To My Boy

would not be in the back of my mind but in the front. I know that any parent and including me will love their

You are the parent of a 16-year-old boy. You come home and find the door ajar. Inside, you discover your son’s friend looking in a kitchen drawer. He says he is trying to leave your son a note. On the counter next to him is a lock pick and some of your jewelry. The boy smells of marijuana. You tell the boy to leave immediately and he does. Do you call the police, call the boy’s parents, tell your son, or do something else? Write a 1,400- to 2,100-word paper, explaining your response. Format

protagonist’s journey through life, Joyce explores his internal conflict as the boy battles with himself, his family, and the world showing his hopelessness and frustration. The story unfolds as the protagonist of Joyce’s story falls madly in love with a girl, but his shyness over takes him. When the girl finally proceeds to talk to the boy, conflict occurs to win the girl’s heart whom he loves. Joyce takes the boy through various struggles and conflicts in order to express his feelings towards

“Black Hair” by Gary Soto is a three stanza, free verse poem that observes the life of a young Mexican boy and his admiration for Hector Moreno, a Mexican baseball figure. The speaker is immediately identified as the young boy as he starts to reminisce about when he was eight years old. The boy goes on to talk about how he thought of himself at this age, as well as Hector and his parents. He would watch the baseball games and look up to Hector, copying him, and addressing how this win for Hector

Although there are many people in my class, I think that girls and boys should get to play sports together. Our school does not let boys and girls play sports together, many people think that is wrong. When I went to my other school, they got to play any sports they wanted to with boys and girls. Many people wish their school would let the girls and the boys play sports together. There is a very large amount of evidence where schools let there boys and girls play sports together, here is

how women and man's behavior in our world. For example a mother and her two kids a boy and girl are strolling through Target and heading through the toys section. The girl is seen this cool Star Wars Lego sets and sets her attention to obtaining it. She brings it back to the cart, and her mother say” lego are for boys, why don’t you pick something like a Minnie mouse toy since that for girls”. And vise-versa for boys. Do you feel gender norms affect human development? The essay “ Bros Before Hos:

that were labeled for boys. This led me to become fascinated with basketball and had asked my grandparents to sign me up for the city's boys' basketball team. At a young age, I learned how to resolve an aspect of my gender with the pressure from young boys and adults was about attending boys' sports team, experiencing unkind teasing, and deciding to ignore ridicules. One the first day of practice, when I walked onto the basketball court, I felt the non-welcome stares from my teammates and some parents

Boys ripped away from their parents; angry with the world, not comprehending why this happened to them. Today is the day that my sister and I have one of many serious conversations with my parents concerning our thoughts and feelings about our family taking in, and possibly adopting foster boys. Now Corissa and I didn’t quite know what to expect because we had never experienced bad behavior from little kids; both of us obeyed our parents. These boys will most likely not obey my parents because they

While reading the book Real Boys by Dr. William Pollack, I was assigned to only read (Chapters 1-4) I found myself reading this book all the way to the end. This book introduces the reader to several young men who share their thoughts of shame and despair in trying to live up to the "Boy Code". The Boy Code is a set of rules and expectations that come from out-of-date and highly dysfunctional gender stereotypes: the idea that boys need to keep their emotions in check; that violence is an acceptable

was standing in line by the water fountains with my classmates waiting to get to class. All the sudden, I felt a hand squeeze my butt and I heard four of my male classmates laugh and say something behind me. I was so embarrassed, and I tried to tell myself that it didn't actually happen. I spent the rest of the school week debating whether or not it was an accident, but I knew it wasn't. After that, I started to be more intimidated by the boys in my class. Everything I did seemed to revolve around