Dollhouse

Play is a major part of a child’s life and the use of toys within their play has had a significant influence on their self esteem and gender roles. Popular toys such as Barbie and Batman are being blamed for children developing a negative view of what is beautiful and acceptable in society. Barbie has always been a controversial issue as it gives young girls an unrealistic sense of what a woman should look like. Whereas Batman insights and sends a message to boys to be strong and tough. The toys…

In the book The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane, there are a lot of themes that can be found and applied to the real world, even though this book is a fantasy book. These themes can help you deal with hardships in your life. An example of one theme would be the theme of love. The theme I will be talking about is that you have to go through the times where there’s sadness and the times where there’s happiness, because where there is sadness, there is happiness. Or in another term, when there…

Elliot Handler. He had been making picture frames with his business partner Harold Matson in a garage workshop. And as the scraps began stacking up in their business, Handler and his wife, Ruth, found a use for them in the making of furniture for dollhouses. That product moved them into the toy business that most of you will recognize by the company name Mattel, a multi-billion dollar corporation that has brought us Barbie dolls and Hot Wheels toy cars. Yes, Barbie’s roots can be…

Clutching the brown paper bag in her right arm, Sarah Prescott settled her purse securely on her shoulder, switched the bag to that arm, and dug into her coat pocket for her keys. A gust of wind slammed into her from behind, shoving her forward a step and slipping under her coat, and even her sweater, to send a chill up her spine. She hated fall. She hated winter more, but she really hated the fall because that meant winter was just around the corner. Where the hell were her keys? She pulled…