Matryoshka doll

superheroes, and guns. This promotes for young boys that they have to be fierce, hard workers, fighter, strong and intelligent. However, for the girls it is the complete opposite. The toys for girls such as the beautiful Barbies, princess dolls, and baby dolls gives off the message that girls are meant to be homemakers, mothers, beautiful, soft, gentle, nurturing, and perfect. This incredible difference and promotion of what is “girl” and what is “boy” creates a division of the…

With the haunted doll, people are creeped out. The camera angles made it seem like it really was the doll who was doing all of the bad acts to the girl. But people get used to that idea, and by the end of the movie they are just expecting an exorcism on the ghost or a similar action. By having the guy jump out in a fit of rage, it shocks everyone. To make matters more terrifying, he is wearing a mask that looks like the dolls face. This scene provides an interesting twist…

In Henrik Ibsen’s famous play, “A Doll’s House”, the main character, Nora, displays a lack of interest to her children. The gap between Nora and a real mother is made when the two is compared and contrasted. To begin with, a mother’s top priority should be their young, otherwise it makes children less important than money and jobs. Even a cub is cared for by its mother until it has enough strength to survive on its own. If mothers cannot do this, what does that make humans? A mother…

Learn to live colorfully with the Lalaloopsy Color Me Squiggles N' Shapes dolls, and find great deals on this toy from eBay. The blank, white canvas of the Lalaloopsy doll lets your child take markers and create all kinds of shapes and squiggles to decorate it any way he or she sees fit. These aren't just any markers because after creating all of the squiggles and shapes, you can easily clean each stamp off with a sponge so your kids can color again. This makes the toy a great deal compared to…

and the impermanence of that time. Some of the most popular toys from the 50s include decorated tin toy cars, restriction cars, diecast cars, trucks and farm machinery. For girls, plastic mannequin dolls for dressing eventually got famous enough for a major toy company to start making them. This doll was called Barbie and has been around ever since. In addition, other toys include Play-Doh, Silly Putty, Magic 8-balls, Frisbees, Slinkies, Pogo Sticks, Hula Hoops, toy trains, and dollhouses; all…

Lloyd on Lemmy Troma’s Lloyd Kaufman remembers Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister. The following Lemmy tribute was written by Lloyd Kaufman: writer, director, producer, co-founder and president of TROMA Entertainment for Girls and Corpses Magazine. December 30th, 2015 was my saddest birthday. It was my 70th birthday and I was with the Guna Indians in very remote San Blas Islands when the news of Lemmy Kilmister’s death reached me. The loss of Motörhead legend Lemmy, on December 28th, 2015, had a…

Toy stores are fun for anyone to go into, so for this assignment I went to an actual toy store. For me a toy aisle wasn’t good enough. I wanted that childlike feeling of joy, wonder, and awe. The story is a little shop down on Massachusetts Avenue (Mass. Ave.) called “Mass. Ave. Toy Shop. It has been one of my favorite places to go since I was little and I thought it would be great for this assignment. The reason I did is because this store is a little different, not like your traditional toy…

The next item was much more worn than the necklace, but bore the same amount of sentimental value, if not more. It was a small doll, just bigger than Ginny’s hand. The doll was made out of rags, had long red hair, bright green eyes and lips stitched into an eternal smile. She wore a faded green dress that was covered with patches. The…

He later found a doll floating near here and concluded that it was hers. So from that day on, Don started collecting dolls and hanging them everywhere as a matter of respect to the little girl. No matter how the doll looked, as long as it was repaired.. then it would totally be fine according to Don and the comfort of the little girl. (show pictures of creepy dolls on the island) Don Julian was like their father, taking care of them and kept…

1. Looking at commercial advertising of boy and girl’s toys; girl’s commercials played soft musical tune, while boy’s toy commercials had more of a rock and roll musical tune. Furthermore, the media enforced general roles to the viewers by only including males in boy’s toy commercials and females in girl’s toy commercials. The settings for boy’s toy commercials were usually outside and consisted of darker colors. In addition, they included toy weapons and/or action figures (males with large…