Lives Of Boys Research Articles

Clinical observation of early prenatal diagnosis of the coronary of hypospadias

Hypospadias is one of the most common congenital malformations of the male external genitalia and urethra, the main manifestation of which is meatus dystopia. There is a steady increase in the frequency of its occurrence in many countries of the world. Hypospadias have various forms of severity, which significantly affects the patient's management tactics, the volume of surgical treatment and the further prognosis for the boy's life. The article describes a case of early prenatal diagnosis of the coronary form of hypospadias in the fetus at 15 weeks of gestation, followed by postnatal verification of the diagnosis. The possibilities of echography in the early detection of distal forms of hypospadias using an integrated approach in the assessment of external genitalia in a male fetus are shown. This complex of hypospadias markers includes an assessment of the size of the penis, the presence of a curvature of its body, the shape of the head of the penis and the presence of signs of cleavage of the foreskin, which are manifested by its rounding. The ineffectiveness of the long-used «tulip» sign for the early diagnosis of distal forms of hypospadias has been demonstrated. The comparison of the echographic picture of the structure of the genitals in normal and hypospadias at 12 and 15 weeks of pregnancy was carried out.

Reason and Its Others in Coetzee's Jesus Novels

Reason and Its Others in Coetzee's Jesus Novels

Burying the Emperor's Son: Valens and the Legacy of Basil in a Syriac Funerary Sermon

One of the most famous aspects of Gregory of Nazianzus's panegyric for Basil of Caesarea is his account of Basil's confrontation with the emperor Valens. On the eve of exiling the bishop, the latter had called on Basil for aid for his ailing son. Basil's intercession ultimately failed to save the boy's life; later historians, however, remembered the incident as a dramatic, if temporary, turning point in the relationship between bishop and emperor. This episode forms the backdrop to a homily for a departed child and was transmitted in two Syriac manuscripts. Both attribute the homily to Basil, with the earlier witness presenting it as preached on the occasion of the funeral of a king's son. This description suggests the possibility either of recovering a funerary oration preached by Basil, now lost from his Greek corpus, or of a Syriac funerary sermon attributed to Basil in light of his encounter with Valens. This article examines both possibilities with an eye towards the content shared between the manuscripts—an extended exposition of children's nature and fate after death—and its resonance with the genuine works of Basil, his Greek contemporaries, and Syriac Christian authors from the centuries preceding the homily's earliest witness.

Checked by Cynthia Kadohata

Reviewed by: Checked by Cynthia Kadohata Deborah Stevenson Kadohata, CynthiaChecked; illus. by Maurizio Zorat. Dlouhy/Atheneum, 2018 416p Trade ed. ISBN 978-1-4814-4661-7 $16.99 E-book ed. ISBN 978-1-4814-4663-1 $10.99 R Gr. 4-6 Eleven-year-old Conor has three important things in his world: his dad, his dog, and hockey. Now, though, his dad is looking grim and crying at night, and his dog, Sinbad, is being treated for cancer. Can he still keep his focus on his NHL dreams? Newbery winner Kadohata makes the story of a challenging period in a boy's life into a smooth stream-of-consciousness style narration, keeping the emphasis balanced as Conor moves from thoughts of his dog to assessment of his teammates to worry about his father. The result is therefore less deliberately shaped for dramatic impact than most books for young readers, but it's an accessible and interesting approach that's in many ways more true to a real-life kid experience. Conor's concern about his father's work as a cop and his response to the information that his late mother's parents would like to see him add dimension to the story, but there's plenty of pure hockey action and details about the trajectory toward the pros to interest sports fans. It's refreshing to see both an Asian-American-focused sports story (Conor's mother was Japanese American) and a protagonist who's matter-of-fact about academics not being his thing, so a lot of youngsters, especially those dreaming of victory on the ice, will see themselves in Conor. DS Copyright © 2017 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

CDC's Male Circumcision Recommendations Represent a Key Public Health Measure.

