Red Scarf Girl

don’t know why I decided to call myself Sunset, probably because my whole world was left over at Sunset when I perform my last performance and Nino took me to a new world; his world. We walk out and onto the stage behind the curtains. I watch as the girl before me was giving life to her body as she performs like a pro. The way her body was moving with the music was good, she had some upper body strength the way she was climbing that pole like her life was in danger. “You know she started here…

Brooklyn, NY -- On Monday, September 12 everything seemed to be going wrong for Maria Hatziminadakis, 16. As she was waiting for her package to arrive with her costume for Comic Con, it had finally arrived on her mother’s birthday. Hatziminadakis very excitedly opened the package and first got a look at her costume she was very happy that it had arrived. When she took it out of the box and eventually tried it on, she had noticed that it was too long, had missing buttons, and the clip for the wig…

(MIP-1) Najmah is at her home with all her parents when her father and her brother are taken away by the Taliban (SIP-A)Najmah has a internal depression where she feels down. She doesn’t feel any emotion towards anything.(STEWE-1) Her silence lasts for awhile (110)“It’s been more than two weeks since I have last spoken.” She finally begins to speak to Akhtar and Khalida after awhile when they are traveling through the mountains. (STEWE-2) It was a typical day for Najmah until the Taliban showed…

male figures make a remark about a woman’s body in a hypercritical manner in honors to her weight and her looks. To agree that at a young age girls worry about their appearance, body size and body shape. Girls starts to see that their appearance and notices that it can become very important. The messages are out there and distressing some of the young girls in a negative manner. To believe that the observations concerning the body are influenced by the following, the messages that are being sent…

stands on the issue. Mika is against girls or specifically women, as she targets in her article, who bring down other girl’s for wearing an excessive amount of makeup. In her article, she talks about the power of makeup and what it means to a lot of people. She also states in her article what other people think girls wear makeup for. Some of the points she says is that girls wear makeup because they are insecure or they don’t love themselves. She also states why girls wear makeup women, she says…

no rhyme throughout the song. Dollhouse talks about a young girls dollhouse and its inhabitants, a perfect-seeming family with many issues. The song is narrated by the daughter in the family of dolls- named Crybaby by Melanie- and her observations. In Dollhouse, Melanie Martinez uses rhyme and music to convey the theme that however perfect a family may seem on the outside, they all have their own issues below the surface. “Hey girl, open…

I have not written in my journal since I was a little girl, but I feel that it would help me clear my head of the pain I experience every day. It is excruciating, yet most of my suffering lies within myself. When the story of Snow White is read to little boys and girls, it does not take long for them to understand that I am a malevolent villain. Being considered "The Evil Queen," it is easy to believe that I try to rid the world of goodness. Barely anybody even knows my name, which happens to be…

Growing up, due to Ben’s disability, Anna had a different childhood from her friends as she learnt to take care of Ben. She felt that there was a need for her to mature, as she knew that Ben depended on her so she taught herself to be more responsible. Through this experience, she also grows as a character, being sensitive of other’s feelings and putting others before herself. Anna learned to become more responsible through growing up with her disabled brother Ben. Anna took over her mother’s…

I could hear the pitter patter of their feet, the little fox cubs were watching their mother hunt for the first time. The foxes had such little faces that were slim and fitting to their small bodies. They glided near the ground the mock their mothers movements. The mother’s head swung back as a little noise escaped her black lips, as if to say to quite their steps. I had taken notice that foxes were elegant and gentle as they hunted. I have seen this behavior in my own world, a human mother…

The movie Girl Interrupted directed by James Mangold is based on a book written by Susanna Kaysen with the same title. Girl Interrupted is a movie that provides the viewer an objective and in-depth look at the downside borderline depression and lots of mental illness that Americans battle daily confused, insecure, and lost within a rapidly changing world. The movie depicts Susanna the main character as an unsympathetic teenager just out of high school that does not have a clue as to what she is…