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A Real Boy in the Story of My Time at Camp Malibu (1085 words, 2 pages)

A Real Boy "My baaaaaack! My aaaaarm! Ooooow!" The distorted moans tore me from blissful slumber to the horrible living nightmare I thought I had escaped when my head hit the pillow. This was my first night of hell on earth, and the worst was yet to come. The invitation ... Read More

A Book Report on Song of the Buffalo Boy by Sherry Garland (1205 words, 3 pages)

this is another Book report I did for my sister. This one was written for a 8th grade calss so don't go giving it to your junior english teacher. I don't remember the questions I had to answer in this one, but you should be able to figure it out ... Read More

An Overview of the “Old Boys” Club at the Top of the Corporate Ladder (2178 words, 4 pages)

At the top of the Canadian Corporate LadderRiaz JogiyatWith the turn of the century approaching at lightening speed, the "Old Boys" corporate club remains intact since it first began more than a hundred years ago, during the great expansion of the industrial revolution. It is a club reflective of a ... Read More

An Analysis of John Crowe Ransom’s Poems “Dead Boy” and “Janet Waking” (1208 words, 6 pages)

Vivienne Koch (1950)Ransom begins to take possession of another order of the fabulous. This is the fable ofchildhood, childhood viewed asinnocence, as a necessary condition to knowledge which corrupts, and which is difficultand tragic in its essence. The ultimate,permissive grace given to this kind of knowledge is most luminous in ... Read More

An Analysis of Athol Fugard’s Drama “Master Harold”… And The Boys (974 words, 1 pages)

Athol Fugard's drama, "Master Harold" . . . And The Boys, was written during a time of great conflict in South Africa, where he was raised. Fugard was torn between his mother, who was "Afrikaaner," (1291) and his father, who was "of English decent" (1291). These differing influences caused Fugard ... Read More

Theme of Intolerance in the Text “Master Harold”… And the Boys by Athol Fugard (634 words, 1 pages)

"It's a bloody awful world when you come to think of it. People can be real bastards." (Hally, pp. 15)"Master Harold"... and the boys by Athol Fugard, is an informative text about the relationship between Hally, a 17 year old white boy, and Sam and Willie, two black men. As ... Read More

The Effect of Boy Scouting on the Lives of Young Men in America (413 words, 1 pages)

Boy Scouting has effected the lives of many young men between the age of twelve and eight-teen. Over one million boys have been effected in America alone since 1910 when Boy Scouting was incorporated. But the story of Boy Scouting started before 1910.The Story begins in 1844, when the YMCA ... Read More

This Boy’s Life by Tobias Wolf: Behavioral Problems of Tobias Caused by the Lack of a Father (479 words, 1 pages)

Looking deeper into the story This Boys Life by Tobias Wolff, we can see the impact of growing up with one parent and the effects of not having a father. Growing up without a father can cause several behavioral problems and have a long-term impact on a childs life. In ... Read More

An Overview of the Group of British Boys in the Novel Lord of the Flies by William Golding (2064 words, 3 pages)

Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that a group of British boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters showed different effects on certain individuals under those circumstances. Jack Merridew began as the arrogant and self-righteous leader of a choir. The freedom ... Read More

The Story of an Insolent Teenage Boy in William Cather’s “Paul’s Case” (569 words, 1 pages)

Pauls Case, by Willa Cather, is about an insolent teenage boy who lives completely in a fantasy world. Some may say that a little fantasy never hurt anyone, but Paul takes his dreaming over the line. In Pauls mind, something registers as either extraordinary or wretched, and never is there ... Read More

A Brief Life Story of a Scottish-Irish Boy Who Grew to Become the Secretary of War in Monroe (542 words, 1 pages)

A boy of Scotch-Irish descent, whose ancestors had settled in Pennsylvania before travelling through mountains to resettle in southern territory, he was born in 1782 in the Abbeville district of South Carolina on March 18. His family was not rich, nor were they poor they owned slaves and were regarded ... Read More

The Adaptation of Boys to the Isolated Society in William Golding’s Novel “Lord of the Flies” (2278 words, 3 pages)

In his first novel, William Golding used a group of boys stranded on a tropical island to illustrate the malicious nature of mankind. Lord of the Flies dealt with changes that the boys underwent as they gradually adapted to the isolated freedom from society. Three main characters depicted different effects ... Read More

The Untamed Spirits in Savage Girls And Wild Boys, A History Of Feral Children by Michael Newton (2814 words, 3 pages)

Savage Girls And Wild Boys A History Of Feral Children by Michael NewtonIn the years since the fall of communism, as the social fabric of Russia fell apart, street children became a common sight in Moscow and St Petersburg. Like the homeless in London, they were both ever present and ... Read More

A Literary Analysis of a Strange Boy by Paul Magrs (731 words, 1 pages)

Strange boy, stranger point-of-viewStrange Boy by Paul Magrs (224pp, Simon Schuster) The publicity for this novel has made much of the fact that it has a gay theme. Or else that it doesn't it's hard to tell. The book's editor says, disingenuously "Some people will doubtless pick up on the ... Read More

An Introduction to the Savage Girls and Wild Boys: A History of Feral Children by Michael Newton (904 words, 1 pages)

Born to be wild Savage Girls and Wild Boys A History of Feral Children Michael Newton 192pp, Faber The Upside-Down Man, the Boy With Owl Eyes, the Fork-Tongued Fraulein, the Champion Face Slappers - the kinds of miracles, freaks, monstrosities and almost-impossibilities that used to appear in Robert L Ripley's ... Read More