CDC's Male Circumcision Recommendations Represent a Key Public Health Measure.

Prepuce health and childhood circumcision: Choices in Canada.

Worldwide, almost 100% of boys are born with penises with a "hood" called prepuce or foreskin. In the course of the boy's life, the prepuce can be circumcised, can become affected by diseased (e.g., phimosis), or a can become infected and hurt the neonate (and his sexual partner) in adulthood. The objectives of this report are to: 1) review the state, function, fate, and care of the prepuce in childhood, with focus on the neonate, in Canada; 2) understand the current practice of childhood male circumcision in terms of age, indications, performers, techniques, outcomes, and education; and 3) consider ways to sustain a good healthcare professional-parental dialogue for safe practices that are accessible, acceptable, and culturally sensitive in the care of the prepuce. A literature review was carried out in the English language through the major databases: PubMed (MEDLINE), EMBASE, the Cochrane Library, CINAHL, Web of Science (WOS) Core Collection, LILAC, WHO/UNAIDS, Clinical Trials (www.clinicaltrials.gov), Google Scholar, and grey literature. Search words included: prepuce, diseases of prepuce, prepuce in the neonate, prepuce in the neonate in Canada, male circumcision, childhood male circumcision, neonatal circumcision, neonatal circumcision in Canada, complications of neonatal circumcision in Canada, and circumcision adverse events. From 1970-1999, three of 10 Canadian newborn males were circumcised for religious, cultural, and medical reasons. The rest of the neonates, if alive, are living with their prepuce; <4% expected to require treatment for afflictions of the prepuce at some point. There are several providers of circumcision with different levels of training and competencies and using a diversity of devices and techniques. Neonatal and childhood circumcision in Canada is carried out to fulfill parental wishes, as well as for medical, religious, and cultural reasons. Appropriate informed consent and education regarding choices of care of the neonatal prepuce and genitals are vital. Going by current prevalent rate of circumcision in Canada, most Canadian newborn males are likely to live out their lives with an intact prepuce. Despite the age-old debate, childhood circumcision is likely to remain. There is need for careful and proper discussion of the potential risks and benefits, including alternatives, costs, and personal/psychological factors. Acceptance, access, and judicious choices in a culturally sensitive environment will offer the Canadian neonate desirable care of the prepuce for life.

Tough Reading:

Tough Reading:

Imitation, Impersonation, and Transformation: Using Male Role Models in Films to Promote Maturity

Becoming a man is developmental. Boys model after men in their lives as well as figures they see in the media. When role models are positive, appropriate, and present, boys grow into constructive adults who contribute to society. This article examines how counselors can intentionally help young men mature into well‐grounded and prosocial individuals through the use of models in films. It provides a list of some movies that counselors can use in the process.

Bringing books into boy's lives

Bringing books into boy's lives

This Other Salt

Betrayal, bereavement, exile, belonging - these are the themes that resonate throughout This Other Salt. A writer torn between two loves looks for his lost words in the gap between memory, mourning and desire; a poet revenges herself on her faithless lover by turning their romance into a legend of biblical proportions; and a teenage boy's life uncannily begins to resemble the role he plays in a school operetta ...Combining satire, legend, poetry, history and memoir, the linked stories of This Other Salt reveal an author of uncommon talent at the height of his craft.

Retinal Injuries from a Handheld Laser Pointer

To the Editor: Handheld laser pointers are commonly used in lecture halls and are considered to be harmless and safe.1 However, laser pointers can cause severe eye injury, as demonstrated by the case of a 15-year-old boy. The boy had ordered a handheld laser pointer with green light on the Internet to use as a toy for popping balloons from a distance and burning holes into paper cards and his sister's sneakers. The boy's life changed when he was playing with his laser pointer in front of a mirror to create a “laser show,” during which the laser beam hit . . .

