The Dead Girl

encountered. With her medical degree, she works as a field pathologist often. She made digging around in dead bodies graceful, and thus inspired an entire generation of women to pursue S.T.E.M. degrees. After the X-files premiered there was a boost of women in S.T.E.M. fields everywhere. This is The Scully Effect. The Scully Effect proves representation in the media is important, and giving young girls smart, strong, and independent female characters to look up influences them. Young kids are…

I have not written in my journal since I was a little girl, but I feel that it would help me clear my head of the pain I experience every day. It is excruciating, yet most of my suffering lies within myself. When the story of Snow White is read to little boys and girls, it does not take long for them to understand that I am a malevolent villain. Being considered "The Evil Queen," it is easy to believe that I try to rid the world of goodness. Barely anybody even knows my name, which happens to be…

In the short story “The Flowers” by Alice Walker, the reader follows a young girl named Myop who goes away from her home on a sharecropper’s farm into a forest, only to find the dead body of a lynched man. The story is written in such a style that the reader never sees the ending coming. Utilizing the elements of imagery and symbolism, Walker showcases the shock value of a girl realizing that life is not the same for her as it is for everyone else. From the very start, Myop is clearly…

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…

throughout the house. Color plays a huge role in Beloved. It indicates how characters are feeling about their environment. The two orange squares of the quilt on the bed in which Baby Suggs passed on are mesmerizing to those who notice them. The young girl Beloved stared at them while she was in the room which signified the colors importance and not only her but Paul D as well. The action of noticing the orange squares on the quilt seemed to solve the blurred…

Kilbourne addresses that “girls grow into women afraid to speak up for themselves or use their voice to protect themselves or to use their own voice” (Kilbourne 264). This is a strange reality as women and girls are scared to talk and protect themselves because society tells them that if they do they are considered an outcast and do not deserve to be happy. To women,…

The first I heard “The Devils Arithmetic” I thought it would be about the devil and hell, but as I read and watched the movie I noticed that it was actually about The Nazis keeping up with his prisoner. Then I thought back to when I was in 5th grade, in Mrs. Carter class, we read a book and watched a movie about Ann Frank and the Nazis. Both the movie and the novel have a lot of similarities. However, the novel and the book have differences also. Hashanah finally wakes up. When she wakes up she…

myth, “The Story of the Seasons”, there was a very pretty girl named Persephone that let the joy of flowers everywhere she stepped. In the beginning of the story, Persephone was a girl with a very joyful and loving personality because she was always helping people and walking in nature. Persephone was gathering flowers when suddenly the ground split open. Hades, the god of the underworld, raised from the ground. Hades got the terrified girl and they went into the ground. Persephone was crying…

Did you know that during 2006 the ratio of girls to boys playing videogames was 38:62? In addition, over the past 8 years it has it has increased to 48:52. Even though the gaming community has always been a place for girls just as much as boys, there is still a lot of sexism in it. It has been said that by next year women will become the majority in the gaming community. Sexism in videogames is posing a problem in many more ways than one. It has created hostile gaming environments, overly…

“girlchild” (line 1) strives to fit into society’s ideas of perfection that are modeled in her toys. Even though the girl is “healthy” (line 7) with “strong arms and back” (line 8) she feels she must become as thin, tall, and beautiful as her dolls are depicted to be. The symbolism of the doll is carried on further with the accessories that come with the…