Gilmore Girls

America’s children that 'playing like a girl ' means you 're a badass” (“Huffington Post” 1). Even with the president saying that it is awesome for girls to play sports, many girls still choose not to participate. The reasons for this could be safety reasons or transportation issues, but it is important that girls stay in sports. In order to keep girls in sports, it is vital that they should have positive role models but with the sexualization of women in athletics, girls are missing out on the…

Chinese people think of a girls in general. Maxine is a little girl who told her mom she got straight A’s and her mother simply did not care and wanted to tell her a story about a woman named Fa Mu Lan who was a woman warrior and saved her own village in China. Maxine sometimes fell on the floor and had a tantrum when one of the emigrant villagers or even her parents said “Feeding girls is feeding cowbirds” (Kingston, 46). Maxine is using a metaphor comparing a cowbird to a girl and saying how…

Aunt Alexandra and Atticus didn’t always see eye to eye on how Scout should be raised. Since Atticus had been raising Scout alone since she was two, he had never forced her to act like a girl, as it was something he probably wasn’t familiar with and wouldn’t have been able to teach. He simply wished that Scout would make her own decisions and learn from her own experiences. Jem was taught by Atticus, since Atticus was a gentleman Jem simply had to observe. For Scout though, observing wouldn’t…

and she cannot continue to play and act like a boy. She is embarrassed when her father’s friend Charlie questions and provokes her about her gender and behavior. “Charlie Spoon was still grinning. ‘So What are you gonna be, Andrea? A boy or a girl?’ ‘I’m a girl,’ She said” (114, 115) This conversation shows that she has decided that although she likes to spend time with her father, she is not contented with the male’s activities and…

trading. What you come into the sport as is what you stay. Even the clothing is almost strictly binary. Only boys can wear black skates, but never white. Only girls can wear white or colored skates, but never black. In formal competition, you will almost never see a boy out of a black suit or black leggings, and you will almost never see a girl out of a white dress or skirt. Those white skates represented who I was supposed to be, who my parents wanted me to be, who I never was. That nice snow…

Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find” contains several short stories each containing their own morals. Two of these stories are “The Life You Save May Be Your Own" and "Good Country People", both of these stories take place in the South and revolve around a seemingly innocent man who ends up taking advantage of a young woman. In “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”, a man wanders to the house of an elderly woman willing to help out for no pay, and eventually is married to her daughter…

After reading the novel Frankenstein there are plenty of times when the monster experiences things that make him loose hope in humanity. He feels useless, hopeless, angry, upset and not wanted. It’s such a horrible feeling to feel like you’re not excepted when that’s all you really want. Some people turn to crime and a great depression when they don’t feel loved or wanted, they retaliate against their family and do things out of the norm. My opinion is that people do this for attention since…

character; Josephine March, is faced with the expectations of becoming a respectful young women. Surrounded by a household full of girls, Jo has no choice but to conform to society 's ideals and grow up to be like her sisters. Throughout the novel Jo refuses to grow up, faces society 's expectations, and becomes a Little Woman. Josephine March is a fifteen year old girl who goes by the nickname ‘Jo’, she has a bold personality and tends to be against the idea of growing up. She spends a…

with Ma and went home. Ma and Papa included me in many things. They took me along to weddings, functions and even sports occasions. We went to watch a live cricket game once at the stadium. I always loved cricket and I played it very well as a young girl…

and young girls should be themselves and not feel as if they have to act a certain way in order to fit into society. The 1930’s were a very hard time for many Americans, but it was an especially difficult time for women. As men lost their jobs,…