Leggings

Living in the 1550-1650 was a completely different life style and very interesting. The way people dressed depended on your class you were either rich or poor. “ Food was a sign of wealth its abundance demonstrated the fortune of the host who had invited his guest to partake of food and wines.” Everyone had a job to do, people worked together in the most random way to survive. Living in the 1550-1650 was very hard and easy for some people at the same time. How a person dressed during the…

School Rebels vs. Teachers “Here are the tests, most of you did well, while others failed,” Mr. Krumpass announced,” especially you Shanae.” He said pointedly. “Dang you’re so stupid the teacher called you out” snickered Zach I gave him a cold stare, and looked at Mr. Krumpass expectedly, who is humming and avoiding my gaze. What did I expect? Mr. Krumpass hates me, he would be the last person to stick up for me. He then handed me my test., but before I could look at it, Zach snatched it from…

Misogyny Starts with a Dress Code School dress codes started with a simple goal: to keep students safe and undistracted in a learning environment. However, many schools have taken this policy to the extreme. Hundreds of girls are sent home and humiliated each day at school for wearing shorts or a tank top in the summer season. Many female students are not permitted to wear tighter jeans, despite their youthful age. The strictly enforced dress codes in schools are extremely harmful to a young…

The Broken Promise An adaptation of The Boy and The Wolves I was sitting in the heavy sheets of rain, building mud castles, and wearing only my leggings and breechcloth. I stood up and walked into my families wigwam, and saw my mother huddled over my sick father. “Kuckunniwi gather Viho, and Asha” my mother politely asked. Viho and Asha were named after important parts of our lives. I ran out yet again into the pouring rain and shouted, “Asha, Viho, come quickly.”…

In a world of savagery, murder, and destruction, Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness consistently emphasizes the importance of honesty as one of humanity’s few remaining virtues. However, this is a virtue limited only to man himself, as women are perceived as inherently “out of touch with truth” (Conrad 113)…. In this manner, it is to be argued that not only is woman’s naïve dishonesty a product of man’s debilitating assumption about the weakness of femininity, but that it is also this naïveté…

in our class also played. Those white girls in the squad with pink skirts, that are shorter than their butt, are “reading” me just like I’m a book. They study me from my straight black hair in ponytail, to my sports bra, to my shirt, to the black leggings that have the new laundry smelling and finally to the black, clean sneakers that I bought just for this game. One of those girls flips her blonde curly hair and comes up to me and says with her…

In consideration of the Intended and her destructive naïveté, it is salient to also examine the presence of Kurtz’s “barbarous and superb” mistress (Conrad 175). For, as Chinua Achebe argues in the essay “An Image of Africa,” the Congolese woman is the “savage counterpart to the refined, European” Intended (6). While the white woman exists to represent civilization and its idealistic ignorance, the novel’s only female racial “other” symbolizes the wilderness and its dark truths. Via Marlow’s…

Stock car driving is a man’s game, right? Wrong. Some people assume that only a real man’s man can speed along the tracks, executing sharp turns while burning rubber and leaving skid marks. Those people, however, have never encountered Danica Patrick. For those of you who don’t know, Danica Patrick is one of the most successful female stock car drivers in the world. She has been driving professionally since the late 1990s and in that time has established herself as one of the most dominant…

Zara is the leading brand in the portfolio of Inditex, the Spanish fashion group founded in 1975. It accounts for almost one third of the Group stores and two thirds of revenue. By the end of 2013 Zara had 1827 stores opened globally on 88 markets and continued its online expansion by launching online sales in South Korea and Mexico making total online presence on 27 markets. The original business idea of Zara was to link customer demand to production by following the fashion trends and to…

And there was very little in between. I eventually graduated and dress code ended. I am not saying I always wore scandalous outfits; I could just wear shorts without a care for principal getting on to me for my outfit. I was also able to go out in leggings or jeggings that were longer because they stretched and much comfortable than regular jeans. As I was in college, I started thinking about my kids. I hoped to marry someone tall, but did not want my children towering over everyone like I did.…