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A Doll Discerned “I have to stand completely on my own, if I’m going to understand myself and everything around me. That’s why I can’t stay here with you any longer.” This quote from “A Doll’s House” gives readers a glimpse into Henrik Ibsen’s brilliant blend of complexity and irony in his two main characters. Though Nora and Torvald seem to be a typical, well-off, and devoted couple at first glance, deep into the play Nora discovers that she does not know who she is or what her life’s purpose…

This artifact is a toy project from Growth and Development of Young Children (ECE 102R). In this course, we focused on the different stages of children and the developmental milestone that are in the different age groups. I picked this toy project as an artifact for my portfolio because it was one of my first assignments at River Valley Community College that showed my creativity with creating an activity. I felt confident after completing this assignment. I earned an A on this project. The…

As I was a person who really likes to play around with a new stuff, so game or toy can be the one that things that I always have to play with when I was free and take a break. That’s why, when I try to find a company for my project. Toys “R” Us is the one that gets me interesting a lot by searching for that. As Toys “R” Us is the world’s largest toy chain store which provides the multiple kinds of toy for all kinds of kids. Toys “R” Us focusing on a memorable shopping experience for customers…

Lloyd on Lemmy Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman remembers Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The following Lemmy tribute was written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a…

Nickolay Lamm designed the Lammily dolls in an effort to change the idea of a "perfect" female's body image. Nickolay Lamm believes the Lammily dolls provide more of a "realistic" image of the average girl than Barbie dolls do. Traditional Barbie dolls that most of us are familiar with reflect the image of a tall, slim, and flawless female. Mr. Lamm conducted extensive research on the average body size of young women today. The Lammily doll is designed to reflect the image of the average 19…

soccer? My older sister and I were going to a friend’s 7th birthday party and we bought her a Barbie doll with some pink tiny accessories. Her name was Hailey. I helped my mom wrap the box with pink sparkly Barbie wrapping paper because she loved Barbie dolls. One time when I went to her house after school, there was a huge Barbie Dream House and then I gave my mom the idea to give her a Barbie doll. When we finally found parking in the very busy parking lot, we found Hailey’s party spot, there…

procedures between them to like the dolls They still have several procedures lined up to continue their transformation A French couple reportedly spent more than $300,000 to look like Barbie and Ken and to live just like the dolls' lifestyles. The couple before their surgeries (Photo Credit: Gossip Rocks) The couple before their surgeries (Photo Credit: Gossip Rocks) Anastasia Reskoss, 20, and Quentin Dehar, 23, claimed they were obsessed with Barbie and Ken dolls when they were young and after…

of differences and similarities they both use body movement and costumes to portray a specific effect. Their costumes are both casual and non-stereotypical to show that they are everyday people and their body language shows the people in the Barbie doll commercial are happy and those in the pads commercial use hand movements when imitating girls. Despite the fact they are…

Barbie has become a household name brand over the past 57 years, though a new marketing campaign by the popular doll company seeks to disrupt the negative image of Barbies commonly held by the general public. The goal of the campaign attempts to shift the focus of how barbie is perceived by adults, onto how a child perceives Barbie. This campaign comes in response to negative criticism regarding barbie being a poor role model for young girls; Most commonly that Barbie promotes an unrealistic…

In Ibsen’s “A Doll House,” the act of pretending to be someone else seems to be the name the game. The characters falsely portray their true selves so that others can like them in the public. The story exemplifies the everyday spirited trophy wife, Nora, to that of a self-empowering woman. To her husband Torvald, she is a loving wife. However, unbeknownst to him, her persona shifts to that of a resilient and liberated woman. The first impression of Nora is of a respectful and yet…