American Girl

The obsession teenage girls have regarding their bodies makes them obsessed with dieting and their weight. From middle school through high school, girls are concerned about the way they look, what they eat, as well as how others perceive their self-confidence. In Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting, Mimi Nichter examines how friends, family, mass communication and media, as well as society play a vital part in the way teenage girls view themselves. Appearances play an…

teenagers. Their lives were similar to a slave however the servant’s service came to an end. They had to obey their owners, and had harsh living conditions. They were treated harshly, received poor quality food, and were separated from their family. In Americans Working Women, it tells us that the indentured servants resisted in the quote “indentured servants had one primary path of resistance open to them: passive resistance, trying to do as little work as possible and to create difficulties…

If someone were to walk into a classroom and asked,”How many girls in here have been dress coded?” most girls would raise their hands; however if you were to walk into a class and asked,”How many boys have been dress coded?” none or very few would raise hands. There are many reasons that girls are more likely to get dress coded. Throughout my high school career I've always wondered why I've never seen a boy get dress coded… only girls. Jackson High school needs to change the dress code, the…

leaving a station as your life as you knew it became a thing of the past. That very feeling is how many children felt as colonizers abducted them from their families for their own desires. Whereas the aborigine girls from the Moore River Settlement in Rabbit Proof Fence and the the Native Americans from The Runaways are left with physical and emotional scars if they try to escape their fate, Nwoye heals the scars that have been made on his heart by following the lead of the colonizers; because…

ones that stand out to the reader: the way the neighborhoods are arranged, the type of currency, and how citizens are required to pay for parking. The setting of the book takes place in Sweden in a small town neighborhood. Most neighborhoods that Americans are used to have houses on both sides of the street with mail boxes for each house that are also lined on the street. People have garages with…

Women have struggled for years to gain equality with their male counterparts. In the 1960’s, women were expected to marry in their early 20’s and devote all of their time to domestic chores in the home. She was expected to watch after her children and have dinner ready for her husband he arrived home from work. Because of this, women had fewer opportunities in sports and were seen as inferior to men. It wasn’t until a famous tennis match in 1973 between a woman, Billie Jean King, and a man,…

Necessary Endings Helena Maria Miramontes is an American writer and English professor. She has written novels and shorts stories, like “The Moths” which is included in her collection of”The Moths and Other Stories.” The Moths is a coming-of-age story about a 14 year old girl who takes care of her sick abuelita. The characters of the story are the mom, the father, the girl’s older sisters, and the narrator which is the girl. The narrator is described as being different, unlike her older sisters…

Jamaica Kincaid’s story “Girl” tells of a conversation between a mother and her young daughter. The mother tells her of the proper ways to perform simple tasks such as “cook pumpkin fritters in vert hot sweet oil” (page 1725). However, the mother also tells her things such as “try to walk like a lady and not like the slut you are so bent on becoming” (page 1725). At first the reader is struck by the carelessness the mother presents this information to her daughter and the underlying tone of…

Hemingway illustrates the contrast of Krebs’ two lives, “There is a picture which shows him among his fraternity brothers, all of them wearing exactly the same height and style collar…. There is a picture which shows him on the Rhine with two German girls and another corporal. Krebs…

away from the goal of gender equality” (Pratibha). Being a girl we are considered weak because we are accused of not having “manly skills.” Girls are reflected as crybabies since we are emotional, but girls are emotional because we have big hearts. There are 7 out of 10 girls that feel they don’t belong in a sport around puberty, at a moment where their confidence plummets and they are trying to conform to societal expectations (Our). Every girl has a dream, but gets crushed by boys who seek to…