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  • Gender Difference

    Gender Difference

    GENDER DIFFERENCE Biological Differences: The basal metabolic rate is about 6 percent higher in adolescent boys than girls and increases to about 10 per cent higher after puberty. Women tend to convert more food into fat, while men convert more into muscle and expendable circulating energy reserves. At age eighteen, men (on average) have about 50 percent more muscle mass than women in the upper body, 10 to 15 percent more in the lower. Men,

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    Essay Length: 1,066 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 16, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender Moments

    Gender Moments

    “He throws like a girl!” This insult is heard all too often and is harsh to boys because of the perception of girls being weak. We are constantly bombarded with moments emphasizing gender in everyday situations. After training myself to see these differences my eyes have been opened to something I have previously believed “natural” and allowed a new perspective to push through. I see attitudes and behavior now as socially constructed and not

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    Essay Length: 1,427 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 17, 2009 By: Yan
  • Gender Roles in the "the Story of an Hour" and "the Necklace"

    Gender Roles in the "the Story of an Hour" and "the Necklace"

    From ancient years to the middle of 20th century being a woman meant being a housewife. Women were repressed. Not only they did not have any rights, except to stay home, do the housework and care for a husband or children, women were considered only a half of human being. As one Russian saying says: “It would be very funny, if it was not so sad”. Nowadays, when there are so many feministic coalitions, it

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    Submitted: December 18, 2009 By: Mike
  • Is the Media at Fault for Portraying Genders Falsely?

    Is the Media at Fault for Portraying Genders Falsely?

    “TV is today's mass social educator with powerful influence on social life, people's worldviews, consumer behavior and the shaping of public sentiment. The network of commodity and visual symbolic sign systems within which we live is already so dense and pervasive that we fail to take much note of it” (Luke 2). Carmen Luke is a professor at The University of Queensland in Australia, and he focused his sociological studies on how the media effects

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    Essay Length: 793 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Vika
  • Sexuality, Ideologies, and Gender Roles in Advertising

    Sexuality, Ideologies, and Gender Roles in Advertising

    For as long as advertising and mass media have been around, so has their incorporation of sexuality and ideologies. Day after day we are plastered by articles, images, and audible forms of advertising. I would estimate that the average person encounters between fifteen hundred and three thousand forms of advertising each and every day. Of those fifteen hundred to three thousand, it would be safe to say that more than two thirds of them portray

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    Essay Length: 1,969 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Jon
  • Gender Roles and Stereotypes

    Gender Roles and Stereotypes

    Multitudes of studies have examined the effects of societal and parental influences on children's own beliefs about gender roles and stereotypes. This paper, which is an elaboration of a group project** created by the Gender Boundaries Group* conducted in Eugene Matusov's Fall 1996 class, Psychology 100G, studies the research surrounding gender roles and stereotypes perpetuated by parents onto their children via modeling, clothing, toys, and television exposure, and its effects have been considered in an

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    Essay Length: 2,564 Words / 11 Pages
    Submitted: December 19, 2009 By: Yan
  • Gender Stereotypes

    Gender Stereotypes

    Intercultural Communication Gender Stereotypes In this essay I will define and discuss stereotyping and gender stereotypes paying particular attention as to how gender stereotypes influence our Cognitive processes and how the media contributes to these stereotypes . According to O’Sullivan, Hartley, Saunders, Montgomery and Fiske, 1994:299-300 in Holliday, Hyde and Kullman, 2004:126, stereotyping is concerned with the categorisation of groups and people as generalised signs, which signify values, judgements and assumptions regarding their behaviour. Gender

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    Essay Length: 872 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender Bending Chemicals

    Gender Bending Chemicals

    Gender Bending Chemicals A large portion of the population in the United States store food in plastic baggies, buy baby toys, has a shower Curtain, and everyone has or had a rubber ducky. Theses are all typical items for the normal household, but do you know what those items are made of and what kind of harm they can cause to the human body and especially pregnant mothers. There is a chemical in each of

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    Essay Length: 1,173 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: December 20, 2009 By: Max
  • Gender Differences Between Men and Women

