Boys & Girls Clubs of America

The Handmaid’s Tale is very evident within the household. The power resides in position one is in at that household. Atwood uses figurative language, word repetition, and symbolism to explain the power. What use to be called the United States of America, is now the Republic of Gilead. Due to low birth rates, a society was built to try and turn around the reproduction issue. The society is set around a hierarchy. This hierarchy revolved specifically around the household the hierarchies, beginning…

proven to be just as dangerous as driving while intoxicated. While schools are mostly based off standardized testing, missing or falling asleep in class could prevent teens from doing as well as they could on their tests. With the grading system in America today, getting above a 3.5, the necessary GPA to get a college scholarship, is becoming more and more difficult. Most families in the United States do not have enough money to pay for…

first said that he would claim to be atheist, but as I asked more he figured out he believed in science. Ryan is in a relationship with his partner, but is not married this making his marital status single. Ryan is the middle child of two other boys by the name of Eric, and Manny. Manny has a different father from Eric and himself, and is half Mexican. Along with his two…

understanding the lives these children had been forced to endure (Stevenson pg 267)”. Mandatory therapy should be set in place, and perhaps sometime in a mental health facility. We need to rehabilitate these children because children are the future of America. We simply can not turn our backs to our future. This is why I encourage you, my neighbors to take a stand to child imprisonment, let us stop this never ending chain together. Children do not belong in prisons, they belong at home with…

include Family Resource Center of Fond du Lac, Advocap, Bank of Oakfield, Boys and Girls, Brooke Industries, Meriter Hospital, Wisconsin Area Health Education Centers, Wisconsin Branch of the International Dyslexia Association, Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction, and Wisconsin Technical College System. Fond du Lac Literacy Services also receives support from Fond du Lac Area United Way, the Sadoff Family Foundation, Kiwanis Club of Fond du Lac, Holy Family Catholic Community, Mid-States…

A teenager in an adult prison is not mentally or physically prepared to protect him or herself from abuse. This abuse could be sexual, physical, or verbal. This can be seen in an article written by Maurice Chammah’s article, A Boy Among Men. The article is about a boy named John Doe who was sentenced to spend 3 years in the Richard A. Handlon Correctional Facility in Ionia, Michigan for a couple break ins. In prison, John faced almost instant sexual abuse. It started by people sliding letters…

with a character named Ennis del Mar who is unwilling and unable to reach for his heart’s desire, a man named Jack Twist. Jack and Ennis meet when they are both young men, having grown up in almost identical situations. Both were high-school country boys with no prospects, brought up to hard work and privation, both rough- mannered, rough-spoken, inured to the stoic life. Both are real cowboys, both are also living the life expected of them including dating and having sex with women; at this…

I had longer hair than my brother, I wore pink and purple, and sometimes, I wore dresses and skirts. I had always thought the reason I was a girl, who work pink and had long hair, was because of my private parts, and the reason my brother was a boy, was because of his. I have always been performing my gender before I even knew I was doing it. In “What It Means To Be Gendered Me” by Betsy Lucal, she talks about “markers of femininity” one of them…

“In actuality, C-e-rd-an died in 1949 at the tender age of thirty-three and he was en route to America to train for a rematch with Jake La-Mott-a, who had dethroned him as champion via a tenth-round TKO. His airplane crashed somewhere in the Azores.” “What an awful way to go,” I responded. I thought it was bad enough that C-e-rd-an got cut down in…

Introduction In this essay I want to explore the impact that rappers’ lyrics, views, and life styles have on subsequent generations, and how people that listen to their music are affected in their everyday lives by these rappers messages in rap music and its associated media. This essay aims to examine a variety of artistic forms such as lyrics, music videos and associated art work. Additionally, it will reflect on the social, cultural and historical background of rap music. Historical…