Mens rea

The ability to understand male role models and their effects on a young boy creates for a more intelligent understanding as to why boys act the way they do. While examining the movie Boyhood, directed by Richard Linklater, and the entry “Boyhood” by Eric Tribunella, manhood is defined by “the ability to dominate, care for, or exercise power over others”, while “to be a boy means to be flawed, inchoate, or incomplete” (Pg. 22). These two sources together both offer various views on what boyhood…

their adulthood. This affects many single dads because when approached by certain kinds of people, they are usually in awe when finding out that they raise their child all on their own. Stereotypes about men being uninterested in children stem from the fact that life will be easier and amusing when men aren’t tied down to any long-term responsibilities. On a popular social networking site known as Twitter, which allows people to tweet, or send their thought and ideas publicly online, Ashton…

STEM schools used to be acquired by men, but the traces of male preference in these fields continues to exist today. In Michael Kimmel’s Guyland, he argues that young men ages sixteen to twenty-six develop behaviors of hypermasculinity as a group in an effort to denounce feminism. However, the transition to maturity that happens afterwards as claimed by Kimmel does not take place as seen today. In America today, STEM fields display similar male attributive views as they appear in Guyland. STEM…

The Bosket men were like seeds that never took root anywhere because the anger, bitterness, and society saying they were bad kept them running. Once slavery was abolished, slaves had no home to call their own, no money to take care of themselves, no formal training but working the white man’s land. Once again violence was perpetrated; therefore, the whites lost their livelihood they had been accustomed too for hundreds of years. White’s anger was directed towards blacks but the reason slavery…

blatant theme in the novel All Quiet on the Western Front. The group of eighteen year-old boys that introduced at the beginning have no idea of the hardships and brutalities of war that are to come for these young men. Following their exposing to battle and the front, the boys have become men. They are no longer naive and innocent before their deployment. The theme is also shown with the protagonist, Krebs, in the short story “Soldier’s Home.” Krebs is home on leave, and does not have passion…

Udana flows upwards. By performing virtuous deeds, men are carried to virtuous worlds. By sinful acts (men are) carried to sinful worlds. By combining both kinds of karmas (virtuous and sinful acts) verily (men are) carried to human dimension. Through virtuous work (self effort, sadhana, discipline and a positive sankalpa) Udana can be raised upwards and when it rises above Manipura Chakra, liberation and Moksha can be attained. Sinful act refers to conflicts, desires, ambitions, passions, etc.…

Are there rules to being a man? Anything specific you must do? What even separates a man from a boy? Even in today’s society we still question still “what does it take to be a man?” in the essay “Bros Before Hoes” Michael Kimmel does his best to attack these questions and attempt to find an answer to these questions. Many of the responses he receives are very general and kind of common sense, with males ranging from the ages of sixteen to twenty six. He decided to create the “Real guy top ten…

was his. The thought of the paternity of the child still occurs today, which is overly consumed by society. There are so many shows on television today that are mainly about men not having control of the sexual behavior women being that they are not married such as Jerry Springer, Maury. The majority of the shows are about men taking women to…

more and more men begin to mow their lawns all across that neighborhood. It is human nature not to want to be out done by one another. One man beings to clean up his lawn and those around him begin to follow. From that image comes a theory, the mowed lawn theory, that if one person or a community were to outwardly change that the people and areas around them would look at their mess and want to change their ways as well. How does this effect the epidemic of fatherlessness? What causes men to…

This study is geared toward young men whose fathers abandoned them. The study talks about the role of the father during a stage called separation-individuation. According to (Eliezer, 2012), in this stage the father, “encourages the child to tolerate situations of frustration and demonstrates…