This One's for the Girls

The young girl shows signs of neglect because she is doing morning routines, like packing a lunch, without the help of a parent. Being very young, this is odd for the child to do by herself. The audience can assume the parents are disinterested in their daughter because the girl wore the same dress as the day before. Both lyrics are signs that the parents are uninvolved in the girl’s life. Child abuse is mentioned in verse one when the artist sings, “She hides the bruises with linen and lace” (line 4), while verse three says, “A fragile soul caught in the hands of fate/ When mornin’ comes it’ll be too late” (17-18). The audience concludes that the girl’s bruises are from her parents, and her parents’ abuse threatened her life. The overall story is about a girl who is a victim of abuse, but the artist’s main goal is to raise awareness of child abuse. The song’s heart-wrenching melody played on the piano catches the listeners’ attention, which encourages listeners to inform others of child abuse. This reaction to the song is the reason people begin to recognize and understand child abuse. Martina McBride felt it was necessary to call attention to unrecognized problems because she…

McBride! Her new 13th studio album “Reckless” debuted #2 on the country charts, so apparently not. Upon first listen to this album I thought it was mediocre; however, when I heard it a 2nd time I decided I loved it! How can you not love anything Martina sings? Her voice can be soft and beautiful as well as loud and just as beautiful! She has been nominated 17 times for CMA's female vocalist of the year and won 4 times! Her almost 25-year career speaks for itself! The songs on this album feel…

since the day we got him for her fifth birthday. “He’s fine,” Angel nodded. I, of course, knew what she’d say before she said it. It’s a natural intuition many are blessed with when they have a shared sister blood. Angel usually wasn’t this quiet, and it might just be because our walks became silent moments without mom and dad. “Hey, can we walk slower? I don’t want to go home,” Angel tugged on my shirt. Our steps grew increasingly and dramatically slow, like that one time I took her to the…

written by Martha McBride. This song portrays the story of a young girl who is being abused at home. The main theme in this song is that the abuse goes unnoticed. I believe the song was written to demonstrate society's apathy in calling attention to the ugly things in life. Throughout the song, people notice but do nothing. Many situations almost identical to the one portrayed in the song happen in real life. In this song several poetic techniques are used. Right away when looking at the lyrics…

of young girls and how they adhere to an “I’m so fat” discourse. Through these discussions, they found that young girls participate in fat talk in order to show others that they are concerned with their appearance and are aware of their own faults. This sense of belonging is pervasive within adolescence as this rapport between girls establishes a sense of belonging and closeness within relationships. Research Question/Hypothesis: Markey’s sought to figure out why young girls engage in fat…

Power changes everyone's character. It may show the real person they are once they obtain power. In other cases the person will stay the same, the girls being accused had received such power and it changed their character. Power always brings out the good or the bad in someone’s character and it is a way to test your character having received such power. It’ll change you, mad with power or you will remain humble and not have changed for the worse. When you feel powerful, you think about the…

obsessed with their weight, which causes girls to be self conscious about themselves, which comes from companies using thin models for advertisement. To begin with, teenagers are starting to get obsessed with their weight and how they look. In America, out of 4,746 junior high and high school students who have tried some way to lose weight: 57% fasted,…

Identity is like a teenager trying to find who they truly are. In finding one's identity almost always is hard to find, because their emotions are always changing. Sometimes after finding one's identity, can give good and bad outlooks on the person's identity. The character Matilda was very prideful in her looks at the ball, but later realized consequences followed after that. The passages show how one's identity is created through realization in a culture and pride. First, identity is created…

In the novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, Stephen Crane uses many characters to demonstrate the theme moral hypocrisy. In the story, Maggie faces many problems such as escaping the bowery, and is known as the protagonist. Maggie’s brother Jimmie demonstrates moral hypocrisy throughout the story and is known as the hypocrite. For the duration of the novella, Stephen Crane demonstrates the bowery as a region of the city that is known for changing the inhabitant’s actions due to alcoholism,…

There is a myriad of factors that shape one’s identity; yet, one’s gender, memories, and environment have the greatest significance in the development of identity. Identity is how one views oneself both as a person and in relation to other people and ideas. Often, predetermined barriers and expectations through social construct fundamentally shape one's life experience. Moreover, the memories can also mold a person’s identity because it shows how one understands and experiences the world. In the…