Girl

Raven Moore 4/14/2015 Soc 110-02 Dr. Pitts It’s a Girl-Reflection Paper After watching the video “It’s a Girl”, my eyes were opened to the cruelty and unfairness of the world. I realized how blessed I am to live in America, and how if I were to have been born in countries such as India or China, my life may not be as good as I have it now. In countries such as China and India having a daughter is considered a burden, and is often very dehumanized by China’s and India’s society. In India, a…

“Girl” By Jamaica Kincaid starts off with the girl listening to her mother who’s advising on life and becoming a woman. From the daughter point of view I can see the mom is very harsh, angry and frustrated with her because she believes her daughter is going down the road towards promiscuity and wants to prevent that. The mom is very wise and knows how to clean and cook as well as knowing social decorum, in which she’s trying to instill that in her daughter at an early age. I think her mother…

Asian Girls” Collective takes on stereotypes of Asian Women.” Esther Fan and Olivia Park at two students Rhode Island School of Design. They described themselves as Asian femme creatures and have opened an inclusive place online for other women whom feel the same way. These women feel as though they unrepresented in coursework and in the media as they live in white-dominant societies. Therefore, they took it upon themselves to make a change through a variety of ways. The first project the girls…

bees. Characterizations in various movies, literature and social media label teenage girls with stereotypical and offensive titles which inevitably have affected an entire generation of girl’s self-confidences and mental stability and may continue to do so if nothing is changed. Media and authority has used its power to group “teens” together…

gang. It can be argued that girls can take on the typical role of male gang members. Written in the Centre for Social Justice the children’s commissioner uses the term ‘Gangster Girl’ to describe a girl who takes on the male personas within gangs (2014). Therefore showing that females are just as much able to run their own gang on the same or similar level to males. Back in 2013, ‘The Independent’ published an online article written by Chloe Combi on ‘The real bad girls- an extraordinary insight…

Overshadowed, objectified, and devalued, in a sundry of circumstances, young girls are often born solely to serve and breed. The prose poem “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, serves as an accurate depiction of the monotonous day to day life of a girl, as well as a bold wake up call to the ignorant people of society. The brilliant and seemingly neverending stream of so called “words of wisdom” are structured in a series of independent clauses, which is one of the most elusive yet obligatory grammatical…

The Like a Girl campaign is the company Always’ way of promoting confidence in women and girls going through puberty. Unfortunately, women seem to lose confidence as they become older and enter puberty, either from internal (self-hatred) or external reasons (society). The campaign uses the phrase “Like a Girl” to explain that activities done in a “girly manner” are not derogatory and should not mean anything hurtful. Telling boys they throw like a girl is as detrimental as telling girls they…

My neighbor dates this girl that we went to high school with, her name's Sharon. She’s low maintenance, beautiful and loves a good time. Her perfect tits and ass make her the envy of all the other women in town. She doesn’t dress like a tramp, but certain things Sharon wears gives you a good idea of her shape. She runs and swims and has nice muscle tone as a result. I never thought her breasts were so ample due to the baggy clothes she wore in high school. After I got a chance to see and touch…

friends are considered to be the “popular girls”. Her and her friends may come across as very funny, dramatic, entertaining and they love to be center of attention. In her AVID class she sits with one of her girlfriends and they are always talking about their hair, eyebrows, nail and clothes and etc. Zoe is always in good spirit when she enters the school building. When she moves around with her group of friends she is fairly quiet compared to the other girls in her clique. She is extremely…

behave in a certain way. This idea has been passed down from generation to generation and young girls have been influenced and almost trained, on how to behave in society. This kind of influence can make it seem there is a right way to act the part of being a woman whether that means performing tasks to enhance a woman’s image, not do a man’s job or to seem fit to raise a family. In Jamaica Kincaid's Girl , Kincaid describes the moment of a mother lecturing her daughter on the expectations of…