The Lost Boy

prove she is just as good as the boys. The scene that causes the main character, Viola Davis, to dress up as her twin brother, is when her girls’ soccer team was cut from the school’s program because not enough girls signed up. Then she decided that she wanted to try out for the boys’ team. She asked the coach to let them try out, and he laughed in their faces and said, “Girls aren’t as fast as boys. It’s not me talking, it’s a scientific fact. Girls can’t beat boys, it’s as simple as that.”…

distinction that dolls are for girls, and that trucks or guns are meant to be for boys. No, these ideals are established in their heads from what toys they interact with as a child, and the clothes that they wore. When walking into the toy section of a store, you are either overwhelmed by the amount of pink and other bright colors or by the darker colors, which distinguishes whether it’s supposed to be for girls or boys. Throughout the colorful girl aisles, there are dolls, along with babies,…

are two very similar stories about a young boy’s experience with lust over a girl. The two boys are different ages and go to different lengths to impress the girl they want; however, each story has a similar theme, inciting incident, and final ending. A theme in both of the stories is immaturity, or ignorance. The narrator of Araby is an unnamed boy who is probably not yet an adolescent. Being a young boy in a dull town with little exposure to anything from the world outside of his, he is, by…

The Precious Day: Life is Based off of Decisions and Actions People make choices everyday, whether or not a person is willing to take part in something that will affect their lives in what kind of choices the individual makes. Not everyone is going to agree with what decision someone will make, but a person has to make a decision that will influence his or her life. Individuals have a desire to have a vigorous life, so that the choices the people make will influence their future. Timing plays…

whether we realize it or not. They become ingrained through our parents, off-the-cuff comments, media stories, racial jokes , and so on. We are told at a young age what is normal for girls and what is normal for boys. For example when a child is born we associated pink for girls and blue for boys. Pink represents feminist and blue represents muscular. We find ourselves molding our children into these stereotypes not realizing the harms of doing so. People tend to live up…

The stereotypical representations of masculinity - the “six pack,” “square chest” and “big arms” - have been questioned by contemporary advertising in the male grooming industry. Although the rise of metro- and lumbersexualities has mirrored the shifts in social perception of masculinity, such shifts miss the myriad versions of existing male identities. Lynx- a male grooming company – utilizes a diverse range of male figures within its latest advertising campaigns, so that ordinary people could…

My sister and I had a girl names, dresses in our closet, was told never to be dirty, always be polite, do not spit, do not hit another person even if they hit you back, football is for boys, jeans are for boy and so on. On the other hand all of the things we were told not to do my brother did them freely but he was never to wear pink, had to sit still in school “like the girls,” was made to try all sports and so on. This was normal to me and I…

actually happened throughout the roaring 1920s. Although the film focuses on a young boy trying to care for his sister and finding anything to eat or drink, I believe the main focus relates to The Great Depression of the 1920s. Although that is not mentioned in the film, the main focus is poverty and how children got around few things. There was one young girl that was part of the higher class and the young boy notices how she is taken and wants to help. The whole idea behind the upper class…

dinner and gets ready to start the laundry. A little boy comes in acting as if he had a long day of work asking her if dinner was ready and if his cloths were ready. When you were younger the girls were told to play with dolls and Barbie’s. Our parents brought us little kitchen and told us the importance of being a lady. We had to sit with our legs crossed and wear certain clothing’s that met societies standard of being a girl. As for the boys, they were different. They were told to play with…

if that the boys education around them is more important then their own, seeing as they must leave to change their clothing before the can return back to class and learning. It is most common that these issues are occurring when the warmer months begin to approach, girls begin to make use of tank tops and cooler clothing options then those that may begin to get too warm. High school dress codes are beginning to over step boundaries and are becoming unfair to adolescent girls; while boys are…