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"Boys Don?t Cry" and Gender as a Social Construction, 2005.
Shows how themes and questions in the film "Boys Don't Cry" relate to gender and women's studies.
1,845 words (approx. 7.4 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 59.95
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The film "Boys Don't Cry" presents several themes, problems and questions that apply to and can also serve as examples for issues of women's and gender studies. The paper shows that it relates especially well to Judith Lorber's chapter of the book Feminist Frontiers, entitled "'Night to His Day': The Social Construction of Gender." The paper shows that both of these works, although certainly in very different ways and in different mediums, convey the message that gender as we know it today is simply a construction of society. Therefore, gender is not a simple classification created by nature or biology, but instead one that has evolved and been shaped to fit particular social needs.
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"However, there are identifiable differences between this film and Judith Lorber's "'Night to His Day'": The Social Construction of Gender." It seems that Lorber both strives to emphasize, and maintains as a thematic backdrop for her chapter, the inferior and subordinate position of the female gender in comparison to the male gender. This is a topic that Boys Don't Cry only subtly touches upon. She states, "when gender is a major component of structured inequality, the devalued genders have less power, prestige, and economic rewards than the valued genders" (46). Men have historically taken the role of the oppressor and women the role of the oppressed, which is certainly not a natural condition but a product of enduring social structures."
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'Boys Don't Cry' and 'TransAmerica', 2006.
An analysis of the films, "Boys Don't Cry", directed by Kimberley Peirce, and "TransAmerica", directed by Duncan Tucker.
1,575 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 0 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper examines the similarities in the films"Boys Don't Cry" and "TransAmerica". The paper explains that both films feature working class people, and the challenges of trailer park life--including the sexual stresses placed on vulnerable young people living in an environment where the walls, if they even exist, are thin. The paper also points out that both films are also both road movies, though this is more obvious with "TransAmerica" than with "Boys Don't Cry." Finally, the paper points out, what is most obvious about both films, that they are both films about transsexuals.
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Film: "Boys Don?t Cry", 2005.
This paper analyzes the film "Boys Don't Cry", directed by Kimberly Peirce, a true story about a transgender female who wants to live as a male.
1,400 words (approx. 5.6 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 46.95
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This paper explains that, in the film "Boys Don't Cry", Brandon Teena, played by actor Hillary Swank, born a female living in Lincoln, Nebraska, desires to fulfill the need to fit into her surroundings as a male without any interference or confrontation while living her transgender lifestyle; from the beginning of the film, this is no easy task. The author states that it is exhilarating to watch Brandon Teena prevail over traditional bedrock notions of femininity, to see him present himself not as a tomboy or "tranny", but as an 'ideal' heterosexual male. The paper reflects that the film proves that gender is performative, expresses male dominance as well as the power of the phallus and relates that the lifestyle of transgender individuals in rural mid-America is a dangerous one.
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"The location in which the movie had taken place seems to be that of everlasting suffering. It was clear by Lana Tisdel (played by Chloe Sevigny) that she hated the area in which she lived. Noting that she has a mother who is a drunk, and a violent and possibly abusive ex-boyfriend, it is no wonder why. Although at the time, Brandon's feelings about the same place are completely different, he mentions that he is from Graceland and offers Lana to join him someday. She gladly agrees and hopes they can run off together in the near future. Falls City Nebraska can be a signifier for hell. The name Falls has the connotation of being below or underground. Graceland has an opposing effect, sounding heavenly and free. Sadly, the only time the characters in the film have a remotely decent time is when they are intoxicated, driving, or both. Note that when they are driving, note that driving can be seen as an escape or not presently in Falls City."
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"Boys Don't Cry", 2002.
A review of the 1999 film "Boys Don't Cry".
890 words (approx. 3.6 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 31.95
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This paper analyzes the film "Boys Don't Cry" created in 1999, which explores how we identify gender and differentiate between the masculine and the feminine. The paper describes the story of the female Teena Brandon who masquerades herself as the male Brandon Teena. It illustrates visually that identity as male and female actually involves only a relative few visual and aural cues. The author writes that society does not tolerate that much freedom and that those who step too far outside the gender boundaries society has set are destroyed. The paper demonstrates how gender is not the only issue being tested in this film, for ideas about small towns, tolerance, and the threat of the outsider are also examined.
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"The film Boys Don't Cry (1999, Kimberly Peirce) is based on a true story and raises numerous real-world issues in its story of a murder case in middle America in which the victim was a girl who successfully passed herself off as a boy. The film delves into gender issues, questions of identity, and the ethics of interpersonal relationships. First, the viewer asks why so many people were fooled for such a long time by this masquerade."
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Film: "Boys Don't Cry", 2003.
This paper examines the film "Boys Don t Cry" from his theoretical viewpoint.
