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red why I pos- tions with my 503 ealization that MASCULINITY: A LEGEND IN YOUR OWN MIND 5 we are. And GOD, I FEEL POWERFUL DESPITE THE FACT ones included THAT I’M UNABLE TO EXPRESS EMOTIONS, HAVE NO RELATIONSHIP WITH MY BODY, of those words AND THIS GET-UP IS CRUNCHING MY BALLS. the feminine it is usually nd an attack effeminate” rld in which guys on one or any of us e do we see GOMEZ. GUYS’ CLUB: NO FAGGOTS, BITCHES, OR PUSSIES ALLOWED t is a threat n, who am THINK nd gender, AGAIN ed, how do The truth ly learned 1 then saw 65 d craved why Brent arrassed. never be toic? And “? I real- nanhood J a game THINK AGAIN (David John Attyah and S.A. Bachman) www.agitart.org of power an just Elementary School in west Philly, where we had a thirty-minute conver- selves. sation about why the word “faggot” was wrong. I want to ask those kids given questions and challenge them, try to break down some of the growing, to my still-forming hate in their chests, force them to ask the questions their kiss or parents and siblings and teachers are allowing them to gloss over, to on and make sure that they don’t live in a world like the one we do now. muni- I want a different world for my children than the one in which ds like painted nails create a public outcry. at six-
502 TRUE WOMEN AND REAL MEN UT everything-first contact, sex, the relationship. I wondered why I pos- tured and doted and acted in ways that, after the revelations with my friend, had seemed contrived and programmed. On the bus ride home after one of my visits, I had the realization that straight men strategically use certain words to police who we are. And three staple words at the center of that enforcement are the ones included in the title of this chapter: faggot, bitch, and pussy. All three of those words share something in common: Men use those words to devalue the feminine. That day I first recognized how homophobia, although it is usually directed toward other men, is, ultimately, an indictment and an attack on women. Gay men, accurately or not, are often called “effeminate” or “girly” or other names that connote femininity. In a world in which gender is socialized to exist in drastic binaries- with tough guys on one side and dainty ladies on the other-where is there room for any of us to be who we are? Furthermore, and more to the point, where do we see anything associated with women given value? To have the power of patriarchy and then to surrender it is a threat to all men. When I am not the overbearing, all-powerful man, who am I? When there is a fluid, changing spectrum of sexuality and gender, where actions aren’t prescribed and roles aren’t all but scripted, how do know what to do? The truth is, we have no idea what to do. The truth is, only when we move away from what we’ve subconsciously learned can we ever truly find and know who we are. That’s why I felt lost in Zambia. I felt lost and confused, and then saw 65 a change in myself. It’s why I felt liberated and opened up and craved the connections I made while I was there. It may have been why Brent and I woke up mid-kiss, both of us confused, flustered, and embarrassed. Masculinity is a choke chain. It is a suffocating bar that can never be met. How can every man alive be the toughest? And the most stoic? And the most brave? And the most powerful? And the most “manly”? I real- ized with my once-lesbian friend that my aspirations toward manhood had been a riddle for my own destruction. I was willingly playing a game I was destined to lose. We all are. By buying into the illusion of power afforded by patriarchy, we as heterosexual men do far more than just oppress women and gay men-ultimately we are oppressing ourselves. Ele I want more than this narrow slice of humanity I’ve been given sat permission to taste. I’m tired of not being able to show affection to my qu brothers and friends. I’m tired of feeling self-conscious when I kiss or stil hug my father. I’m tired of feeling like I have to hide my emotion and pa my sensitivity. I’m tired of being stigmatized for wanting to communi- m cate and express myself. I’m tired of needing to throw hurtful words like “faggot” or “bitch” or “pussy” around to prove that I’m a man. pa More than being just tired, though, I wish I could speak to that six- year-old version of myself with beautifully painted nails, that I could be standing in that square in Toledo where my aunt, uncle, and cousin E Mauricio used to live in Bogota and hear those kids yell “; Maricon!” (which means “faggot” in Spanish) at the top of their lungs. I wish I could circle up the group, like they were one of my classes at Drew
