Girl

The Sixties Borderline Personality Disorder “Maybe I was just crazy. Maybe it was the 60s. Or maybe I was just a girl... interrupted” (Girl et al., 2016). Girl Interrupted a movie produced by James Mangold from 1999 based on the book written by Susanna Kaysen. Kaysen wrote a book about her own 18 month stay in a mental hospital during the 60’s. The movie stars Winona Ryder, Whoppi Goldburg and Angelina Jolie. Winona Ryder plays the role of Suzanna Kaysen; in the movie the actress Winona Ryder…

For adolescent females, daily pressures are all-consuming. Whether it is education, relationships, or body image, young girls today lead busy lives and juggle countless responsibilities. To add to this frantic mindset, social media is attracting girls’ attention at every corner. Girls living in America are taught that everything is dependent upon how they look rather than their intelligence or internal characteristics. This installation of ideas is causing more than simply eating disorders and…

The title of the story is So I Ain’t No Good Girl. The girl (the main character) is at a bus stop while saying mean things about other girls because they are too plain and pitiful. Her boyfriend, Raheem, comes and wants him back after a redhead girl tries to steal him. He keeps fighting the main character and looking at other girls. So they get on the bus except for Raheem and the girl he’s been hitting on. On the bus, the girl decides to leave that alone and just go to school. In my…

Updike and “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid there is so many things that can to be talked about. Both stories come to a point where they are alike in many ways, but they differ from one another also. Similarities can be found throughout these both stories, elements are theme, character, author, and feeling. In “A&P” there is a young man who is a cashier, and focuses on three girls that walk into the store. He describes what they are wearing, and criticizes how they look. There is also a mother in…

Celebrity fascination is not healthy for adolescent girls. Girls around the ages of 11 to 17 are most influenced to get that ‘perfect’ look that they see on the cover of their favorite magazine. (Spettigue) These ‘influences’ that young girls have are setting unrealistic and unhealthy standards. For most girls they are striving for a thigh gap and small waist which they’re trying to achieve by starving themselves or taking medications that could be potentially dangerous. The thing with dieting…

What Are The Effects of Society Slut Shaming or Sexualizing Young Girls? “Girls may not only experience feelings of shame due to being sexualized, but they may also develop eating disorders, low self-esteem, and depression” (Sexualization 1). This issue, Body Image, has been even more of an issue to our generation and should be addressed more than it is currently being addressed. Body image is a very serious topic because the way we see each other and criticize each other, has an effect…

are many things I see as the day goes on. At the start of the day a nice girl with hair as golden as a shining sun sets me in her wallet. She’s nice when her thin fingers make every inch of my crisp, green body flat in the tight pocket so I do not wrinkle. There are other dollar bills in here with me. They seem friendly enough, but as I try to say hello they do not answer. Before I can even ask why, we stop moving and the girl pulls us all out. It’s nice to be able to breathe again without…

Progressive and The Dancing Girl through male and female perspectives. Within these stories, traditional stigmas and unequivocal prejudice is placed on Thai woman causing conflict and a reevaluation of gender equality. Although humorous, Grandma the Progressive focuses on an aristocratic and traditional idol for the granddaughters to become. Grandma dwells on the past and uses her matriarchal position to impose her traditionalist stigmas to her future generation. The Dancing Girl uses a unique…

about being female or acting female. I just was, and I was okay with that. I liked to shop in the girl section at Target because everything was Pink and Sparkly, because the world around me taught me that pink was a “girl” color, and “blue” was for boys. I liked to twirl around in dresses because pants were seen as too “masculine.” I thought boys were gross and full of cooties. I felt like, as a girl, I had to separated from the boys because somehow they would “ruin” my “purity”. I recall being…

The Stereotypical Girl Kim Kardashian, Britney Spears, Miley Cyrus, and Beyoncé, all great women who have changed the way that many teenage age girls act today. Kim Kardashian has changed the way girls dress and broke many fashion rules, Britney Spears showed people that just because you have a rough year doesn’t mean you can’t grow and learn from it, Miley Cyrus had a certain persona tied to her and she taught young girls that just because people perceive you a way doesn’t mean you are who…