Boys vs Girls Essay

My Father’s Dragon is a story told from the viewpoint of a son describing a heroic adventure of his father as a young boy. The father meets an alley cat who describes how he can rescue a sad baby dragon trapped on Wild Island. With the help of the cat and quick thinking, his father is prepared to meet the wild beasts of the island. This book would be fantastic in a 3rd-grade lesson about sequencing and inferencing. The students can describe context clues and follow the timeline of the story to…

The Great Snowboarder So one day a boy named Evan 16 yrs was hanging out outside with his friend Nathan 16 yrs. All of a sudden they hear a big noise. BANG ! “What was that?” Nathan said. “i don't know,” said Evan. They both went to the highway where the noise came from and they saw two cars severely damaged, so they tried to see if the people were ok. They weren't ok and they were very hurt. Evan ran back to the house and to get the truck. He got back right away and they loaded the hurt people…

Fishing “No!!” I screamed as I saw my dad’s fishing bobber fly off the line and land on the other side of the murky, dirty pond. His last words I heard echoed in my mind “Don’t break or lose anything on my fishing pole please Emma, you are responsible for it.” My friend Liz ran over to me, she followed my gaze to where the bobber landed in the water, she didn’t say anything. “I tried to tie my Dad’s bobber on, but as you can see I didn’t do very well. I have to get the bobber,” I said with a…

All stories have conflict, a good side fighting the evil side, order versus chaos, in a seemingly endless cycle. In a book called Lord of the Flies by William Golding, a group of kids are stranded on an isolated island, which brings out their true selves, some being chaotic and savage, others being logical and orderly. The island is divided into two groups, The Hunters; a large group of savages that only wanted to play, hunt, and ignore rules, and those who just wanted to get home. In the play…

In James Joyce’s novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, the protagonist, Stephen Dedalus, explores the different phases of his life. He grows from an innocent young boy to an independent adolescent man. Throughout his maturation, the experiences and interactions he has with the surrounding world affect his development and shape his personality. The impact strongly comes from influences, like family, religion, and people who interact with him on a daily basis. Joyce suggests not only…

Some people value their childhoods and would give anything just to return to that moment for a day, others, however, disregard it, and couldn’t care less. Billy Collins’s poem “On Turning Ten” communicates this idea by describing his childhood as enjoyable, mesmerizing, and remorseful. Through poetic devices such as similes, metaphors, and imagery, Billy Collins offers powerful ideas about the journey of growing up. During the beginning of the poem, the author uses similes to convey the idea…

all-time American classic. The play is about a jury set to decide the fate of a teenager who allegedly stabbed his father to death. These 12 men have this young man's life in their hands and things get heated quickly when not everyone agrees that the boy is guilty. The predominant theme of the play is prejudice, defined by the Merriam-Webster dictionary as "an adverse opinion or leaning formed without just grounds or before sufficient knowledge.'" Seeing the 12 different jurors with different…

look at a homicide case without prejudice, and ultimately convinces Juror #2, a very soft-spoken man who at first had little say in the deliberation. Throughout the play, several jurors give convincing arguments that make one think about whether the boy is “guilty” or “not guilty.” Ultimately, one is convinced by ethos, logos, and pathos. We can see ethos, logos, and pathos having an effect on Juror #2 as he begins as a humble man and changes into someone brave at the end. Although all three…

Matthew Vo IB HL English IV Johnson 23 October 2017 Analysis of Soap Suds In this short poem, a man is portrayed thinking back about a charming youth memory. After quickly remembering this experience he all of a sudden comes back to the present, apparently beset by what he recollects. In Soap Suds by MacNeice, he portrays the man's movement through a striking tactile ordeal of a youth memory to at last demonstrate that his adolescence is gone even with harsher substances of growing up. In…

Finding your walk My clown walk is a typical drunken hobo walk when I’m drunk I feel warm inside and have almost no feeling outside and I feel like I’m not in control, when I try running I feel like I was a salt shaker being shaken. I degenerate into a disgusting combination of sweat, spilled alcohol and vomit. I drink to remove my pain I deal with every day and it make me happy for a while. I can’t stand straight and I move side to side not knowing what’s happening around me. The reason…