The Golden Girls

I knew I matured and learned a lot more about my religion and thought about who I wanted to be. I wanted to build into a modest and independent girl who influences everyone around her. It was the first few weeks of school and I never had a single thought about taking my hijab off. No one had made any ignorant comments about me or my religion so I knew this year would be easy. Later onto the school…

expectations that she would stay in a secured placed and wait for somebody who would rescue her prince and later they meet after something tragic happens and then live happily ever after. But Princess Elizabeth as mentioned above was a very smart and a brave girl. She wears a paper bag as there was nothing else left and leaves on her mission of saving her prince from the filthy and rude dragon. She finds the trails of dragon and follows…

women that they are “more beautiful than [they] think” so they should be living a happy and carefree life (weird color). Dove’s next film continues to improve how women think about themselves, especially teens and their moms. Dove challenged teenaged girls and their mom’s at a local high school to take a selfie without any improvements or filters and submit it to Dove. A week later Dove hosted a photo gallery after school. All of the selfie’s submitted where blown up and hanging form the…

As presented in the movie Spirited Away, Chihiro is faced with the journey of growing into adulthood. What starts as a story of a little girl faced with the difficulty of moving to a new school, turns into a coming of age story as Chihiro realizes she must conquer many challenges on her own in order to save her family. She is forced to cope with being taken away from her friend, while thrown into a new setting. When she finds herself in a new world and separated from her parents, she begins to…

“Hey girl, open the walls.. Play with your dolls.. We’ll be a perfect family..” “Falina, quit being greedy and give your brother some pizza” said a young black haired woman, She was glaring down at a small skinny little black haired girl. The small girl flinched back and lowered her head “S-Sorry M-Mama..” she said quietly pushing away her pizza to her younger brother. The young boy squeaked in excitement and ate it all up in one bite, Falina’s stomach growled loudly. She tried to hide it…

“Maddie” is a heartwarming commercial produced by Chevy Automotives in 2014, that takes us on a journey with the two main characters: a woman and her golden retriever, Maddie. With a soft, mournful piano ballad playing in the background, we observe as a woman, in her late twenties, stands beside an aged golden retriever, smiling sadly, and pets the frail creature. We witness an intimate moment between her and Maddie, as the dog lays calmly in the veterinarian’s office. Smoothly changing…

Jostein Gaarder’s, Sophie’s World, gives its audience a proficient understanding of philosophy. Sophie’s World is about a young girl named Sophie Amundsen. She has several questions about life, how she came to be, and who she is. Sophie was a normal young girl, living her life day by day. She lived with her mom, went to school and hung out with friends when she could. One day, this all changed. She received two letters in the mail stating, “Who are you?” and “Where does the world come from?”…

In the short story, Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?, Joyce Carol Oates’ depicts the life of a young, narcissistic girl who lives in her own little unrealistic word of beauty, popularity, and boys. Connie’s sister and mother are the complete opposite of what the young, self-centered girl represents. Connie’s entire life consists of making sure she is always looking young and beautiful for the boys out on the town. One day, Connie’s vain lifestyle bites back when a boy that goes by the…

The two girls admire Wonder Woman and idolize Gal Gadot. They think Gal is magnificent. Samuel adores The Flash. He Likes Dash from the movie The Incredibles as well. He aspires to be just like him and often pretends to be him. Samuel also finds joy in spreading love to others by leaving kind and encouraging notes in books at the library for strangers to find. Both of Jennifer's daughters are Girl Scouts. Violet is a Cadette and Seraphina is a Brownie…

There were still gaps, people he knew existed but he couldn’t quite remember, like the girl that had wrote on his cast, and her father at the pharmacy, his teachers handing out grade cards and talk of Stan’s Bar Mitzvah and the same voice, “The rabbi’s going to pull down his pants and shout, ‘Where’s the penis?’” and where it should have…