The Other Girl

(AGG) Najmah is this young girl who got most of her family taken away from her, and she has learned to live with what she has, but what would you do if you had a life like hers? (BS-1) Najmah's shape changes from being a innocent child to being a mature child that has grown up before she was supposed to. After Baba-Jan and Nur leave with the Taliban, Najmah grows up to think and act like a adult. (BS-2) Najmah’s shape after becoming a boy and striving her way to her goal, which is that she has…

away from the goal of gender equality” (Pratibha). Being a girl we are considered weak because we are accused of not having “manly skills.” Girls are reflected as crybabies since we are emotional, but girls are emotional because we have big hearts. There are 7 out of 10 girls that feel they don’t belong in a sport around puberty, at a moment where their confidence plummets and they are trying to conform to societal expectations (Our). Every girl has a dream, but gets crushed by boys who seek to…

The obsession teenage girls have regarding their bodies makes them obsessed with dieting and their weight. From middle school through high school, girls are concerned about the way they look, what they eat, as well as how others perceive their self-confidence. In Fat Talk: What Girls and Their Parents Say about Dieting, Mimi Nichter examines how friends, family, mass communication and media, as well as society play a vital part in the way teenage girls view themselves. Appearances play an…

her children the proper Islamic way. Examples of some settings are Saudi Arabia, Nairobi, and Ethiopia. During her childhood she describes the different treatments she and her sister, Haweya, would receive from being girls. Mahad, her bother was allowed to play outside while the girls were learning baarri, which is a concept of complete submission to their husbands and the Quran. During her teenage years she would consisted being looking for answers in her religion related to the inequality of…

construct, and communication. We see these stereotypes in “Day Star” by Rita Dove, “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid, and “Barbie Doll” by Marge Piercy. Day Star by Rita Dove is about a mother who felt trapped in her life as a stay at home mother, who just wants to daydream in the sun. “Girl” by Jamaica Kincaid is about a mother trying to give her young daughter advise on how not to be a “slut” and how to keep a man. “Barbie Girl” by Marge Peircy was about a smart young lady who did not look how society…

could properly hear how the two girls interacted between each other. I noticed that the “block girl” would pick out three or four cut-outs for her board and whatever she did not use the other girl would ask to use. This lead me to believe that the other girl did not really know what she wanted to make but was instead just putting the left overs to her board, which was strange becuase the pile of cut-out was rather large and there was no need to just use what the other girl did not. The caregiver…

Role Women in society have always received the short end of the stick. For centuries, women have always been pushing and changing the mold. In some cases, individuals have to push the mold for them to be looked at in a more respective light, while other times society has to shift the mold for women to be able to achieve more rights and acceptance in the strife for equality. In the story, The House on Mango Street by Sandra Cisneros, Esperanza grows up and becomes an independent young woman all…

story gives all girls the advice needed to become a successful girl. The thematic significance of this short story explicitly reports the knowledge and experiences of someone older. The character of this story is a young girl evolving over time with advice from someone she admires. I felt this short story resembles more than just what the title says, but actually how to be a girl. Using a magnifying class on the character, I found the character to resemble the girl I once was. The girl…

Elby Chali Prof. Kendall Summer 2015 Drawing Is Just Like Being Able To Speak Rules is a novel written by an author named Cynthia Lord. There is a girl named Catherine and she is twelve years old. Catherine has an autistic brother, named David. Catherine frequently makes up rules for David. Catherine, David and her mom, they go The Occupational Therapy Clinic for David where Catherine meets a boy named Jason. Catherine draws Jason because she was bored at The Occupational Therapy, but Jason…

are negatively applied for a ballerina. Copeland is a dancer of color, and in her early years of being a dancer, she experienced racism like no other minority in the ballet world had experienced. Pushing forward through the hard times has increased the diversification in ballet, and has motivated many other minorities, like young African American girls, to join classical ballet. Copeland is changing the uniformity that the ballet world has, and allowing for…