Deep Secrets] offers a surprising glimpse into the hearts of American boys, revealing a group of lonely young men who crave acceptance and belonging and deeply miss the friendships of their childhood...Compulsively readable...Way recounts the hundreds of interviews her team conducted in American high schools. The voices present are heartbreakingly authentic in revealing a pattern, a gradual drift away from "emotionally intimate same-sex friendships" with other boys and toward a destructive stereotype of manliness that perpetuate the false notion that "boys are only interested in one thing."
The stories that Way and her research team have persuaded boys to tell are a welcome corrective to the stereotyping of males as essentially unfeeling and/or incapable of communicating their feelings, which has been such a striking (and offensive) feature of recent discourse on gender differences. Way deserves our gratitude for bringing to the surface what seems lately to have become the deepest secret of all: that the needs, desires and feelings of boys and girls, or men and women, are at bottom far more similar than different.
Way's book should provide encouragement to parents wondering whether they are setting their children, especially their sons, up for abuse by encouraging closeness and defiance of gender stereotypes, particularly those concerning close same-sex friends. Way asserts that the need and ability for connection is as keen in boys as it is in girls, and she backs up her assertion with plenty of data and close reading of the literature. Connection is not something one needs to teach, as the author so eloquently demonstrates; it is something one needs to foster. The text is beautifully written, and the boys' stories are interspersed with explanations and discussion substantiated by the literature. A truly approachable piece of work for a wide audience.
Deep Secrets tells a story of American teenagers in baggy jeans and T-shirts, with a basketball under the arm, expressing extraordinary sensitivity and tenderness about their same-sex friends, and expecting the same in return. The disappearance of this gentle world, it seems, scars them for life, and appears to do extensive damage to the culture at large... In short, this is an extremely important book, a revelation in a way, and one of the most absorbing academic publications I've ever had the privilege of reading.
In Way's groundbreaking Deep Secrets, boys who have long been obscured by cultural myths come alive and let us all in on their most promising, most human dimensions. This is a book that should start educators and parents rethinking how we support our sons' lives.
Deep Secrets is a much needed and insightful book. Niobe Way rescues us from the simplistic view that 'boys will be boys' to reveal the depth of boys' emotional lives. From her careful and extensive research over two decades comes a compelling and memorable portrait of real boys' lives.
Way's moving analysis of the intimate lives of boys challenges the reader to reconsider many of the widely held assumptions about what it means to grow up male in America today. By sharing their stories of loss, their fears of rejection, their hopes and dreams of connection, Way introduces us to the world of adolescent males so that we can see them as they are and not as we may have imagined.
It was true, I found. And for a while, chasing pow at Pajarito became a Thursday routine for me. This was the early aughts, before the winters shifted and softened, before the mid- week dumps became less reliable, the seasons shorter, the days milder. In some recent years Pajarito has struggled to open at all. By 2014, rumors circulated that it was in danger of shutting down, which inspired a movement to save it.
In 1944, a group of lab personnel formed the ski club and launched the first work party, clearing brush and trees, a tradition that still continues. To open up runs, they removed the trees by wrapping explosives around their trunks. The club installed a $400 diesel-powered rope tow. A season pass cost $7.50. The club roster, which ran upward of 140 members, read like a history text: Oppenheimer, Fermi, Victor Weisskopf, Hans Bethe. The club even included Klaus Fuchs, the German- born theoretical physicist later convicted of supplying Manhattan Project secrets to the Soviets.
Deep Secrets of the EarthAloy explores the ancient ruins beneath the Citadel and unravels the unbelievable truth of Project: Zero Dawn.Level21TypeMain QuestGiven bySylensLocationThe Citadel
Sunfall
Zero Dawn Project Facility
Deep Secrets of the Earth is the seventeenth main quest in Horizon Zero Dawn. The ensuing storyline dialogue you will encounter in this mission can be by altered by completing several side missions and the Frozen Wilds storyline before prying open the wood panel covering the vent (when Sylens informs you it is a point of no return). Fully completing each of the following is known to create distinct changes:
After successfully infiltrating the Eclipse base and taking down their Focus network, Aloy makes her way to Sunfall, the Shadow Carja capital. There she hopes to find more answers about Elisabet Sobeck and Project Zero Dawn.
