Dolls

in the United States. Barbie has been a leading competitor of many toys such as Bratz, American Dolls, and many more. When China was introduced Barbie in 2009, it did not meet the expectations as the product did in the United States. It was difficult for the product and brand to win the hearts and wallets of the parents in China. The brand then launched Barbie as a “blonde” violin soloist and then a doll that resembled a popular artist in the Chinese culture. The economic factors that are…

glaring issue of race relation in american society. There was a study in 1939 on which skin color doll kids prefer. In this experiment, sixteen black children were shown a white doll and a black doll and asked to pick which doll best represented certain words. Eleven of the black children associated the black doll with the word “bad”. This shows that even black children saw the dark skinned doll as bad too even though it was their own race. Society…

who is demanding, spoiled, and bratty. Throughout the episode, her recently new doll, Lily D., begins to tear her family apart, which make her become more caring, and make her change to become a person who wants to make greater choices and become nicer. In the beginning, Lily would always beg her parents for anything that she wanted to have, no matter how much something cost, like when she got away with buying a new doll. She would hang out with nobody because she would always be told that she…

magic cube. Many small boys have a dream to save the world, but I hope I have a Chinese Kung Fu to fight crime. Opposite, my little sister has a princess dream, so her storage include many dolls and doll’ accessories. Obviously, Barbie doll belonging to the female market, we can’t believe that boys will love dolls.…

Societal norms can be a brutal dictator. Throughout “A Doll’s House,” the audience sees how societal normalities are not necessarily a good thing. In this play, written by Henrik Ibsen in the 1870s, the ideas of gender roles, reputations and love are explored artfully. The play follows the lives of Nora and Torvald Helmer, as well as several of their friends and acquaintances: an old doctor, a young widow in need of a job, a bank employee, and a nursemaid. Torvald treats his wife, Nora, as a…

We think and process our thoughts before an action is executed. After that, we evaluate what we have done. This is a progression which we called it as self-concept. It is implanted into our consciousness where we all keep on developing thoughts and feelings of ourselves. Whenever we confront a product, apart from its functionality, appearance and quality, a deeper message or a sign was usually sent out from the designer to the users. When these messages or signs were used repeatedly as time goes…

basis. In line three of the poem, it states, “a doll slumped behind the door”. The author here uses the literary technique of imagery to compare and represent how the mother is being compared to the doll. As seen in line 4 it states, “So she lugged a chair behind the garage.” As a reader, I can conclude that the author is now comparing the mother to the slumped doll by then stating that the mother was finding a chair to set behind the garage like the doll was slumped behind the door. These…

social learning theory, developed by Albert Bandura, is when an individual learns from social influences and the observation of others. Bandura’s theory stressed the importance of imitation and modeling. In his most famous experiment in 1961, the Bobo Doll study, he made a film of a…

Plastic Makes Perfect (Or Does It?) Barbara Millicent Roberts. At 57 years old, she is an iconic figure, a household name, and incredibly popular. She has obtained 130 careers, continues to earn more, and lives by many mottos like Be Who You Wanna Be and We girls can do anything. This impressive woman is just as impactful as she is stunning. She embodies the classic idea of beauty: tall, blue eyes, blonde hair, thin, long legs. This woman is more commonly known as Barbie. She was created by Ruth…

In 1996, Mattel created a new Cabbage Patch doll named Snacktime Kids. The dolls were cutting edge with movable mouth parts, and they were popular due to their predecessors, Cabbage Patch Kid dolls. Unfortunately, the doll’s moving parts would trap children’s fingers, and they had no off switch. The dolls were removed from the shelves of stores, and consumers were given a refund. The U.S Consumer Safety Commission supported how Mattel handled the situation (Ferrell, page 596). According to…