Dave's Rocky Road to Manhood In "The Man Who Was Almost a Man "by Richard Wright, the main character, Dave, expresses his need to be acknowledged as an adult. ... The author suggests that "a man oughta hava little gun aftah he done worked hard all day" (886). ... For instance, Dave articulates a specifically racial rage while "looking at Jim Hawkins' big white house" and fantasizing about taking a "shot at tha house. Ah'd like to scare ol man Hawkins jusa little" (894); or that Jenny's death is symbolic of Dave's betrayal of his mother, or of the treatment of wome...

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In the short story "The Man Who Was Almost a Man," by Richard Wright, depicts a boy who has the need to own a gun. ... In the story, Dave, the main character, is trying to become a man, and in his opinion he needs to own a gun in order for him to be considered a man. ... "Looking at Jim Hawkins' big white house, feeling the gun sagging in his pocket. ... Ah'd like t scare ol man Hawkins jusa little...Jusa enough to let 'im know Dave Saunders is a man." ... Sadly, Dave let his immaturity get in the way of becoming the man he yearns to be....

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This starts from the time they are little boys and continues right up to adulthood. ... In order to be a man, one must be the opposite, one must be strong. ... It is when young men feel they have to play to be a man that it turns bad. ... Men tend to turn everything into a big competition. By competing against each other, they are proving who is stronger and more of a man. ...

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"I am woman, hear me roar/ In numbers too big to ignore and I've been down there on the floor/ No one's ever gonna keep me down again" say the lyrics of the song "I am woman," by the singer Helen Reddy. ... Temptations can lead to big blunders or just simple little slip-ups. ... Equality has not been the first man, however, to "take no heed of the law which says that men may not think of women" (Rand 41). The burning of one man was caused by the simplistic ideas put into men's minds, such as thinking of women. ...

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In the book "Hondo," by Louis L'Amour, the protagonist, Hondo Lane, is the perfect example of a big, tough guy living in the West; a scavenging gunslinger of the desert. ... Throughout the whole book, Hondo is trying to avoid the Apache Indians, but because the Apache's great knowledge of the wilderness; this poses a big challenge for him. ... It is also their job to teach their sons how to be a man and how to perform a man's duty. ... You don't hear of two females fighting over the man, this is because men were looked at as the big and tough ones that had to fight to prot...

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If a man had a high voice and shook his hips as he walked then that would be considered feminine. ... Butterflies are so tiny and do so little, but a little is enough. A little can go a long way. ... Big, where there is room for everything since she symbolizes the earth and old because the soul is nothing new. ...

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She shows many characteristics of being equal to a man, but also shows many of being feminine, which she wishes not to be as much. In Elisa's eyes, you have to be able to do what a man can do in order to be equal to him and that includes not showing any signs of being feminine. ... She was wearing " heavy leather gloves a man's black hat pulled down over her eyes clod-hopper shoes and a big corduroy apron ." ... They"ll be strong this coming year- on her face there was a little smugness ." ...

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For example, fathers are known to tell their sons that "big boys don't cry," and if he showed any type of emotion he would be teased. ... By limiting their emotions and replacing it with aggression, the little boys minds becomes un-balanced. ... He can not fail any one of these elements or else he will considered to be lesser of a man. Families and peers play crucial roles in helping boys define what it means to be a man. The society's media represents reinforcing the ideas of what it is to be a "real man.". ...

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Physically, medically, and educationally women could be a big help if drafted. A woman, in my opinion, can do anything a man can do. ... In The New York Times it states that approximately a little over 60% of the United States army are males and not females. ... Not to watch the man fight the war. ... Do you really feel equal to a man? ...

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Since the beginning of time there has been a universal thought that man are superior to woman and such is the universal theme in Alexander Pope's, The Rape of the Lock. ... This makes it hard for me to relate or learn from the poem because I feel that Pope is comparing small superficial qualities like beauty to bigger more meaningful things such as self-pride and intelligence. ... From which I was faced with another problem in reading this poem because with so little character development I wasn't sure to which character I can closely relate to and I often found myself going back a...

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He desperately wants to become a man due to the pressures set on him by his father. This is best illustrated when his father said to him "you got to start actin" like a man if you want to hold down a man's job." ... Her stories would also go a different way because she was also paying attention to the little details. ... Her breaking down and crying was the big moment in the story because it was true, she was only just a girl. ... He seems to be stuck at that point in his life where it is between childhood and man hood. ...

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This can be described as commercial transactions in which a man pays for the bride's virginity just as for any other object of value. ... The latter's biological needs no longer matter since no man has any claim in it and as a result, the Mishnah grants her autonomy. The sexuality factor plays a big role because whenever some man has a propriety interest in the sexual and reproductive function of a specified woman, the Mishnah treats woman as the man's property in all matters that affect his ownership of her sexuality while in all other contexts, the dependent woman is treate...

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During this time period of the novel, women were shown to have gross- like actions, which is not what a man desired in a woman. ... The author uses the knife to symbolize the only little power Grendel's mother had as a woman against man. ... The author exhibits this in the passage because Grendel's mother is fighting for her son with little power against Beowulf. ... The author uses this battle to show that the man always overpowers and wins. In the end, the male is ahead and higher than the female, which paints a bigger picture overall of female's status and how they were perce...

