The Blind Girl

Mary Wollstonecraft was brave for her time period. She was one of the first women to write about feminism and her views. Her essay not only made a point during her time period, but it still is the basis of all feminism today by proving that women are able to take a stand. The essay showed the differences between men and women, the multiple discriminations against women, and the way to find justice. Feminism is something that has merely been looked over in the past decade. Our society has been…

Ordered to Death Women have not always existed as equal to or near equal to men in society as they do in modern day America. In fact, during the Shakespearean era, women in England were socially and mentally restricted until they practically had no personal identity without men. Few characters embody this concept more accurately than Ophelia in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. The female social order operated under such extremes within the play that the men in Ophelia’s life constantly instruct her on…

of other girls their age. It has been studied and more females have gotten diagnosed with depression, eating disorders, or very low self-esteem now at a lower age. Now, girls are focusing on being/looking sexy and fitting in rather than being themselves and acting their age. Examples in this article supporting the topic were how girls can’t find clothes that are their age. They are all “crop tops’, too short for them to wear, or too tight to feel comfortable in or look their age. Girls…

children, on average, spend seven hours and thirty-eight minutes of entertainment each day. By allowing children to spend ceremonious amounts of time watching the same sorts of oversexualized, one-dimensional female character, we deprive both boys and girls. It is okay to have female characters who have lower class jobs, or are sexually aware, it should be important for the storyline to have her in this role. Not because the male character has to have the dominant position of power. If…

Nearly a decade ago, I became acquainted with a great friend who opened up my world to makeup, and of course, self-esteem issues. I did not realize at the time how much makeup would change my life. I knew I wanted what every girl wants; it was to have a smooth looking skin and eyes that appear awake, whether it was to impress someone or purely just to feel beautiful. In fact, my freshman year of high school, I would not be caught dead without makeup on my face and my hair as straight as pins. My…

Society is forming each individual with incorrect ideals of life. Some examples are how little girls are changing the way they see themselves in early ages. They don’t worry about playing and jumping outside the house anymore they are now worry about being better looking compare to other girls and what about boys being more violent and less gentleman. The article “Little Girls or Little Woman? The Disney Princess effect” talks about how difficult was for a mom to realize how princess…

character and “Mangan’s sister” for the girl he has a crush on. The reason for this anonymity is that the author wants the reader to relate to the epiphany the boy faces in the story. We all have our moments of epiphanies when we have a crush on someone and we get our hopes so high that we imagine our lives with them for an instance but, at…

Little girl number two Little girl number two, the functional assessment information showed that she regularly showed behaviors that likewise diverted the other children. On these events, girl’s instructor and paraprofessional either gave verbal or nonverbal redirection or proceeded with the exercises. Given this data, the group figured three theories: 1.Little girl’s issue conduct was reliably kept up by running away. 2. Little girl’s rate of engagement would increase if the instructor and an…

He’s telling the story of a young girl who is set to be married off to the king, although this may sound glamourous, the girl looks unhappy, and no wonder; she’s a teenager preparing for marriage, preparing to leave behind her family and everything…

“I was silent as a child, and silenced as a young woman; I am taking my lumps and bumps for being a big mouth, now, but usually from those whose opinion I don 't respect.” - Sandra Cisneros (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/s/sandra_cisneros.html) Sandra Cisneros, famous author of works such as The House on Mango Street (1989), was born in Chicago in 1954, to a Mexican father and Chicana (Mexican-American) mother (Encyclopedia of Hispanic-American Literature, “Sandra Cisneros”).…