Junior Boys

Goodbye to Girlhood. (Article 34) The main idea of this article was describing how media was changing people, mainly females about how they look and act. Media was described as taking over girl’s lives. For example, by showing them unrealistic views and acts of other girls their age. It has been studied and more females have gotten diagnosed with depression, eating disorders, or very low self-esteem now at a lower age. Now, girls are focusing on being/looking sexy and fitting in rather than…

for the conflict of fantasies and reality in the boy. Light that symbolizes hope, illusion fiction and similarly, darkness expresses pessimism, truth and realism in narrator’s dilemma. Unlike other stories, “Araby” does not use name for the characters instead a young “boy” for the main character and “Mangan’s sister” for the girl he has a crush on. The reason for this anonymity is that the author wants the reader to relate to the epiphany the boy faces in the story. We all have our moments of…

being very young and seems to be in a rush to get her daughter to school. The daughter is a very playful girl that likes her dolls and her crystal bracelet. The colors in the background fade when the camera focuses on the characters, such as the boy riding his bike and as the man and woman each drive their cars. The characters seem to be living a typical American lifestyle, but everything is changed toward the end of the advertisement. The commercial changes drastically from beginning…

The Russian Bride’s Attire is a life-sized oil painting by the Russian artist Konstantin Makovsky that is currently hanging in the Legion of Honor. At 110 x 147 inches, the piece pulls you in; as if you could step right into it and begin helping the ladies prepare the bride for marriage, or maybe bust her out of there. Makovsky is telling a subtle story through the composition and subject of this painting. The amount of emotion he brings with his angles and use of light and color is breath…

A Party down at the Square is a story of a young boy who witness a lynching. The young boy is staying over at a family member house. When a group of man came and told our narrator uncle that there was going to be a party down in the square. Our narrator was told by his uncle to come. Like most people I thought that it was an actually party. We learn that when the narrator should up there was no music and people where angry. During all this they had a storm going on outside. That cause an…

father begins to act out of a personal perspective, the boy starts contemplate if they were allowing themselves to do the right thing. Immediately, the man discloses to his son and assures him that the previous owners have passed away. As anticipated, the boy insists that both he and his father should thank the people who had left the food, as something a “good guy” would do. Corresponding their confrontation with a corrupted humanity, the boy continues to base his decisions on natural decency.…

The short stories SSR and Wings are both about 2 boys with a very different approach to life, living in a different time era but both have 1 main goal which focuses on the topic of shoes. I, Douglas from SSR and Young Mack from Wings have had a relation to shoes at least once in our lives. We all have had passion for shoes and it has impacted our lives even if its in different ways. This essay will discuss the main differences in each and one of our approach to shoes. Shoes havent been a huge…

The short film titled “Alike” by Daniel Martínez Lara & Rafa Cano Méndez, is a quick prologue or view into, the ever changing values of a young boy, and his father. Struggling between work and developing his sons comprehension of the world, and how things may seem different or bright for his son, but is a stark contrast between his father who is in the chain or working machine of work itself. That his son sees a ‘violinist’ in the park while his father and himself are walking, he notices how…

months old and she was left in a local market with no note or and Identification. This is something that is very common in China because of the laws that the government has put on these families. It is a very patriarchal society, so boys are the ones that must be born. Boys carry on the name, help in the fields, help the family when they are old and can be successful in their life. Girls on the other hand are looked at as another mouth to feed. Women will never have the life of being successful…

I believe that the TARS holds some truth to the current reality of relationships as could be seen by my personal experiences. Communication awkwardness, according Giordano at el. (2013) referring to George H. Mead (1913) , “”while both girls and boys are likely to experience their initial forays into heterosexual territory as…