Finnys like yea cause how gay is gene
Massive Study Finds No Single Genetic Generate of Same-Sex Sexual Behavior
Few aspects of human biology are as complex—or politically fraught—as sexual orientation. A clear genetic link would propose that gay people are “born this way,” as opposed to having made a lifestyle option. Yet some apprehension that such a finding could be misused to “cure” homosexuality, and most research teams own shied away from tackling the topic.
Now a new analyze claims to dispel the notion that a single gene or handful of genes make a person prone to same-sex behavior. The analysis, which examined the genomes of nearly half a million men and women, found that although genetics are certainly involved in who people select to have sex with, there are no specific genetic predictors. Yet some researchers question whether the analysis, which looked at genes associated with sexual activity rather than attraction, can tug any real conclusions about sexual orientation.
“The message should continue the same that this is a complex behavior that genetics definitely plays a part in,” said study co-author Fah Sathirapongsasuti, a computational biologist at genetic testin
I had an English assignment in which we were supposed to read a book and write a paper on said publication, comparing our thoughts with a scholarly source’s thoughts. I wrote my folio on the homosexual subtext between Gene and Finny in A Separate Peace (great book, would recommend), and I thought some of you might be interested in a closer look at their relationship.
This was an analytical English paper, so my apologies that it isn’t very personal, and more formal than most of my writings. The first half is my opinions, and the second half is Yale’s James Holt McGavren’s opinions.
His paper can be found here: http://www.westga.edu/~mmcfar/mcgavran.htm
Warning: MAJOR spoilers below. Do not peruse if you don’t yearn to know how the book ends.
The novel A Separate Peace by John Knowles is a coming of age story narrated by Gene Forrester, who visits his old academy and recounts his foremost friend’s death 15 years later in an strive to make peace with the event. This was my second time reading it, and I discovered that there is more than meets the eye with this book. Knowing the end, any examples of foreshadowing became painfully obvious, and I f
Not long ago, I had a conversation with a Methodist minister who was lamenting the recent schism in the once “United" Methodist Church. He explained that this split had come about over a disagreement about whether to accept LGBTQ persons into their congregations.
“So, is there really a gay gene?” he asked.
“Well, yes, sort of,” I replied. “But it’s complicated.”
As University of Toronto (Canada) psychologist Doug VanderLaan and his colleagues explain in an article they recently published in the journal Archives of Sexual Behavior, science now clearly shows that people are born with their sexual orientation. Many people assume that if a trait is something we're “born with,” it must be genetic—but in reality, it’s not that simple.
On the one hand, traits can be determined by multiple genes, such that a single trait may have any number of genetic causes. On the other hand, the way we come out of the womb is determined as much by conditions inside the womb as they are by our genes. That is, the presence of particular hormones during prenatal development, as well as the reactions of our mother’s immune system, can have a big influence in shaping who we are.
Sex, Sexual Orientatio
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Review of A Separate Peace
Copyright © by Dan Schneider, 1/13/06
A Separate Peace is a 1959 novel by John Fowles that is reputedly considered a classic. Why this is must have petite to do with the actual novel and more to do with the fact that it is in the Lord Of The Flies/Catcher In The Rye mold of taking vapid youthful white bread males and making them seem interesting. In a sense this is anti-PC before the concept of PC arose, and by anti- I mean that in the sense of opposite, not against.
The novel begins with Gene Forrester revisiting his Devon boarding school in New Hampshire years after graduating to reflect on incidents that occurred during the school year of 1942-43, when he was sixteen years old. We learn of Gene’s love and dislike for his finest friend Phineas, an outgoing risk taker, who soon becomes a tiresome rebel without a produce. Finny creates a Suicide Society that he heads alongside Gene, whose membership is based upon jumping out of a tree into a river. If this smacks of a bad Dead Poets Society you are right, to a degree. Finny is then obsessed with his and Gene’s jumping from a tree into a lake. This is dangerous beca
The Secret of A Separate Peace
Slate’s Fred Kaplan had just published his marvelous book on the year 1959 when I ran into him this collapse, and asked him if he’d considered mentioning A Separate Peace, alongside Lolita and The 400 Blows and Advertisements for Myself and Kind of Blue, as one of the cultural productions that made ‘59 a “Year That Changed Everything.” He only chuckled, and shook his head. Once required reading–it has sold north of 8 million copies– A Separate Peace is now little more than a harmless keepsake from that part of 1959 that stayed 1959, a occasion when one could still be adolescent, white, privileged, and gay and not know it.
The novel, by John Knowles, tells the story of World War II breaking into and destroying the prep college idyll of two adolescent boys, Gene and Phineas. Theirs is a earth of marble staircases, Latin masters, and the closet, that place into which the mutual longings of Gene and Finny are sent to hide out, perhaps even from the awareness of their retain author. It’s not exactly Truffaut or Nabokov, but A Separate Peace deserves memorializing on its 50th anniversary, for the very reason it is drifting, slowly but surely, in
B306-DES246
Review of A Separate Peace
Copyright © by Dan Schneider, 1/13/06
A Separate Peace is a 1959 novel by John Fowles that is reputedly considered a classic. Why this is must have petite to do with the actual novel and more to do with the fact that it is in the Lord Of The Flies/Catcher In The Rye mold of taking vapid youthful white bread males and making them seem interesting. In a sense this is anti-PC before the concept of PC arose, and by anti- I mean that in the sense of opposite, not against.
The novel begins with Gene Forrester revisiting his Devon boarding school in New Hampshire years after graduating to reflect on incidents that occurred during the school year of 1942-43, when he was sixteen years old. We learn of Gene’s love and dislike for his finest friend Phineas, an outgoing risk taker, who soon becomes a tiresome rebel without a produce. Finny creates a Suicide Society that he heads alongside Gene, whose membership is based upon jumping out of a tree into a river. If this smacks of a bad Dead Poets Society you are right, to a degree. Finny is then obsessed with his and Gene’s jumping from a tree into a lake. This is dangerous beca
The Secret of A Separate Peace
Slate’s Fred Kaplan had just published his marvelous book on the year 1959 when I ran into him this collapse, and asked him if he’d considered mentioning A Separate Peace, alongside Lolita and The 400 Blows and Advertisements for Myself and Kind of Blue, as one of the cultural productions that made ‘59 a “Year That Changed Everything.” He only chuckled, and shook his head. Once required reading–it has sold north of 8 million copies– A Separate Peace is now little more than a harmless keepsake from that part of 1959 that stayed 1959, a occasion when one could still be adolescent, white, privileged, and gay and not know it.
The novel, by John Knowles, tells the story of World War II breaking into and destroying the prep college idyll of two adolescent boys, Gene and Phineas. Theirs is a earth of marble staircases, Latin masters, and the closet, that place into which the mutual longings of Gene and Finny are sent to hide out, perhaps even from the awareness of their retain author. It’s not exactly Truffaut or Nabokov, but A Separate Peace deserves memorializing on its 50th anniversary, for the very reason it is drifting, slowly but surely, in