The Little Girl

In stories, authors use imagery in their writing to create a mental image, similar to one in a movie to form a particular effect. In “Barbie-Q,” Cisneros uses imagery in a detailed way when talking about the Barbies in order to show how much the little girl desires to be a Barbie. Cisneros writes about how perfect these Barbies are to an extent from their clothing to their packaging to create a an effect on the reader. In “The Flowers,” Walker uses imagery when talking about Myops interaction…

a princess for Halloween. A little boy wants to be a princess for Halloween, and then a little girl wants to be Spiderman. Onlookers speak up but tend to side with the mom who does not want her son to be a princess or "Bell" for Halloween. The little girl who wants to wear the Spiderman costume her mother is also supported by some of the onlookers. The mom tells the boy he needs to find a boy costume and several onlooking children tell him that 's for little girls. The mothers in this clip…

there are a factors that bring the concept of girl power down. Our younger generation are being brainwashed and putting to shame what many women longed to achieve. Teenagers being the easiest target are being influenced by the third wave feminism. This third wave embraces stereotypes and sadly pulls from the concept of girl power. Enlightened sexism, toys, and the perception of women’s roles in society are humiliating those who still truly exercise Girl Power. Have you noticed how racy…

I am a girl. I have always been a girl, have always seen myself as a girl, and hold onto being a girl as a part of my identity. For most of my life, this identity has not had a profoundly negative nor positive impact on how I live. I have the privilege of having grown up in liberal Sonoma, where my being a girl did not automatically make me lesser. I played Co-Ed soccer until I was 10, was given the same opportunities to learn as the boys in my classes, and never had anyone other than a…

Media's Effects: Child to Adult In today's culture young girls all across the world are growing up in very different situations; yet, one thing is always a constant, men being the superior. Katha Pollitt, an award- winning writer for magazines such as The Nation and New York Times, discusses how this divide between men and women shown by the media is critical in the upbringing of today’s youth. From princesses always needing saved to the cute little bunny with pink bows in the background these…

Nearly a decade ago, I became acquainted with a great friend who opened up my world to makeup, and of course, self-esteem issues. I did not realize at the time how much makeup would change my life. I knew I wanted what every girl wants; it was to have a smooth looking skin and eyes that appear awake, whether it was to impress someone or purely just to feel beautiful. In fact, my freshman year of high school, I would not be caught dead without makeup on my face and my hair as straight as pins. My…

those of men” (“Feminism” paragraph 1). Pink should be their favorite color and they should want to play Barbies and dress-up. A girl is seen as masculine if she would rather play with fake guns and a G.I. Joe and a man is seen as feminine or strange if his favorite color is pink or he would rather play with a Barbie then play Alamo. If a boy would rather wear a skirt or a girl would rather wear jeans and a t-shirt it is considered weird and the parents will often receive endless criticisms.…

“When School was Scary” and the poem “The Ballad of Birmingham” are alike because both Elizabeth and the little girl are trying to get out and play or go to school, but they aren’t able to. In contrast, they both experience different things like in the article Elizabeth just wants to go to school like everyone else but she gets bullied and abused by other students. But in the poem, the little girl just wants to play and march but her mother worries her and that something will happen to her. In…

the drama area then began to focus on the girls and help them with the dresses. As other girls saw that the dresses were being taken out, they began to get closer and wanted to play. I noticed this engagement between two girls, in which one of them had this one dress, and the other took it out of her hands because her friend wanted that dress. The girl who had the dress got upset, and the way that the teacher handled that situation was with giving the girl another dress. As she was trying to…

with lust over a girl. The two boys are different ages and go to different lengths to impress the girl they want; however, each story has a similar theme, inciting incident, and final ending. A theme in both of the stories is immaturity, or ignorance. The narrator of Araby is an unnamed boy who is probably not yet an adolescent. Being a young boy in a dull town with little exposure to anything from the world outside of his, he is, by default, ignorant. His first experience with a girl is with…