Dillinger Gender Roles

When the class sang songs about happiness and games her lips barely moved.” Margot ignored the other children, the only time she participated was when an activity mentioned the sun. Margot keeps herself apart from the rest of the class while she talks about experiences with the sun, when that is what the kids want the most. Although Margot’s classmates hurt her because of their jealousy, Margot was also partly to blame for since she keeps mentioning something that her classmates has always wanted.

Sometimes people don’t have the courage to stand up for themselves when challenged with problems. When in the story Eleven by, Sandra Cisneros there is a girl named Rachel she is a shy insecure and doesn't stand up for self. It’s her birday and she is turning 11 years old, but seems that Rachel day is been a bumpy road. Her teacher is giving her a rough time and same with her classmates. All because, shes been put for the balm of how owns the ugly red sweater, These are coulpe Reason.

In the poem 1958, Gwendolyn MacEwen describes the high school environment as it would have been in the late 1950’s. Popular fads among the teenagers during this era are explored in detail. The prevailing theme throughout the text pertains to the idea of belonging. The poem focuses primarily on the desire teenagers have to fit in. Throughout this response I will explore the ways in which this poem differs and relates to the high school environment today. Secondly I will analyze the connections between this poem and a modern day movie. Lastly, I will express the ways in which my personal experiences relate to the central message in the poem.

Staring out above the clouds, my feet are warm and snug in the crafted italian boots, with my skis supporting me on the snow; all the worries of high school and its dysfunctionality are behind me. Strolling through the dark tunnels of high school I walk with a defined strut as if trying to impress my peers. It’s in these halls where I feel the anxiety of the world crashing down on me, but up on the fluffy, white, powdered slopes all of that anxiety is gone; it’s just me and my skis.

defines gender roles between masculine and feminine, but not everyone fits perfectly into the role that

Pipher gives some compelling stories about the behaviors of some pre-adolescent girls she has encountered. Her cousin, Polly, was an energetic and opinionated girl when she was young. Upon puberty, Polly felt unable to connect to boys and girls her age until she became stylish and more subdued in her language. This gives the reader the feeling that Polly was not accepted until she changed her personality to fit that of her surroundings. It is possible that Polly’s friends no longer enjoyed being around a girl who was opinionated or who would insult those with whom she did not agree. This story does not qualify as a valid, concrete premise to show the connection between changes an adolescent girl and her ability to connect with others.

The film Billy Madison is about a twenty-seven-year-old who is the heir to his father’s hotel company. Billy’s father does not believe that Billy is responsible enough to run his father’s empire. Billy and his father make a deal, that if Billy can complete all twelve grades then that will prove he can run the company. Veronica Vaughn is one of Billy’s teachers in the film. Vaughn is an attractive, young, third grade teacher who is sexualized throughout the whole film. Thus, causing Vaughn to be portrayed as a sex object. However, Vaughn is not a sex object she is supposed to be a caring third grade teacher. Even though Vaughn tries to teach Billy and her students to the best of her ability she is only noticed for her attractive qualities. Not

The fresh faces of the 2016-2017 sophomore AP English class looked up at Mrs. Belles, some expectantly, some apprehensively. Among those faces is Francine Lamasko, a girl of 15 years of age, newly refreshed from summer and carrying her completed summer work. Decidedly, she thinks to herself, this will be a meaningful year of learning, of growth, and of fun. She is ready.

Gender roles became so complex in the twentieth century due how society has changed what men and women should be like. Men take being strong and independent as a God given right to them, while females on the other hand have had to work their way up in order to be titled independently strong. From growing up to early adulthood I faced the conflict of constantly worrying about how society wants me shape myself as a dependent and self-confident which was the complete opposite of me.

Though Nomi escapes these negative feelings using drugs and her imagination, she expresses to her guidance counsellor that she feels a need to change her views on the educational system and learn to love it. The novel’s convoluted plotline does not show step-by-step, how Nomi goes about changing her attitudes. However, Nomi engaging her environment in deeper thought is evidenced in her coming to realize that she does poorly in school because she is: “already anticipating failure.”(Toews 2) With this new insight, Nomi writes her story as an assignment for submission to Mr. Quiring as an attempt to gain his approval and achieve academic success.

I bought the memoir “Popular” knowing a good amount about the topic mainly because I attend a school where popularity is a big thing. Even though this memoir is mainly for females, I believe males would find this book intriguing. Maya Van Wagenen’s adventure is informed in this memoir about how she turned from being at the bottom of the popularity scale, to climbing up to the higher up spots. What was unsettling about this memoir was how deficient and cruel Maya’s area was. For example, an innocent eighth grader from another school even got shot at for carrying a pellet gun to school. A drug war also took place in Maya's area, making me change the way I looked at the world. Realizing that the world isn't always in joyful times. Also, this

Blee, Kathleen M., and Ann R. Tickamyer. "Racial Diffences in Men's Attitudes about Women's Gender Roles." ProQuest Research Library [ProQuest]. Springer Science & Business Media, July 2010. Web. 17 May 2016.

Lucille’s character believed in women’s power and in equal rights. In two of my favorite episodes, which happen to be two of the show’s most famous episodes, titled “Equal Rights” and “Job Switching” brings that to light by emphasizing those issues. In the episode “Equal Rights” Lucy and her husband Ricky fight about how women deserved equal rights in America and should be treated in the same manner as men. In the “Job Switching” episode, Ricky and Lucy argue about who has the hardest job, women, who work in the home, or men, who work outside the home. So Lucy and her best Friend Ethel agree to try to work in a chocolate factory, while the men play housewife, which in result ends with both Lucy and Ethel getting fired and Ricky and Fred nearly

The protagonist soon learns that life of a person is expected to be guided by the norms that regulate virtually every aspect of one’s developed. A good example is the criticism that she faced when she had learned to read before school: it was something that children were not supposed to do.

In Phillip’s film adaptation of The Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mabel embodies the effects of society on an individual through the stereotypes imposed on her as a servant. This extremely lower class character in the film is expected to conform to the standards of a servant to a gentleman of utmost respect right after being picked up from the streets. This is seen at the very beginning of the film when Dr. Jekyll tells Mabel “a servant is there to serve, they don’t exist” (Phillips). Not only do Mabel and all other servants of the Victorian Era have very limited power and rights, but they are barely even seen as human. Dr. Jekyll is not the only one who sees servants like this, it is the shared view of