When We Were Very Young

The Disney princesses are very good role models. Most little girls love to dress up as Disney princesses and there is nothing wrong with that. In the article, “Little Girls or Little Women? The Disney Princess Effect”, Stephanie Hanes argues that the Disney princesses are bad for young girls. She argues that because young girls grow up in a Disney culture they are growing up and maturing faster. Disney princesses deserve to be celebrated for all that they teach young girls. Hanes does not…

journey in life, we become impacted by something that we’ve either seen, heard, or maybe read that left a memorable imprint in our minds. Sometimes this could even be a reality check or a life learned lesson for us to do better. If I were to decide which two stories that I believe for most had a memorable impact to their life, I would say “New Boy” by Roddy Doley and “Lusus Naturae” by Margaret Atwood. Both stories share a powerful meaning behind them and deal with similar conflicts that we…

Interviewer: Rashida Badour is a young girl who fled from Afghanistan, seeking refuge in Australia, at the age of 14. She fled from the poor treatment of Afghan women, the constant fear of warfare and the strict ways of the Taliban, in search of the freedom she knows she deserves. Rashida was born in Australia but before she had even her first birthday her parents took her back to Afghanistan to care for her sick grandparents. Unable to get back to Australia, Rashida grew up in Afghanistan only…

Thirty years ago, policy makers declared a war on drugs and began to believe that criminals were not being punished enough. They wanted to come up with a way to give harsher punishments to those that broke the law. So, they came up with the idea of retributive justice. Retributive justice came from the notion that we needed to be tough on crime, particularly tough on drugs. Laws needed to be “toughened up”, or so people thought. This led to the apprehension and incarceration of more individuals,…

such distance. We didn’t have enough money to come and go wherever and whenever we wanted to. We could only afford to buy the necessary. Nethertheless, I would’ve preferred to stay in Mexico, but Hawaii was the best choice my parents could have made. Moving to the United States meant a better education and an opportunity to become better, as my parents would always say. We moved to Hawaii in 2004. I was 4, which meant that I didn’t know how my life would change. Although I was very young, I…

From the very beginning of the story, we are introduced to good in a young Susie and also to evil in Mr. Harvey. The cruelty with which Mr. Harvey treats this young teenage girl is hard to comprehend. Doris Eder says, “One of Sebold’s most extraordinary imaginative feats in The Lovely Bones is her portrayal of George Harvey. A remarkable study in the banality of evil, he is at once frightening and pathetic,” (Eder…

The production of Kingdom city was a representational performance. The definition of a representational performance is a performance where the audience watches a behavior that seems to be staged, as if no audience were present. In the play Kingdom City the audience never interaction with the cast nor was the audience acknowledged by any cast members which is common in representational performances. This type of performance leads to the audience focusing on the events in the play to try and…

Romeo and Juliet which disclosed at the very beginning that these two young lovers were doomed to death. Furthermore, along with being destined to a tragic ending, other external factors had contributed to their downfall such as bad timing, and characters such as Friar Lawrence…

family roots are established in the southern part of West Virginia in a small town called Craigsville. In the south it is very common to help anyone, no matter if you know them or not. Everyone is very friendly and no matter where you are, someone will come up and say hello and ask how you are doing. These values have made me the person I am today in the aspect that I am very friendly and willing to talk to anyone. I believe this is one of my core values and I strive to be the best and nicest…

portrayed in a negative light, and the men are portrayed to be superior over the woman. Other men may see this as positive, but to us women we see it as being very negative. Back in the day, women were to be seen as the normative housewife, as in they would basically take care of the house and all of the responsibilities that came along with it. The men were always the bread winners and still are today; men believed and some still believe that a woman 's place is in the house. In the film, it…