Head Boy

significance of age? “Rite of Passage” reveals it determines one's strength and dominance within boys. The poem is set at a young boy’s birthday party with many other boys his age around the age of 6 or 7, who are in first grade. As mentioned in the poem “short men, men in first grade” (3), a “stereotypical man lies within the youngest boy” because the tough and competitive attitude is present. Furthermore, these boys at the birthday party begin to intimidate each other by using their age as a…

literacy in schools. In a Powerade commercial viewers see half Jimmy Grahams life in a mere minute. The title of the commercial is “Jimmy Graham #Just a Kid.” Viewers would not know the young boys name until the end, if not for the title. The young boy is from Goldsboro, North Carolina. The boy entered into a community orphanage in 1998. The young teen faces many struggles and barriers in his life. The barriers attempt to keep him from succeeding. Powerade depicts a slogan at the end…

In many short stories, the main characters make a startling discovery about themselves. This happens in the short story, “Araby,” which tells the story of a young boy and his infatuation with his friend’s sister. The story is told by the boy’s older self, who makes a discovery about himself that leaves him utterly devastated. In the short story, “Araby,” the speaker comes to the realization that his first love was based on vanity and displays this revelation to the reader by using a bleak and…

carrying the fire but he is not an ideal “good guy” because he refuses to help others. In contrast, the boy shows great empathy to tragic people and is willing to help them. In fact, in the post-apocalypse world, helping people emphasizes on actions of sharing food, rescuing ones, or simply giving protection. As an illustration, when they face a poor man struck by lightning, the man ignores him when the boy insists to ask him twice, “Cant we help him Papa?” he replies “No. We cant help him.…

“There are three things that are brothers: my two hands and the fish.” Santiago, or the old man, states this in the beginning of his voyage with the mighty marlin. This begins to develop the theme of Santiago’s relationship with nature. In my opinion, the best theme in the story. In the beginning, it is briefly mentioned that some of Santiago’s, or the old man’s, fellow fisherman disrespected nature. Santiago had a positive relationship with nature. He had no trouble sleeping outside because he…

The concept of transition can be believed to be both confronting and transformative for the individual or groups involved. This idea is undoubtedly explored within Steven Daldry’s film, Billy Elliot with a central theme of maturity and Robert Gray’s poem, Late Ferry, as it expresses ideas about the transformative concept of transitions. Additionally, Meiert Avis’ music video for Paramore’s Brick by Boring Brick explores a confronting change to the protagonist as the music video demonstrates…

According to the Webster Dictionary, “a conscientious objector is a person who refuses to serve in the military because of moral or religious beliefs. Desmond Doss was the first conscientious objector to receive the Medal of Honor. He followed in his steps of his mother who was very spiritual. I think that Doss refuses to carry a gun because his father and brother-law-in had got into altercation. His mother got in between them and persuaded his father to her the gun before the police. Doss…

Ida B. Wells-Barnett is sitting in her train seat, reading a book as the conductor of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Company stomps up to her Train Conductor: Ma’am you have to move to the smoking car Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Excuse me? Train Conductor: You must relocate at the smoking car Ida B. Wells-Barnett: Why? I have done nothing wrong, I paid for my ticket, you can see my stub if you’d like.
Ida pulls out her ticket stub and holds it in front of the conductor With a disgusted face, the…

biological father “Smoke” (Laurence Fishburne). This movie tries to depict something that happens in the underground world of the biker gangs. The end of the movie tells the full aspect of the entire movie when Kid said, “the difference between men and boys is the lessons they learn and my father taught me plenty.” I feel this is an accurate respectable movie. Yes, it’s about motorcycle street racing, however there is more than that going on. Biker Boyz is also about…

Exploring the sexual double standard that has been implemented within our society has left a mark. Acknowledging the fact that no matter what a number of sexual partners one may have, there is a double standard. Being a male, one would be considered a “stud” for being able to attract multiple sexual partners, while a female will be deemed a “slut”. This social phenomenon of the double standard of name calling to degrade one person with harsh words due to her actions as her male counterpart…