American Girl

A Quinceañera can also be referred to as a quince or fiesta de quinceañera. It is a party in which a teenager is presented to society, they can have usually Catholic, secular or religious orientation. The word quinceañera makes reference to the girl itself who is turning fifteen. This celebration is one of the most important celebrations in Mexican culture. A quince marks the transition to womanhood, to represent a young woman to the community and also to give thanks to God for his blessings.…

Katelyn focussed on the task ahead blocking out all distractions, as always. Which was no easy feet in a place as loud as the S.H.E.I.L.D headquarters, but still she kept her head down and continued to work. She was well known as “the girl who works too much and doesn’t know how to relax and have fun.” There was always a commotion at the headquarters, thats why when the bullpen became deathly quiet Katelyn knew something was up. She looked up from her desk to see everybody standing still staring…

In life, people want to be known and play a role in society. However, the speaker of the poem in Im nobody! Who are you? fears the idea of becoming recognized in society. Throughout Emily Dickinson’s life, she lived as nobody, never leaving her house and stayed hidden. As a result, this poem accurately represents the fears living inside Dickinson’s mind. Dickinson uses tone and simile in an almost comical way that grabs the reader’s attention in this concise poem. Dickinson’s tone at the…

Sylvia, a young adventurous soul, is the definition of growth. Throughout the passage, the Author in recreating the heroin's (Sylvia) climb dramatizes in the eyes of adults the real adventure of the little girl. By using literary elements such as point-of-view and diction, the establishment of a more in-depth meaning to ultimately symbolize the dark path a child walks in search of the light of growth becomes created. The passage is told from a third person omniscient point-of-view, aware of…

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,…

stunning girl that walks into the store with her posse. In noticing this, Sammy is able to realize how Stokesie’s life is already bound to his preoccupations as a father in spite of him having the lustful thoughts men his age often tend to have. Moreover, Sammy humorously notes how when the young girls come over to the checkout lanes, some elderly people go to Stokesie’s lane “with his usual luck” (Updike, “A&P”). As a result, Sammy gets the opportunity to check out the stunning young girl he…

outfit or their hair. They always talk about what a girl was wearing, what a boy said, how someone’s hair looked today, or how they do not like someone for an extremely unnecessary reason. I have some friends who are self conscious around these girls just because they do not want to be judged like how the clique judges everyone else. That includes myself. The previous assumptions may seem very biased and derogatory, but I know this because a girl from that group has only talked to me once; that…

Faculty Dance Concert Reflection Most of the elements of the Afro-Caribbean dance aesthetic found in Brenda Dixon Gottschild’s work, “Crossroads, Continuities and Contradictions” were present in all of the pieces performed in the faculty dance concert. However the ones that stood out the most included “embracing the conflict,” “aesthetic of the cool,” and “polycentrism/polyrhythm.” Embracing the conflict was most noted in the piece titled “Back Burner on High” choreographed by Kelly Johnson.…

‘’Tuesday Of The Other June’’ by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction story about a girl name June and her mom always telling her to stay out of trouble. But June runs into some problems with other people. In the begining June is happy with what is going on around her until a girl named June just like her comes to June's school. The other June is mean to June and June does as her mom has always told her to, stay out of trouble. The other june makes this hard for June. Finally June stands up…

And I smile. We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we are too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest. And worthy of respect…. you know…. like being people. (Pg. 39,…