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    Teenage Gender Roles

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    children to colors and toys. We use blue for boy and pink is for girl, and we do this by not know that pink is commonly associated with being masculine and blue is a softer and feminine color. "Girls are not given action figures, tanks and guns", boys are and boys are not given "dream cars and cooking stations", girl are. These roles are preach to children from a young age and are press on to children so that they support it. Boys are encouraged by other boy to pick on boys if they are "playing with a baby

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    from an early age, girls and boys are advised on how to act and behave to societal standards of gender roles and behaviors. Gender socialization occurs in numerous consumer items and even behavior. One method of doing this is through children toys, and the gender socialization that occurs between girls and boys in the toys that are showcased to them. There is a remarkable difference between the two kinds of gender-biased toys, and certainly it shapes how girls and boys are in this social world.

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    CSIT 270 Homework 6 Q1.1 Ans 1.1 If S is a finite sample space of equal likely outcomes and E is an event , that is a subset of S Then the probability of E is : P(E) = The probability that a five-card poker hand does not contain the queen of hearts is determined as follows: If 5 cards are drawn then chances of not getting the queen of hearts in the first draw is If there is no chance getting the queen of hearts in drawn and the chance of not getting it in 2nd draw is If there is no chance

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    known as “boy” their main goal was to start a conversation about preventable childhood deaths in America but, in reality they were selling fear and death in order to get parents to purchase insurance. The way that they provoke these emotions are through certain colors, music clips, images, and events and objects that happen in the background of the commercial. For those who have not seen “boy” the commercial follows through the magical imagination of a young, brown haired, bright eyed boy. The first

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    Pablo Picasso Influences

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    emotions.” This quote explains how Picasso’s work changed over the course of his life. Picasso had several art periods in which anyone is able to see the change of both colors and emotions in his works. For example, Picasso’s Blue period showed his melancholic emotions through blue tones, while during his Rose period he used brighter red and pink tones showing his more happy emotions. Pablo Picasso’s works expressed his emotions and depicted events throughout his life. Picasso’s artwork greatly influenced

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    Golding is a novel in which the theme of savagery and civilization is explored. Some British boys are stranded on an isolated island at the time of a nuclear war. On the island, we see conflicts between two main characters, Jack and Ralph, who represent civilization and savagery. This has an effect on the rest of the boys throughout the novel as they go further and further into savagery. In the story, Gathering Blue by Lois Lowry, Kira a teen girl who has lost both of her parents finds herself in a situation

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    Walmart Gender Roles

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    things that I never really paid close attention to before. First, when did the colors pink and blue become a tool used as a gender binary? Second, why does it seem to be a pattern of the professions that the toy emulate in regards to each gender? Third, what does this all mean? There was a distinct division of the boys and girls toys by the representation of colors. The majority of the boy toys were mostly blue, green and red. This appeared to be resemble a more masculine side because the colors were

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    The Road Analysis

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    invited the boy over. She gained a relationship with him. At the end of the story she says “Goodnight! Behave yourself, boy!” I think once she got to know him, she saw the good in him. The climax of the story took place outside on the street/sidewalk, however, when the story began to shift the setting was in the woman’s home. Lastly, there was two main characters in the story, the woman and Roger. I chose to analyze Roger because his character shifted within the story. Roger, is a boy that didn’t

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    demonstrated through The Blue Man’s death, Marguerite’s car crash, and Tala’s death. Actions small or large all can make an immense chain reaction. How could a young boy unknowingly cause the death of a man? A seven year old boy named Eddie is playing ball with his friends. When his ball rolls onto the street, he immediately runs to grab the ball and causes a car to swerve. He does not think twice about this interaction and returns to playing with his friends. However, The Blue Man driving the car almost

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    kicked him right square in his blue jean sitter.” What kind of women would do that? In the story “Thank You Ma’am” by Langston Hushes, Mrs. Jones did not care who it was; she took that boy down until she got her pocketbook. But Mrs. Luella Bates Washington Jones was a complex character because she was bossy, independent and above all, because she was empathetic. First of all, she was a bossy person. One of the reasons she is bossy was that she grabbed the boy and told him to pick up her pocketbook

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