The War Against Boys Analysis

In “How Boys Become men,” Jon Kats shows a list in which boys follow to become men. The list has a set of rules/values which can help during a hitch. In “The Absolute True Diary of a part-time Indian by Sherman Alexie,” Junior the main character has a rough child hood. He was born with 42 teeth, a normal person has only 32 teeth also was born with oversized ears which made him a target. He is an Indian who does not always feel like an Indian.

Reading Summary Evaluation #3 In Karen Stabiner's article "Boys Here, Girls There: Sure If Equality's the Goal," she uses a logical and emotional argument to convince her readers that single-sex schools can really be a good option in the educational system, and that they can also be very helpful and effective. Stabiner uses all three rhetorical strategies in her argument: pathos, ethos and logos to support her argument. On the other hand, in the Daniel J. Solove"s article "Why Privacy Matters Even If You Have Nothing To Hide," he argues that the problem of privacy affects more than just individuals hiding something wrong. Solove explains what privacy is and the importance that privacy holds.

In chapter 13 of the Bully Boys FitzGibbon and Tommy went to search for Tommy’s dad. They went to where Tommy’s dad’s militia was supposed to be. Once they got there they didn’t find anyone.

“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says ‘it’s a girl’.” - Shirley Chisholm, a late 1970’s educator, author and the first black woman elected to the United States Congress. Chisholm and other women for generations have been victims of male projected and specified stereotypes. Due to the impact of the male opinion on women in society, the female characters in both novels suffer from emotional, physical and psychological stereotypes. Steven Galloway, a critically acclaimed male author, is responsible for the literary work titled “The Cellist Of Sarajevo”.

In Rescuing our Sons from the Myths of Boyhood, Pollack lists ideas for parents and what they can do to help their sons overcome conventional pressures from society. Giving sons their undivided attention is to help the son realize that his parents are there for him and that they care about him. Encouraging the expression of a full range of emotions can show a son that it is okay to not always be cheerful, and that his parents empathize and understand with how he is feeling. Parents can also not tease or taunt when their son expresses vulnerable feelings, helping him learn to express and cope with a broad range of feelings. To not use shaming language and use a way to talk to their sons in a way in which they can respond to.

My obscure lines shall not so dim their worth.” (111) Bradstreet articulates that her writing is not good enough for songs of wars, of captains, and of kings. From this, one can understand that women have been “brainwashed” to think that men are superior

In this paper I will be discussing how Boys and Girls Clubs are used as a deterrence method to keep “at-risk” children off the streets. These programs are all across the country in inner cities and in rural areas. I will be using the Boys and Girls Club to look at its relationship with Social Disorganization theory. The Boys and Girls Club has been around since 1860, when three women decided to open their doors to underprivileged boys. They “believed that boys who roamed the streets should have a positive alternative” (Boys & Girls Clubs of America).

In “The Boys Are Not All Right” by Michael Ian Black, the author uses different powers of persuasion to convince the audience to succumb to his opinion that men today don’t know how to properly express their feelings because of cultural norms that expressing your feelings is associated with weakness and femininity. He starts the article by drawing on the fact that almost all mass shootings have been committed by men. He says that men tend to lash out in anger because they don’t know how to properly express their feelings. He attempts to persuade his reader to start a conversation on how to make it more acceptable in society for men to express their emotions in a way that doesn’t potentially hurt others.

Not only were women recycling and sewing to do their part in helping the USA win World War II, but large numbers of women were also helping to build aircraft and create bombs. Going from complete discrimination in the 1930s to now even having female political leaders in today's world would have driven the haters into complete disbelief. Females have undeniably struggled to earn respect in the world. Feminists celebrate the significantly increased number of women in politics, but women are still underrepresented in executive and legislative positions (“Feminism”). Society bases women on the belief that one gender is superior to the other.

In nearly all historical societies, sexism was prevalent. Power struggles between genders mostly ended in men being the dominant force in society, leaving women on a lower rung of the social ladder. However, this does not always mean that women have a harder existence in society. Scott Russell Sanders faces a moral dilemma in “The Men We Carry in Our Minds.” In the beginning, Sanders feels that women have a harder time in society today than men do.

Jonathan Myers (1999), founder of psychonomics.com, an investment website stated that the way to improve financial returns was to match investment with investor's psychology and needs. One of her studies was about the role of gender in investment decision making. Mayer (1999) found that male investors were more focused on goals and outcomes of their investment and had more tolerance towards risk with a high level of confidence whereas women were not. Women were multi-focused and had less tolerance towards risk. In another study by Brad & Terrance (2001) titled "Boys will be Boys: Gender, Overconfidence, and Common Stock Investment" found similar results regarding the investment behaviour of male and female investors.

Boys to Men In the essay What Does “Boys Will Be Boys” Really Mean, the author Deborah Roffman explains how people perceive and classify boys to be extremely messy in their actions and continuously receive passes for their unacceptable behavior. In the essay How Boys Become Men, the statement “Boys Will Be Boys” expresses how the rules boys set for themselves in their childhood unintentionally effects the decisions they make in their adulthood. The two essays focus on different situations but they come together with the same opinion about men and boys; of whom they focus on the most. One essay focuses mainly on how boys behave and the reason why people classify them the way they do, whereas, the other essay focuses on the effects of how boys learn to behave a certain way and grows into adolescents with the same behavior.

Awesome Title in “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich The feminist movement has grown and spread in the past decade. Women all over the world are standing up for basic rights, such as education, that all people, regardless of gender can enjoy. This movement is not a new one, though. Women from times past had already started paving the way towards some of the rights women have today.

The chapter, “Soldier Boys” analyzes the homoerotic literature and the relationships between men on the frontline during World War I. The first part of the chapter discusses war and sex and then relationships between men, and the nature of these relationships. Fussell has several very progressive statements in there, especially when one considers that this was published in the 1970’s. ““In times of war even the crudest kind of positive affection between persons seems extraordinarily beautiful, a noble symbol of peace and forgiveness of which the whole world stands so desperately in need.”

Many critics agree on one fact about Canadian author Alice Munro: one of her most notable qualities in regards to her work is the distinct use of realism in her writing. Her writing provides a strong sense of familiarity to the reader, while also containing stronger metaphorical meanings that one can note when they begin to closely look at her work. Her short story “Boys and Girls” portrays the socialization of a young girl, once very close to her father and unaware of any sort of gender bias within her society, into a young woman with a pessimistic view of femininity and her expected position in society. This story shows the socialization process in a way that makes it easy to recognize, illustrating circumstances that the reader can notice the blatant sexism and misogyny; however, its portrayal is extremely realistic, allowing the reader to recall how oblivious they may have been in the past during times that they have been impacted by social biases in our world. Critics of Munro typically agree on her overall theme of femininity and coming of age in her writings; “Boys and Girls” emphasizes the ways in which young girls are socialized into a seemingly natural understanding of the sexist expectations and gender roles.