The Other Girl

motherhood and the women’s domestic sphere. In order to contextualize this change in educational standards, I plan to draw brief examples from the 17th, but mostly the 18th century, regarding what subjects and methods of teaching were to be expected for girls that were allowed to attend school. In addition, should space allow, I’d like to also highlight some key women who helped to further the educational reformation, or more generally how female teachers and schoolmistresses did just that.…

Karan Russell “St. Lucy Home for Girls’ Raised by Wolves” is an abstruse baffling short story that embrace a human-like wolf pack to be taught into a human. The pack consist of three main captivating characters: Claudette, Jeanette, and Mirabella. Claudette, the narrator of this story is an average normal wolf girl that is “...Not great and not terrible, solidly middle of the pack” (232). This illusive narrative contains five stages that is written through the handbook, The Jesuit Handbook on…

distinguishes herself from others not only with her unmistakable hair, but also her brazen power to influence and impart change. Lindgren brings to life an unconventional protagonist, with unconventional aspirations, and…

Kilbourne addresses that “girls grow into women afraid to speak up for themselves or use their voice to protect themselves or to use their own voice” (Kilbourne 264). This is a strange reality as women and girls are scared to talk and protect themselves because society tells them that if they do they are considered an outcast and do not deserve to be happy. To women,…

Pygmalion In the Pygmalion, a Flower Girl talks differently from everyone else. She’s talks this way because of where she is from. The note taker’s profession was recognizing and studying the way people talk, and tracing it back to where they’re from. This Flower Girl has a different way of speaking, so, he studied her. Later on, he tried convincing her to let him teach her how to talk the way these people did. Why? Because he knew she would be looked down upon. As a result, she wouldn’t be…

expression, describing a well-known ugly girl with a nice body, hefty breast and backside. The lyrics of “Tip Drill” describe a girl who can only attract the opposite sex with her body and not her face, she is cheap and ready to offer herself to males who have enough money and are ready to spend. The song further describes this girl as one who has many friends just like herself willing to be used once the males show signs of monetary prowess. Also, this girl is degraded by the artiste by…

Guerrilla Girls Illustrated Guide to Female Stereotypes, I was very surprised by the "Tomboy" stereotype. When I think of a tomboy, I think of a girl who loves to play sports, doesn't mind getting down and dirty and may prefer to dress casual instead of wearing dresses or skirts. I have always thought of my own daughter as a tomboy. She would much rather throw on a pair of sweats, jeans or shorts instead of a dress and softball is her life! I found it very interesting that in the Guerrilla…

Every year men's sports teams make record high viewing numbers on both tv and live games, yet women’s team struggle to get half those viewers. Last year, Syracuse University had about a 21,000 people average attending their men’s basketball games while women had an average of only 752 people. This huge gap in fans is due to the fact that people like to watch men’s sports because women are not seen as strong, tough and athletic people which makes sports so exciting in the first place.…

both Kubrick and Burgess have made their effort in trying to address the problem of whether or not prefer the inequality between men and women. Throughout the story, there are numerous scenes in which female characters are degraded; whether it is a girl being raped or getting killed. Even the surroundings in the stories, like the sculptures, are extremely sexist in a way that disturbs the audiences to some extent. I will argue that Burgees and Kubrick’s main focus is to demonstrate the mass how…

How Beauty Pageants Effect Children and Women Why do girls find beauty pageants so important to their social status and popularity? For the longest time, girls have competed from ages new born all the way up to their twenties in beauty contests. Most of the time, it’s the parents who get them first started in the industry, but the amount of money and time they spend on pageants is ridiculous! Why is it so important for girls to win contests for beauty, and not for their true selves? Beauty…