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    What is it to be a man? Are you a man because of your biological sex, the way you act, the things you do, or because of the things you like? Who is the responsible to assign you your gender identity? If we lived in an advanced world, the answer would be that every individual is the only legit responsible for it, and in a utopic world, I would dare to say that there would be no necessity to discuss this topic. However, as we are still stuck on thoughts and beliefs that are not correspondent with our

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    Deep in the heart of Clutch City Beard Man lives in his lair. A message brought from Sir Beverly Interrupted him from his training. He came with great urgency he told Beard Man “The Splash Brothers took the “The Crazy light Boost’ He was shocked “how could you let that slip away from us” He boomed. “How shall we get it back, sir” he Avowed. Beard Man declared “I shall make a quest a quest to the west a quest to Oracle the home Of the Baby Faced assassin and his splash brother.” he asked “Don’t you

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    Expo In the book “The Things They Carried” and the chapter “The Man I Killed” O’Brien is the speaker. He is talking about the man he killed over in Vietnam. I feel as if O’Brien kind of thought way too much about this guy’s life. I also think that he dragged it out a bit more then he needed to. In the poem “The Man He Killed” Thomas Hardy is the speaker. He talks about how the guy he killed and himself could have been good friends if they didn’t end up as enemies. He said he had to do what the job

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    Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison begins with a narrator describing his current living conditions and his view of himself as an invisible man. It soon becomes apparent that the book will be a description of this narrator’s life and how he transformed from a young, smart student on his way to college to an invisible man who lives in a basement, stealing electricity. We see in the beginning, how the narrator transformed from being hopeful and eager to a self-proclaimed invisible man. Invisible Man is told

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    “The average man is a conformist, accepting miseries and disasters with the stoicism of a cow standing the rain.” This is a famous quote by Colin Wilson. When you think about a cow standing in the rain, it generally gives a negative mood. The cow can’t do anything; their used to having no shelter when it rains. Colin Wilson was sending a message about the average men and women. His message is that people accept their challenges too easily, get used to dealing with negative situations, and don’t try

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    In The story a good man is hard to find, a southern family takes a vacation trip to Florida. As the story progress the female characters are seen as the naïve and the weaker sex. While men are given powerful personalities and important roles. On the family’s journey they a take a turn down a dirty road which cause them to meet in an accident and they are found by the misfit and his henchmen’s. The misfit and his crew killed the entire family they spared no one, but an innocent cat. Before being killed

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    In Cormac McCarthy’s The Road the story of a man and his son walking down a road in a post-apocalyptic world is told. McCarthy’s tale of the end of the world is set in a very realistic and dark setting while using depressing and miserable details about the world around the man and his son and the survivors that they come to encounter. Throughout the book, McCarthy writes about a “fire” that a man and his son are carrying, while they struggle with the notion that they are the “good guys” who are avoiding

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    Man Bun 101: Is Going Long Right for You? Have you heard the buzz, about how the man bun acts as a chick magnet? In 2013, the man bun was trendy and 2014 was dubbed 'the year of the man bun'. Since A-listers, such as Joaquin Phoenix and Leonardo DiCaprio are embracing this sexy style, chances are the bro bun is here for the long-haul. You want one. You know you do. Perhaps you have a false belief that the man bun will not be en vogue In the 6-9 months it takes to can grow your hair longer. Not

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    “I am here to start a fight, because I’m a man and that’s how I solve problems” (Phillips). The main argument presented in Brian Phillips’s essay “Man Up” is what ‘being a man’ means in football culture. Being a man is being tough, standing up for yourself, and not being afraid to fight back physically. In the NFL, football is a man’s sport where emotional/mental issues are a sign of weakness. Throughout his essay, Phillips criticizes the culture of the NFL (National Football League) by describing

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    The New Man The essay by Gillam and Wooden attempt to prove that in many Pixar/Disney films, the often male protagonist goes through a change where they are “stripped of their identity” and made into a new more female like character (470). The two authors assert that Pixar has been making movies that create a new model of masculinity – one that does not follow the ideals of the “ubermacho Gaston” but rather a gentler and more understanding man (471). Gillam and Wooden assert this to appeal to the

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