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    Real Boys

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    The book Real Boys by William Pollack explores the lives of boys. He states that boys hide they feelings. So it may seem on the outside that a boy is tough‚ cheerful‚ and confident‚ but really they are sad lonely and confused. He looks at the "mask" boys have been put on. Also explains how to get behind that mask. He goes over the boy code and explains it. Also he goes over the truths behind the myths. He goes over many other things also. I will try to outline the book as well as possible. He

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    Kritios Boy

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    One of my favorite pieces of art that we have studied so far is the statue Kritios Boy. I am very intrigued by the background history of this statue. It is believed to have been created by the sculptor Kritios hence the name of the statue. The Kritios Boy is one of the first statues to focus on how a person actually stands. The term for this is contrapposto. According to Google‚ Contrapposto is an Italian word meaning counterpose. It is used in the visual arts to describe a human figure with most

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    The Lost Boys

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    Approximately 26‚000 boys‚ during the late 1980’s‚ fled the southern part of Sudan in an effort to escape the violence that had consumed their country. With such an enormous amount of refugees fleeing Sudan‚ it was described as an “exodus of biblical proportions”(Corbett‚ 2001). These refugees were dubbed “The Lost Boy” due to the many similarities they had with the Peter Pan’s followers in the story Neverland. Like the fictional characters in the story‚ most of these boys‚ whose ages were all below

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    "big boy"

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    Big Boy‚ by David Sedaris‚ is a short‚ somewhat‚ humorous story equipped with strong messages. It speaks of an issue he faced at an Easter party at his sister’s house and the complications it caused him. Sedaris had excused himself to the bathroom and found a “big piece of work” right in the toilet. He stressed and contemplated over what he should do with it. He even scolded himself for announcing where he was going prior to leaving to the restroom. He began speaking to it. The words he spoke were

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    Mama's Boy

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    A Mama’s boy is the son of a woman‚ who is either his mother or someone who is looked or viewed as a mother figure in his life. He has traits that are second-to-none and maybe misunderstood from time-to-time. He is bold‚ compassionate‚ appreciates the simple things in life‚ and at times viewed as a softy for his compassion for others. A Mamas boy looks to protect and honor his mother. He always puts his mother first and thinks of her or asks her advice whenever making an important decision

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    Boys of Baraka

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    American families are suffering from the violence and substance abuse in their towns today‚ as reflected in the film “Boys of Baraka”. This film focuses on four young African American boys and their families from an inner city in Baltimore; Richard and brother Romash‚ Devon‚ and Montrey. As a result of the lack of discipline and an increased violence rate‚ these African American boys are suffering education-wise. Luckily‚ the Baraka School in Africa was designed for these children and gave them hope

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    The Scottsboro Boys

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    The Scottsboro Boys All of us know the feeling of getting blamed for something we haven ’t done. With that in mind try imaging getting put in jail for years for a crime you didn’t commit. That was the case for nine black men in Alabama in the year 1931.There was so much physical evidence proving that the nine boys were innocent‚ however the extreme racism Alabama government officials had towards African Americans is arguably the biggest factor that lead to this injustice

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    Boy at the Window

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    The “Boy at the Window” by Richard Wilbur is a poignant poem. Richard Wilbur “said that he wrote the “Boy at the Window” after seeing how distressed his five-year-old son was about a snowman they had built” was stuck out in a storm (Clugston‚ 2010). Poignant can be described as an awareness of both beauty and loss through powerful feelings or pain. Poetry has this beautiful gift of being able to evoke strong feelings in the reader. In the “Boy at the Window” the poet captures the innocent nature

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    The Scottsboro Boys

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    death. Imagine that you are tried over and over again‚ and each time you go back to death row. This became reality to nine young boys on March 25‚ 1931. When the Scottsboro boys were convicted‚ everyone involved was extremely happy. Yet when the boys persuaded the judges to have retrial after retrial‚ it became a mess. Despite the conflicting testimonies of the Scottsboro boys‚ Victoria Price‚ and Ruby Bates‚ the court was able to discern the truth and deliver justice to everyone surrounding the trial

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    The History Boys

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    What elements of Bennetts own educational experiences has he used in “the History Boys”? Bennett says that he was made fun of at school for coming to school in a suit on the day of his exams. He says he did this because he thought the exam was an occasion and he must rise to it. This show us how he felt towards his exams and probably shows how some of the boys in his book would have felt like when taking their exams. This shows how important he thinks exams are and this theme will probably reflect

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