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grows up within the inner city of Philadelphia, they must be content with external forces in order to fit in with the social organization of life and violence. In the book, Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City by Cindy D. Ness insightfully talks about the street fights within low income areas between young girls. When young women are in a situation where violence could break out, they are given the choice to step up or back off. Violence for these young women living in the…

Allow me to set the scene to illustrate how this night (and most nights in general) of BASIC small group nights began. The clock read 7:35 as I exited the TIC Room. I had texted my small group girls to meet at my apartment at 7:44. It takes approximately nine minutes for me to drive from New Life to my apartment. Additionally, I had told one of my girls that I would pick her up on my way there. To top it off, as I got into my car, I quickly checked my phone and noticed a text from my roommate…

“A & P:” Short Story Analysis John Updike short story “A&P” portrays the mind of a young cashier, Sammy, working in an A&P store while admiring and analyzing customers, but especially the three girls walking around the store in bathing suits. Ultimately their defiance of standards of the community affects Sammy strongly. Updike uses action, dialogue and commentary to express the narrator’s personality and uses bathing suits and sheep to symbolize…

of young girls while trying to expose it. In order for Newsom to get her point across she had to build a strong claim. The documentary sheds light on the portrayal of women and helps build a stronger claim on how this portrayal is wrong by sharing her story, using the stories of young girls who have had issues because of this portrayal, using visuals, and facts from successful women. In the opening of the documentary Newsom begins by saying how she found out she was pregnant with a girl and how…

Aspirations for thinness can begin to impact girls at any young age. The media begins instilling the ideals of being thin, extremely thin, even in children’s shows. In one study, an overwhelming “majority of 10-year-old girls – 81% – fear being fat. Half of girls in 5th grade through 12th grade feel that magazine images have made them want to lose weight. Among girls who are of normal weight, 50-70% perceive themselves as being overweight” (ANAD). The way these girls perceive themselves will…

‘stereotype’? A stereotype is an image or 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…

could properly hear how the two girls interacted between each other. I noticed that the “block girl” would pick out three or four cut-outs for her board and whatever she did not use the other girl would ask to use. This lead me to believe that the other girl did not really know what she wanted to make but was instead just putting the left overs to her board, which was strange becuase the pile of cut-out was rather large and there was no need to just use what the other girl did not. The caregiver…

These past sixteen months, as member of the Boys & Girls Club, has been a momentous time of my life. One of my key aspect of involvement at the club, is helping the kids with homework. Most of the times when the kids comes to the Boys & Girls Club from school, the chances of them having homework is very high of them having to complete their assignment to turn it in the next day. I utilize the time I have to devote all of my time and energy to assist them with their homework. I personally know…

infanticide, where it's actually the most popular. The documentary “It’s a Girl” first shows an Indian women stating “Women have the power to give life,” she explains, “and the power to take it away.” (It's a Girl) India and china have rooted in them the practice of infanticide. The film opens up with a woman telling her story about her births. She has been pregnant eight times, all of these eight times she gave birth to only girls, and eight times she had strangled and killed her daughters. She…

A Matter of Appearance In the short story A & P, by John Updike the narrator/main character Sammy quits his job at the A & P store after defending three girls dressed in bathing suits from the “stingy” A & P manager Lengel, however the girls leave the store without even noticing Sammy’s attempt at gaining their attention. This then raises the question about why he quit. What was his reason? Was it wrong? Was it right? It is quite possible that Sammy may have had a deeper subconscious reason for…