ng up at me as though is face. This twenty-eight-year-old girl who helps me,” he began. ” Can is climbed into my heart .” to get my bearings. you believe in my years all I wanted was dick And now this womall ing to piece it together 40 I tell that story to say , “Who the fuck knows ?” Sexuality is a finish n. And then I was over changing spectrum of experience and impulse. Who knows? Maya in myself. When I’m seventy I’ll be gay. Or bi. Or who knows what I hope thank d to ask, as neutrally when I’m his age , I have the same courage to follow my heart. I think rything it could not to gender . we can all learn from his story. Which brings me to another example Wloser to my own experiences that challenges not just sexuality but also till felt caught in a haze. While living in New York just after college, I developed a friendship ity. He very gingerly with a woman. I always thought she was gorgeous but knew that she to give me permission was into women. Everything about the way she dressed and moved and 5 LO GOMEZ. GUYS’ CLUB: NO FAGGOTS, BITCHES, OR PUSSIES ALLOWED um he thought I might acted reinforced my own stereotypes about where she landed on the everyone, and him, for sexuality spectrum. Over time we got closer and more open with each other. She told me that she had dated one guy in her life, briefly, while derstanding or explain- 45 she was in high school and still figuring out her sexuality. Besides that lone exception , she had only been with women . to men at all. At least, ation I can give,” I told Finally one day she confronted me. “You’re not into me, are you?” I was thoroughly confused. My kinda butch, lesbian friend is 55 attracted to me? And I had to admit, what fucked with my head hedging on something. further-I was very attracted to her. This woman who said “fuck gen- my face, I could see his der” and spoke and moved like men I knew. Like I did! Ultimately, thing I was saying was though, it didn’t matter to me. I had always been attracted to her but, hing that morning. Was long before this talk, I had accepted the fact that she wasn’t into guys. was trying to break free? “Uh . . . I’m confused. I’m definitely into you. But I thought you my entire life? weren’t into guys?” I asked, trying to get some footing. h. Sexuality is just one “Fuck it. It’s beyond gender. I like you,” she said smiling, as though ment of kinetic energy she were reluctantly conceding something. In the months we saw each other, I felt challenged by her in how can it be explained by I saw gender and sexuality. Friends and classmates of hers at her uni- I about sexuality. And I versity viewed her as “queer,” many of them identified similarly, so you my best friend, nor had I should have seen the looks we got when she told them I was staying over for the night. Suddenly she was breaking the rules. She was the and more powerful-did Latino with the white mother tucked away somewhere. I could see the s an expression of some- nods and betrayal in people’s eyes: They didn’t like seeing the walls ness I craved that I had they knew breaking down. t to connect to my other Sexually, things between us were amazing but complex. I could 60 vnrossion of desperately tell that she was the one who was used to being in control. Some of our hook-ups were like wrestling matches, as I struggled to submit and receive, while she became self-aware, and maybe even self-conscious like me, of her own need for dominating. There were so many narra- tives and energies playing out every time we took off our clothes. I felt is seventy 50 both daunted and exhilarated by the explorations that we shared. Our times together made me rethink what I took for granted in Bes. One day terms of sexuality and gender. I wondered why I was always the one to ” I’m in Initiate in my relationships with women. And I mean initiate in terms of

