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    New England Primer Boy

    text explaining what is a “good” boy and “bad” boy. Also what is a “good girl” and a “naughty girl.” Both explanations of the two types of girls is in poetry form. The description of the two types of boys is in prose form. The two descriptions give examples of how that type of child behaves. An example of how a good boy should acts is “dutiful to his father and mother, obedient to his master, and loving to all his play fellow.” This example tells parents how their boy should act, and children how they

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    Parts of Speech

    [pic] Your expectation and our responsibility will ensure you a great success. Subject: English Parts of Speech + Degree Time: 20 min Full marks: 30 Identify the correct parts of speech: 1. He is poor but honest. |(i) |Preposition |(ii) |Conjunction |(iii) |Noun |(iv) |Adjective | 2. She

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    B. 2 Case Study Answers

    On the per-assessment the girls scored 21.21%, and the boys scored 44.44%. The boys out scored the girls by over double their percentage. The girls had eight students that scored 0% on the pre-assessment, and only two that scored proficient. The boys had three students that scored 0%, and also two that scored proficient. On the post-assessment the girls average was 81.81%, the boy’s average percent was a little higher at 86.11%. When comparing the improvement the girls more that tripled their average

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    Annotated Bibliography

    only used female samples. Consequently, female theorist excluded juvenile boys and men from their studies. In this research Jones, et al. (2014) included boys in their research as a control group to quantitatively explain the thematic differences in pathways to crime between boys and girls. Neutral gender research aligns the pathway to crime for girls and boys; however, the research lacks the uniqueness of the pathway for girls. Annotated Bibliography Jones, N., Brown, S., Wanamaker, K., & Greiner

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    Child Labour

    force surveys from 1990-91 to 1992-93, has been carried out to fill this gap. The study indicates that the quantum of child labour age cohort of 10–14 years grew from 1.8 million in 1990-91 to 2 million in 1992-93. The growth of girl workers is higher as compared to boys. Industrial structure shows that at the national level and in the rural area, agriculture engaged the maximum number of children, followed by services, whereas in the urban area the services sector dominated. As for employment status

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    Biological Transformation of Adolescence

    procedure. In fact, it begins at conception (Susman, Dorn, 2009). Genetic factors and environmental factors are both responsible for puberty initiation. Thus as a result, certain individual mature earlier than others. Generally, girls go through puberty two years before boys do. There are three

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    Gender and Educational Attatinment

    Over time there has been a switch in gender success throughout education; coming into the late 1980’s underachievement by girls was common; girls were less likely than boys to obtain one or more A-levels and were less likely to go on to higher education. Coming in to the next decade of the 1990’s there was a sudden reversal; girls were now doing better than boys who were now underachieving. In 2006 10% more females were obtaining 2 or more A-levels than males. Women are now getting better degrees

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    Outline the Reasons for Gender Differences in Subject Choice (12 Marks)

    Norman (1988) notes that from an early age, boys and girls are dressed differently, given different toys, and are encouraged to take part in different activities; parents tend to reward boys for being active and girls for being passive. As a result of this socialisation, boys and girls develop different reading tastes – boys read hobby books and girls are more likely to read books about people which explains why boys prefer science and girls prefer subjects such as English. Norman (1988)

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    Example Of Persuasive Letter

    grade students and we have decided that dress code is an important issue to write to you about. We both agree that the dress code is unreasonable, and especially unfair towards girls like what we want and can’t wear in the morning, what excuses we think aren’t fair to girls when we get called down to the office, and how the boys are breaking dress code but don’t get in trouble. Imagine this, 7:00 A.M. and you’re trying to decide what to wear. Oh! That’s really pretty shirt! Except you can’t wear that

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    Using Material from Item a and Elsewhere, Assess the Claim That Gender Differences in Educational Achievement Are Primarily the ‘Result of Changes in Wider Society

    January 2010 Item A Although the educational performance of both girls and boys has improved over the past twenty years, a significant gender gap in achievement has developed. Girls now outperform boys in most subjects and at most levels of education. This is especially true of pupils at GCSE where 10% more girls than boys achieve five or more A* – C grades. Some sociologists claim that gender differences in achievement are the result of changes in wider society, such as the impact of feminist

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