The Blue Boy

“What are little girls made of? Sugar and spice, and everything nice, that’s what little girls, are made of. What are little boys made of? Snips and snails, and puppy dog tails. That’s what little boys are made of”. Author: English Poet Robert Southey (1774–1843). “Tabula rasa” this is how the educationalist John Locke, (1632) believed children were born, with a “blank slate” beginning their lives morally neutral. He also wrote that “the little and almost insensible impressions on our tender infancies

those. (As he points to basket of a few more trains) Benny: No, I want the blue train. (None of the trains in basket are blue) Mike: I want all the blue trains. Teacher: Mike you have three blue trains and Benny has none. How can we make it fair so that Benny can have a blue train also? Benny: He can give me one. Teacher: Mike what do you think about that idea? (Mike looks down at the trains) Benny, if Mike gives you any blue train will you be ok with that? Benny: Yes Mike is still thinking about

There were six minutes remming on the clock, this was no in season “fun” game, this would be the game that decided weather the Blue Devils or Eagles would be named the national champions. The score board read 3-3 as they headed into the last period, tension grew with in the crowd and players on the ice. Only a few minutes remained on the clock and the atmosphere in the building was uncomfortable and full of unknown outcomes, it came time for the final play. The Eagles having confidence decided

the justice has been stolen .in the honey boy , althoug Honey boy was his best friend ,Big blue kills him to be rewarded .His greed leads him to commit that legal crime due to the instructions of the police departments ."10,000 $ to turn in the Honey Boy dead or alive" .That is an insane scencs that could happen between friends .I am not at all convinced that the mother's action was right.I entirely dissagree with the mother's actions in the Honey Boy for many reasons . First of all ,

Boy Wonder Archie Smith was your everyday boy. But he was sad. Both his parents had died in a tragic accident when he was just a few years old. He was later adopted by a kind family of the Smiths and there twins, Adriana and Oliver. But he was like a sore thumb in the family of dirty blondes and hazel eyes with his black hair and mismatched eyes his left blue and right green. Archie was happy about having a family, but he didn't feel like he belonged. Archie laid in his bed sleeping soundly on a

“Maybe you’ll be a herpes child…” He smirked. “Do you mean Hermes?” The identical boy, except the emerald green eyes sighed. “No! I meant what I said! Herpes is a wonderful god, respect your father!” He chuckled. I rolled my eyes. “So you guys are twins I’m guessing…” I itched my back of my neck underneath my collar nervously. “Yep, this hooligan here and I unfortunately share a birthday.” The boy with emerald eyes chuckled. “So how long have you two been coming here?” “We came with

ribbons. Hanging to the left of the photo is a pair of blue coveralls, and to the right a single blue star banner. The banner has a white background, blue star, and is framed with a bright red border. Hanging around the room and on the workbench is numerous items associated with a mechanic’s workshop, to include tools, manuals, gaskets, work lights etc. We can also see a small American flag displayed in the upper left corner of the

Les Demoiselles is the most famous example of cubism painting. Artist would analyze natural forms and reduce them into geometric shapes. Only colours used include grey, blue and ochre on a monochromatic scheme. Picasso in this painting used distortion of female’s body and geometric shapes in an innovative way, which challenged the idea that paintings should illustrate representations of female beauty. This painting also

How To Play the Part of Your Gender Is it a boy or a girl? When we first hear about the announcement of a new life coming, our brains right away insist on “knowing the gender”. In the essay Learning to Be Gendered, Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell, discuss that gender is a form of separating people by characteristics. Not necessarily because there is a biological reasoning behind classifying someone by gender.Eckert and McConnell are definitely right, from birth we teach our children to associate

For years children’s toys have always been segregated, with it being overtly clear that the blue and more physical action type toys are marketed at a young male audience, while the pretty pink domestic style toys such as kitchens and babies are aimed at little girls. But has this always been the case? Are toy manufacturers stuck in less modern times when a man would go out and work and a women would keep the house respectable? Are children’s toys what’s holding us back from achieving complete gender