Barbie Doll Revolutionized Toy Industry By Belem Ramos From left‚ Cherity and Amanda Pierce display their Barbie collection. Photo by Sandra Pierce. Flashy clothes‚ the perfect boyfriend‚ a Corvette‚ Ferrari‚ full size apartment with beautiful furniture and a boat. She’s the woman who has everything and every year receives more. Since her introduction in 1959‚ the Barbie doll may be the most influential icon of American culture in the late twentieth century. Barbie’s success may be attributed
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Objective: I will give an informative speech about the history of Mattell’s Barbie Doll. I. Introduction A. Attention Getter: a. Girls‚ this is a question for you. How many of you have had Barbie dolls growing up? (Have time to answer) b. Well‚ believe it or not‚ our beloved Barbie dolls have a whole lot of history behind them. B. Tie to the audience: a. I think we‚ as girls‚ can all vouch that Barbie dolls were all the rage and so much fun when we were younger‚ and even when our grandmother
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VS Barbie Doll Nick Sooknanan ELB30 The way our society has a way to view other people by their appearance will probably never change. In some way everyone has it set in their mind what makes a person perfect. These things about people include personal appearance‚ money and intelligence. We do not always get the chance to get to know a person‚ but we always make assumptions about people. Two poems‚ which show different view of someone‚ include Richard Cory and Barbie Doll. In the Barbie doll‚ the
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Executive Summary Barbie has become one of the best selling toy brands in the world helping Mattel become one of the largest toy makers. Mattel has had much success with it popular Barbie dolls for over fifty years. However it seems every product has a life cycle and in recent years Barbie has begun to decline in popularity due to recent technological trends and stiff competition. Today young girls have become more interested in mp3 players and ipods rather than playing with dolls. At home and abroad
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In Marge Piercy’s poem‚ Barbie Doll‚ the “girl-child” is always looking to others or the outside world to tell her how to look and feel‚ “a classmate said: You have got a great big nose and fat legs” (323). The character is portrayed as a girl who has everything going in her life; good grades‚ very healthy/strong‚ and an abundant sexual drive – even though she has the big nose and legs. She works her whole life to be better and for people to realize that she is beautiful‚ until the day she cuts of
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husband’s every whim to the abstract association of a barbecue clinker pushing against her. Near the height of the speaker’s anger in the poem‚ she states that‚ “Carbonized despair presses like a clinker/ from a barbecue against the back of her eyes” (Piercy 11-12). These two lines serve to illustrate the negative stigma surrounding the unequal power balance often found in opposite sex relationships‚ usually due to pre-existing stereotypes of what a woman is capable of accomplishing compared to a man
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Austin EN460f – Seminar Paper Wednesday‚ November 14‚ 2012 Barbie and the Notion of Progression Since the emergence of the Barbie doll in 1959‚ Barbie has been a populous choice among young children‚ and more specifically young girls because of its monopolization of the toy market. Barbie is a doll that has been outwardly controversial and debated upon for years and most likely will be for many years to come. The idea of the Barbie doll is a toy for which young girls model themselves after and aspire
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the Barbie Doll in 1959 for her daughter‚ Barbara‚ to play with‚ and it spun into huge proportions. Handler’s action of creating Barbie has influenced the way girl’s play and children’s perceptions of womanhood and femininity. However‚ some groups believe that these perceptions have been altered for the worse‚ and have retaliated. There have been consequences such as gender role stereotyping‚ "Barbie Backlash"‚ and economic consequences. Before Barbie‚ little girls were given baby dolls to play
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formaTo: From: Date: March 15‚ 2012 Subject: Proposal for a report on the effects of Barbie doll toys on young girls and their self-image. PURPOSE: For my research paper I propose to research and write a report on the negative effects that Barbie dolls have on the young girls’ self-image. Young girls are overwhelmed by toys that affect their self-image; for example‚ Barbie dolls. The idea of being unrealistically thin can be detrimental to the self- image of young girls. This can lead
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At the age of 41‚ Barbie is one of the longest living toys in America. While she may not be the face of America‚ she has a well-known American face that not only created the doll industry but also set the standard. Her many faces‚ hairstyles‚ careers‚ and even wardrobe luxuries are seen nearly everywhere you go. Barbara Millicent Roberts‚ better known as Barbie‚ made her debut at the America Toy Fair in New York City in the winter of 1959. Barbie has continued to evolve with the changing
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