This One's for the Girls

emotions can affect one’s personality. When someone usually feel happy, the personality must be positive.On one hand, in the movie “Inside Out”, Riley is a sunny girl before she move and after Joy and Sadness came back, almost everything she can deal with a positive way because joy was always in her mind. So, emotions can make people have good personality. On the other hand, when Joy and Sadness left, Riley’s emotions are out of control, she nearly do something against the virgue. This shows…

formulate an opinion. This is an example of the Ophelia syndrome. Like the author, Thomas G. Plummer explains how the Ophelia syndrome makes people naïve. One’s dominant discourse, a discourse meaning a way of using language and one’s self-identity of a social group, explained by author James Paul Gee. The Ophelia syndrome affects one’s ability to be in a dominant discourse because it affects one’s opinions, identity, and learning. Due to the Ophelia syndrome affecting one’s ability to be in a…

Whether it be from one’s own parents, or even from the child themselves, everyone experiences judgment. The tendency to shame others or oneself for an attribute, some may be considered a flaw instead of could be a unique characteristic that individual possesses. It is their flame. A flame is what makes someone who they are, yet they may want to extinguish others’ flames. In the music video, “Never Lose Your Flames” by Issues, actors portray teenagers dealing with internal and external conflict…

the time when the Taliban had control of Afghanistan. During this period women were considered lower quality to men. In Afghanistan the laws of the country are dictated by traditional customary practices and religious influences. Religion and cultural practices can have a major impact on the right of all citizens. The movie accurately shows the values, control and acts of violence that the Taliban had. The film tells the tale of a young girl and her mother who lose their jobs when the Taliban…

responds when he has the chance to deal with his traitorous brother. Similarly, Alfonso Gomez-Rejon’s film Me Earl and the Dying Girl (2015), articulates the notions of discovery through the eyes of adolescents. Both texts examine how being in an unexpected situation can cause us to make discoveries about ourselves and other people and how discovery is a vital component of one’s identity. Both text contribute relevant…

nonexistent with each other. In The Girl Who Was Plugged In by James Tiptree Jr., the protagonist had…

Bulimia and Anorexia Introduction Eating disorders are common amongst young girls. These girls are exposed to unrealistic body images and are expected to meet the qualifications of having the perfect body. In all parts of the world, especially the United States and Japan, preadolescent and adolescent girls are victims of this social pressure concerning the body. In order to meet the ideal of beauty and perfection, girls and many young women have turned to harsh diet programs, appetite…

can stand with their feet together and her thighs do not touch. This is a dangerous weight-loss goal that young females are trying to obtain. Although specialists have said that achieving this goal is, “risky and virtually impossible.” Some very thin models have this gap which makes it enough to be held as a beauty achievement on many social media sites. Studies show that social media puts peer pressure on young females to achieve this goal. Many young women who were affected by anorexia and…

Red Scarf Girl by Ji-li Jiang is a memoir about the author when she was in middle school in communist China. The book details her family’s brutal experience during the Cultural Revolution in 1966. Under Chairman Mao Ze-dong’s terrifying rule, the country of China fell into disarray and poverty and many people died. Chairman Mao brought up poor people and punished rich people. He made it so that no one had trust in one another. The following paragraphs will address characters’ desire to belong,…

Sula Peace are two African American twelve year old girls that get harassed by four new boys from Ireland. The boys push and shove the girls to the ground. They not only do this because they are female cause of their skin color a feature they had no choice in. The girls decide to take a new route in order to avoid conflict with the four boys. The older townsfolk “of Medallion scorned them. The one exception was the black community.”(Morrison 528) This shows that the townsfolks favor strangers of…