Spy Girl

bell rings and class begins. “Boys please leave the room so I can speak privately to the girls,” I hear before my teacher begins math class. The boys file out of the room one by one as I wait quietly at my desk. Once the last boy leaves the room, my teacher shuts the door behind her and turns to face the class, “Ladies, please kneel in the aisle next to your desk.” I look around and watch as the other girls begin to get out of their chairs to kneel beside their desks. I, too, get up to kneel…

Jesus was and why I was drinking his blood-but my mother corrected me when upset assuring it was actually just wine and the body just bread. I was hoping communion wasn 't like a wedding; I had just realized that I wasn 't really as into boys as I was girls and knew what child marriages were-yeah, at 7 I panicked about all sorts of things like rape, natural disaster, and child marriage. I touched all the dresses reaching inside the plastic outer covering.…

Jamaica Kincaid wrote “Girl” in 1978. This short story is a continuous run on sentence, which a mother is giving advice and warnings to her daughter. The title “Girl” could have several meanings, a mother looking after her ‘little girl’, a young lady who is still seen as a girl to society, and the idea of females being domesticated in the household. With all these ideas for the title from 1978, one might wonder what the title could mean now in 2016. If one were to modernize “Girl” now she would…

newborn baby dolls to toddler dolls. Some of these baby dolls were very realistic and came with packs of diapers, bottles, toys, and also had separate options of purchasing strollers, carriers, and cribs. I noticed that a majority of the baby dolls were girls and wore pink. Next to this area of baby dolls were the pretend house toys that consisted of play kitchens, cooking supplies, pretend food, cleaning supplies, and shopping carts. In this same aisle were the Barbie dolls. While the Barbie…

Have you ever met someone that did things opposite of their gender? For example, when I was younger I dressed like a tomboy, even to school, and my girl peers liked to poke fun and say that I was supposed to dress like a girl and not like a boy. I’m sure all of us have gone through a phase or two where we acted or dressed like our opposite gender and got made fun of or criticized for doing so. However, I am going to describe a show of mine that continues to remind myself and others it means to…

I walked into the Louis K. Armstrong Theater on February 11, 2018, where the sold-out show was about to begin. The lights went dim, on stage sat a little old woman whose hair was slicked back into a tight bun with a pioneer style dress, that flowed down to her ankles. She stared blankly into the distance while she turned the crank over and over repeatedly. I distinctly remember the props on stage, the large wooden wagon with a huge hay bail set on top accompanying a quaint prairie style house.…

passed down from generation to generation. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith is a novel that discusses the necessity of a hearty education and how the lack of it can prohibit one from achieving the American Dream. The book talks about a young girl from the slums of Brooklyn named Francie who is the daughter of Katie and Johnny Nolan and the sister of Neeley Nolan. It goes through the conflicts and experiences of the family who come from a poor background and suffer in several ways to reach…

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun “ Some boys take a beautiful girl and hide her from the rest of the world.” The song “Girls Just Wanna Have Fun” by Cyndi Lauper is a song that shows that all girls want to do is be themselves and have fun. Women in the 1930’s acted as the rest of society wished to see them and not how they chose to act. In Harper Lee’s To Kill A Mockingbird, Scout a young female character does not care how a girl is supposed to act she is going to act like a tomboy if she…

Essay question 1: In the video interview with Director Amanda Morgan speaks keeping with the 1980s theme of the original Heathers the Musical. Amanda Morgan used the dark and light lightening, so the audience could interpret the feelings that was taking place at that time. She used the red light once Heather Chandler had passed to let you know that she is no longer a lighted character. The bright lights were used at the end the whole cast was joyful and that bright light explained their…

Reyna Grande,the protagonist and an inquisitive young girl to the things happening in her life as young girl. A short girl but her personality and dreams are as big as the world. Her endless dreaming, help her achieve the things she had always dreamt of as a child living in a place where dreams are only dreams and may never become a reality. In addition to not having parents, she begins to have problems within herself caused by her parents. For example, she blamed herself for many of her…