Teenage Girl Crush

just turned 11 years old and will be going into middle school this fall. My baby girl will be nine in a few weeks, she is autistic however, and it does not define her. Both are very active, EJ will be in the band at school, also a Boy Scout. Abby, a gymnast for the Special Olympics as well as plays baseball for the Miracle League. Along with them, I also have an older daughter she is 21; married and has a little girl my first granddaughter who keeps me on my toes. My husband and I are now at a…

of the mike cutting through your corrupted thoughts. “Pretty Hurts”, are the first two words the third contestant sings. You’re rammed with the depressing realization that this is your reality. Beyonce’s “Pretty Hurts” music video is about a pageant girl who has been competing in pageants for a very long time. She’s won hundreds of trophies but is still unhappy and unsatisfied with the way she looks. She has done many drastic things, even jeopardizing her health to win pageants to prove that…

isn’t trashy I’m not sure what would qualify as that. Picture this, a man walks up and is drunk out of his mind he sets his sights on a young woman across the bar. Realize men like this are relentless, they never give up. He will constantly tell the girl how gorgeous she is, and how she shouldn’t be all by herself. Even if she refuses him over and over he continues to come back. It’s like beating a dead horse. This just goes to show that this man has no class, and acts a lot like trash. Then…

woman sporting lingerie, a group of ladies at upscale restaurant talking loudly, eating as they please without regard to the onlookers, one onlooker being a little girl, a woman leading a business meeting to a group of men, women wearing short hairstyles, and a woman with muscles wearing a dress. According to our text “Media...represents girls and women as young, thin, beautiful, passive, dependent, and often incompetent (pg. 171). This commercial calls to question two theories in our reading,…

Who would think that out of the blue , a six year old little girl 's life would change forever? This incident was not only seen as a tragedy, but it was also seen as a liberation from for a child who had alcoholic, drug user as a mother. On November 23, 2004, I was taken from my mother by the Division of Family and Children Services, also known as DFCS, which is a business that helps families and children in need. The day that I was taken from my mother and put into a foster was a day that I…

Mothers, grandmothers, and stepmothers play an important role in every child 's life. They show and tell their child what to do. In the short story “Girl,” written by Jamaica Kincaid, a mother is doing just that. She is telling her daughter what to do and how to do it.“Girl” is more complex than a simple list of instructions and how-to’s. In Kincaid’s work, she dives deeply into the perspective of a young woman living in a poor country during the late 1970s as well as the girl’s mother’s…

Could an innocent Child’s toy effect their future career and how they see themselves? How exciting! Your best friend is having a little girl, it’s time for some shopping. So you grab your wallet and head to “Buy Buy Baby” to buy some cute pink clothes and Barbie’s and maybe even a cute little kitchen set for when she is just a little bit older. Admixed all of the excitement of a new babies coming into the world, have we as a society, ever stopped and looked at the different stereotypes and…

together. As Ruth Handler was having a vacation with her family in Europe she came across a doll that she believed could be morphed into something special back in the states. She brought the doll home, and with a makeover she was ready to be marketed to girls as a teen model. Named after her daughter Barbara, Barbie hit the shelves in 1959 and a new form of American female beauty was inscribed into history. History, just like so many times before, would be drastically…

Whether intentionally or not, especially as a male, we all have used the term “like a girl” without a shadow of concern about the ramifications of such words. Our obnoxious preface that girls may be inferior, as evident by the phrase, has sadly been apparent since youth and changes the schema in which both genders view the world at hand. The people over at Always have created a campaign centered on the rhetoric of counter-thinking societal clichéd views. Growing up as male within a predominately…

The differences between the movie and the book are great. There are people missing and scenes cut. There are people added and scenes added. For the most part though, the theme seemed to stay generally the same. These differences come about because of the difference of how movies focus more on drama and books go more in depth, so they came give more detail. The summary, in the general, for both translations Hannah is complaining about the remembering. She is tired of going over her…