23.. Which of the following sentences correctly follows the rules of punctuation regarding dialogue? A. “Which of you,” she asked, “is going to the store with me?” I said that I would go if we could be back by six. B. “Which of you,” she asked, “Is going to the store with me?” I said that I would go if we could be back by six. C. “Which of you she asked is going to the store with me?” I said, “that I would go if we could be back by six.” D. “Which of you,” she asked “is going to the store with me?” I said that, “I would go if we could be back by six.”

i need an analysis for the poem the shark by Edwin john pratt
•The poem’s theme
•Its meaning and context
•Its use of figurative language
•Its rhythm
and what each stanza stands for and its meaning.

In Suzanne Nossel’s “The Pro-Free Speech Way to Fight Fake News”, What problem does Suzanne Nossel identify for free speech advocates in paragraph 2? Why do you think she believes that free speech advocates should defend fake news despite its potential to spread falsehoods?

. POETRY
Two ample women, somewhat past their primes
(the man between lost in his Daily Times)
Discuss their friends for all the world to hear
Some seats away a gallant says,”My dear”
to a strange girl who glares at him.Uncowed
he prattles on, oblivious of the crowd
On every side there’s animated talk
On the state, on love-down to the price of pork
Some stare through windows, hating all the noise,
Stern faced, like masters angry with their boys
The fop uneasy with the tramp beside
Fidgets and sighs and shifts from side to side
A bus stop now
Sighs and farewells, legs and baskets
Jostle in greatest confusion
The queen without stampedes and rushes
to increase the babel within
“Way please! “get in!”Abi na Wetin”
“Ouch you’ve hurt my toe!”
Time up! The conductor presses “Go”
The hubbub continues. “What does he care?”
The more the noisier, but the richer the fare!
a) What is the message of this poem?
(4 marks)
b) Explain the sarcasm in the line
-down to the price of pork
(2 marks)
c) Contrast the characters of (the man) and the gallant.
(2 marks)
d) Identify and explain two voices in the poem.
(2 marks)
e) Describe the character trait of the conductor.
(2 marks)
f) Identify and illustrate the use of synecdoche in the second stanza of the poem.
(2 marks)
g) Why are the last two lines in the poem significant?
(2 marks)
h) What is the tone of the poem?
(2 marks)
i) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrases
(2 marks)
i) The hubbub
ii) Prattles
4 a) Rewrite the following sentence as instructed.
(4 marks)
i) But for my father’s prompt action, I would be dead by now.(Begin: Had it ______________)
ii) I am sorry you missed lunch.(Begin: I regret__________)
iii) As soon as the meeting ended, the impatient members walked away.(Use :Hardly___________)
iv) He gave her the expensive watch. (Rewrite in the passive voice)
(b) Complete the following sentences using appropriate prepositional phrase made with the word in brackets.
(3 marks)
i) Tourists crossed the river_________a boat.(means)
ii) _______________our constitution, children are protected .(accordance)
iii) _____________the lawyer’s negligence, he was fired.(account)
(c) Use the correct form of the words in brackets in the sentences that follow.
(4 marks)
i) It_________ (cost) three thousand shilling a year.
ii) The news came as a ____________to the whole nation.(reveal)
iii) His reckless remarks _____________everyone present.(fury)
iv) The parcel had__________(lay) there uncollected for a week.
(d) Rewrite the sentences below, replacing the underlined words with one word with the same meaning. (4 marks)
i) I talk for granted you are the new teacher.
ii) The government has done way with taxes.
iii) The disease is able to be caught by contact.
iv) The magistrate found him guilty of failure to fulfill his part of the contract

“Once I am sure there’s nothing going on
I step inside, letting the door thud shut.”
What feelings are evoked by the word
thud
?
How would the meaning change if the speaker let the door
slam
shut?
Write down five different verbs which express the closing of a door and a specific feeling that each verb evokes.
“Twenty bodies were thrown out of our wagon. Then the train resumed its journey, leaving behind it a few hundred naked dead, deprived of burial, in the deep snow of a field in Poland.”
In this selection, Wiesel never refers to the men who die on the journey as men. He refers to them as
bodies
or simply
dead
. How does his diction shape the reader’s understanding of the horror?
How would the meaning change if we substituted
dead people
for
bodies?
Change the italicized word in the sample sentence to a word that disassociates the reader from the true action of the sentence.
Fifteen chickens were
slaughtered
for the feast.

(1) There are
three main functions
of a thesis statement. Choose one of the best answers that is NOT of these main functions:
A) Claims something specific about the subject
B) Provides arrangement of ideas
C) Narrows down the subject to a central idea
D) Explains the similarities and differences between two subjects
(2) Choose the best answer that defines an
argumentative thesis statement:
A) The author conveys his purpose
B) The author aims to convince the readers of something
C) The author explains something to the readers
D) The author wants to address a problem and propose a solution
(3) Where should the thesis statement be
organized
in a formal essay?
A) Last sentence in the introduction
B) First sentence in the introduction
C) First sentence in the conclusion
D) Last sentence in the first body paragraph

All of the following are correct punctuation of an interjection
except
_______
Huh? What was the announcement?
Yikes! Are you OK?
Well, what happened is what we expected.
Oh you didn’t have to pay for me.
Which sentence is correctly punctuated?
Many companies now sell their products and services online; on the other hand, some companies focus exclusively on in-house sales.

2. In context, the discussion of “owehzhee” in the second paragraph suggests that the narrator a. sees an attractive appearance as the best way to resist authority b. believes that men like Shamengwa have no reason to be vain c. dislikes and disapproves of men being preoccupied with their looks d. understands and sympathizes with Shamengwa’s attentiveness to his appearance e. shares Shamengwa’s focus on keeping a youthful appearance

“Money”
By Reginald Gibbons
What is the speaker tone in Money?
In “Money,” which details suggest the nature of the children’s’ lives?
– How do these details CONTRAST with those that describe the people at the door?
3-Is the speaker simply describing a situation or is the speaker criticizing something?