The Blue Boy

stereotypes and gender roles seen in toys marketed for children highly resembles those seen in adult life. At an early age, many children, especially those in the western world, have already developed ideas about careers and lifestyles suitable for boys or girls. It is obvious that these ideas can be learned through interactions with toys that are marketed by society. Through the analysis different toys, it is evident that toys are being used to reinforce social structures such as gender roles, male

the boys cut off the hair upon arrival at the school, he defied orders. The biggest in convince for the white men was Thomas’ brother the bear. He to the bear was its brother too. Other children used the bear and his long hair as a new way to make fun of him. One of the boys at the school mocked Thomas by saying “My name is Bear Meat.” (pg.56) This angered him and he threw a wooden mallet at the other boy. This wasn’t the only time the bear caused problems for Thomas so, the Agent told Blue Elk

Old Lady who Swallowed a Fly where the boy has to put lots of objects up into the tree to get his kite unstuck. The second book, Block City is about a boy who builds a city of blocks using his imagination. The illustrations in the books are vastly different since you are looking at two different pictures of boys. The drawing types are different as the illustrator put their unique touch on the artwork in each book. The first book is called Stuck about a boy who got his kite stuck in a tree. This

introduces a boy who spends his time contemplating life at a pond nearby his home. Crabtree provides many proposals throughout the story that the pond does not actually exist, though. The title of the story refers to the name of the boy, rather than the pond. First and foremost, the pond in the story is alluded to not be a physical pond. It is given many different human qualities because Crabtree used personification to expose the fact that the pond was actually the boy. For example,

these words with these specific connotations in their short stories. “Araby” by James Joyce follows along with a boy on his quest to buy something for a girl he loves who is much older than him. On his quest, there are examples of light and darkness to represent hope for romantic love and the realization of his inappropriate observations which led to darkness and confusion. “Sonny’s Blues” by James Baldwin follows the relationship of the narrator and his brother, who just got out of jail for his use

seems to be an obvious separation between boys and girls items, for example, the birthday cards, books, clothes, and toys. This is shown in a variety of ways the boy's items are mainly the color blue and the books have pictures of either action figures, superheroes or tools. Whereas the girl's items are mainly the color pink. The books show pictures of fairies, princess, and Bratz. The cards also have the theme of the color pink for girls and blue for boys. The girl's cards have a lot of sparkles

INTRODUCTION Did you know that an astonishing 80 percent of science, research, engineering and technology professionals are male? This huge percentage could have begun at the age of one. Children’s toys, especially relating to gender, cause children to obtain different skills and can lead them towards specific interests and careers. It is important for parents to monitor the types of toys their children have and play with to decrease this large percentage. BACKGROUND Children’s toys have a large

B.B. King’s reign as “King of the Blues” has been as long as that of any monarch on earth. B.B. King continued to have his crown at the age of 76, and he was still light on his feet, singing and playing the blues with never ending passion. Time has no effect on B.B, all time does for him is make him more popular, more cherished, and more relevant than ever. Even though B.B. King has passed, he’s alive as the music he plays, and the world can’t get enough of him. For more than half a century, Riley

displayed through The Blue Man’s death, Marguerite’s car crash, and Tala’s death. Actions, small or large, can effectuate an immense chain reaction. How could a young boy unknowingly cause the death of a man? A seven year old boy named Eddie is playing ball with his friends. When his ball rolls onto the street, he immediately runs to grab the ball and causes a car to swerve. He does not think twice about this interaction and returns to playing with his friends. However, The Blue Man driving the car

the most common examples of this is blue is for boys and pink is for girls. Parents enforce gender stereotypes by encouraging and discouraging certain behaviors. An example of this would be if parent agrees with boy getting dirty while he plays outside, but not a girl. Some others would be: dressing their children in gender specific colors, such as pinks and blues; and giving their children toys that their gender is recognized to play with, like trucks for boys and baby dolls for girls. Parents also