Red Scarf Girl

Kilbourne addresses that “girls grow into women afraid to speak up for themselves or use their voice to protect themselves or to use their own voice” (Kilbourne 264). This is a strange reality as women and girls are scared to talk and protect themselves because society tells them that if they do they are considered an outcast and do not deserve to be happy. To women,…

Many audiences are interested in watching Miss Representation which reflects how the media perpetuate stereotypical problem on women in today’s society. Through “Miss Representation” documentary, people understand why girls are always connected to pink and light colors, and women are assigned to be beautiful and submissive to keep their husband and their marriages. Many time these feminine stereotypes make women vulnerable and defenseless. Miss Representation is very persuasive to make…

who transitioned from childhood to adulthood. The rite of passage that I witnessed was a Quinceanera, a Quinceanera is a coming of age celebration/ceremony that symbolizes a girls transition from childhood to adulthood/womanhood. The event started with a mass, although I was not present at the mass, my friend, the birthday girl, told me that the importance of the mass was to receive a blessing from God and ask Him for guidance as she enters a new chapter in her life (adulthood/womanhood). After…

The story is set in 1960s, and Queenie and her friends are wearing bathing suits in the grocery store. If this story was written today, it would be highlighting the sexualization of girls, and Donald Trump’s view on women. There would be an uproar that girls in bathing suits are treated differently than men in bathing suits because of their natural figures. In Sherman Alexie’s “An Indian Education” the narrator goes through thirteen years of schooling and bullying.…

stunning girl that walks into the store with her posse. In noticing this, Sammy is able to realize how Stokesie’s life is already bound to his preoccupations as a father in spite of him having the lustful thoughts men his age often tend to have. Moreover, Sammy humorously notes how when the young girls come over to the checkout lanes, some elderly people go to Stokesie’s lane “with his usual luck” (Updike, “A&P”). As a result, Sammy gets the opportunity to check out the stunning young girl he…

A Man Called Ove Living with an old man who believes in what he knows and only does what he wants to make it the best for himself describes Ove in the book: A Man Called Ove by Fredrick Backman. It illustrates the life of a stubborn man who comes off to have a harsh first impression, but with composure and acceptance shows the true side of Ove. Cultural differences illustrated throughout the book compare closely to the life in America, a variety of character personalities create a diverse…

outfit or their hair. They always talk about what a girl was wearing, what a boy said, how someone’s hair looked today, or how they do not like someone for an extremely unnecessary reason. I have some friends who are self conscious around these girls just because they do not want to be judged like how the clique judges everyone else. That includes myself. The previous assumptions may seem very biased and derogatory, but I know this because a girl from that group has only talked to me once; that…

Faculty Dance Concert Reflection Most of the elements of the Afro-Caribbean dance aesthetic found in Brenda Dixon Gottschild’s work, “Crossroads, Continuities and Contradictions” were present in all of the pieces performed in the faculty dance concert. However the ones that stood out the most included “embracing the conflict,” “aesthetic of the cool,” and “polycentrism/polyrhythm.” Embracing the conflict was most noted in the piece titled “Back Burner on High” choreographed by Kelly Johnson.…

‘’Tuesday Of The Other June’’ by Norma Fox Mazer is a realistic fiction story about a girl name June and her mom always telling her to stay out of trouble. But June runs into some problems with other people. In the begining June is happy with what is going on around her until a girl named June just like her comes to June's school. The other June is mean to June and June does as her mom has always told her to, stay out of trouble. The other june makes this hard for June. Finally June stands up…

And I smile. We stand there with this big smile of respect between us. It’s about as real a smile as girls can do for each other, considering we don’t practice real smiling every day, you know, cause maybe we are too busy being flowers or fairies or strawberries instead of something honest. And worthy of respect…. you know…. like being people. (Pg. 39,…