Head Boy

two very different things. Adults often glorify war and see it as an emasculator, even as a necessary part of progress, but the cruel reality of war only brings death and ruin. The narrator is not named in the story but is a boy who is merely six years of age. This young boy becomes an unfortunate victim to the disaster that is war. In Ambrose Bierce’s short story, Chickamauga, the young boy’s childlike innocence in the beginning is proof that war changes people and forces them to grow up,…

properly, not just with a practice sword." Entan clicked and the arms master came over, holding a sword that had been wrapped in silks. He handed it to Nithan, "I present this to you; Nithan Glover, protector and advisor to the Prince, one day to be head of the royal guard, accept this present of the King, Queen and Prince Entan." The arms master stepped back, leaving Nithan with the sword in his hands. He looked down and unwrapped it, draping the silken cover over his shoukder. The Sword was…

the sheer volatility of these components in Ralph Ellison’s short story “Battle Royal”. In the story we find a young black boy who is showered with adulation from not only his community, but also by the wealthy and influential white people of the region as well. This only exsterbates the constant torment the young man feels, due to the fact that he cannot get out of his head the startling deathbed confession of his grandfather who calls himself a “traitor” and a “spy” to his fellow black people…

Every year men's sports teams make record high viewing numbers on both tv and live games, yet women’s team struggle to get half those viewers. Last year, Syracuse University had about a 21,000 people average attending their men’s basketball games while women had an average of only 752 people. This huge gap in fans is due to the fact that people like to watch men’s sports because women are not seen as strong, tough and athletic people which makes sports so exciting in the first place.…

Here is an 6 years old little boy who is so intelligent everyone wanted to call him a weirdo or nerd, but he doesn't care what people say he is a little boy who hates who he is and thinks that he should have never been born and hates that he is a third child, he doesn't get any attention he is not the favorite, but here is this brilliant little kid who get chosen to go to battle school and become a solder this took him 4 years to show them that he is good enough to be a commander for the army at…

the poem would be about a young boy going on a walk or an adventure given that there is a whole stanza focused on him, and that the title talks about a walk. I thought it was interesting that it mentioned his race as if it were significant to the whole poem. As soon as I saw the word Vietnamese, I automatically subconsciously thought of the Vietnam War. The first stanza also serves as imagery. Through it, I imagine a young malnourished darker skinned Asian looking boy who is standing in a wooded…

Roger marched into the store with his head held high. It’s his birthday and nobody could break him now. Roger pauses and gives attention to the King Size Cookies n’ Cream Hershey bar on the shelf, his hand extends into his pocket before he realizes he has no money, or not any real money at least. Roger pulls out the fraudulent money, and glances at it, he notices he has three, one dollar bills, and 2 quarters, after staring at it he puts it back into his pocket. At the register, the lady’s name…

In a lifetime people will have many codes or rules that they will morph over time. They might honor them or they may abandon them as time goes by. Peter is a young boy who grows up in South Carolina during the time of segregation. His world gets turned upside down when he abandons his code of being a wealthy civilized boy who dislikes people with darker skin tone to immersing himself in the aboriginal culture, becoming what he knows as being “uncivilized”, and starting to be more hands on.…

In “The Land,” by Mildred D. Taylor, two black men defeat many obstacles to achieve their dreams. Paul-Edward Logan, a son of a white man and black woman, is an oblivious boy who undergoes a dramatic change. Other characters like Mitchell, Paul’s best friend, Edward Logan, Paul’s father and Robert Logan, Paul’s brother, take part in Paul’s story of completing his dreams. The story is set in the South during the times right after the Civil War, when racism was at its peak. Through the course of…

“Boy! You need to empty and clean the chamber pots right now!” A voice rang outside, to the shack where a young boy lived, “My wife is expecting company tomorrow, and they will need to be emptied tomorrow morning as well.” The boy inside was drawing in the sand floor with his finger. Sore from his whipping earlier that day, George stood up and headed toward his master’s house. The seven-year-old boy lived in slave quarters, which was about twice the size of an outhouse. Sold when he was five,…