To what extent does the film Billy Elliot manage to challenge masculine stereotypes? In Billy Elliot, people at that time were so conventional that they strictly divided what things man could do and what things women could do. Once a man do the thing belong to the other gender, he would be strongly opposed and would be regard as abnormal. Ballet, a very skilled and artistic dancing with carefully planned movements, was definitely considered a female activity. Unfortunately, our little Billy was instinctively fascinated with it. Undoubtedly, he encountered a lot of difficulties in pursuing this ballet dream. Billy’s first obstacle was himself. Living at that time, influenced by the environment of homophobia, he was afraid to be regard as a faggot. Many times he refused Mrs. Wilkinson and her daughter to come to practice dancing claiming that it makes him look like a sissy. But his desire to dance overwhelmed everything. He began to learn ballet stealthily and stole a book to practice at home. Maybe there was a coincidence important to his determination to dance. His friend Michael dressed in female look at home, and was not embarrassed while Billy occasionally ran into it. Apparently Billy was startled at the beginning. But actually he didn’t feel disgusted about Michael which he thought he might do. Strangely, he accepted Michael’s odd hobby instead of pushing him away. From then on, he came to realize that everyone would have some rum secrets, and it doesn’t mean that person is abnormal or perverted, it’s all natural. Thus, he resolved to pursuit ballet regardless of the masculine stereotype because he could convince himself that it was not his fault to love ballet. And at the end of the movie, the extraordinary leap of adult Billy is the best rebuttal to masculine stereotype. Then, as typical male characters as Billy’s father and brother, they are so masculine that at first they were strongly against Billy’s idea. They are miners whose lives were full of hardship, which cultivated their tough characters. But it doesn’t mean that they didn’t love Billy. Without job and income, Billy’s father still gave him 50p each day to take boxing class, wish he could be as masculine as him. What he had is so called “tough love”. Since his father Jack saw Billy dancing in Christmas’s Eve, he knew what ballet meant to his son, he realize how much his son love dancing, and he decided to support him even if it cost a lot to make his dream come true. This comparison exactly showed how much he love Billy. Eventually, kinship conquered masculin

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punctuality and flexibility Nowadays, an alternative system to rigorous observance of punctuality seems inevitable as the conflict between people's demand for punctuality and the various handicaps preventing them from punctuality grows tense. It is intelligible that companies require their staff to be punctual, but a company being ruthless to its employees on punctuality is likely to disappoint them, for after all, we are human beings, and there are something out of our control like an accident on the way to work or an emergency call from a loved one. From this point of view, to maintain the loyalty of the staff, companies ought to take initiative to make a change. Above all, a flexible time system may become the best choice for some companies to substitute the set time system. However, it doesn't mean that the staff can choose when to go to work unbuttonedly. Of course the majority of their working time is overlapped so that they can conduct the work that needs corporations. The flexible time system just suggests a compatible mode for those who fall into unexpected, unavoidable incidents. Compared to the rigid observance of working schedule, the flexible time system allow employees to come to work not that regularly thus work in a less stressful circumstance. Employers will benefit as well because in a sense, employees would be grateful heartfeltly which contributes to their positiveness and efficiency at work. By and large, it takes mutual repects and understandings from both parts to create a harmonious working environment and finally make a big fortune. In addition, there are other approaches to change such as postponing the working hours to avoid the rush hours or houlding a video meeting if someone fail to be present.Anyway, the main point is: to make the company hummanized, thoughtful, and appealing to the employees.

Reading Recently, I have been reading Rebecca written by Daphne Du Maurier. I often suspect that Maxim's marrying "me" was not out of his love but something else. And maybe the story will end with sorrow. It occur to me that when I was reading The Comfort of Strangers, the plot of the story is so unreasonable that I can't understand the author's purpose until coming to the ending. (ps, plz recommend some English books for me to read, thanks~)

A Rainy Day Today I went to one of my roommate's house with other two one and she cooked a delicious meal for us. Although it rained so heavily and I got a headache on the bus which led to my vomiting on the way, most of the time we really passed with big pleasure. I even tried to cook a dish which is my hometown's specialty. We all got stuffed before finishing all the dishes. Afterwards, we hung up around the suburb in Hangzhou and went shopping at the square. Now it's late in the evening and I am so tired that I must go to bed...