Teenage Girl Crush

These past sixteen months, as member of the Boys & Girls Club, has been a momentous time of my life. One of my key aspect of involvement at the club, is helping the kids with homework. Most of the times when the kids comes to the Boys & Girls Club from school, the chances of them having homework is very high of them having to complete their assignment to turn it in the next day. I utilize the time I have to devote all of my time and energy to assist them with their homework. I personally know…

were allowed to have only one child. This policy was enforced by forced abortions, sterilizations, and fines to families with two or more children. Confucian patriarchal tradition has been very influential to Chinese custom and has a bias against girls and women. This discrimination is based on how women were no longer responsible for their families once they married into that of their husbands. In modern China, most of this tradition has continued. Therefore, Chinese couples…

You Going? Where Have You Been?” each story represents a young girl breaking free of the life she lives by being reckless and not listening to her parents, deciding she can make decisions on her own, and going with a strange man when she knows she shouldn’t. The story “Where are You Going? Where Have You Been?” by Joyce Carol Oates is similar to the movie Finding Faith (2013) in theme, manner, and tone, such as; in each story a young girl sets out for freedom to go against her parents’ wishes…

“When I Grow Up” sang by the pop girl group, the Pussycat Dolls, that dominated radio stations in the early 2000s. The song’s lyrics symbolize a group of women who have made it to the big leagues by being sexy and are relishing in their wealth and success. In the early 2000s, the Pussycat Dolls were a symbol of power and sex and were a picture perfect group of women that many young girls at home wanted to embody. The influence the pop girl group had on young girls’ at home is called the mirror…

The Journey to Love Me As a young girl you never really learn how to love yourself or mature until you go through the motions. You just start noticing how you make better decisions than the fools known as boys when you are about thirteen. You start to settle into yourself, your ways, and your groove. My mother calls it “going through the motions.” It took me all of middle school and nearly all of high school to find myself and love me. Here is the in and out of my story. The between the lines of…

Radium Girls Take-Home Quiz 1. Radium Girls displayed some very interesting signs throughout the show that helped signify crucial moments of the play. One such scene that demonstrated a very powerful and important part of the play was when Grace and Tommy picked out wallpaper. This scene signified that these people were not particularly special, but rather regular human beings from the time. The scene ended with Grace’s jaw starting to hurt; this showed how the downsides of capitalism can hurt…

“She’s Gotta Have It” is a momentous film that captures the dynamics one woman, Nola, encounters in her personal relationships, as she pursues multiple partners. Throughout the movie, Nola has three consistent partners; each possesses a distinctly different personality and manner in which they go about dating Nola. Nola is a young and successful woman who is unsure of what she wants in romantic relationships, so she seeks out multiple partners. Despite the many manipulations and domineering…

her art. The woman who gave up everything - a comfortable home a husband and a family – for love”. (SR 166) People see lives through their memory lane which are sometimes fractured and fragmented. Madhu secretly admired Munni’s mother and also has a crush towards her. In Madhu’s imagination Bai…

Taking Joy in Work: A Critical Analysis of Gendered and Racial Stereotypes in Joy The new blockbuster film, Joy, showed a lot of promise. It was billed as a woman persevering and marketing her new invention: the self-wringing mop. Presuming it would be a refreshing and feminist portrayal of women in the workplace was ultimately disappointing, though. While the film did have one or two poignant moments, the bad outweighed the good. The movie was based on a true story, so I fear audiences will let…

Esperanza’s goal is to escape Mango Street and live in a house of her own after seeing the trapped women around the neighborhood. Not only that, in “Boys & Girls” Esperanza already understands the inequality between the boys and girls in her society when she mentioned that her brothers don’t speak to her outside the house because she’s a girl. For now her observation is still innocent and childlike and limited to her siblings. She mentions also her desire for a best friend “of her own”. Without…