Teenage Girl Crush

ADVERSTISEMENT ANALYSIS The advertisement, for Cannery Row, shows three children playing with each other with a ball near them. The background of the advertisement is situated in very tranquil marine environment. There is a translucent picture of a woman with a cup of coffee relaxing while she watches over her children with a sense of content and delight. There are two text boxes one placed on top right corner, which says “Cannery Row. Stay here. Play here.” and one at the bottom of the…

cheerleaders embody "conventional femininity" by using their voice and bodies to support their teams. This is one aspect that the movie gets right. In the film, there is a huge emphasis on the bodies of the girls on the team. Messages about the effects of body shaming are shown throughout the movie. Girls starving themselves and, in some cases, becoming anorexic to look good in their uniform and avoid the scrutiny of their fellow teammates is extremely common in cheerleading. I, myself, can…

The dress worn for the ball has symbolic significance. Alka wears the costume of Rani Janshi though not brave like her. Dolly wears the mujra dress of a prostitute expresses her keen desire to love and to be loved outside marriage.The dance costume decided for the crippled Daksha is also symbolically significant. In the words of Krati, The old beggar woman who appears in the play under the tarpaulin time and again has a symbolic meaning. First time she appears, at the reference of the name of…

Miranda is the teenage daughter of Prospero, former Duke of Milan, who wields magic and control over spirits. She has spent most of her life on the island and has never met a human male other than her father. She embodies innocence, purity, and, most importantly, virginity…

through, "Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?" by Joyce Carol Oates, which is narrating the fatal destiny of a fifteen-year-old girl. The story is unsettling and an incredibly formidable story of a young girl’s loss of innocence during a time of social change, unrest and turbulence. The story’s protagonist is Connie, a self-absorbed, yet beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, who is at odds with not only her family but also the conservative values handed down by society. With many literary…

Life can be complicated if something or someone has disappeared in your life. “Torn Away” by Jennifer Brown is about a teenage girl, Jersey, who lives in Elizabeth, Missouri, and lives with her mom, he stepsister, Marin, and her stepdad, Ronnie. She survives a tornado when her mom and Marin has just past away on their way to a dance class. She is sent to her lunatic biological father’s house, which turns out to be a complete nightmare. The author shows that you should always love and care for…

Laura Hoffeld notes that “[a] little girl without parents to protect her and represent her to the world would ordinarily have the lowest status, be the least powerful member of her society” (48), instead Pippi is “the strongest, brightest, and richest girl in the world” (Metcalf 14-15). By being parentless, the author gives her character the means to be whoever she wishes to be, without restraint. From the beginning, she distinguishes herself from many girls, princesses, or fairies, by…

How Beauty Pageants Effect Children and Women Why do girls find beauty pageants so important to their social status and popularity? For the longest time, girls have competed from ages new born all the way up to their twenties in beauty contests. Most of the time, it’s the parents who get them first started in the industry, but the amount of money and time they spend on pageants is ridiculous! Why is it so important for girls to win contests for beauty, and not for their true selves? Beauty…

The research paper aims to explore the elements of feminism in Anita Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting. The paper seeks to study the work of Nair’s Lessons in Forgetting as a text of feminine writing and deals with number of problems that are faced by the women characters in the novel Lessons in Forgetting such as female feticide, gender discriminations, love and dependence on family members, and explains briefly how they overcome such problems to move on in their lives. As per the title, the…

from a girl into a young teen. In her journey, Esperanza comes across many challenges, she is forced to grow up by life’s adversities. In the short story “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother advises her daughter and scolds her into becoming a good woman. In her guidance, the mother is worried about her daughter’s sexual activity and warns her about consequences of bad behavior. “A&P” by John Updike, is also a short story where a boy named Sammy comes across his sexuality when he spots three girls…