...was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the halfdestroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They are so used to me that they know my schedule," he muttered. Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around:...
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...was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the halfdestroyed roof. I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious energy bound his life to that of the sheep, with whom he had spent the past two years, leading them through the countryside in search of food and water. "They are so used to me that they know my schedule," he muttered. Thinking about that for a moment, he realized that it could be the other way around:...
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...between Delinquent Adolescent Boys. Ibrahim O Dairo Argosy University Monday, May 11, 2015 As a counselor in a detention center for delinquent adolescent boys, my assignment is to observe the boys at the center, many of whom were in gangs. And, see if it is possible to identify solutions to reduce the intergroup conflicts. At the detention center gangs are something that is seen every day. According to the National institute of justice, a gang is “a group of individuals whose purpose is to engage in criminal activity which uses violence or intimidation to further its criminal objectives”. In a gang, some concepts that may led to intergroup conflicts may involve stereotypes, prejudice, and discrimination. Some stereotypes being herd on the news about Gangs may involve more Black and Hispanic individuals are in gangs. Which has been proven to be true around the world. Another stereotypes that follows being involved in a gang is that most of the individuals in a gang come from broken homes and poor families. This stereotype has been proven to be false because many gangs are cross sections of neighborhood of where they live. Where they maybe be some living on the streets today, many individuals involved in a gang are from troubled families (Hewstone, M., Rubin, M., & Willis, H. (2002). In the detention center it is possible that the boys are serotyping against each other. Having conflicts back and forth on who is the better and most improved...
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...Who’s the person you’d go to hell and back for? Who would you walk for years in a dark, cold, lifeless world, seeing burned half eaten bodies for? Death isn’t a lover, but watching the color fade and the sun vanish taking faith and humanity with it. Death is seen as living and living is seen as death. In a world where snow falls gray, the ocean isn't blue, birds don't soar, trees slowly plummet and humanity has lost all meaning, in his novel The Road, Cormac McCarthy portrays a colorless and lifeless earth while teaching a boy the purpose of life and faith. The greens have turned grey, the blues have turned black, the sun cannot be seen, warmth cannot be felt. “The clocks stopped at 1:17pm. A long shear of light and a series of low concussions.” is McCarthy’s only...
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...POETRY ESSAY The Chimney Sweeper Thesis Sometimes people are forced to grow and live in the harshest of conditions, it can be hard to see God in those dark and bleak times but those who can, are truly blessed and know that their sufferings will only be temporary. Outline I. Introduction- Bringing to light an appalling state of affairs regarding children who have no loved ones The Chimney sweeper Overview: Sold into child slavery at an early age Forced to grow up quickly Examples of imagery in the poem Hard working conditions Dreams of a better time and place The author uses imagery to describe how the children work and live and their surroundings Why does Blake write this poem is it meant to be depressing or to teach us to be more thankful of the blessings we have Conclusion It’s important for us to remember when we are depressed and feeling blue that things could be much worse and we should be thankful for what we have been given The Chimney Sweeper William Blake Sometimes people are forced to grow and live in the harshest of conditions, it can be hard to see God in those dark and bleak times but those who can, are truly blessed and know that their sufferings will only be temporary. In the poem “The Chimney sweeper” the reader is informed about brutal circumstances children around the world were forced to work and...
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...Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 1 / 94 The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho Translated by Alan R. Clarke. Published 1992. ISBN 0-7225-3293-8. = CONTENTS = Part One Part Two Epilogue PART ONE The boy's name was Santiago. Dusk was falling as the boy arrived with his herd at an abandoned church. The roof had fallen in long ago, and an enormous sycamore had grown on the spot where the sacristy had once stood. He decided to spend the night there. He saw to it that all the sheep entered through the ruined gate, and then laid some planks across it to prevent the flock from wandering away during the night. There were no wolves in the region, but once an animal had strayed during the night, and the boy had had to spend the entire next day searching for it. He swept the floor with his jacket and lay down, using the book he had just finished reading as a pillow. He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows. It was still dark when he awoke, and, looking up, he could see the stars through the half-destroyed roof. Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist Page 2 / 94 I wanted to sleep a little longer, he thought. He had had the same dream that night as a week ago, and once again he had awakened before it ended. He arose and, taking up his crook, began to awaken the sheep that still slept. He had noticed that, as soon as he awoke, most of his animals also began to stir. It was as if some mysterious...
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...Why is it that a commander always has a second-in-command? Or a president, a vice president? A king or queen, a royal advisor? Is it so there’s someone to take over if the leader dies? Is it to keep the leader in check? Not entirely. There’s always a second, because one person can’t be a good leader alone. There is no person in the world who has every trait of a great leader. The traits are shared and spread between various people. Not only does this make people work together to overcome their difficulties, but it also ensures a separation of powers in order to keep one person from rising up as a tyrant. Lord of the Flies showed a great example of this idea. Ralph and Piggy were easily the two best leaders of the group, but neither of the boys...
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...“the fat boy” was that he is nerdy and an outcast. This is so because he didn’t do as much stuff as normal kids do like swimming because of his asthma. He didn’t fit in with others and got made fun of in school thats why hes called Piggy. 2.Piggy was the one who had the idea to blow the conch shell to call the others. This was important because they got to know who survived the plane crash. Plus after the meeting Ralph, Jack, and Simon explored the island to see if it was actually an island. 3.The reader's first impression of Sam and Eric was that they did everything together and they were funny. They did everything together because in the book it says “they breathed together,...