We the Children (review)

Reviewed by: We the Children Elizabeth Bush Clements, Andrew . We the Children; illus. by Adam Stower. Atheneum, 2010 143p. (Benjamin Pratt & the Keepers of the School) ISBN 978-1-4169-3886-6$14.99 Ad Gr. 3-5 When Massachusetts sea captain Duncan Oakes established a school at the end of the eighteenth century, he foresaw a time when it would come under some sort of attack, and he was right. Real estate developers, in cahoots with the town council and Oakes' heirs, have done an end run around Oakes' will, and they are planning to tear down the harborside building and use the land for an amusement park. Like most kids, Benjamin Pratt initially welcomed that idea, but since the school janitor died after entrusting him with a gold coin engraved with a message, he's begun to consider just how much the community should treasure this piece of their heritage. In this first volume of a planned series, there are a lot of foundations to lay and relatively little time for the concrete to set. The most engaging plotline, which revolves around a cryptic message hidden behind a school baseboard, is sidetracked by concerns over an arrogant classmate and Ben's parents' separation, and the most gripping action scene, in which Ben saves a boy's life in a sailboat race, is so encumbered by sailing jargon as to intimidate the nautically disinclined. Still, Captain Oakes' weird legacy is a fruitful premise, and kids may want to return for the next title to see if it fulfills its promise. Sketchy, amiable two-color (black touched with blue) illustrations appear throughout. Copyright © 2010 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois

Hypospadias repair: an overview

Hypospadias is a birth defect in boys where the meatus is not placed at the tip of the glans of the penis. This article reviews the rapidly developing international literature surrounding hypospadias and hypospadias repairs paying specific attention to important aspects of nursing care, including preparing for surgery, use of dressings, stents and catheters as well as medication. It concludes by considering the long‐term impact of hypospadias and its surgical correction on the patient's life. Hypospadias is treated surgically, normally during the second 6 months of the boy's life. Hospitalization periods vary from day case surgery to several days. The success of the hypospadias repair can be measured according to functional results and cosmetic appearance of the penis. The post‐operative use of dressings as well as urinary catheters or stents is common but not uniform. Complication rates for hypospadias surgery vary from below 10% in boys with distal hypospadias to above 50% in children with a proximal meatus. The most common complications are urethral fistulas, strictures and stenoses. The continuing efforts by paediatric urologists focus on further optimizing the cosmetic and functional results.

Boy's Death Spurs Action on Neonatal Genetic Screening

Boy's Death Spurs Action on Neonatal Genetic Screening

Boy's Life Saved With DeWalt Household Drill

Boy's Life Saved With DeWalt Household Drill

Reel Rangers: Texas Rangers in Movies, TV, Radio, &amp; Other Forms of Popular Culture (review)

