Head Boy

playing with the boys during recess. I started playing soccer at the age of 5. I partook in YMCA soccer anytime that I could. The first day is always the hardest because Tongue River is such a small school and no one loved soccer as much as I did. Being the only Tongue River player causes you to make new friends and really, really shy. Of course being me, I walked over to a group of guys to talk to. The instructors of the camp stood tall in the middle of the field. One was almost a head…

Watch. I watched as they came towards the inn, I pulled the Bull by his arm and took him behind a tall hedge. He questioned me, but I told him to shush as we listen to the men speak to Yoren. The gold cloaks spoke of taking a boy. I knew who they want. It was me. I am the boy. It has to be! Why else…

James Joyce’s “Araby” and Alice Munro’s “Boys and Girls” are considered to be two of literatures greatest examples of coming of age stories. Both stories give insight on what life is like for a child growing up and transitioning into the life of a young adult. In Joyce’s “Araby” the main character is a young boy whose coming of age transformation was brought on by his infatuation with a close friend’s oldest sister. While in “Boys and Girls” our main character is a young girl trying her hardest…

These past sixteen months, as member of the Boys & Girls Club, has been a momentous time of my life. One of my key aspect of involvement at the club, is helping the kids with homework. Most of the times when the kids comes to the Boys & Girls Club from school, the chances of them having homework is very high of them having to complete their assignment to turn it in the next day. I utilize the time I have to devote all of my time and energy to assist them with their homework. I personally know…

The 2005 movie, Little Manhattan, features a ten year old boy named Gabe who begins to fall in love with an eleven year old girl named Rosemary Telesco while living in the ever complicated New York City. In the beginning of the movie, Gabe describes the differences between girls and boys and the “iron wall” that is between that makes it difficult for boys and girls to be close friends at that age. From maturity levels, physical attributes,social and mental development; this stage in Gabe’s life…

"Araby" by James Joyce tells a story of a young boy who is infatuated with his friends sister, despite only having one conversation involving a bazaar that she would like to attend, but cannot. The young boy promises her he will retrieve a gift for her, thinking this will woo her, but fails to do so when he is disappointed by the bazaar. The story "Araby" shows that misleading yourself with unrealistic fantasies can be ultimately, disappointing. To begin, James Joyce tells the story from a…

What if you get stranded on an island with just a bunch of little kids, and out of nowhere a dead parachutist lands on the island? The dead parachutist may symbolize violence towards the kids. He could also be indicated as the beast; the boys are thinking that there is a thing called the beast and while they are looking for the beast they find the parachutist which makes them believe that he is the beast. The parachutist does symbolize something other than what the beast and the Lord of the…

young boy is standing in front of her and she’s only brushing his hair. This is similar to my uncle because he would experience forms of anxiety when he would see military victims and he would think they were going to try to hurt him. He was so stuck on his past experiences in the war, that he had trouble with realizing that he was now a safe man. He would eventually come back to his senses though and realize that no one was out to hurt him, such as Komunyakaa did when he saw the young boy. Both…

methods to get a reader hooked on their stories. The story “Old Ben” is a narrative nonfiction written by Jesse Stuart about a boy who goes walking in the woods one day, there the boy finds a friendly black snake, the boy then names the snake Old Ben and takes him home where he keeps him in the corncrib, one morning his family’s dog starts going towards the corncrib, then the boy has to confess to keeping the black snake in the corncrib, his father agrees to letting him keep the snake and the…

For this observation, my main objective was how play influences social development, friendship formation and social interactions. This observation took place at the Brookhaven Head Start Center on February, 2016. In this group of preschoolers there was about an equal amount between boys and girls; to make a total of 20 preschoolers in the classroom setting. The very first thing I completed was observing them in the classroom during story time, station time and singing songs while they were…