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...Cut off from the outside world and trapped on an island, the boys, once civilized and innocent begin perform more savage actions in order to survive, increasing their hostility towards others showing that all humans are plagued with a natural evil. By examining the death of the two boys, Jack’s role of the hunter (and how this has driven him to savagery) and the lord of the flies (also known as the beast), we can...
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...Way Gone: Memoirs Of a Boy Soldier, by Ishmael Beah, family can be circumstantial rather than genetic, they are the people who stand by you, and push you through difficult times. Family can be circumstantial rather than genetic. This theme is especially apparent in this novel. Throughout the book, there are several characters who support Ishmael and become his family. From the six boys whom he meets in a passing village, to the nurse at the rehabilitation center. During the war, Ishmael’s life is constantly changing, and the walls around him are collapsing day after day, as he watches the people in his life that mean the most to him, come and go. Even at the loneliest points of his travels, he used the memory of his family to push through the difficulties. After the war began, Ishmael, his older brother Junior, and four others boys, were left to fend for themselves, because they were separated from their parents and siblings when the war initiated. After their hiding spot in Mattru Jong was infested by the rebels, they had to begin walking as far away from the war as possible. One day as the boys were visiting a nearby village, a group of rebels came out of nowhere and started interrogating them. Luckily, in the distance was the sound of gunshots, the boys were able to remain safe, but in all the commotion, they were...
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...How would you feel if you knew that one decision you make could decide someone’s fate? How would you make sure you make the right, just decision? How could you decide knowing you could end the life of an innocent victim or let a murderer go free? In the motion picture drama, 12 Angry Men, directed by Sidney Lumet, twelve men are given this responsibility of deciding a court case as the jury. The fate of the accused is in their hands. The twelve jurors who hold this power show their contradicting opinions and personalities early on, and are influential to the decision. In the beginning, the jury seems to have agreed that the boy is guilty, but Juror #8 stands alone in the 11 to 1 vote. He digs deeper into the evidence, bringing up points that prove possible innocence. This forces the jury to spend more time on...
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...most interesting situation where a group of young boys are stranded on an island, presumably far away from all other land masses, where three boys stood out as leaders, of those who wanted order of stability. Those boys, Piggy, Ralph, and Jack all went about contributing as leaders, though Ralph was an actual leader, if only for a time, while Jack (a boy who has the whole “holier than thou” aspect going on and is power hungry) eventually steals away Ralph’s power and followers, but before that was the head of his own sect, the choir boys. However though ralph was pushed out of power (except for his few followers, Piggy -till his death-, Samneric, and Simon –until his death-) and the fact that jack took over in an occult like manner I suppose, Ralph is the one boy I believe is the proper leader for the boys, because he has rational human emotions like compassion, care, kindness, calmness, level-headedness add to that he is not a crazy narcissistic war monger with superiority issues like Jack nor does he like to control people using fear and other sneaky underhanded methods, and he seemed to be a guy you could get along with. Though Ralph isn’t mad with power or rules using fear or shady ways in general, he lacked the proper leadership experience to handle the boys as shown in the way he lost the vastest majority of them to Jack. In Jack’s case however, he seemed to be well in control with his horrid menagerie of children who have succumb to psychosis, irrationality, a basic loss...
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...thoughts and changes over time on the subject of gender, especially during the early 20th century concerning boys. There are two people who have contributed abundantly to the theories of gender and where it stands, specifically during the 20th century. Judith Butler is an important figure in gender theory. In her essay “Gender Trouble,” there are many theories on what gender is and what has shaped gender as a social construct. Robert Baden-Powell was the creator and author of Scouting for Boys, a book about the Boy Scouts: how they should act, what they should do, and how they should react to certain situations that may come their way. Along with creating the Boy Scouts, Baden-Powell fought in Mafeking in South Africa for...
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...Music is mentioned throughout “The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas” multiple times. The narrator describes the city during “the Festival of Summer,” where it seems that music plays loudly 24/7. The type of music described is very a cheerful style, which is the opposite of what is going on underneath the city where the little malnourished boy lives in a tool closet for the wellness of the city. The people of the city who all know of the boy, dance to the music and use it to forget about the child suffering for them. The music that plays throughout the story, is a way of distraction for the people; they dance and run around enjoying the perfection of Omelas while the child suffers. Music is a big part of Omelas. Within the first few sentences describing Omelas, the narrator says, “In other streets the music beat faster, a shimmering gong and tambourine, and the people went dancing, the procession was a dance” (531). Everything about that description sounds cheerful and joyous. It is mentioned by the narrator, that the only thing Omelas does not have is guilt. This is partly because everyone who feels guilt leave, the other reason is because of how perfect the city is. How could one feel guilty when they just get to enjoy music and dance around to forget about...
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...the other boys and the actions that surrounded them. At the beginning of the book, Sam and Eric were loyal to Ralph, but in the end they were manipulated by Jack. Being on the island started to make them lose their civil nature and act as if they were older. They were also treated as if they were one person, Samneric, causing Sam and Eric to lose themselves as individuals when they were treated like biguns, although they still tended to act how boys their age were supposed to act. Other times they had more responsibilities and had to take actions like adults because of how the new society was put in place. In Lord of the Flies, Samneric were treated differently by the biguns, which influenced them to evolve into completely different people. In the beginning, Sam and Eric were very loyal to each other and Ralph. Towards the end, they were not loyal to Ralph. Jack and Roger forced information out of them and "While [Ralph] was eating, he [heard] fresh noises- cries of pain from Samneric, cries of panic, angry voices" (Golding 191). After the information was let...
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