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    When Girls Will Be Girls Growing up a competitive junior tennis player, I spent countless hours training on the tennis courts with both boys and girls. I trained with boys and swapped forehands with boys as well as girls. As a young girl, I never encountered any disparagement from the boys, but the girls were a different story. My mother swears I was born wearing heels and I can’t disagree with her as I do have a major shoe addiction. Before checking in for tennis tournaments, I insisted on washing my hair and slipping on my heels. Standing in line with the other competitors to register for tournaments, I overheard the sarcastic comments and snickers from the girls as most of them were sporting t-shirts, ball caps and tennis shoes. Although it…

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    Identity Of Girl

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    I am a girl. I have always been a girl, have always seen myself as a girl, and hold onto being a girl as a part of my identity. For most of my life, this identity has not had a profoundly negative nor positive impact on how I live. I have the privilege of having grown up in liberal Sonoma, where my being a girl did not automatically make me lesser. I played Co-Ed soccer until I was 10, was given the same opportunities to learn as the boys in my classes, and never had anyone other than a…

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    Kincaid Girl

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    Kincaid, "Girl" "Wash the white clothes on Monday and put them on the stone heap; wash the color clothes on Tuesday and put them on the clothesline to dry." This quote from the text shows how many details the mother is giving her daughter in her commands. The storyline revolves around the mother's commands. In the Girl a mother is discipline her daughter by giving her a series of commands to follow, with repetition, guides on how to act in certain situations, and how to become a better woman. …

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    In the story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, an old fashioned mother is giving her daughter advice on how to become a woman of respect and morals. In this person vs person conflict the mother gives a detailed description of what a woman should and should not do. Therefore the central idea of this story is the importance of family relationships and the passing of knowledge from one generation to the next. From cooking,and household chores, to how to conduct one's self in a public setting, she…

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    Like A Girl

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    Gabby Bates 4A In the phrase “like a girl”, if you replaced the word “girl” with any ethnicity or religious group, it would be completely unacceptable; however, having the word “girl” in that phrase doesn’t trouble anyone who says it. Throughout my life, I have heard that phrase spoken about me, as well as many other girls, and that’s one of the ways sexist inferences are formed. People who assume that females are not strong, both physically and mentally, are oblivious, and this ignorant…

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    Sexism In Like A Girl

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    increasing in American society. Phrases such as “Get back in the kitchen” and “You hit like a girl” are profusely recycled in daily conversation. Because of this growing epidemic, the feminine hygiene company, Always, created a commercial to bring this delicate matter to light. In their commercial, “Like a Girl”, Always addresses matters of sexism with the cast and audience, both parties unaware of what is to come. Through this commercial, it becomes apparent that sexism may be more prevalent…

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    Analysis Of Like A Girl

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    Whether intentionally or not, especially as a male, we all have used the term “like a girl” without a shadow of concern about the ramifications of such words. Our obnoxious preface that girls may be inferior, as evident by the phrase, has sadly been apparent since youth and changes the schema in which both genders view the world at hand. The people over at Always have created a campaign centered on the rhetoric of counter-thinking societal clichéd views. Growing up as male within a predominately…

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    Essay On Girl Scouts

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    every turn, Girl Scouts usually have great stories to tell. Either they are taking on amazing change-the-world service projects, enjoying life-changing trips to wonderful places, or basically just being outdoors having fun and forging “forever friendships.” There is so many ways of learning something new and building a lifetime of memories is inspiring; and the things of girls, volunteers, parents, and alumnae say seem to be a true statement to the power of the Girl Scout experience. Girl Scouts…

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    Jamaica Kincaid Girl

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    A Girl can be termed as a prose poem and Jamaica Kincaid wrote this prose poem. The New Yorker published it in the year 1978. The Girl was one of the initial pieces of work by Kincaid that got published. Kincaid belonged to Antigua, and this is why most of her writings revolve around Antiguan life. Kincaid was of African descent, and this is why most of her work comprised of class, race and gender issues. Knowing that Jamaica Kincaid background that she grew up in a poverty in Antigua giving…

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    I am currently in a group for Children’s media and the academic journal that I found was on the Sexualization of girls. This journal went over how sexualization is related to objectification because a lot of times men in society will see females as objects for them to rule over. “women and girls are both sexualized, via their tight clothing and makeup, and objectified, portrayed as existing for men 's pleasure and lacking in their own agency. There is not a parallel trend in which boys are often…

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