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“All I want you to say is nothing at all. And all I want you to do is stare at the wall. I love your plastic hair and your plastic eyes. Marvel at your plastic breasts and your plastic thighs” (Genius Lyrics, 2017). The 1998 hit, “Polyester Girl”, by Australian band Regurgitator, flawlessly and ironically construes the confining and claustrophobic mould women of the 21st Century are expected to shape shift into (Wikipedia, 2017). With the media’s influence at a skyrocketing high and women…

Barbie Dolls: The Feminist or the Antagonist of Modernity Living in a world, where beauty is everything defines life as a whole. What you see in the media can affect how you choose to live. Magazines, television, advertisements all have one common denominator: Models. From fashion models, to commercial, to even promotional, the galore of models vary for many reasons. On one hand, the beauty of it all causes admiration world-wide, conversely just as much controversy. Beautiful, charming, yet…

act, dress, and look. In the poem, one sees the negative effects these mounting pressures have on one young lady. In the poem, “Barbie Doll,” by Marge Piercy, the theme of the unreasonableness of the expectations placed on women is explored through the poems usage of symbolism, imagery and irony. The first symbol is found in title “Barbie Doll.” The symbol of the doll comes to life as the “girlchild” (line 1) strives to fit into society’s ideas of perfection that are modeled in her toys. Even…

Marge Piercy and Lucille Clifton reflect this movement in their writing. The poems by Marge Piercy “Barbie Doll” and by Lucille Clifton “homage to my hips” have very unusual viewpoints and attitudes in expressing their story on similar subjects. Both poems present the aspect of women rejection of society’s expectations concerning their physical appearance. In both Marge Piercy’s poem “Barbie Doll” and Lucille Clifton’s poem “homage to my hips,” each poet condemns the traditional feminine…

poem “Barbie Doll” written by Marge Piercy is about a girl who is pressured to look beautiful by her classmates in school. However, her classmates’ expectations were unrealistic. When the girl couldn’t take the pressure anymore of trying to look pretty, she kills herself. I determined the theme of this poem by its title and figurative language. First, I figured out the poem’s theme by its title and figurative language. For instance, the title’s name is “Barbie Doll.” A barbie doll is a popular…

Ruth came up with the idea of Barbie by watching her daughter and friends play with paper dolls that mimicked adults. She thought to herself that there were no teenage and adult dolls on the market, she then took her idea to husband Elliot Handler who was one of the co-founders of Mattel Toys. He was skeptical at the idea because there were lots of baby and toddler dolls on the market but there were no adult dolls. Even though everyone was skeptical about the idea she continued to pursue her…

position of being a girl’s ideal perfect body image, and the age immune doll. “In 1998 Barbie’s waist expanded and bust was made smaller to reflect a more ‘real’ body type”(Golgowski). She has been around for quite some time now; as society’s idea of a woman 's perfect body changes, Barbie’s body is constantly changing as well. In America, young girls between the ages of five to nine, have been growing up thinking that this doll was the perfect example of beauty and femininity. When I was a…

The quote: "New Beekeepers are told that the way to find the elusive queen is by first locating her circle of attendants" is very relevant to the specific events of chapter 3. In Chapter 3 Lily and Rosaleen are looking around town trying to survive and trying to find any hint of Lily's mother. Lily is trying to find out things about her mother, so first she is locating people that her mother once knew. This is like Lily being a new beekeeper and she is trying to find information and her way to…

the sense of otherness, fears, battles and worries Chicano women experience in their lives. The two barbies in the story “Barbie-Q” the little girls play with portray the oppression of one culture by the dominant culture. When they play with the dolls, one of the girls tells the other one, “Yours is the one with the mean eyes and ponytail” (Cisneros 14). With this observation, the little girl shows that she has had…

1. I think this is the new challenges and a big try to Meg Whitman. When she has joined in the company of eBay, she is the successful on the traditional company world in her life, operation a segment of a major toys maker. Before she joined the company of eBay, she is the one who make toys to all of the kids to make the kids in a happy mood. She saw a tiny internet company which is under the conventional. Meg Whitman makes eBay begin with a tiny internet company that similar with the garage sale…