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The Ideal Man

and they are very often unpleasant: all Mexicans are lazy; all black women are welfare queens; all whites are unaware of white pri...

Kowalski, Thao and Overcoming Bigotry

viable action hero-as Walt Kowalski, a retired Detroit autoworker trying to come to terms with the changes in his neighborhood and...

Child with E/BD

headed" when faced with stress, while people with a "poorly differentiated self" are largely dependent on what others think of the...

Sharon Olds’ Vision of Children

of children and their behavior, their fears and victories. This paper compares and contrasts two of her poems, "The One Girl at th...

Recovery from Child Abuse, Pelzer's Memoir

This research paper relates "The Lost Boy," a memoir by David Pelzer, with research that pertains to child abuse. Nine pages in le...

Quammen and Berriault, Two Short Stores

This paper offer analysis of David Quammen's "Walking Out" and Gina Berriault's "The Stone Boy," describing their differences and ...

Elementary Students, Gender, and Science Achievement

This research paper describes research that pertains to the gender gap in science achievement that exists between boys and girls. ...

Nutrition Analysis of Two Teens

Pre-teens and teenagers need to consume more calories than usual because of their growth spurt. Most of them do but the foods they...

Girls versus Boys and Depression

Two journal articles are reviewed in this essay. Each discusses when depression becomes more prevalent in girls than boys and the ...

Two Canadian Works Compared

Rohinton Mistry's Swimming Lessons And Other Stories from Firozsha Baag and Shyam Selvadurai's Funny Boy along with their Bombay ...

How America's Schools Cheat Girls

The sad reality is that we are not, some of the overt gender bias may have changed but it is alive and well in most schools, and u...

Gender Differences in Adolescents

This research paper pertains the differences and similarities that exist between the ways in which boys and girls experience adole...

Analyzing Coriolanus in The Tragedy of Coriolanus by William Shakespeare

in, on the basis of her gender. Coriolanus was an extremely dutiful son, and his single-minded focus was in becoming the courageo...

The Piano Lesson by August Wilson and its Fundamental Perspectives

In five pages this essay discusses the conflicting views of Berniece who wants to keep the treasured family heirloom the piano and...

The War Against Boys How Misguided Feminism is Harming Our Young Men by Christina Hoff Sommers

In five pages this report considers Sommers' 2000 text and the assertion that in contemporary America boys are having a more diffi...

Gay Rights and The Boy Scouts v. James Dale

In five pages this paper considers discrimination, gay rights, and the leadership dismissal of James Dale by Monmouth County, New ...

Low Income Children and State Insurance Programs

In five pages this paper discusses low income children as featured in an article in which state insurance programs for these boys ...

A Review of First Confession

judgmental individual. As it turns out, he learns that his fears are unfounded with regard to both his confession and the priest,...

The Power Elite and White Collar The American Middle Classes by C. Wright Mills

most part, completely unremarkable, having "slipped quietly into modern society... As a group, they do not threaten anyone; as ind...

'The Candy Man' Dean Corll

In seven pages children serial killer Dean Corll of Pasadena, Texas is discussed in terms of his life, his children's party plann...

Character Development in The Things They Carried

or another. In the case of the Vietnam War, and OBriens book, the consequence of war was, in many cases, age. As we shall see, the...

An Analysis of Several Paintings by Thomas Gainsborough

as a foundation member; in 1774, he relocated for good to London where he expounded upon techniques he learned while at Bath, whic...

Dave Pelzer's The Lost Boy

not large enough and therefore in these situations, generally speaking, those who abuse the system tend to sponsor or foster a gre...

An At-Risk Brooklyn Youth Case Study

involved in drug dealing and in fact, by the time he would turn 14 years old, would carry a gun ("Shawn," 1993). By the time he is...

French Film Boy Meets Girl by Director Leos Carax

real name of "Leos Carax" is actually Alexandre Dupont and that "Leos Carax" is an anagram of the lead characters name, Alex Oscar...

Snow in August by Pete Hamill and Friendship Bonds

In five pages this paper examines the friendship between Rabbi Hirsch and a young Irish boy named Michael as described in this tex...

Adolescent Delinquency Case Study

life of this boy, asking what went wrong may help to comprehend juvenile delinquency in America. There are many implications and t...

The Sociological Imagination by C. Wright Mills

worlds, the one that exists within the realm of human interaction and the one that is experienced by the individual. Both worlds ...

Huck and Tom's Maturation in The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

In 15 pages this paper examines how these boys mature throughout the course of Mark Twain's coming of age novel. There are no oth...

Donald Duk by Frank Chin

In five pages this paper examines the novel's representation of the Chinese heritage as perceived by an eleven year old boy. Ther...