The History of Feral Children in Savage Girls and Wild Boys by Michael Newton (979 words, 2 pages)

Little monsters...Savage Girls and Wild Boys A history of feral childrenMichael NewtonFaber 12.99, pp192'Feral' is one of the great Australian adjectives - a term of affectionate abuse, but also a taxonomically exact definition of the state of nature in all its rank wilfulness. Every time I go there, I hear ... Read More

A Review of Strange Boy by Paul Magrs (435 words, 1 pages)

Children's book features gay boyA mainstream children's books publisher has released a novel aimed at teenagers that features a 10-year-old boy's experiences of homosexuality. Strange Boy is thought to be the first "gay book" aimed at the youth market since the Thatcher government introduced the Section 28 legislation to prevent ... Read More

Brief Review of the Books The Boy Who Lost His Face, Fake, Across the Nightingale Floor, In the Middle of the Night, Memory, Strange Boy, and Life on the Line (934 words, 1 pages)

Falling pants and other worries'Her green eyes were looking right at him. "You want my phone number?" "I guess," he said. He stretched again. As he raised his arms, the drawstring on his trackpants became untied and his pants fell down. In one motion, he turned, pulled up his pants ... Read More

A Story of a Girl Fast Approaching Her Adolescence and Her Inability to Cope at First in Boys and Girls (907 words, 4 pages)

Wild HorsesAlice Munro has a history of writing stories that demonstrate the changing and shifting of relationships in a world perceived as chaotic and unforgiving. "Boys and Girls" is nodifferent. This story isn't merely about a girl watching a horse die. This is about a girlfast approaching her adolescence, and ... Read More

The Symbol of Fox in the Story of Boys and Girls by Alice Munro (428 words, 1 pages)

The title of the story by Alice Munro, Boys and Girls focuses on girls coming of age. Munro uses the symbol of a fox to depict girls transition through life. The symbol of the fox in the story is very critical. First, Munro places the child on a fox farm ... Read More

A Review of Boys and Girls by Alice Manro (880 words, 2 pages)

BOYS AND GIRLSAlice Munro's short story, "Boys and Girls," is a story of the way of life in the 1940s, where men and women had specific roles controlled by gender. They were expected to learn those roles as children and conform to them as adults. As the title suggested, males ... Read More

A Look at the Development of Masculinity in Boys Through Sports (1105 words, 2 pages)

Boys to Men How Boys Develop Masculinity Through SportsAs an eighteen year-old student athlete at Skyline College, I am fortunate enough to witness the significant role that sports play in developing more masculinity in young men. Masculinity pertains to the qualities traditionally attributed to the ordinary male, such as boldness, ... Read More

An Introduction to the Importance of Women in Society and Various Boy Bedrooms (1041 words, 2 pages)

For centuries, women have been fighting to achieve the same position in society as men. The women s role at home has changed now the female is no longer just a housewife. Instead, women are professionals who spend most of the day at work. These days, each family member, including ... Read More

Why the Boys Were Doomed to Fail in Lord of the Flies (675 words, 1 pages)

Why the Boys Were Doomed to FailLord of the Flies, William Golding's first novel explores the themes of adolescence, man's inhumanity to man' and failure of small societies to succeed when individuals act out of personal desires rather than out of recognition for the common good'. In the beginning of ... Read More

An Overview of the Movie Boys Don’t Cry Directed by Kimberley Peirce (794 words, 4 pages)

BOYS DON'T CRYStarring Hilary Swank as Teena Brandon.Directed by Kimberley Peirce.In 1993, Brandon Teena, a teenage drifter who was famous locally for romancing the females in Falls City, Nebraska, was found shot dead in a farmhouse just out of the town. But Brandon, despite his reputation with females, wasn't actually ... Read More

An Analysis of the Case against CEO of Bad Boy Entertainment Sean Puffy Combs (600 words, 3 pages)

A jury acquitted Bad Boy Entertainment CEO Sean Puffy Combs and bodyguardAnthony Wolf Jones on all charges brought against them, after a 1999 shooting in anightclub in Midtown Manhattan that injured three people.The verdicts finally ended a seven-week trial that produced the spectacle of two worldsin conflict the gray bureaucracy ... Read More

The Life of the American Black Community Portrayed in Black Boy (688 words, 1 pages)

Black Boy is both an indictment of American racism and a narrative of the artist's development. As a child growing up in the Jim Crow South, Richard faced constant pressure to submit to white authority. However, even from an early age, Richard had a fierce spirit of rebellion. Had he ... Read More

An Analysis of Bricklayer’s Boy, an Essay by Alfred Lubrano (694 words, 1 pages)

UnderstandingIn a world of many different opinions, understanding one another is difficult, but possible. Maybe not always a full understanding, but at least a partial understanding. In order to reach this understanding people must first have a tolerance for one another. Second they must experience what the other person is ... Read More

A Summary of Black Boy, a Book by Richard Wright (1807 words, 7 pages)

Black Boy I. Summary Black Boy by Richard Wright is an autobiographical look at his life. It covers his life from the ageof 4 years to his mid 20's. The book shows the life of a young black man growing up in the southwith Jim Crow laws and the general ... Read More

A Story of Three Boys Who Chose the Wrong Path in Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan (961 words, 2 pages)

Steven SimonsCrossroadsThe paths people choose to follow throughout life come with happiness and some regrets. Greasy Lake by T. Coraghessan Boyle is a story of how three boys chose the wrong path for themselves and had to learn the hard way. They chose the path that everyone else had chosen. ... Read More

Published: Friday 25th of January 2013