American Girl

want. Yet people are becoming accustomed to prejudice and sexism but are calling it triumphing. Time goes on and girls push through the barriers that they face but no effort to make a…

Francie Nolan, a girl living in Williamsburg in the early 1900s. Although the novel focuses on Francie, it may also be a story about Brooklyn itself. Francie, though her experiences, describes the life of all the people in this city, and is a representative of Brooklyn life herself. Towards the end of the novel, a young girl Florry is sitting on the fire escape, watching Francie get ready for her date with Ben just as she watched people getting ready for dates when she was a girl. In the same…

Amy Cunningham is an American journalist and essayist. Cunningham studied English at the University of Virginia and has been a freelance writer since she graduated in 1977. Cunningham wrote the essay Why Women Smile in 1993. Cunningham talked about how women, including herself have faced the same issues during the decades. Cunningham stated “American women’s smile often has less to do with their actual state of happiness than it does with the social pressure to smile no matter what” (page 191).…

Miniature sized madonnas of their era gracefully parade down the stage as their names are called, covered in full glam from head to toe in extensions galore. The authenticity of these young girls wears thin as their costumes exhibit a mature look while their bodies have yet a long way to develop. As pure and glamourous the art of pageantry might seem, behind the curtains lie a different show. Karen Kataline, President of The Center for Leadership Communication and author of award-winning…

Rachel Lloyd, the author of "Girls like us " is the founder of GEMs, which stands for girls educational and mentoring services. Rachel works in New York City and her mission is to help girls that have been domestically exploited and trafficked on a regular basis. Rachel works to get these young girls off the streets and get them the education and resources they need in order to succeed outside of the lifestyle of prostitution. These girls in the commercial sex industry can range in age, race,…

knew the tea-boy’s name. However, after dreadful days of horror and slavery, Lakshmi manages to escape from the Happiness house with the aid of an American. The American role represented as a life-saver for Lakshmi’s life. Lakshmi broke out and ran towards the light of freedom. “Something inside me breaks open, and I run down the steps towards my American. And I said ‘My name is Lakshmi. I am from Nepal. I am fourteen years old.’ ” By reading this story, I cried and cheered for Lakshmi for her…

Becoming an Apache Woman, Something Only a Girl Can Do In some cultures, an adolescent’s transition into adulthood is celebrated with an extravagant soiree, while other’s are expected to recite religious scriptures. Meanwhile for the Apaches, a native American tribe that lives in the southwestern United States, the leap into womanhood is marked by a symbolic four-day Sunrise Ceremony. The young Apache girl’s physical endurance is tested during this event, where it is believed that she will enter…

majority of women without the means to acquire the unrealistic idea of beauty the industry presents. Many girls are bullied for their appearances, and extreme measures such as plastic surgery…

have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged little girl, I have seen my fair share of Disney movies. Movies such as Tangled, Mulan, Frozen, and Brave are some of the many movies that have come out since 1991, that are not about poor defenseless girls, with nothing in mind but meeting their prince…

Gracie is an American historical sports film. During the time that the film was created women's soccer was still very rare. This film showed not to let anyone or anything show you up, work hard for what you believe in and you will achieve it. A girl named Gracie living with her mother, father and her three other brothers. In the house hold her brothers and father eat, sleep and breathe soccer. Soccer is very important to them and to their family. A turning point for their family was after the…