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    Summary of “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” In Scott Russell Sanders essay titled “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ Sanders supports his personal opinion on gender roles and inequality‚ which has been shaped by witnessing the struggles faced by two different socioeconomic classes. Throughout the essay‚ Sanders compares social issues faced by both wealthy and less fortunate men and women‚ as well as the unique problems faced by both genders. We begin a more in depth look into Sanders personal beliefs

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    Social Class A Summary of Scott Russell Sanders’ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” In Scott Russell Sanders’ essay‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ he indicates his perspective through discussing the issues that exist between sex and social class. Sanders’ depicts his thoughts through narration which allows him to portray his own life experiences to support his viewpoint. Sanders’ thesis is fundamentally based on the lives of men “who’ve been discredited” (Sanders 292) and how their lives have

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    50’s‚ gender roles were simpler‚ men goes to work and women stays at home. Today‚ both genders are equal when it comes to their own rights and choices. In the essay “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ by Scott Russell Sanders‚ he discusses his own view on the gender roles. Sanders grew up in a lower class environment where men worked hard and labored with their bodies. He states that “The bodies of the men I knew were twisted and maimed” (p.1). He also states how men worked hard and physically suffered

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    Maureen Roach English 101 19 January 2013 Men versus Women in Society In “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” by Scott Russell SandersSanders described how men worked hard all day and the health issues they later on in life. Sanders also show the comments and reactions of women he knew or came across throughout his childhood life. As he got older‚ his opinion changed tremendously. He realized women had it much harder. In the society today‚ men and women are trying to make things equal between

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    In the texts‚ “No Name Woman” and “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ both authors explore the harsh protracted struggles an individual goes through when an individual’s identity clashes with the narrative society has preset for a person of their nature. Despite a different message‚ purpose‚ and tone that defines each memoir‚ Sanders and Kingston display striking similarities in rhetorical structure and setting as they deconstruct the situations they describe as they tell their stories. Each author

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    In an essay The Men in our MindsScott Sanders explains his thoughts on gender equality as a boy‚ and how his views change when he realizes the problem is not with gender inequality but about problems with social class. In a conversation with a friend‚ Sander believes that women have a harder life than men because women are trying to prove their equality. This conversation makes Sanders think about the men he knew as a young boy‚ they worked back-breaking jobs and died young because they were worn

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    Ever since the beginning of time‚ men have been the ones who were faced with heavy responsibilities of going to war‚ working on the railroad...etc. Women have also suffered a great amount of difficulty and hardship‚ but not to the extent that men (such as toilers) have. In "The Men We Carry in Our Mind" Sanders explains why men’s lives are often harder or why their lives have been considered harder than the lives of women. Women have easier lives than toilers because they have more freedom of choice

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    The Men we carry in our Minds               It is men who get to be the President and the politicians‚ it is men who get to be the CEO’s‚ it is men who all the joys and pleasures of life are given.  This is what the women say‚ they say men have all the advantages of life that it is so much easier for them to get ahead‚ that it is unfair that they can work prominent positions of work‚ while the women are reduced to child raising and homemaking.  Do the women of Scott Sander’s essay "Gender and Identity"

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    The Men We Carry in Our Minds is an essay by Scott Russell Sanders on the roles and responsibilities given to men and women in different echelons of society. Writing from his own point of view‚ the author spends the majority of the essay comparing and contrasting the differing jobs of men and women‚ and then outlining the effects of those jobs on them. Sanders’ views on the responsibilities of women change over the course of his maturation‚ but his sympathetic view towards the labours of the common

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    Analysis of “The Men We Carry in Our Minds” Alex Pinto British Columbia Institute of Technology LIBS 7001 January 29‚ 2012 AN ANALYSIS OF “THE MEN WE CARRY IN OUR MINDS” In the essay‚ “The Men We Carry in Our Minds”‚ Scott Russell Sanders discusses his perspective on men in comparison to the impression that women carry in their minds. Sanders uses a unique way of writing through narration and life experiences to truly illustrate his point that the impressions of men or women are

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