1,380 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 47.95
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This paper interprets the movie "Boys Don't Cry" using the personality theory of Erik Erikson. The author presents a brief synopsis of the movie and an analysis of its main character, Teena Brandon. The paper concludes that, based on Erikson's conceptual framework of personality and psychosocial development, Teena has an issue of identity diffusion.
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Human Rights in "Boys Don't Cry", 2005.
A look at the movie 'Boys Don't Cry' highlighting the various human rights violations throughout the story.
1,350 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 1 source, $ 53.95
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'Boys Don't Cry' has a basis of truth. Teena Brandon, the leading character, is a woman who longs to be male. She binds her breasts and uses a prosthesis to achieve this goal. As the story unravels, Teena is murdered by her lover. Murder is believed to be the definitive violation of a person's human rights. This paper takes a look at this human rights violation, as well as others that are portrayed throughout the movie.
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"The movie Boys Don't Cry is based on a true story. The main character, Teena Brandon, is a woman who wants to be a man. She binds her breasts and uses a prosthesis to "become" a man. Under this guise, Teena, or Brandon Teena, as she prefers to be called, lives the life of a man. Through a course of events, Teena meets Lana, with whom she begins a relationship. It is this relationship that ultimately ends with her rape and murder. It can be argued that murder is the definitive violation of a person's human rights. For that reason Teena has been selected as the main focus for this paper. However, other human rights issues appear in this movie as well. These issues will be discussed as they relate to the end of Teena's life. "
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"Boys Don't Cry", 2003.
Examines issues raised in the 1999 movie.
1,800 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 2 sources, $ 63.95
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Discusses diverse social problems depicted in the film that require social, legal, and political support. Describes the plot of the film as based on the true story of a young woman with a sexual identity crisis who passes as a man.
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"This paper is an examination of some of the issues raised by Kimberly Peirce's 1999 movie, Boys Don't Cry, and possible political organizing strategies that might be effective in dealing with them. This devastating film, based on a true story, suggests a..."
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"Man's Search For Meaning" and "Warriors Don't Cry", 2004.
A comparative analysis of the books "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals.
849 words (approx. 3.4 pages), 0 sources, MLA, $ 30.95
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This paper discusses how the books "Man's Search For Meaning" by Viktor Frankl and "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals are comparable on many levels. It looks at how both deal with oppression of a group of people because of religious and/or ethnic differences. It examines how Frankl's novel is a recollection of his experiences in the Nazi Death Camps during World War II, and how he found a way to survive not only physically, but mentally as well. It also looks at how "Warriors Don't Cry" is about Beals' experience as one of nine black children to be integrated into Central High School in 1957 and the persecution that she and her fellow classmates faced.
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"When the school year ended for Melba, as well as when the prisoners were liberated from the camps, happiness was not all of the sudden restored, but it was an emotion that had to be relearned in both situations. On page 310 in Warriors Don't Cry, Beals states, "It would take years of sorting out my Central High experience before the pieces of my life puzzle would come together and I could make sense of what happened to me". The trauma that Melba and her fellow black peers had experienced robbed them of all emotion that could be connected to the situation. In order to stop the pain, they blocked out feeling all together. "
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"Warriors Don't Cry", 2001.
This paper analyzes the book "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Pattillo Beals.
2,000 words (approx. 8.0 pages), 2 sources, $ 63.95
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This paper looks at the book "Warriors Don't Cry" which is the story of a young African American child who was one of the first who forced racial integration into the Little Rock school system. The writer analyzes how the book, which is written through the eyes of a child, helps people realize the stupidity of their bigotry.
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"?We are not these bodies, we are spirits, God?s ideas,? Grandma India explained to Melba Pattillo Beals one afternoon as they tended Grandma?s garden of four-o?clocks. ?You don?t want to be white, what you really want is to be free, and freedom is a state of mind? (6). It was perhaps those words of wisdom spoken to a child only six years of age that helped create the courage that would one day be needed by Melba to fulfill her destiny. Melba Pattillo would, ten years later, be among the first Black children to attend and help integrate Little Rock?s previously all-White Central High School."
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?Warriors Don't Cry?, 2002.
An examination of the warrior theme in Melba Patillo Beals' book "Warriors Don't Cry".
1,344 words (approx. 5.4 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 45.95
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May 17, 1994, marks the fortieth anniversary of the Brown vs. Board of Education ruling, which was argued and won by Thurgood Marshall, whose passion and presence emboldened the Little Rock struggle. The paper examines Melba Patillo Beals commemoration of the milestone decision in her first-person account of the violent confrontation that helped shape the civil rights movement. In "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Patillo Beals, Beals? depiction of racism in Little Rock, Arkansas, reveals that she was not only a student during the Civil Rights Movement but also had to be a warrior who fought against segregation in the South. By examining Beals' memoirs, the paper shows how her real life experiences, particularly her experiences with desegregation, closely approximate the idea of a warrior.
