Head Boy

It's January 2, 1994; the air is freezing as he breathes it in, and the sun seems to have forgotten to come out this morning. As the snow whirls around the frigid air under the dark sky, the 21 year old lawyer, Sean finally reaches the door of the airport. Sean, who has spent the last week in France for a vacation before the holidays, is exhausted and longing to be home with his family back in Chicago, Illinois. Sean got to the baggage and security lines around 6:30 this morning, completely…

the Taliban’s laws. (BS-1) The Taliban have taken away almost all of women’s freedom, restricting them to either stay in the house or go out only in the accompany of a close male relative. (BS-2) Women also have no access to education, although boys don’t have the best education either. (BS-3) Harsh punishments have led to the abuse and mistreatment of women who are living under the Taliban as well. (TS) The novel Under the Persimmon Tree accurately portrays the mistreatment of women…

expected to have. Girls are only supposed wear dresses and to play with dolls and fairies while boys are only supposed to play with cars. Boys will always have a room with the color blue and girls will have pink. These kinds of expectations are given to a child depending on its gender. In some households there are certain jobs given to children determined by their gender. Generally, fathers depend on the boys to help with cars and mothers depend on the girls to help them clean in the kitchen.…

One of the most common cases of dysfunctional parenting comes from the differing treatment between daughters and sons .Parents want their little girls to be princesses. Their little girls forever , meanwhile they’ll be more than happy to watch their boys grow up. The little soldiers , often to protect their sisters. Parents have double standards for their children because of the protection they want to provide for daughters and the touch love to teach sons to be strong , daughters are more…

believing that by some amazing feat similar to Paul Bunyon, an undersized six-year-old boy could tackle his fully grown and in shape father at thirty six years of age. Being as young naïve as young boys are there was no better feeling than when you were able to tackle your old man to the ground, even if I didn’t know at the time that he was merely playing along to the fantasy I enjoyed to play through in my head. Being seventeen seemed like I had been on the earth for since the dark ages, but…

Chicago bears head coach 1920 football Dr, lake Forest, IL 60045 Dear, Chicago head coach, Girls should play football for the NFL. There as good as boys and as tuff as boys too. I don’t think people should treat them different because there a girl. A girl can tackle just like a guy and be as strong as a guy. If you ask me girls are no different from guys the only thing that is different is body parts. If the NFL would give girls a chance to try out they could be better than the boys that…

over take him. I looked over to the guards… they noticed him. One of the guards came rushing over, swearing at the boy and lifted the boy by his ear. The boy began to whimper as the guard threw countless slaps across the boy’s face. The guard took the boy into the jungle… every one stopped when they began to hear the boy wailing and crying out for help. The boy came out whimpering, holding on to his falling trousers as he ran in to the toilets. The guard came out a few…

citizens of Richmond Virginia over 16 are commanded to fight for the confederate army.” Ezekiel stood confused. “Sir don’t I have the right not to fight? My father’s gone and I have a family to look after.” exclaimed Ezekiel. “You’d be a fool of a boy if you didn’t. You don’t have much of a…

The mother has three different tones, which can be sensed throughout the reading: nagging, serious, and demanding. The nagging tone can be seen when the mother says, “don’t squat down to play marbles-you are not a boy,” (Kincaid 44). The serious tone when the mother is giving advice is, “don’t sing benna in Sunday school,” (Kincaid 44). Demanding tone can be seen when the mother is telling her daughter to do chores and behave like a woman. “Wash the white clothes…

who comes in the form of a weary traveler to assure Telemakhus that Oddyseus is not dead. As Athena guides Telemakhus in his confrontations and travels, it becomes apparent that Telemakhus is a brave and intelligent (albeit young and inexperienced) boy. When Athena descends from Mount Olympos in the form of a traveler, she does so to help Telemakhus confront stronger and more influential men. At the beginning of The Odyssey, Telemakhus is sitting…