Anytime anyone is about to have a baby the first question is "Is it a boy or a girl?" People ask this question because there is a difference between the two genders. Several are curious to know whether the baby will turn out to be a sweet young lady or a strong young man. Even as children, the distinctions are obvious and stand apart. A young girl may ask a boy "What's that?" A young boy may ask a girl "Where's yours?" This is their first step towards self discovery. Everyone knows there is a difference but no one ever stops to see how many there truly are. There are numerous reasons why someone has become the gender they are, which is why the two appear different. Various people have been in the fight for equality over the years, they argue that even though we are all so different we can all be treated in the same way. In spite of the need for equality among men and women, there are still many differences, such as, body image, mate selection, sexuality, and stereotypes.
In selecting a mate, women look at different attractions than a man would. According to Rachel Herz, women are greatly attracted to the way a man smells and is typically one of the first things a woman looks for when selecting a mate. As a first impression, women want to be put into a daze or mesmerized by the individual they have come into contact with. Gender is not the only factor that a woman looks for when selecting a mate. Many women go deeper and search for things, such as, race, ethnicity, age, and good providers (Our Bodies 186). These affect many women by the importance they bring to a relationship. Typically women are looking for someone that they can spend their lives with, therefore they look for the qualit...
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The first main factor that is said to influence gender is biology. “Nature doesn’t give a flea’s hind leg for our social theories, fads, fashions, political ideologies and other nutty ideas with which people preoccupy themselves (*). This quote explains the argument on the side of biology. People who support this ideology believe that the major biological differences between males and females must most greatly influence our gender development because of their numerous studies.
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“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost shows the reader how the choices they make will be hard decisions and will follow them. The setting of this poem takes place in the woods, in the fall. The woods will typically be a quiet and serene place making the setting an ideal place for decision making. The setting also helps to show the symbolism that Frost shows by describing the two paths. Frost uses pathos when appealing to the reader’s feelings because any reader has had to make a decision in their life. Creating this symbol helps to relate to the reader. The Imagery that is created helps to make the reader feel as if they are standing in the snowy woods, looking down two paths, and trying to make the decision of which one to take. Frost used
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Author Gabriel Garcia Marquez, displays the significance of an allegory through the narration of the fantasy story. There is no definite allegory for the readers to specify on by the way Marquez wrote this short story. In the story “A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings”, an old man with enormous wings is discovered by Pelayo, who found him behind his courtyard while killing crabs. This old man speaks in a language that Pelayo and his wife, Elisenda, cannot comprehend. They both assume that the old man was sent from the heavens to take away their child. Pelayo and Elisenda keep the old man their chicken coop overnight and later find out in the morning that the old man had become an attraction in their neighborhood. This draws in the local priest, Father Gonzaga to determine whether or not the old man could be an actual angel, but Father Gonzaga concludes that he does not speak Latin, therefore not an actual angel, and explains to the crowd how the devil uses this disguise to deceive the people that are not informed and aware. In spite of the father’s conclusion about the old man, he draws more attention from people all around and Elisenda charges people to see him. People began to throw stones and brand him like he is some sort of a farm animal to be labeled and separated from the rest. When a freak show arrives to the town, the crowd leaves the old man to hear about a story of a spider-woman, who had been cursed for disobeying her parents. Pelayo and Elisenda had made a copious amount of wealth from charging the crowd to see the old man with wings. After years has passed on, the old man with wings eventually regains his strength back and decides to fly off into the sky as Elisenda watches him disappear into the horizon o...
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