Beast Boy

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” contains several short stories each containing their own morals. Two of these stories are “The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People", both of these stories take place in the South and revolve around a seemingly innocent man who ends up taking advantage of a young woman. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a man wanders to the house of an elderly woman willing to help out for no pay, and eventually is married to her daughter…

individual identity. Commonly, we hear that boys are not supposed to cry, play with dolls, wear dresses, just as girls are not to play sports or video games, be dirty, or play with action figures. Boys are not tempted to read a story if they know it involves a princess or seems “girly”, since most cannot relate. Society presses the idea that boys cannot like princesses, so most do not even care or simply look past it. Throughout the story you see few young boys, and of course those in the story…

Ma and Papa had and still have a very large part of my heart. They were my everything. Ma and I went to temple every Tuesday evening. I never understood anything I learned, but these shared occasions brought Ma and I closer together. She taught me the basic and most important things that would later shape my being. She trained me to excel in school and was not afraid to discipline me when she saw fit. She loved me with everything she had and truly made me feel safe. Papa also did the same. He…

evaluation utilized a female as their lead character. In Amazing Grace not only is the lead character a young African American girl most of the characters in the story are either girls or women. There is only one boy, a classmate of Grace’s that is given a line in the story though other boys are shown in Grace’s class. The remaining twenty books are split six books feature a male as their lead character and the remaining six focused on either an entire family or had a pair of leads, one male…

together” but to elaborate, it was for upper class Greek men to reaffirm their elite status amongst their peers and to encourage male bonding. Essentially, it was supposed to be some form of a party with wine, women of a lower status, song, and adolescent boys. Inside the symposium, there are wine cups, and harps for music playing. There are four men wearing laurel wreaths on their head, which symbolizes their elite status. Two of the men are gazing into each others eyes topless on a bed of…

adorable place holders to stand by while the boys take charge of the situation. This continues on into adulthood where in movies women are usually portrayed as harmless housewives or the sexy girl next door, both are just as degrading. While considering all the background characters played by girls Pollitt claims, “Boys are the norm, girls the variation; boys are central, girls peripheral; boys are individuals, girls types…. Girls exist only in relation to boys “ (545). It is time that this…

Mom travelled to Canada to visit family every summer and I was lucky enough to accompany her. Mom even had a house maid that would come regularly to help clean and she also doubled as Mom's personal hair dresser. As Prince says in his song, When Doves Cry: “maybe you're just like my mother,she's never satisfied. Nothing Ventured Nothing Gained Primary school soon became high school, however a little early for me. I went ahead a year. Was it because I was so smart, no! Mom…

piggy, I don't like to be that though.” In the book Lord of the Flies there was a boy named Piggy. They also made a movie of this with the say title of course but you might, think if you have read the book and seen the movie, yes there are similarities but there are also differences and that the movie and the book are the same but they are actually not. There is one character that I would like to focus on, a young boy named Piggy. In the movie and the book there are physical appearance, his…

Adolescence are in a unique time in their lives. They have characteristics of children and characteristics of adults. So, when evaluating whether or not an adolescent should remain in juvenile court or move to adult court, it can be a very difficult decision. Look at adolescents and crime, we know that adolescents are still developing. They have weaker impulse control and are less likely to think ahead than adults. Furthermore, we know that as adolescents have less knowledge and experience, they…

were usually separated between boys, girls, and for all genders. You can tell by the color of the aisle. The girl aisle was mostly done in pink and purple. The boy aisle was mostly done with blue and green. I even noticed that the writing on the packages were even different. The girl toys had a more feminine writing and the boy toys were in a bold, manly writing. The girl toys usually had a picture of a girl playing with the toy and with the boy toys they had a little boy playing with it. For…