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The content of this task is linked to Unit 1:Language and gender, with a relation to Miss Representation. In Miss Representation, there are many girls that each tells a story about their life and show how culture influenced or made them the girl they are but how they later went against it because they knew they were worth more than what society has for them. In my short story a girl will be telling her story based on the American society and how through media the american’s image of a…

Ship of dolls Author is Shirley Parenteau, this is a true story of the 1926 exchange of Friendship between the United States and Japan before World War II, the project was begun by Dr. Sidney Gulick that he urged American children sent over twelve thousand dolls to Japan. Lexie is heroine, she is eleven years old, her mother sent her to live with her grandparents in Portland, because her mother has remarried and is working in a nightclub, her lifestyle is unsuitable for raising children. Lexie…

In the poem Quinceañera by Judith Ortiz Cofer, the speaker shows the audience that some girl may have the same feels of the transformation from girlhood to womanhood. She is putting the perspective of a fifteen year old girl to tell her true feeling of starting to become a woman. In Hispanic cultures, Quinceañera (meaning sweet fifteen) is a special day that a girl has a party to transform from a child into a young woman. The first three lines of the poem give the impression that the girl isn’t…

A lot of times, people look forward to the next time they celebrate the day of their birth. Typically, there's cake, presents, people and all kinds of fun during a birthday celebration. Sometimes people are really excited and other times they are not. It depends on what kind of person they are. In the short story "Eleven" by Sandra Cisneros, we meet a young girl by the name of Rachel on her eleventh birthday. In the short story "Eleven," Cisneros uses literary techniques; simile, language, and…

Scenario Seven identifies several issues demonstrated in an early childhood setting. The key aspects of the scenario, seven, gender stereotypical behaviours are shown by the children, also to be exposed to popular culture figures from an early age. National Union of Teachers [NUT] (2013), identifies that children's popular culture figures are in a precisely planned way marketed morally for one particular gender, either for a boy or a girl (p. 4). Above scenario, seven supports NUT where the…

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…

Children’s brains are like sponges, that means parents and role models have to be careful of what they do and say in front of a child. Particularly young woman and the toys they play with may have drastic results on the way they perceive themselves later on life. In Marge Piercy’s “Barbie Doll” she shows how a perfectly fine young woman can be torn down by society, and society can ultimately ruin a person (Piercy 522). From eating disorders to Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Piercy in “Barbie Doll”…

The short story, “Barbie-Q”, was written by Sandra Cisneros. This story is about two sisters growing up in a lower-class family. It is told in second person by one of the sisters. This provides the reader with undertones of naivety. We see in “Barbie-Q” that even the simplest of things can bring joy to an innocent child’s life. The story starts off with the narrator explaining her and her sister’s Barbie dolls. The author did not give any of the characters names, instead she uses “you” and…

Cultural Identity Project Reflection What did I learn about myself in each part of the project? In the Funds of Knowledge section of the project, I learned quite a bit about how I grew up compared to what I believe now. My household growing up had a slightly different set of rules that what I believe my current household has as norms. One major change is who is in my household. Growing up it was my parents and sister who were considered part of my household family. Now, it is just me and my…

Barbies were first introduced in the late 1950’s and immediately pressed down on the way society views girls and how girls view themselves. negatively shape girls self-body image. Barbies have been a huge staple in children, mostly girls, childhood and this causes many girls to struggle with bad body images, also affect the way society sees women, and develop serious health issues. These affect the way women see themselves in the future. The Barbies so-called “perfect body” is unrealistic and…