Clean Up And Striking Out Analysis

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“Clean-up and Striking Out & Neat People vs. Sloppy People” In Dave Barry’s “Clean-Up and Striking Out” The author talks about and compares the difference between men and women. Barry talks about how women can see dirt and other dirty objects that men can not see and the same place a man just cleaned could still be dirty to a women. On the other hand Barry brings up how men feel very sensitive about sports while women are not very sensitive in that area. Which brings up the point that men and women do have their differences and will not feel the same way towards some items and activities. Which is why some activities sports are directed towards males and more sensitive areas are directed towards women. Which shows even more the differences …show more content…

These texts are similar in the fact that both authors will shows points and opinions from both sides that are being compared to each other. This is shown in Barry’s text on page 221 when he is talking about sports and says “...is sports.This is an area where men tend to feel very sensitive and women tend to be extremely callous”. Barry is showing the differences between the two groups by bringing up the point that men tend to be more involved with sports while women are most likely interested in another activity. The same form is seen in Britt’s text on page 215 when she is talking about sloppy people cleaning a desk and says “ Four hours or two weeks into the excavation, the desk looks exactly the same, primarily because the sloppy person is meticulously creating new piles of papers with new headings and scrupulously stopping to read all the old book catalogs before he throws them away. A neat person would just bulldoze the desk”. When Britt says that she is stating that sloppy people is just putting the papers in new smaller categories to keep because they care about what they have while the neat person just wants results and only cares about the desk being clean. Which is close to the same layout that Barry used to show the differences in men and

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