Matryoshka doll

Pecola sat in her heatless home in silence playing with the doll she had put together out of twigs and shrubs. The doll’s hair was made of long wispy yellow stands from one of China’s old hand towels. She paired this with two blue beads that had rolled off of a little girl's greasy braid. She managed to bring it all together with a little bit of grass creating a recognizable blue-eyed doll. People played in one corner as Sammy played in the corner with his matchbox luring ants and setting them…

9 1959, the first Barbie doll goes on display at the American Toy Fair in New York City. Eleven inches tall, with a waterfall of blond hair, Barbie was the first mass-produced toy doll in the United States with adult features. The woman…

A young child might like to have a styling head doll for their dress up or pretend play. They can pretend to be a hairdresser or stylist working on their customer's hair. They can create different styles and looks with their styling doll. Blonde Styling Doll Kid Connection's Beauty Salon - Blonde Styling Head Doll have shoulder length blonde hair that can be braided, combed and clipped into different styles. The styling head doll comes with a battery-operated hair dryer, a brush, comb, four…

I got my American Girl Doll when I was in L.A. I was about 7 years old when I got the doll. My dad got it because he promised me he was going to get it for Christmas. My American Girl Doll had carmel color hair green eyes and it came with a cute skate girls outfit. Her hair was so soft it felt like real hair and her hair was nice, long, and thick. It did not really have any smell . It was 18in. Her…

girl between the ages of 3-11 owns ten Barbie dolls. It is said that approximately two dolls are sold every second somewhere in the world (Turkel, 1998). Despite her popularity, Barbie has attracted a lot of criticism about the impact she has on young girls. Though Barbie primarily serves as a toy for children during play, a lot of attention has been generated by her secondary role as an artifact for female representation. Barbie is unlike any other doll; she mimics the female form and functions…

Other say different that she is the very definition of imagination that children need. With that being we ask ourselves, does Barbie give young girls negative thoughts about their body image? How many kids play with Barbie? Barbie is an old doll that has been around for a long time, since 1959 to be exact. How many kids play with Barbie though is very important because it will help us figure out how many parents think that Barbie is acceptable. With deep research it was calculated that a…

Perhaps it wasn’t the wisest idea to choose my career path from a Barbie book, but as a four year old, Barbie skewed what little sense of logic I had. The year is 2004, and I am immersed in Barbie: Career Girl. I spend hours perusing the colorful pages, gesturing excitedly at Barbie in each of her occupations. There is one in particular that seems to repeatedly capture my attention: Barbie is dressed in a long white coat, a black stethoscope adorns her neck. She is surrounded by jars of…

When I was around five or six years old, my sister and I were playing with Barbie dolls in my grandmother’s house. All of the dolls had pale white skin except for one that was black, which, at the time, did not matter to my sister or me. But at some point during our time, one of us mentioned the word “black” in reference to the doll. My mother, who was sitting in the dining room, maybe fifteen feet away, turned back, appalled, and told us to never say that. Neither of us really understood what…

Barbie is My Favorite Doll When I was a little girl, I thought nothing in the world could delight me more than a Barbie doll. She has often stayed with me in spirit and acted like a model for me to follow, when I have grown in my childhood. Indeed, Barbie doll is like a life-like figure, who stimulated my imagination, encouraged me to move on when I felt sad, enlightened me when I was in the dark. Interesting, Barbie doll was also my faithful friend, always lending its ear to listening to my…

was very enlightening due to the history of these two companies and how each of them posed a threat to one another. Also, threatening the complete future existence of Bratz©. To sum it up, a former employee of Mattel created an innovative line of dolls on his own with no association to Mattel to promote its own existence. Mattel tried to say that they owned the idea the former employee created because he was still employed…