Pin-up girl

Karin and Mark start their two-year journey with adopting a little girl from China. There was a ton of paper work, questions and interviews that had to be done before the process could even start. Adopting from China was easier than adopting in the United States but this seemed to not be the case. Karin lived in Hong Kong for five years as a journalist and grew to like the culture and the surroundings. Karin had lost a child that was only three days old to a cerebral hemorrhage and ever since…

as a commodity or an object without regard to their personality or dignity. In today’s society objectification, of women especially, is treated as the norm and accepted as a part of everyday life. This creates a harmful ideology for young girls as they grow up with it all around them at all times. It is also harmful for women trying to get further in life and being respected as people as they are only noticed for their looks not by their professional skill sets. The mainstream media is a major…

The setting consists of the couple sitting outside a bar in a train station in Spain. What makes this story so enduring is the fact that it is a coming of age tale. During the course of waiting for the train, the young women grows from a naïve girl into a woman, fully in charge of her destiny. The struggle between the couple reaches a climax right before they board the train to Madrid. Although it is uncertain what the topic of their argument is about, I believe it had to do with whether the…

A Woman’s Worth "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid reveals the overwhelming pressure on young women to look and act in certain ways in order to please men and society. Through the use of literary elements such as style, tone, and characterization, Jamaica Kincaid is able to place the reader into the shoes of a young Caribbean girl as her mother describes to her what she must do in order to protect her reputation and grow into a respectable woman. While there are many cultural topics specific to…

have changed for the better, for the female sex since Katha Pollitt’s essay was written over twenty years ago. As a mother of a preschool-aged little girl, I have seen my fair share of Disney movies. Movies such as Tangled, Mulan, Frozen, and Brave are some of the many movies that have come out since 1991, that are not about poor defenseless girls, with nothing in mind but meeting their prince…

Sammy quits his job at the A & P store after defending three girls dressed in bathing suits from the “stingy” A & P manager Lengel, however the girls leave the store without even noticing Sammy’s attempt at gaining their attention. This then raises the question about why he quit. What was his reason? Was it wrong? Was it right? It is quite possible that Sammy may have had a deeper subconscious reason for quitting the A & P, but that is up to the readers to decide, because I am not going to…

Americans saw a drastic social change in the years immediately following World War II. Young women sought out help and support from major magazines, specifically Seventeen Magazine in the years 1946 and 1947. Both teenage girls and young women were the targeted audience, and though they were close in age, their social interactions and fashion senses were on separate ends of the spectrum. In a Seventeen ad. published in 1947- the company influences it’s audience to invest in their new…

Koivula’s study points out the evidence of the impact of social construction of male-female relations that maintain, strengthen, and naturalize differences in genders as the results are measured by motives to participate. From birth, both boys and girls have different socialization as it relates to athletics and physical activity resulting…

of peace and justice. As long as the Ewells and whoever back them up are alive, this tragic style of life will remain. The question is who can challenge these particular groups? A woman or Atticus himself? Part one: Rain drops heavily, clouds are gathering, winds are blowing. The first night…

Prudence Punderson’s The First, Second, and Last Scene of Mortality (1773), the woman in the center is the assumed mother of the child on the right. As the piece of art portrays the growth of a young girl into a woman into a deceased human, the art can be interpreted as girls are expected to grow up and become mothers. Regardless, everyone begins their lives as…