    Gender Differences Between Men and Women

    Gender Differences between Men and Women What influences a person's identity? Is it their homes, parents, religion, or maybe where they live? When do they get one? Do they get it when they understand right from wrong or are they born with it? A person's identity is his own, nobody put it there and nobody can take it out. Is there a point in everyone's life when they get one? Everyone has a different

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    Essay Length: 1,599 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender and Age

    Gender and Age

    Gender and Age Gender and age have become a major criteria in how a detective looks at their suspects. In many cases it makes more sense for certain criteria to be used. People are asking if the criteria the police are using is a violation of the civil rights and if the police is working toward their public safety. How does gender effect a person in the criminal justice field? To a great extent a

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    Essay Length: 519 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 22, 2009 By: regina
  • Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture

    Language, Gender and Bias in American Culture Through language, bias has proliferated in our culture against both women and men. Language expresses aspects of culture both explicitly and implicitly. Gender expectations, behaviors, and cultural norms, are determined through language. A divide between the sexes has developed which includes language usages, intention, and understandings. This has created obstructions to communication between the genders. When anthropological linguists look at a language, he/she takes into consideration the “world

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    Essay Length: 1,569 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 23, 2009 By: Tommy
  • Girl Scouting and Gender Roles

    Girl Scouting and Gender Roles

    Girl Scouts was created to give girls an outlet for activities not usually considered for girls. For that time period it was considered revolutionary and a step towards equality of the sexes. My Girl Scout experiences began in 1977 when I was in third grade as a Brownie Girl Scout. I was a Junior Girl Scout in fourth through sixth grades and a Cadette Girl Scout in seventh through ninth grades. Through Girl Scouting, I

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    Essay Length: 1,582 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 24, 2009 By: Max
  • The Non-Nature of Gender

    The Non-Nature of Gender

    Our culture is littered with phrases such as “Boys will be boys” and “It’s a girl thing,” but what do those sayings actually mean? What does is mean to say that a child with male genitals is being a “boy” or that individuals with female genitalia are all part of a common “thing.” These terms in our society often go overlooked and accepted, but with very little thought for what it actually means. Gender in

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    Essay Length: 2,326 Words / 10 Pages
    Submitted: December 25, 2009 By: Top
  • Gender Discrimination in the United States Military Draft

    Gender Discrimination in the United States Military Draft

    GENDER DISCRIMINATION IN THE UNITED STATES MILITARY DRAFT To secure the continuing existence of the United States democracy against intractable religious fanaticism, whose goal is nothing less than a Muslim theocracy for all of Planet Earth, it is inevitable that general military conscription will again be implemented following the 2004 Presidential Election, despite political protestation to the contrary. Indeed, a ‘backdoor’ draft, imposed by the Bush administration, has existed in our military for more than

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    Essay Length: 951 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: December 26, 2009 By: Bred
  • Gender Discourses for Youth: Critical Analysis

    Gender Discourses for Youth: Critical Analysis

    Gender Discourses for Youth: Critical Analysis Introduction The purpose of this report is to outline the particular “Gender Discourses” in young men in the magazine “X the magazine”. The magazine is dominated by males in visual and text representation. This magazine has extreme sport discourse where males are represented as courageous and enduring. I think the males are portrayed in a more traditional way, they are shown more stereotypical which is more likely appealing for

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    Submitted: December 27, 2009 By: Jack
  • Reaction To: “gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness”

    Reaction To: “gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness”

    Reaction Paper: Forgiveness and Empathy The ability to be empathetic toward others and forgive is without a doubt essential to relationships between people. Loren Toussaint and Jon R. Webb’s study “Gender Differences in the Relationship Between Empathy and Forgiveness” gives some insight into how gender may influence the frequency in the use of empathy and forgiveness. From the data collected from the study their also seemed to be a difference in the way empathy is

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    Essay Length: 626 Words / 3 Pages
    Submitted: December 28, 2009 By: Mike
  • Gender & Jim Crow: Book Review

