sport has come to be the leading definer of masculinity in mass culture." Bob Connell, 1995 This statement covers such a huge amount of sociological assertions, a doctoral dissertation would not be able to do it justice. What is "masculinity" defin Continue Reading...
Wearin' of the Green An Irish-American's Journey Margaret-Mary clutched her daughter's tiny hand. Watched with pride as the five-year-old waved the little Irish Flag in her other hand. It was a cold, blustery day, but then it always was on St. Pat Continue Reading...
Black Elk's Journal The offering of the pipe Black Elk believes himself as a symbol of his tribal values. According to him, he embodies the spiritual forces which have been bestowed upon him by the superiors of his tribe. In the first chapter, he h Continue Reading...
S. were "proficient in reading and math," Pytel explains. These statistics "loudly states that students entering high school" are simply not prepared, Pytel goes on. Moreover, U.S. students do not fare well on the international educational stage. At Continue Reading...
During times when you are building for retirement, reinvesting the dividends in the stock will allow you to take advantage of a principal known as cost averaging. This is where you are consistently investing in the stock over the course of time. The Continue Reading...
'" "A Good Man is Hard to Find" ends with the family being executed by the Misfit, a murderous outlaw. Although O'Connor's story is evidently supposed to be humorous, it gives the reader pause to note that the family will die without ever exchanging Continue Reading...
The possibility that such attention was paid to these event in earlier times in European cultures is obvious but absent from modern representations of rites of passage. What can be interesting is the correlation between the two rites of passage disc Continue Reading...
251). This would show how well they observed, organized their thoughts and read (or were read to). "Overall, children from both middle-class and economically disadvantaged homes produced reasonably long narratives, but children from disorganized fam Continue Reading...
One of the most important themes is about the tension that can oftentimes exist between a business and its surrounding community. In this particular story the tension occurs between the bank, as represented by its bank officer, and one of its custom Continue Reading...
Jack discovers that he is not simply a leader, but that leadership makes personal demands on one's character that are not always enjoyable. Jack realizes that the boys cannot play all day, or forget about civilization, like schoolboys on a fun holid Continue Reading...
Oppression of Class And Gender Class and gender are two separate but related concepts in the sociological analysis and understanding of inequality and oppression in society. A definition of class is "A group of individuals ranked together as possess Continue Reading...
Blurring the Gap Between Fiction and Real Life This is a paper that outlines how modern literature integrates personal experiences of the writers into works of fiction. It has 5 sources. It is quite interesting to note the means by which eminent w Continue Reading...
Humanities Street Punk Neverland His pixelated face leaned back into the frame on my computer monitor with a refreshed grin, the music having changed from Death Metal to Wagner. "For a while I played in a band that did metal covers of Wagner and Ve Continue Reading...
Kim Chernin and Susan Faludi make a case for the crimes of our culture against women -- crimes that women may not correctly and clearly perceive because they are being duped by the media, society, and cultural ideals. Both authors express dismay ove Continue Reading...
Economic model of crime suggests that crime is driven by rational self-interest. Thus, any penalties incurred for crimes such as insider trading must exceed the potential economic gains for the subject. This is based upon a rational concept of cost-b Continue Reading...
Myths and Narratives My great-grandfather was a school teacher in West Virginia. He taught in rural schools that were one-room school houses in what he called the "boondocks." He rode his horse between schools and parents of his students would put h Continue Reading...
Boyhood, Organized Sports, and the construction of Masculinities" offers insight into a study he completed regarding male attributes and how masculinity is defined within organized sports. Following is a summary of the article denoting the hypothesi Continue Reading...
In order to get various information for comparative analysis, several online databases will be explored so that the scientific data and social factors that will be unearthed are factual enough and relevant to the study of obesity among teenagers. T Continue Reading...
Indeed, obesity among children and adolescents is even associated with an increase in economic costs. It is estimated that the hospital costs for obesity-related disease among children and adolescents increased from $35 million in 1979-1981 to $127 Continue Reading...
