and Nurture: A Gender Sandwich It has always been said that both nature and nurture are the main ingredients in shaping a person’s behavior for the rest of their lives‚ like the meats and the cheeses to your favorite sub sandwich. Deborah Blum seems to think that not only do these things greatly effect human behavior but also gender identities. She gives the reader a new perspective on nature and nurture‚ arguing that it is way more than just nurture that paves the path of gender roles. Blum’s essay
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Sho Adachi Professor Pugh Eng. 100 6-9:50pm 10‚ October 2012 “The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over?” Response In the article “The Gender Blur: Where Does Biology End and Society Take Over?”‚ Deborah Blum starts off sharing a personal story. She describes her own childhood‚ where she had two individual presents that are thought‚ in society‚ to be for a girl or a girl. She receives things that clash such as a Barbie doll and a softball glove. Barbie dolls are meant to
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“Gender Gap in Cyberspace” is written by Deborah Tannen‚ in 1994. She has written many books and articles on the differences in male and female communication styles. In the article “Gender Gap in Cyberspace” Tannen compares differences the way men and women approach new technologies. She contrasts her experiences with one of her colleagues named Ralph. Tannen and Ralph were both computer pioneers‚ buying their first machines in 1980. While Ralph became a computer expert‚ Tannen remained a self-described
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In “How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently” by Deborah Tannen illustrates the day to day gender differences in institutions. Tannen is an author and professor that researched the difference in genders in school. Tannen successfully enlightens her colleagues about men and women differences in education institutions by‚ establishing her credibility through research‚ observations and using her logic. Tannen did research and wrote a book comparing men and women in education institutions
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Her name was Deborah Fontanel. August knew I was her daughter the day I showed up at her house. When August was younger she worked as a housekeeper in Deborah’s house‚ and took care of her. Deborah and August kept in touch and August told me that Deborah met T-Ray and fell in love. After a while Deborah was losing her love for T-Ray. He asked her to get married‚but she said no. She changed her mind eventually because she was pregnant‚ with me. I was an unwanted baby. One day Deborah called August
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The “Song of Deborah” is one of the most famous songs in Jewish history. The song‚ sung by two of the heros of the story‚ Deborah and her husband Barak‚ begins by praising Hashem. It states Hashem’s name “Adoni” five times in the first four lines of the song‚ mentioning some cherry picked miracles he had performed. For instance it mentions the earth quaking and the heavens opening up. After the introductory praise of Hashem‚ the state of the Jewish people is examined. It says that deliverance had
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How Male and Female Students Use Language Differently by Deborah Tannen In Deborah Tannen’s essay How male and female students use language differently explained’ she describes the difference in the way men and women communicate in class. Ms. Tannen has years of experience in the classroom‚ and has inked several books on language. Deborah Tannen can be considered and specialist on this subject. In this essay she tries to convey the message to her readers that women and men communicate in differently
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-98 2-15-11 In reading Deborah Tannen’s essay “You Just Don’t Understand: Women and Men in Conversation‚” I was found to believe that the main idea of this essay was the language of everyday conversation. The subject of Deborah Tannen’s essay would be in my opinion the difference in which males and females use communication skills. When it comes to men‚ they seem to talk more if they were sitting next to a female. Also a boys way of communicating with other boys‚ was not by talking‚ but by
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In Deborah Tannen’s essay “I’ll Explain It to You: Lecturing and Listening”‚ she asserts the belief that even though men and women speak the same structural language‚ their motivations for speech and conversational patterns are very different. In the earlier years of development‚ Tannen observes that girls use speech to find confirmation and establish intimacy‚ whereas boys use speech to assert their independence and attain social status. After transitioning to adulthood‚ women find themselves bored
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young Private‚ Robert Shurtliff "…was always mentioned in glowing terms as being one of the toughest‚ strongest‚ and most patriotic soldiers… Shurtliff ’s physical endurance was legendary" (Leonard). In contrast‚ the inexperienced‚ eighteen-year-old Deborah Sampson rarely received compliments nor stood out among the beauties of Plympton and Middleborough‚ Massachusetts. These two seemingly-different personages have much more in common that one might imagine. In the late Eighteenth Century‚ women had
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