120Southwestern Historical QuarterlyJuly declined following the Civil Rights Era when the Emancipationist Cause rose to become the dominant lens through which Hollywood portrayed the war. From his study of film, Gallagher moves on to a study of Civil War popular art, much of which is advertised in various Civil War magazines and journals. In this exploration, Gallagher finds that the Lost Cause lives on to a much greater degree in commercial art than in popular film. Images of a romanticized Confederacy dominate the sales of Civil War paintings. Gallagher explains this divergence from film by noting that, while many in American society have challenged the Lost Cause view of the war and made it less palatable to lift up this position in public, those who cling to this position often turn to private expressions of the ideology like displaying Confederate images in their homes. Gallagher's book is a useful entry in the burgeoning literature diat deals with the way in which the Civil War is remembered by Americans. It is particularly revelatory in its consideration of the Lost Cause view of the war. WTiHe the legitimacy of the Lost Cause has been increasingly contested in the public arena, as Gallagher shows in his analysis of Hollywood movies, the persistence of the theme in commercial art reveals that the influence of such a view cannot be measured by public depictions alone. This is an important lesson for those examining American public opinion on any issue, for in the private realm—as Gallagher shows—the Lost Cause lives on. Texas State University—San MarcosAngela F. Murphy Reel Rangers: Texas Rangers in Movies, TV, Radio, &f Other Forms ofPopular Culture. By Bill O'Neal. (Waco: Eakin Press, 2008. Pp. 206. Illustrations, bibliography, index. ISBN 1571688404, $22.95, paper.) By the early twentieth century, motion picture technology had developed into a rapidly growing source of entertainment and news around the globe, and early producers were anxious to find suitable content to feed the public's seemingly insatiable appetite for film. In Reel Rangers, Bill O'Neal documents the plethora of films, and later radio and television shows, based on the Texas Rangers. According to O'Neal, the Texas Rangers almost immediately became a prime source for stories of action and intrigue that translated well into the modern media. It was 1910 when the first popular film, "The Ranger's Bride," appeared on the silver screen. He also identifies and provides some insight on die various actors who played Texas Rangers (often many times each) , from superstars to the relatively obscure. O'Neal found no less than forty-eight Ranger films that were produced during the silent movie era, including many multi-episode serials. The trend continued in the 1930s and 1940s, when at least ninety-nine "talkies" based on the Texas Rangers were made, not including the Lone Rangermovie serial . During World War II, O'Neal notes, there was a new Texas Ranger movie released every six weeks. The 1950s introduced the age of television, with two successful series based on the Rangers dominating the period. Two hundred and twenty-one episodes of The Lone Ranger were created between 1950 and 1955, and it continued to play 20ogBook Reviews121 in syndication for.decades. (The series so pervaded public consciousness that an article in Boy 's Life commented tiiat die definition of a "highbrow" was someone who could listen to die William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.) Another series named Tales ofthe Texas Rangers ran in the latter half of the decade for five full seasons. The Rangers were also not forgotten on the big screen; at least sixteen feature films on them were produced during the 1 950s. O'Neal accounts for the subsequent decline in the popularity of the Texas Rangers (and Westerns generally) as film subjects in the 1960s and 70s as a byproduct of die times, affected by changing societal attitudes in the wake of the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights struggle. The early 1 980s appear to have been equally sparse in regard to new feature productions based on the Texas Rangers, but the numbers are deceiving. Aldiough there were only five such productions, the...

From Boy to Man in Antiquity: Jesus in the Apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas

This article presents a survey of research on childhood in antiquity and describes briefly the position of children in late antiquity and early Christianity. Special attention is given to the relationship between childhood and gender, with a focus on boyhood. The article analyses the apocryphal infancy Gospel of Thomas, which tells the childhood story of Jesus from age five to twelve. This brief story, which consists of miracle stories and discourses, originated in Greek in the 2nd century CE and became widely popular. The article shows that its depiction of Jesus conforms to current ideas of gender, gender relations, and gender socialisation. A central claim in the article is that boys were not expected to show the same degree of self-restraint as were adult males, but that as children they were allowed to behave more emotionally and unpredictably. Rather than being literarily inferior or theologically aberrant, the infancy of Gospel of Thomas in its depiction of Jesus gives a lively and credible glimpse into the world and development of a late antiquity or early Christianity male child on his way from boyhood to male adult life. Keywords: boyhood, childhood, early Christianity, Jesus, theology, apocrypha, infancy, Infancy Gospel of Thomas, gender What was it like growing up as a boy almost two thousand years ago in the era of Greco-Roman antiquity and early Christianity? What were the basic living conditions for a young boy? What was his place and role in the family and society? What kind of prospects would he have had for his future? What ideas were associated with boyhood at that time? There are, of course, no easy answers to these questions, and we are faced with a number of challenges in trying to answer them. One problem is the limited number and fragmentary character of the sources. Another is that they usually reflect elite settings. It is also problematic to speak of one specific kind of childhood in antiquity, since children's lives would differ a great deal depending on the cultural and geographical setting. For example, growing up as a Jewish peasant boy in Palestine was quite different from a boy's life among the urban poor in Rome or in a fishermen's village of coastal Spain. It is nonetheless possible to say some fairly representative things about what it was like growing up as a boy in this period. In this article, I will survey central insights produced by research during the two last decades using the early Christian apocryphal Infancy Gospel of Thomas as my basic text.1 Children and Childhood in Research on Antiquity During the last twenty years, research on ancient childhood has flourished. Aries (1960) has served as impetus for much of this research. His book painted a dark picture: Children in antiquity were badly treated and only valued for what they were to become. Childhood was not really recognised as a life stage with its own distinctive characteristics. As will be clear, subsequent research has distanced itself much from this view and succeeded in painting a far more nuanced picture, although Aries still has some sympathizers.2 Research of a more thorough kind than his commenced in the mid-1980s. Much of this dealt with the Roman world, with a focus on family life. Rawson (1986, 1991) includes chapters dealing especially with children. Central aspects of research were summarised by Dixon (1992). From the early 1990s the focus on children was gradually strengthened in studies by Bradley (1991), Sailer (1994), Rawson and Weaver (1994), and Eyben (1993). As early as 1989, Wiedemann had produced the first full monograph on children in early Rome, with books by Rawson (2003) and Laes (2006) being more recent scholarly studies. Less research has been done on the Greek era concerning children, although important contributions have been made by Golden (1990) and Neils and Oakley (2003). Studies of the Jewish milieu has been quite meagre, with a few exceptions, particularly Cohen (1993) on Jewish family life, Perdue (1997) and Tropper (2006). …

