Red Scarf Girl

Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Connie a fifteen-year-old girl, is preoccupied with her appearance. Her mother desires her beauty, as one day she was young and beautiful too. Connie’s mother urges her to be neat and responsible like her older sister, June. June who is twenty-four works as a secretary at Connie’s high school. She saves money, helps their parents with cleaning, not to mention her maturity, whereas Connie spends her time daydreaming. June was good for one particular…

The first I heard “The Devils Arithmetic” I thought it would be about the devil and hell, but as I read and watched the movie I noticed that it was actually about The Nazis keeping up with his prisoner. Then I thought back to when I was in 5th grade, in Mrs. Carter class, we read a book and watched a movie about Ann Frank and the Nazis. Both the movie and the novel have a lot of similarities. However, the novel and the book have differences also. Hashanah finally wakes up. When she wakes up she…

background dancers, and her lyrics, Aaliyah brought forth a civilized way to introduce her new identity without being given a title through societal view. When Aaliyah was first introduced to the R&B world, she was identified and characterized as a little girl who did not have much experience in life. However, through her music, she drastically proved to the R&B world that she had much more experience in life than they had believed. In Aaliyah’s song, “Rock the Boat”, she said “I want you to…

Throughout the 90’s, teen-centric slasher films were on the rise. The horror genre is one that continues to gain popularity and a majority of classic horror films have been receiving remakes that up the stakes and show the final girl in a more powerful position. One of the more recent, and creative, original slasher films to be released is the 2006 film All The Boys Love Mandy Lane. Right off the bat we meet Mandy Lane and we are shown just the boys in her high school sexualize her. We start at…

Double standards against females occurs everywhere, in schools, work, relationships, and everyday life. females are viewed as sex-symbols, but are seen as a whore or slut if they choose to express themselves in a certain way. Which is not ok, advertising companies use slim and fit females to sale products, the consumer can even sometimes remember the product, but can recall that there was a female in a bikini, this has been going on since the 1980’s. Females are catcalled, exploited, raped,…

Every year men's sports teams make record high viewing numbers on both tv and live games, yet women’s team struggle to get half those viewers. Last year, Syracuse University had about a 21,000 people average attending their men’s basketball games while women had an average of only 752 people. This huge gap in fans is due to the fact that people like to watch men’s sports because women are not seen as strong, tough and athletic people which makes sports so exciting in the first place.…

Unveiling the Injustice Embedded in Comics In the online video, “Women in Refrigerators,” renowned critic Anita Sarkeesian cogently explains the unjust and static presence of stereotypical tropes throughout popular culture. She begins the thought-provoking video by crediting Gail Simone for being one of the first women to realize there was an immoral continuation of women brutality in many comics such as Green Lantern. Sarkeesian is able to confirm her claims of unfair treatment by providing…

The pre-twentieth century, a period of tremendous change in America, produced many of the greatest works of literature which immensely influenced the style of most authors today, especially for feminist writers. The first wave of feminism occurred prominently during the pre-twentieth century, where women focused on legal issues such as women's suffrage. There were several feminist poets during this period, such as Emily Dickinson and Phillis Wheatley, that were known for their works regarding…

Since, I can remember I have always been the shy, quiet type. I did not speak, unless spoken to, made friends, but never put effort in keeping them, because there was no point in keeping friends when I knew I would have to move the next school year or half way through the year; however, that all changed in the middle of my third grade year. IT happened. The BIG move. Well, not really. We were still in the same state, just 352 miles away from everything I have ever known. The moved shifted my…

In this picture “Girl with a pointy hood and white schoolbag at the curb, N.Y.C., 1957.” by Diane Arbus , Arbus’s basic concept is the girl stays out of the school with her lunch bags and coach. She was attracted to children during the young age. She loves to photographs of people, transgender people, couples, etc. she doesn’t have particular objects because she loves to take a picture. Arbus work in the initial impact on people’s reaction. All her pictures are full of emotion and feeling…