The Dead Girl

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…

In "Girl" by Jamaica Kincaid, we have a mother conveying important life advice to her daughter in order for her to adapt to her cultural customs and most importantly, to learn the rules of social behavior for a woman. Her mother's advice is not only intentionally told in order for her to become the proper Antiguan woman she believes in raising but is also told to criticize her actions and everyday doings. Her mother makes it very clear, in order to live a proper Antiguan life, there are many…

unrealistic representation of what the female body should look like. According to the author, “only 5% of North American women are underweight, 32 percent of female television and movie personalities are unhealthily thin” (ANRED sec.6). Many young girls and women look up to these movie and television stars as role models and can begin to feel inadequate about themselves especially when their friends also look up to and strive to look like the famous people they envy, or that they see in…

infanticide, where it's actually the most popular. The documentary “It’s a Girl” first shows an Indian women stating “Women have the power to give life,” she explains, “and the power to take it away.” (It's a Girl) India and china have rooted in them the practice of infanticide. The film opens up with a woman telling her story about her births. She has been pregnant eight times, all of these eight times she gave birth to only girls, and eight times she had strangled and killed her daughters. She…