The Dead Girl

Four thousand miles away along the coast of Chile in outside of the port city of Mejillones, a young man sat with his parents in their small European style home eating dinner. Dinner was fish as usual but the young man’s mother could work wonders on the little they had. The young man’s father was a fisherman from America that brought his wife and business to South America after adopting Andrew, the young man. Actually he found Andrew while porting at small uncharted island on a trip from North…

She got the whole world's attention to help women education because we’ve been trying to get away from that for about a long time ago when we started giving women rights, so why can’t the women and girls at Pakistan get an education. She risked her life for this because lots of people wanted her dead ever since she expressed herself for getting an…

Afghanistan where people had no money. Farah and her mother were trying to cross the border of Afghanistan to get to Pakistan for a better life. She was missing a leg after stepping on a land mine when she was seven years old and with her father and brother dead from a rocket attack, Farah and her mother decide to flee their home in Afghanistan. The phenomenal thing she did was that she went through danger and still got to where she wanted to go out of that war torn country. Secondly, Farah…

From the Mattel toy models that young little girls admired on shelves of toy stores and human doll transformations videos that are popular on the internet, Barbie and many other plastic heroines have made a huge influence on today’s modern women. Marge Piercy’s poem, “Barbie Doll”, explores the awkward obstacles of puberty and the pressures of reaching the standards of beauty and acceptance. This story of a young normal girl being conformed into the lifestyle of being “perfect” is a true…

Once upon a time, there was a small, seaside town, along the coast of the vast Pacific Ocean, called Arcadia, and in that small seaside town, there lived a girl named Parker Garcia, who, with the help of some friends and maybe just a little magic, started a revolution that brought love and acceptance to the small town. The small town of Arcadia over looked the pacific ocean from a glorious cliff side that was carved with one of the only freeways in the town. Almost every morning the citizens of…

A World of Mystery Throughout the stories I have read they all show different types of mysteries, like crime and the difference between illusion and reality. In all stories/poem they all have something in common, because this unit is based on mystery the stories I read all showed types of mysteries like crime and the battle of illusion and reality. Consequently, that’s why all the stories have a little piece of mystery. In all the stories they all connect to mysteries through the titles. For…

fading from the grasp humanity holds onto it. Compared to other magical girls, Homura diminished her chance of salvation. Her grievances were for nothing because no matter what friend she’d seen ripped apart, no matter what soul faded from existence, there was Madoka - the one girl that no one remembered. She had a duty to fulfill - continue surviving for the girl who had given up her own existence for all magical girls. Magical girls are adolescents. Young females blooming into themselves,…

Guerrilla girls The contemporary poster “Do Women Have to be Naked to Get into the MET Mueseum,” (1989) was made by the Guerilla girls in response to the conscious and unconscious discrimination in the art world at the time. The Guerrilla Girls are intersectional feminist activist artists who since their inception have underminde the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory and subtext in order to expose bad behaviour in the art world. Working collaboratively as a group to…

Legend has it that, In the nation of Huron, lived a girl who was (the last of her clan) called “ Her face is new, pure, and spotless”. She lived with her mother, in a run down lodge, on the outskirts of their Village. One summer, the girl discovered she was pregnant. When the girl’s mother found out, she beat her repeatedly until a messenger from the Creator came to her in a dream one night. The messenger told her that her daughter's child was extraordinarily created and they should call him…

becomes a painful memory. The denotative meaning of a barbie doll is a doll representing a conventionally attractive young woman and the most famous of famous dolls is Barbie. With dazzling blonde hair and crystal blue eyes, she is what every girl aged 3-12 should aspire to. In “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy the barbie doll represents what a…