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"In the beginning, the element of the warrior in Beals is directly related to the desegregation of her high school in Little Rock, Arkansas. In the book, there were two things that saved Beal when she walked in Little Rock High. One was the landmark 1954 Supreme Court ruling, Brown v. Board of Education, which "brought the promise of integration to Little Rock, Arkansas"(55). Yet, the ruling only paved the way for integration, the real battle was hard-won for the nine black teenagers chosen to be the front line in the desegregation of Central High School in 1957. These teenagers had to fight a battle that was both civil and governmental, fighting against a rampaging mob and the heavily armed Arkansas National Guard, dispatched by Governor Orval Faubus to subvert federal law and bar them from entering the school. The second thing that saved her was when President Dwight D. Eisenhower responded, "by sending in soldiers of the 101st Airborne Division, the elite "Screaming Eagles,"(177) which transformed Melba Patillo Beals and her eight friends into reluctant warriors on the battlefield of civil rights."
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"Warriors Don't Cry", 2005.
A look at the emotional narration, which occurs in "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Patillo Beals.
1,570 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 2 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper is an analysis of the success of the author, Melba Beals, in her accuracy and skill in the depiction of the events of the integration of Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, decades ago.
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"You can almost feel the sweat in your palms, hear the curses ringing in your ears, and feel the footsteps on the ground behind you pattering as you anxiously read the autobiography of Melba Pattillo Beals in Warriors Don't Cry. Beals does an excellent job of not only accurately portraying the history of the integration of Little Rock's Central High, but creates a strong emotional attachment with the nine young children who were the first to enter the all white school. There are no newspaper articles of that era and location that could possibly develop the story quite as well as in this book."
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"Warriors Don't Cry", 2002.
Discusses this book by Melba Patillo Beals, focusing on the theme of warriors.
1,650 words (approx. 6.6 pages), 8 sources, $ 62.95
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This paper will deal with the warrior theme in "Warriors Don't Cry" by Melba Beals. By analyzing the different perspectives that make a warrior in the memoirs, we can see how Beals is not only a student during the Civil rights Movement, but is also a warrior who must fight against racism.
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"Warriors Don't Cry", 2002.
An analysis of this book by Melba Neals on racism in Arkansas' high school system.
650 words (approx. 2.6 pages), 1 source, $ 26.95
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This paper will discuss the book" Warriors Don't Cry", by Melba Neals and seek to understand the basis for this book about high school. By revealing the character's basis for this work, we can see what the struggles of this book tell us about the author. By realizing that there were two promising elements that kept Beal alive during the race integration of Arkansas, we can see how she grew to be a mature woman whom could see through the hate that surrounded her life in the story.
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Boys and Reading: Gender Stereotyping, 2008.
A discussion on the underperformance of boys when they learn to read in comparison to girls.
2,469 words (approx. 9.9 pages), 11 sources, MLA, $ 75.95
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This paper discusses the underperformance of boys at reading and language skills in comparison to girls. The essay provides a critical exploration of the issues in the debate, and argues the thesis that the underperformance of boys at reading and language skills in comparison to girls is a consequence of systemic gender stereotyping in our society as a whole.
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Introduction
Boys and Reading: The Critical Context
Boys and Reading: The Stereotype
Boys and Reading: What Can Educators Do?
Analysis
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"Among contemporary teaching professionals, one of the most compelling issues of our time is that of the underperformance of boys at reading and language skills in comparison to girls. This is a particularly controversial issue, as it follows upon a very similar concern in the discipline some years before regarding the underperformance of girls in particular subjects. Moreover, as any review of the literature on the subject will reveal, the complex and controversial issues of gender stereotyping, and how we as a society understand, construct and/or shape masculinity, lie at the core of the debate."
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?Boys Will be Boys?, 2002.
A review of the book ?Boys Will be Boys? by Myriam Miedzian which discusses the issues of gender in American society.
1,490 words (approx. 6.0 pages), 0 sources, $ 49.95
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This paper examines the book ?Boys Will be Boys? by Myriam Miedzian which discusses why boys in contemporary America society turn to violence so often. It looks at how Miedzian finds that what we call male behavior is accepted in society as the norm, as if males were violent by nature and so had to act out certain rituals as part of their genetic heritage. It examines how, although Miedzian believes that males are born with a certain predisposition toward violent behavior, external factors such as better parenting and education do have an effect. It compares the views of Miedzian to that of other biological theorists on the evolution of traits in mankind.
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"The author finds that this all derives from a view that males are born with a certain predisposition toward violent behavior. As a group, males are more prone to violent behavior, but those who actually exhibit violent behavior seem to be suffering form one or more disabilities, such as learning disabilities, brain injury at birth, maternal alcoholism, and so on. Some see a domineering mother as a cause of violent behavior in the next generation, but the author believes the absentee father is another cause, whether that father be physically absent or merely uninvolved in the raising of his children. Many also believe that males make poor child-nurturers and that if they did involve themselves more in the raising of children, those children would come out much worse off than they do at present. The author argues with this conclusion as well."
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