Little Girls

such a young age, social media’s way of expressing how women look, to how it mentally affects woman everywhere. When going to Toys R Us I noticed a lot about the store and its own sections for toys. For girls I noticed there were more feminine features and pink , light colors. As a little girl walking into the store you never really realize how…

the clothes women wear, and also by giving little kids an ideal image by the toys they play with. Media portray women to look, act, and present themselves a certain way. The figure of women’s bodies must only be so many inches wide, a…

Why is it young girls look in the mirror and cringe? Why do young girls even look in the mirror at all? Perhaps it is the need to feel pretty. They dive deep into the mirror looking for “pretty” traits. Small waist. Wide hips. Long, Healthy hair. Flat Stomach. But then again comes the question, why do girls feel that being pretty physically is what matters. Society has taught us that it is on the outside that matters. The hair, the lips the eyes, rather than personality. For some what’s on…

The purpose of this paper is to show the importance of a father and daughter relationship. These relationships make a big impact on girls lives. They could be the difference of a girl being treated badly by men her whole life or her fearing men. These father daughter relationships not only shape how a man should be but it also helps the daughters love themselves more. Father daughter relationships help build up their daughter’s confidence and other aspects of her life. Father daughter…

Beauty and Racism in The Bluest Eye The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison presents ideas of racism, and how that affects those of color in the society at the time. The idea of anger from the set ideals is expressed in different ways is clear and comes up many times within the novel, as well as the idea of ugliness, and what that’s perceived to be. On page 174 in the novel, one of the main characters in the novel, Pecola, goes to Soaphead, a psychic of sorts in the community, to try and get blue…

Flipping through the pages of “Times magazine” seeing this little girl crying, holding a house caught my attention. This ad shows her holding a wooden doll house and a man on the inside sitting on the couch harassing her in a cartoon character body. The words at the bottom right side of the paper reads,” speak for her call 911 for help to report child sex abuse”. This ad shows a little Hispanic girl who looks to be about five years old in pain and don’t know how to ask for help. The doll house…

This comparison rarely is positive leading to self-doubt and low self esteem. The media promotes comparison by promoting diet pills, and workout dvd to look like certain celebrities or models. This encourages negative body image and leaves little room for positive body image to grow. This is shown through the text in the advertisement with the lines, “Mummy, I want to be just like you.” This phrase uses “Mummy” as a metaphor for “the perfection” seen in others, that is constantly compared…

One factor, however, that demands more substantial time to remedy is the deficiency of adequate mentorship for females pursuing engineer careers. According to Theresa Barger, a writer for The New York Times, “[H]aving a mentor who faced similar discrimination and figured out a way to be taken seriously makes all the difference” (Barger). While an effective mentor can be of either gender, an experienced female engineer is more likely than an experienced male engineer to experience struggles…

you are and do it on purpose.” But even when people follow this advice, many others do not take the time to discover who those people are. This is apparent in the book Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy. When people see Willowdean Dickson, they think “Fat Girl”. However, if they got to know her better, they would see that she is so much more. Therefore, the theme of this book is prejudice, which often prevents people from seeing who others really are. Willowdean (Will) has never really cared about…

anything about the sport I just heard about it from my friends that were in it that enjoyed it plus I would meet new people. When I was at the district meet in Epworth I was paired with three other girls that had about the same talent as me. Throughout the eighteen holes I got to learn about these girls and the experiences they have been through during their high school careers. They were going through the same struggles I go through. The comfort of their words were like a soft blanket of…