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We as human beings subconsciously place others in one of the two gender categories: woman or man. ... Society plays a big role on what is expected from each gender and in many cases they set very distinct standards for men and women. ... Little boys and girls are exposed from a very young age to the various roles of "man" and "woman.... As boys become young men, they have been introduced into what is expected from a man in society. A man's position in this world is to fit the role of a husband and a father by providing a secure, stable and comfortable home for his family. ...

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"I do not care that your grandmother say it makes me like a man, I like to be like a man," She says. ... A method Cather uses to elevate Antonia is to tell her story through the eyes of Jim Burden, a man deeply in love with her, but as a strange twist, is seen as a younger and more inferior tag along. ... Descriptions of Antonia such as "She would toss her head and ask me to feel the muscles swell in her brown arm," and "Antonia ate so noisily.. like a man." are rampant throughout the book. Even something as hard to notice as "beads of perspiration used to gather on her upper lip like a lit...

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Barry talks about there being a in between of being the macho manly man and being quite the opposite. ... Being a guy signifies that as a male one does not have to choose one of the two extreme personalities of macho man or sensitive feminine man but rather have the best of both worlds. ... In this current time, women have become a bigger part in society that is not just specifically the nurturer and child bearer. ... In contrast, men are supposed to hide their emotions to keep their tough exterior and tend to have little to any moral code. ... Even though males are said to have little to no e...

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Many animal species the female is often bigger and stronger than the males of the same species. ... In the time of the gods women were viewed as inferior to man. The purpose of women was to serve man, as was the rest of nature. ... It is relationships with man that can be seen as a concern to a feminist. ... The companies that own these farms have so much power that the government can do very little about even regulating them, making it nearly impossible to stop. ...

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The nurse attempts to hide her sexuality, and the schizophrenic Chief Bromden, the narrator of the novel, first brings the reader's attention to this denial in saying, "A mistake was made somehow in manufacturing, putting those big, womanly breasts on what otherwise would have been a perfect work, and you can see how bitter she is about it." ... He's a frightened, desperate, ineffectual little rabbit, totally incapable of running this ward without our Miss Ratched's help and he knows it. ... Man, when you lose your laugh you lose your footing. A man go around lettin' a...

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Little information and laws have been passed on abortion, while the United States Supreme Court has shown little or no eagerness in protecting the right that was granted in 1973. ... From the late 1970's to the mid 1980's, the amount of money a divorced man paid in child support fell by approximately 25 percent, 140 dollars a month (Faludi). ... Paglia blames violence on family life and the spheres in which man and women live. ... She believes that there are two spheres in which we, man and woman, live; one being social and the other sexual and emotional. She states, "Man has tra...

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The girls are also taught to watch what they eat and not get fat, while the boys are taught to eat all the time to be a big strong man. ... The toys in the girl's section of the toy store influence the girls to dress in adorable outfits, learn how to color coordinate outfits onto little dolls, and teach them the basic knowledge of how something would be cooked by giving them little easy bake ovens as toys. ...

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The Tinker or unnamed man, Henry Allen, and of course Elisa Allen the main character will show the true theme of this story that society's oppression of women leads to unhappiness and showing us a glimpse into what it may have been like in 1938. The Tinker, a big stubble bearded man, rides a wagon down the dirt farm road to Elisa's house. ... He is however a little condescending to her as he says "'I wish you'd work out in the orchard'" (Steinbeck 582). ...

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That behavior is just as bad as what they are accusing feminism of doing: painting all feminists as man-hating, victim-playing lesbians is ridiculous and patently false. ... One reason may be the negative connotations and stereotypes, which have become associated with feminism because of the stigma attached to both the term and the movement Labels such as"femi-nazis," "man-haters," and "bra burning crazies" may lead traditional-minded women to shy away from self-identification, despite their agreement with the tenets of the feminist movement.... Feminism became a ...

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For a patriarchal society, women are unimportant and the man is who always excels. Women are like the amulet that man always carries by his side. ... He was to a dot the kind of man who could get himself elected sheriff--a heavy man with a big voice, who was particularly genial with the law-abiding, as if to make it plain that he knew the difference between criminals and non-criminals. ... For men of patriarchal culture women´s work at home is something worthless "Nothing here but kitchen things," he said, with a little laugh for the insignificance of kitchen things.... This behavior belongs ...

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The term feminism is being thrown around these days by women who nag and challenge every law, man, and person. ... However, there were three women in the car, all screaming, not doing anything about the spider, just screaming, placing other people lives in danger over a little spider. ... These bra-burning, man hating, no leg shaving women, just can't be here. ... Which is entirely true, I"m sorry to say it, whoever your creator may be, he/she/it made males stronger than females, it's a hormone called testosterone, and no matter what we do as women, we can never have that natural h...

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She is young and dizzy to hear so many sweet things in one day, even if it's a bum man's whiskey words saying them." (p.41) In the chapter The Family with Little Feet. ... They find it amusing that all the boys are looking at them, but a homeless man asks Rachel for a kiss for a dollar. ... "She's going to get a real job downtown because that's where the best jobs are, sinse you always get to look beautiful and wear nice clothes and can meet someone in the subway who might marry you and take you to live in a big house far away." ... She doesn't want to have a man th...

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