The Blind Girl

“You throw like a girl.” I still remember the confusion and frustration I felt the day a boy in my Sunday school class jeered at me for my inability to throw the baseball as far as he could. Why did being a girl change my ability to play baseball? As a naive seven year old girl, I was unaware of the insulting yet common stereotypes reputed at girls everyday. Even though women can vote, go to college, and support themselves, gender roles and standards still linger. The gender bias remains a…

television and manipulating the people. Media influence has negative effects on people. The Media makes women, and men have a negative for body image. The book Beauty…and the Beast of Advertising Kilbourne’s statements said, (28). “Even grade-school girls are succumbing to stick-like standards of beauty enforced by a relentless parade of wasp-waisted fashion models, movie stars and pop idols.” The media conveys the wrong messages to the American people and has a negative mental effect. The…

physical appearance and self-image. People place more importance on becoming physically perfect, however, this creates a large amount of pressure to achieve this unobtainable goal. In Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, she focuses on an adolescent girl who was driven to commit suicide as a means to rid herself of the stress of being perfect. The poem brings to light the issue of suicide due to the pressures of self-image because the teenager’s life seemed perfect, excluding two minute physical…

Cunningham relates to that statement with,” that can leap out and get in the way of a little girl to grow up happy and trying to becoming a sustainably happy woman,”(215). Obstacles, everyone goes through them in life, but in the media, it's a bit worse for women. Advertisements and movies, don’t make it more easier for females to feel secure about…

Boys and girls are equal, so they should be able play the same sports together. Girls and boys in sports are always separated. Some sports have pro girls leagues and pro men leagues. Lots of people think that girls and boys have the same skill level in the sports they play. Girls and boys should play on the same sports team because girls can just be as good as boys, boys and girls can get along fine, and if their coach pushes them hard enough the boys and girls can play together well. Girls can…

Kit was teaching children how to read at the school, and she decided to have them act out a part of the Bible; it got out of hand and then Mr. Eliezer Kimberly, the head of the school enters the house and disbands the school. Kit was so upset seeing Mercy cry, that she ran to the meadow and fell down and cried, she then felt a presence and looked up only to find an old woman standing there looking at her; the woman was Hannah Tupper, the woman that everyone thought was a witch. Hannah invited…

schoolyard sandbox sat two little girls; one with raven-black hair and forest green eyes and the other with hair as red as blood and irises that resembled the dark night sky. The redhead was dressed fairly odd for a month of early spring, as she was wearing a witch costume and holding a broom as if it were Halloween. The raveonette didn’t seem to mind at all but couldn’t help but wonder why the redhead wasn’t wearing a school uniform like she and the other girls were forced to wear. The…

Love is one of the many common desires most people have. So when young girls believe that they do not look as pretty as a princess, they think that they will never have someone love them back. Of course, this frightens them because they do not want to grow up alone without a lover. There was a study in 2016, conducted by experts in the field of child development, of how Disney Princesses relates to gender-stereotypical behavior and body esteem among children. Later, an article was made…

We have rapidly changed our perceptions of the ideal body throughout the decades because of new developments and representations in various media. A significant image that is portrayed through all types of media is that of a “princess” - specifically, the Disney Princesses. While it is most likely that Walt Disney’s intentions were nothing other than providing entertainment to younger audiences through the revitalization of old fairy tales, having an impressionable, younger audience created an…

of whom possess only one Barbie. On a Sunday, the young girls are at a market and spot a cheap new Barbie lying on a table. Glancing around, they notice there are numerous dolls and outfits, including a "'Career Gal'" outfit (291). Evidently, a close-by toy factory burned to the ground, thus these dolls are marked down despite the fact that they escaped with minor harms. The narrator brings up that nobody will see these things if the girls dress the dolls in their lovely new outfits. The central…