Summary: “Why Does the Taking Here?” In Deborah Tannen’s article “Why Does the Taking Here?” published The Washington Post, she discusses current research that men and women who talks more. The article demonstrates there are differences between women and men that the terms of when and where they speak. Tannen claims that these new studies about women and men talks, its more focus on counts the word that they use. She argues that this is not right research because it did not consider how each…
In the 1850s slaves in the south endured extreme hardships, not only from working all day in the fields but also because of the abuse they received from their master. In particular, female slaves were treated more harshly than the male slaves because some of these women were abused and raped by their masters. Celia, A Slave is a book written about a fourteen-year-old slave who was abused by her master, Robert Newsom. Once Celia decided she had had enough she fought back by killing Newsom. While…
There are different sports that women are worthy of a real competition, demonstrating their hard work and talent equally against the men. Sports should be seen as a competition of all gender and not a single gender sport. There are some sports organizations that separated the male and female into two different associations. For example, WNBA, which is Woman’s National Basketball Association as opposed to NBA, which is National Association Basketball. Some people believe that a female doesn’t…
Psyc 4400: Cognitive Psychology Homework 2 Cognitive Psychology Related Topic: Gender Differences in Creativity Reference 1: Newman, S. D. (2015). Differences in cognitive ability and apparent sex differences in corpus callosum size. Psychological Research, doi: 10.1007/s00426-015-06883 Reference 2: Gong, G., He, Y., & Evans, A. C. (2011). Brain connectivity: gender makes a difference. The Neuroscientist, 17(5), 575-591. doi: 10.1177/1073858410386492 Reference 3: Abraham, A. (2015). Gender and…
Though often called the Koala “bear,” this cuddly animal is not a bear at all. It is a marsupial, or pouched mammal. After giving birth, a female Koala carries her baby in her pouch for about six months. When the baby emerges, it rides on its mother's back or clings to her belly, accompanying her everywhere until it is about a year old. Koalas live in eastern Australia, where the eucalyptus trees they love are found. In fact, they rarely leave these trees, and their sharp claws are absolutely…
An ongoing controversial, yet discriminative issue exists within the United States. For years, females have been unfairly mistreated in the workforce, as they claim to be victims of the ill-famed gender income gap. The gender stratification of income causes females to be paid significantly less than their male counterparts, regardless of their educational attainment and occupation. It is tremendously a difficult situation to be a female currently residing in the United States. Just because an…
virtue –i.e. after the authenticity of his ‘he’- is questioned by his behavior, Orlando sleeps and wakes up to find himself a woman, gazes at her nude self in the mirror, shifts her gaze directly to the audience, and says “same person, just a different sex”…
My report is about brown bats. There are two types of brown bats. They are called Big and Little Brown Bats. I learned that they are nocturnal animals. That means they are active at night and sleep during the day. Brown bats sleep up to 20 hours per day. The life span of the Big Brown Bat is 18-20 years while the Little Brown Bat lives 6-7 years. If you go looking for brown bats you will find them in big colonies. Big Brown Bats and Little Brown Bats are similar because they are both…
Fashion in the 1920s changed society in many different ways. The clothing choices people made changed how their peers saw them. For example, women's sports attire adapted the more boyish look: they wore wool pants, thick stockings, flat oxfords, a button-down shirt with a collar, and a black tie ("What Did Women and Men Wear in the 1920s?"). The boyish look that women were wearing affected society because men were upset that women were dressing in a similar way. Not long after female athletes…
The Social Climbers In the animal kingdom monkeys are one of the most intelligent beings that reside here on planet earth. From their opposable thumbs to their large brains that improves their cognitive ability and overall inquisitiveness makes them quite incredible creatures. One of the monkeys that was depicted within the video “The Social Climbers” was that of the Pygmy Marmoset. This incredible creature is said to be the smallest monkey at all. The Pigmy is so small that their size…