The Dead Girl

similar experience and she was also pressured to smile and to act in a certain way for a different reason. Farhoud is a young lady about eighteen years who struggled to fit into society. Farhoud stated that it’s all started at home, when she was a little girl, her mother was telling her to follow the rules and to act like a lady. Farhoud also mentioned that her mother often told her to smile no matter what she was feeling based on that she learned to hide her feelings and to be herself. However…

are no exact records of the number of incidences involving child abuse and neglect, in 2000 there were nearly 3 million allegations involving around 5 million children (Funk & Wagnalls New World Encyclopedia). This sadly common situation of one young girl is highlighted in the Tennessee William’s play This Property is Condemned. A simple conversation…

boy or a girl, we are socialized into rules and what does it means to be a boy or a girl. The set of beliefs, norms and practices depends in the place we live. Our family, friends and the media around us it what shape our culture and through them we are socialized into society. What is the first thing that comes in mind what a person thinks about a little girl? The color pink, dresses, flowers, make up, when she gets older marriage, having kids etc. Why it has to be like that? Do every girl have…

Nervous Conditions a novel about the ongoing journey about Tambu, a girl, fighting for the right to go to school and receive an education. Throughout the novel, there are many conflicts that make achieving her goal a difficult process. For being a woman, her family being poor and being an African. The novel is not just about Tambu’s struggles, but about other people in her family such as her aunts and cousin. The novel Nervous Conditions carries out the theme of discrimination between class,…

females checked their phones about once every two minutes per person. Alternatively, each girl checked their phones about two and three quarters times in five minutes. This group had four girls. This group had a tendency of prolonged phone use. About half of the phone uses were longer than thirty seconds at a time. Also this group often included their phone uses to the other members of the group; for example, a girl would show the others a picture she found on Instagram or tell everyone what…

Through Howard Zinn, I learned during the 1800s, women didn’t experience the freedom that girls today have. Women during the 1800, of all races and social status faced some sort of discrimination. Through my interviews, I learnt that both of my subjects didn’t feel that they faced discrimination, oppression, or unfair treatment because of their…

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…

Scout doesn’t want to act like a normal girl because she wants to be like Jem. Aunt Alexandra invited her neighbors over for tea and refreshments and Scout was waiting for Calpurnia to let her do something. Scout was contemplating whether or not to go join Aunt Alexandra and she said, “Aunt Alexandra…

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…