American Girl

to choose abortion because there is a life in the girl/ women’s womb, that option should be left for them to decide whether or not they want to keep the child. The mental and physical scars of such an act are deep and pervasive, when a women or a girl is raped. For other rape victims, the idea of continuing with a pregnancy may be unbearable or may pose a danger to her life or health particularly if she is very young. Other countries in the region have laws permitting abortion, but often create…

On October 11th the world celebrated international girl day. The holiday was originally created to spread worldwide involvement in regards to the betterment of girl lives,by providing an opportunities for girls to show leadership and reach their full potential. Throughout history as a whole, women and girls have been faced with inequality and oppression. In recent decades women and girls have received more rights and society has slowly started to change the way they perceive women. However…

For adolescent females, daily pressures are all-consuming. Whether it is education, relationships, or body image, young girls today lead busy lives and juggle countless responsibilities. To add to this frantic mindset, social media is attracting girls’ attention at every corner. Girls living in America are taught that everything is dependent upon how they look rather than their intelligence or internal characteristics. This installation of ideas is causing more than simply eating disorders and…

their friends or a girl he may like he will hide embarrassing photos, his childhood toys or even his collections just to impress. In the story, he also mentions how girls will respond to certain sexual situations or even when certain phrases or comments are said. He even gives advice in how to handle each situation. This story could be taken as some big brothers guide in dating. This story is very straight to the point and really focuses on stereotypes. It highlights different girls and it is…

severely distorted. In reality, she was a smart, mischievous, quick girl of around ten or eleven when she interacted with John Smith, far too young to be interested enough to save him from a storied death sentence that would not have happened. Where the fictional Pocahontas was a young woman acting out of love and admiration for Smith and his people, what we know of the true Pocahontas shows that she was a bright and brave young girl, willing and ready to act for the betterment of her people’s…

they have many points in common but differ as well. Starting with the similarities, both developed through anterior coming of age ceremonies, and are only celebrated by girls. They both are rite of passage ceremonies, which honor the completed childhood of the girl and celebrate the beginning of the new life chapter as a woman. The girls make new experiences and have to face more responsibilities by turning 15, or in the case of America turning 16. The celebrations share several customs which…

adolescent girls, and the power dynamic between girl’s friendships. Relational-aggression in adolescent girls negatively impacts their need for emotional intimacy or closeness to peers, as well as being detrimentally to girl’s emotional wellbeing and identity. Crothers et al. (2005) hypothesized that adolescent girls who had a traditional feminine gender identity would use relational-aggression to assert control and resolve conflicts with their female peers. In contrast to adolescent girls with…

Let’s take the story of Princess and The Frog. An African- American female with dreams of owning her own restaurant, works hard to save up enough money to do so and eventually through a series of obstacles she is able to succeed and meets a prince along the way, gets married and lives happily ever after. Just supposed an African American girl sees the movie, she would immediately associate herself with the princess and believe that if she works hard…

Marge Piercy, a Feminist American author wrote different poems about women. “Barbie Doll’ and “A Work of Artifice” are some of many examples. These two poems are similar in main idea, view point, and tone. In the first poem “Barbie Doll,” the author talks about how in society woman are expected to look perfect. It shows the story of a girl that was smart, and beautiful in her own way, but because society was criticizing her she decided to have surgery. The main idea of this poem is that society…

raising awareness toward these support groups and helping to eliminate the sexual effects towards children. For example, in the essay she includes ways in which to eradicate this behavior, mentioning Maya Brown’s comment from the Advisory Board of Hardy Girls Healthy Women “Women should become media critics.” (513) PR groups are specifically targeting the youth, so Hanes also stated that these effects are taking a toll on educational factors like lowered cognitive performance. (512) Not only…