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This slam poem by Nadire Bringas talks about the pressures society puts on gender. Being a girl or boy defines who you must be and how you must act. Boys, like Jody, must push down their emotions and become this man that they aren't. Girls, like Janie, must allow themselves to conform to society and follow all the strict rules of what to talk about and how to be feminine. "Standards don't like to be ignored." Just like the porch sitters, they don't like to be ignored, but Janie ignored them and followed her dreams of love and when she came back fulfilled she let them go wanting to know but not telling them. Janie became stronger than society's ideal of her.

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In this TED talk Tony Porter talks about his life experiences of being a man and what he was taught women were. Men were taught that women are objects, especially sexual objects, and that men must have the power and be the ideal image of a man. Jody was the ideal mayor, strong, smart, and a leader, however he tried to fit into the man box too much, not accepting that Janie is a person, not an object he owned. He did not let Janie know how he felt, he did not talk to her, he only ordered her and expected he to follow him.

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At TEDWomen, Tony Porter makes a call to men everywhere: Don't "act like a man." Telling powerful stories from his own life, he shows how this mentality, drummed into so many men and boys, can lead men to disrespect, mistreat and abuse women and each other. His solution: Break free of the "man box."

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This is a book review article on the book Sex Matters that talks about the difference of genders and how these should not be ignored, but accepted. Women are more empathetic than men, and choose different paths for their lives, such as family over work. When Janie and Tea Cake moved to the Everglades Janie stayed home and made Tea Cake meals, however when he asked her to come work with him for the company, she went without question, not because he told her to, but because she wanted to be with her husband, her family, and didn't mind the hard work just to be with Tea Cake. Women

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This poem is about the experience Naomi Shihab Nye had at an airport one time. The acceptance everyone showed at the gate was rare and special to her. Just like how the Everglades felt to Janie. Tea Cake and the many others who moved in the Everglades were accepting and full of love and happiness.

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This short story written by Jamaica Kincaid is a lecture from a mother to her daughter about all fo the things she must learn and giving instructions bout what it is to be a woman. Throughout the story the mom talking tells and we can infer she is showing the girl, how to do many ladylike and some unladylike things for her to become a respectable woman. This relates to how Nanny would tell Janie what love is and how love comes with marriage.

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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou is a poem about the hope of freedom and of the pain of captivity. African Americans were the bird, caged, tied up, only able to dream of their hope and freedom. Even after they were released from slavery, they were still caged and not given the freedom to follow their dreams as much as white people were able to.

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Maya Angelou, "Caged Bird" from Shaker, Why Don't You Sing? Copyright © 1983 by Maya Angelou. Used by permission of Random House, an imprint and division of Penguin Random House LLC. All rights reserved.

Source: The Complete Collected Poems of Maya Angelou (Random House Inc., 1994)

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Caged Bird by Maya Angelou | Poetry Foundation

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This TED talk done by novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, is about how a single story is not enough to know the truth about any one thing. During this lecture she talks about how she learned that people only knew the stories they were told about Africa and they made up a single story for themselves without knowing the truth. Just like the porch-sitters in Their Eyes Were Watching God, they didn't know Janie like they thought they did and they only knew the story of how she ran off with a younger man and came back very changed. The single story they believed wasn't the truth and Janie knew that, but acceptd that it wasn't their fault for

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: The danger of a single story

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Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice -- and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.

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In this article, the author talks about the meaning of white privilege and how it can be helped. The author described white privilege as the power of "Normal," "Benefit of the Doubt," and the "Power of Accumulated Power." These powers are the problems of white privilege and the author gives real life examples that are very relevant today.

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