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Service Learning Reflection During my time at New Hope, there was one boy, *Kory, that I drawn to from the beginning. I really don’t know how to explain it but I just felt like I was meant to know him and to help him. He had these sad eyes that seemed to be crying for help. One thing I learned about Kory early on, is that you never know which version of him you are going to get. Some days he would be talkative, rambunctious, and completely lacking self-control, causing him to get in trouble…

It is the day of a campus-wide town hall meeting. It is also the day of the BSU-initiated protest in response to the heart-stopping incident that occurred in the fifth episode. During this episode, the newly-appointed student president, Troy, is caught between a rock and a hard place; that being, fidelity to his blackness and new-found duty to the Office. As night falls and the crowds begin to gather, Troy gets closer to his judgment day. As it stands, just before the event begins, Dean…

Chapters 13 & 14 Chapter 13 discusses the three kinds of dads that there are. First, is the absent dad the dad who is not there at all. This dad has nothing to do with his kids and is not there physically for his kids the amount of these dads continues to grow. Second, is the superficial relationship where the dad is physically there but not emotionally to handle the more challenging issues. Dads like this focus on investing in the easy things that ultimately don’t matter. When this dad passes…

Wars of any kind can not only affect the physical state of soldiers but they also greatly affect their emotional state. The Vietnam War was no exception and it is seen many times throughout the The Things They Carried by Tim O’Brien how the events of the war change the character’s thoughts, actions, and feelings. As the novel progresses and more of the stories are told, it is seen how damaging the war is to characters such as Tim O’Brien, Mary Anne Bell, and Rat Kiley. Each of these characters…

are catcalled, exploited, raped, sexually harassed, seen as toys, not taken seriously, and put into a ‘box’ of stereotypes. Younger females in school aren’t allowed to express themselves in certain ways “because it’ll cause/be a distraction for boys,” but boys should be able to control themselves and females should not have to be the ones held to a standard. Males are allowed to walk around with no shirt on but if a female were to show a nipple it’s considered explicit and needed to be blurred. …

Fernand and Danglars, are jealous, and frame Edmond. They send him to jail for fourteen years for a crime he never committed. The only company he has for part of his imprisonment is an abbé named Faria. He teaches Dantés everything he knows and gives the boy the skills needed to turn him into a man. He gives Dantés hope and a chance to escape with millions of Roman crowns before he passes away from a deadly disease. This journal will evaluate Dantés’s state of mind while in jail, predict what…

James Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story of a boy in Dublin who has a crush on his friend’s sister named Mangan, and because of her, he journeys to a bazaar called Araby. At the bazaar he realizes his immature actions he had towards Mangan. This is the base of the story, but the concepts Joyce contributes with this story are how the boy responds to his feelings for Mangan, and at the end how he comes to a realization of his tragedy. Joyce mostly in his story introduces the boy’s views on the area…

cultural language patterns, specifically with regards to conversational rituals. To elaborate Tannen suggest that men use language to negotiate their ‘status’ and to protect their independence. That is, men (boys) perceive that there is a hierarchical structure social order and not every man (boy) is equal. Due to this notion of inequality (in language), most men grow up and expect that language is a tool best utilized to prevent from being “pushed…

LOU UNFOLDED THE TOURIST MAP and eyed a man over the rim of the creased paper. A boxy man with a crooked nose and a single bushy brow stood on the harbor dock, smoking a cigarette. He draped an arm around a woman’s shoulder while he joked with another guy twice his size, a hairy bear as wide as he was tall. The woman was a little more than a caricature to Lou. Big hair and a big mouth, made bigger by the annoying smack of bubblegum between her magenta lips. Her clothes were too tight in some…

someone his age. While most young boys are doing their best to cause mischief and have as good a time as possible, this boy seems to have a few images of light in his life, which causes a dark foreboding over the story. This is presented through images of death and decay, in his immediate surroundings and the places he visits. One might ask, is he longing for something unreachable, something he wishes he was but isn’t? It appears that the text is subtly hinting that the boy is longing to be…