This One's for the Girls

Crucible and Katherine Howe’s Conversion, the overwhelming amount of pressure to uphold one’s reputation in the communities of Salem and Danvers, Massachusetts leads to an unhealthy amount of conformity. In Conversion, the daily struggles of maintaining the reputation as the ideal St. Joan’s girl, being organized, smart, and well-rounded, become overwhelming. This overwhelming sense of conformity among the girls at St. Joan’s turns to a serious mystery illness that infects many of the…

Identity is fluid. Our thoughts, experiences, and feelings are subconsciously pooled together in a homogenous, perpetually altered structure. This glob of thoughts, feelings, and emotions is simultaneously molded by pressures that prolongs throughout life. Despite the momentousness that thoughts, experiences, and feelings influence on the development of identity, they are not the only thing that influences the development of identity. But, equally imperative to the convoluted development of…

Everyone lies. Various scenarios prompt people to deceive others, to protect one’s self, to protect one’s family, and to protect one’s reputation. A lie is a statement used for the purpose of deception for one’s reputation or name. In Salem, Massachusetts, one’s name and reputation means everything because if one has a bad name, he or she will not receive trust or respect. This play suggests that lying is vital at certain times and that many people hope to achieve an exceptional reputation…

sales of their albums, they branch out even further with their own apparel, perfumes, and unique fashion trends. In addition to female empowerment in the workforce, body positivity is also important to these two women. Finally, the celebration of one’s femininity is expressed through the works of Beyoncé and Nicki Minaj. Beyoncé says in one interview with Vogue, “I just feel my body means something completely different. I feel a lot more confident about it. Even being heavier, thinner, whatever.…

Introduction According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders (ANAD) (2015), almost 50% of people have an eating disorder and 95% of those who have eating disorders are ages 12 to 26. 69% of girls in the 5th-12th, grade, who reported that magazines influenced their idea of a perfect body. An estimated 0.5 to 3.7 percent of women suffer from anorexia in a lifetime and 1.1 to 4.2 suffer from bulimia in a lifetime. Although there currently exists a vast amount of…

street life throughout the world. Throughout history members of society have developed ghettos, urban and rural areas, and country clubs, all of which divide individuals according to their economic status. In that regard, statistics illustrates one’s socio-economic status based on the income he or she has either inherited, accomplished, earned or has been given; hence, the division of the classes. In perspective,…

multidimensional construct that includes psychological, sociological and physiological dimensions relative to one’s attitude toward one’s own body (Hoyt & Kogan, 2001). Body image should be a stronger predictor of…

words, one’s culture always strongly informs the way one views others and the world. Although others believe that one’s culture and personal decisions are two opposite things, one culminates all of the ideas, values, and beliefs he or she is taught through his or her culture to form all of his or her own ideas, values, and beliefs. Equally, cultures can cause conflict between people of two different cultures. People do this because their cultures teach them to think in certain ways. One’s…

A convenience sample of 97 young girls ranging from ages 5-8 years old was recruited for this study from 4 private schools in Australia. Individual interviews were conducted taking approximately 12-20 minutes to complete, the participants answered “yes, no, or I don’t know”, to questions asked by the researcher about…

deal, and the more ruffles one had on one dress made one wealthy, but if one had none or very little one were considered poor. This goes to show how clothing symbolize who one were. Lots of ruffles equaled lots of money but little ruffles equal little money.In the book Uprising by Margaret Haddix, the clothing that everyone wore had a statement. Jane the rich girl had too many roughest account which meant she was quite rich but Yetta and Bella had no ruffles whatsoever which meant they were…