Boys are falling back‚ what can we do to help them? The author‚ Christina Hoff Sommers‚ resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute‚ in her article The Boys at the Back published in the New York Times in 2013‚ addresses the gap that exists between boys and girls and the impact that this has on them and society in general. Sommers is the author of ‘‘The War Against Boys’’ a book that also comments the social and educational problems that boys are facing and supports that they
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Society and stereotypes affect the way children develop their ideas and‚ consequently it has a major effect in their futures. Opposed to that‚ Christina Hoff Sommers present her article “The War Against Boys” arguing that boys are facing a crisis that is directly affecting their scores in school‚ their propensity to violence and crime and their lack of motivation to go to college. According to her‚ the ones to blame are the feminist efforts to promote girls and create programs to boost their academic
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2014 Unmasking Masculinity The author‚ Christina Hoff Sommers‚ 2003 article entitle “Men-It’s in Their Nature” vividly discusses cultural rearing and social assumptions regarding semi-outdated preconceived notions of stereotypical male masculinity and its impact on an ever evolving modern society. She uses several types of rhetorical elements which are hyperbole‚ comparison/contrast‚ and paradox in this article. At the beginning of the article‚ Sommers narrates an anecdote about her son and uses
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Summary of Christina Sommer’s Teaching the Virtues In Christina Sommer’s piece entitled Teaching the Virtues‚ she quickly states her position in thinking that ethics education in contemporary school’s need reform. Christina Sommer believes that in ethics classrooms in schools there is too much of a focus on social morality and not enough focus on private morality‚ and these students can benefit from a more balanced approach. Social morality refers to issues such as the death penalty‚ abortion‚ and
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131 1/31/2013 Men are violent by nature In the essay “Men - It’s In Their Nature‚” Hoff Sommers states that although the “radical masculinity” should be addressed and civilized‚ it should not be eliminated because it is something natural and without it men would not be able to protect women and society. She argues that trying to make boys behave like girls does a disservice to boys’ natural talent. As Hoff Sommers claims‚ it is more of “men’s nature” and what society has to do is to civilize
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The generation today is messed up in many ways. With the lack of understanding and the lack of knowledge in the reason why these people in this generation is messed up. We have came from so much‚ but without knowing more we are only going to go backwards instead of forward. Sommer’s observations conceptually and culturally however‚ “Today’s young people live in a moral haze”‚ and that they are incapable of making even one confident moral judgment. I believe is somewhat accurate because
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Christina Gold Case Study Why was the restructuring needed at Western Union – or wasn’t it? Western Union at the time when Christina Gold had in intention to restructure‚ was a structure pure American – Centric with the main operations managed from US. This structure will not be efficient and will not respond to the goals of growth of Western Union. The trend for growth showed in 2002‚ when Western Union reported sales of $3‚2billion and eighty percent increase compare with the prior
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Christina Noble is the founder of the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. From the 20 years Christina arrived at Vietnam‚ she loved the people. Christina first renovated a dilapidated building for disadvantaged children. Since 1997 there have been over 100 life saving programs in Vietnam which are similar programs to Mongolia. These programs for thousands of children on the streets have saved and nurtured their lives. In many cases these children live with parents‚ uncles‚ aunts and grandparents
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Jethro and Mr Sommers We had to create a still image ‘statue’ of Jethro. Underneath the statue‚ I chose to show Jethro as being hopeful. I was on my knees but had my fist clenched and to the side of me‚ suggesting that there were still issues with the way that people were treated‚ the time that the statue was meant to be made was during the peak of slavery. The clenched fist representing that Jethro and his fellow people would fight towards freedom. Dan played Mr Sommers‚ he stood with folded arms
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Christina Rossetti Christina Rossetti was one of the greatest female Victorian poets who connected her personal life and spiritual life. Christina Rossetti is a poet who heavily focuses on different themes within her writing. Two of the major themes that Christina Rossetti has focused on are acceptance of death and love. Within Christina Rossetti’s writing it is very obvious the message that she is trying portray. Remember Me and Baby Lies So Fast Asleep are two poems that apply the themes of
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