... , physically abused sometimes even with a weapon. It must seem as if in the whole world they are the victims. Eventually all of this leads them to skip school often to avoid humiliation. Establishing high school for gay does not necessarily mean that they are going to be taught to face and attack the world as a whole. It rather means that they too have ... be surrounded by other people of similar interests. There are all-boys, all-girls, Jewish, Christian, Catholic, and Islamic high school. People have segregated themselves for other reasons whether it is gender, religion, or race. So th...

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... tribulations of a single woman in cosmopolitan London. Nick Hornby, a music and pop-culture critic, has been at the forefront of this genre with works like High Fidelity, Fever Pitch, About a Boy, and How to be Good. High Fidelity, his most celebrated work, is about a record shop owner from London in his thirties who is trying to cope with a recent break-up with ... may be considered classics in due time. In light of this, this critique shall use the Feminist Literary Theory. This theory, according to Carol Pajaron of the Ateneo de Manila High School English Department, compares and con...

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... self-conscious of their growing and developing bodies. They should not be obliged to wear something in which they are not comfortable. Further still, some students may look better in school uniform. As adolescents, naturally, they will feel like they are better than the rest who don't feel as though they look as good. It has been said that ... school uniforms instil discipline within students. Exactly what discipline does uniform teach students? It has been proven, time and time again, that in schools, which have strict uniform policies, the amount ... and most of the time comfortable...

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... winkte by the Bwaanag" (153). The Ojibwe saw masculinity in a woman as desirable. Mashkiigikwe was one of Kapshaw's wives, and is hunting when Father Damien meets her. She was very masculine, "Mashkiigikwe's legs were like oak fence posts and her neck, solid, was packed with a power that surged up ... it up on purpose to unnerve and distract her" (232). The Objiwe had much different gender borders than that of the society that Father Damien came from. Erdrich makes the Ojibwe borders acceptable to us, again making the reader uncomfortable. The way in which Erdrich portrays the Ojibwe/ ....

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... . In the nineties, there was a study done on women's basketball. The study wanted to see how the coverage of women's basketball from the University of Connecticut, would affect the participation of high school girl's basketball. The results were very satisfactory, it showed that there was an increase in participation in girl's high school basketball team, and also it showed that the attitudes of these girls ... changed as well. Girls felt more motivated and driven to go and play basketball, seeing the coverage ... of college level basketball reminded them of the potential that they poss...

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... . In the nineties, there was a study done on women's basketball. The study wanted to see how the coverage of women's basketball from the University of Connecticut, would affect the participation of high school girl's basketball. The results were very satisfactory, it showed that there was an increase in participation in girl's high school basketball team, and also it showed that the attitudes of these girls ... changed as well. Girls felt more motivated and driven to go and play basketball, seeing the coverage ... of college level basketball reminded them of the potential that they poss...

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... to increase most women did not participate. In the 1900's women's collegiate sports started to increase (Sexism In Sports). Participation did not begin to increase until the introduction of women's basketball in college sports (Sexism In Sports). Around 1969 women started doing gymnastics and track and field, then in 1970 swimming, badminton, and volleyball came into play. Finally ... play sports that express feminine characteristics (Sexism In Sports). Yes, there aren't men who play female dominated sports, but in sports that are known to be male dominant such as basketball, they are l...

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... ralph magazine there is a lot of articles on sporting achievements lately around the world or interviewing athletes. In this months issue of ralph they interviewed Damien Martyn from the Australian Cricket team and Boxer Ricky Thornberry. Damien Martyn is asked about different stuff he has achieved in the past couple of years and Ricky Thornberry is interviewed about the different types of ... ...

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... department is that the women's volleyball team cannot take off their shirts in the gym. I cannot count the number of times I have seen the male basketball players play with their shirts off; there is not a rule against it except in a game during their season. Furthermore, as exemplified in "Fiero," women ... surely trying to shed the stereotypes. In the building that I coached the girls in, there were two gyms. In one gym, boys were playing basketball and in the other gym, we held the volleyball clinic. The boys were loud and rowdy, while in our gym, we had to threaten the ... men and ...

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... begin to group students together for activity. One instance is that of boxing out in basketball. The skill calls for the one boxing out to push out with their butts against the other player. This at the middle school level is not appropriate for the girls and boys to interact in. Their hormones just ... a boy with a girl at Buck Lake and it was like I had made a kid eat peas for the first time. So the difference in elementary and middle school is just the reason why the boys don't want to be paired with girls. So in noticing that I feel that yes I was biased at the elementary level ... ...

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... boys at sport". Such ideals are learnt in later life as shall be shown by this essay. Up in the senior section of the school the situation was dramatically different to that which I had just witnessed. As soon was I arrived in the senior section I came across a ... basketball where there was any form of female presence and even then they were in an absolute minority. This leads one to the conclusion (without sufficient evidence) that unease of the opposite sex is a developed/learned thought process, as the younger children displayed no prejudice to the opposite sex. An interesting compar...

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... the society, femininity and masculinity are tightly bound to gender. Men are supposed to be masculine. They are expected to be strong, rough, to have high stamina. They are not supposed to wear skirts(the Scots are an exception) but trousers, and should avoid colors like pink and violet. These are ... we accept gender stereotyping and try to fit in the rigid models of feminine and masculine. For example, women athletes and especially tennis players and basketball players are afraid of losing their femininity. These sports are famous for the large number of gay players that are involved. B...