Entering the city, Aloy looks down from a balcony into the Sun-Ring where a number of Shadow Carja soldiers are attempting to handle a Behemoth. Sylens welcomes Aloy to the Citadel. In the courtyard, Aloy is ushered into the throne room along with a crowd of mercenaries who have gathered to hear High Priest Bahavas announce the day's bounties. As Bahavas announces a bounty on a man named Uthid, a woman approaches Aloy in the crowd, telling her that she wishes to meet with her in Shadowside. As the woman takes her leave, Sylens informs Aloy that the entrance into the Old Ones facility is behind her.
Scaling the rock formations, Aloy finds a covered vent on the other side of a tower. Entering through the vent and descending deeper into the earth, Aloy comes to the door of the facility. While her genetic identity is confirmed and access is authorized, there is a malfunction that bars the doors from opening. She authorizes an emergency venting procedure and the doors open, but a loud mechanical noise alerts the Shadow Carja Kestrels to something amiss in the ruin.
With little time to explore, Aloy begins exploring the Project: Zero Dawn facility. She enters a holographic theater and a message from General Herres of the Old Ones' U.S. Robot Command explains the true purpose of Operation: Enduring Victory. He reveals that Zero Dawn was not a top-secret superweapon program that would save humanity, as it was purported to be. In reality, the Faro Plague had become too advanced for it to be stopped, and the extinction of all life on Earth was inevitable. Operation: Enduring Victory was implemented purely to buy time for Elisabet Sobeck and her team to finish Project: Zero Dawn.
Continuing on to the next room, Aloy discovers that some Kestrels have entered the facility. After killing them and scanning the datapoints, Aloy continues on to find another theater with a hologram message left by Elisabet Sobeck who finally explains what Project: Zero Dawn is: a terraforming system controlled by an artificial intelligence unit called GAIA. Through GAIA and her sub-functions, the artificial intelligence would shut down the FARO robots and eventually reform the earth to re-create humanity. Aloy takes out more Kestrels and restores power to an ancient door to reach Central Projects.
After killing the waves of cultists that descend into the room, she heads for the second floor. As she passes through the vast rooms she is introduced to a few sub-functions of GAIA, learning their functions through holographic messages left by the Old Ones. She eventually comes to a room where Travis Tate explains the purpose of HADES; a failsafe system that would seize control of the terraforming system in the event that GAIA produced a world that was unsustainable or uninhabitable, deconstructing the world so that GAIA may try again. After learning about ELEUTHIA from a hologram of Patrick Brochard-Klein, Aloy deduces that All-Mother mountain must be one of the Cradles created to produce humans.
Climbing up the elevator shaft, Aloy comes to a room with a number of datapoints containing interactions between Elisabet and an early GAIA as well as Ted Faro. Prying open the door to Sobeck's office, Aloy finds and copies the Alpha Registry master file that will allow her access to the facility in All-Mother mountain. As Aloy and Sylens argue about her origins, more Kestrels descend outside the office, including Helis who throws a blast bomb. The explosion stuns Aloy, allowing Helis to approach her and knock her unconscious.
Some time later, Aloy awakens to find herself unarmed and unarmored, suspended in a cage above the Sun-Ring. Helis approaches, telling her that before she crashed the Eclipse network, he sent an order out to rally the Eclipse to invade the Sacred Lands. He then destroys her Focus. Now addressing the crowd, two Corruptors enter the Sun-Ring and begin corrupting a restrained Behemoth. Condemning Aloy to be the first of thousands to die, she is dropped into the Sun-Ring to face off against the machine.
When returning after completing the game through the Zero Dawn Alternate Entrance, the office will have been destroyed by an explosion, and it is possible that datapoints #33 and #34 will not spawn. When returning again later (e.g. after finishing the game and reloading the last save), the datapoints should be there, floating in the air in the office.
On Wednesday a tragic incident took place at the offices of the Family Research Council when a man opened fire and wounded a security guard. Details are still emerging about the alleged assailant (who volunteered at the DC Center for the LGBT Community), his state of mind, and his motivation for the heinous act, but one thing is certain: Violence is never justified in response to those who oppose us (and over 25 LGBT organizations and advocacy groups signed a statement stating this and offering their condolences).
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