Odd Girl Out

Philadelphia, they must be content with external forces in order to fit in with the social organization of life and violence. In the book, Why Girls Fight: Female Youth Violence in the Inner City by Cindy D. Ness insightfully talks about the street fights within low income areas between young girls. When young women are in a situation where violence could break out, they are given the choice to step up or back off. Violence for these young women living in the inner city area is considered normal…

turned and ran when the gang returned to the building, not one making a sound or move to check on the black and blue form lying just outside. Something inside Michael twisted and began to coil. The door shut, and a vulture cast its shadow on the broken girl as it flew overhead. Minutes passed; the lights inside Farside turned off. The coil tightened. Seconds more and Michael finally approached the gasping child, breath leaving him as he gazed down at the girl’s face. Not a single inch of skin…

Littlefield’s article (2015) he says after Title IX, the two departments were combined resulting in the women losing their jobs over the men. The process of hiring females in sport leadership positions is constantly evolving, and the most important part out of the whole process is where/how far the program is taken after being hired. Female athletes made up nearly half of the New Zealand team for the London Olympics, the same is not said for the coaches or management roles. During her research,…

little boy wants to be a princess for Halloween, and then a little girl wants to be Spiderman. Onlookers speak up but tend to side with the mom who does not want her son to be a princess or "Bell" for Halloween. The little girl who wants to wear the Spiderman costume her mother is also supported by some of the onlookers. The mom tells the boy he needs to find a boy costume and several onlooking children tell him that 's for little girls. The mothers in this clip have obvious issues with…

sell their car displays to viewers that women are a distraction. How is that positive? As people watch the ad they may notice that their are now women in the ad, its all about the dad saving the day and the boy driving. They are both depicted through out the commercial in a positive light. But, as soon as a young lady appears in the commercial she causes something negative to happen. Like the Hyundai ad, Rolls Royce also depicts women negatively in attempt to sell their car. It at first shows…

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 similar with those faced…

nice.” She got upset and stormed off. Now this probably never happened, but this scenario is actually very common. A woman asks for a simple, honest opinion and the guy thinks oh no this might be a trap lets cop out and say both. This pisses the woman off because she knows it is a cop out and she 's going to have to continue debating on what one to choose. It would have been a lot less frustrating for both parties if the guy had just made an honest observation. Yes, the woman may not have…

throughout the house. Color plays a huge role in Beloved. It indicates how characters are feeling about their environment. The two orange squares of the quilt on the bed in which Baby Suggs passed on are mesmerizing to those who notice them. The young girl Beloved stared at them while she was in the room which signified the colors importance and not only her but Paul D as well. The action of noticing the orange squares on the quilt seemed to solve the blurred…

discipline’ gave way in the 1920s to a deviant social norm, exemplified by Carmen and to a lesser extent Vivian. Right before Marlowe expresses how much he dislikes the rich, he gives this reason for it: “A pretty, spoiled and not very bright little girl who had gone very, very wrong, and nobody was doing anything about it” (Chandler 70). Before we move forward, it will be beneficial to discuss the portrayal of women in the novel and especially Carmen. Women in the novel are highly sexualized.…

The stereotype of the young, pure, virginal, and beautiful girl is perpetuated in Hawthorne’s Rappiccini’s Daughter. This text shows a difference in the construction of women, but women are still desired. The young female in this text is not considered a woman, but a girl because of her virginal status, which makes her single and available and untouchable. The young man, Giovanni, admires Beatrice, the daughter…