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Marge Piercy's poem, “Barbie Doll” clearly makes a huge statement about what society does to a women in particular and the damage that is done to women by our society. It also describes that our society objectifies women and values them only for their looks. Women are driven by this pressure to do damaging things in an effort to live up to society’s expectations. This poem describes the effect of unrealistic expectations of beauty on a young girl. It also appears to be telling us a tragically…

mostly has an AABB rhyme, with outlying lines that have no rhyme throughout the song. Dollhouse talks about a young girls dollhouse and its inhabitants, a perfect-seeming family with many issues. The song is narrated by the daughter in the family of dolls- named Crybaby by Melanie- and her observations. In Dollhouse, Melanie Martinez uses rhyme and music to convey the theme that however perfect a family may seem on the outside, they all have their own issues below the surface. “Hey girl,…

American. What does being American really mean? To my friend, Andriy from Ukraine, it means to be a little lazy. He told me how he sees American students complain about the amount of work they get, then half don’t even do that work. He told me that the students rather just spend time at home watching Netflix. Because that binge watching American Horror Story is more important than getting your PHD. Right? American. A student council camp I went to this summer theme is to have GUSTO! GUSTO, to…

have been used by woman of all culture over the world to make their appearance sexier or even younger. Some woman go for a more natural look and wear clear gloss, and younger kids around the ages 10-14 began to play with it when dressing up to play doll house. Ages 14 and up began to wear lipstick that is dark, and prettier to fit in at school or to look older than their age. Lipstick is also used to brighten your day or even make you happy. The color of the lipstick have been used to the…

Marge Piercy’s, The Secretary Chant, describes a woman feeling dehumanized by her job to the point where it consumes her and she becomes the lifeless, inanimate objects she works with. Piercy expresses the secretary’s emotions across in a somewhat humorous way using metaphors, onomatopoeia, and repetition. The whole poem is an extended metaphor comparing a secretary to the office supplies surrounding her. Her role as a human is belittled and she is reduced to functionaries, not seeing herself…

Girls are optically discerned as Barbie dolls, this fascinates the girl to a point where they consider the doll as a representation of what they must look homogeneous to, and what the world wants them to play with. Little girls revere Barbie dolls as if they can show them how to be pulchritudinous. Barbie dolls have become the incipient role models for adolescent girls and at this time in their lives, kids are helpless in understanding that Barbie’s image is an unauthentic figure of how a woman…

Susan Sontag states that “the essence of camp is love in the unnatural: of artifice and exaggeration”. (pg. 1) This essence is everywhere in “But I’m a Cheerleader”. The entire film runs on a potentially true storyline by making it artificial. This is done by having the film lack seriousness. “Camp is an art that proposes itself seriously, but cannot be taken all together seriously because it is “too much”” (pg. 4). I believe that this phrase perfectly describes “But I’m a Cheerleader”.…

different things that affect how I feel. Seeing flowers might make me feel joyful, but when viewing old nails I don’t feel as nice inside. Walking around in the woods behind her house, Myop also has lovely feelings that inspire more adventure. The barbie doll loving narrator has many different feelings through out the short story. In the short stories “Flowers” and “Barbie-Q,” Alice Walker and Sandra Cisneros both use imagery to create a specific mood. In “Flowers” Walker uses imagery of the…

“Barbie Doll”, she focuses on an adolescent girl who was driven to commit suicide as a means to rid herself of the stress of being perfect. The poem brings to light the issue of suicide due to the pressures of self-image because the teenager’s life seemed perfect, excluding two minute physical insecurities. This embodies many teenagers’ feelings because they can try to make their life as unflawed as possible, but some characteristics cannot be changed. “Barbie…

Barbie dolls with distorted arms, cheap bedazzled jewelry, cherry-flavored chap stick or stolen makeup from Mom: things you can find in a little girl’s drawer. But not mine. My drawer consisted of test strips, alcohol pads, syringes and lancets. At the age of eight, I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Given this news, I felt isolated and my future became a blur. To make a long story short, my whole lifestyle had to change in order to survive: a new diet plan, constantly needing to prick my…