Mean Girls

Autobiographical Fiction. This story took place in China through 1941-1951. This book tells the life of the author growing up as child. This story is about a girl named Adeline Yen Mah. She was born in Tianjin, her mother dies a few weeks after she was born so her family despises her for that tragic moment.She plays the role of a little sweet girl. Her father wish for nothing to left of her mother so he ordered all pictures destroyed. Now she has hardly nothing left because she is an unwanted…

Growing up in my household; my parents were responsible for the cooking, I was responsible for dish washing and my brothers were responsible for taking the trash out, as we aged the chores altered. My parents taught my siblings and I, that chores aren't specifically for one gender, we were told the chores did not genderized a person. Everyone, in my family did the same chores, for instance, if I washed the dishes last week, it would be someone else's turn, this week. Now that I live with my…

“Sugar, spice, and everything nice.” This is the beginning of the theme song of the old Cartoon Network show, The Powerpuff Girls. The show was lauded because it broke many of the stereotypes that are usually associated with female superheroes. Unfortunately, there are a scarce amount of images in mass media today that allow people to view women in a positive light; in fact, most of the time it is quite the opposite. The image of a woman in the modern world is negatively influenced by…

child, being accepted is all that I really wanted. As a teenage girl it continued and grew into something I needed. The more technology advanced the more I was subjected to constant visuals of what a woman should and should not be. I watched movies like Clueless where it showed that to be the most-liked person at school you have to be rich, thin, and have all the latest clothes and accessories. Music videos like P. Diddy’s I Need a Girl that showed I need to have a pretty face and curves on my…

let others get in your way of accepting others. Also once one person starts accepting others, then others will too. Clover learns to be accepting of others. She didn’t let others get in her way. For example, Clover wants to be friends with the girl even when her mom told her not to cross the fence. This shows that even when Clover’s mother said not to cross the fence Clover didn’t let her mom stop her. In the story, Clover says that her mom always tells her not to go over the fence because…

of the video. After the girl in the video paints all of her paintings and brought them to her art studio she notices a guy. Her and the guy fell in love and ended up having a baby girl together. This is objectification because he didn’t try to change her at all like her mother did when she was growing up. Another example in this video for objectification would be after she had a baby girl. At the end of the video, it shows the main character of the video giving her baby girl the teddy bear she…

and aunt to let me wear the relaxed khaki pants I wore for every other event formal enough to cause me to change out of jeans. No matter how valid any points I made using my elementary schooler rhetoric, I was met with the same response. “You’re a girl, just look pretty this once.” My confusion only exacerbated my frustration at the situation. How could my brother wear black pants and a wrinkled shirt and still be deemed presentable, yet somehow my gender made the same outfit a treacherous…

personification of the distinction between reality and what one would perceive to be reality through an adolescent girls mindset, of the understanding of boys and sex, young girls believe they have. Her name was Connie. She was your average teenage girl filled with false perceptions of reality brought about by the false ideas of love entertained by her choice of music and movies. She was a pretty girl with “…long dark blonde…

non-negotiable regardless of how many times the boys would tell me girls couldn’t possibly handle football because of our “inherently dainty weaknesses.” I never let ideas or people like that push me around. In order to play football, I had to be twice as good as anyone else who stepped out onto the field. Even then, I was one of the last people to be picked for a team. This never stopped me from playing; it just frustrated me. Just because I was a girl, my peers would subject me to higher…

speak alike. One of the most intriguing questions is “Why don’t women just say what they mean?” Women use metaphors, analogies, nothing is spoken directly, questions are rhetoric and everything has multiple meanings. No wonder men have no clue what women expect from them. Women know how to introduce ideas and alternatives through the back door. Men are basic, women are details.Let us see a conversation between a girl friend and boy friend- Girlfriend- Hi! “My…