Friend by Any Other Name Sex matters between friends. No, not in the way you might think -- or the kind of sex that you might think. Sex matters in terms of gender: Male friendship and female friendship really is different from each other. Of cours Continue Reading...
Life-Long Learning In discussing the strategies outlined in several of Malcolm Knowles books, one can clearly recognize adult learning theory as separate from traditional theories in education. In his book, Andragogy in Action, Knowles accurately pr Continue Reading...
This section is followed by another, referring to the spiritual life. The author also provides advice in this area, in order to help seniors with certain aspects. The article is quite easy to be understood by anyone, it is written from a personal Continue Reading...
" (4) This disbelief would fade with relative quickness though as in a matter of less than a day from this intrusion into his life, Baeh would see more bloodshed and death than any child should ever know. The horrific sequence in which the war first Continue Reading...
In this novel, the events of what is known as the Prague Spring serve as backdrop, a time when the Soviet military occupied the city and made it known that the people of Poland were not in control of their own destinies. Tomas had once condemned the Continue Reading...
Expulsion due to disobedience is an example of this kind power that Nolan has as a member of the administration. Thus, as discussed earlier, Nolan was able to command the students' respect because he was backed up by the academic institution itself. Continue Reading...
Since juvenile records are sealed during ongoing investigations, the authors used multiple sources from available national press reports, each of which was identified by more than one source, to create a list of possible causal factors. Bender, McLa Continue Reading...
Fiction with Documentation "Where are you going, Where have you been When asked this question, teenage girls like Connie -- past and present -- are faced with few options Perhaps one of the great hallmarks of a great work of fiction is its abilit Continue Reading...
Childhood Prejudice In an experiment, a Caucasian girl named Morgan was shown pictures of two girls - one white and one black. When asked who was smarter, Morgan pointed to the white girl. She was then shown a picture of a white and a black boy and Continue Reading...
Gender and Counseling The past few years have seen significant advances in the field of counseling. Psychologists and psychiatrists have gained a better understanding of the human psyche. Based on their insights, they have been able to identify new Continue Reading...
Gender Differences Observed With Learning Disabilities Are girls with learning disabilities being addressed in schools and clinic settings as much as boys are? If not, then what is the cause for this? What are the solutions? We need to first look a Continue Reading...
Good Country People by Flannery O'Connor is a story that illustrates how deceptive appearances can be and what errors are made when people hide behind their own cliched perceptions instead of thinking clearly about situations. The main plot of the st Continue Reading...
Cushman, Karen. The Midwife's Apprentice. New York: Clarion Books, 1995. Plot Summary: A young girl who knows herself only as Brat is all alone in the world. About twelve years old, she keeps herself alive by stealing and begging food. She buries he Continue Reading...
John Colapinto's "As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl", set during the sixties, tells the sad tale of an ill-fated child who was forced to lead an atypical life marked with stress, difficulties and ordeals following an early-childhoo Continue Reading...
Importance of the setting in understanding the story A successful story needs to have several components linked together in order to help the reader build up the story in their minds. The setting of a story is one of the powerful elements that are o Continue Reading...
seated fear of the current state of culture as witnessed in television programming. He argued that through the evolution of ideas beginning in literature with horror writers such as Stephen King, and seen in the present in reality TV programs, a sad Continue Reading...
Pygmalion -- George Bernard Shaw George Bernard Shaw -- one of the most well regarded playwrights -- wrote this comedy and first presented it to the public in 1912. He took some of the substance of the original Greek myth of Pygmalion and turned it Continue Reading...
Metacognition and Academic Achievement in College Students THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN METACOGNITION AND ACADEMI Constituent Elements of Metacognition Metacognitive Awareness Inventory Gender differences in metacognitive skills Relationship to Oth Continue Reading...
validity, and for school administrators Goldstein's points should be discussed and debated. Goldstein suggests that without violating students' privacy rights, instructors / teachers nationwide need to be far more alert to weirdness, aggressiveness, Continue Reading...
40-year male presented to the emergency room at 11 a.m. In the morning with complaint of pain all over his body. On history, he did not state that the pain was localized; rather he complained that his entire body was aching. The man was asked to lie Continue Reading...
