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The Civil War was also called the Boys War because of the large number of boys entering the war. Although there was age restrictions for both sides, young boys found ways to get around it. One thing they would do is lie about their age to recruitment officers. Recruitment officers would not care about the lie because they had to meet a deadline. Another way to get around it will be to get parental permission some dads would sign their sons up cause the dads would also be going to war. The last way

Not Enough Boys Elaine MacArdle is a correspondent for the Boston Globe and wrote The Lost Boys. Michelle Conlin is a writer for Business Week and she wrote The New Gender Gap. Both of these writer talk about the decline of young men attending college and women becoming the majority in getting a higher education. The message that these two writers want to get across is that there is a gender reversal in American education and how this may affect society and our nation. Historically males have

How would you react when someone forces expectations on to you that you disagree with? Would you try to reason with them, or just give in and act the way they expect of you? In the short story “Boys and Girls” by Alice Monroe has a girl go through and answer that question in her story. At first disagreeing, after being pressures by the people in her family she gives in to the ideas that others had set on her. The life of the narrator conveys the idea that an individual may have to conform to the

Do gender stereotypes impact boys? In the articles: “How ‘Man Up’ And Other Stereotypical Sayings Hurt Boys,” “Avoiding Gender Stereotypes,” “‘Men are stuck’ in gender roles, data suggest,” “Girls Start Believing Men Are Smarter Than Women as Early as 6 Years Old,” and “Boys Think They're Smarter Than Girls As Early As Grade 4,” They all state many things on how boys can be affected by stereotypes and that it is not just a problem for girls. It can affect guys in negative ways by showing who is boss

united states and the other story What could a teenage boy living in the mountains of Switzerland have in common with a boy growing up in tropical Trinidad? Rudi in James Ramsey Ullman’s “A Boy and a Man” and Santo in Sam Selvon’s “The Mouth Organ” do come from very different places and have different interests and abilities. However, they both are faithful to their dreams. The contrasts between the two characters are obvious. Rudi is a rugged boy from the mountains of Switzerland. He shows courage

school football players allegedly sexually violated a fellow student, there has been some debate as to whether society’s expectations of males, expressed through the phrase ‘boys will be boys’, has resulted in harm being done to teenagers. In a opinion piece titled “The Damage Being Done When People Insists ‘Boys Will Be boys’”, written for www.dailylife.com.au and published on the 3rd of June, 2016, the author, Clementine Ford, contends that societal gender expectations have resulted in harm being

Boom!! A loud noise struck out of nowhere. I think these are the sounds of war. I don’t know what to do this reminds me of The Battle of Shiloh that I have to fight in at such an early age. This is about a boy named Joby in the story The drummer Boy of Shiloh by Ray Bradbury. Joby is a young boy about to go and fight in the battle of shiloh and he is very afraid of what may happen to him and one night him and a general had a talk because the general heard Joby crying. Joby is only 14 years old and

Is it Really Just a Boy Thing? One of the most talked about topics in education is the widening achievement gap between male and female students. It has been debated for more than a decade of why male students are falling behind in the educational system. There is significant evidence to believe that this is a phenomenon. However, there is not a concrete answer as to why male students are lacking academically. This leads to two possible lines of thinking about gender gaps: Either they represent the

In this novel, Give A Boy A Gun by Todd Strasser, Brendan Lawlor and Gary Searle are two boys that attend Middletown High School. Brendan has recently just moved into town. Brendan does not realize that everything is about to change, since he was popular in his old school. Brendan then becomes friends with Gary, who is also a student at Middletown High School. Brendan noticed that he has been struggling due to him hanging out with Gary because Gary is “unpopular”. They are both being teased and tossed

Symbolism of the Munro’s “Boys and Girls” The short story Boys and Girls was written by Canadian writer Alice Munro in the 60s. It looks inside the family of a fox-breeder with two children: an unnamed girl and her brother Laird. The girl is narrator of this story. The work showed a typical life of a breeder – the man looked after foxes, but treated them only a source of a good fur. The girl wanted to be closer to her father in spite of fact she was afraid of him a little and did not know what he