Theses ‘lads’ formed a counter school subculture that was opposed to school and showed this by flouting school rules for example truanting. His study was criticised for ‘romantising’ the lads and presenting them as working class hero’s despite their antisocial behaviour and sexist attitudes. The study only consisted of 112
This could almost be dismissed as a hangover from traditional values or the result of still-prominent stay-at-home mothers, except that it remains true when both members are working full-time, and even in some cases where only the woman is in employment. One explanation given for the unwillingness of men to take part is that the male gender role has not been challenged as strongly as its female counterpart, so many men feel threatened on a primal level by the prospect of child-rearing and domestic labour. This is backed up by the fact that it is even more pronounced when the man is unemployed, suggesting he has a greater reason to feel insecure in his masculinity. Whatever the cause, all signs point to women suffering a dual-burden; having to hold
He eventually finds his own morals and tells himself what is right and what is wrong. Part of this realization came from him helping Jim, which troubled his mind because of what society said about helping him. But he then based his decision to help on his own experiences and logic. That is kind of what Fahrenheit 451 puts forth. But instead of trying to gain knowledge it is being destroyed, all because society is trying to promote ignorance which causes sameness in all.
In Stay Put: Making a Home in a Restless World, an essay that serves to respond to an essay by Salman Rushdie, Scott Russell Sanders used parallelism and metaphors to emphasize his beliefs that migration causes “disastrous consequences for the earth and for ourselves.” Sanders believes that “by settling in, we have a chance of making a durable home for ourselves, our fellow creatures, and our descendants.” The use of parallelism throughout Sanders’ essay was to emphasize his counter argument made by Rushdie. Rushdie articulates “that uprootings brings tolerance, while rootedness breeds intolerance; that imaginary homelands are preferable to geographical ones; that to be modern, enlightened, fully of our time is to be displaced,” showing that migration is good,in Rushdie’s perspective. Although we don’t know Sanders’ background, it is easy to speculate Rushdie’s perspective since he is a writer who migrated from India to England. If Rushdie believed that he disliked migration and had the same beliefs as Sanders, he would be contradicting his own actions. Sanders believes Rushdie’s beliefs are an “orthodoxy that... [Sanders]... wish[es] to encounter,” stating his belief that migration only harms the environment, not only to the creatures around us, but to ourselves as well.
Professor Richard Alba of the University of New York asked a group of Harvard students about what they thought about assimilation. The majority had negative thoughts about it. He states “The Assimilation era is now condemned for the expectation that minority groups would inevitably want to shed their own cultures, as if they were old skins no longer possessing any vital force, and wrap themselves in the Anglo-American culture” (pages 1-2). That’s how many people see assimilation today, even if it isn’t a popular term anymore. Another thing that makes assimilation bad is the fact that people use it so much that they don’t see that it could be a danger in the future.
I felt Kane’s argument was a bit ineffective since he kept focusing more on Jim Getty (his competition) thus making him look like a bad person. It seemed as if Boss Jim Getty had committed some crime, however Kane did not explain what he had done wrong. I do feel that he made those who were classified in the lower-class happy that someone wanted to do something to help them. However, Kane forgot to mention what his promise to help this class of people would entitle. I believe that without mentioning what you would like to do in order to help people out you leave the audience doubting if your promise will live up to it.
Dong Sheng Huang 3 Separation A Price paid for pursue of dream “Mother and father, “ma,” “pa,” “dad,” “pop,”- all these I felt were unsuitable terms of address for my parents.” “The adult finally confronted, and now must publicly say, what the child shuddered from knowing and could never admit to him or to those many faces that smiled at his every success.” “Those were her words, but all the while her sounds would assure me: You are how now. Come close inside. With us” “Simplistically again, the bilingualists insist that a student should be reminded of his difference from others in mass society, of his “heritage.” “Without extraordinary determination and the great assistance of others –at home and at school- there is little chance for success.” “If I rehearse here the changes in my private life after my Americanization, it is finally to emphasize a public gain.” “From that distance, pretending not to notice on another occasion, I saw my father looking at the title pages of my library books.” “The boy who first entered a classroom barely able to speak English, twenty years later concluded his studies in the stately quiet of the
Freedom Moving into a new county for freedom is tough. Even though when you get to the country you are essentially free, unless you are accepted by the community you move to, you can’t be truly free. In his short story, “The Strangers that Came to Town”, Ambrose Flack is showing that true freedom is about being accepted. This is shown by the kids in the town and at school mocking the Duvitch kids, as well as people who they traded with were rude, and their entire family was marked “untouchable”. Firstly, the school kids mocked and harassed the Duvich kids.
Comparing chapter one (act one) of ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’ Both ‘The Great Gatsby’ and ‘Death of a Salesman’ explore the idea of the American dream. Also, they both show the difference between society’s living standards and the classes; old money and new money are significant with this. Fitzgerald strongly emphasizes that Nick Carraway is infatuated with Jay Gatsby and his wealth. He describes Gatsby as being “some heightened sensitivity to the promises of life” connoting that he is living the life of the ideal American dream. This differentiates from the characters Linda and Willy in ‘Death of a Salesman” where they are living in a “small, fragile-seeming home” and the in detail yet minimal use of furniture.
The top priority of the adoption system has unfortunately become profit, and the wellbeing of the children has become the least of the profiteers worries. Even the basic adoption fees have the ability to give couples the idea that they don’t have the ability to