Emails

From: Evan Lahmer
To: Ryan Brodbeck
Subject: Baby Shower

Hey Ryan, I’m not going to be able to make it to the baby shower. It seems as though I have come down with the flu and went to the hospital and although I am feeling better I probably won’t be back in time to come to the shower. Sorry. Let me know if anything else happens sometime so I can come over, thanks.
Evan Lahmer

Mr. Jaynes,
Hi I am Evan Lahmer and I am asking for an extension on my paper. I have been in the hospital for quite a number of days and it seems that with all the work I am missing and with the days in the hospital and not being able to do much, I am not able to finish the paper that I had been working on before that. I should be able to get it done in the next day or two.
Thank you,
Evan Lahmer

In the first message I wrote a more laid back and not as formal of a letter because of the fact that I knew the person very well and I was his friend telling him that I would not be able to come as opposed to the more formal letter to Mr. Jaynes telling him of why I haven’t been in class and that I need an extension. This second letter is more serious and I would be following this up with the final paper which is a bigger deal than not going to a party. The reason I did this is because I feel a paper is much more important than going to a friend’s baby shower and it affected me much more than it would’ve affected my friend.

Eugene August Summary

August, a teacher of English and Chair of Humanities at the University of Dayton has been examining and researching sexism. This research has been directed towards men and how they have been a subject of generalizations. We find this article in Men's Studies: A Selected and Interdisciplinary Bibliography published in 1985. The main point that August is trying to convey is how language is used to break down and victimize men and their social standing as written in the preface of the article. August believes that the media and the educational aspects in life are teaching the wrong things by what kind of language is used to portray men and their role in society. Eugene uses the media in a big way to counterpoint his argument that men are being singled out by the way certain words are used. He first starts off by talking about how men are in domestic abuse cases and how forms of rape all lead back to women being the victims. In the definition of rape as stated by a college brochure, it says " rape is THE universal crime against all women." These kinds of statements fail to mention the other men in the world that are actually victims of rape. August also blames Gender Feminists for the type of generalizations that males are getting because they have the most influence over the media and the type of education each person is receiving about this issue. To go into this assumption by August he uses three types of anti-male language. These words are misandry, androphobia and patriarchy. All of these words are used as being on a woman's side of view and can relate back to hatred of men. August then concludes his argument by stating what could happen to the male when this hatred and stereotyping keep happening.

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