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Essay Instructions: Drawing from the video (Tough Guise http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3exzMPT4nGI) Discuss current popular culture and how it relates to the video. For example- you could find a tv show, character or film that embodies the "tough guise." Describe your pop culture source and specifically what you are drawing from in the video. You are welcome to use anything (in pop culture) you can relate to this video- but please make sure you using examples and drawing off the main points of the video. This paper is 3 pages double spaced.

Essay Instructions: Reaction Questions on Tough Guise



1.What is the tough guise? What is the role of race and class in creating the tough guise?
2.In what ways is the tough guise necessary for men today?
3.How do the media contribute to the tough guise?
4.Can the tough guise be used to explain why men commit a much larger number of crimes than women?
5.What role do women play in promoting the tough guise?
6.Is there something else that might help explain the higher rate of crime committed by men that the film fails to consider?
7.Considering the violent reality portrayed by the film, is there anything that can or should be done to address male violence? Who should be responsible for altering this pattern of behavior, and how would this plan be implemented?
8.This film is concerned with explaining the unequal distribution of violence by gender. Do you think its ideas could be used to address other forms of gender inequality? Why or why not? What, then, can or should be done to address these other forms of inequality?

Essay Instructions: I need a VERY critical reflection on the following documentaries:

about 1 and half page critical reflection on each documentary.

1.) Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
2.) GENERATION M :Misogyny in Media & Culture
3.) Killing Us Softly 3: Advertising’s Image of Women

all documentaries are available free online and on youtube

please use soft vocabulary in the paper. No really big words.

Essay Instructions: Essay question is as follows:

Using Michael Kaufman's "The Construction of Masculinity and the Triad of Men's Violence", Michael A. Messener's "Boyhood, Organized Sports and the Construction of Masculinities", and the film "Tough Guise", explain the construction of masculinity and how that relates to what Kaufman calls the "Triad of Men's Violence".