Boys & Girls Clubs of America

Oprah’s father brought her on a visit back to Milwaukee to see her mother. She spent the summer there and again, her mother was often absent. When her father returned to take her back to Nashville, Oprah surprisingly said she would rather stay with her mother. She wanted to please her. Living with her mother again, she deeply wished for love and affection. Since her mother was often at work, she left her children with a babysitter, which was Oprah’s older cousin. Her male relatives and the…

for women everywhere which led to the birth of the flapper.The time era of the flappers was during the jazz age. Having the Jazz age was the perfect way to heal the traumatization of World War 1. of modernization. In 1918 when World War 1 ended, america wanted change, thats where the jazz age came into play. Along with all this change the 18th amendment was passed, Prohibition. Prohibition prohibits the owning, making,…

“Girls bobbed their hair and shortened their skirts while boys filled their flasks with bootleg gin,” (Beers 621) January of 1920 began the unscrupulous activities when the constitutional amendment, prohibiting buying or selling liquor, was ratified. “Speakeasies” sprung up all over…

Project” (Fanning 116). Although Disney passed away before the grand opening of Walt Disney World, his brother Roy took the project into his own hands and produced a huge success. Today, Walt Disney World is the most visited theme park in North America with approximately seventeen and a half million visitors each year (Wendy…

In almost every urban community in the United States of America, gangs are present in the area. Street gangs have been around for many years, most notably as early as the 1820s. Street gangs have become more popular over time, with gang activity peaking in the 1980s until the late 1990s. Gangs typically recruit children as young as age 15 and 37% of gang members are under the age of 18. In more recent times the prevalence of gang has poisoned the minds of the youth in urban communities around…

do you do before you’re the most important man in the United States of America? Some presidents are practically born into it, while others not so much. Ronald Reagan our 40th and one of our most prestigious presidents definitely did have the average life before he became president. Ronald Wilson Reagan was born to John Edward and Nelle (Wilson) Reagan on February 6th 1911, in Tampico Illinois. Growing up Reagan was typical boy. The Reagan family were devoted Roman Catholics and Liberals. His…

receive funding from the state and federal governments, along with money from local property taxes. This money is then used to pay the school staff, purchase materials and supplies, build/restore buildings and to maintain utilities. Students across America have urged their schools to allocate a portion of their funds to install gender neutral bathrooms. Public schools turned the notion down, for lack of funding. In reality, the schools should be using a portion of their funds to maintain…

Males and females have different sexual scripts but occasionally, they overlap. One of the biggest male sexual scripts that I am familiar with is that men always want sex and they are always ready for it. Teenage girls are taught this from a young age to scare them off from being in a relationship. This can cause females to have a false sense of what a man wants. There are males who always want sex but that is not a statement that is always true. A female sexual…

sentences, but after I found that the ‘I’ is a girl the story began interesting. It was about Iranian girl, who was potentially gay, living in United States. The life style of Iranian is very different from American style. Drinking and having sex are banned in childhood. Of course, it is illegal in America too, but most people do not think them bad as Iranian does. Anyway, as a teenager in America, she was curious about sex a lot. She had the first kiss with a boy when she was 13. She didn’t…

fight and make life better. Then there's me. I've accepted that life sucks and I make do, but I've also decided to fight. This is the story about a girl who has lost everything and has accepted her fate, but at the same time she still fights against her destiny. This is the story about how Coraline Andrews became someone else. She wasn't the same little girl anymore, but she was still the same person. She defied all odds and was able to fight, but at what cost? This is the story of a hero in the…