    Gender & Jim Crow: Book Review

    In Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore’s book Gender & Jim Crow, Gilmore illustrates the relations between African Americans and white in North Caroline from 1896 to 1920, as well as relations between the men and women of the time. She looks at the influences each group had on the Progressive Era, both politically and socially. Gilmore’s arguments concern African American male political participation, middle-class New South men, and African American female political influences. The book follows a

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    Essay Length: 1,352 Words / 6 Pages
    Submitted: December 29, 2009 By: Vika
  • Why Gender Matters in Understanding the September 11th Attacks

    Why Gender Matters in Understanding the September 11th Attacks

    Why Gender Matters in Understanding September 11th Usually when the word gender is used in a political sense often times what is described is the role of women in a certain aspect of politics. This paper is a look at certain social norms that are directly related to women and their rights that seem to allow and harbor terrorist. The idea of the article that I am basing this paper on is by Amy Caiazza

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    Essay Length: 1,514 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Anna
  • Conversational Humor in Relation to Gender

    Conversational Humor in Relation to Gender

    Conversational Humor in Relation to Gender Introduction Humor is all around us, whether we know it or not; although we do not find something humorous, another person may. A big barrier that keeps us from perceiving the same things to be funny is our gender. Something could be extremely funny to one person but very offensive to another. Humor is supposed to be enjoyable but why is it so controversial between genders? Conversational humor is

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    Essay Length: 1,676 Words / 7 Pages
    Submitted: December 30, 2009 By: Victor
  • Television Gender Roles

    Television Gender Roles

    The television and the shows it broadcasts are both very powerful modes of communication. With millions of people watching the messages and propaganda, one show on a single channel can reach an enormous amount of viewers. The television is like an amplifier of ideas and thoughts. It is not necessarily a specific station that gives out this thought, but the television shows that are seen by worldwide viewers. People can gravitate towards the ideas shown

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    Submitted: December 31, 2009 By: Artur
  • Ad Marketing - Gender Roles

    Ad Marketing - Gender Roles

    Commercials on television tend to portray stereotypical roles of gender. |The effect of television imagery can be particularly consequential in modern industrial societies like the United States, where 98% of households have at least one television set and the average American watches over 30 hours of television each weekX(Coltrone, Adams 1997, 325). These images do not create an accurate image of the modern woman, often demeaning their role in society. Females are depicted as attractive

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    Submitted: January 2, 2010 By: Anna
  • Race, Class and Gender

    Race, Class and Gender

    Race, class and gender have been a topic for most books that have been written. A lot of books talk about these topics because it is something most people face. Whether you’re at work and can’t get a promotion because of your gender, excluded from a place because of your class or hated because of your race. Know matter what you will be faced with one if these topics in your life time. Dorothy Allison’s

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    Submitted: January 4, 2010 By: Edward
  • The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

    The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality

    “The Meanings of Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality” The meanings of race, class, gender, and sexuality are definitely complicated and intertwined through intersectionality. To fully understand these meanings, one must first open his or her mind and recognize that social stipulations that society inflicts upon people need to be thrown away. One must ignore conceptions of something being static or natural (Mills 10). A naпve individual would consider race as simply a biological classification. However,

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    Essay Length: 999 Words / 4 Pages
    Submitted: January 6, 2010 By: Top
  • Gender Discourse

    Gender Discourse

    Communication between males and females has always been somewhat complicated. Because we are arguing that males and females have different cultures we wanted to take a look at what some of these differences might be. According to our research the inherent differences between male and female culture are the different roles that society holds for them and the ways these roles lead to different communication styles. The stereotypes that men and women grow up with

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    Essay Length: 1,824 Words / 8 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Jon
  • Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders

    Gender Differences in Anxiety Disorders

    For my individual paper assignment I chose to summarize three articles containing information about gender difference in anxiety disorders. I found three articles that surrounded the information that I had to explain about my research. The 3 article titles that I will explain in this assignment are gender differences in anxiety disorders, gender differences in panic disorder, and effects of gender on social phobia. The first article is explaining my main topic that I chose

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    Essay Length: 1,158 Words / 5 Pages
    Submitted: January 7, 2010 By: Mike

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