Little Girl

Would you let your little sister compete in, childhood beauty pagents at 4 months to 16 years old? Would you let her strut across the stage in, inappropriate clothes that show just “alittle” to much, or even wearing a bikini? Beauty pagents are held all over the country, all the time. Some people believe that it’s ok to have little girls participate in them. Others may think different, they may think that beauty pagents are not ok. Short skirts and revealing dresses are inappropriate and not…

Becoming an Apache Woman, Something Only a Girl Can Do In some cultures, an adolescent’s transition into adulthood is celebrated with an extravagant soiree, while other’s are expected to recite religious scriptures. Meanwhile for the Apaches, a native American tribe that lives in the southwestern United States, the leap into womanhood is marked by a symbolic four-day Sunrise Ceremony. The young Apache girl’s physical endurance is tested during this event, where it is believed that she will enter…

things have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged little girl, I have seen my fair share of Disney movies. Movies such as Tangled, Mulan, Frozen, and Brave are some of the many movies that have come out since 1991, that are not about poor defenseless girls, with nothing in mind but meeting their prince…

I walked into the Louis K. Armstrong Theater on February 11, 2018, where the sold-out show was about to begin. The lights went dim, on stage sat a little old woman whose hair was slicked back into a tight bun with a pioneer style dress, that flowed down to her ankles. She stared blankly into the distance while she turned the crank over and over repeatedly. I distinctly remember the props on stage, the large wooden wagon with a huge hay bail set on top accompanying a quaint prairie style house.…

hard for me to read over those poor young girls who had their genial cut. The act seem very cruel in so many different…

holding a cigarette in one hand, but she is pushing a stroller with the other. This immediately portrays the young girl as a mother, and evokes emotions from the audience such as concern for her and her child. These particular emotions are illustrated through the body language of the children, their positioning in the photograph, and the presence of the two dolls and cigarette. The older girl, who is pushing the stroller, is facing the camera with a very crude expression on her face. Her…

Emilie Hannah Barone, Barony has always been what her friends called her, at five feet and a little over a hundred pounds, is not unreligious, mentally weak, or indifferent. Not gullible, equal, or even religiously alike. Nor confused, lazy, or rude. She is Jewish. Different. Mentally strong. And no ignorant and selfish person can change her mind about her religion and who she is because that’s who she’s meant to be. In contrast, I’ve always been a Christian. My mom’s side has always been and…

peer exclusion. Checklist Data During my observation, I collected a total of 14 conflicts for the one hour period I was at the ASI Children Center. The percentage of each gender group were 0% girls group, boy groups 64%, and mixed gender group 36%. In gender frequency boys tend to have more conflict than girls. The mean intensity was 1.71 with the range from 1-3 and the mean duration was 1.36 with the range of 1-2. The boys mean intensity is 1.14 and a duration of .86. Mixed gender’s mean…

growing up. The narrater of the story is a judgmental sounding nineteen year old who has something to say about anyone who walks into the store, but this particular day, when the girls walked in made him change is attitude a bit. At the beginning of the story the Narrator is just going about his daily routine when three girls supposedly around his age walk in, wearing nothing but bathing suits. The points of the story try to show how people of different ages and genders react to something like…

pregnant we want to know what the gender of the baby is, and we even do this with animals. We see a cute dog or cat and we ask the owner what the gender of the dog is. We want to know because we grew up in a society where you either have to be a boy or a girl. With this thought in mind, the communicative contexts that I have learned in this course that seem to really have an impact on shaping me as a gendered being would be language, education and work. Before this course, I have never…