American Girl

walked down the aisles, they were usually separated between boys, girls, and for all genders. You can tell by the color of the aisle. The girl aisle was mostly done in pink and purple. The boy aisle was mostly done with blue and green. I even noticed that the writing on the packages were even different. The girl toys had a more feminine writing and the boy toys were in a bold, manly writing. The girl toys usually had a picture of a girl playing with the toy and with the boy toys they had a…

Flint, Michigan: A River of Lies We live in a world full of fake. Women pose fake images of themselves when they wear makeup, dye their hair, or wear fake nails. This fakeness can pose as a way to make women feel better about themselves and pose as harmless to everyone around them. However, other forms of fakeness can produce extremely harmful effects on people and led to huge problems. When the government qualifies something as “safe,” the people trust the government. The public can follow…

As said in Beauty and The Beast, “Beauty’s sisters sickened with envy… could all her(Beauty) obliging affectionate behavior stifle their jealousy.”(Beaumont). In addition to, it is a type of motif portrayed in stories such as Beauty and The Beast, Rumpelstiltskin and many others. The different types of themes portrayed in these stories are what make them popular. Greed can make you a selfish human being is a theme shown in the real world. In Beauty and the Beast, it says, “... when they(the…

not allowed to go to school. A young girl in Pakistan named Malala Yousafzai attempts to pursue her right to education. She is punished by being shot in the head. Many people around the world have been held back from their desire to learn, but have fought back against the obstacles. The desire to learn changed all of their lives. This also occurs with the slaves in both writings, The Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass and The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs. The pursuit of…

First impressions are direct reflection of one’s actions. In Free to Fall, Lauren Miller tells the story of a girl who is very intelligent, but has been living a lie. First impressions ar etypically how one might describe a person when meeting them for the first time. This is shown in the story when Rory is forced to room with an over perky girl named Hershey. Rory is often judged by others for her high intelligence level and quick thinking. However, one might argue that her eerie personality…

“A & P:” Short Story Analysis John Updike short story “A&P” portrays the mind of a young cashier, Sammy, working in an A&P store while admiring and analyzing customers, but especially the three girls walking around the store in bathing suits. Ultimately their defiance of standards of the community affects Sammy strongly. Updike uses action, dialogue and commentary to express the narrator’s personality and uses bathing suits and sheep to symbolize…

In the story “A&P”, the author John Updike shows the readers three young ladies in a supermarket in a 2 piece bathing suit. The owner of the supermarket tells the young ladies they are not allowed in the store dress in bathing suit. The owner, Mr. Lengel, want customer to come in the store with clothes that do not show a lot of skin. In this time of life people think that women should not show off their body off to the world. The young ladies enter in the supermarket wearing bathing suit and…

didn’t say a word and decided to live in my tree house. He was a girl!…

Language and Identity Story I was walking through the streets with a shiv in my back pocket for just self-defence reasons. When this crazy British sheila sees it in me pocket and asks me why I got one. The Brit threatened to call police if I didn’t get rid of it, I refused so she calls the f-ing cops. She told me to stay with here while the heat were coming. After about ten minutes or so, this fat sack of turd started wobbling towards me and I swear the ground began to shake, which is here we…

Girls who identify with heroines try to emulate heroines’ sexuality; this imitation could cause an unhealthy self-esteem because girls will worth their sexuality more than anything else. Unfortunately, comics did not want heroines to look masculine; instead, they wanted heroines to use their sexuality and bodies as a form of power against villains. According to Gilroy, she states, “[Batgirl] also makes clear that her superheroic sexuality, like all other aspects of her identity, is a performance…