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Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain and Dramatic Irony

In five pages Twain's use of dramatic irony in Chapter XXXI is examined in terms of Huck's decision regarding Jim's mistake and it...

First Encounter With Death in Joyce's The Sisters

The focus of this three page paper is a young boy's first experience with death as it unfolds in the short story in James Joyce's ...

Conflict and Innocence in Montana 1948 by Larry Watson

a summer, again this is reminiscent of most childhood memories that the reader may have, apart from specific seasonal memories in ...

Italo Calvino's The Path to the Spider's Nest

In ten pages this paper presents a young boy's reasoning in an analysis of this text by Italo Calvino. There is 1 source cited in...

Early Palestine and Jews

In eight pages this paper discusses the early Palestine in a consideration of a Jewish boy's story before the fifteenth century A....

China Boy by Gus Lee

In eight pages this paper analyzes the novel's Chinese American boy's struggles in a consideration of masculinity as defined by th...

Michael Gurian's The Wonder of Boys

wrong. For the most part it appears as though Gurians work is focusing on how bad single mothering is for sons, and how mothers ...

James Joyce's 'Araby'

praises which I myself did not understand" (Joyce). In this we see him envisioning himself as something of a noble knight, a figur...

Story of an Apology

dog, and then headed for the door. She waddled. Her granddaughter who she rarely sees, Allison, laughs and calls her a duck. Veron...

Character Building and the Boy Scouts

exciting manner. Working to complete various projects so that they can receive titles and work up through the ranks, these boys l...

Lost in the Barrens by Farley Mowat

This face is made clear when the author writes about the remoteness of Uncle Angus cabin from other signs of human civilization. L...

The Virgin Suicides Aspects

and possibly guilty over Luxs reaction to her initiation to sex. Lux is extremely young and a strictly raised and sheltered Cathol...

Gangs and Fatherless Boys

helped by community members, family members, churches and many other aspects of community. But as society became more complex ther...

Altruistic Suicide

anomie contends that when things change too quickly, individuals become disoriented. This state of anomie can lead to suicide. Ano...

Video Documentary of The Best Boy/The Best Man

capable while living in a group home. In the end, it is the cousin who does convince the rest of the family to allow him to live ...

'Araby' by James Joyce and Growing Up

a part of the childhood experience. But then, a girl referred to only as Mangans sister (obviously the sister of one of his frien...

Grandma's Passing

The writer assumes the personal of a 14-year-old boy in order to provide a hypothetical example of how the boy could expressed him...

Media and Socialization

This essay explains how boys communicate with boys and how girls communicate with girls. It also discusses how sexism begins and t...

Afghanistan National Development Strategy (ANDS)

Security; Governance Rule of Law & Human Rights; Infrastructure & Natural Resources; Education; Health; Agriculture & Rural Develo...

A Day at Coney Island (Reflective Essay on Childhood)

if I had been in danger, or how long they took to find me. My memory is blurred, and now at seventy, my mother does not remember e...

Hunters in the Snow by Tobias Wolff

trouble getting through the fences. Frank and Kenny could have helped him; they could have lifted up on the top wire and stepped o...

2 Short Stories, Identity

This essay pertains to The short stories "Bible" by Tobias Wolfe and "Virgins" by Danielle Evans. The writer discusses the theme o...

Lisbon Earthquake of 1755 Explained by Philosophy and Science

mans attention. After running in fear from Jezebel, the Lord attracted Elijahs attention by using an earthquake. (1 Kings 19:11,...

Tobias Wolff's The End of Illusion In Pharaoh's Army

In five pages the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive is the focus of this overview of the memoir by Tobias Wolff. One source is cited in...

Tobias Matthay and Dorothy Taubman's Piano Techniques

In fourteen pages this research paper discusses the 19th and 20th century techniques for piano developed by Tobias Matthay and Dor...

Athol Fugard's 'Master Harold' and the Boys Life Epiphanies

In six pages the epiphanies learned along the life journeys of Hally, Sam, and Willie throughout the course of the play and how th...

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...

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...

'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...

Daniel Kindlon and Michael Thompson's Raising Cain Protecting the Emotional Life of Boys

emotional lives are squelched, and what can be done about this without the longstanding fear of "turning boys into girls." In the...