Girl

In the film, The Very Young Girls, focuses on prostitution and sexual exploitation. For example, women are treated unfairly because they are being sold as sex slaves without their consent. Instead of their pimps being arrested, the women are arrested by the police. Also, the women express the challenges they faced when they want to obtain work in the work industry. However, women have a hard time acquiring jobs because they do not acquire job training and education. Also, having a criminal…

In the second paragraph of John Updike’s “A&P”, Sammy describes the three girls entering the store in such a manner that reveals more about himself than the young women. The way in which he fantasizes Queenie shows narcissistic and sociopathic tendencies where he sees himself as far more unique than everyone else and his superior attitude towards women. Sammy views Queenie as a perfect example of how a woman should be: outspoken, beautiful, confident, and non conforming. His description of the…

It Harder to Raise Boys or Girls” by Paula Spencer, Spencer argues that boys are harder to raise. Spencer believes that boys are harder to raise when it comes to discipline, physical safety, communication, and school but that girls are harder to raise when it comes to self-esteem. When Spencer is raising her four children she believes that “I spend more time and energy on my one boy than on my three girls”. When it comes to discipline boys don 't listen as well as girls because boys have…

Girl Like her The characters are Breanna,Isaac,Gina,and Avery. Breanna is the main character. Isaac and Gina are Breanna’s bsf’s. Then there’s Avery and she is the popular girl and she is also a bully. The setting is in Nevada at school and sometimes their homes. Breanna and Gina are both shy,but they both love sports. Isaac also does too. Finally Avery she is into parties and bad things. Avery starts picking on Breanna. Avery says mean things to her like that she is nothing, that breanna…

Girl, Interrupted is a 1999 film starring Winona Ryder and Angelina Jolie about a women’s 18-month stay in a mental institution. The film takes place in the late 1960’s and focuses around a main character by the name of Susanna Kaysen. The following summary was written with help from the American Mental Health Foundation website and Wikipedia. In the beginning of the film we learn that Susanna Kaysen had overdosed by taking an entire bottle of aspirin followed by a bottle of vodka. Despite many…

read the book “Girls Like Us” by Gail Giles. This book is about two special-education girls, Quincy and Biddy, who have just graduated high school and are now living together with an older lady. They are learning to live on their own with the guidance of Ms. Elizabeth. In return, they also help Ms. Elizabeth with her cooking, cleaning, and other jobs around the house. At the beginning of the novel, Quincy can not stand Biddy. Biddy is always in her own world and is a girly-girl. Later in…

Despite the fact that it may be short, Girl by Jamaica Kincaid, is fierce and strong. Easily, it is definitely high on the “most book-throwing” stories list. I rank it at number one on the list. The short story touches home base with me and other women as well, I am positive. Which is what makes it so interesting. Throughout the long winded sentence of a story, the narrator lectures and instructs her seemingly young daughter on what to do domestically and in public to not be deemed a “slut.” The…

“You’re good, for a girl I mean.” My friend Isaiah exclaimed when I beat his friend Austin to the ball and scored. Last summer, I played soccer at camp with my friends. I dribbled and ran my hardest, and I could outplay almost every guy there. However, when Isaiah told me this, it hurt my feelings for a while. He seemed surprised that a girl could have such aggression and skill. Therefore, he had to include my gender in his compliment, even though I was good for a person of any gender at my age.…

Sexualization of Younger Girls Let me ask you a question. Have you ever looked in the mirror and thought something negative about yourself? That should not be the case but there are many others struggling with the same thing; because of the sexualization of young girls and women in the media. The sexualization of younger girls’ even women has been going on for as long as I can remember. It’s all over the media. Did you know that eighty percent of 10-year old girls in the U.S. report that they…

In the end, Alice Walker wrote a beautiful story about a foolish little girl and her very special relationship with her close friend, the neighboring Mr. Sweet’s. From the beginning of the story until the very end this little girl does change into a creative young women, but only at a price that changed her life forever. This story is perfectly told and set up for its intended purpose, to show what it took for a little girl to change into a woman. Valarie Wilson Wesley, a New York Times Writer…