Doll

4 years ago, I was a part of a fiber arts class at my high school. For our final project, we needed to make either a doll or stuffed animal, & I chose to make a doll, using as many recycled materials as possible in its creation. Turns out this little choice set something huge in motion. Not long after, I found myself in Nicaragua where my family had moved for 6 months, & I encountered poverty like we just don’t see in the US. My heart broke for all the girls that I saw who felt insignificant and…

time sequestered in my room with my dolls. They helped me to escape my reality. They listened to me without judgement and gave voice to the conversations that I desperately wanted to have but could not. I remember vividly wanting a Barbie that had brown hair and green eyes. I wanted a doll that represented me, one that looked like me or at least seemed like the person I wanted to grow up to be. I don’t remember my age when I saw my first "black" baby doll, but I do remember my mother’s…

the side effects of playing with Barbie dolls. It is impossible to know at a young age if a girl will develop a negative influence by playing with Barbie dolls. Studies have proven that playing with Barbie Dolls can change the way young girls think and behave later on in life. Barbie dolls are a negative influence that can make them self-conscious about their physical appearance by lowering their self-esteem and making them desire the body of a Barbie Doll. Body dysmorphic disorder is developed…

poem "Barbie Doll" by Marge I believe it’s about how a young ladies closest companion “The Barbie”, could likewise be the motivation behind why some young ladies have low self-regards. When a young lady plays with Barbie, she envisions all that she can become. While young girls grow and hit puberty they start to feel as if they are not good enough. Woman are pressured to live up to expectations to look like the perfect Barbie Doll. I assume that there should be suitable age confine dolls that…

All Barbie Dolls should be banned Ruth Handler came up with a clever business idea to create a doll called ‘Barbie’ which was first manufactured by the American toy-company ‘Mattel, Inc.’ and launched in March 1959. For over fifty years, the Barbie Doll has been an important part of the toy fashion doll market. Criticisms of Barbie are often centred on concerns that children consider Barbie a role model and will attempt to emulate her. That is why so many people, including me, share the same…

The Negative Effects of Barbie Dolls on Body Image: “As a child most girls played with Barbie dolls and if they had not, their views of what is considered beautiful and acceptable for women would be different, as well as how they felt about body image” (Ive, Dittmar, Halliwell 283). Childhood is the period of time where girls start to build their basic belief system that they will carry into their adulthood. Most young girls, especially in the United States, are given toys that portray the…

crucial to their early development, such as the very toys that they play with. Most parents associate young boys with action figures while most girls are commonly associated with dolls, but this begs the question, what is the difference between a doll and an action figure? I went to Walmart to compare two different toys, Barbie dolls and G.I. Joe action figures to see the differences and the possible effects that it could have on children. Upon entering Walmart, I noticed that there was a lack…

Girl Doll History The creation of the American Girl Doll and company was Pleasant Rowland in 1986. There are also a line of dolls that have the same name. American Girl Dolls all have their own story from different parts around the world. The dolls are about girls between the ages of 8-11 from different cultures and perspectives. The story are about different times in history, and today the dolls talk about what there life was like. I did not realize that there was so much about these dolls, I…

Ship of dolls Author is Shirley Parenteau, this is a true story of the 1926 exchange of Friendship between the United States and Japan before World War II, the project was begun by Dr. Sidney Gulick that he urged American children sent over twelve thousand dolls to Japan. Lexie is heroine, she is eleven years old, her mother sent her to live with her grandparents in Portland, because her mother has remarried and is working in a nightclub, her lifestyle is unsuitable for raising children. Lexie…

Critical Analysis on “Barbie Doll” Marge Piercy uses a variety of literary devices to express how unfair society’s standards are in her poem “Barbie Doll”. The poem tells the story of a young girl going through puberty. As she grows, her classmates begin to be rude to her and criticize her looks, particularly her nose and thighs. The girl tries desperately to fit in by changing her looks and it wasn’t enough. Eventually the girl cuts off her nose and legs and offers them up to her peers. This…