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... are just two of the many examples of male athletes having their athletic opportunities ripped away from them, forcing them to either transfer to another school or abandon the sport that they love. Some of these athletes are on scholarship, some are not. Since 1972, 170 men's wrestling programs ... a regulated bureaucracy, forcing schools to have an equal proportion of male and female athletes to male and female students enrolled in the school. So, say if a school has 40% males and 60% females, under Title IX they would be required to have 40% male athletes in their athletic programs ... ...

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... that they might not have been able to get absent scholarship funds. And unlike many of the male scholarship athletes who are in football and basketball, most of these women got real degrees and planned throughout to enter "real" jobs. While there are some professional opportunities for women in a ... IX. Today, more girls are encouraged to participate in sports and other activities. College is now a possible option in a young woman's decision for Post High School Plans. Now a job, beyond being a wife and mother, is well within reach. In my point of view, athletics are not the specific t...

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... it has caused, some would say, more harm than good. Women's rights advocates cheer the effects Title IX has had on women's sports in both high school and at the major college level. Other groups will say, however, that while women's teams and participation are up it is at the expense of men ... IX is to take football out of the equation entirely. I would do this for a number of reasons, first football does not cost money for most high school and college teams it makes money. Without football most schools would be unable to finance both men's and women's sports, thus making the argument of...

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... wage they can command from an employer. For example, someone with a college diploma can generally command a higher wage than someone who has left school with just a general equivalency diploma. The gender discrimination argument states that women are either forced into lower paid jobs or are simply paid less ... , and hence lose touch with their career, which makes them less employable. Though this factor is less significant today, with more pre-school services and at cheaper prices, it still affects wage rates. Although women make up 51 percent of the population and earn 56 percent of .....

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... Federal financial assistance. Title IX was approved with little opposition in 1972. After Title IX passed, the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) and high school administrators were certain that boy's sports would begin to downfall if girl's sports had to be funded equally and if girl's had to be ... or just not dealt with. In 1994 there was an amendment made to correct this problem to the Elementary and Secondary School Act. Colleges, universities and high schools were now forced to publish their expenses on male sports and female sports. This comparison of expenditures reve...

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... for the average American man to accept women in some sports. If a woman were to accomplish something usually only accomplished by men, then men would think that that woman has a high level of masculinity. Some men would also think that since the woman succeeded in a 'male's game,? the men would think that they aren't being as masculine as they should be ... , to androgynous people, like myself, they would not think of abiding by the so-called masculine things to do. Growing up as a child through high school, I was never actually into sports. My favorite sport at the time was basketball w...

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... however, three things needed to be done. First, a school must provide the athletic opportunities in which the students are most interested. If not as many men/women come out for the volleyball team as do for the basketball team, the volleyball team will most likely lose funding. Second, ... to receive their funding on the basis of a male to female ratio. Therefore, if there are forty-percent men and sixty-percent women in a school, then they shall receive assistance accordingly. Since the institution of this document, it has come under much scrutiny and has undergone various changes. In ...

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... ratio of interested participants. O'Beirne sarcastically compares the number of the usually low percentage of interested and participating female athletes to the outrageous funding for female sports based upon the school's female population. It can get outrageous - hundreds of men's programs have been eliminated, yet the effect of the sports dropping provides no evident benefits for women's sports teams. It ... yet the funding never really benefits a Title IX cause. O'Beirne's backs her argument with the ironic reality that one Florida high school is being pushed to recruit more female...

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... Courtney does also. She grew up in a nice semi-secluded area with woods all around. Her mother is a receptionist and her father works in construction. She went to a private-catholic high school and was treated differently when she attended there. She said, "people just look at you differently then public kids..., like I was of a higher class." By going to a private ... school, she was taught moral values. The only thing she didn't really know about was the real world, the school kind of covered that up. Growing up, she always had the things she needed. Nothing was ever handed to her, sh...

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... their male counterparts and other women, something that affects women negatively. Women are given a harder time in school and in the workplace. Now Since a lot of things have changed to accommodate women in school and in the workplace like Affirmative Action for Women. It seems as if the intentions were good but ... not it has sort of backfired on women. There are more women in school advancing further than boys and on the college level there are more women enrolled. This new breed of smart independent women is something that the ... oriented instead of book oriented, which will only m...

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... all do this. We judge a person by the simplest thing about them! Now, what if Malik had called. I would have thought he was a young black man, in high school, who probably plays football or basketball. We also make assumptions based on people's names because we know someone with that name, and we instantly make a connection. When I hear the name Jada, I think of Jada ... ...

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... walks into a department store and asks to see the little girl's section. The person is almost instantly bombarded by pinks, purples, and light pastel greens. Once a girl is of school age and is allowed to choose her own clothes, she will mostly gear toward the same exact color. All of the things a child is exposed to now is influenced by ... is if the child is only influenced to act in a specific way, with no exceptions. I was fortunate to have a very balanced childhood. I was taken both to ballet classes and basketball games. The children whose families are very traditional might also t...

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... now over in the NASCAR circuit hoping to do the same. Danica's purpose here is to prove she can be just as great a driver as the guys out there. In basketball we have women who play this sport, but they are considered the WNBA, not the NBA. There has yet to be a woman to play in the NBA. The subject has ... been brought up, though. In April 2013 an article from HLN stated that Brittney Griner of Baylor has been said to be one of the best women college basketball players ever, but the question is would she be good enough for the NBA (HLN Diaz)? Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban spoke up ...

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