrences firsthand. This creates a deeper and more thoughtful poem as the poets are writing about a subject they themselves have faced. The harsh and impoverished youth of Gary Soto had a strong influence on his works as themes of poverty, growing up, empathy, and the American dream are present in his poems. In “Small Town with One Road” Gary Soto uses personification and symbolism to communicate the poem’s theme of the American Dream (going from poverty to riches through hard work regardless of who you are). The poem implements some of Soto’s life...
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