Boys & Girls Clubs of America

president of the Culture Club. I have been the president of Chinese Club for the past two years, and after successfully executing the role of the Public Relations Officer my sophomore year, I am the first female president of Spanish National Honors Society. Along with my leadership positions in the clubs already listed, I am an active member of National Honors Society, Beta Club, Young American Democrats Club, Women 's Empowerment Club, Spanish Club, and Backpacking Club. Through hosting and…

Cultures of Zimbabwe and America For hundreds of years, cultures all across the globe have practiced gender discrimination. It is prevalent in every country, and both men and women have felt its sting. As Claire Jones writes, “It should be evident by now that few constructs of culture are free of gender bias” (127). One specific cultural concept containing gender bias is music, both traditional and modern. The mbira culture of the Shona in Zimbabwe and the musical culture of America are two…

Luck Club was written by Amy Tan, a daughter of Chinese immigrants. Based on her detailed past, I feel like she put pieces of her life in the novel. Just like the novel, Tan’s parents immigrated from China, in look for a better future in America. Amy Tan was raised as an American while her mother still hold inside of her the old Chinese culture. Another thing I felt she compared her life into the novel is what her mother expected her to do as she grew up. Like the mothers in The Joy Luck Club,…

The Breakfast Club is a well-known 1980’s movie directed by John Hughes. It follows five teenagers who end up in detention on Saturday due to their actions during the school week. Each of these teenagers come from a different social group and immediately judge one another but after getting to know one another they realize that they are more similar than they first thought. Each character in this film commits deviant behaviors. A deviant behavior is a behavior that/…. Andrew Clark is a…

later, February 22nd, it was number one in the charts. The Beatles were so successful that by 1964, not even 2 years after stepping foot in America, had already put out 2 movies: A Hard Day’s Night and Help, which are both named after their most successful albums at that time. They were also very good at performing live. Their first shows were in an old club called “The Indra ” in Hamburg, Germany where prostitution, gang violence, transvestites ,drugs, and murder were very common. The Beatles,…

understood the mind of the typical male in American society, I have always identified as male. While my behavior and attributes may not have been stereotypical for a boy growing up in the United States, I would learn later in life that I wasn’t alone. Not all boys grow up thinking they have to be the toughest or strongest. Not all boys grow up to think that women are not their equal or as capable as a male. While my gender identity as male was not met without challenges, finding other males who…

identity and compares it to others. The girl then goes to the bathroom and begins to examine herself in the mirror, she saying that all she saw was, “ a plain girl in a plain blue scarf [...] then she smiled, but only just a little, and only at the corners of her mouth. She didn’t look like herself when she did that. She looked like her mother, only not as mysterious” (34). She is worrying about her looks because she doesn’t believe she is beautiful. The girl is already having thoughts of the…

he turns out funny like that Rankotwera boy, if he turns out to be the laughing-stock of Colombo, it’ll be [Arjie’s mother] fault”. It exemplifies the traditional role of the men blaming the women of being the fault of everything yet the men have no active role in the Sri Lankan society. In this situation neither did the mother have any knowledge of this. Subsequently the mother ordered Arjie was to play with the boys, however they do not accept a “girlie-boy”. The mother was immediately…

are being out sourced to these same countries. Changes to our School hours must be extended and it starts with you. In conclusion, United States School reform is extremely necessary. As noted by, Hanushek (2010), “Schools produce huge benefits for America. For individuals, schooling increases earning power and helps them obtain such intangible goods as health and happiness. For society as a whole, schools foster the productivity improvements that drive economic growth, inform the dialogue of…

should coach was always huge problem for me to discover. I decided my love for children and my passion for basketball could merge together and that is where I brainstormed the idea to start out coaching children. When I was younger I did not know about club basketball or anything like that I only knew about school basketball. I wish that…