How I Learned Geography (review)

Reviewed by Deborah Stevenson Shulevitz, Uri; How I Learned Geography; written and illus. by Uri Shulevitz. Farrar, 2008 [32p]; ISBN 978-0-374-33499-4 $16.95; Reviewed from galleys R 5-8 yrs In this autobiographically rooted story, our young narrator and his parents flee a war-torn country but end up in straitened circumstances in a new land: "We slept on a dirt floor. I had no toys and no books. Worst of all: food was scarce." When the boy's father comes home one night with a map instead of bread, the boy is hungry and furious, but after his father hangs the huge map on the wall, the youngster becomes absorbed in its infinite possibilities, traveling in his daydreams far away from his miserable current existence. A tribute to the powers of wide imaginative horizons, this gains impact from its basis in Shulevitz' own experiences, which give it reality beyond mere wishful thinking. Ragged right text is clear and straightforward but vivid, and small memorable touches—such as the boy's resentment at his neighbor's loud chewing and his incantation of place names taken from the map—add dimensionality. Watercolor illustrations avoid demonizing the boy's real life: the town (Turkestan, according to Shulevitz' note) looks like an interesting place, but the family's dull patched clothes speaks to their privations and contrasts them with the teeming colorfully turbaned prior inhabitants. Chunky lines and sweeps of washy watercolor gain additional textures in the map worlds, with soft intricate details in nubbly fresco-like surfaces or cities evincing a polish and regularity of pattern in their multiwindowed skyscrapers that suggests photocollage even as the changing colors recall the traditional map hues. Use this as an entrée to a discussion of maps and geography or as a resonant reminder of the power of imagination in difficult circumstances.

Food, Poetry, and Borderlands Materiality: Walter Benjamin at the taquería

In a short story entitled The Properties of Magic by Tejano writer Ray Gonzalez (2001) a boy named Augustino wakes up in the middle of the night to find a headless man standing at the foot of his bed. Dressed in an old army uniform, the man reaches into the hole in his neck where once a head stood and to the bewilderment of the child pulls out a donkey pinata just like one the boy's parents had given him for his fifth birthday. Readers quickly learn that this eerie nocturnal vision (we can't be sure it is a dream) is not that unusual in the boy's life. Haunting epiphanies and omens manifested through the appearance of familiar objects out of place saturate Augustino's everyday experience: his play is interrupted by finding a broken rosary on the school playground; the flickering of lights at church startles him; a drawing he brought home from school seems to attract the attention of a bird that flies through the bedroom window; sitting on the porch of his house, he feels observed by blue

Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life

Sleepaway School: Stories from a Boy's Life