Rocket Boys

James Joyce’s “Araby” is a short story of a boy in Dublin who has a crush on his friend’s sister named Mangan, and because of her, he journeys to a bazaar called Araby. At the bazaar he realizes his immature actions he had towards Mangan. This is the base of the story, but the concepts Joyce contributes with this story are how the boy responds to his feelings for Mangan, and at the end how he comes to a realization of his tragedy. Joyce mostly in his story introduces the boy’s views on the area…

cultural language patterns, specifically with regards to conversational rituals. To elaborate Tannen suggest that men use language to negotiate their ‘status’ and to protect their independence. That is, men (boys) perceive that there is a hierarchical structure social order and not every man (boy) is equal. Due to this notion of inequality (in language), most men grow up and expect that language is a tool best utilized to prevent from being “pushed…

LOU UNFOLDED THE TOURIST MAP and eyed a man over the rim of the creased paper. A boxy man with a crooked nose and a single bushy brow stood on the harbor dock, smoking a cigarette. He draped an arm around a woman’s shoulder while he joked with another guy twice his size, a hairy bear as wide as he was tall. The woman was a little more than a caricature to Lou. Big hair and a big mouth, made bigger by the annoying smack of bubblegum between her magenta lips. Her clothes were too tight in some…

someone his age. While most young boys are doing their best to cause mischief and have as good a time as possible, this boy seems to have a few images of light in his life, which causes a dark foreboding over the story. This is presented through images of death and decay, in his immediate surroundings and the places he visits. One might ask, is he longing for something unreachable, something he wishes he was but isn’t? It appears that the text is subtly hinting that the boy is longing to be…

One behavior of men that I cannot understand is trying to show off and attempting to look attractive by replicating what their peers do, and believing that it is the sophisticated way of life. Sports and language are the two features of men that I cannot grasp. What’s so intriguing? For sports, whether actually playing, watching, or talking about it, I never understood and most likely will never understand why such a large portion of men are fascinated by the activity. For the record, I ran in…

In the book, the old man is a failure because he has not caught a fish in 85 days. but he has caught a fish before. In the book he catches a dolphin to eat but he says he will never eat a dolphin raw again or without salt. hemingway states that he“struggles for 3 days to catch a fish and i understand that it is a 18ft marlin’’ page 65 He is also a failure because he says “unless sharks come and then a little later sharks come it's like he predicted it (that's kinda creepy). Sharks that he…

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Gregory Efthimios Louganis was adopted by Peter and Francis Louganis. As a child, he got bullied for his dyslexia and his skin color. However, Louganis would always depend on sports as a way of escaping his problems. At first, Louganis like gymnastics but his interest for diving started to grow. At the age of 11 he earned a perfect score of 10 during the 1971 Junior Olympics. Gregory attended the University of Miami on a full diving scholarship but later transferred to UC Irvine also on a full…

Ok boys. Tomorrow night we will be attacking Ralph's camp and our objective is to get Piggy's glasses. I'm not expecting any injuries or any deaths. All we need is to get the glasses. Do you understand. The little ones say, yes commander. The next night approaches and they were all in position. Jack and his group were all on top of a tree where under them was Ralph and Piggy. Piggy woke up and heard sticks breaking. He turned to Ralph and he said “Ralph I'm scared” in his normal voice and then…

women are objectified and thrown around by men- and it is all due to the usage of one word: slut. This word, which is synonymous to prostitute, is used in all areas, from describing an outfit, to body shaming, to degradation of a girl who kissed a boy in the wrong place at the wrong time. This is not the correct usage of the word, however. Webster's Dictionary defines the word as "a woman who has many sexual partners." When presented with this, it is clear that something…