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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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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Kaci Gray Whitaker ENGL 1113-065 12 September 2011 Rhetorical Analysis of Nancy Sommers: Between the Drafts Harvard graduate Nancy Sommers wrote Between the Drafts in February 1992. In many papers‚ a person is able to tell the direction of the paper within the first paragraph. However in Sommers article‚ the thesis does not appear until the end. Sommer’s thesis is “It is the thrill of the pull between someone else’s authority and our own‚ between submission and independence that we must discover
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Sommers ultimately agrees that it is morally wrong if children voluntarily choose to neglect their parents in times of need such as in this case poverty and misfortune. In her opinion‚ it is morally right for children to provided assistance to their parents
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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article entitle “Men-It’s in Their Nature” vividly discusses cultural rearing and social assumptions regarding semi-outdated preconceived notions of stereotypical male masculinity and its impact on an ever evolving modern society.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 hyperbolic
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Sommers says that the language students use to describe revision is about vocabulary‚ suggesting that they “understand the revision process as a rewording activity”. How is that different from the way she argues that revision should be understood? Nancy Sommers studies the problem of revision between students writers and more experienced writers. Those writers who are students focus more on the revision as fixing small errors and textual repetition‚ when more experienced writers focus on revision
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of Silk Stockings: Mrs. Sommers Mrs. Sommers‚ of Kate Chopin’s "A Pair of Silk Stockings" faces a major Man-vs.-Society conflict. She is a perfect example of how humans are tempted by material gain‚ "the life of luxury"‚ and the vicious way society judges things (or people). Society views people who live in the lap of luxury as "gods"‚ they are above those who are not so fortunate. Anyone can fall prey to this common societal problem‚ even innocent "Little Mrs. Sommers". This is evident when
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has been in my life for as long as I can remember. Many of my family members have had several different types of cancer and have lost their battle‚ but the one that impacted my life the most was the recent loss of my best friend. My friend’s name was Elke‚ and she battled brain cancer for almost 10 years. She was only declared in remission a couple times‚ it just kept coming back‚ and the last time the doctors said that there were no less than 11 tumors. This brain cancer took her away from so many
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Collymore and Elke Walcher. Amarel is from Bridgetown‚ Barbados and Elke is from Austria. They all moved to Queens‚ New York for a particular reason. Sushil did not mention whether or not he went to elementary or high school. However‚ from the story it sounds like he took school lightly compared to Amarel and Elke. Sushil states‚ "I went away to agriculture college to learn how to be a farmer‚ but they made me dissect
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paintings allowed him to get a new sense of his subjects‚ including the one in Elke im Lehnstuhl (Elke in arm-chair). Baselitz’s goal in this was to depict the thin line between reality and abstraction in a time where the world turned upside-down. The violent brush strokes and the upside down figure in his painting alludes to the consequences and horrors of war‚ and how it distorts perceptions of reality to the unimaginable. In Elke im Lehnstuhl‚ the shades of blue with added hints of yellow and red could
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