Little Girl

In the Film “Miss Representation,” Jennifer Siebel documents her whole life story, and how it has affected her from being since she was a little girl to a woman/mother. In her documentary she speaks with a very soft and somewhat of a broken and depressing voice, leading viewers to feel some type of emotion for her. She touches a lot of people with this documentary as she shows through her documentary how all these years’ women have only been good for one thing, a perfect body and a perfect face…

young girl, the lifestyle she lived and of the Taliban coming in and drastically changing the way of life for people in Pakistan. Women of Pakistan have never had as many rights as men. It was looked down on, but was not illegal, for girls to go to school. Malala lived in northwest Pakistan, a place, called Swat Valley. Her father was a teacher and had started the school that Malala attended. She loved going to school and she had a passion for learning. Malala spoke out for the rights of girls,…

“Pink is for girls!” a 7 year old boy says to the boy wearing a salmon colored shirt beside him. It’s a phrase we hear all too often. So much so, that we most likely barely bat an eye at the sound of it. And that right there is the issue. Enforcing gender roles on these young and vulnerable minds is harmful. Gender stereotyping is damaging to the psychological development of a child or teenager. You cannot alter the sexual orientation of a child no matter how much you disagree or disapprove of…

consequences. The author illustrates this through the use of detailed characterization, bravery, and consequences brought from one’s actions. The passage starts off with Sammy working when he sees three girls wearing nothing but bathing suits and labels each one individually. Later on, the girls walk up to Sammy to check out when Lengel, the store manger, confronts them about their apparel attire and Sammy takes action, possibly making a big mistake. Updike uses Sammy to suggest how being…

wife called me to inform me that she had left office and that the visibility was really bad so I should not sit till late. We decided to that she would get dinner from a nice Chinese restaurant from a mall that was few miles away from our house and a little detour for her from her route back from office. I was engrossed with some research at work so I took some time and got late. By the time I left my wife had already reached home and was having soup. I told her to wait for me for dinner and she…

easier than some of the other girls did. After spending two days learning the cheers, it was finally time to show the judges what I had learned. When I stood in front of them as they told me which cheer to do, I just kept thinking to myself, "Remember to smile, make eye contact, and if I mess up just keep going." And that 's exactly what I did. Throughout the whole cheer I kept a big smile on my face, I made sure to look at…

other characters. Disney puts the focus on a physical beautiful character that contains little to no beauty within which is what a young girl should not be idolizing. Disney movies…

push to be less aggressive and to have valuable traits as they grow up. Lowering aggression in young girls, Disney princess movies influence them to act with grace and patience. Because Finucane’s daughter watched princess movies, “she had stopped running and jumping, because princesses did not do those things,” in which her daughter would act properly just as princesses do (Bartyzel). In The Little Mermaid, the villain, Ursula, shows her aggressiveness through cruelty; therefore, she is…

Matched by Ally Condie is a young adult novel about how a 17 year old girl named Cassia, breaks the rules and goes against what she has always been taught. Cassia lives in a society where she is constantly being told what to do, where to go, what to wear, she is even told who she will marry, where she will work, and the day she will die. She rarely gets to make her own decisions, and she is consistently being told what to do. But when it comes to love she is taking that aspect of her life into…

bell rings and class begins. “Boys please leave the room so I can speak privately to the girls,” I hear before my teacher begins math class. The boys file out of the room one by one as I wait quietly at my desk. Once the last boy leaves the room, my teacher shuts the door behind her and turns to face the class, “Ladies, please kneel in the aisle next to your desk.” I look around and watch as the other girls begin to get out of their chairs to kneel beside their desks. I, too, get up to kneel…