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The United States Marine Corp does not claim to have mere soldiers, but warriors. A Marine is the warrior of the United States Armed Forces. In boot camp the warrior is trained to fight and kill without thinking, pure instinct.
The Webster Comprehensive Dictionary International Edition says: war-ri-or (wor'e-er, -yer, wor'-) n. A man engaged in or experienced in warfare; one devoted to a military life.
Is The Webster Comprehensive Dictionary International Edition sexist? Are the editors: Fredrick G. Cassidy, Albert H. Marckwardt, and James G. McMillian, all professor's of English, sexist? Are all men, to a certain degree, sexist?
The Citadel is a South Carolina, a state funded, university that has a large Marine Corp ROTC program. Four women joined the male cadets last year, an event that was forced upon the all male 154 year old military based college by a Supreme Court ruling. This ruling declared the all male admission policy, at the state supported Citadel, was unconstitutional. The battle against coeducation began in 1993, when the school mistakenly accepted Shannon Faulkner; thinking she was male. The war was waged so fiercely, and with such ill will, that when Faulkner withdrew after less than a week, the victorious screams of the other cadets was shown on national television.
Why is it that these male cadets and their leaders are so against the integration of females in the school. According to Bem Sex Role Inventory, people perceive some characteristics as more masculine than feminine and some as more feminine than masculine. Individuals who respond to the scale indicate which items are and are not characteristic of them. People tend to adopt sex roles that are traditionally masculine, traditionally feminine, both, or neither. The male characteristics were amongst others: leader abilities, dominant, forceful, aggressive, and willing to take risks. The female characteristics on the other hand were; gentle, tender, warm , and compassionate. According to Bem, males who express the masculine traits, are more likely to be violent and aggressive, than others who did not express these traits as typical for males. The military wants its "warriors" to be aggressive, forceful and willing to take risks in order to survive battle. People who are drawn to the military and especially the Marines, are therefor more likely to poses these traits. This would explain the attitudes of the cadets at the Citadel. They are more than likely prone to express masculine traits, and believe that ...
In today's competitive society, a person strives for perfection, due to the fact that so much emphasis is placed on one's outer appearance. No matter who we are or where we live, society puts this pressure upon us. We are typically faced with this pressure by models on television and in magazines. Companies seem to have targeted women more so than...
As a teenage girl in Cairo, Egypt is locked away in her home, studying madly for a upcoming high school exam. A teenage boy rushes down the fields of Brazil handling a soccer ball and his future. Another teenage boy in Rajasthan, dessert in Northwestern India is guided seven times around a sacred fire as a custom to cultural marriages. Some teenage...
No it isn't I personally learned a lot from watching television. I think it matters what kids watch, and how much of it per day. I learned to read from watching PBS (Between the Lions and Reading Rainbow were two of PBS' best shows), not to mention other skills like basic math, grammar, etc. Added onto the channels like History Channel, Discovery...
Disaster on NASA and the Future of the United States Space Program? This was the major question proposed during the late 1980's. What was the future of NASA going to be after this terrible disaster? Would there be enough funding for the continuation of the United States Space Program? This Challenger explosion was one of the major catastrophes of...
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