Girl with a One-Track Mind

the growing sexualization of adolescent girls and the hookup culture that became more evident when hip hop rose to popularity. Carolyn West, associate professor of psychology and the study of prevention of violence at the University of Washington stated, “Black girls are not seeing positive images of who they are and what they can be” (West). Dr. West also went on to mention “Looking at the sexual imagery really impacts on the functioning of teenage girls” (West) , by saying this, she means…

though winning at times is easy, it can also be challenging. Winning, is a possibility that requires determination, sacrifice, and strength. My journey to the championship was a long one, full of uncertainties, sacrifices, and most of all, hope. The journey began in 2011, I was in 7th grade and in my first year of track. We had just finished our last week of conditioning and were about a couple of weeks into practice. Everyone began to try events they thought they could do well in. I ended up…

The internet attracts students, teachers, researchers, and the average individual interested in the online community, but is the internet helpful –or hurtful? Nicholas Carr in his essay “Hal and Me” argues that, “The deep reading that used to come naturally has become a struggle” in result of the internet (Carr, 13). Although Carr is correct, the internet can encourage a laziness in regards to deeper reading and a resentment towards focusing for long periods of time, but the internet is a tool,…

INTRODUCTION As we take a look on today’s generation, most of the children’s after school programs is to play, and play various types of video games, one of them are Role Playing Games or commonly known as RPGs. Many studies says that RPG is one of the most addictive type of game. According to Johansen (2008) “Although the modern tabletop role playing game (RPG) movement began in 1974 when TSR published the first commercial RPG Dungeons and Dragons, it has been only less around ten years since…

were things that stood out to me in chapter 13, when they were talking about how Cambodia has a lot of mines and UXO. One fact was mind blowing that “Cambodia has the highest number of amputees in the world”. It states that “one out of 350 people is missing some kind of body part” (90). That was shocking to me and it’s something that I would’ve never known if I didn’t read this book. One of the important highlights of part II was when he was talking to Pradip and met Sreekanth. Pradip explain…

In 1984 the use of technology dominates the world similar to the society we live in today. In the novel 1984 the technology is actually a tool employed by the government to spy on the citizens of Oceania; the government tracks telescreens and microphones to stay aware of what the citizens are saying and doing. In addition, the government is also making sure that the citizens are not showing any signs of emotion so as they do not create an uprising against the government. The United States, on…

I’m not kidding. Every morning I cycled a forty-minute journey to school and showered in the empty girls’ bathroom near our squash court. On that fateful September morning, after showering, I went out to fill in my water bottle. Something unusual happened the moment I came back. As I stepped into the bathroom, my peripheral vision detected an unknown figure scurried off from the locker area into one of the shower cubicles and slammed the door shut. The next minute I noticed that my sport bra,…

roles and expectations change depending on the community, what may be considered to be feminine or masculine in one community may not be in a different community. In “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria” by Judith Ortiz Cofer, juxtaposed to the previous writers, conveys her argument through the use of personal anecdote. Cofer narrates her experience as a Latin girl growing up in America. Through the appeal of ethos she explains how as a teenager she was taught to behave as…

‘her’, and how they want to please ‘her’ and always keep ‘her’ in mind when making new advances in the company. I thought it was a little odd, but it seems to work for them. Starbucks continue to grow and become more popular, with locations just about anywhere. Remember that old saying. ‘out of sight, out of mind’? Starbucks is making it a point to always be available to its people, calling for you to empty your pockets, for just one more…

BIG move. Well, not really. We were still in the same state, just 352 miles away from everything I have ever known. The moved shifted my entire universe. My world was upside down. I had never seen such a variety of races, cultures, and history in one place. The move enabled me to grasp that Arizona was not the only place in the galaxy, but only a microscopic portion of it. Growing up on…