In the book, Lizzie and the Buckminster Boy by Gary D. Schmidt, Willis and Turner don’t get along very well, but as Mrs. Elia Hurd gets moved into the house for the feeble minded, they find a friendship.…
Tobias Wolff’s highly accredited novel, ‘ This Boys Life’ explores truth and lies through the use of various scenarios and characters in a cliché “American dream” teenage world.…
The fiction book Solider Boys, was written by Dean Hughes in 2001. The book takes place during WWII and talks about the war life, struggles, and thoughts of the boys from the Hitler Youth and the Americans.…
The novel, The Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane took place in the Civil War of the late 19th century. It is a story about a young man who named Henry Fleming and the story of his experiences in the Civil War. The story goes a few years in the war (the dates from the starting of the story to the end are not listed. The characters in the novel are portrayed as people who affect the main character Henry Fleming. Each character influences and changes the main character from a boy to a mature man.…
In the essay, “How schools shortchange boys,” by Gerry Garibaldi, I agree on boys tuning out in a “newly feminized classroom.” Girls may out number boys in graduating from high school with a diploma, but boys give up on school, because they don’t want to be like girls. “Girls are calm and pleasant,” while boys are aggressive and are rationalists. Since girls just do what they are told and write what they need to, for example a project. While girls turn in their assignment days in advance, boys demand when they were given the assignment and act in a disruptive manner. A female teacher might take this as being disrespectful. The disapproval of a female teacher “has a powerful effect on male psyche.” Males squirm from the disapproval when they…
Young people are most often guided by their parents and guardians of what they should or shouldn’t do. However, some unfortunate ones are left alone to find their own paths. In their search of making their own destiny; some young people choose to fight against all obstacles to reach goals that will lead to a successful fortune, while some will walk an uneasy way and repeat themselves in the misery of self-destructiveness and self-sabotaging behaviors. In Tobias Wolff’s memoir This Boy’s Life, the author presents a life that is built up on continuous self-destructive decisions; making himself his own worst enemy and causing all kinds of pitiful situations which he hopes to change and evolve into a better self, only to once again find him fallen into the very trap set up by no one but himself.…
In the short story, “The Boys Who Fought The Nazis” by Kristin Lewis, the role of information was very important to the people of Germany, Hitler, and three young boys that resisted the Nazis.…
In the short story, “Soldier’s home,” the protagonist deals with difficult conflicts within himself and with others. Ernest Hemmingway shows us what it is like for the soldier, Harold Krebs, who returned home, to Kansas, from World War I in 1917, three years after the end of the war. He did not get celebrated like all the other soldiers that returned home causing some major conflict in the story.…
The privilege of being a child is only a lost dream to children in places like Sierra Leone where they are forced into joining rebel and militia groups. The children in those groups learn how to shoot guns when instead they should be learning how to ride a bicycle. In Ishmael Beah’s memoir, A Long Way Gone he speaks about his time during the war and being recruited as a child soldier. Ishmael goes through numerous life changing events and commits awful things during his time in fighting in the war. Ishmael however is able to leave his horrible lifestyle behind, obtain his humanity back and start a new beginning along with the rest of society. Beah manages to withstand the effect of the horrors of war by accepting the loss of his family, and beginning new relationships with people such as his newly found uncle and Esther the nurse from his rehabilitation center.…
Freedom is something not a lot of places are fortunate to have, but luckily in America everyone has the right to freedom. What if your freedom was taken away, leaving you helpless? Sadly enough that is how many people feel, and how many people live. Sometimes you have to fight for your freedom no matter what the situation is. Two examples that show this include the texts “The Boys Who Fought” and “Holocaust Survivor Stories” show how many people during World War 2 were deprived of their freedom.…
In “Put a little science in your life”, Brian Greene explains how important learning science was in school. However, being important took a backseat to a student actually applying science in their lives. In the beginning of the essay, Greene writes about how he was contacted by a soldier overseas who had read a book that Greene had written about science. Instead of telling the author about how war life was, the soldier instead felt that Greene should know how his book had changed his perspective in life. Green says that, “the soldier’s letter emphasized something that I’ve increasingly come to believe: our educational system fails to teach science in a way that allows students to integrate it into their lives.”…
This paper will explore how individuals in the novel, A long way gone: Memoirs of a boy soldier interact at various systems levels. It will also identify how social conflict, oppression, war and poverty affect these relationships. The reader will discuss how the relationships offer members with a sense of identity, strength, resilience and support. The essay will explore how their families, groups, and communities help to address issues of oppression in their lives. The reader will review the NASW Standards for Cultural Competence in Social Work Practice. The Reader will determine how Self Awareness, Cross Cultural Knowledge and Service Delivery guide their social work practice in working with the population throughout the novel. The paper will provide information on how the NASW Code of Ethical Standards will assist the client systems described in the assigned book.…
The Red Badge of Courage is a fictional story of a young soldier named Henry Fleming, who finds himself by overcoming his inner fears in a series of events during the Civil War. Henry is an average farm boy from New York, who dreams of being a true war hero. He has enlisted in the 304th New York regiment, which fights for the Unionist forces. The rising action for this novel is of Henry trying to overcome his struggle with courage. This changes when a dear friend, Jim, dies right before his eyes. He obtains a “red badge of courage” by accident when another soldier strikes him in the head with his rifle. Henry gains the confidence to return to his regiment and redeem himself. He develops a close relationship with the loud soldier, Wilson, and they, together, thrive as true war heroes.…
What does it take to be a military brat? Military brats are people with parents in any military branch that have to deal with constant moving from base to base and long restless nights worrying if they will ever get to see their loved ones again. The most important thing that it takes to be a military brat is that no matter how crazy their life can get, they are proud of who they are. It is often hard to make friends, because they tend to move a lot and are not in one place for a very long time. People have created conventions, social media networks, and registries where military brats can get together and meet other people that live a life that is similar to their own. For example, militarybrats.net is a social network where military brats can meet other military brats and talk about their similar life experiences. There is also a Military Brats registry that was created by a man named Marc Curtis. He originally created it to get in contact with his old military friends in Fort Bliss, but then he had the idea to open it up to anyone who wants to find other military people that they can relate too (Curtis). The social site is also free…
“An exciting adventure.” That was the mentality of boys and men all over the North and South, leading up to the Civil war. Seeing an alternative to the monotonous farm life, many men were eager and filled with anticipation at the thought of being in a war. In The Boys War by Jim Murphy, these men and boys learn the truth about war. Many preconceptions are shattered, and fantasies are broken wide open by reality. One common misconception was that the fighting would be constant, but this was not the case. When soldiers were not marching, being drilled, or in the midst of a skirmish, there was often leisure time. During these periods, men and boys were free to pursue activities and games. Gambling, pulling pranks, and occasional fraternization were three pastimes of men and boys alike during the war.…