Gilmore Girls

with this distinction that dolls are for girls, and that trucks or guns are meant to be for boys. No, these ideals are established in their heads from what toys they interact with as a child, and the clothes that they wore. When walking into the toy section of a store, you are either overwhelmed by the amount of pink and other bright colors or by the darker colors, which distinguishes whether it’s supposed to be for girls or boys. Throughout the colorful girl aisles, there are dolls, along…

with lust over a girl. The two boys are different ages and go to different lengths to impress the girl they want; however, each story has a similar theme, inciting incident, and final ending. A theme in both of the stories is immaturity, or ignorance. The narrator of Araby is an unnamed boy who is probably not yet an adolescent. Being a young boy in a dull town with little exposure to anything from the world outside of his, he is, by default, ignorant. His first experience with a girl is with…

I’m not trying to be feminist with this song or trying to imply that girls have a superior power than men; I firmly believe that both should be equal. However, it is a very empowering song for me because it makes me see that I should never be ashamed of being a woman. I have amazing capabilities to do whatever guys do; my…

There is a little girl in kindergarten; she is wearing a pretty flowered dress, with pink tights. Most of the human population would expect her to be playing with dolls because of the gender roles they were taught in the society and culture we grew up in. Well this little girl is climbing a tree and most likely going to rip her tights. She loves wear dresses and loves the feeling of looking down from the tops of trees. Little does she know that as she grows up her parents, culture and society…

relates to The Great Depression of the 1920s. Although that is not mentioned in the film, the main focus is poverty and how children got around few things. There was one young girl that was part of the higher class and the young boy notices how she is taken and wants to help. The whole idea behind the upper class young girl was for the other men to get a reward back from the town because of poverty. Although the film was short, it was easy to pull information…

In the video a satanic p!nk sits on her right shoulder and on her left shoulder sits an angel. The satanic p!nk wants the girl to follow the traditional gender roles while the p!nk angel wants her to be courageous and ambitious. This whole music video portrays female empowerment and supports it by using the metaphor of the angel and devil. She has a great influence for women…

Let’s play house. A little girl is in a floral dress with her little apron as she pretends to cook dinner for her family. She has a little baby doll that she cradles in her arms as she finishes up the dinner and gets ready to start the laundry. A little boy comes in acting as if he had a long day of work asking her if dinner was ready and if his cloths were ready. When you were younger the girls were told to play with dolls and Barbie’s. Our parents brought us little kitchen and told us the…

motherhood and the women’s domestic sphere. In order to contextualize this change in educational standards, I plan to draw brief examples from the 17th, but mostly the 18th century, regarding what subjects and methods of teaching were to be expected for girls that were allowed to attend school. In addition, should space allow, I’d like to also highlight some key women who helped to further the educational reformation, or more generally how female teachers and schoolmistresses did just that.…

on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry” (Kincaid,1339). The text allows us to see the adult figure teaching the little girl how to become a woman. “This is how you set a table for tea, this is how you set a table for dinner; this is how you set the table for dinner with an important guest; this is how you set a table for breakfast” (Kincaid,1340). This girl, on and on, is being taught “how to set up a table” for different occasions and not once she is given the time to have a space…

the comment “like a girl.” People have heard this comment and immediately think of it as an insult. Always’ commercial uses emotional appeals to empower girls, make “like a girl” a positive statement, and show how great it is to be a girl. The commercial is also easy for young women and girls to relate to. The commercial begins with a teenage girl auditioning for a role and the message “What does it mean to be a girl?” on the screen. The director asks the girl to run like a girl. The teenager…