Gilmore Girls

Growing up, all us young girls played with Barbie dolls and dressed them up to be pretty. The girl in the poem represents women in society dealing with the unrealistic expectations and standards they face. A girl is born into the world, innocent and pure, unknowing of what she is going to encounter in her life. This child is tormented throughout her lifetime on what people say she should look like or be like, and is haunted by the anticipation of what is normal. The speaker appears to be very…

teeth.” The last advertisement is a commercial from this October of this year. It is titled, the story of Sarah and Juan. It is a love story of a boy and girl starting in high school. It takes you through their love story moment by moment from when they first lock eyes until when he proposes. At different times through their blossoming romance, the girl would give the boy a piece of extra gum and each time the boy would save the wrapper and draw a picture of the what they were doing at that…

Kings Trail Elementary Professional Development School demographics are that approximately 38.3% of students identify as African-American, which creates the largest segment of the student body and is expected in many schools in Jacksonville where 41.7% of student population is African American (Kings Trail Elementary School). In addition, 27.9% of students identify as Hispanic, while, 20.7% identify as White and 9.2% identify as Asian (Kings Trail Elementary School). Lastly, 3.5% identify with…

Three drops of blood, three poisoned items, three tokens given for spinning straw into gold, three nights in the wood; the number three woven into so many of the brothers Grimm folk tales. Perhaps it is for the repetition of an action or phrase to better allow the story to become ingrained in a child’s mind. For who doesn’t recall the words little red riding hood speaks to the wolf, “Oh, grandmother what big ears you have!” “The better to hear you with.” “Oh, grandmother what big eyes you…

“Here's to strong women. May we know them. May be be them. May we raise them.” A quote that depicts the strong-willed woman in society. In the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne the readers are shown the mindset of a headstrong women. In every example of a woman made by Hawthorne, he shows the courage and the struggles gone through by the main character, Hester. Portraying idealistically the very existence of today's “feminists” dates back to a time when a strong willed woman was as…

being a dancer, she experienced racism like no other minority in the ballet world had experienced. Pushing forward through the hard times has increased the diversification in ballet, and has motivated many other minorities, like young African American girls, to join classical ballet. Copeland is changing the uniformity that the ballet world has, and allowing for…

People identify me by my curly hair. But, let me tell you how much of a pain curly hair really is. It is the absolute worst thing that could possibly happen to an African latina living in Miami. Firstly, it makes me look fatter than I am. Secondly, I cannot get a brush through my hair. And thirdly, the humidity in this multicultural city does not help under any circumstances! I can attempt to leave my house with my hair perfectly in place, but as soon as I step foot out the door, poof, “There it…

idea that people have towards something or group of people that the idea is commonly wrong. A stereotype would be that girls are not good at sports. This is a just Hypothesis from girls and all the people think that it’s true; girls are not good at sports. If some girls are not good at sports it doesn’t mean that whole population are not good at sport and there is so many girls that they are so smart at sports. How characters in the sitcom are stereotyped? Discuss about it. The Jessica and…

Media's Effects: Child to Adult In today's culture young girls all across the world are growing up in very different situations; yet, one thing is always a constant, men being the superior. Katha Pollitt, an award- winning writer for magazines such as The Nation and New York Times, discusses how this divide between men and women shown by the media is critical in the upbringing of today’s youth. From princesses always needing saved to the cute little bunny with pink bows in the background these…

Many people think working at a daycare is the simplest job. At the day are I work at I have to deal with parents, coworkers, and the kids. In my experience the babies are the hardest part of the job. There are bay bay kids, the quiet ones, teacher's pet, and targets. First are bay bay babies. These are destructive and bullies. From seven am until seven at night, they are on a mission to make the teacher's head spin. Adrianna is the prime example in my class. She walks in with a sneaky grin…