When she was asked what she would like to be in the future and answered that she wants to be a police, her family started to "Ooh that's so sweet but cop is a boy's field. ... Meanwhile, we do not do the same thing to girls because no matter how hard we push them, they will end in the kitchen for they are so passive. ... Since they know that they will get a baby boy, they start to paint the baby room with blue color and, later, buy "masculine" type of toys such as robots, car toys, gun toys, etc. ... The girls are also taught not to be a naughty girl for "to be naughty means to be a...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

In the story "Nobody Said Anything" the main character, a boy who is skipping school, is encountered with many situations that he can't seem to grasp or handle. ... This excerpt from the story backs this up: I could hear them out in the kitchen. ... Now the boy hears his parents arguing and he tries to wake his brother George up to make them stop since it bothers him, but George really doesn't care. This is a moment where the boy wanted support and mutual concern from his brother who obviously should care but doesn't and the boy feels powerless in trying to help at all. He f...

• Word Count: 1590
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Are you a boy or a girl? ... If a girl goes out to play with the boys, she is called a "tom boy." ... Television shows such as "Leave it to Beaver", gives viewers representation of the perfect family and you will notice that the mom is always in the kitchen. ... Boy Stuff" (Kantrowitz 443). ... The boy gets dirty and the mom washes his clothes. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

If it is a boy the adjectives to describe him range from handsome to brave and strong. ... Girls are generally seen with domestic toys such as dolls and kitchen play sets. ... Perhaps it is because ever since the early childhood , the boy is given toys that allow him to exercise his strengths and develop the body he will have when older rather than the sitting" pretty toys girls are given which are only to be played while calmly sitting at a table or beside a play crib. ...

• Word Count: 1516
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Throughout the story leading up to the scene when she and her father are in the pens, you are lead to believe that she is a boy, until a short exchange of words with a feed salesman who inquires about her. ... She felt that working in the kitchen was endless, depressing and unimportant compared to the work she did for her father. ...

• Word Count: 1491
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School