Boys & Girls Clubs of America

banning discrimination against gender, one will naturally feel more superior to the other. Amy Tan 's The Joy Luck Club recalls the hardships of four Chinese mothers and their Chinese-American daughters. From miscarriages to remarriages, Amy Tan includes stories that reveal the inequality and oppression some of the mothers face. One mother, Lindo Jong, is a member of the Joy Luck Club who personally experiences the most oppression as a woman in China, while her daughter Waverly is not oppressed.…

When I was a little child, I was the loner. At lunch, I was rejected by the other girls and ate at the boys’ table. At recess, I would sit on the swings by myself. In short, I was the loser of my school. At the start of seventh grade, I was given a second chance at a social life when we moved. Things did not go well from the start. In fact, it felt like a repeat of my early years. I remember on my first day, one boy, Johnny, who would later make my life hell, greeted me with “konichiwa” even…

of life and spiritual being. Many of these writers ideals are presented throughout the film, “Dead Poets Society,” directed by Peter Weir that was produced years after these Transcendentalists lived. This film takes place at Welton Academy, an all boys school that encompasses beliefs revolving around tradition, honor, discipline, and excellence. The plot follows the lives of a group of close friends, Neil Perry, Todd Anderson, Knox Overstreet, Charlie Dalton, Steven Minks, and Richard…

I am a girl. I have always been a girl, have always seen myself as a girl, and hold onto being a girl as a part of my identity. For most of my life, this identity has not had a profoundly negative nor positive impact on how I live. I have the privilege of having grown up in liberal Sonoma, where my being a girl did not automatically make me lesser. I played Co-Ed soccer until I was 10, was given the same opportunities to learn as the boys in my classes, and never had anyone other than a…

Most immigrant students are commonly doubted by many people, always told that we are not capable of success. When I moved to America from Philippines, everything was new to me, and I felt very alienated. The hardest part of moving to a different country was the language. Due to language barriers, no one really took me seriously causing my colleagues to doubt me. I was put into that stereotype where I was made to seem I was incompetent. My personal experience with this stereotype made me work…

a legislative press intern on Capitol Hill and as a communications intern for the Chief of Staff’s office in the White House. It has been an honor of knowing Cierra, I am impressed by her academic achievements and her accomplishments in the Miss America Organization (originally being crowned Miss Columbus,…

For years I have listened to Spanish and Latin America music as it’s rhythms, beats, and tones place me into a state of happiness, and find myself daydreaming of foreign lands traveled stirring up good memories while, mind mapping a trip to Cuba in the near. Reviewing the syllabus as to prepare for this Spanish class, it was a relief to find the magic bullet number sixty nine seizing the desire or need to look any further. This last project coincidently, is my final class prior to graduation;…

The need for mentoring programs is indisputable. I have always wanted to make a difference in someone’s life. Given this opportunity through the Service Learning Project, I would do just that. My goal when I arrived at Girls Inc. was to help girls across all races and ethnic groups, gain confidence, and a sense of self-responsibility to guide them towards a productive and positive citizenship. I think that it’s important for young woman have some guidance. I have witnessed many a young woman…

unique speculations of sorted out wrongdoing that canhelp, when attempting to comprehend criminal gatherings. The Alien Conspiracy hypothesis, that goes ahead to fault outside impacts of Italy and Sicily for the degree of the mafia wrongdoing in America. Thus,Alien Conspiracy hypothesis was said to have started and was foreign and sent out from the oldcountry of Sicily and Italy. The old savagery that was utilized as a part of the old nation soon got to be thenorm in the United States, in this…

crossing from Europe to America was “harsh and brutal.” These immigrants were torn from their communities becoming alienated in a new place. These immigrants were conflicted in the transition from “old ways” to the “new.” However, they preferred to rely upon their old traditions. Although, they tried to bring their village experience to America, America still changed…